Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Allan A. Lippa
  • Patent number: 6604357
    Abstract: An engine control system includes an adaptive bias sub-system (100) that generates bias values for controlling the air-fuel ratio. The sub-system (100) includes an integral controller (118) that reads an error signal from a post-catalyst switching EGO sensor (112). A plurality of noise isolation integrators (122) filter any noise resulting from a particular engine operating condition (e.g. acceleration, deceleration, idling) from the integrated error signal and stores the signal in a corresponding keep-alive memory (124) as a bias value for that engine operating condition. In a preferred embodiment, the post-catalyst feedback loop includes a gated proportional controller 116 that turns on for a limited period of time after the post-catalyst switching EGO sensor (112) switches states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John E. Bradley, Sr., Ahmed A. Omara, Douglas Ray Hamburg