Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic control unit
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Application No.: US15981003Application Date: 2018-05-16
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Publication No.: US10769868B2Publication Date: 2020-09-08
- Inventor: Daisuke Suzuki
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@6480793
- Main IPC: G07C5/08
- IPC: G07C5/08 ; B60H3/02 ; F02D41/14 ; F02D41/22 ; B60H1/00

Abstract:
An electronic control unit (ECU) obtains outside air humidity information from a sensor disposed outside a vehicle compartment and inside air humidity information from a sensor inside the vehicle compartment. The ECU includes a humidity information obtainer obtaining the inside air humidity information, a humidity change calculator calculating the inside air humidity information as a difference between (i) a physical quantity correlated with humidity before a start of a dehumidification or a humidification and (ii) a physical quantity correlated with humidity after a switch-off of the dehumidification or the humidification, a soak time calculator calculating, based on the difference of the physical quantities, a soak time from the switch-off of the dehumidification or the humidification to a sensor-diag startable time at which a diagnosis of the outside air humidity sensor is startable, and a comparator comparing the outside air humidity information and the inside air humidity information after a lapse of the soak time from the switch-off of the dehumidification or the humidification.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180342118A1 ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT Public/Granted day:2018-11-29
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