Multiple gas detection device
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10254241B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-09

    申请号:US15286964

    申请日:2016-10-06

    Abstract: A multiple gas detection device comprises: a first cell part provided with a first electrochemical cell; a second cell part provided with a second electrochemical cell; a third cell part provided with a third electrochemical cell; an inlet diffusion controller controlling diffusion of measured gas; and a measured gas chamber into which the measured gas flows through the inlet diffusion controller. The first cell part is configured to selectively detect a concentration of NOx or ammonia contained in measured gas in the measured gas chamber. The second cell part is configured to discharge oxygen contained in measured gas in the measured gas chamber and convert NO2 and ammonia contained in measured gas in the measured gas chamber to NO. The third cell part is configured to detect a concentration of NO contained in measured gas in the measured gas chamber.

    Control device of exhaust sensor
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10180098B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-15

    申请号:US15587390

    申请日:2017-05-04

    Abstract: A control device of an exhaust sensor comprises a battery voltage detection part detecting a voltage of a battery, and a heater control part setting a target temperature of an electrochemical cell and controlling the electric power supplied from the battery to a heater. The heater control part sets the target temperature to a first temperature after startup of the internal combustion engine until the voltage of the battery recovers to a predetermined voltage, and switches the target temperature from the first temperature to a second temperature when the voltage of the battery recovers to the predetermined voltage. The first temperature is a temperature lower than an operating temperature of the electrochemical cell and at least a lowest temperature at which a Leidenfrost phenomenon occurs at the protective layer. The second temperature is a temperature of the operating temperature or more.

    Control device of exhaust sensor
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10753297B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-25

    申请号:US15620013

    申请日:2017-06-12

    Abstract: A control device of an exhaust sensor comprises a heater control part configured to set a target temperature of an electrochemical cell and control a heater so that a temperature of the electrochemical cell becomes the target temperature, and a judging part configured to judge whether a water repellency of a protective layer is falling when the heater control part sets the target temperature to a temperature of a lowest temperature at which a Leidenfrost phenomenon occurs at an outer surface of the protective layer or more. The heater control part is configured to rise the target temperature when the judging part judges that the water repellency of the protective layer is falling.

    Control system of internal combustion engine

    公开(公告)号:US10288001B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-14

    申请号:US15868578

    申请日:2018-01-11

    Abstract: The control system of an internal combustion engine controls an internal combustion engine comprising an exhaust sensor. The control system comprises a motoring device driving rotation of a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine, a motoring control part configured to control the motoring device, a heater control part configured to control supply of electric power to the heater, and a temperature estimating part configured to estimate a temperature of the sensor element. The motoring control part is configured to drive the motoring device for a predetermined time when the temperature of the sensor element estimated by the temperature estimating part is outside a predetermined cracked element temperature region while the heater control part is supplying electric power to the heater, and stop driving the motoring device when the temperature of the sensor element is within the cracked element temperature region.

    Abnormality diagnosis system of air-fuel ratio sensor

    公开(公告)号:US09903292B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-27

    申请号:US14921198

    申请日:2015-10-23

    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis system of limit current type air-fuel ratio sensors comprises a current detecting part and a sensor temperature control device. The abnormality diagnosis system uses the current detecting part to detect the output current of the air-fuel ratio sensor when the air-fuel ratio is made the rich air-fuel ratio in the state where temperature of the air-fuel ratio is made the first temperature and when the air-fuel ratio is made the rich air-fuel ratio in the state where the temperature of the air-fuel ratio is made a second temperature higher than the first temperature. It is judged that the air-fuel ratio sensor is abnormal if the output current when the temperature of the air-fuel ratio sensor is the first temperature is larger than the output current when it is the second temperature by a predetermined value or more.

    Abnormality diagnosis system of a gas sensor

    公开(公告)号:US10184913B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-22

    申请号:US15082032

    申请日:2016-03-28

    Abstract: In a limited-current type gas sensor which detects oxygen-containing gas contained in an exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, the decomposition current value of water (H2O) may be detected, and existence of an abnormality of output characteristics of the sensor may be diagnosed based on its deviation from a reference decomposition current value of water corresponding to the concentration of water contained in the exhaust gas. A NOx sensor and a SOx sensor can also diagnose remarkable and minute abnormalities of output characteristics. In addition, the reference decomposition current value of water may be acquired based on the concentration of water detected by a separate humidity sensor or the decomposition current value of oxygen detected by the limited-current type gas sensor. The reference decomposition current value of water may be corrected based on a decomposition current value of oxygen detected during a fuel cut.

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