Exhaust gas sensor diagnostic

A gas chamber has a gas diffusion limiter and a pump cell exposed to the gas chamber for pumping oxygen into and out of the gas chamber, creating a sensor electromotive force which is applied to drive circuitry for providing an electrical drive signal applied to the pump cell for driving the pump ce...

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Hauptverfasser: OBERDIER, LARRY MAX, WANG, DA YU
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:A gas chamber has a gas diffusion limiter and a pump cell exposed to the gas chamber for pumping oxygen into and out of the gas chamber, creating a sensor electromotive force which is applied to drive circuitry for providing an electrical drive signal applied to the pump cell for driving the pump cell. Circuitry can apply a signal perturbation to the electrical drive signal. Sense circuitry is provided for sensing change in electrical current through the sensor resulting from the applied signal perturbation. An indicator shows the sensed change in electrical current to indicate current limiting behaviour of the sensor. The signal perturbation is an alternating current perturbation device providing for an alternating current component in the drive signal. A sensing cell is exposed to the gas chamber for sensing the sensor electromotive force. The sensing cell is electrically coupled to the drive circuitry for communicating the sensor electromotive force. The sensing cell comprises a Nernst cell.