Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine are described. At least one sensor serves to detect a first variable that characterizes the pressure in the combustion chamber of at least one cylinder. A second variable, which characterizes the maximum value of the change and/or the location of the maximum value of the change, is determined on the basis of this first variable. This second variable serves to control operating parameters of the internal combustion engine in an open-loop and/or a closed-loop manner.

Abstract: A common rail injector is proposed which offers great freedom in designing the course of the preinjection main injection and of the injection pressure. Moreover, it offers improved security against leaks into the combustion chamber, caused for instance by a leaking nozzle needle valve seat.

Abstract: A device for the electronically controlled influencing of actuating devices of an internal combustion engine is proposed in which actuating devices can be influenced by comparing differentiated sensor signals with predeterminable threshold values. The actuating devices are directly accessed without a detour via any regulating devices. The system corresponding to the method thus becomes very simple and inexpensive in its construction. Control-loop-related oscillations are avoided by the direct influencing of the actuating device.

Abstract: In a safety and emergency driving control method and an associated arrangement for an internal combustion engine with self-ignition used to power a motor vehicle, various operating parameters of the engine are continuously monitored and respective signals indicative of gas pedal position, engine operating speed, brake actuation, and actual control rod displacement are generated and evaluated to determine simultaneous occurrence of a modified idling operation condition and of a predetermined minimum value of the actual control rod displacement signal. In response to such a simultaneous occurrence the engine control is switched over to another regulation branch which controls the control rod displacement in accordance with a minimum value characteristic line of the control rod displacement. Further peripheral devices are included for providing starting hysteresis and excess speed protection, and for supervising the operation of the control rod displacement sensor.

Abstract: An automatic control for an adjustable turbosupercharger in the air supply of an internal combustion engine adds a static anticipatory control signal and a dynamic anticipatory control signal to the error signal that is provided to an actuating mechanism for the control of the supercharger. The error signal is obtained by comparing actual charging pressure with a reference charging pressure for one portion of the control displacement and in the other portion of the control displacement the error signal is obtained by comparing actual air quantity supplied to an engine cylinder with a reference air quantity. This results from a limiting device interposed in the charging pressure control loop. The static anticipatory control depends on engine speed and engine load and is supplied with additive corrections for engine temperature and for battery voltage.

Abstract: The air charge pressure sensor of the control system for a turbo supercharger of an internal combustion engine measures absolute charge pressure, but is used, in the idling condition of the engine, to measure atmospheric pressure, which is stored when the engine is idling for deriving the relative charge pressure for the control system.

Abstract: Disclosed a regulating device for a fuel volume adjuster of a self-igniting internal combustion engine. In order to damp jerking movements resulting at different power transmissions, a signal corresponding to the actual rotary speed of the engine is fed back into an electronic regulating circuit. Preferably, the feedback path includes a phase shifter. It is essential that the regulating action of the rotary speed be not delayed by the phase turning shifter. For this purpose, the electronic regulating circuit includes a PI stage and the fed back signal is applied to the regulating circuit only after its I-constituent has become effective.

Abstract: An electronic control device is proposed for a Diesel fuel metering system, in which at the onset of the starting procedure, a constant fuel quantity is pre-specified at first, and this quantity subsequently increases in steps or in a ramp-like manner. Above a predetermined rpm or starting quantity, an rpm-dependent reduction in quantity takes place, to 90% of the full-load quantity. The open-loop or closed-loop control of the starting quantity ends upon the attainment of a speed of 800 rpm, for example. Both an analog and a computerized realization of the control device are provided, and the control device according to the invention is capable of dispensing with the processing of a temperature signal and can thus dispense with the use of one temperature sensor.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a safety arrangement for an internal combustion engine having self-ignition where, in the sense of an overall system monitoring, specific signals relating to the operating conditions of the internal combustion engine are continuously monitored. These signals are indicative, for example, of the position of the throttle pedal, the computed rack-travel nominal or desired value, and the rotational speed. The monitored signals are processed and a corrected rack-travel nominal value is generated by means of a minimum-value selection circuit. The corrected rack-travel nominal value signal generated in this manner is fed to the rack controller of an EDC unit. At the same time, a deviation in rack travel is determined utilizing the corrected rack travel nominal value in combination with an actual-value signal of the rack travel fed back from the rack-travel sensor.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are proposed for controlling the quantity of exhaust gas recirculated from the exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine to its intake side. The aspirated air quantity is compared with a set-point value formed in accordance with load and rpm, and if the deviation is greater than a minimum amount, control pulses for two magnetic valves are formed, which are triggered alternatively depending upon the polarity of the deviation and which further cause pressure to be delivered from two pressure sources having different pressure levels into the work chamber of a pneumatically functioning adjusting member of a dosing valve for exhaust gas recirculation. The opening duration of a given valve is dependent on the magnitude of the deviation from the set-point, and the valve remains completely open until a counteracting correction takes place if the deviation from the set-point exceeds a predetermined maximum amount.

Abstract: A method is described for closed-loop control of the composition of the operating mixture coming to be combusted in an internal combustion engine, wherein operating mixtures are formed in the combustion chambers either simultaneously or sequentially, which differ from one another percentagewise by a predetermined amount of the air number .lambda.. The different exhaust gas compositions resulting from this difference are measured sequentially or simultaneously with the aid of one or two CO sensors and the average operating mixture composition is regulated such that a constant difference is established for the CO content in the exhaust gas. In the use of a quantity of recirculated exhaust gas to influence the operating mixture composition, an optimal composition of the exhaust gases is thereby established.

Abstract: An electro-mechanical switch, which is part of an electrical current circuit, is disposed in a fuel injection nozzle for internal combustion engines. The first switch contact is secured via an insulating body of a pressure bolt of the nozzle needle; the second switch contact is held pressed against the first switch contact by a contact spring supported on the pressure bolt, so that the portion of the electrical current circuit comprising the nozzle is closed. At the beginning of the opening stroke of the nozzle needle, the second switch contact, because of its inertia of mass, briefly fails to follow the first contact so that the electrical current circuit is interrupted; it is closed by the followup of the first switch contact caused by the contact spring. The switch can be inserted inside a normal injection nozzle without great expense.