摘要:
A method of manufacturing a crystal of silicon in accordance with a Czochralski method, includes the steps of applying an electric potential across a quartz crucible containing a silicon melt, and pulling a crystal of silicon from the silicon melt.
摘要:
This device is a degradation judging device for an oxygen sensor having a reference electrode 23 and a measuring electrode 22, both of which hold a solid electrolyte layer therebetween, and measuring oxygen concentrations based on an electromotive force that occurs in accordance with a difference between an oxygen partial pressure of the reference electrode 23 and an oxygen partial pressure of the measuring electrode 22. A control unit 10, which controls operations of intake and exhaust valves, a spark plug and a fuel injection valve, has a degradation judging means that detects an internal resistance value “R1” of the solid electrolyte layer 21 by applying a high-frequency alternating current between the reference electrode 23 and the measuring electrode 22, and judges degradation of the solid electrolyte layer 21 by comparing an average value of the detected internal resistance value “R1” with a reference value. By this judgment, the degradation of the solid electrolyte layer 21 can accurately be judged, and an occurrence of the engine stall or emission failure can be prevented.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an apparatus for diagnosing misfire of an internal combustion engine. With this invention, crank angle intervals for detecting angular velocity for each cylinder are variably set for each operation region. An average value of a predetermined number of misfire judgment values M1 set based on a plurality of angular velocities is compared with a reference value, to thereby carry out misfire diagnosis distinguishably of a misfire in a single cylinder or misfires in multiple cylinders.
摘要:
An object is to carry out abnormality diagnosis of a wide range air-fuel ratio sensor to a high accuracy, with a relatively simple construction. Judgment is made as to whether abnormality diagnosis permit conditions have materialized, and if materialized, a detection value of an air-fuel ratio sensor is monitored. It is then judged if the responsiveness of a change in the detection value of the air-fuel ratio sensor subsequent to changing a target air-fuel ratio is within a predetermined range. If so, an OK judgment is given. If not, an NG judgment is given and a warning lamp is illuminated to advise the driver of the abnormality in the air-fuel ratio sensor so as to take action. With this arrangement, abnormality diagnosis of a wide range air-fuel ratio sensor can be carried out to a high accuracy with a relatively simple construction.
摘要:
Technology for diagnosing an intake air amount detection device of an internal combustion engine, wherein an operation region in which the engine is stably operating is determined, the opening degree of a throttle valve interposed in an intake system of the engine is detected, a change in the opening degree of the throttle valve is calculated when the opening degree of the throttle valve is changed in the determined stable operation region, and an intake air change amount detected by the intake air amount detection device is calculated when the opening degree of the throttle valve is changed in order to diagnose performance of the intake air amount detection device based on a relationship between the change in the opening degree of the throttle valve and the intake air change amount.
摘要:
An oxygen gas concentration-detecting apparatus for use in an internal combustion engine comprising a plate-shaped substrate, a plate-shaped oxygen ion-conducting solid electrode for generating an electromotive force between a first surface contacted with air and a second surface contacted with an exhaust gas of the engine according to the difference between the concentrations of oxygen gases of the air and the exhaust gas, the solid electrode being laminated on the substrate, a pair of electrode members for taking out the electromotive force as a detection signal and a nitrogen oxide-reducing catalyst layer for promoting the reduction of nitrogen oxide arranged to cover the second surface of the oxygen ion-conducting solid electrode. By this apparatus, the concentration of oxygen gas inclusive of oxygen gas generated by reduction of nitrogen oxides can be precisely detected. The plate-shaped oxygen gas concentration-detecting apparatus enables to easily form a uniform catalyst reaction surface and to easily be heated so as to promote the stable reduction reaction of the nitrogen oxide-reducing catalyst layer.
摘要:
An electronic air-fuel ratio control apparatus in an internal combustion engine provided with an oxygen sensor emitting an output voltage in response to an oxygen concentration including the same in nitrogen oxides in an exhaust gas from the engine which controls an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture by a feedback correction-control based on a oxygen sensor having the nitrogen oxides-reducing catalytic layer, the detection of a theoretical air-fuel ratio is performed on a richer side comparing with the output on the detection of a theoretical air-fuel ratio by an oxygen sensor without the nitrogen oxides-reducing function and is not changed even though the nitrogen oxides concentration changes. Accordingly the feedback air-fuel ratio control operates to decrease the amount of nitrogen oxides and to stabilize the air-fuel ratio control. A first target air-fuel ratio for the air-fuel ratio feedback control is changed to a second target air-fuel ratio which is richer than the first target air-fuel ratio at least when the high nitrogen oxide concentration in the exhaust gas is detected thereby changing of the controlled air-fuel ratio to the too much lean side is avoided.
摘要:
An oxygen sensor includes a sensing element detecting an oxygen concentration in a measurement gas that flows in a pipe, a cylindrical protector which covers an outside of the sensing element and whose top end portion projects toward an inside of the pipe. An outside diameter D of the protector and a projection amount L of the protector inside the pipe are set so that a ratio of the product of the outside diameter D and the projection amount L (D×L) to a cross-sectional area S of a flow passage of the pipe becomes substantially smaller than or equal to 2.5%.
摘要:
An oxygen sensor includes a tubular casing; an oxygen detecting element installed in a leading end of the tubular casing; lead wires each extending from the oxygen detecting element to the outside of the tubular casing through an open base end of the tubular casing, each lead wire including a core wire of metal; a rubber bush plugged in the open base end of the tubular casing, the rubber bush having the lead wires passed therethrough; and a heat resisting structure for protecting the rubber bush from a high temperature. The heat resisting structure is constructed to satisfy the following inequality: 10%≦Al/Ar≦50%, wherein: Al: The sectional area in total of the lead wires; and Ar: The sectional area of the rubber bush.
摘要:
A tube is formed by brazing first and second plates, and is connected to a pipe through a connection block being brazed to a contacting surface of the first plate. A brazing material is clad on an inner surface of the first plate opposite to the contacting surface, and a hole penetrating through the first plate is formed in the first plate at a position corresponding to the connection block. Thus, during brazing, the brazing material clad on the inner surface of the first plate is supplied to the contacting surface through the hole by capillary phenomenon, so that the connection block is brazed to the first plate. As a result, an apparatus formed by brazing plural metal members, such as the tube of an oil cooler, is produced in low cost.