ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT
    1.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180342118A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-29

    申请号:US15981003

    申请日:2018-05-16

    Inventor: Daisuke SUZUKI

    Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) obtains outside air humidity information from a sensor disposed outside a vehicle compartment and inside air humidity information from a sensor inside the vehicle compartment. The ECU includes a humidity information obtainer obtaining the inside air humidity information, a humidity change calculator calculating the inside air humidity information as a difference between (i) a physical quantity correlated with humidity before a start of a dehumidification or a humidification and (ii) a physical quantity correlated with humidity after a switch-off of the dehumidification or the humidification, a soak time calculator calculating, based on the difference of the physical quantities, a soak time from the switch-off of the dehumidification or the humidification to a sensor-diag startable time at which a diagnosis of the outside air humidity sensor is startable, and a comparator comparing the outside air humidity information and the inside air humidity information after a lapse of the soak time from the switch-off of the dehumidification or the humidification.

    ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT
    4.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180342117A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-29

    申请号:US15980990

    申请日:2018-05-16

    Inventor: Daisuke SUZUKI

    Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) obtains an outside air humidity from an outside air humidity sensor disposed outside a vehicle compartment and an inside air humidity from an inside air humidity sensor disposed inside the vehicle compartment. The ECU includes a humidity obtainer obtaining the inside air humidity and the outside air humidity, and a humidity difference calculator calculating a humidity difference between (i) the inside air humidity after a preset amount of humidity adjustment time from a start of a dehumidification inside the vehicle compartment and (ii) the outside air humidity. The ECU then determines that either the outside air humidity sensor or the inside air humidity sensor is broken when the humidity difference is greater than a first threshold, thereby detecting a failure of the humidity sensor during a travel of a vehicle.

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