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A method for detecting knock for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders in which a vibration sensor is attached to each cylinder and a peak value of vibration detected by the sensor is sampled over a predetermined interval near the top dead center. The sampled value is convert

A method for detecting knock for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders in which a vibration sensor is attached to each cylinder and a peak value of vibration detected by the sensor is sampled over a predetermined interval near the top dead center. The sampled value is converted from analog to digital and stored for a predetermined number of sampling times to obtain the average value for each cylinder. Then the frequency of occurrences in which the ratio between the sampled peak value and the average value exceeds a reference value is obtained, and the knock is determined when the frequency of occurrences in any one cylinder exceeds a predetermined value or when the average frequency of occurrences of the all cylinders exceed another predetermined value.

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A knock detecting method for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders and pistons therein, comprising the steps of: detecting vibrations produced by a combustion event in each of the cylinders of said engine to generate an analog vibration output corresponding to said vibrations

A knock detecting method for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders and pistons therein, comprising the steps of: detecting vibrations produced by a combustion event in each of the cylinders of said engine to generate an analog vibration output corresponding to said vibrations; sample-and-holding a peak value of said analog vibration output generated during a predetermined period when each of said pistons is near top dead center of each said cylinder; converting said peak value into a digital quantity; storing said digital quantity a predetermined number of times for each of said cylinders, producing an average from a predetermined number of stored quantities for each of said cylinders, determining a proportion of those of said stored output data of each said cylinder which are greater than said average to obtain individual-cylinder frequency rates, and producing an average value of said individual-cylinder frequency rates for the number of said cylinders to obtain an all-cylinder frequency rate; and determining that there exists a knock when the individual-cylinder frequency rate of at least one of said cylinders is greater than a first predetermined value or when said all-cylinder frequency rate is greater than a second predetermined value and thereby generating an output. A device for detecting knocking in an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders, said device comprising: means for generating a knocking signal related to the level of vibrations during a predetermined period around the top dead center of each said cylinder; means for generating an individual-cylinder frequency signal for each of said cylinders, each said individual-cylinder frequency signal being related to the number of times said knocking signals for a corresponding one of said cylinders exceeds a first predetermined value, and generating an all-cylinder frequency signal related to the number of times all of said knocking signals exceed a second predetermined value; and means for determining that knocking exists when at least one of said all cylinder frequency signal and said individual-cylinder frequency signals of at least one of said cylinders is greater than third and fourth predetermined values, respectively, and thereby generating an output.