Patent ID: 6880531

Claim:
A method for injecting fuel into a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine having a crankshaft, a plurality of cylinders, at least one injection valve for each of the plural cylinders, inlet valves for said plural cylinder, a camshaft for operating the inlet valves, the camshaft rotating at half the speed of the crankshaft, a camshaft sensor generating a periodic camshaft signal, a crankshaft sensor generating a crankshaft signal representing a crankshaft angle and containing a synchronization pulse per crankshaft revolution, and a central control unit controlling the injection valves such that the injection valves inject one pilot injection into each of said plural cylinders during a starting phase and the injection valves inject amounts of fuel determined by central control unit in a normal sequential injection mode, wherein the internal combustion engine comes to a stop after being turned off with the clutch disengaged at one of a number of discrete stationary angle positions equal to the number of cylinders, said method comprising the steps of: saving the discrete stationary angle positions in the central control unit; and supplying the cylinders with the pilot injections one after the other in response to the camshaft signal and the saved discrete stationary angle positions.