A method and a system for starting an internal combustion engine (ICE) having a crankshaft and an electric turning machine (ETM) operatively connected to the crankshaft are disclosed. An absolute angular position of the crankshaft related to a top dead center position of a piston in a combustion chamber of the ICE is determined. Electric power is delivered to the ETM at a first level to rotate the crankshaft. Electric power is then delivered to the ETM at a second level greater than the first level when the piston reaches a predetermined position before the TDC position. Fuel is injected in the combustion chamber after the piston has passed beyond the TDC position. The fuel is then ignited. In an implementation, the ICE is started in less than 110 degrees of rotation of the crankshaft.

A method for engine control under an entire driving range of a vehicle based on control timing prediction implemented in the vehicle is provided, which may reduce a start angle error calculated at a calculation time prior to an operation time when actual injection and ignition is performed by grasping a tooth period change tendency for a tooth period of a current time that injector/igniter drivers of an engine control unit read from an engine position management driver and calculating a start angle of fuel injection and ignition through prediction of the tooth period to match an actual operation time. In particular, since the prediction of the tooth period to match the actual operation time is based on a change tendency of the tooth period stored up to the current time, the injection and ignition time effectively reflects an engine operation situation in which an engine RPM is changed.

Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing a cylinder valve deactivation mechanism in an engine system having cam-actuated valves. Movement of a latch pin of the deactivation mechanism is inferred from an induction current generated by a solenoid coupled to the latch pin, and the inferred movement is used to diagnose operation of cylinder valve deactivation mechanism. The inferred movement and a profile of the induction current is also used to estimate camshaft and crankshaft timing for improved cylinder fuel delivery in the absence of a camshaft sensor.

A method for engine start control based on a failsafe logic includes performing, by an engine control unit, calculated information failsafe control for performing miscalculation verification for a submodule start angle of a submodule using a start angle for fuel injection and ignition of an engine as a driver start angle of an injector driver.

An ignition performance increasing method of an automobile may include inputting a crank position sensor signal to detect a rotational position of a crankshaft of an engine, generating an engine angle tick, acquiring an engine synchronization by determining a position of the crankshaft and a position of a cam, setting a sync task at a specified position, and performing fuel injection and ignition.

An arrangement for cylinder detection in a four-stroke internal combustion engine is disclosed. The arrangement comprises a first disc connected to a crankshaft, the first disc comprising a first mark (M11-M13) within each an interspace angle (), and a second disc connected to a camshaft and comprising one second mark (M21-M26) per number of cylinders. The first mark (M11-M13) is arranged on a first disc, or the plurality of first marks (M11-M13) are arranged in relation to each other on the first disc, and the second marks (M21-M26) are arranged in relation to each other on the second disc such that for each interspace angle () the relevant first mark (M11-M13) is detectable by a first sensor and the relevant second mark (M21-M26) is detectable by a second sensor at different relative rotational positions between the first disc and the second disc.

An exact synchronization method for determining an angular position of an engine, modulo one engine cycle, by a crankshaft sensor and of at least one camshaft sensor. The method includes: estimating a continuous estimated interval assumed to contain the angular position, on receipt of a marker event, determining an angular position corresponding to each one of the possible occurrences of this marker, comparing the determined angular position with the estimated interval. If exactly one of the determined angular positions belongs to the estimated interval, then this angular position is the angular position of the engine. And an engine control method using such a method.

Provided is a stroke determination device which detects a secondary output from an ignition coil without using a high breakdown voltage element, and is capable of accurately establishing the stroke being carried out during an ignition operation of a four-stroke engine from the waveform of the detected secondary output. In the present invention, a secondary coil of an ignition coil is constituted from a first coil portion, and a second coil portion wound so as to have fewer windings than does the first coil portion and connected in series to the first coil portion. A tap is drawn out from a boundary part between both coil portions, the voltage at both ends of the second coil portion or the current flowing through the second coil portion is detected through the tap, and a parameter to be used in stroke determination is detected from the waveform of the detected voltage or current.

A valve timing controller includes: a driving side rotation member that rotates synchronously with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven side rotation member that integrally rotates with a cam shaft of the internal combustion engine; a phase regulating mechanism with which a relative rotation phase of the driving and driven side rotation members around a rotation axis is set by a driving force of an electric motor; a phase sensing portion that acquires the relative rotation phase; and a phase controlling section that controls the electric motor to set the relative rotation phase based on an acquisition result by the phase sensing portion. The phase sensing portion includes a cam angle sensor, a reference determination sensor, and a pattern storage unit. The valve timing controller further includes a phase acquisition portion.

An engine system comprises a fuel tank, an internal combustion engine, a generator, a recoil starter, a control unit, an injector, a fuel pump, an ignition apparatus, and a detection unit that detects a number-of-rotations of the internal combustion engine. The control unit, in a starting period of the internal combustion engine using the recoil starter, determines whether or not the internal combustion engine can perform self-sustaining rotation based on the number-of-rotations, and if the internal combustion engine cannot perform self-sustaining rotation. Electric power is not supplied to the ignition apparatus, the injector, and the fuel pump when the internal combustion engine cannot perform self-sustaining rotation. The electric power is supplied to them when the internal combustion engine can perform self-sustaining rotation.