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Patent No.:

US 6691020 B1

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Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004

Filed:

Jun. 19, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Garth Michael Meyer, Dearborn, MI (US);

Joseph Richard Asik, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01N 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01N 3/00 ;
Abstract

A method and system for optimizing the purging of a constituent gas of a vehicle engine's generated exhaust gas from an emission control device is disclosed wherein the amplitude of the output signal generated by a downstream switching oxygen sensor, and the time response of the sensor, is used to iteratively adjust a current purge time to obtain an optimized purge time.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Meyer, Garth. (2004). Method and system for optimizing purge of exhaust gas constituent stored in an emission control device (U.S. Patent No. 6691020). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6691020

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