Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control apparatus
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Application No.: US14849910Application Date: 2015-09-10
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Publication No.: US10048240B2Publication Date: 2018-08-14
- Inventor: Satoshi Nishimoto , Masafumi Umeno , Yuji Yamada
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya
- Agency: Posz Law Group, PLC
- Priority: JP2014-193197 20140923
- Main IPC: G01N33/00
- IPC: G01N33/00 ; G01N27/02 ; G01N27/04

Abstract:
A control apparatus that controls a gas concentration sensor includes a sweep circuit, a current detection resistor, and a calculation portion. The sweep circuit supplies the gas concentration sensor with a sweep current. The calculation portion calculates impedance of the gas concentration sensor. The gas concentration sensor and the current detection resistor are sequentially connected in series along a direction from the sweep circuit to a reference voltage. The sweep circuit has a constant voltage circuit and a reference resistor. An increasing and decreasing tendency of a manufacturing variation of the reference resistor and an increasing and decreasing tendency of a manufacturing variation of the current detection resistor are identical. The calculation portion divides a product of a resistance value of the current detection resistor and a time variation of applied voltage to the gas concentration sensor by a time variation of applied voltage to the current detection resistor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160084812A1 CONTROL APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-03-24
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