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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jörg Neugärtner, Regensburg, DE;
Assignee:
Mannesmann VDO AG, Frankfurt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 4/108 ; G06G 7/70 ; G06F 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 4/108 ; G06G 7/70 ; G06F 1/900 ;
Abstract
A invention at least relates to a method for determining the load on an internal combustion engine of a vehicle, operating parameters of the internal combustion engine being recorded and at least one value representing the load is read from a characteristic diagram as a function of the operating parameters recorded, and for at least one further parameter, which is recorded by a sensor already present in the vehicle and which is not an operating parameter of the internal combustion engine, being taken into account in the determination of the load.