Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Gas sensor controller
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Application No.: US16016811Application Date: 2018-06-25
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Publication No.: US10921214B2Publication Date: 2021-02-16
- Inventor: Nobuyuki Tanaka , Hiroki Kakui , Yuji Iwama , Satoshi Nishimoto
- 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: JP2017-135434 20170711
- Main IPC: G01M15/10
- IPC: G01M15/10 ; G01M13/00

Abstract:
An air-fuel ratio (A/F) sensor control device includes: an impedance detector detecting an impedance of an A/F sensor; and a pump current controller performing a digital control on a supply of electric current to the A/F sensor. The pump current controller includes a PID calculator calculating an instruction current value according to a difference of two input values, i.e., the difference between a PID control target value and a detection value of an inter-terminal voltage of a Nernst cell; and a protection clamper limiting a supply of electric current to a pump cell based on the instruction current value and the impedance. The protection clamper includes: a current clamp threshold calculator calculating an upper limit value and a lower limit value of the electric current based on the impedance of the Nernst cell, a first current value limiter limiting the instruction current value by the upper limit value and the lower limit value, and a second current value limiter performing a constant current limitation on an instruction current limit value by using an instruction constant current value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190017901A1 GAS SENSOR CONTROLLER Public/Granted day:2019-01-17
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