Abstract: In a method for determining an uncontrolled acceleration of an internal combustion engine, a valve opening cross section is allocated to each load state of the internal combustion engine. In the event that a controller value is outside a limit range, an uncontrolled acceleration of the internal combustion engine is thereby detected.

Abstract: In a method of operating an internal combustion engine having at least two combustion chambers, each combustion chamber contributes torque to the total torque of the internal combustion engine, and the internal combustion engine is designed in such a way that a quantity of exhaust gas can be recycled into combustion chambers. The method has the steps: (a) detecting the torque contributions of at least two combustion chambers, then (b) changing the quantity of exhaust gas recycled into the combustion chambers, the torque contribution of which has been detected in step (a), then (c) detecting the torque contributions of at least two combustion chambers, the torque contribution of which has been detected in step (a), then (d) determining the change in the torque contributions as a result of the change in the quantity of recycled exhaust gas, and then (e) outputting a signal as a function of the change in the torque contributions.

Abstract: A common rail injection system for an internal combustion engine has at least one combustion chamber, a high pressure fuel pump for supplying fuel, a high pressure fuel accumulator connected to the high pressure fuel pump for storing fuel pinj at injection pressure in relation to the environment of the common rail injection system, an injector connected to the high pressure fuel accumulator for delivering fuel into the at least one combustion chamber, and a return line for returning fuel from the injector to the high pressure fuel pump. The fuel is pressurized by a return line pressure pdrain in relation to the environment of the common rail injection system. It is proposed that the common rail injection system has an adjusting means for adjusting the return line pressure pdrain. It is additionally proposed to use a pressure control means in the fuel leakage flow feedback system of an internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine has the steps: (a) during an overrun phase of the internal combustion engine, activating an injector of a first combustion chamber for a predetermined activation time ?inj with a predetermined activation voltage Ui±1, (b) measuring a torque variation, (c) determining, from the torque variation, a fuel quantity mi=1 of the fuel injected by the injector during the activation time ?inj, (d) varying the activation voltage to a value Ui+1 which differs from Ui, (e) repeating steps (a) to (d) with further incrementation of i until i has reached a preset value N or the internal combustion engine is no longer in the overrun phase, and (f) determining an injector characteristic value of the injector of the first combustion chamber from the fuel quantities m1, m2, . . . , mN and the activation voltages U1, U2, . . . , UN.

Abstract: In a method and device for characterising the return stroke of injectors, in particular piezo-injectors of an internal combustion engine provided with a common rail system, when the internal combustion engine is switched off, a constant pressure is dropped in the rail, thereby making it possible to measure the rail pressure and to adjust the injectors by corresponding power. The actuating power is increased until a discontinuity in a temporal progression of rail pressure occurs. The actuating energy applied for the state and a pressure available in the make it possible to measure the return stroke of corresponding injector.

Abstract: A common rail injection system for an internal combustion engine has at least one combustion chamber, a high pressure fuel pump for supplying fuel, a high pressure fuel accumulator connected to the high pressure fuel pump for storing fuel pinj at injection pressure in relation to the environment of the common rail injection system, an injector connected to the high pressure fuel accumulator for delivering fuel into the at least one combustion chamber, and a return line for returning fuel from the injector to the high pressure fuel pump. The fuel is pressurized by a return line pressure pdrain in relation to the environment of the common rail injection system. It is proposed that the common rail injection system has an adjusting means for adjusting the return line pressure pdrain. It is additionally proposed to use a pressure control means in the fuel leakage flow feedback system of an internal combustion engine.

Abstract: In a method and device for characterising the return stroke of injectors, in particular piezo-injectors of an internal combustion engine provided with a common rail system, when the internal combustion engine is switched off, a constant pressure is dropped in the rail, thereby making it possible to measure the rail pressure and to adjust the injectors by corresponding power. The actuating power is increased until a discontinuity in a temporal progression of rail pressure occurs. The actuating energy applied for said state and a pressure available in the make it possible to measure the return stroke of corresponding injector.

Abstract: A method and device control a volumetric flow in a common rail injection system of an internal combustion engine by producing a rail pressure with a high pressure pump, setting the rail pressure with a high pressure control valve and determining the volumetric flow by a valve position of a volumetric flow control valve controlled by a precontrol characteristic field and a two-dimensional adaptation characteristic field having adaptation values for the valve position predefined as a function of two operating parameters of the engine. This overcomes the problem in current common rail injection systems of the adapted valve position of the volumetric flow control valve often being subject to error, for instance because the valve position is controlled as a function of the rail pressure only using a one-dimensional adaptation characteristic field. This can lead to unwanted ambiguities, which can result in injecting fuel in incorrect quantities.

Abstract: In fuel reservoir injection systems also known as common rail fuel-injection systems (1) for motor vehicles the problem exists that for a defined quantity of fuel that is about to be injected it is necessary to take into account not only the predominant pressure of the fuel but also its temperature. It is difficult to install and use a temperature sensor to detect the fuel temperature. The invention therefore proposes a method and a device for determining the temperature (T) from the pressure (P) measured by the pressure sensor (4) and the sound-propagation velocity (V) of a shock wave triggered at the moment of injection.

Abstract: A method and device control a volumetric flow in a common rail injection system of an internal combustion engine by producing a rail pressure with a high pressure pump, setting the rail pressure with a high pressure control valve and determining the volumetric flow by a valve position of a volumetric flow control valve controlled by a precontrol characteristic field and a two-dimensional adaptation characteristic field having adaptation values for the valve position predefined as a function of two operating parameters of the engine. This overcomes the problem in current common rail injection systems of the adapted valve position of the volumetric flow control valve often being subject to error, for instance because the valve position is controlled as a function of the rail pressure only using a one-dimensional adaptation characteristic field. This can lead to unwanted ambiguities, which can result in injecting fuel in incorrect quantities.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high pressure fuel accumulator for an accumulator injection system in internal injection engines, comprising a base body which is provided with a longitudinal recess which has a plurality of connecting bores emanating therefrom. The inner chamber of the longitudinal recess is essentially cylindrical in shape and has at least one rib shaped section on the inner perimeter of the longitudinal recess into which a connecting bore formed in the longitudinal recess leads.

Abstract: In fuel reservoir injection systems also known as common rail fuel-injection systems (1) for motor vehicles the problem exists that for a defined quantity of fuel that is about to be injected it is necessary to take into account not only the predominant pressure of the fuel but also its temperature. It is difficult to install and use a temperature sensor to detect the fuel temperature. The invention therefore proposes a method and a device for determining the temperature (T) from the pressure (P) measured by the pressure sensor (4) and the sound-propagation velocity (V) of a shock wave triggered at the moment of injection.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high pressure fuel accumulator for an accumulator injection system in internal injection engines, comprising a base body which is provided with a longitudinal recess which has a plurality of connecting bores emanating therefrom. The inner chamber of the longitudinal recess is essentially cylindrical in shape and has at least one rib shaped section on the inner perimeter of the longitudinal recess into which a connecting bore formed in the longitudinal recess leads.