Abstract:
A temperature sensor (16;36;50;60;70), for example for a heating tape, or other heating means, characterised in that first and second electrical conductors (20a,20b; 37,38; 51,52; 61.62; 71.72) thereof each have a substance such as salt in electrical contact therewith, said substance having a significantly different electrical resistivity when the substance is at a temperature below a transition temperature range than when the substance is at a temperature above said transition temperature range.
Abstract:
Temperature characteristics of battery cells are detected. In accordance with one or more embodiments, an intercept frequency is detected for each battery cell, at which frequency an imaginary part of a plot of impedance values of the battery cell exhibits a zero crossing. The impedance values correspond to current injected into the cell. A temperature of the cell is determined based upon the detected intercept frequency for the cell and stored data that models operation of the cell. Various approaches are implemented with different types of circuits coupled to detect the impedance values of the respective cells.
Abstract:
A method for determining the temperature of a measurement sensor (10) for determining an oxygen concentration in gas mixtures, in particular in exhaust gases of internal combustion engines, wherein a detection voltage (UD) which corresponds to the oxygen concentration and is provided by a Nernst measuring cell (12) is evaluated, and the measurement sensor is regulated to an operating temperature using a heating device (50), is characterized in that the internal resistance of the Nernst measuring cell (12) is determined in a first temperature range and is used to infer the temperature of the Nernst measuring cell, and in that the internal resistance of the heating device (50) is determined in a second temperature range and is used to infer the temperature of the Nernst measuring cell.
Abstract:
A transducer has a chamber (1) containing a substance having a monitorable physical and/or chemical property, for example electrical conductivity, which property changes in correspondence with a change in an external influence, for example, temperature. In one embodiment, the chamber (1) is of elongate form and changes in said monitorable property in any part of the substance along the length of the chamber are monitored by a detection means (4,5,6). In a further embodiment the substance is arranged to undergo an abrupt change in the said property thereof, for example, due to a phase change in the said substance, in response to a predetermined change in the extemal influence, and detection means is provided to detect such abrupt change.
Abstract:
Temperature characteristics of battery cells are detected. In accordance with one or more embodiments, an intercept frequency is detected for each battery cell, at which frequency an imaginary part of a plot of impedance values of the battery cell exhibits a zero crossing. The impedance values correspond to current injected into the cell. A temperature of the cell is determined based upon the detected intercept frequency for the cell and stored data that models operation of the cell. Various approaches are implemented with different types of circuits coupled to detect the impedance values of the respective cells.
Abstract:
Es wird ein Temperatursensor zur elektrochemischen Temperaturmessung beschrieben, der als temperaturabhängiges Element eine galvanische Kette aus zwei ungleichen Elektroden und einem Elektrolyten enthält, und eine Meßeinrichtung zur Messung der temperaturabhängigen EMK dieser Kette. Vorzugsweise ist die galvanische Kette eine galvanische Festkörperkette. Durch die Verwendung einer galvanischen Kette, deren Zellspannung unabhängig von der Größe und der Geometrie der galvanischen Kette ist, als temperaturabhängiges Element und durch den einfachen Aufbau lassen sich derartige Temperatursensoren unter Beibehaltung ihrer vollen Leistungsfähigkeit leicht in miniaturisierter Form anwenden, und liefern ein direktes elektrisches Signal mit einer hohen Temperaturempfindlichkeit.
Abstract:
Es wird ein Temperatursensor zur elektrochemischen Temperaturmessung beschrieben, der als temperaturabhängiges Element eine galvanische Kette aus zwei ungleichen Elektroden und einem Elektrolyten enthält, und eine Meßeinrichtung zur Messung der temperaturabhängigen EMK dieser Kette. Vorzugsweise ist die galvanische Kette eine galvanische Festkörperkette. Durch die Verwendung einer galvanischen Kette, deren Zellspannung unabhängig von der Größe und der Geometrie der galvanischen Kette ist, als temperaturabhängiges Element und durch den einfachen Aufbau lassen sich derartige Temperatursensoren unter Beibehaltung ihrer vollen Leistungsfähigkeit leicht in miniaturisierter Form anwenden, und liefern ein direktes elektrisches Signal mit einer hohen Temperaturempfindlichkeit.
Abstract:
A temperature sensor (16;36;50;60;70), for example for a heating tape, or other heating means, characterised in that first and second electrical conductors (20a,20b; 37,38; 51,52; 61.62; 71.72) thereof each have a substance such as salt in electrical contact therewith, said substance having a significantly different electrical resistivity when the substance is at a temperature below a transition temperature range than when the substance is at a temperature above said transition temperature range.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a sensor element (10) for detecting at least one property of a measured gas in a measured gas chamber, in particular in order to detect a proportion of a gas component in the measured gas or a temperature of the measured gas. The sensor element (10) comprises at least one solid electrolyte layer (12, 14, 16). The solid electrolyte layer (12, 14, 16) has at least one via hole (42). The sensor element (10) further comprises a conductive element (48) which produces an electrically conductive connection from an upper face (18, 32) of the solid electrolyte layer (12, 14, 16) to a lower face of the solid electrolyte layer (12, 14, 16) through the via hole (42). The solid electrolyte layer (12, 14, 16) is electrically insulated in the via hole (42) by the conductive element (48) by means of an insulating element (44). At least one opening region (50) of the via hole (42) is stabilized against phase conversions by means of a stabilizing element (52). The stabilizing element (52) is at least partly made of a material which has a noble metal and an element selected from the group consisting of: V, Nb, Ta, Sb, Bi, Cr, Mo, and W. The invention further relates to a method for producing a sensor element (10) for detecting at least one property of a measured gas in a measured gas chamber.