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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 05, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dennis C Reed, Plymouth, MI (US);
Douglas R Hamburg, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Nicholas G Zorka, Clarkston, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
123421 ;
Abstract
An air/fuel control system for an engine (10) provides an air/fuel indicating signal linearly related to average engine air/fuel operation from a two-state exhaust gas oxygen sensor (76). Fuel delivered to the engine is modulated with a periodic or modulation signal (244). The modulation signal is offset in either a fuel increasing or a fuel decreasing direction when the air/fuel indicating signal is respectively saturated at either a lean or a rich value (394-420).