Method for determining the angular position of an engine

1. A method for determining an angular position of an engine by a crankshaft sensor comprising a crankshaft detector facing a crankshaft toothed wheel comprising a large number of regular teeth and a revolution marker, the crankshaft detector being able to produce a signal having a “tooth” event corresponding to an edge for each of the teeth, a “revolution” event for the revolution marker, and a “no tooth” event when two successive “tooth” events are abnormally separated, the method comprising:

producing, by the crankshaft sensor, a signal having the “revolution” event,

determination of the revolution event out of two revolutions for a four-stroke engine, a crankshaft performing exactly two revolutions per cycle of the engine, in order to complete the determination of the angular position of the engine, wherein for each of the “no tooth” events possibly produced, a change in direction of rotation of the engine is suspected, and an analysis step is carried out comprising:

a) if in an inverse window, at a distance from a current “no tooth” event equal to a distance between the preceding “revolution” event and the current “no tooth” event, toleranced by +/−a tolerance of the teeth, a new “no tooth” event is produced, the change in direction of rotation is confirmed, and

b) if in the inverse window no “no tooth” event is produced, the change in direction of rotation is invalidated.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , in which the analysis step additionally comprises:

c) if in a direct window, at a distance from a preceding “revolution” event equal to a crankshaft wheel revolution, 2olerance by +/−the tolerance of teeth, a new “revolution” event is produced, the change in direction of rotation is invalidated, and

d) if in the direct window no new “revolution” event is produced, the change in direction of rotation is confirmed.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the “no tooth” event can be produced only outside a direct window at a distance s from a preceding “revolution” event by a “tooth” event number equal to the large number of teeth corresponding to a rotation of the crankshaft toothed wheel and tolerance by +/−the tolerance of teeth, wherein the tolerance is equal to 2 teeth.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the “revolution” event can be produced only in a direct window at a distance from a preceding “revolution” event by a “tooth” event number equal to the large number of teeth corresponding to a rotation of the crankshaft toothed wheel and tolerance by +/−the tolerance of teeth, wherein the tolerance is equal to 2 teeth.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the crankshaft toothed wheel is regularly angularly divided into 60 and the large number of teeth is equal to 58, and 2 consecutive missing teeth form the revolution marker.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the tolerance is equal to 2 teeth.

7. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the “no tooth” event can be produced only outside a direct window distant from the preceding “revolution” event by a “tooth” event number equal to the large number of teeth and tolerance by +/−the tolerance of teeth, wherein the tolerance is equal to 2 teeth.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of conditions a) and b) are considered in order of occurrence.

9. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein each of conditions c) and d) are considered in order of occurrence.