Robert Boschgmbh

Hermann Ziener

Ernst Linder

Franz Rieger

Klaus D Muller

Helmut Maurer

Hermann Dietz

Friedrich J Esper

Gerhard Holfelder

Harald Reber

Karl H Friese

To permit a layer construction, which is inexpensive and lends itself to mass production manufacture, a solid electrolyte body, in plate-like construction, with electrodes at either thereof is positioned in a housing with a portion thereof extending in the region where it is exposed to gases to be sensed; a porous cover is applied on one of the electrodes, the porous cover having a predetermined diffusion resistance to oxygen molecules. A flat insulating plate of approximately the same dimension as the solid electrolyte plate is positioned flat thereagainst, and a flat layer-like electrical heating element is secured on the flat insulating plate or, in other embodiments, against another insulating covering on the other side of the heating element as well, close to the electrodes and adjacent the plane surfaces of the body. The heating element and the electrodes of the sensing element are carried out as conductive tracks for connection to respective sources of operating or biassing potential and, with respect to the sensing electrodes, to an evaluation circuit.

Electrochemical oxygen sensor, particularly for use with exhaust gases

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Moglingen, Germany

Hermann Ziener