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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1998
Luca Poggio, Spinetta Marengo, IT;
Giorgio Bombarda, S. Lazzaro di Savena, IT;
Marco Secco, Nizza Monferrato, IT;
Magneti Marelli S.P.A., Milan, IT;
Abstract
Control device in which a linear oxygen sensor arranged on a gas exhaust pipe of an internal-combustion engine upstream of a catalytic converter generates a signal supplied to a conversion circuit generating at its output a measured parameter representing the air/fuel ratio of the mixture supplied to the engine. The measured parameter is compared with a target parameter so as to calculate an error parameter which is used, according to an operating method, to generate, where necessary, a bistable dummy signal variable between a positive saturation value and a negative saturation value so as to model the output of an oxygen sensor of the ON/OFF type. The dummy signal is also processed so as to calculate a correction parameter designed to be used for correction of a theoretical value of a calculated quantity of fuel, obtaining a corrected quantity of fuel for an injection system of the engine.