A method for an internal combustion engine includes the steps of collecting exhaust gas in a volume and flowing exhaust gas out of the volume in a first and a second portions. A laminate damping base material made of a piezoelectric ceramic material or piezoelectric polymer material and a conductive fiber-reinforced plastic composition is prepared. The reactive current component detecting unit detects a reactive current component of a current. An incidence proportion is then determined for each such association rule for each temporal data set and these incidence proportions are stored. The device processes the entire surface of the substrate uniformly and prevents varying in processing from occurrence. An operating system service layer provides an abstraction function between the system library and the appliance operating system kernel and hardware, so that the logic in the system library and above, such as in the application itself, is executable with a development platform operating system which is completely different from the operating system of the appliance.