Abstract: To operate an internal combustion engine subvolumes of the fluid flowing into an intake duct in each instance during a predetermined time period are determined for each period. Tank purging values of a characteristic quantity are determined for each period. The characteristic quantity is representative of a tank purging fuel mass, which flowed through the tank purging valve in each instance during the predetermined time period. The successive subvolumes are added together, starting from the currently determined subvolume, to give a total subvolume, until the total subvolume is greater than or equal to an effective intake duct volume downstream of the tank purging valve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the actual oxygen load of a 3-path catalyst of a lambda-controlled internal combustion engine, whereby a value for the actual oxygen load is calculated from the signal of a pre-catalyst lambda probe and the measured air mass flow rate by integration over time, whereby the post-catalyst lambda probe is initialized when the signal is interrupted.

Abstract: A plateau phase of a test signal of an exhaust gas probe located in a catalytic converter is detected following a jump from a preset rich air/fuel ratio in a combustion chamber of one cylinder to a preset lean air/fuel ratio, the plateau phase being obtained following the jump, and the duration is determined as a storage period. A plateau phase of the test signal, which is obtained following a jump from a preset lean air/fuel ratio to a preset rich air/fuel ratio, is detected following the jump, and the duration of the plateau phase is determined as an evacuation period. An allocation rule for assigning the test signal to a detected air/fuel ratio is adjusted according to the storage period and the evacuation period. To calibrate the exhaust gas probe, the allocation rule is adapted according to a plateau value of the test signal during the plateau phase.

Abstract: The desulfation of a NOx storage catalytic converter takes place in two phases. In a first phase, the NOx storage catalytic converter is alternately exposed to rich and lean exhaust gas. In a subsequent second phase, the NOx storage catalytic converter is operated using rich exhaust gas. This method permits the quantity of hydrogen sulfide that occurs during the desulfation process to be minimized and achieves at the same time an efficient removal of sulfate from the deep-seated layers of the NOx storage catalytic converter.

Abstract: Disclosed is an internal combustion engine comprising at least one cylinder and an exhaust manifold in which a catalytic converter, a first exhaust gas probe, and a second exhaust gas probe are disposed. The first exhaust probe is located upstream from the catalytic converter while the second exhaust gas probe is arranged downstream therefrom. A lambda Controller is provided which is configured so as to determine a lambda correction factor in accordance with a first test signal that is assigned to the first exhaust gas probe. A trim controller is provided to which a setpoint value and an actual value of a second test signal allocated to the second exhaust gas probe are fed as a control difference. The trim controller is configured so as to determine a proportionate corrective factor.

Abstract: To operate an internal combustion engine subvolumes of the fluid flowing into an intake duct in each instance during a predetermined time period are determined for each period. Tank purging values of a characteristic quantity are determined for each period. The characteristic quantity is representative of a tank purging fuel mass, which flowed through the tank purging valve in each instance during the predetermined time period. The successive subvolumes are added together, starting from the currently determined subvolume, to give a total subvolume, until the total subvolume is greater than or equal to an effective intake duct volume downstream of the tank purging valve.

Abstract: A device is designed for determining a pre-set air/fuel ratio in the combustion chamber of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine. The device is further designed for determining a filtered, pre-set air/fuel ratio in the combustion chamber of the cylinder by filtering the pre-set air/fuel ratio in the combustion chamber of the cylinder by means of a filter which models the dynamic behavior of the upstream region of the exhaust gas catalyst relative to the arrangement of the exhaust gas probe in the exhaust gas catalyst, in particular its storage, reduction and/or oxidation properties. The device is further designed for determining an adjustable variable by means of a regulator as a function of the filtered and pre-set air/fuel ratio, and of a sensed air/fuel ratio in the combustion chamber of the cylinder.

Abstract: The invention is distinguished by a method and a corresponding device for diagnosis of an individual catalytic converter of an exhaust gas purification unit assigned to an internal combustion engine in the Y configuration, despite the lack of exhaust gas probe between the individual catalytic converter and a main catalytic converter. The diagnosis proceeds on the basis of signals from the exhaust gas probes belonging to the exhaust gas purification unit. On the basis of these signals, the oxygen storage capacity of the individual catalytic converter is determined despite the lack of exhaust gas probe between the individual catalytic converter and the main catalytic converter.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method which is characterized in that before an active catalyst diagnosis is carried out the mixture is dynamically trimmed for all individual catalysts using a signal of a lambda sensor common to the individual catalysts. Once the mixture is successfully trimmed, the cylinder-based forced activation is adjusted in such a manner that the individual catalysts, by virtue of the charge imprinted thereon for a threshold catalyst, exceed their remaining oxygen storage capacity to such an extent that the lambda sensor is enabled to measure the storable charge. The cylinder-based lambda signals reconstructed from the sensor signal are then used to determine specific diagnostic values for every individual catalyst.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for diagnosing a regulated exhaust gas catalyst, according to which regulating the catalyst results in control cycles, catalyst diagnosis being performed at a predetermined oxygen concentration per control cycle. A fuel mixture can be adjusted fat or lean according to a specific lambda control factor. A fat or lean exhaust gas is detected, the lambda control factor being incrementally decreased when a lean exhaust gas is detected. The lambda control factor is modified by a P step following a detected change from a fat to lean exhaust gas or from a lean to a fat exhaust gas, the lambda control factor being set to a minimum value during a first loading period following a detected change from a fat exhaust gas to a lean exhaust gas while being set to a maximum value during a second loading period following a detected change from a lean exhaust gas to a fat exhaust gas.

Abstract: The invention relates to a waste gas probe which is disposed in an internal combustion engine, comprising a plurality of cylinders and injection valves associated with the cylinders, in order to measure fuel. The waste gas probe is arranged in a waste gas tract and the measuring signal thereof is characteristic for the air/fuel ratio in the respective cylinder. The measuring signal is detected in relation to a reference position of the piston of the respective cylinder at a predefined crankshaft angle and associated with a respective cylinder. A manipulated variable which is used to influence the air/fuel ration in the respective cylinder according to the measuring signal detected for the respective cylinder is produced by a controller. The predefined crankshaft angle is adapted according to an instability criterion of the controller.

Abstract: Disclosed is an internal combustion engine comprising at least one cylinder and an exhaust manifold in which a catalytic converter, a first exhaust gas probe, and a second exhaust gas probe are disposed. The first exhaust probe is located upstream from the catalytic converter while the second exhaust gas probe is arranged downstream therefrom. A lambda Controller is provided which is configured so as to determine a lambda correction factor in accordance with a first test signal that is assigned to the first exhaust gas probe. A trim controller is provided to which a setpoint value and an actual value of a second test signal allocated to the second exhaust gas probe are fed as a control difference. The trim controller is configured so as to determine a proportionate corrective factor.

Abstract: An exhaust catalyst is charged with oxygen until saturated. A given first rich air/fuel ratio is set in a combustion chamber of a cylinder. A first oxygen storage capacity value is determined depending on the measured signals from first and second exhaust probes. The exhaust catalyst is charged with oxygen until saturated. A given second rich air/fuel ratio is set in the combustion chamber of the cylinder. A second oxygen storage capacity value is determined depending on the measured signal from the first and second exhaust probe. A corrected oxygen storage capacity value is determined depending on the first and second oxygen storage capacity values.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the inventive method, half the cylinders of an in-line cylinder arrangement or the entire internal combustion engine are forcibly excited cylinder-specifically in opposite direction to the other half of the cylinders in order to balance the cylinder-specific total torque. According to another embodiment of the invention, trim regulation which compensates differences between the air quantities and/or fuel quantities introduced into the individual cylinders with the aid of the signal of a joint lambda probe is done cylinder-specifically for the individual catalytic converters. The invention also relates to lambda regulation for the joint main catalytic converter mounted downstream of the cylinder-specific individual catalytic converters.

Abstract: Method for lambda control in an internal combustion engine with a catalytic converter in an exhaust tract and at least one lambda probe mounted inside the catalytic converter. With this arrangement of the upstream probe there are signal delays which slow down the lambda control. To compensate, the measurement signals from the first lambda probe are applied to a lambda analysis unit which corrects measurement signal delays, and the corrected lambda probe signal is applied to a unit for lambda control. Both lambda probes are connected to a unit for lambda control.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for controlling an internal combustion engine, comprising a first regulator, whose regulating difference is the difference of an actual value and an estimated value of individual cylinder deviation of the air/fuel ratio from a preset air/fuel ratio. The first regulator also has an integral regulating parameter, its manipulated variable being a first estimated value. A second regulator is also provided, the regulating difference of which is the first estimated value. Said regulator has a proportional regulating parameter whose manipulated variable is an individual cylinder lambda regulating factor. A PT1 filter is additionally provided, by means of which a second estimated value is determined through PT1 filtering of the individual cylinder lambda regulating factor.

Abstract: An exhaust gas probe is disposed downstream of a catalytic converter in an exhaust gas tract of an internal combustion engine. A first quality value which is representative of a signal dynamic of the measured signal of the exhaust gas probe is determined as a function of the measured signal of the exhaust gas probe. If the first quality value represents at least one predefined signal dynamic, the exhaust gas probe is diagnosed as functioning correctly. If the first quality value does not represent at least the predefined signal dynamic, a catalytic converter diagnosis is performed comprising a loading with oxygen and/or an emptying of oxygen with at least two different air/fuel ratios. Dependent on the catalytic converter diagnosis, the exhaust gas probe is diagnosed as functioning either correctly or incorrectly.

Abstract: In order to control an internal combustion engine, a fuel mass that is to be supplied to the respective cylinder is determined according to a load variable. An additional fuel mass to be measured once is determined, when the measuring signal of an oxygen probe arranged downstream from a three-way catalytic converter is characteristic of at least one pre-determined residual oxygen part, according to the course of the measuring signal. A once reduced fuel mass is determined, when the measuring signal is characteristic of at least one pre-determined residual fuel part, according to the course of the measuring signal. A corrected fuel mass to be measured is determined according to the fuel mass to be supplied and optionally less the once reduced fuel mass or the fuel mass to be measured once. An actuating signal for controlling the injection valve is generated according to the corrected fuel mass to be supplied.

Abstract: The invention relates to a waste gas probe which is disposed in an internal combustion engine, comprising a plurality of cylinders and injection valves associated with the cylinders, in order to measure fuel. The waste gas probe is arranged in a waste gas tract and the measuring signal thereof is characteristic for the air/fuel ratio in the respective cylinder. The measuring signal is detected in relation to a reference position of the piston of the respective cylinder at a predefined crankshaft angle and associated with a respective cylinder. A manipulated variable which is used to influence the air/fuel ration in the respective cylinder according to the measuring signal detected for the respective cylinder is produced by means of a controller. The predefined crankshaft angle is adapted according to an instability criterion of the controller.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for controlling an internal combustion engine, comprising a first regulator, whose regulating difference is the difference of an actual value and an estimated value of individual cylinder deviation of the air/fuel ratio from a preset air/fuel ratio. The first regulator also has an integral regulating parameter, its manipulated variable being a first estimated value. A second regulator is also provided, the regulating difference of which is the first estimated value. Said regulator has a proportional regulating parameter whose manipulated variable is an individual cylinder lambda regulating factor. A PTI filter is additionally provided, by means of which a second estimated value is determined through PT1 filtering of the individual cylinder lambda regulating factor.