Denso Corporation

Tomofumi Fujii

Katsuhide Akimoto

Masato Ozawa

Makoto Noguchi

Takahito Masuko

Kouji Morita

Yushi Fukuda

Shuuichi Nakano

Toshihide Kumazaki

A limiting current-type gas sensor element including a plurality of stacked ceramic layers and configured to output a limiting current value which depends on a concentration of a specific gas in a gas to be measured when a certain voltage is applied. The gas sensor element includes a solid electrolyte member having oxygen ion conductivity; a heater that heats the solid electrolyte member; a measurement electrode and a reference electrode provided on the solid electrolyte member; a chamber facing the measurement electrode and into which the gas to be measured is introduced; a gas inlet located to a tip side of the chamber in a longitudinal direction; and a diffusion resistance part provided in the gas inlet. A heating center of the heater is located further to the tip side than an electrode center of the measurement electrode is.

Gas sensor element

A gas sensor is provided with a housing provided with a locking step part formed on an inner peripheral surface thereof; a sensor body provided with a locked flange part locked to the locking step part from a base end side thereof and supported inside the housing; a sealing member filled into a filling part between the inner peripheral surface of the housing and an outer peripheral surface of the sensor body in a base end side of the locked flange part; and an insulation member provided between the inner peripheral surface of the housing and the outer peripheral surface of the sensor body in a base end side of the sealing member. The filling part includes an annular groove protruding in an outer peripheral side.

Gas sensor

A sensor element of an A/F sensor AS has a solid electrolyte layer, a first electrode arranged on one side of the solid electrolyte layer so as to be exposed to the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, and a second electrode arranged on the other side of the solid electrolyte layer so as to face an atmospheric air chamber. The sensor element generates a sensor output according to the oxygen concentration in the exhaust gas. A microcomputer supplies oxygen to the first electrode side from the second electrode side via the solid electrolyte layer by applying a predetermined voltage between the pair of electrodes of the sensor element. Moreover, the microcomputer determines a crack abnormality of the solid electrolyte layer based on electric current between the pair of electrodes which is generated with start of the oxygen supply.

Gas sensor control apparatus

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Kariya, Japan

Tomofumi Fujii