摘要:
An air/fuel ratio (A/F) sensor for detecting the A/F over a wide range covering a lean region and a rich region which are partitioned by the stoichiometric A/F comprises a solid electrolyte (1) made of an oxygen ion conductive metal oxide, first and second electrodes (2a, 2b) sandwiching the solid electrolyte and being operable by a predetermined voltage applied thereacross to ionize oxygen near the solid electrolyte (1) and diffuse oxygen ions into the solid electrolyte (1), and a gas diffusion layer (3; 3A) in the form of a porous sintered layer covering the second electrode (2b) and made of electrically insulating metal oxide fine particles having a mean particulate size of 1 µm or less so that oxygen or molecules of other gas components in the exhaust gas can move through pores of the gas diffusion layer (3; 3A).
摘要:
An oxygen sensor is disclosed in which an airtight reference chamber (32) isolated from a surrounding space is formed on one main surface of a solid electrolyte (10), a current is supplied to the solid electrolyte to pump out oxygen from the reference chamber in such a manner that oxygen in the reference chamber is ionized and then passes through the solid electrolyte, means is provided for transferring oxygen from the surrounding space to the reference chamber in such a manner that oxygen in the surrounding space is ionized and then passes through the solid electrolyte, and the oxygen concentration in the surrounding space is detected on the basis of the current supplied to the solid electrolyte.
摘要:
A semiconductor acceleration sensor (1) is formed by a cantilever (4) having a conductive movable electrode (5) of predetermined mass at one end, at least one pair of fixed conductive electrodes (8, 9) which are stationary with respect to the movable electrode (5) located on opposing sides of the movable electrode, and gaps provided between the movable electrode and the fixed electrodes. To prevent the movable electrode becoming fused to the contacted fixed electrode, in a first aspect of this invention, an insulating layer (6) is provided between the movable electrode and fixed electrodes, the layer being either on the movable electrode or on the fixed electrodes and in a second aspect of this invention the movable electrode or, preferably, the fixed electrodes, are formed of a high melting point material. In such a second aspect, to improve adhesion between the high melting point material and a substrate (3a, 3b) to which the fixed electrodes (8′, 9′) are mounted, a lower melting point material is firstly coated on said substrates. In a feature of the invention, a detector unit processing circuit (Figure 20) is described in which the output characteristic of the circuit may be digitally adjusted by suitable switching of a plurality of resistors (Rs, Rf), and in a second feature, the sensor chip and the detector unit integrated circuit are located on a common base (303) and mounted in a hermetically sealed chamber to prevent adverse environmental effects affecting operation of the sensor and detector unit assembly. A gas having a dew point of -40°C or lower is, advantageously, charged into the hermetically sealed chamber.
摘要:
A piezoelectric detector for detecting a physical quantity comprising, a piezoelectric device having a first electrode and a second electrode for modulating a carrier A.C., a excitation power source for supplying the carrier A.C. to the first electrode so as to excite the piezoelectric device, a weight mechanically coupled to the piezoelectric device so as to apply the physical quantity to the piezoelectric device, an A.C. amplifier for amplifying a modulated output from the second electrode, and a demodulator for demodulating an amplified output from the A.C. amplifier. The piezoelectric detector measures the physical quantity having the very low frequency range including D.C. component.
摘要:
The invention relates to a gas sensor for measuring an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture of an internal combustion engine and to a method of manufacturing the gas sensor. The sensor of the invention comprises: a solid state electrolyte layer (1) made of an oxygen ion conductive metal oxide; a first electrode (2a) of a porous thin film having the catalyst function which was coated on one surface of the solid state electrolyte layer (1); a second electrode (2b) of a porous thin film having the catalyst function which was coated on the other surface of the solid state electrolyte layer (1); an electrode shielding layer (10) made of a sintered material of ultra fine particulates whose average grain diameter is 1 µm or less which covers the surface other than the region of a predetermined area of the second electrode (2b); and a gas diffused layer (3) made of a porous electric insulative metal oxide which covers the region of the predetermined area of at least the second electrode (2b).