Hitachi, Ltd.

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Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.

Katsuaki Fukatsu

Noboru Sugiura

Ryoichi Kobayashi

Takashi Ito

Noboru Tokuyasu

Yoichi Anzo

Toshiaki Kaminaga

Kenji Nakabayashi

Masamichi Yamada

Yoshihiro Sukegawa

Shiro Yamaoka

Junichi Shimada

Kazutoshi Kobayashi

Hiroshi Onuki

Eiichiro Kondo

Daisuke Terada

Hiroshi Watanabe

Masaru Ujigawa

Hidetoshi Oishi

Nobuyasu Kanekawa

Shinya Igarashi

Shoji Sasaki

Jun Kubo

Takanobu Ichihara

Masami Shida

Yuichi Kashimura

Hidefumi Iwaki

Motoyuki Miyata

Kaori Kashio

Takashi Kadohiro

Toshiki Otsuki

Hayato Koguchi

Takahashi Ito

A first sensor element outputs a first output signal in correspondence to a direction of the magnetic flux lines acting from the outside. A second sensor element outputs a second output signal associated with the first output signal in correspondence to a direction of the magnetic flux lines acting from the outside. A first conversion processing section converts the first output signal output from the first sensor element and the second output signal output from the second sensor element into the second physical quantity. A second conversion processing section converts the first output signal output from the first sensor element and the second output signal output from the second sensor element into a signal representing the rotation angle of the motor.

Physical quantity conversion sensor and motor control system using the same

A thermal gas-flow measuring instrument has a first heating resistor placed in the gas to be measured. A temperature sensing resistor is positioned upstream or downstream of the first heating resistor and generates signals relating to the flow rate. Between the first heating resistor and the support for supporting the first heating resistor is a second heating resistor that is electrically insulated from the first heating resistor. The second heating resistor suppresses the heat being transferred from the first heating resistor to the support. A control circuit controls the temperatures of the first heating resistor and the second heating resistor so that the operational temperature range of the second heating resistor or the temperature range at the joint section between the first heating resistor and the second heating resistor is at or above the temperature at which water droplets evaporate to disappear by film boiling.

Thermal type flow meter including a secondary heating device to suppress heat transfer

The objects of the present invention are to provide a high-accuracy EGR sensor, and EGR system which adopts the above sensor to measure EGR rate. The gas flow meter comprises a sensor section for measuring fluid flow rate and controller for controlling signals transmitted into and out of the sensor section, and is controlled at a working temperature of 350 to 700&#xb0; C., wherein a protective coat formed on the sensor section has resistance to temperature at which deposition of a PM component in exhaust gases can be prevented.

Flow meter and exhaust gas recirculation system using the same

In an engine having a premixed combustion mode, an EGR flow rate estimating precision is deteriorated at a transient time, and a torque fluctuation and an exhaust gas deterioration are caused. In an engine control apparatus having a premixed combustion mode and a diffusion combustion mode, a sensor detecting an EGR flow rate is arranged in an EGR flow path of the engine, and a cylinder state of the engine is estimated by using an output value of the sensor detecting the EGR flow rate at a time when the engine is in the premixed combustion mode. Since it is possible to accurately detect the EGR flow rate at the transient time and feed back the EGR flow rate at a high response, it is possible to prevent a torque fluctuation and an exhaust gas deterioration.

Control apparatus of engine

An exhaust recirculation control system of the internal combustion engine computes an oxygen concentration in total intake air containing recirculation exhaust gas in a cylinder and the ratio between an oxygen quantity in the total intake air and a fuel injection quantity (oxygen quantity/fuel injection quantity ratio). The computed values are compared with target values which are pre-set according to engine operating conditions and, based on the result of the comparison, at least an EGR valve or a fuel injection quantity. In order to perform such a control with high accuracy, a correcting means corrects a recirculation exhaust gas mass flow signal from a gas mass flowmeter on the basis of a predicted exhaust gas component concentration. And, by using the corrected recirculation exhaust gas mass flow, oxygen concentration in total intake air containing the recirculation exhaust gas in the cylinder and the ratio between the oxygen quantity in the total intake air and the fuel injection quantity (target oxygen quantity/fuel injection quantity ratio) are computed to perform EGR control.

Method for obtaining exhaust gas flow quantity, exhaust gas flow measurement apparatus, and exhaust gas recirculation control system

An ignition apparatus for an internal combustion engine has an arrangement comprising a power part and a control part which are accumulated in a one-chip in an IGBT monolithic silicon substrate. The control circuit part has current limiting function of prevent the flowing of any current which is above a predetermined value as well as function of detecting malfunction heat generation by which a primary electric current is blocked compulsorily. The secondary voltage of an ignition coil is generated repeatedly below a plug discharge voltage so as not to generate spark discharge in the sparking plug when the electric current compulsory blocking is carried out, and energy charged in the ignition coil is emitted or discharged. With this arrangement, the one-chip ignition apparatus with high reliability can be achieved.

Ignition apparatus for internal combustion engine and one-chip semiconductor for internal combustion engine igniting

A main IGBT conducts or blocks a primary current flowing through the ignition coil in response to an input ignition control signal to generate a high voltage on the secondary side of the ignition coil. The main IGBT and a current limiter circuit are integrated in a monolithic silicon substrate of an insulating gate bipolar power transistor. The main IGBT has a collector and agate connected through a depletion IGBT forming part of a constant current circuit, and a resistor. When a voltage generated across the resistor becomes equal to or higher than a zener voltage, a zener diode leads this current to an emitter of the main IGBT.

Ignition system for internal combustion engine

A one-chip integration circuit including a power part and a control part integrated within an IGBT monolithic silicon substrate is disclosed. The control circuit part comprises a current limiting circuit for limiting a current so that it does not flow over a set-up value, a reference pulse generating circuit for detecting that an ignition control signal is inputted over a predetermined period of time, a digital timer made up by a digital counter, a latch circuit for dropping the gate voltage of the IGBT by latching due to the digital timer output signal and carrying out resetting when the ignition control signal is off, an input circuit having a potential comparison circuit in its input stage, in which the operation voltage for ignition control signal has a threshold value and a hysterisis, and an input protection circuit having a Zener diode and a resistor connected in parallel therewith for protecting the element from disturbance surges. A one-chip igniter with high operative stability and high reliability can be provided.

Ignition device for an internal combustion engine

Object: The present invention is intended to supply an internal combustion engine-use igniter that is compact, excellent in mountability, and can contribute to the simplification and automation of assembly and to cost reduction. Implementing means: An insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is used as the ignition coil switching device for the internal combustion engine. The IGBT and a current limiting circuit intended to protect it from an overcurrent are formed on single semiconductor chip , and this semiconductor chip and radio noise reduction capacitor are contained in single packaging unit having external input and output terminals to . Packaging unit is transfer-molded using a material such as epoxy resin.

Igniter for internal combustion engine

In order to provide a resin sealed electronic device which is capable of securing high reliability by packaging with a transfer molding resin without using any under filler material, a resin sealed electronic device mounts a flip chip type monolithic IC on a hybrid circuit board through bumps and is packaged with a thermosetting resin through transfer molding. The transfer molding resin has a linear expansion coefficient of 3&times;10,to 17&times;10,and contains a filler having a particle size smaller than a height of the bump by more than 10 &mgr;m. The resin sealed electronic device is integrated in a unit including the hybrid circuit board mounting the flip chip type monolithic IC through transfer molding with the transfer molding resin, and the bump is restrained from moving by the transfer molding resin flowing around at transfer-molding.

Resin sealed electronic device and method of fabricating the same and ignition coil for internal combustion engine using the same

A mesh structure portion is provided at a part of a stripe structure IGBT chip, gate resistance of a respective minute IGBT is reduced and in a gate portion chip a filter is constituted by a resistor and a condenser. Under a severe environment such as an integrated ignition coil, a small size and a low cost ignitor which can use without a necessity for a protection circuit by a peripheral circuit can be provided. An ignition apparatus having IGBT which is strong against serge resistant performance and noise resistant performance can be obtained.

Ignition apparatus and an ignition control system of an internal combustion engine and IGBT of an internal combustion engine

A current on the primary side of an ignition coil is subjected to repeated conduction/cutoff control in accordance with an ignition control signal of an ECU to thereby generate a high voltage for ignition twice or more in one combustion stroke. In such a multiple ignition system for an internal combustion engine, the primary current of the ignition coil is detected by a resistor to thereby make the ECU recognize the fact that the primary current has reached a value not smaller than a set value through a signal line when the primary current becomes not smaller than the set value. The ECU determines cutoff timing in the second-time et seq. in the repeated conduction/cutoff control on the basis of the recognition.

A less-deformable resin-sealed electronic apparatus of high reliability capable of increasing the robustness (long life-time) of soldered portions of a power semiconductor device for use in internal combustion engines while increasing the physical stiffness of an overall apparatus structure for achieving enhanced resistance to flexure or bending stresses is provided. A hybrid IC substrate,and power semiconductor device,are mounted on a metallic heat sink,. The power semiconductor device,is coupled and contacted with the heat sink,by use of an Sn&mdash;Sb alloy-based solder material,. The power semiconductor device,and hybrid IC substrate,plus heat sink,as well as input/output terminals,-,to,-,are embedded in a package,except for part of the input/output terminals, which package is made of epoxy at 70 to 90 weight percent (%) of an inorganic loading or filler material as machined by transfer mold techniques.

Resin-sealed electronic apparatus for use in internal combustion engines

To provide an ignition device advantageous in cost and space by using an inexpensive small-sized Zener diode having a Zener voltage lower than an induced voltage generated at a primary current supply timing, so as to prevent sparking of a spark plug due to the induced voltage. An ignition device for an internal combustion engine, includes a Zener diode provided on the secondary lower-voltage side of an ignition coil. The Zener diode comes into conduction at a voltage lower than an induced voltage generated at a primary current supply timing.

In order to reduce the bulk and weight of the upper igniter case division of the armor case, and to lower the center of gravity of the total apparatus so as to provide an igniter which is tough to oscillate, the igniter for the internal combustion engine has the armor case equipped with the coil department and igniter unit therein, and said armor case has the igniter case having the coil department case and the connector department. Furthermore, the coil department case is inserted in the plug hole of the internal combustion engine. The igniter unit is mounted in the igniter case. Furthermore, the igniter unit has a semiconductor device of a simple substance silicon chip having integrated therein a semi-conductor for switching and a current limiting circuitry. The semi-conductor for switching consists of an insulated bipolar transistor (IGBT) or a power transistor.

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