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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tim Walde, Regensburg, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/700 ;
Abstract
The pump currents in an NOx measurement sensor are generated by voltage-controlled current sources. Instead of the respective pump current, a setting voltage received by the voltage-controlled current sources occurs as the feedback variable in a respective control loop, so that a current measurement can be dispensed with.