A method and system for estimating air mass per cylinder of an internal combustion engine is provided. An output signal from a MAF sensor is digitally processed to provide an estimate air mass per cylinder (APC). The system includes the MAF sensor; a data acquisition unit configured to receive an output signal from the MAF sensor and produce a sampled signal having a sampling rate greater than one sample per firing event; a multiple band pass (MBP) filter configured to remove signal components caused by airflow pulsations and oscillations through the MAF sensor; an envelope detector configured to detect the lower and upper envelopes of the MBP filtered signal; a MAF estimator configured to estimate a mass airflow based on the detected lower and upper envelopes; a signal decimator; a low pass filter; and a APC converter to converted the low pass filtered signal into an estimated APC.

A pressure detection signal processing device, engine control system, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program are provided. A current-voltage conversion part that converts a current signal corresponding to charge generated by a piezoelectric element in accordance with received pressure into a voltage signal, and digital signal processing parts that perform correction for removing a drift caused by a leakage current of the piezoelectric element on the voltage signal through digital signal processing are provided. The digital signal processing parts include a differentiation processing part that performs differentiation processing on the voltage signal, an integration processing part that performs integration processing on the signal having been subjected to the differentiation processing, and an integration processing part that further performs integration processing on the signal having been subjected to the integration processing.

An electronic system for a fluid property sensor comprises a fluid printed circuit board adapted to analyze a property of a fluid, an external connector, and an intermediate printed circuit board. The intermediate printed circuit board is electrically connected between the fluid printed circuit board and the external connector.

An air flow meter includes a processing unit measuring an air flow rate based on an output signal of a sensing unit placed in environment where air flows and outputting the air flow rate to an ECU. The processing unit includes an intake air flow rate computation unit acquiring an air flow rate based on the output signal, and an argument acquisition unit and a pulsation correction value computation unit acquiring pulsation correction information for correcting a pulsation error based on the acquired air flow rate. The processing unit also includes an air flow meter output unit outputting pulsation correction information in addition to the air flow rate to the ECU.

In order to provide a temperature and humidity sensor with improved reliability, the temperature and humidity sensor in which all or part of a case of the temperature and humidity sensor is inserted into a main duct for causing gas to pass through and which detects humidity of the gas, includes: a first sub-passage configured as a part of the case, a part of the gas passing through the main duct flowing in substantially the same direction as a flow in the main duct; a throttle section provided between an inlet and an outlet of the first sub-passage and on an inner surface of the first sub-passage, the throttle section having a throttle whose cross-sectional area is smaller than an average cross-sectional area of the entire first sub-passage; and a second sub-passage which connects an upstream side and a downstream side of the throttle section and is different from the first sub-passage. The first sub-passage and an inlet and an outlet of the second sub-passage are connected via respective connection ports, and the connection port between the inlet of the second sub-passage and the first sub-passage or the connection port between the outlet of the second sub-passage and the first sub-passage is provided on a side where a throttle is not provided when viewed from an axis in an upstream and downstream direction of the flow in the first sub-passage.

This signal processing unit includes: a comparison signal output unit which outputs a comparison signal on a negative side that corresponds to a negative side portion, of a second amplitude-increased signal, which is on the negative side with respect to the comparison threshold TH; an averaging processing unit which outputs an average signal obtained by averaging the comparison signal; a coefficient multiplication processing unit which outputs a coefficient-multiplied signal obtained by multiplying the average signal by an adjustment coefficient set in advance; and a signal correction processing unit which outputs, as a flow rate signal, a value obtained by correcting a first amplitude-increased signal so as to be decreased by use of the coefficient-multiplied signal, wherein the comparison threshold TH is set on the basis of an output characteristic of a sensor measured in advance with respect to at least a forward flow direction of an intake air.

The present invention relates to a method for analysing the operation of an anti-pollution system for a motor vehicle (1) with an internal combustion engine, said vehicle (1) comprising at least one sensor for measuring (110) a parameter of the vehicle (1) and an analysis computation means (140) directly connected to said measuring sensor (110), said analysis computation means (140) comprising a memory area, said method being characterised in that it comprises a step for using the measuring sensor (110) to measure at least one parameter of the vehicle (1), a step for using the measuring sensor (110) to transmit at least one digital datum representative of the measured value of the parameter to the analysis computation means (140) and a step for using the analysis computation means (140) to compare said digital datum with a predetermined range of values representative of an operation of the anti-pollution system according to a predetermined standard.

A system for controlling an engine tone by an artificial intelligence based on a sound quality index of a vehicle may include a sound output device for generating a reinforcing sound to reinforce an engine sound of the vehicle; an engine characteristic measurement sensor for measuring sound source characteristics of the engine sound; an interior noise measurement sensor for detecting interior noise of the vehicle; a signal processing controller that receives signals from the engine characteristic measurement sensor in real time and controls the sound output device such that the engine sound reaches a target tone; and a tone control operation unit connected to the signal processing controller to optimize the sound quality index such that the engine sound reaches the target tone through the artificial intelligence.

A pressure detection signal processing device, engine control system, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program are provided. A current-voltage conversion part that converts a current signal corresponding to charge generated by a piezoelectric element in accordance with received pressure into a voltage signal, and digital signal processing parts that perform correction for removing a drift caused by a leakage current of the piezoelectric element on the voltage signal through digital signal processing are provided. The digital signal processing parts include a differentiation processing part that performs differentiation processing on the voltage signal, an integration processing part that performs integration processing on the signal having been subjected to the differentiation processing, and an integration processing part that further performs integration processing on the signal having been subjected to the integration processing.

A method and system for estimating air mass per cylinder of an internal combustion engine is provided. An output signal from a MAF sensor is digitally processed to provide an estimate air mass per cylinder (APC). The system includes the MAF sensor; a data acquisition unit configured to receive an output signal from the MAF sensor and produce a sampled signal having a sampling rate greater than one sample per firing event; a multiple band pass (MBP) filter configured to remove signal components caused by airflow pulsations and oscillations through the MAF sensor; an envelope detector configured to detect the lower and upper envelopes of the MBP filtered signal; a MAF estimator configured to estimate a mass airflow based on the detected lower and upper envelopes; a signal decimator; a low pass filter; and a APC converter to converted the low pass filtered signal into an estimated APC.