Patent ID: 6966286

Claim:
A method for equalizing the filling of the cylinders of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine ( 14 ) comprising a fully variable mechanical valve train ( 20 ) having an adjusting shaft ( 1 ) that controls the valve lift of the inlet valves of a cylinder bank and can be rotated together with its rotationally fixed adjusting cam ( 2 ) by an electromechanical actuator ( 3 ), comprising measuring filling-dependent engine data by a sensor ( 16 ) while the engine ( 14 ) is running and processing with suitable software in a control device ( 15 ) into signals with which the actuator ( 3 ) rotates the adjusting shaft ( 1 ) selectively for each cylinder in keeping with the opening phase thereby regulating the lift and the time cross-section of the individual inlet valves and, as a consequence, also the filling of the individual cylinders to a desired set value.