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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gerhard Hotzel, Stuttgart, DE;
Harald Neumann, Vaihingen, DE;
Walter Strassner, Schorndorf, DE;
Johann Riegel, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE;
Assignee:
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
205784 ; 204425 ; 204426 ; 204427 ;
Abstract
The invention is directed to a method of operating an exhaust-gas probe having a pumped reference atmosphere in a relatively closed volume. In this method, the oxygen ion current, which carries the pump current Ip to the reference atmosphere, is temporarily increased under specific conditions. In this way, an adulteration of the reference atmosphere can be more rapidly eliminated. This adulteration can occur because of fuel particles which diffuse in.