IP Library Granted Patent US 7,934,419
Granted Patent B2
US 7,934,419 · App. 12/132,888 · Granted May 3, 2011

Intake air mass flow measurement device

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Patent No.
US 7,934,419
App. No.
12/132,888
Granted
May 3, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

In an intake air mass flow measurement device, for preventing clogging in a pressure intake tube due to water or the like entering the pressure intake tube in a device measuring a pressure in the intake air tube, the intake air mass flow measurement device includes a mass air flow measurement device for measuring an intake air mass flow in an intake air tube; and a pressure sensing device for sensing pressure in the intake air tube, the pressure sensing device being integrated with the mass air flow measurement device, and an aperture plane opened to the inside of a main air flow passage for detection of the pressure takes in pressure by using a gap generated between a main air flow passage constituting member and an insertion part of the mass air flow measurement device when a measurement part of the mass air flow measurement device is inserted into the main air flow passage. With this construction, it is possible to provide a structure in which water or the like can hardly clog the pressure intake port.

Claims (31)

1. An intake air mass flow measurement device, comprising:

a mass air flow measurement device for measuring an intake air mass flow in an intake air tube; and

a pressure sensing device for sensing pressure in the intake air tube, the pressure sensing device being integrated with the mass air flow measurement device,

wherein an aperture plane opened to the inside of the intake air tube for detection of the pressure takes in pressure by using a gap generated between an intake air tube constituting member and a measurement part of said mass air flow measurement device,

wherein an opening position of a pressure intake port formed in an intake air mass flow measurement device body is positioned at an outer side of an inner wall of an intake air tube passage formed by an intake air tube passage constituting member, as viewed from a diametric direction of the intake air tube, and

wherein the pressure intake port formed in the intake air mass flow measurement device body is constructed such that an intake passage thereof formed by a tube passage is preliminarily opened to a recess formed in an outer wall of the intake air mass flow measurement device body, and that pressure is taken in via the recess.

2. The intake air mass flow measurement device according to claim 1 , wherein the recess is disposed on the intake air mass flow measurement device body so as to be located on a downstream side of the intake air flow.

3. A fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine, which uses the intake air mass flow measurement device according to claim 1 .

4. An intake air mass flow measurement device, comprising:

a mass air flow measurement device for measuring an intake air mass flow in an intake air tube; and

a pressure sensing device for sensing pressure in the intake air tube, the pressure sensing device being integrated with the mass air flow measurement device,

wherein said pressure sensing device includes a sensing part for detecting pressure and an intake port for taking in pressure,

wherein the pressure sensing part is installed at an attachment flange part for attaching and fixing a mass air flow meter to the intake air tube by using a screw, and

wherein an aperture plane of the pressure intake port opened to the inside of the intake air tube takes in pressure by using a gap generated in an intake air tube constituting member.

5. A fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine, which uses the intake air mass flow measurement device according to claim 4 .

6. An intake air mass flow measurement device, comprising:

a mass air flow measurement part for measuring an intake air mass flow in an intake air tube; and

a pressure sensing part for sensing pressure in the intake air tube,

wherein a pressure intake port for taking pressure in the intake air tube into the pressure sensing part is opened to a gap generated between an intake air tube constituting member and the mass air flow measurement part, and

wherein a recess is formed in an opening which is opened to said gap of said pressure intake port such that said gap is increased.

7. The intake air mass flow measurement device according to claim 6 , wherein said gap is formed between an outer surface of the intake air mass flow measurement device facing in a direction perpendicular to the insertion direction in which the mass air flow measurement part is inserted into the intake air tube and a surface formed in the thickness direction of the intake air tube constituting member, the surface being formed in the opening formed in the intake air tube constituting member in order to insert the mass air flow measurement part into the intake air tube.

8. An intake air mass flow measurement device, comprising:

a mass air flow measurement part for measuring an intake air mass flow in an intake air tube; and

a pressure sensing part for sensing pressure in the intake air tube,

wherein the pressure in the intake air tube is taken in the pressure sensing part via a gap generated between an intake air tube constituting member and the mass air flow measurement part, and

wherein said gap is formed between an outer surface of the intake air mass flow measurement device facing in a direction perpendicular to the insertion direction in which the mass air flow measurement part is inserted into the intake air tube and a surface formed in the thickness direction of the intake air tube constituting member, the surface being formed in the opening formed in the intake air tube constituting member in order to insert the mass air flow measurement part into the intake air tube.

9. An intake air mass flow measurement device, comprising:

a mass air flow measurement part for measuring an intake air mass flow in an intake air tube; and

a pressure sensing part for sensing pressure in the intake air tube,

wherein a pressure intake port for taking pressure in the intake air tube into the pressure sensing part is opened to a gap generated between an intake air tube constituting member and the mass air flow measurement part, and

wherein said gap is formed between an outer surface of the intake air mass flow measurement device facing in a direction perpendicular to the insertion direction in which the mass air flow measurement part is inserted into the intake air tube and a surface formed in the thickness direction of the intake air tube constituting member, the surface being formed in the opening formed in the intake air tube constituting member in order to insert the mass air flow measurement part into the intake air tube.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 30, 2021
From: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058481/0935 →
DEMERGER Recorded Nov 29, 2021
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058960/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 18, 2008
From: SAITO, TAKAYUKI; IGARASHI, SHINYA; YOGO, TAKAYUKI; KOBAYASHI, CHIHIRO
To: HITACHI, LTD.
Reel/Frame 021114/0358 →