Pierburg Gmbh

Heraeus Electro-nite International N.v.

Karl-Heinrich Losing

Gunter Hartel

Armin Schurfeld

Johann Blasczyk

Harald Kerkmann

Karlheinz Wienand

Stefan Dietmann

Heinrich Dismon

Karsten Grimm

Walter Schauer

Sven Nigrin

Christian Koch

Ulrich Remde

Peter Witkowski

Andres Tonnesmann

Dieter Thonnesen

A method for operating an exhaust gas mass flow sensor which is used, in particular, in exhaust gas mass flows of motor vehicles has an operating mode and a cleaning mode. In an operating mode, the exhaust gas mass flow sensor is operated at an operating temperature. In a cleaning mode, the exhaust gas mass flow sensor is changed over for the purpose of cleaning a measurement region and is cleaned at a cleaning temperature which is higher than the operating temperature.

Method for operating an exhaust gas mass flow sensor

A sensor arrangement for a film type anemometer which includes a carrier plate; a precision resistor; a planar, elongated heating resistor supplied with an adjustable power supply; and a retaining device. The operational temperature of the heating resistor is increased by a fixed predetermined differential amount versus the temperature determined by the precision resistor. The heating resistor has at least one resistive layer disposed on a substrate. The heating resistor is attached in a bridge-like fashion in a recess of the carrier plate. The retaining device has a low heat transfer and has two opposite attachment areas which retain respective ends of the heating resistor. Each of the attachment areas being directed towards respective ends of the heating resistor and each attachment area having at least a bearing surface, a lateral peripheral surface and a longitudinal peripheral surface which extends in the longitudinal direction of the heating resistor for receiving an end area of the heating resistor. At least one of the surfaces of the attachment areas is fastened in a mechanically stable fashion to an edge area of the heating resistor. The heating resistor is partially covered at least at one of its ends and on a top surface portion thereof in the attachment areas by a surface portion of the carrier plate.

Method for attaching and insulating resistors

The quantity of fuel in a fuel tank 1 is measured by determining the displacement of a membrane 19 and pressure values from a sensor 13. The displacement values of the membrane are representative of volume changes in a gas chamber in the tank 1 while the pressure values in the sensor 13 are representative of the pressure of the gas chamber. With these values, the fuel content in the gas tank can be determined from the general equation of state of an ideal gas. In order to displace the membrane 19, an electric motor 20 drives a step down transmission 25 which in turn drives a spindle mechanism 22 which is coupled to the membrane 19.

Apparatus for measuring the fraction of liquid fuel in a fuel tank

Apparatus for measuring the quantity of fuel in a fuel tank of a vehicle wherein a chamber 41 is disconnected from tank 1 and connected to a fuel pump 4 after the measurement of the fuel quantity in the tank is conducted, the tank 1 being connected to the atmosphere, so that membrane 26 is displaced upwards to a defined position against the action of spring 27 by the fuel which flows into chamber 41 under pressure. The fuel in chamber 41 is then delivered into tank 1 for another measurement, the chamber 41 then being disconnected from fuel pump 4 and connected to tank 1 which is closed to the atmosphere.

Process and apparatus for utilization of fuels with alcohol additives for an internal combustion engine in which during the heating of a sample quantity of a fuel mixture of a conventional fuel and alcohol there is a delay in the temperature increase in the region of the boiling point of the alcohol, due to its heat of vaporization. The apparatus (a) detects this temperature region, which characterizes the type of alcohol in the mixture, and (b) determines the extend of the delay in the temperature increase which characterizes the percent admixture of the alcohol in the fuel mixture. The measurement values obtained during the vaporization are utilized to produce a correction signal in a control device to effect a change in the air-fuel ratio in the fuel mixture former of the internal combustion engine.

Process and apparatus for utilization of fuels with alcohol additives

An air flow sensor and a temperature sensor of a device for measuring air flow in the intake manifold of an internal combustion engine are mounted in parallel relation to one another in a plane of a flat holder member. The sensors are secured to the holder member in fixed manner by adhesives. The mounting of the sensors on the holder can be achieved by mass production with the sensors aligned in the common plane in parallel relation to one another. In one embodiment the sensors are secured to the upper and lower legs of a rectangular frame with an intermediate leg of the frame disposed between the sensors.

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