An electromechanical camshaft phaser (3) comprises a setting gear (4) and an electric motor (5), which is controlled by means of an electric-motor control unit (6). Data concerning the operation of the electric motor (5) including position changes of its motor shaft are transferred via a data bus (8) from the electric-motor control unit (6) to an engine control unit (7) of the internal combustion engine (1) comprising the camshaft phaser (3). In addition, recurring time signals are transferred from the electric-motor control unit (6) to the engine control unit (7) via a separate line (9), by which harder real-time requirements are met than by the data bus (8). The time signals are used to generate a time difference signal in the engine control unit (7) by comparison with the data received by the engine control unit (7), which time difference signal is fed back to the electric-motor control unit (6) via the data bus (8) and is used there to synchronize the electric-motor control unit (6) with the engine control unit (7).

The invention relates to a method for testing an electrically activated actuator in a fuel delivery device (10) of an internal combustion engine, wherein the electrical actuator is a controllable valve (15) that is arranged on the inlet side of a high-pressure pump (16). The high-pressure pump (16) conveys fuel into a fuel store (17) having a pressure controller (20). The fuel store (17) is connected to at least one injector (23). The method comprises the following steps: 1) increasing the rotational speed of the high-pressure pump (16), 2) activating the controllable valve (15) until the pressure in the fuel store (17) has reached a first low pressure level, 3) changing the supply of current to the controllable valve (15) by a first specified value such that the controllable valve (15) is opened further and simultaneously maximizing an injection amount by means of the at least one injector (23) until the pressure in the fuel store (17) has reached a first threshold value, 4) activating the controllable valve (15) until the pressure in the fuel store (17) has reached the first low pressure level again, 5) determining a further quantity, which depends on the low pressure level and a maximum value of the pressure that was reached in the fuel store (17).

A system for controlling the operation of one or more fuel injectors includes a microcontroller, a pre-driver unit, and a power unit. The system is connectable to an electrically actuated fuel injector via at least two wires from the power unit, wherein the pre-driver unit is located between the microcontroller and the power stage, and wherein the microcontroller unit is adapted to send data to the pre-driver unit. The pre-driver unit is adapted to receive the data and control the power stage dependent on the data such that the power stage is adapted to output a corresponding signal along the wires to the fuel injector. The data includes both injector activation pulse data and other auxiliary data for the injectors.

An intake air heating system for a vehicle includes an electrical switching device configured to selectively connect a battery of the vehicle to a heater coil in contact with intake air of the vehicle. The intake air heating system includes a control circuit configured to, in response to an enable signal from an engine controller, drive the electrical switching device to connect the battery to the heater coil at full current. The control circuit is configured to measure a resistance of the heater coil indicative of a temperature of the heater coil. The control circuit is configured to, in response to the temperature of the heater coil exceeding a desired temperature value, modulate the electrical switching device to reduce current from the battery of the vehicle to the heater coil.

Methods and systems are provided for operating a fuel system comprising two lift pumps. In one example, a method may comprise adjusting operation of a first lift pump to achieve a desired fuel rail pressure. The method may comprise powering on a second lift pump to achieve the desired fuel rail pressure when operating only the first lift pump is not sufficient to achieve the desired fuel rail pressure.

An engine ECU is provided with an abnormality-diagnosis unit performing an abnormality diagnosis of an Air-Con ECU, and a monitoring IC monitoring the abnormality-diagnosis unit. The abnormality-diagnosis unit determines whether the output signal of the Air-Con ECU is normal based on the specified criterion value, so that the abnormality diagnosis of the Air-Con ECU is performed. The monitoring IC determines whether a criterion value is normal, which is used during the abnormality diagnosis of the Air-Con ECU. The abnormality-diagnosis unit performs an abnormality diagnosis of the monitoring IC. When the monitoring IC determines that the criterion value is abnormal or the abnormality-diagnosis unit determines that the monitoring IC is abnormal, the abnormality diagnosis of the Air-Con ECU is prohibited and a specified operation for abnormality is performed.

The invention is a system for predicting emissions of pollutants from a vehicle equipped with an engine using processors (3) to determine emission of pollutants. The processors include a first group of processors (1) for carrying out calculations of chemical kinetics for determining the amounts of chemical compounds present in a chemical reaction in the engine and a second group of processors (2) for carrying out calculations of emission of pollutants simultaneously with the calculation of chemical kinetics, allowing determination of the emission of pollutants from the calculated amounts of chemical compounds. The first group of processors (1) has a global supervisor processor (4) allowing storing data required for the calculations and to distribute the calculations to clusters (5) of processors.

A method to control a road vehicle during a slip of the drive wheels, which are caused to rotate by an internal combustion engine provided with a plurality of cylinders arranged in two banks, and with a plurality of fuel injectors each injecting fuel into a corresponding cylinder. The control method comprises the steps of: detecting a slip of at least one drive wheel; and controlling the internal combustion engine, only during a slip of at least one drive wheel, with a signalling law, which causes the internal combustion engine to work in an abnormal manner so as to generate an abnormal vibration and/or an abnormal noise, which can be perceived by the driver. The internal combustion engine has two twin control units, each of which is associated with a corresponding bank, controls all and the sole injectors of its own bank and actuates the signalling law completely independently of and autonomously from the other control unit.

An Internet of Things (IoT) gateway integrated into a real-time monitoring system for skid-mounted natural gas compression systems. The IoT gateway enables remote monitoring, troubleshooting, and diagnosing of natural gas compression systems by providing access to cellular and satellite communication networks for communicating operational data to one or more remote servers. The IoT gateway can be configured to select a communication network based on an order of priority and other various criteria. The order of priority and the selection criteria may be updated over the air. The IoT gateway can be further configured to receive and relay software and other updates to one or more components of the natural gas compression system. The IoT gateway is configured to meet various regulatory compliance standards and is explosion proof.

An interface circuit assembly for use with an electronic control unit and oxygen sensor of an internal combustion engine. The assembly includes an input port coupled to receive a signal from the oxygen sensor and a processing unit coupled with the input port. The processing unit increases the signal to an output voltage as a function of hydrogen being provided to the internal combustion engine. An output port is coupled with the processing unit and provides the output voltage to the electronic control unit.