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    A toothed target integral with rotation of an engine shaft comprises a series of n real teeth, followed by m dummy teeth forming a reference zone. We measure, for each tooth k, the period of time separating it from the previous tooth k-1. A signal has at least one level transition in a portion of the signal corresponding to the passage of said reference area. For at least some of the values of k, first and second products are calculated; the ratio between these two products is calculated; and detecting the direction of rotation of the motor, in case of correspondence of said ratio with a first remarkable value and with a second remarkable value which are representative, respectively, of the rotation in a normal direction and the rotation in a reverse direction.
    公开号:FR3035157A1
    申请号:FR1553394
    申请日:2015-04-16
    公开日:2016-10-21
    发明作者:Coutier Valerie Gouzenne
    申请人:Continental Automotive GmbH；Continental Automotive France SAS；
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    [0001] The present invention relates generally to synchronization techniques of an internal combustion engine, and more particularly relates to a method and a device for detecting the reverse rotation of such an engine. By "reverse rotation" is meant the rotation of the motor in the direction opposite to the normal direction of rotation. The invention finds applications, in particular, in the automotive field. It can be implemented, for example, in an engine control computer, such as an injection and / or ignition controller. In order to allow synchronization of the injection and / or the ignition of an internal combustion engine, or engine, the crankshaft of the engine can be equipped with a rotating target cooperating with a fixed sensor associated with electronics. operation of the sensor signal. This electronics may comprise hardware elements and / or software elements. It is adapted and configured to precisely determine the angular position of the crankshaft, and thus the position of the engine pistons, from the sensor signal. The rotating target is for example a toothed wheel, connected in rotation with the crankshaft. Such a target has a large number of teeth, usually 36 or 60 teeth, without taking into account one or two missing teeth to define an angular reference area on the target.
    [0002] More particularly, the angular position of the motor is determined, by the operating electronics, by counting the number of teeth of the target "seen" by the sensor since the last passage of the angular reference area in front of the sensor. From an electrical point of view, the passage of a flank of a tooth of the target in front of the sensor results in a front of the sensor signal, namely a rising edge or a falling edge depending on the arrangement and the technology. of the sensor. Each of these fronts corresponds to an increment of the angular position of the crankshaft counted by the operating electronics. This angular increment is equal to 10 degrees for a 36-tooth target, or 6 degrees for a 60-tooth target, for example. There are use cases in which the internal combustion engine can be involuntarily driven in reverse rotation for a significant time. This can occur, for example during the production phase, when the vehicle is transferred from one zone to another of the vehicle manufacturing plant. It can also be the user's, who can let his vehicle back down while a speed is engaged and engaged.
    [0003] It is desirable to eliminate crankshaft engine control engine failures which are presently found in the use cases described above. The detection of the reverse rotation of the motor can be made with a sensor 5 of specific type, capable of providing information relating to the direction of rotation in addition to the information relating to the passage of a tooth of the target in front of the sensor. There are two types of sensors of this kind, widely used in the current state of the art. On the one hand, so-called "voltage pulse" sensors that provide a fixed length pulse characteristic of the direction of rotation, for example a pulse of 45 picoseconds (ps) for a crankshaft tooth seen in the normal direction of rotation, or a pulse of 90 ps for a crankshaft tooth seen in reverse direction of rotation. On the other hand, so-called "voltage level" sensors that provide a different voltage depending on the direction of rotation of the motor, for example a voltage of 5 volts (V) for a crankshaft tooth seen in normal direction of rotation, or a voltage 15 of 2.5 V for a crankshaft tooth seen in the opposite direction of rotation. A sensor of any one of the two types above therefore directly provides the information relating to the direction of rotation. This information can then be used by the engine control computer, for example to prevent any injection and / or avoid the detection of false failures.
    [0004] Moreover, document US Pat. No. 7,185,628 teaches that reverse rotation detection is also sometimes possible by identifying and correlating signals derived respectively from a sensor associated with the crankshaft and from a sensor associated with the camshaft. Finally, there are strategies for detecting that a motor that previously rotated in the normal direction, has just passed in reverse rotation, in case of engine stall, for example. However, the sensors of the aforementioned specific types proposing the detection of the direction of rotation are generally more expensive than the usual sensors which only allow the detection of the passage of each tooth of the target. In addition, not all applications are equipped with such sensors. The other techniques mentioned above are not usable in all applications, or at a higher cost, and / or are not effective in all situations, depending on the engine speed for example. The invention aims to eliminate, or at least mitigate, all or part of the disadvantages of the aforementioned prior art, by proposing an alternative to the known solutions presented above. In particular, the invention makes it possible to detect that a heat engine rotates in reverse rotation, without using any other information than that of the crankshaft sensor signal generated by a standard type sensor associated with the crankshaft. For this purpose, a first aspect of the invention provides a method for detecting the direction of rotation of an internal combustion engine, the motor being associated with: a toothed target integral in rotation with a motor shaft, said toothed target comprising a series of teeth comprising n real teeth evenly spaced on the one hand, followed by m dummy teeth forming a reference zone, on the other hand, where n and m are non-zero integers; a sensor arranged to generate a substantially periodic sensor signal having active edges between a first signal level and a second signal level in response to the passage of the actual teeth of the toothed target in front of said sensor; and, a management unit configured to measure, for each tooth of index k in the series of teeth, the period of time, called the period T (k) of the tooth k, separating said tooth k from the previous tooth d index k - 1 in the series of teeth. The sensor signal further has at least one transition between the first signal level and the second signal level in a portion of the sensor signal corresponding to the passage of the reference area (32) of the toothed target in front of the sensor.
    [0005] The method comprises the following steps performed for at least some values of the index k associated with the teeth of the target: a) calculating a first product by multiplying N times the period T (k - N / 2) of the tooth k - N / 2, where N is an even integer greater than or equal to 2, b) calculating a second product by multiplying between them the periods T (k - i) of the teeth i, with i ranging from 0 to N / 2 - 1 and between N / 2 + 1 and N, c) calculating the ratio, denoted R '(k), between the first product and the second product, and d) detecting the direction of rotation of the target, and therefore of the motor, in case of correspondence of the ratio R '(k) with a first remarkable value and with a second remarkable value which are representative, respectively, of the rotation in a normal direction of rotation and of the rotation in a direction of reverse rotation of said normal direction of rotation. Expressed in mathematical terms, the ratio R '(k) is such that: 3035157 4 R' (k) = The strategy makes it possible to ensure an inverse rotation detection based solely on a standard sensor signal, for example associated with the crankshaft. There is no need to use a specific type of sensor or to generate additional information. Neither is there a correlation between a signal from the camshaft and a signal from the crankshaft as described in the prior art illustrated by the aforementioned US 7,185,628. A constraint lies solely in the fact that the sensor signal must have the aforementioned transition between the high and low levels.
    [0006] According to embodiments of the invention, taken separately or in combination, furthermore: where N is equal to 2, the first remarkable value of the sensor signal is equal to 9; the transition of the sensor signal between the first signal level and the second signal level in the portion of the sensor signal corresponding to the passage of the reference zone of the toothed target in front of the sensor is such that a duty cycle of sensor signal in said portion of the sensor signal is between 30% and 70% for rotation of the target in the forward direction of rotation; When N is equal to 2 and the duty ratio of the sensor signal in the portion of the sensor signal is substantially equal to 50% for the rotation of the target in the forward direction of rotation, the second remarkable value of the sensor signal is equal to 4; the number n is equal to 58 and the number m is equal to 2; and / or - steps a) to d) are performed for all index values k associated with the target teeth; and in this case the method may comprise determining, from the ratio R '(k), information representative of the position of the tooth of index k with respect to the reference zone; Or else the steps a) to d) can be performed for some only values of the index k associated with the teeth of the target, whose value k = m.
    [0007] A second aspect of the invention relates to an electronic device comprising means for carrying out each of the steps of a treatment method according to the first aspect above. According to a third aspect, the invention also relates to a management system 5 of an internal combustion engine, comprising: a toothed target integral in rotation with a motor shaft, said toothed target comprising a series of teeth comprising n teeth real evenly spaced on the one hand, followed by m dummy teeth forming a reference zone, on the other hand, where n and m are non-zero integers; A sensor arranged to generate a substantially periodic sensor signal having active edges between a first signal level and a second signal level in response to the passage of the actual teeth of the toothed target in front of said sensor; and a management unit configured to measure, for each tooth of index k in the series of teeth, the period of time, called period T (k) of the tooth k, separating said tooth k from the previous tooth of index k - 1 in the series of teeth, and - a device according to the second aspect above. In embodiments, the device may be included in the management unit. Other features and advantages of the invention will become apparent on reading the description which follows. This is purely illustrative and should be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which: - Figure 1 is a block diagram showing the arrangement of a rotating target, a rotation sensor of the rotating target, and an electronic unit for operating the sensor signal comprising a first comparator and a second comparator according to embodiments; Figure 2 is a three-dimensional view of a toothed target having a reference area according to embodiments; FIGS. 3A and 3B are timing diagrams showing the pace, as a function of time, of a low level sensor signal and a high level sensor signal, respectively, during the passage of the reference area in front of the sensor, each time for a normal direction of rotation (chronogram of the top) and for a direction of opposite rotation (chronogram of the bottom); FIG. 3C is a timing diagram showing the pace, as a function of time, of a sensor signal associated with the toothed target of FIG. 2, having a level transition during the passage of the reference zone in front of the FIG. sensor, for a normal direction of rotation (chronogram of the top) and for a direction of opposite rotation (chronogram of the bottom); FIGS. 4A and 4B are timing diagrams comparable to that of the top of FIG. 3C and bottom of FIG. 3C, respectively, illustrating the ratio R (k) of the duration T (k) separating said tooth k from the previous tooth of index k - 1 in the series of teeth on the duration T (k - 1) separating said tooth k - 1 from the previous tooth of index k - 2 in the series of teeth; FIG. 5 is a timing diagram of the values of a quadratic ratio R '(k) at the order 2, respectively at each edge of the sensor signal, for rotation of the motor in the opposite direction and for rotation in the normal direction. ; and FIGS. 6A and 6B are timing diagrams making it possible to compare the values of the ratio R '(k) with values of the ratio R (k), respectively for a rotation of the target in the forward direction and for a rotation in the opposite direction. An internal combustion engine, for example for a motor vehicle, comprises at least one movable piston arranged to vary the volume of a combustion chamber. The admission and exhaust gas in the combustion chambers are most often made using valves controlled by at least one camshaft. The energy developed in the combustion chambers by the combustion of a fuel within an oxidizer is transmitted by each piston to a motor shaft called a crankshaft. The synchronization of an internal combustion engine consists in accurately identifying the position of the moving parts (piston, crankshaft, camshaft ...) as well as the instant of the engine cycle (that the latter is a type 2 engine -time or 4-stroke). This allows the on-board electronics to control the operation of the engine, particularly with regard to the injection of the fuel or the fuel mixture and with regard to ignition (for spark ignition engines), with the accuracy and the precision required to achieve optimal operation. Synchronization methods employ algorithms to determine the position of the motor as a function of the angular position of the crankshaft and / or the engine camshaft detected by sensors installed in the engine. These sensors cooperate with rotating targets integral in rotation with the crankshaft and the camshaft, respectively, for example toothed wheels. The method of detecting the inverse rotation of the motor can advantageously use, at least in part, the corresponding hardware and software means, in particular the rotating target, the associated sensor and the operating electronics.
    [0008] In the following, the example of the processing of a crankshaft rotation sensor signal of an engine is more particularly considered. This example is of course not limiting. The invention can also be applied to the processing of a rotation sensor signal of any rotation shaft connected to the motor, in particular the camshaft of an engine or a shaft of a gearbox coupled to the engine. engine. With reference to the block diagram of FIG. 1, an exemplary application of the invention to an injection and / or ignition controller of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle is considered. The controller 1 can be implemented in the form of a microcontroller (pC), which can be a specific application integrated circuit (ASIC), a system on a chip (SoC, System-onChip), a programmable logic circuit or FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), etc. The invention is however not limited to these examples, the controller being part of a more complex equipment, comprising for example an arrangement of several integrated circuits including computers, memories, peripherals, etc. The microcontroller 1 comprises hardware elements, such as analog-to-digital converters, drivers, input / output filters, etc., and software elements.
    [0009] The device according to embodiments of the invention may be embodied within this microcontroller, as will now be described. For this purpose, the microcontroller 1 comprises an input 14 for receiving a sensor signal CRK, supplied by a rotation sensor 2. The sensor 2 is for example fixedly positioned near a rotating target 3, such that a toothed wheel, with which it cooperates to produce the signal CRK. The term "toothed wheel" should be understood in its most general sense, that is to say a wheel comprising structural elements enabling a sensor to identify the rotation of the wheel on a given angular sector. The nature and arrangement of these structural elements can be varied. These may be geometric shapes such as teeth in the proper sense, magnetic elements such as magnetic poles, optical elements or detectable by an optoelectronic device, etc. For the sake of convenience, in the example shown in FIG. 1, the toothed wheel 3 comprises twenty-four teeth 31 regularly spaced about the periphery of the wheel except at a reference zone 32 where a tooth is missing. In this example, therefore, the number n of real teeth is equal to 23 (n = 23) and the number m of dummy teeth is equal to unity (m = 1). With this example, the angular increment is about 15 degrees. In practice, however, and as stated in the introduction, a target conventionally used includes 36 or 60 teeth (without taking into account the fact that one or more teeth are missing in the reference zone), giving an angular increment of 10 or 6 degrees. , respectively.
    [0010] The toothed wheel 3 is integral in rotation with a movable shaft 4, namely the crankshaft of the engine in the example considered here. The microcontroller 1 comprises elements, in particular software elements, configured to control the synchronization of the motor from the sensor signal CRK coming from the sensor 2.
    [0011] In principle, an internal combustion engine always rotates in the same direction, called the normal direction of rotation. It may happen, however, that the motor is involuntarily driven in the opposite direction of the normal direction of rotation, as has been stated in the introduction. This is called reverse rotation of the motor. It is desirable to eliminate engine control computer failures associated with the crankshaft that are currently found in cases of reverse rotation of the engine. With reference to FIG. 2, the rotating target 3 may be a toothed wheel, for example having a diameter equal to 255 millimeters (mm), having at its periphery a series of teeth comprising n real teeth regularly spaced apart on the one hand, followed by of 20 m fictitious teeth forming a reference area 32, on the other hand, where n and m are non-zero integers. In one example, each of the n real teeth 31 has a bump portion of a width (measured along an outer circumference of the target 3) equal to 5 mm followed by a recessed portion of a width equal to 8.5 mm.
    [0012] In the reference area 32 of the target, the series of real teeth is interrupted. A singularity of construction of the target replaces a number m of teeth, hence called "fictitious teeth". Conventionally, the singularity of the target in the reference zone consists of a recessed portion of the same depth as the recesses of the real teeth, whose width corresponds to the width of the m dummy teeth. As a variant, the singularity is sometimes, conversely, a bump portion of the same height as the real teeth, whose width corresponds for example to the width of the m dummy teeth. In embodiments of the invention illustrated in FIG. 2, the singularity of the target in the reference zone 32 consists of at least one recessed portion 36 and at least one alternating bump portion 37, the depth and the height of which, for example, correspond to the depth and height of the real teeth 31. In one example, the recessed portion may have a width equal to 22 mm, and the bump portion may have an equal width. at 18 mm. The cumulative width of these portions corresponds to the width of the m dummy teeth of the reference zone 32.
    [0013] The timing diagrams of FIGS. 3A-3C show the shape of the CRK sensor signal for targets having a singularity corresponding to the cases mentioned above. The signal portions shown in these figures correspond to the passage of the reference zone in front of the sensor, as well as some real teeth preceding the reference zone and some real teeth along said reference zone.
    [0014] By convention, the direction of rotation corresponding to the direction of rotation of the motor in normal operation will be referred to as forward direction (or FW). The reverse direction of rotation will be called the backward direction (or BW). In Figures 3A-3C, the normal or forward direction of rotation corresponds to a movement of the teeth from left to right, and is illustrated each time by the top timeline. Conversely, the reverse or reverse direction of rotation corresponds to a movement of the teeth from right to left, and is illustrated each time by the bottom chronogram. By convention also, the number k, preceded by the hash symbol, ie by the symbols #k with k varying from 1 to n, denotes the actual tooth of rank k in the series of n real teeth 31 of the target 3. the timing diagrams of FIGS. 3A-3C, these symbols are disposed above the active edge of the signal CRK generated by the passage of the index tooth k in front of the sensor. In the example as illustrated by FIGS. 3A-3C, the active edges of the CRK signal are the falling edges, by which the CRK signal goes from the high level to the low level, ie from the high voltage (for example 5 V ) at the low voltage (for example 0 V). The invention is however not limited to this example, the management unit 1 may alternatively be adapted to react to the rising edges of the signal CRK, by which the CKR signal goes from the low level to the high level. In the example illustrated by the appended drawings and described in the present description, the total number n + m of real and fictitious teeth of the target is equal to 60. In addition, the number n of real teeth being equal to 58 ( n = 58) and the number m of fictitious teeth in the reference zone 32 being equal to 2 (m = 2). In other embodiments not shown, the number m may be greater than 2, which gives better detection performance of the direction of rotation.
    [0015] However, the higher the m, the more the quality of the sensor signal as a CRK clock signal is degraded, due to the lack of detection of the regular edges of the signal during the passage of the reference area in front of the sensor. . In other words, the higher the number of dummy teeth, the greater the area of inaccuracy of the angular position of the motor. By detecting the passage of the n real teeth of the target in front of the sensor, it is possible to determine in real time the angular position of the crankshaft and its instantaneous speed of rotation. This information is then used for fuel injection control in engine cylinders or spark plug ignition. The sensor 2 of FIG. 1 gives a result in the form of a signal as represented in FIGS. 3A-3C: when one of the n real teeth of the target passes in front of the sensor, the signal has a transition between the one and the other of the high and low levels, followed by an inverse transition. At each falling edge (but the same operating logic can be applied to each rising edge) of the sensor signal, a counter is incremented in the management unit 1 to count the teeth detected by the sensor and to deduce the angular position of the sensor. crankshaft. More particularly, the angular position of the crankshaft is defined by the number of teeth counted from the reference area. The instantaneous angular position of the crankshaft is thus determined by calculating the difference between the instantaneous value of the counter and the value of the counter at the time of detection of the last reference zone. More particularly, the angular position of the crankshaft is then the angular value corresponding to this difference. The reference area is detected by measuring the period of time between two successive real teeth. In all embodiments, the sensor signal has at least one transition between the first signal level and the second signal level in a portion of the sensor signal corresponding to the passage of the reference area 32 of the toothed target in front of the sensor. the sensor, as illustrated by the timing diagrams of Figure 3C. The ratio of the duration of the portion of the signal CRK in which the signal is in the high state, for example, the sum of said duration and the duration of the signal, is referred to as the cyclic ratio r of the signal CRK in the reference area. the next portion of the signal in which the signal is low. For example, the duty cycle of the sensor signal in the portion of said signal corresponding to the passage of the reference area 32 of the toothed target in front of the sensor may be defined for the rotation of the target in the forward direction of rotation. In the example shown in Figure 3C, the sensor signal thus has a cyclic ratio of 50% in the reference area. For example, the mechanical target has an equality of the trays length at a high and low level at a low level, as shown in FIG. 2. This is however only an example, the embodiments 3035157 11 do not not limiting to this duty cycle value. A duty ratio of between 30% and 70%, or even between 40% and 60%, is preferable for the detection performance of the direction of rotation. For example, the value of the duty ratio can be chosen as a function of the ratio of the number n of dummy teeth in the reference area to the total number n + m of teeth of the target, but it should be noted that there is not a single ideal value, because the detection performance also depends on the engine speed. The management unit 1 is configured to measure, for each tooth of index k in the series of n teeth, the period of time, called period T (k) of the tooth k, separating said tooth k from the previous tooth of index k - 1 in the series of teeth. In the same way, the period T (k - 1) of tooth k - 1, is the time separating said tooth k - 1 from the previous tooth of index k - 2 in the series of teeth, and so on. Outside the reference zone 32, the period T (k) is equal to a constant duration T, which depends solely on the engine speed. Thus, the ratio R (k) of the duration T (k) over the duration T (k - 1) is equal to the unit [R (k) = 1] for the teeth of index k, for k greater than at 2 and less than or equal to n (2 <k <n). In the reference area, and for a rotation of the motor in the normal direction FW, the ratio R is equal to 3 (R = 3). It is indeed equal to the ratio of T (1) on T (58). This is illustrated by the timing diagrams at the top of Figures 3A-3C.
    [0016] Still in the reference area, but this time for a motor rotation in the opposite direction BW, the ratio R (k) in the reference area is equal to the ratio of T (58) to T (1). It is also equal to 3 [R (k) = 3] for the sensor signals shown in the bottom chronograms of FIGS. 3A and 3B, which correspond to the case of a signal at a constant level during the passage of the zone of In the case illustrated by the bottom timing diagram of FIG. transition between a first signal level and the other signal level in the portion corresponding to the passage of the reference zone 32 in front of the sensor 2. The duration between successive edges of the CRK signal may be equal to yT or zT, where y and z are positive real numbers different from the unit. It follows that, provided that the CRK sensor signal has a level transition in its portion corresponding to the passage of the reference zone in front of the sensor, the detection of the direction of rotation of the target can be detected by monitoring the value of the ratio R (k).
    [0017] For example, in the embodiments where n is two (n = 2), if R (k) is three or a third [ie, when R (k) = 3 or when R (k) ) = 1/3] when it is not equal to the unit [ie, when R (k) # 1], it is that the target and therefore the motor turn 3035157 12 in normal direction. This case is illustrated, for embodiments where n is equal to two (n = 2), by the timing diagram of Figure 4A on which we see that R (k) = 3 for tooth # 1 (that is, ie for k = 1) and that R (k) = 1/3 for tooth # 2 (that is, for k = 2). If on the contrary R (k) is equal to a value different from three and a third [ie, 5 if R (k) # 3 and R (k) # 1/3] when it is not equal to l unit [ie, when R (k) # 1] is that the target and thus the motor rotate in the opposite direction. This case is illustrated by the timing diagram of Figure 4B, again for embodiments where n is equal to two (n = 2). In the embodiment of Figure 4B, we see that z = 1.6 and y = 2.4. Thus: R (k) = 2.4 for tooth # 58, that is, for k = 58; R (k) = 1.6 / 2.4 for tooth # 57, i.e. for k = 57; and, R (k) = 1 / 1.6 for tooth # 56, that is, for k = 56. However, it can be difficult to distinguish at all engine speeds one of these values. above which corresponds to the case of Figure 4B, on the one hand, and the value 3 or the value 1/3 which correspond to the case of Figure 4A, on the other hand.
    [0018] In particular, acceleration or deceleration phases may give rise to false detections of the inverse rotation of the target, or may, on the contrary, mask true situations of inverse rotation. This is why the embodiments of the method for detecting the direction of rotation of the target which are proposed here make another use of the ratio R '(k) which has been disclosed in document FR 2 978 542 for determining an information representative of the position of a real tooth of a toothed target integral in rotation with a shaft of an internal combustion engine. The above-mentioned ratio R '(k) is given to order N by the expression below: R' (k) = Formula (1) where N is an even integer greater than or equal to 2. More particularly, the method comprises the following steps performed for at least some values of the index k associated with the teeth of the target, for example for example k = 2 when n = 2, or successively for the values of k corresponding to the angular zone of the target around the reference zone, or else again successively for all the values of k (ie, for k between 1 and n): a) calculating a first product by multiplying N times the period T ( k - N / 2) of tooth k - N / 2, b) calculation of a second product by multiplying between them the periods T (k - i) of teeth i, with i ranging from 0 to N / 2 - 1 and between N / 2 + 1 and N, c) calculating the ratio, denoted R '(k), between the first product and the second product, and d) detecting the direction of rotation of the target, and therefore of the engine in case of identity of the ratio R '(k) substantially with a first remarkable value and with a second remarkable value which are respectively representative of the rotation in a normal direction of rotation and the rotation in a direction of rotation 10 inverse of said normal direction of rotation. In one embodiment where N is 2 (N = 2), n is 58 (n = 58), m is 2 (m = 2) and the duty ratio r is 50%, first remarkable value of the sensor signal is equal to 9, and the second remarkable value of the sensor signal is equal to 4. The invention is not limited, however to this example.
    [0019] Thus, it can be applied to embodiments in which N, n, m, n + m and / or r have values different from those given above, in which case the first and second outstanding values may be different. of 9 and 4, respectively. In practice, the correspondence of the values of the ratio R '(k) with the first and second remarkable values is not necessarily considered to be an identity relation, at least not an absolute identity relation. On the contrary, this correspondence is determined if a proximity relation with the remarkable values is satisfied. For example, the values of the ratio R '(k) are compared with one or more thresholds surrounding the remarkable first and second values, and it is considered that the ratio R' (k) corresponds to one or the other of the remarkable values. if position criteria against these thresholds are met. More particularly, for first and second remarkable values of 9 and 4 in the example considered here, we can have thresholds equal to 3.5 and 7, for example: if R '(k)> 7 then the electronics of exploitation determines that R '(k) corresponds to the first remarkable value, which means that the target rotates in the normal direction; and if 3.5 <R '(k) <7 then the operating electronics 30 determines that R' (k) corresponds to the second remarkable value which means that the target is rotating in the opposite direction. Also, it is known that R '(k) = 1 for the values of k between 3 and n (n = 58 in the example), that is to say for normal teeth distant from the reference zone, and that only m (m = 2 in the example) consecutive values of R '(k) are greater than 1, in fact for the teeth coming just after the reference zone. The operating electronics can therefore also take into account a recurrence because the values of R '(k) correspond to one or the other of the remarkable values, this recurrence corresponding in fact to a periodicity which coincides with with the number of laps completed by the target. For example, the correspondence of the values of R '(k) with one or the other of the remarkable values may have to be repeated over several consecutive turns of the target to be considered as validly detected.
    [0020] The timing diagram of FIG. 5 gives the values calculated by formula (1) above, respectively at each edge of the sensor signal, in the case of the example considered here. These values are represented on the ordinates, as a function of the time t indicated on the abscissa, by a cross ("x") for the edges of the sensor signal associated with the tooth # 2, and by a plus sign ("+") for the other fronts. It can be seen that in the vicinity of the reference zone and more particularly for tooth # 2, the value R '(k) with k = 2 is around 4 (more particularly, it is globally slightly above 4). for a rotation in opposite direction, ie, for t between 0 and 8 s in Figure 5; and it is close to 9 (in lower values) for normal rotation, i.e., for t between 11 and 17 s in Figure 5.
    [0021] On the face of it, however, it should be noted that the first remarkable value, which corresponds to the detection of rotation in the normal direction (ie in the example above), does not depend on the cyclic ratio r of the CRK sensor signal. in the reference area. By cons, the first remarkable value, which corresponds to the detection of rotation in the opposite direction (ie 4 in the above example), depends on the duty ratio r of the CRK sensor signal in the reference area. In one embodiment in which N is equal to 2 and in which the duty ratio r of the sensor signal in the portion of the sensor signal corresponding to the passage of the reference zone in front of the sensor is substantially equal to 50% for the rotation of the target 25 in the direction of rotation before, the second remarkable value of the sensor signal is equal to 4. Each of the timing diagrams of FIGS. 6A and 6B shows, as a function of the time t indicated on the abscissa, the values of R (k) represented on the ordinates by a plus sign ("+") and the values of R '(k) represented in ordinates by a star ("*") for the other fronts. FIGS. 6A and 6B show the advantage of using the values of the ratio R '(k) by comparisons with the values of the ratio R (k), respectively in the case of a rotation of the target in the forward direction (FW ) and in the case of reverse rotation (BW). Indeed, it can be seen that the values of R '(k) given in either case are easier to distinguish than the values of R (k). In embodiments, the method comprises determining, also from the ratio R '(k), information representative of the position of the tooth of index k with respect to the reference zone, as described in document FR 2 978 542. Thus, the calculation of the values of R '(k) is carried out once for each value of k but is used to fulfill two distinct functions: on the one hand the determination of the position angularity of the target (and possibly its speed of rotation, by derivation with respect to time) as described in the document FR 2 978 542, and secondly the detection of the direction of rotation normal or inverse of the target in agreement with the embodiments given in the present description. In these embodiments, the ratio R '(k) is calculated successively for all the values of k (i.e., for k lying between 1 and n).
    [0022] In other embodiments, the ratio R '(k) is successively calculated for all the values of k (ie, for k between 1 and n), even if it is not used to generate information. representative of the position of the tooth of index k with respect to the reference zone as explained in the paragraph above. Indeed, in these embodiments, the control electronics can ignore which is the angular position of the target, so that it does not know which fronts among those detected by the sensor correspond to the passage of the reference area before the one -this. However, it can be seen through the numerical examples given in the preceding examples and in which m = 2, that the most significant difference between the value of R '(k) which corresponds to a rotation in the normal direction and the value of R '(k) which corresponds to a rotation in opposite direction, is obtained for the tooth #m, that is to say for k = 2 in this example and for k = m in the general case, and this what let the order N of the ratio R '(k) be. Therefore, if one is able to distinguish the front corresponding to the passage of tooth #k, one can simply calculate the ratio R '(k) for k = m. The detection performance of the direction of rotation is indeed the best for this value of R '(k). The present invention has been described and illustrated in the present detailed description and in the figures. The present invention is not limited to the embodiments presented. Other variants and embodiments may be deduced and implemented by those skilled in the art upon reading the present description and the accompanying figures. In the claims, the term "include" does not exclude other elements or other steps. A single processor or several other units may be used to implement the invention. The various features presented and / or claimed can be advantageously combined. Their presence in the description or in different dependent claims does not exclude this possibility. The reference signs can not be understood as limiting the scope of the invention.
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    [0001]
    REVENDICATIONS1. A method for detecting the direction of rotation of an internal combustion engine, said motor being associated with: - a toothed target (3) rotationally integral with a shaft (4) of the motor, said toothed target comprising a series of teeth comprising n real teeth (31) evenly spaced on the one hand, followed by m dummy teeth forming a reference zone (32), on the other hand, where n and m are non-zero integers; a sensor (2) arranged to generate a substantially periodic sensor signal having active edges between a first signal level and a second signal level in response to the passage of the actual teeth of the toothed target in front of said sensor; and a management unit (1) configured to measure, for each tooth of index k in the series of teeth, the period of time, called the period T (k) of the tooth k, separating said tooth k from the previous tooth of index k-1 in the series of teeth; characterized in that, the sensor signal further having at least one transition between the first signal level and the second signal level in a portion of the sensor signal corresponding to the passage of the reference area (32) of the toothed target in front of the sensor, the method comprises the following steps performed for at least some values of the index k associated with the teeth of the target: a) calculating a first product by multiplying N times the period T (k - N / 2 ) of the tooth k - N / 2, where N is an even integer greater than or equal to 2, b) calculating a second product by multiplying the periods T (k - i) of the teeth i with i between 0 and N / 2 - 1 and between N / 2 + 1 and N, c) calculating the ratio, denoted R '(k), between the first product and the second product, and d) detecting the direction of rotation of the target , and therefore of the motor, in case of correspondence of the ratio R '(k) with a first remarkable value and with a second remarkable value e which are respectively representative of rotation in a normal direction of rotation and rotation in a direction of rotation opposite to the normal direction of rotation.
    [0002]
    2. Method according to claim 1, wherein, N being equal to 2, the first remarkable value of the sensor signal is equal to 9.
    [0003]
    The method of claim 1 or claim 2 wherein the transition of the sensor signal between the first signal level and the second signal level in the portion of said sensor signal corresponding to the passage of the reference area (32). ) of the toothed target in front of the sensor is such that a duty cycle of the sensor signal in said portion of the sensor signal is between 30% and 70% for the rotation of the target in the forward direction of rotation.
    [0004]
    4. The method of claim 3 wherein, N being equal to 2 and the cyclic ratio of the sensor signal in said portion of the sensor signal being substantially equal to 50% for the rotation of the target in the direction of rotation before, the second remarkable value of the sensor signal is equal to 4.
    [0005]
    The method of any preceding claim wherein the number n is 58 and the number m is 2. 10
    [0006]
    The method of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein steps a) to d) are performed for all values of the index k associated with the teeth of the target.
    [0007]
    7. A method according to claim 6 comprising determining, from the ratio R '(k), information representative of the position of the index tooth k with respect to the reference area.
    [0008]
    The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein steps a) to d) are performed for some only values of the index k associated with the teeth of the target, whose value k = m.
    [0009]
    9. Device comprising means for implementing each of the 20 steps of a treatment method according to any one of claims 1 to 8.
    [0010]
    10. Management system of an internal combustion engine, characterized in that it comprises: - a toothed target (3) integral in rotation with a shaft (4) of the engine, said toothed target comprising a series of teeth comprising n real teeth (31) regularly spaced on the one hand, followed by m dummy teeth forming a reference zone (32), on the other hand, where n and m are non-zero integers; a sensor (2) arranged to generate a substantially periodic sensor signal having active edges between a first signal level and a second signal level in response to the passage of the actual teeth of the toothed target in front of said sensor; and a management unit (1) configured to measure, for each tooth of index k in the series of teeth, the period of time, called the period T (k) of the tooth k, separating said tooth k from the previous tooth of index k-1 in the series of teeth; and 3035157 18 - a device according to claim 9.
    [0011]
    11. The system of claim 10, wherein the device is included in the management unit (1). 5
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