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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2015
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Dirk Daecke, Stuttgart, DE;
Jan Dominique Makowski, Stuttgart, DE;
Moritz Waldorf, Stuttgart, DE;
Reinhard Hein, Sachsenheim, DE;
Andreas Dreyer, Ditzingen, DE;
Peter Oechtering, Karlsruhe, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method and a device are described for detecting at least a portion of a measuring gas component containing bound oxygen in a gas mixture, in particular in an exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, in a measuring gas chamber by detecting a portion of oxygen that is generated by a reduction of the measuring gas component containing the bound oxygen, in the presence of molecular oxygen, in the device, which includes at least one first pump cell, one reference cell, and one second pump cell. The method includes the following steps: a) generating a first pump current in the first pump cell in such a way that transport of a first portion of oxygen ions takes place between the measuring gas chamber and the surroundings of the device; b) applying a reference pump current to the reference cell in such a way that a second portion of the oxygen ions is transported into a reference gas chamber; c) decomposing the measuring gas component containing the bound oxygen by catalysis at an electrode of the second pump cell, as the result of which additional molecular oxygen is generated from the measuring gas component; d) applying a second pump current to the second pump cell in such a way that a portion of further oxygen ions that are formed from the additional molecular oxygen is transported into the reference gas chamber; and e) holding a sum of currents, formed from the reference pump current and from the second pump current, constant.