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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 1986
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1984
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An air-fuel ratio detector and an air-fuel ratio measuring method for detecting an oxygen density in an exhaust gas emitted from the internal combustion engine of an automobile. The air-fuel ratio detector has a tubular body and a pair of partition members dividing the tubular body into a closed-end section and an open-end section. At least one of the partition members comprises a solid electrolyte permeable to oxygen ions. A pair of electrodes is mounted on opposite surfaces of the solid electrolyte and connected to a DC power supply, thus constituting an oxygen pump. Another pair of electrodes is mounted on one of the partition members and connected to a DC power supply, thus constituting a limited-current oxygen sensor. Oxygen is introduced into a space between the partition members at all times by the oxygen pump to maintain the gas, which has been supplied through a gas dispersion member into the space, lean.