ENGINE AIRFLOW MEASUREMENT

A method of measuring the airflow in an engine, the engine having an intake manifold, including: sampling the manifold absolute pressure in said intake manifold at a predetermined crank angle of the engine; and determining the airflow as a function of the pressure differential between atmospheric pr...

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Main Authors WOOLFORD, RICHARD, ALBERT, EPSKAMP, TROY, BRADLEY, WORTH, DAVID, RICHARD, TILMOUTH, ANDREW, MICHAEL
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 15.11.2006
Subjects
BLASTING
COMBUSTION ENGINES
CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES
HEATING
HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
LIGHTING
MEASURING
MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUIDLEVEL
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
METERING BY VOLUME
PHYSICS
TESTING
WEAPONS
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Summary:A method of measuring the airflow in an engine, the engine having an intake manifold, including: sampling the manifold absolute pressure in said intake manifold at a predetermined crank angle of the engine; and determining the airflow as a function of the pressure differential between atmospheric pressure and the manifold absolute pressure at said crank angle.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20010927484