Mercedes-Benz Group Ag

Matthias Hoelz

Rainer Hegemann

Herbert Schankula

Yvonne Binder

Nhat Phan

A method for operating a nitrogen oxide sensor of an internal combustion engine. When, for a number greater than 1 of operating cycles each including exactly two directly consecutive periods of time, where during a respective first of the periods of time the engine is in fired operation and during the respective second period of time a fired operation of the engine ceases, it is determined that an arithmetic mean of the first periods of time is less than a first threshold value and an arithmetic mean of the second periods of time is less than a second threshold value, a special overrun operating state of a computer is set, where after deactivation of the engine, the computer is kept activated in the special overrun operating state for a longer overrun period, where the nitrogen oxide sensor is kept in a state of operating readiness during the overrun period.

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Ludwigsburg, Germany

Matthias Hoelz