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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2001
Richard Andrew Booth, Canton, MI (US);
Brent Edward Sealy, Dearborn, MI (US);
Kenneth John Behr, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Michael John Cullen, Northville, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method and system for diagnosing catalyst operation in an internal combustion engine having a two-bank, three EGO sensor structure includes determining the ratio of the arc length between the post-catalyst EGO sensor signal and the arc length of a pre-catalyst EGO sensor signal over a selected time period. If the exhaust bank is a one-sensor bank having only a post-catalyst EGO sensor and no pre-catalyst EGO sensor, the system uses the arc length from the pre-catalyst EGO sensor in the two-sensor bank to calculate the arc length ratio, thereby allowing calculation of two arc length ratios without two matched pairs of EGO sensors. The ratio indicates the efficiency of the catalyst and may be compared with calibratable or experimentally-determined thresholds to monitor converter efficiency over time.