EP3529602A1 - Control unit for operating a lambda sensor - Google Patents
Control unit for operating a lambda sensorInfo
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- EP3529602A1 EP3529602A1 EP17771419.3A EP17771419A EP3529602A1 EP 3529602 A1 EP3529602 A1 EP 3529602A1 EP 17771419 A EP17771419 A EP 17771419A EP 3529602 A1 EP3529602 A1 EP 3529602A1
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- Prior art keywords
- potential
- electrochemical cell
- virtual ground
- input
- control unit
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
- G01N27/00—Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means
- G01N27/26—Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means by investigating electrochemical variables; by using electrolysis or electrophoresis
- G01N27/403—Cells and electrode assemblies
- G01N27/406—Cells and probes with solid electrolytes
- G01N27/4065—Circuit arrangements specially adapted therefor
Definitions
- the invention relates to a control unit for operating a lambda probe with an electrochemical cell.
- Prior art DE 10 2013 224 811 A1 already discloses a control unit for operating a single-cell, wide-band lambda probe of an exhaust gas aftertreatment system of an internal combustion engine, which is kept under limit current operation by means of a pumping voltage, whereby a pumping current proportional to the residual oxygen in the exhaust gas is established the pumping voltage is tracked, depending on the set pumping current.
- the pump voltage is determined by means of a stored characteristic curve from the pumping current
- the pumping current is determined by means of a measuring resistor which is connected to a virtual ground, which serves as a current source and / or current sink and provides a constant voltage.
- the present invention has for its object to improve the accuracy of the reliability and compatibility with predetermined lambda probes of the prior art control unit.
- the invention initially precedes the knowledge that for operating a lambda probe with an electrochemical cell in the limiting current operation with respect to the voltage applied to her pumping voltage in conflict coming boundary conditions are given.
- the potential of the virtual ground (hereinafter also: the virtual ground) on the one hand to choose as low as possible in order not to burden the voltage budget given by an available supply voltage so much that a sufficient tracking of the input potential at large pump currents no longer completely possible.
- the potential of the virtual mass must always be greater than the voltage drop of the maximum expected pump current across the measuring resistor.
- the potential of the virtual ground is increased as the input potential decreases and the potential of the virtual ground is lowered as the input potential increases.
- the potential of the virtual ground is then relatively low, in particular in lean operation, when, for example, relatively large pump currents and associated voltage drops occur at the measuring resistor, so that a limiting current operation can be maintained.
- the potential of the virtual mass is relatively high, especially in rich operation, and can exceed the voltage drop of the pump current across the measuring resistor.
- a measuring resistor with a relatively high resistance use for example, at least 20 - 600 ohms.
- the potential of the virtual ground it is possible and advantageous for the potential of the virtual ground to be varied as a function of the input potential such that it increases, for example, by a value ⁇ when the input potential decreases by this value. It is also possible that the potential of the virtual ground in response to the input potential is changed so that it increases, for example by a value ⁇ when the input potential decreases by a value which is between 1/3 ⁇ and 3 ⁇ .
- the potential of the virtual ground can be changed quickly and reliably by an analog or digital circuit, depending on the input potential, for example, by the virtual ground is implemented by a circuit with at least one operational amplifier whose inverting
- Resistor is and R2 is the ohmic resistance of the second electrical resistance.
- FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a control unit according to the invention.
- FIG. 2 shows an analog circuit for changing the potential of the virtual ground VM as a function of the input potential UA
- FIG. 1 shows a circuit arrangement according to the invention or a control unit according to the invention which has such a circuit arrangement for operating preferably a previously described unicellular limit current probe 330.
- a per se known limit current probe 330 via an IPE port 343 (inner pump electrode, second electrode) and a said ALE port
- the limit current probe 330 serves to generate a pumping current (Ip) 304.
- ALE exhaust air electrode
- IPE inner pumping electrode
- a voltage generator 315 is used with the aid of a filter, in particular a low-pass filter 305, for generating the pump voltage (Up) 303, wherein the value of the pump voltage 303, depending on the respective pumping current 304, in a known manner by means of a pulse width modulated (PWM)
- PWM pulse width modulated
- the pumping current 304 is provided in the present embodiment by a pumping current generator 405, which can be separated via a fourth switch (T4) 400 from the subsequent part of the circuit.
- such a pumping current generator 405 and the fourth switch 400 are not absolutely necessary, since the pumping current 304 can in principle also be provided by the microcontroller 310.
- the PWM signal 307 is supplied by a voltage generator 315 and in the present embodiment is in the frequency range of about 20 to 30 kHz. It should be noted, however, that the present invention or its application is not limited to this frequency range.
- the generator 315 is arranged in an internal or external microcontroller ( ⁇ ) 310.
- the pump voltage 303 thus set can also be smoothed via a first low-pass filter 305.
- the pump voltage 303 is read back into the microcontroller 310 via a second low pass 306 and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 320.
- ADC analog-to-digital converter
- the pumping current 304 is determined by means of a measuring resistor 345. If necessary, for example for reasons of accuracy, the voltage drop across the measuring resistor can be amplified, eg by means of a differential (not shown). By means of the already stored in the microcontroller 310 ADC 320 by means of a stored in the microcontroller 310 characteristic 325 is generated from the pumping current 304, with an adjustable time delay, the pump voltage to be generated 303.
- a "virtual ground” (VM) 355 is arranged behind the measuring resistor 345.
- the virtual ground 355 serves both as current source and as current sink in the present exemplary embodiment and provides an electric potential is available behind the measuring resistor 345, thus providing an electrical potential that is not directly dependent on the pumping current 355 and is therefore fixed or constant third low pass 370.
- dashed line 375 the readback of the VM value is only preferred, but for the operation of the
- the voltage value at the ALE 342 must be smaller than the voltage value at the IPE 343. Because only in this case, this reverse current flow with rich exhaust gas is possible.
- the value of the constant voltage that is to say the potential of the virtual ground 355, is dependent on the input potential UA according to the invention: it increases when the input potential UA decreases and vice versa.
- the input potential UA is tracked as a function of the pumping current 304 that arises, there is also an indirect influence on the potential of the virtual mass 355 from the pumping current 355.
- this is merely indirect and does not change the nature of the virtual mass: the virtual mass is a fixed potential, not directly from the
- the dependence of the potential of the virtual ground 355 on the input voltage UA can be realized by the analog circuit shown in FIG. Alternatively, a digital circuit can be realized.
- Both the pump current transmitter 405 and the virtual mass 355 are in these sem example implemented as operational amplifier circuits.
- the virtual ground 355 is associated with an operational amplifier OP1, whose inverting input OP1- and the output OP1A are connected to each other via a first electrical resistance Rl and whose inverting input OP1- is further connected via a second electrical resistance R2 to the input potential UA.
- the input potential UA is given by the PWM input signal 307 smoothed by the low pass 305.
- U B is a constant potential applied to the noninverting input OP + of the operational amplifier OP1. It can be provided by a separate voltage source or be derived by a voltage divider from another, already mentioned power supply. It then has the potential of the virtual mass 355 the value VM
- VM UB- (UA-UB) * R1 / R2.
- R1 R2
- VM 2UB-UA
- the measuring resistor can have an ohmic resistance of 20-600 ohms.
- both a symmetrical and an asymmetrical control of the electrochemical cell 401 is possible.
- the change in the virtual ground 355 takes place only in a partial area of the drive by the input voltage UA and, moreover, the virtual ground assumes a constant value, that is to say independent of the input voltage.
- circuit arrangement according to the invention can be constructed both with a discrete component and integrated in an ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit).
- ASIC application-specific integrated circuit
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DE102016220649.4A DE102016220649A1 (en) | 2016-10-20 | 2016-10-20 | Control unit for operating a lambda probe |
PCT/EP2017/073609 WO2018072949A1 (en) | 2016-10-20 | 2017-09-19 | Control unit for operating a lambda sensor |
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