METHOD FOR ENGINE MISFIRE DETECTION IN MULTI-CYLINDER INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES WITH MULTI-CYLINDER SPARK IGNITION

摘要

The invention relates to a method for detecting combustion misfires in multi-cylinder internal combustion engines having several simultaneously igniting cylinders wherein, for each crankshaft rotation, rough running values are determined by measuring segment times, the segment times including the times, which correspond to the piston movement of individual cylinders after their ignition time point, wherein the crankshaft passes through an associated circular segment angular region. A combustion misfire is determined in the affected crankshaft circular segment regions from the determined rough running values LUT for crankshaft segment regions having several simultaneously igniting cylinders via a desired value comparison to a threshold value SWSUB2/SUB, which is lower in value than the threshold value SWSUB1 /SUBfor the misfire check in crankshaft segment regions having individually igniting cylinders. For a combustion misfire in a crankshaft segment region having simultaneously igniting cylinders causing a misfire operation in one of these cylinders, a misfire operation is caused by a suitable engine intervention and by measuring the change of the rough running values in the crankshaft segment region having the simultaneously igniting cylinders, the cylinder is determined by the engine intervention which exhibits a combustion misfire without engine intervention.