Chemistry: electrical and wave energy – Apparatus – Electrolytic
Patent
1997-10-27
1999-11-16
Warden, Sr., Robert J.
Chemistry: electrical and wave energy
Apparatus
Electrolytic
204427, 204428, 2057845, 205787, G01N 2726
Patent
active
059851180
ABSTRACT:
A gas concentration detector using solid electrolyte layers laminated measures a concentration of gas constituents in measuring gas such as exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine without being influenced by oxygen concentration in the measuring gas. The measuring gas is introduced into an inner cavity of the detector and outside air as a reference gas is introduced into an air passage in the detector. Oxygen concentration in the measuring gas in the inner cavity is maintained at a predetermined level by operation of an oxygen pumping cell constituted by an ion conductive solid electrolyte layer and a pair of electrodes formed on both surfaces of the layer. The oxygen concentration in the inner cavity is measured by an oxygen sensor cell having one electrode exposed to the inner cavity and the other electrode exposed to the reference gas. The concentration of the gas constituents in the measuring gas is measured in terms of ion current generated in a detector cell constituted by an ion conductive solid electrolyte layer and a pair of electrodes formed on both surfaces of the layer, one electrode being exposed to the measuring gas in the inner cavity and the other exposed to the reference gas in the air passage. Either one of the sensor cell and detector cell electrodes exposed to the measuring gas in the inner cavity is made of a material active to the gas constituents to be measured and the other electrode is made of a material inactive thereto.
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Hijikata Yoshimasa
Makino Daisuke
Mizutani Keigo
Mori Hiroshi
Nakamura Kanehito
Denso Corporation
Nippon Soken Inc.
Olsen Kaj K.
Warden, Sr. Robert J.
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