摘要:
The invention provides a limiting electric current type oxygen sensor with a microheater, having: an oxygen ionic conductor; an anode and a cathode respectively formed on two major surfaces of the oxygen ionic conductor; an insulating film which has a porosity of not less than 0.2 [%], an average pore diameter of not less than 140 [.ANG.], and a thickness between 0.2 [.mu.m] and 10 [.mu.m], and which is formed on one of the anode and the cathode so as to regulate a flow rate of oxygen gas and to provide electrical insulation; and the microheater formed on the insulating film. The oxygen ionic conductor is electrically insulated from the microheater through the insulating film. The invention also provides a limiting electric current type oxygen concentration detecting device having the limiting electric current type oxygen sensor and a constant temperature control circuit.
摘要:
This oxygen concentration detector employs an oxygen concentration sensor provided with a plate produced of a material which exhibits ionic conduction for oxygen (An oxygen ionic conductor), a cathode placed on the one surface of the oxygen ionic conductor plate, an anode placed on the other surface of the oxygen ionic conductor plate, and a porous material layer which functions to regulate the flow of oxygen which passes through the porous material layer to reach the cathode and the oxygen ionic conductor plate. The improvement realized in this oxygen concentration detector is to remove a drawback in which the output of this sensor makes an error depending on the temperature of a gas of which the oxygen concentration is measured. This oxygen concentration detector is provided with a limiting electric current type oxygen concentration sensor, a means for applying a voltage to the sensor for the purpose to measure a limiting current flowing in the sensor, a means for measuring a current which flows in the sensor responsive to the application of a voltage to the sensor, a means for measuring the internal resistance of the sensor, and a means for regulating at least one of the foregoing three means including a limiting electric current type oxygen concentration sensor, a means for applying a voltage to the sensor and a means for measuring a current flowing in the sensor, flowing the amount of the internal resistance of the sensor detected by the foregoing means for measuring the internal resistance of the sensor.
摘要:
A limiting electric current type oxygen sensor comprising a first electrode of a gas-permeable film, a thin solid electrolyte film which is crystallized along one direction to decrease resistance and which has a thickness falling in the range between 0.1 .mu.m and 30 .mu.m, and a second electrode of a gas-permeable film sequentially formed on an electrically insulating substrate. This limiting electric current type oxygen sensor is also provided with a porous coating layer or a dense coating layer. The porous coating layer made of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, SiO.sub.2, spinnel, SiC, Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 and etc., has a porosity of not more than 30% and a thickness of not less than 1 .mu.m, and serves as a gas diffusion flow rate-determining portion. The dense coating layer serves to control a gas permeation path such that either the first electrode or the substrate is used as the gas diffusion flow rate-determining portion.
摘要:
An apparatus for detecting concentrations of a plurality of gas components has a single polarographic sensor capable of detecting an oxygen concentration and a composite concentration of oxygen gas, carbon dioxide gas and steam. A first voltage is applied to the polarographic sensor which then measures only the oxygen concentration, or a second voltage is applied to the sensor which then measures only the composite concentration of oxygen gas, carbon dioxide gas and steam. The first and second voltages are applied to the sensor in a time division manner. Upon application of first and second voltages in such a time division manner, corresponding currents flowing through the sensor are detected to obtain signals corresponding to the oxygen concentration and the composite concentration of oxygen gas, carbon dioxide gas and steam. The signal corresponding to the oxygen concentration is subtracted by an operational amplifier from the signal corresponding to the composite concentration of oxygen gas, carbon dioxide gas and steam, thereby obtaining a signal representing a composite concentration of carbon dioxide gas and steam.
摘要:
An oxygen concentration detector provided with an oxygen concentration sensor further provided with an oxygen ionic conductor, a cathode placed on one surface of the oxygen ionic conductor, an anode placed on the other surface of the oxygen ionic conductor, and a layer convering the cathode for regulating the diffusion of oxygen gas toward the cathode. Temperature compensation is applied to the output of the detector which is inherently influenced by the temperature of the sensor. More specifically, an oxygen concentration detector is provided with the foregoing oxygen concentration sensor, and voltage or current is alternatively supplied to the sensor to measure a limiting current of the sensor and internal resistance of the sensor, and the current or the voltage produced by the foregoing application of voltage or current, and a temperature compensation is applied to the detected magnitude of limiting current according to the internal resistance of the sensor.
摘要:
An air-fuel ratio sensor comprising a limiting electric current type oxygen sensor portion, having a sequential stacking on a porous substrate of a first electrode with high gas permeability, a solid electrolytic thin film having a specific crystal orientation, a thickness of 0.1 to 30 .mu.m, and good crystallinity. The limiting electric current type oxygen sensor portion and second electrode with a high gas permeability, is arranged and connected in parallel with a resistive type oxygen sensor portion having interdigital electrodes formed on one or both major surfaces of an oxide semiconductor thin film, the resistance of which changes in accordance with oxygen partial pressure. The air-fuel ratio sensor also has a sensor heater formed on one surface of the porous substrate around the sensor portions. The overall structure of the sensor is coated with a porous ceramic coating to which a catalyst is added.
摘要:
A temperature control apparatus detects an actual temperature of an object (e.g., sensor) to be controlled, and compares the actual temperature with a preset target temperature to obtain a difference therebetween, thereby keeping a heater temperature constant. The temperature control apparatus has a temperature rise rate limiter for controlling a temperature rise rate of the object to be controlled so as not to exceed a predetermined temperature rise rate. The object may thus not be damaged by thermal strain which results from a high temperature rise rate.
摘要:
A sensor which has an insulating substrate on which is formed a heater layer for heating the sensor on a part thereof and which is operated above a predetermined temperature. The heater layer is made of a material which has a thickness of 0.2 .mu.m to 20 .mu.m and which is made of platinum, rhodium, palladium or a mixture thereof. The insulating substrate is made of alumina, quartz, spinel, magnesia, zirconia, or mixtures thereof. A heater protective layer having a thickness of 0.01 .mu.m to 500 .mu.m is made of materials based on alumina, silica, spinel, magnesia, zirconia or mixtures thereof.
摘要:
A thin film oxygen sensor with a microheater incorporates an oxide semiconductor and has an integral structure of a sensor portion and a heater portion, wherein a porous catalyst layer is formed on a surface of the sensor portion, and a thickness and an average pore diameter of the catalyst layer are determined such that a ratio of the thickness to the average pore diameter falls within a range of 50 to 3,000. The oxygen sensor has good reproducibility, high stability, and high sensitivity for changing a resistance in response to a change in an oxygen content in an atmosphere. The oxygen sensor can be manufactured at low cost and has a compact construction.
摘要:
A battery pack (21A) according to embodiments of the present invention comprises a plurality of battery modules (11A-11D) connected to each other in either one or both of a series connection mode and a parallel connection mode. An identifying information setting section (25) sets identifying information on each of the plurality of battery elements (11A-11D). A connection mode managing section (47) manages the connection mode between the plurality of battery elements (11A-11D) by using the identifying information set by the identifying information setting section (25). The identifying information on each of the plurality of battery elements (11A-11D) is made up of a combination of first identifying information on the potential of the one of the plurality of battery elements (11A-11D) and second identifying information on the battery pack (21A) serving as a superordinate battery element to which the one of the plurality of battery elements (11A-11D) belongs.