IP Library Granted Patent US 7,614,230
Granted Patent B2
US 7,614,230 · App. 11/680,268 · Granted Nov 10, 2009

Method and control unit for variable turbocharger turbine flow cross-section control

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Patent No.
US 7,614,230
App. No.
11/680,268
Granted
Nov 10, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method is used for activating an actuator to set a turbine flow cross-section of a motor vehicle turbocharger of a gasoline engine in the event of a change of the load of the engine from a smaller load value to a larger load value. The actuator for the larger load value is activated with a delay in relation to the load change. Furthermore, a control unit set up to control the sequence of the method is used to implement the method.

Claims (22)

1. A method for operating an actuator to set a turbine flow cross-section of a motor vehicle gasoline engine turbocharger in the event of a change of gasoline engine load from a smaller load value to a larger load value, the method comprising the steps of:

operating the actuator to be set for the larger load value with a delay relative to the load change;

an extent of the delay being predetermined as a function of at least one gasoline engine operating parameter;

the at least one gasoline engine operating parameter including a gasoline engine speed upon the load change; and

the extent of the delay being larger at a smaller value of the gasoline engine speed than at a larger value thereof.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a further operating parameter is a gasoline engine load before the load change.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a further operating parameter is a gasoline engine exhaust gas temperature upon the load change.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein a further operating parameter is a gasoline load before the load change.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one operating parameter includes an operating parameter dependent on gasoline engine surroundings.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the at least one operating parameter includes an air pressure in the gasoline engine surroundings.

7. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the at least one operating parameter includes air temperature in the surroundings.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the at least one operating parameter includes air pressure in the gasoline engine surroundings.

9. A control unit configured to operate an actuator to set a motor vehicle gasoline engine turbocharger turbine flow cross-section in the event of a gasoline engine load change from a smaller load value to a larger load value, comprising:

means for setting the turbine flow cross-section for the larger load value with a delay relative to the load change;

an extent of the delay being predetermined as a function of at least one gasoline engine operating parameter;

said at least one gasoline engine operating parameter includes a gasoline engine speed upon the load change; and

the extent of the delay being larger at a smaller value of the gasoline engine speed than at a larger value thereof.

10. The control unit according to claim 9 , wherein a further operating parameter is a gasoline engine load before the load change.

11. The control unit according to claim 9 , wherein a further operating parameter is a gasoline engine exhaust gas temperature upon the load change.

12. The control unit according to claim 9 , wherein at least one operating parameter includes an operating parameter dependent on gasoline engine surroundings.

13. The control unit according to claim 12 , wherein the at least one operating parameter includes air pressure in the gasoline engine surroundings.

14. The control unit according to claim 12 , wherein the at least one operating parameter includes air temperature in the surroundings.

Assignments (4)
MERGER Recorded Nov 2, 2010
From: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
To: PORSCHE ZWISCHENHOLDING GMBH
Reel/Frame 025227/0699 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 2, 2010
From: PORSCHE ZWISCHENHOLDING GMBH
To: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 025227/0747 →
MERGER Recorded Jun 30, 2008
From: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
To: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (COMPANY NUMBER 722287)
Reel/Frame 021184/0926 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 30, 2007
From: STERNER, ANDREAS; HOFSTETTER, MATTHIAS
To: DR. ING.H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 019124/0844 →