Power plants – Internal combustion engine with treatment or handling of... – Having sensor or indicator of malfunction – unsafeness – or...
Patent
1995-07-27
1998-06-16
Hart, Douglas
Power plants
Internal combustion engine with treatment or handling of...
Having sensor or indicator of malfunction, unsafeness, or...
60297, F01N 328
Patent
active
057653690
ABSTRACT:
An exhaust gas purifying apparatus with a failure diagnosis function is provided. A failure diagnosis device determines that the apparats is failed when the temperature rising speed of an adsorbing device is equal to a set value or less during a gas adsorption process and if the temperature rising speed is equal to an upper limit or more or to a lower limit or less during a gas desorption process. Further, a failure diagnosis device similarly monitors the flow passing through the adsorbing device. A failure diagnosis device determines that the apparatus is failed if the concentration of discharge gas is equal to a set value or more in a discharge passage. And further, a failure diagnosis device measures the concentration of discharge gas flowing through a return passage to accumulate the amount of discharge gas in order to determine that the apparatus is failed if the accumulated value is equal to a set value or less. Exhaust gas sensors are installed in the return passage and the upstream side of the adsorbing device, respectively, and the period of time te from the activation of the return passage until the outputs from the exhaust gas sensors match or a correlation coefficient for these outputs is measured to diagnose failures in the apparatus.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5264186 (1993-11-01), Harada et al.
patent: 5589143 (1996-12-01), Mori
Hodaira Kinji
Mabuchi Mamoru
Mori Hiroshi
Tanaka Masakazu
Usami Hiroyuki
Hart Douglas
Nippondenso Co. Ltd.
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