Method for determining a NOx concentration

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6699383
APP PUB NO 20020179458A1
SERIAL NO

10156483

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A thick-film measurement sensor includes two measurement cells and is used to measure the NOx concentration in the exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. The 1/.lambda. value of the exhaust gas is determined from an oxygen ion pump current flowing in the first measurement cell, for example, by a characteristic diagram, and, a measurement error, which can be used to correct the measured NOx concentration, is determined from this 1/.lambda. value, for example, by a characteristic curve that has previously been determined in a calibration measurement. The invention is based on the discovery that the measurement error is dependent on the air ratio in the exhaust gas. If this is expressed by the 1/.lambda. value, there is no need for a complex division calculation during the correction.

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  • CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Lemire, Bertrand Schierling, DE 8 318
Walde, Tim Regensburg, DE 8 294

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