摘要:
A vibration sensor for an automotive vehicle having a multi-peak vibration characteristic of wider responsiveness and of a higher S/N ratio. The vibration sensor comprises a plurality of piezoelectric vibrators so arranged that the piezoelectric voltage signals from the vibrators are synthesized in reverse polarity between two elements having two adjacent resonant frequencies, when the element are deformed in the same direction. Therefore, the voltages are synthesized in the same polarity, when engine knocking frequency lies between two adjacent sensor resonant frequencies, because a vibrator is 180 degrees out of phase with another adjacent vibrator.
摘要:
A sensor comprises a layer of an oxygen ion conductive solid electrolyte such as stabilized zirconia, two electrode layers of a catalytic metal such as platinum formed porously on both sides of the electrolyte, only one of them formed on first side of the electrolyte layer being directly exposable to an exhaust gas stream, and a gas passage arranged to allow the exhaust gas to contact the other side of the electrolyte layer with a time lag behind the contact of the gas stream with the first side. A fluctuation in the air/fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture fed to the engine across the stoichiometric ratio can be detected by this sensor since the fluctuation and the aforementioned time lag cause a difference between oxygen partial pressure on one side of the electrolyte layer and that on the other side, resulting in development of an output voltage of the sensor.
摘要:
A rotatable disk having a plurality of calibration segments and at least one marker along the peripheral portion thereof is provided while a stationary pick-up provided adjacent the disk for generating a first signal indicative of calibration segments and a second signal indicative of a reference position of the rotation of the disk. The frequency of the first signal is increased in order to accurately measure the rotational angle from the reference position.
摘要:
A sensor comprising a plate of an oxygen ion conductive solid electrolyte such as stabilized zirconia, two porous electrode layers of a catalytic metal such as platinum formed on both sides of the electrolyte plate, and two porous ceramic coatings formed respectively on the two electrode layers, wherein both sides of the electrolyte plate are exposable to a gas subject to measurement through the electrode layer and the coating formed on each of them, but the total resistance offered by one of the electrode layers and the coating thereon to the permeation of the gas therethrough is different from that offered by the other electrode layer and coating, so that the gas contacts one side of the electrolyte plate with a time lag behind the contact of the gas with the other side of the plate. The sensor is useful for detecting a fluctuation in the air/fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture fed to an internal combustion engine across the stoichiometric ratio by exposure to the exhaust gas since the fluctuation and the aforementioned time lag causes the sensor to develop an output voltage.
摘要:
A solid electrolyte tube closed at one end and two porous electrode layers respectively coated on the outer and inner surfaces of the electrolyte tube constitute a known oxygen concentration cell. A tubular metal shell encloses the electrolyte tube partly such that a closed end portion of the tube protrudes from the shell and that the outer electrode coating is locally in contact with the inside of the shell. To protect the open end of the electrolyte tube against splashing of water during use without interrupting the admission of atmospheric air as a reference gas into the inside of the electrolyte tube, a tubular cap member of a metal is coaxially fixed to and electrically connected at its one end to the shell at one end portion surrounding the open end of the electrolyte tube, and a cross-sectionally circular plug of an insulating material is coaxially and tightly received in and fixed to the cap member to occupy an end portion, contiguous to the free end, of the interior of the cap member. This plug has two axial bores which respectively allow two cable wires of the sensor to tightly pass therethrough and an air-admitting passage formed therein independently of these two bores in such an arrangement and cross-sectional area that unpressurized water does not pass therethrough from the atmosphere to the unoccupied portion of the interior of the cap member.
摘要:
An oxygen sensor particularly useful for detecting oxygen concentration in exhaust gas of internal combustion engine is principally made up of a solid electrolyte tube which is closed at one end, anode and cathode electrode layers respectively formed on the outer and inner surfaces of the electrolyte tube and a tubular metal shell which tightly receives therein the electrolyte tube, leaving a closed end portion of the electrolyte tube protruded from the shell. To protect the protruded portion of the electrolyte tube against a direct exposure to a high velocity hot gas stream to be measured and a collision with any external article, without obstructing a rapid and uniform heating of the electrolyte tube by the gas stream, a hood in the shape of a cylindrical tube with a closed end is fixed at its open end portion to the shell to enclose therein the closed end portion of the electrolyte tube. The hood has a single gas inlet aperture formed in the side wall to extend axially of the hood and open against the gas stream and at least one gas outlet aperture formed in the side wall circumferentially at approximately 180.degree. from the inlet aperture. The total area of the outlet aperture is smaller than the area of the inlet aperture.
摘要:
An oxygen sensor comprises an electrolyte which is shaped into a conical tube having a closed end of small diameter and an open end of large diameter. The wall thickness of the electrolyte is gradually decreased toward the closed end from the open end and that of the closed end is 0.3 to 1.0 mm so as to provide a high sensitivity.
摘要:
The flow rate is determined from the heat transferred from an electrically heated wire stretched in a fluid flow to the fluid. The wire is placed not on a plane normal to the flow but within a section of the fluid passage bounded by two spaced planes normal to the flow. Preferably the wire is composed of series of line segments which are distributed evenly not only around the central axis of the passage but also in the direction of the flow so that the heat release from the wire in its entirety corresponds to the mean value of fluid velocities at various points.
摘要:
A fluid measuring device comprises flow meter for measuring quantities of flow or flow rates of fluid and flow rectifiers arranged upstream and downstream of the flow meter, whose rectifier elements or cells are sized and positioned such that a ratio W.sub.1 /D of a smaller width W.sub.1 of the cells to an inner diameter D of a passage for the fluid is less than 0.2 and a ratio L/W.sub.1 of a distance L between the flow meter and the upstream flow rectifier to the smaller width W.sub.1 of the cell is within 5.ltoreq.L/W.sub.1 .ltoreq.25, thereby improving an accuracy of measurement without increasing losses of pressure.
摘要:
A slot of a vortex generating body in which alternating fluid flow occurs in response to shedding of vortexes from the body is narrowed at the middle section thereof where a fluid flow sensing element such as a hot wire is located.