Patent ID: 7318314

Claim:
A method of controlling a supercharged internal-combustion engine having at least two cylinders with a combustion cycle during which a cylinder of the engine is in the intake phase with burnt gas scavenging in the vicinity of the top dead center thereof while another cylinder is in the exhaust phase in the vicinity of the bottom dead center thereof, the cylinders comprising at least one intake means with an intake valve and at least one exhaust means with an exhaust valve, characterized in that the method comprises: carrying out scavenging of the burnt gases of the cylinder in the intake phase by means of a valve overlap stage by opening simultaneously its exhaust and intake valves, controlling opening of the exhaust valve of the cylinder in the exhaust phase so that, during at least part of the overlap stage, an exhaust pressure of the cylinder in the intake phase is lower than an intake pressure of the cylinder in the intake phase, and so that the exhaust pressure of the cylinder in the intake phase is equal to the intake pressure of the cylinder in the intake phase upon closing of the exhaust valve of the cylinder in the intake phase.