Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – With indicator or control of power plant
Reexamination Certificate
2008-11-26
2011-11-15
Cronin, Stephen K (Department: 3747)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
With indicator or control of power plant
C123S690000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08060294
ABSTRACT:
A control device is arranged to control an oxygen sensor for an automotive vehicle wherein the oxygen sensor has a sensor element and a heater for elevating a temperature of the sensor element. The control device includes a tilt detection section arranged to detect tilting of a vehicle body; a storage section arranged to store tilt information in accordance with a result of detection by the tilt detection section; and a control section arranged to control, at a start of an engine of the vehicle, the heater in one of a plurality of modes including a normal mode and a delay mode in which temperature elevation of the sensor element is delayed relative to the normal mode, based on the tilt information stored in the storage section.
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Official communication issued in counterpart European Application No. 08020464.7, mailed on Mar. 3, 2009.
Castro Arnold
Cronin Stephen K
Keating & Bennett LLP
Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
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