摘要:
The present invention aims at providing an electrode having more sufficient electrode activity and electrical conductivity as a sensor electrode for various gas sensors than conventional sensor electrodes. The present invention relates to a gas sensor electrode including a platinum-containing layer having mixed and dispersed therein a conductive particle phase composed of Pt or a Pt alloy and a ceramic particle phase, and a ceramic layer containing a ceramic material, wherein the platinum-containing layer and the ceramic layer are porous, and the porosity of the ceramic layer as measured by image analysis of a cross-sectional SEM appearance is from 1 to 40% and the average pore size of the ceramic layer is from 0.1 to 5 µm.
摘要:
A control device for an internal combustion engine, equipped with: an exhaust purification catalyst (20) provided in the exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine and capable of absorbing oxygen; a downstream air-fuel ratio sensor (41) provided downstream from the exhaust purification catalyst in the direction of the exhaust flow; and an engine control device that controls the internal combustion engine in response to the output from the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor. The downstream air-fuel ratio sensor is configured such that the applied voltage for which the output current is zero changes in response to the exhaust air-fuel ratio, and such that when the exhaust air-fuel ratio equals the theoretical air-fuel ratio and the applied voltage in the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor is increased, the output current increases in conjunction therewith. When the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas is detected by the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor, the applied voltage in the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor is fixed at a constant voltage, with this constant voltage being a voltage for which the output current is zero when the exhaust air-fuel ratio is a predetermined air-fuel ratio that is leaner than the theoretical air-fuel ratio.
摘要:
A gas sensor electrode including a conductive particle phase made of Pt or Pt alloy and a ceramic particle phase being mixed and dispersed, wherein a rate of content of the ceramic particle phase is 6.0 to 22.0 mass%, and a void ratio is 2.5 to 10.0%, and a dispersion degree of the conductive particle phase per length of 25 µm on the electrode surface is 0.60 to 0.85 µm, and a dispersion degree of the conductive particle phase in the electrode cross section per length of 100 µm in a direction parallel to the electrode surface is 2.0 to 4.0 µm.
摘要:
A sensor element 10 of an A/F sensor AS has a solid electrolyte layer 11, a first electrode 15 arranged on one side of the solid electrolyte layer 11 so as to be exposed to the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, and a second electrode 16 arranged on the other side of the solid electrolyte layer 11 so as to face an atmospheric air chamber 18. The sensor element 10 generates a sensor output according to the oxygen concentration in the exhaust gas. A microcomputer 20 supplies oxygen to the first electrode 15 side from the second electrode 16 side via the solid electrolyte layer 11 by applying a predetermined voltage between the pair of electrodes 15 and 16 of the sensor element 10. Moreover, the microcomputer 20 determines a crack abnormality of the solid electrolyte layer 11 based on electric current between the pair of electrodes 15 and 16 which is generated with start of the oxygen supply.
摘要:
An object is to perform accurate diagnosis of a failure in which an input signal from an amplification circuit assumes an anomalous value in an intermediate range between GND and Vcc. When at least one of a first NO x concentration Ip2W based on the output OP1 of a first differential amplification circuit 210 and a second NO x concentration Ip2N based on the output OP2 of a second differential amplification circuit 220 falls within an anomaly diagnosis range ZN, the difference D between the first NO x concentration Ip2W and the second NO x concentration Ip2N is obtained, and the difference D is stored in a difference accumulation buffer BF such that 16 values of the difference D continuously sampled up to the present are stored. The integrated value (difference integral value) Dint of the difference D is obtained. When the difference integrated value Dint becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined value Di0, a diagnosis result of "anomalous" is provided.