Abstract: A method for NOx and/or SOx regeneration of an NOx-storage catalytic converter arranged in an exhaust treatment system of an internal combustion engine having more than one cylinder. A mass flux of reducing agents are increased in the exhaust treatment system. A control unit operates the more than one cylinder of the internal combustion engine so that the cylinders are selectively detuned. The control unit can operate a first part of the cylinders under a lean condition where &lgr;>1 and the control unit can operate a second set of the cylinders under a rich condition where &lgr;<1.

Abstract: In the embodiments described in the specification pollutants in the exhaust gas of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle having an exhaust-gas purification device containing a catalyst in the exhaust line are reduced by controlling The air/fuel ratio supplied to the cylinders of the internal combustion engine in such a way that at least one of the engine cylinders is operated with a lean air/fuel ratio and the remaining cylinders are operated with a rich air/fuel ratio while a lambda value of approximately one is maintained in the overall exhaust flow from all the cylinders. In addition to rapid heating of the catalyst in the exhaust-gas purification device and compensation for a relatively low storage capacity of the catalyst, this arrangement also reduces the quantity of untreated exhaust upstream of the catalyst.

Abstract: A method of modifying the motion of an output-varying control element of an internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle includes detecting the position of the gas pedal and, depending on the position of the gas pedal, determining a control parameter for the output-varying control element. For a particular setting of the output-varying control element the output increment per cycle is prospectively determined, at least as a function of operating parameters of the engine, and from this optimal value and the control parameter determined according to the gas pedal position, a parameter is computed for the output varying control element in the ensuing cycles.

Abstract: For the purpose of identification of a combustion chamber producing undesirable hunting in a fuel injection combustion engine, the duration of injection of a defined injection valve is changed in such a manner that additional hunting is caused, and from the crank angle interval (KW) between the additional and the undesirable hunting, is derived, taking into account the rotational speed n of the engine, an identification signal for the combustion chamber to be identified. The identification signal is utilized to change the fuel injection time for the combustion chamber causing the uneveness to eliminate the latter.