Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Thermal-type airflow meter
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Application No.: US15335750Application Date: 2016-10-27
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Publication No.: US10006792B2Publication Date: 2018-06-26
- Inventor: Naoki Morinaga , Masahiro Kawai , Yuji Ariyoshi , Shinichiro Hidaka
- Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Agent Richard C. Turner
- Priority: JP2016-104805 20160526
- Main IPC: G01F1/696
- IPC: G01F1/696 ; F02D41/18 ; G01F1/684 ; G01F5/00 ; F02D41/28

Abstract:
There is provided a thermal-type airflow meter that reduces the number of output signals of the sensor circuit and that can suppress the accuracy of flow rate detection from being deteriorated because due to a nonlinear sensor output characteristic and a response delay in the output signal, the output signal shifts toward the positive side or the negative side. A thermal-type airflow meter outputs one or both of a positive-side comparison signal that is at the positive side of a comparison threshold value and a negative-side comparison signal that is at the negative side of the comparison threshold value, outputs a coefficient multiplication signal obtained by multiplying an average signal acquired by averaging the comparison signal by an adjustment coefficient, and outputs, as a flow rate signal, a value obtained by applying the coefficient multiplication signal to increase correction or decrease correction of the amplitude increase signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170343400A1 THERMAL-TYPE AIRFLOW METER Public/Granted day:2017-11-30
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