Patent ID: 8065071

Claim:
A method for operating an internal combustion engine having at least two combustion chambers, each combustion chamber providing a torque contribution to a total torque of the internal combustion engine and the internal combustion engine being implemented in such a way that a quantity of exhaust gas may be recirculated into combustion chambers, the method comprising the following steps: (a) detecting the torque contributions of at least two combustion chambers, subsequently (b) changing the quantity of recirculated exhaust gas at least in the combustion chambers whose torque contribution was detected in step (a), subsequently (c) detecting the torque contributions of at least two combustion chambers whose torque contribution was detected in step (a), subsequently (d) ascertaining the change of the torque contributions as a result of the change of the quantity of recirculated exhaust gas, and subsequently (e) outputting a signal as a function of the change of the torque contributions.