Patent ID: 8347626

Claim:
A method of controlling the intake of a supercharged internal-combustion engine comprising at least one cylinder with at least two intake pipes associated with their intake valves and connected to an intake distributor, and at least one exhaust pipe with its exhaust valve, a method according to which, before the end of the exhaust phase of said engine, a residual exhaust gas scavenging operation is carried out by overlap of exhaust and intake valves and, at the end of the scavenging operation, a stage of preparation of a fuel mixture is performed for combustion thereof in said cylinder, characterized in that it comprises: introducing supercharged air from a first zone of the intake distributor to carry out the residual burnt gas scavenging operation, using supercharged air from a second zone of the distributor to produce a fuel mixture for the cylinder and, after the end of the intake phase, in sending into this second zone of said distributor part of the fuel mixture contained in the cylinder.