After shutting down an internal combustion engine (1), the crankshaft of the engine is positioned at a crankshaft angle that is favorable for cranking. Prepositioning of the crankshaft angle namely results in a lower first compression torque and therefore ...

The controller reduces pressure inside a common rail (3), when engine is stopped without operating an automatic engine stopping and restarting device. The pressure inside the common rail is further reduced when stopping the engine using the automatic engin...

The device has a positioning unit to position a crankshaft to a preset position for starting an engine, and a detecting unit to sense a crank position when detected that a throttle valve is opened. A starting mode deciding portion (33) decides a starting m...

A pump control valve contained in a high-pressure fuel pump is closed when an engine is stopped, so that the pressure of a common rail is prevented from becoming too high when the engine speed NE is not less than a predetermined value alpha . The pump cont...

A method of controlling an engine 12 during engine shutdown to reduce evaporative emissions is disclosed in which the method includes a step 50 of shutting off a fuel pump 28 of the engine 12 followed by the step 52 of burning off the fuel from a fuel rail...

A direct injection type internal combustion engine control apparatus is capable of increasing the frequency of performing the compression-stroke fuel injection following an automatic start of the engine by maintaining a sufficient fuel pressure for the com...

The starter control method uses a drive train control (26) with evaluation of the operating parameters of the i.c. engine, e.g. the camshaft and crankshaft angles and the operating parameters of the components of the starter device, for providing required ...