摘要:
An oxygen concentration detector includes an air-fuel ratio sensor, a heater that heats the air-fuel ratio sensor, a heater controller that supplies electric power to the heater such that the air-fuel ratio sensor reaches an activation temperature, and an element temperature detector that detects a temperature of an element of the air-fuel ratio sensor. The heater controller detects a rate of decrease in the temperature of the element of the air-fuel ratio sensor based on the temperature detected by the element temperature detector, and determines that the sensor element is wetted when the detected rate of decrease is greater than a reference value. The element temperature detector can detect the sensor element temperature based on an impedance of the element. The heater controller can prevent the supply of electric power to the heater if it is determined that the sensor element is wetted. The air-fuel ratio sensor can be provided in an exhaust passage of an engine.
摘要:
In an initial predetermined period of time for supplying electric power to the electrically heated catalyst mounted on the vehicle, a maximum of electric power is supplied from the power source to simplify the complex heat control operation. Simultaneously with starting of the engine, the electrically heated catalyst is connected to the power source to start supplying the electric power, and a maximum electric power permitted by the power source is supplied for a first predetermined period of time after which the electrically heated catalyst is just about to be activated. After the first predetermined period of time has passed, the electric resistance of the electrically heated catalyst is measured until a second predetermined period of time elapses. Depending upon the thus measured electric resistance, the amount of electric power supplied from the power source to the electrically heated catalyst is controlled by feedback so that the electric resistance of the electrically heated catalyst is maintained at a predetermined target electric resistance. The power source for the electrically heated catalyst may be the alternator driven by the drive source of the vehicle. Furthermore, the power source may be the alternator from starting the engine until the first predetermined period of time elapses, and may, then, be the battery from the elapse of the first predetermined period of time until the second predetermined period of time elapses. Being controlled as described above, the electric power is supplied to the electrically heated catalyst, immediately after starting the engine, easily and reliably.
摘要:
Disclosed is a phenolic resin molding material which is mainly composed of (1) 25-55 parts by weight of a phenolic resin containing 60% by weight or more of a resol-type phenolic resin, (2) 2-10 parts by weight of a partially crosslinked NBR, and (3) 35-70 parts by weight of an inorganic filler, on the basis of 100 parts by weight in total of these components.
摘要:
A Doppler-effect vehicle ground-speed detecting apparatus having a transmitter fixed to a vehicle body and transmitting a wave toward a road surface on which the vehicle is running, a receiver fixed to the body and receiving a portion of the wave reflected by the road surface, and a ground-speed determining device for determining a ground-speed of the vehicle relative to the road surface, on the basis of a transmitting frequency of the wave as transmitted by the transmitter and a receiving frequency of the wave as received by the receiver. The ground-speed determining device determines the ground-speed of the vehicle, on the basis of a parameter which changes with an angle of the vehicle body relative to the road surface in a plane parallel to a running direction of the vehicle and perpendicular to the road surface, as well as on the basis of a difference between the transmitting and receiving frequencies.
摘要:
A process for producing a condensed polysaccharide, which comprises heat-melting at least one compound selected from the group consisting of glucose, mannose, galactose, xylose and arabinose, which contains from 8 to 180 ppm of hydrogen chloride, followed by dehydration condensation under reduced pressure.
摘要:
A prism has at least two optical planes and one of the planes is a boundary plane with mixed fuel. On one of two planes, a light emitting element is mounted and illuminates light to the boundary plane through the prism. A light receiving element receives light reflected from the boundary plane and converts the reflected light into electrical signals. Then a detector modifies the electrical signals from the light emitting element according to the detecting result and outputs them as detecting signals representative of the fuel mixture ratio. The temperature of the mixed fuel may be detected by a temperature sensor in which case the electrical signals are also modified to compensate for temperature changes of the mixed fuel.
摘要:
A combustion process sensor for detecting combustion processes occurring in a combustion chamber of an engine has a generally tubular mounting casing to be screwed into a threaded hole in the combustion chamber wall and a quartz-glass rod axially extending in the mounting casing and held in position therein. The casing includes two axially aligned generally tubular members rigidly secured together at their own ends. The quartz-glass rod has a first portion remote from a sensing end thereof adapted to be exposed to combustion flame in the combustion chamber, and a second portion between the first portion and the sensing end. The first portion is secured to one of the two tubular members of the casing, while the second portion is supported from the casing only by a vibration damping material disposed in engagement with the outer peripheral surface of the quartz-glass rod and the inner peripheral surface of the casing.
摘要:
An injection timing sensor system for a Diesel engine comprises an optical conductor which transmits combustion light produced by the combustion of fuel in a swirl chamber of the engine. The sensor is positioned on the opposite side of an injection nozzle from a glow plug and has an input end retracted into the wall surface of the swirl chamber so that no burnt gas collides against the input end, resulting in few deposits accumulating on the input end.
摘要:
A method of detecting the ignition time point of an engine by detecting the ignition of the engine by the detection of the burning flame light of the fuel in the combustion chamber of the engine and by photoelectrically converting the burning flame light thus detected into an electrical signal so as to determine the ignition time point of the fuel, which comprises the steps of: (a) converting the burning flame light detected by the flame sensor into a voltage signal through photoelectric converting means; (b) applying said voltage signal to a comparator and comparing said electrical signal with a reference voltage; (c) varying said reference voltage in accordance with the running conditions of the engine; and (d) detecting the ignition time point from the resulting output signal from said comparator, and an apparatus for the same. With this construction, the ignition time point of the engine can be accurately detected and improvements in the fuel consumption rate as well as the transmission efficiency can be realized thereby.
摘要:
A plurality of cylinders are provided. An in-cylinder pressure sensor is mounted on each of the plurality of cylinders. A combustion parameter (e.g., the amount of generated heat) is calculated from the output of the in-cylinder pressure sensor. The air-fuel ratio for a cylinder is enleaned by reducing a fuel injection amount until the combustion parameter coincides with a predetermined value. Each cylinder is subjected to fuel injection amount reduction control so that the combustion parameter coincides with the predetermined value. The air-fuel ratio for each cylinder is then calculated in accordance with the reduction amount of fuel injection amount. The calculated air-fuel ratios are compared to detect an air-fuel ratio imbalance between the cylinders.