摘要:
A motor-assisted turbocharger is composed of a turbine driven by energy of exhaust gas, a compressor rotated by the turbine and a rotary electric machine for assisting rotation of the compressor. The turbine, the compressor and the rotary electric machine are connected to each other by a common rotating shaft. A polygon nut having magnetic member facing fixed magnetic sensor is connected to an axial end of the rotating shaft. A magnetic field formed between the magnetic member and the magnetic sensor changes according to rotation of the rotating shaft. A rotational speed and a rotational position (or angle) of the compressor are detected based on the changes in the magnetic field. Operation of the turbocharger is electronically controlled based on the detected rotational speed and the rotational position.
摘要:
In fixing a sensor element for sensing stress on a substrate by using an adhesive for semiconductors, the present invention aims to solve both the problems of stress applied from the substrate side due to temperature change and defects in wire bonding in the wire bonding process. In a semiconductor device equipped with a sensor element for sensing stress fixed on a substrate, an adhesive for semiconductors is used which is prepared by compounding resin beads made of resin with a base adhesive made of flexible resin.
摘要:
An air flowrate measuring apparatus with a heat wire measures the flow rate of the air flowing through the intake pipe of an engine. The apparatus has a temperature sensitive element which has a specific temperature-resistance characteristic and is disposed in the intake pipe. Constant heating voltage is applied to this element in response to a start signal, thus heating the element. When the temperature of the element rises to a specified value, the application of the voltage is stopped. At the same time, a pulse signal whose width corresponds to the period of applying the voltage is generated. The signal is supplied to an interface circuit through a drive circuit driven by a reference voltage which has been also used to control the heating voltage. The interface circuit comprises two wave-shaping circuits. The first wave-shaping circuit has a filter means of a small integration time constant. The second wave-shaping circuit has a filter means whose integration time constant is large enough to remove noise from the input signal.
摘要:
A magnetoresistance element detects an angular position of a toothed gear rotated by an engine. The element (first element) is positioned at a vicinity of the peripheral edge of the gear tooth in a magnetic filed supplied from a bias magnet. The magnetic field direction is changed by the tooth, which is detected by the element even when the gear is not rotated before the engine starts. To detect an exact angle of the gear, an additional magnetoresistance element positioned perpendicularly to the first element may be used. The gear tooth position is detected by the first element even when the gear is not rotated, and once the gear rotates, the second element detects an exact angular position of the gear.
摘要:
The output of a filter circuit utilizing a capacitance amplifier circuit is sufficiently stabilized in its temperature characteristics to improve the operational reliability of the circuit. There is provided a DC cutoff filter circuit utilizing a CR circuit constituted by a composite capacitance formed by a capacitance amplifier circuit utilizing an operational amplifier and a series resistor which is grounded to a reference voltage. The reference voltage is a divided voltage output by a voltage follower constituted by an operational amplifier and serves as a virtual ground. Resistors having different temperature coefficients are used. In response to a positive or negative change in the temperature coefficient of the composite capacitance, the reference potential selects the temperature coefficient of the resistors so that the temperature characteristics including those of the amplifier will provide a temperature coefficient which is the reverse of that of the capacitance amplifier circuit, thereby compensating for fluctuation associated with the temperature coefficient of the composite capacitance.
摘要:
An ignition timing adjusting system for an internal combustion engine wherein the output of a magneto-type generator driven by the engine is used as a power source to generate a constant voltage output through a voltage regulator circuit, and a rotational angular position of the engine is detected by a sensor and the corresponding output signal being used as a reference signal in order to electronically determine an ignition timing by an advance angle computing circuit energized by the constant voltage output of the voltage regulator circuit, and further detecting the constant voltage output of the regulator circuit, and an advance angle adjusting circuit cancels the computed output from the advance angle adjusting circuit when the detected voltage is less than a voltage which is an absolute minimum voltage necessary for the accurate ignition timing operation, whereby when the detected constant voltage output is not adequately regulated the computed output of the advance angle adjusting circuit causing the excessively advanced ignition timing is ignored, instead, forcibly timing the ignition to occur at the low-speed fixed angular position.
摘要:
A motor-assisted turbocharger is composed of a turbine driven by energy of exhaust gas, a compressor rotated by the turbine and a rotary electric machine for assisting rotation of the compressor. The turbine, the compressor blade and the rotary electric machine are connected to each other by a common rotating shaft. The compressor blade made of a material including a magnetic material faces an inner surface of a housing in which a magnetic sensor is embedded. A magnetic field in an air gap between the compressor blade and the magnetic sensor changes according to rotation of the compressor blade. The magnetic sensor detects changes in the magnetic field to thereby detect the rotational speed of the compressor blade. In place of the magnetic field, other physical amounts in the air gap, such as pressure, sound frequencies, capacitance or the like may be used for detecting the rotational speed.
摘要:
A semiconductor accelerometer which can satisfy the requirements of both the sensitivity and the fracture strength without any contrivance for providing viscous liquid and beam stopper material is provided. A casing comprises a stem and a shell. The casing houses an accelerometer chip. The silicon accelerometer chip is of double cantilever beam structure. Each beam is provided with piezo resistance layers. The motion of the beams due to the action of acceleration is converted into electrical signals. The resonant frequency of the beams of the accelerometer chip is above the resonant frequency of the casing itself, so that the acceleration components above this resonant frequency are damped by the casing and therefore most acceleration components in the resonant frequency of the beam are damped. As a result, the beams of the accelerometer chip can be protected from the impacts due to the dropping of the accelerometer, or the like.
摘要:
In an apparatus for controlling an engine, as an air flow sensor for measuring intake air flow quantity, a heater resistor having temperature-resistance characteristic and a temperature sensitive resistor for sensing air temperature are provided in an intake passage, and heating electric power is supplied to the heater resistor in response to a start signal generated periodically. The heating electric power is cut off when the temperature of the heater resistor is raised to a specified reference temperature predetermined in accordance with the air temperature, so that an output signal indicative of the time width in which the heating electric power is supplied is applied to an electronic control unit to measure air flow quantity therefrom. Further, compensation coefficient stored in a memory is derived in correspondence to the intake air temperature sensed by the temperature sensitive resistor, and the output signal is compensated for by the compensation coefficient to compensate the measured air flow quantity. Based on the compensated air flow quantity, fuel injection quantity, ignition timing or the like is computed in the electronic control unit.
摘要:
Disposed in an intake pipe of an engine is a temperature-sensitive element formed of a resistance element whose resistance value varies with temperature. A heating current is supplied to the temperature-sensitive element through a transistor. The voltage of the heating current is set by a constant-voltage circuit. The temperature of the temperature-sensitive element is compared with a reference temperature of an auxiliary temperature-sensitive element. When the temperature of the temperature-sensitive element is increased to a predetermined level, an output signal is delivered from a comparator. A flip-flop circuit is reset by the output signal from the comparator, and is set by a start pulse signal. When the flip-flop circuit is set, the transistor is turned on, allowing the heating current to be supplied to the temperature-sensitive element. A burning-off instruction signal is supplied to a monostable multivibrator, and a signal with a duration suited for the burning-off operation is delivered from an AND circuit. In response to the output signal from the AND circuit, the flip-flop circuit is held set, and a reference voltage supplied to the differential amplifier is changed to a low level.