EP2022966A2 - Pressure monitoring system - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- the present invention relates to a pressure monitoring system for monitoring pressure in the combustion chambers of a combustion engine.
- a combustion phase is only a short portion of the overall operating cycle, but during this portion, since the pressure varies very fast, pressure samples must be obtained at a high rate and must be associated to precisely determined crankshaft angles.
- the pressure sensors In order to provide precise data at a high engine speed, the pressure sensors must allow for a high sampling rate, and for processing the high data rates provided by these sensors, powerful analog-digital converter circuitry and a considerable amount of buffer storage is needed. Further, it was observed that the high-speed, high-pressure sensors used in conventional pressure monitoring systems have a rather low signal-noise ratio at the close to atmospheric pressures, which prevail in the combustion chambers during a major portion of their operating cycle.
- the object of the present invention is, therefore, to provide a pressure monitoring system capable of acquiring high quality pressure data using simple, economic circuitry.
- Another object is to provide a pressure monitoring system which is capable of providing low noise pressure data both at high and low pressure levels.
- a pressure monitoring system for a combustion engine comprising a plurality of combustion chambers and a pressure sensor associated to each combustion chamber, and characterized in that a multiplexer has inputs connected to at least the first one and a second one of said pressure sensors, a non-zero phase shift existing between the operating cycles of first and second ones of the combustion chambers associated to said first and second pressure sensors, and a controller for controlling the multiplexer to output data from the first pressure sensor while the first combustion chamber is in a predetermined portion of its operating cycle and pressure data from the second pressure sensor while the second combustion chamber is in said predetermined portion of its operating cycle.
- the predetermined portion of the operating cycle is set so as to include the most significant portion of the operating cycle, namely the combustion phase, the amount of data which has to be converted and processed in the monitoring system is reduced considerably, so that simple and economic data acquisition circuitry may be used.
- the predetermined portion of the operating cycle may include the instant of injecting the fuel.
- Phases in which intake or exhaust valves of a combustion chamber are open will not be included in the predetermined portion, since in these phases the pressure can safely be assumed to be deterministically related to the pressure in an intake manifold or an exhaust system of the engine and to be close to atmospheric pressure.
- a precise, automatic synchronization of the pressure monitoring system and the operation of the combustion engine is achieved by adapting the controller to determine a pressure maximum among data output by one of said pressure sensors and to carry out an adjustment of the beginning and/or the end of said predetermined portion of the operating cycle so that the pressure maximum is detected at a predetermined location of said predetermined portion.
- the controller is preferably adapted to carry out said adjustment based only on data obtained in a combustion-free operating cycle.
- an analog-to-digital converter is connected to an output of the multiplexer.
- one such converter can be used to convert pressure data from a plurality of sensors according to a time division multiplex scheme.
- a buffer memory for temporarily storing sequences of pressure data from the combustion chambers is preferably connected to an output of said multiplexer.
- each pressure sensor is triggered to sample the pressure in its associated combustion chamber at predetermined crankshaft angles.
- a buffer memory should be adapted to store each pressure sample in association to its respective crankshaft angle.
- a pressure monitoring system for a combustion engine comprising a plurality of combustion chambers and a pressure sensor associated to each combustion chamber, preferably as defined above, which comprises calculating means for calculating the pressure in any of said combustion chambers while said combustion chamber is between the predetermined portions of two operating cycles.
- the signal-noise ratio of a pressure signal from the sensors tends to be rather poor if the pressure is low, so that it is possible to replace this pressure signal by calculated data without thereby necessarily reducing the quality of the pressure data.
- Calculation of pressure and data in an interval between said two predetermined portions is preferably based on at least one pressure sample taken during the preceding predetermined portion and/or at least one pressure sample taken during the subsequent predetermined portion.
- Calculation of the pressure in a combustion chamber outside the predetermined portion of the operating cycle is preferably based on the assumption that pV ⁇ is a constant, wherein p is the pressure in the combustion chamber, V is the volume thereof and ⁇ is an adiabatic coefficient, e. g. of air, of air/fuel mixture or of exhaust gas.
- FIG. 1 schematically depicts a four stroke combustion engine 1 having four combustion chambers 2 in which pistons 3 reciprocate so as to drive a crankshaft 4.
- An operating cycle of each combustion chamber 2 corresponds to two rotations of the crankshaft 4.
- the operating cycles of the combustion chambers 2 are phase-shifted with respect to each other by a quarter of a cycle, corresponding to a 180° degree rotation of crankshaft 4.
- a pressure sensor 5 is provided in each combustion chamber 2. Analog pressure signals from the pressure sensors 5 are applied to inputs of an analog multiplexer 7 via anti-aliasing filters 6. The multiplexer 7 selects a pressure signal from one of the sensors 5 and forwards it to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 8. The ADC 8 is triggered to take samples from the pressure signal by an interface circuit 9, which also receives the pressure samples digitised by ADC 8.
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- a crankshaft angle sensor 10 detects the orientation of crankshaft 4 by sensing teeth of a toothed wheel 11 mounted on crankshaft 4.
- the toothed wheel 11 may have e. g. 60 teeth, so that the crankshaft angle sensor 10 emits detection pulses at a rate of 60 per revolution of the crankshaft 4.
- the sampling rate of the ADC 8 is higher than the pulse rate of the angle sensor 10 by a factor of e. g. 8.
- the interface circuit 9 comprises a tuneable oscillator, e. g. a phase-locked loop 12, which is coupled to the angle sensor 10 so as to oscillate at e.g. n times the pulse rate of the angle sensor 10, n being an integer, e.g. 8, and a control logic 13 for compensating fluctuations of the crankshaft speed.
- a counter 14 counts pulses from angle sensor 10 and, based on this count, controls multiplexer 7 to switch over the pressure sensor 5 connected to ADC 8 twice per revolution of the crankshaft 4.
- each of the four pressure sensors 5 is periodically connected to the ADC for a time period corresponding to a 180° degree rotation of the crankshaft 4.
- the period in which each pressure sensor 5 is connected to the ADC 8 comprises a rising period of its piston 3, in which air which has previously being sucked into the combustion chamber 2 is compressed, ignition of the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber 2 and the subsequent expanding stroke of the piston 3. So the sensor 5 from which the samples output from ADC 8 to buffer 15 originate changes four times per crankshaft revolution, the sampled data of each combustion chamber 2 being representative of that quarter of its operating cycle in which the combustion takes place.
- the counter 14 has a control input connected to the output side of buffer 15. If no combustion is taking place in the cylinders, the counter detects a maximum in the pressure data output from buffer 15 and the crankshaft angle associated to this maximum. While there is no combustion, this pressure maximum will correspond to the top dead centre position of the piston 3 associated to sensor 5. If necessary, the counter adapts the timing of the switchover between two sensors 5 such that the pressure maximum from a given sensor 5 is always detected at a predetermined location of the crankshaft angle interval in which the pressure signal from this sensor 5 is sampled by ADC 8. This crankshaft angle interval may e.g. range from 70° before to 120° after top dead centre position of the piston 3.
- the embodiment shown in Fig. 2 differs from the one of Fig. 1 essentially in the structure of the buffer memory 15. While the buffer 15 in Fig. 1 had a FIFO structure, the embodiment of Fig. 2 comprises a dual gate RAM divided into four portions, each of which is associated to one of the combustion chambers 2. Data from the ADC 8 are input into buffer 15 at an address, the most significant bits of which are generated by the counter 14, and the less significant bits of which are representative of the crankshaft angle. In this way, the sampled data from the ADC 8 corresponding to one of the pressure sensors 5 are stored in a portion 18 of the buffer 15 associated to said sensor 5.
- the processor 16 accedes some the stored samples, as described above, for calculating the pressure before and after each sampling period and writes this data back into the remainder of each portion 18 of buffer 15. In this way, an external host, not shown, can accede to pressure data for each combustion chamber 2 and any crankshaft angle at any time in buffer 15.
- the above embodiments referred only to engines having four combustion chambers, it is readily apparent that the invention is applicable to any engine having at least two combustion chambers. If the number of combustion chambers in the engine is six or more, it may be preferable to divide the combustion chambers of the engine into two or more groups (the number of groups being less than the number of combustion chambers) and to associate one multiplexer and one ADC to each group.
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- The present invention relates to a pressure monitoring system for monitoring pressure in the combustion chambers of a combustion engine.
- Continuously monitoring the pressure in the combustion chambers of an engine, e. g. of a motor vehicle, has proved useful for a precise control of combustion conditions enabling efficient and economic use of fuel, for the diagnosis of defects, and other purposes.
- In a four-stroke engine, a combustion phase is only a short portion of the overall operating cycle, but during this portion, since the pressure varies very fast, pressure samples must be obtained at a high rate and must be associated to precisely determined crankshaft angles. In order to provide precise data at a high engine speed, the pressure sensors must allow for a high sampling rate, and for processing the high data rates provided by these sensors, powerful analog-digital converter circuitry and a considerable amount of buffer storage is needed. Further, it was observed that the high-speed, high-pressure sensors used in conventional pressure monitoring systems have a rather low signal-noise ratio at the close to atmospheric pressures, which prevail in the combustion chambers during a major portion of their operating cycle.
- The object of the present invention is, therefore, to provide a pressure monitoring system capable of acquiring high quality pressure data using simple, economic circuitry.
- Another object is to provide a pressure monitoring system which is capable of providing low noise pressure data both at high and low pressure levels.
- These and other objects are achieved by a pressure monitoring system for a combustion engine comprising a plurality of combustion chambers and a pressure sensor associated to each combustion chamber, and characterized in that a multiplexer has inputs connected to at least the first one and a second one of said pressure sensors, a non-zero phase shift existing between the operating cycles of first and second ones of the combustion chambers associated to said first and second pressure sensors, and a controller for controlling the multiplexer to output data from the first pressure sensor while the first combustion chamber is in a predetermined portion of its operating cycle and pressure data from the second pressure sensor while the second combustion chamber is in said predetermined portion of its operating cycle.
- If the predetermined portion of the operating cycle is set so as to include the most significant portion of the operating cycle, namely the combustion phase, the amount of data which has to be converted and processed in the monitoring system is reduced considerably, so that simple and economic data acquisition circuitry may be used.
- In case of a combustion engine where the fuel is injected directly into the combustion chambers, in particular in case of a Diesel engine, the predetermined portion of the operating cycle may include the instant of injecting the fuel.
- Phases in which intake or exhaust valves of a combustion chamber are open will not be included in the predetermined portion, since in these phases the pressure can safely be assumed to be deterministically related to the pressure in an intake manifold or an exhaust system of the engine and to be close to atmospheric pressure.
- A precise, automatic synchronization of the pressure monitoring system and the operation of the combustion engine is achieved by adapting the controller to determine a pressure maximum among data output by one of said pressure sensors and to carry out an adjustment of the beginning and/or the end of said predetermined portion of the operating cycle so that the pressure maximum is detected at a predetermined location of said predetermined portion.
- In order to for the thus determined pressure maximum to be strictly simultaneous to the top dead centre position of a piston in the combustion chamber monitored by said pressure sensor, the controller is preferably adapted to carry out said adjustment based only on data obtained in a combustion-free operating cycle.
- Preferably, an analog-to-digital converter is connected to an output of the multiplexer. In this way, one such converter can be used to convert pressure data from a plurality of sensors according to a time division multiplex scheme.
- A buffer memory for temporarily storing sequences of pressure data from the combustion chambers is preferably connected to an output of said multiplexer.
- It is further preferred that each pressure sensor is triggered to sample the pressure in its associated combustion chamber at predetermined crankshaft angles. In that case, a buffer memory should be adapted to store each pressure sample in association to its respective crankshaft angle.
- The object of the invention is further achieved by a pressure monitoring system for a combustion engine comprising a plurality of combustion chambers and a pressure sensor associated to each combustion chamber, preferably as defined above, which comprises calculating means for calculating the pressure in any of said combustion chambers while said combustion chamber is between the predetermined portions of two operating cycles. As pointed out above, the signal-noise ratio of a pressure signal from the sensors tends to be rather poor if the pressure is low, so that it is possible to replace this pressure signal by calculated data without thereby necessarily reducing the quality of the pressure data.
- Calculation of pressure and data in an interval between said two predetermined portions is preferably based on at least one pressure sample taken during the preceding predetermined portion and/or at least one pressure sample taken during the subsequent predetermined portion.
- Calculation of the pressure in a combustion chamber outside the predetermined portion of the operating cycle is preferably based on the assumption that pVγ is a constant, wherein p is the pressure in the combustion chamber, V is the volume thereof and γ is an adiabatic coefficient, e. g. of air, of air/fuel mixture or of exhaust gas.
- Further features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the subsequent description of embodiments thereof referring to the appended drawings.
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- is a block diagram of a pressure monitoring system according to a first embodiment of the invention; and
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- is a block diagram of a pressure monitoring system according to a second embodiment.
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Fig. 1 schematically depicts a four stroke combustion engine 1 having fourcombustion chambers 2 in whichpistons 3 reciprocate so as to drive acrankshaft 4. An operating cycle of eachcombustion chamber 2 corresponds to two rotations of thecrankshaft 4. The operating cycles of thecombustion chambers 2 are phase-shifted with respect to each other by a quarter of a cycle, corresponding to a 180° degree rotation ofcrankshaft 4. - A
pressure sensor 5 is provided in eachcombustion chamber 2. Analog pressure signals from thepressure sensors 5 are applied to inputs of ananalog multiplexer 7 viaanti-aliasing filters 6. Themultiplexer 7 selects a pressure signal from one of thesensors 5 and forwards it to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 8. TheADC 8 is triggered to take samples from the pressure signal by aninterface circuit 9, which also receives the pressure samples digitised byADC 8. - A
crankshaft angle sensor 10 detects the orientation ofcrankshaft 4 by sensing teeth of atoothed wheel 11 mounted oncrankshaft 4. Thetoothed wheel 11 may have e. g. 60 teeth, so that thecrankshaft angle sensor 10 emits detection pulses at a rate of 60 per revolution of thecrankshaft 4. The sampling rate of theADC 8 is higher than the pulse rate of theangle sensor 10 by a factor of e. g. 8. For triggering theADC 8 to acquire a pressure sample, theinterface circuit 9 comprises a tuneable oscillator, e. g. a phase-lockedloop 12, which is coupled to theangle sensor 10 so as to oscillate at e.g. n times the pulse rate of theangle sensor 10, n being an integer, e.g. 8, and acontrol logic 13 for compensating fluctuations of the crankshaft speed. - A
counter 14 counts pulses fromangle sensor 10 and, based on this count, controlsmultiplexer 7 to switch over thepressure sensor 5 connected toADC 8 twice per revolution of thecrankshaft 4. In this way, each of the fourpressure sensors 5 is periodically connected to the ADC for a time period corresponding to a 180° degree rotation of thecrankshaft 4. The period in which eachpressure sensor 5 is connected to theADC 8 comprises a rising period of itspiston 3, in which air which has previously being sucked into thecombustion chamber 2 is compressed, ignition of the air-fuel mixture in thecombustion chamber 2 and the subsequent expanding stroke of thepiston 3. So thesensor 5 from which the samples output fromADC 8 tobuffer 15 originate changes four times per crankshaft revolution, the sampled data of eachcombustion chamber 2 being representative of that quarter of its operating cycle in which the combustion takes place. - The
counter 14 has a control input connected to the output side ofbuffer 15. If no combustion is taking place in the cylinders, the counter detects a maximum in the pressure data output frombuffer 15 and the crankshaft angle associated to this maximum. While there is no combustion, this pressure maximum will correspond to the top dead centre position of thepiston 3 associated tosensor 5. If necessary, the counter adapts the timing of the switchover between twosensors 5 such that the pressure maximum from a givensensor 5 is always detected at a predetermined location of the crankshaft angle interval in which the pressure signal from thissensor 5 is sampled byADC 8. This crankshaft angle interval may e.g. range from 70° before to 120° after top dead centre position of thepiston 3. - A
processor 16 connected to the output side ofbuffer 15 calculates the pressure in thecombustion chambers 2 during the unsampled portions of their respective operating cycles based on the pressure samples taken from each of saidcombustion chambers 2. Such a calculation can be based on the assumption that at least at the end of the sampling period of eachcombustion chamber 2, there is no more combustion taking place, and the development of the pressure corresponds to adiabatic expansion. Based on the adiabatic expansion formula pVγ=c, the constant c corresponding to the exhaust gas in thecombustion chamber 2 can be calculated based on the last samples of the sampling period, and for the time which follows, c being known and V being a known function of the crankshaft angle, p can be calculated. In the same way, based on the first sampling data obtained during a sampling period, prior to ignition, the pressure before the beginning of the sampling period can be calculated. In this way, theprocessor 16 provides pressure curves for each combustion chamber and for the entire operating cycle thereof. - The embodiment shown in
Fig. 2 differs from the one ofFig. 1 essentially in the structure of thebuffer memory 15. While thebuffer 15 inFig. 1 had a FIFO structure, the embodiment ofFig. 2 comprises a dual gate RAM divided into four portions, each of which is associated to one of thecombustion chambers 2. Data from theADC 8 are input intobuffer 15 at an address, the most significant bits of which are generated by thecounter 14, and the less significant bits of which are representative of the crankshaft angle. In this way, the sampled data from theADC 8 corresponding to one of thepressure sensors 5 are stored in aportion 18 of thebuffer 15 associated to saidsensor 5. Theprocessor 16 accedes some the stored samples, as described above, for calculating the pressure before and after each sampling period and writes this data back into the remainder of eachportion 18 ofbuffer 15. In this way, an external host, not shown, can accede to pressure data for eachcombustion chamber 2 and any crankshaft angle at any time inbuffer 15. - Although the above embodiments referred only to engines having four combustion chambers, it is readily apparent that the invention is applicable to any engine having at least two combustion chambers. If the number of combustion chambers in the engine is six or more, it may be preferable to divide the combustion chambers of the engine into two or more groups (the number of groups being less than the number of combustion chambers) and to associate one multiplexer and one ADC to each group.
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- A pressure monitoring system for a combustion engine comprising a plurality of combustion chambers (2), and at least two pressure sensors (5), each of which is associated to one of said combustion chambers (2), characterized in that a multiplexer (7) has inputs connected to at least a first one and a second one of said pressure sensors (5), a non-zero phase shift exists between the operating cycles of first and second ones of the combustion chambers (2) associated to said first and second pressure sensors (5), and a controller (14) is adapted to control the multiplexer (7) to output data from the first pressure sensor (5) while the first combustion chamber (2) is in a predetermined portion of its operating cycle and pressure data from the second pressure sensor (5) while the second combustion chamber (2) is in said predetermined portion of its operating cycle.
- The pressure monitoring system of claim 1, wherein the predetermined portion includes an instant of igniting an air/fuel mixture in the combustion chamber (2).
- The pressure monitoring system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the predetermined portion includes an instant of injecting fuel into the combustion chamber (2).
- The pressure monitoring system of one of the preceding claims, wherein each combustion chamber (2) has intake and exhaust valves and the predetermined portion of the operating cycle of said each combustion chamber (2) excludes opening times of said valves.
- The pressure monitoring system of one of the preceding claims, wherein the controller (14) is adapted to determine a pressure maximum among data output by one of said pressure sensors (5) and to carry out an adjustment of the beginning and/or the end of said predetermined portion of the operating cycle so that the pressure maximum is detected at a predetermined location of said predetermined portion.
- The pressure monitoring system of claim 5, wherein the controller (14) is adapted to carry out said adjustment based only on data obtained in a combustion-free operating cycle.
- The pressure monitoring system of one of the preceding claims, wherein an analog-to-digital converter (8) is connected to an output of said multiplexer (7).
- The pressure monitoring system of one of the preceding claims, wherein a buffer memory (15) is connected to an output of said multiplexer (7).
- The pressure monitoring system of one of the preceding claims, wherein each pressure sensor (5) is triggered to sample the pressure in its associated combustion chamber (2) at predetermined crankshaft angles.
- The pressure monitoring system of claim 8 and claim 9, wherein the buffer memory (15) is adapted to store each pressure sample in association to its respective crankshaft angle.
- A pressure monitoring system for a combustion engine comprising a plurality of combustion chambers (2) and at least one pressure sensor (5) associated to one of said combustion chambers (2) for outputting pressure samples while said combustion chamber (2) is in a predetermined portion of a operating cycle, in particular according to one of the preceding claims, comprising calculating means (16) for calculating the pressure in the combustion chamber (2) associated to said pressure sensor (5) while said combustion chamber (2) is between the predetermined portions of two operating cycles.
- The pressure monitoring system of claim 11, wherein said calculating means (16) calculates the pressure in an interval between said two predetermined portions based on at least one pressure sample taken during the earlier one of said predetermined portions.
- The pressure monitoring system of claim 11, wherein said calculating means (16) calculates the pressure in an interval between said two predetermined portions based on at least one pressure sample taken during the later one of said predetermined portions.
- The pressure monitoring system of one of claims 11 to 13, wherein said calculating means (16) calculates said pressure data based on the assumption that pVγ=const., wherein p is the pressure in the combustion chamber (2), V is the volume thereof and γ is an adiabatic coefficient.
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