Patent ID: 7021293

Claim:
A method for automatic control of an internal combustion engine-generator unit comprising the steps of: determining a speed control deviation (dR) from a set speed and an actual speed (nM(SL), nM(IST)) of the internal combustion engine; computing a set injection quantity qV(SL) from the speed control deviation (dR) by means of a speed controller as a correcting variable for the automatic speed control of the internal combustion engine; and, when a load application is detected, shifting an injection start (SB) towards early in a direction of larger crankshaft angles before top dead center, the injection start (SB) being adjusted by computing a first injection start (SB 1 ) by means of an injection start input-output map and varying the first injection start by an injection start correction (dSB) as a function of the speed control deviation (dR).