Patent ID: 8904985

Claim:
Method for starting an internal combustion engine having multiple combustion chambers, wherein said internal combustion engine has a starting system and is operated using a start-stop function, and wherein said starting system is actuated after a stop phase in operation of said internal combustion engine to restart said internal combustion engine wherein a combustion chamber to be ignited first of the multiple combustion chambers is determined upon a restart of the internal combustion engine; and after a first ignition of the combustion chamber to be ignited first, speed data for the internal combustion engine are detected, and a starter release of the starting system is caused if the detected speed data meet a predetermined starter release criterion, wherein the predetermined starter release criterion is met if a regional maximum rotational speed is detected, and wherein the regional maximum rotational speed is ascertained by determining a regional maximum compression in a second combustion chamber, the second combustion chamber being next to be ignited after the combustion chamber to be ignited first.