Patent ID: 6736102
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: F02D,F02P,Y02T

Abstract:
A method for operating an internal combustion engine, comprising:generating reference pulses synchronously with respect to a cyclical movement of at least one part of the internal combustion engine; calculating at least one event moment for an occurrence of at least one event with an aid of an output unit at specific, definitively preset intervals of the cyclical movement; generating clock pulses with an aid of an independent clock-pulse generator of the output unit, the clock pulses having an interval that is independent of the cyclical movement and smaller than an interval of the reference pulses; expressing the at least one event moment as a number of the clock pulses; triggering the at least one event upon reaching the number of clock pulses counted by a pulse counter; forming a relationship value containing information about a future time sequence of the cyclical movement in accordance with clock pulses counted between at least two successive reference pulses; and altering the number of the clock pulses in accordance with the relationship value.