The invention relates to a temperature probe (10) comprising a temperature-dependent measuring element (ME), which measuring element (ME) can be contacted via at least a first connecting line (1) and at least a second connecting line (2), the first connecting line (1) having a first and a second portion (T1, T2), and the first and the second portions (T1, T2) consisting of different materials.

A testing method for a thermal contact between a temperature sensor and a battery cell of a battery module, includes measuring a temperature T.sub.1 of the temperature sensor at a time point t.sub.1, heating the temperature sensor for a defined time (t.sub.2−t.sub.1) and/or (t.sub.3−t.sub.1), measuring a temperature T.sub.2 of the temperature sensor at a time point t.sub.2 and/or a temperature T.sub.3 of the temperature sensor at a time point t.sub.3, and determining the thermal contact between the temperature sensor and the battery cell based on at least one of the temperature differences ΔT.sub.2,1=(T.sub.2−T.sub.1), ΔT.sub.3,1=(T.sub.3−T.sub.1) and ΔT.sub.3,2=(T.sub.3−T.sub.2) and a heat transfer coefficient determined thereby. Also, a testing circuit for a temperature sensor of a battery module includes a thermistor with a first node connected to a first supply voltage and a second node connected to ground, a switch interconnected between the first node of the thermistor and a second supply voltage, and an analog-to-digital converter connected in parallel to the thermistor. Also, a cell supervision circuit for a battery module including a circuit carrier, a testing circuit, and a temperature sensor surface mounted to the circuit carrier and having a measuring head with a thermistor configured to be brought into thermal contact with a battery cell of the battery module.

A method for validating an invasive temperature measurement system includes providing a first temperature data of the invasive temperature measurement system of a medium, the medium surrounded by a vessel wall enclosing the medium; providing a second temperature data of a non-invasive temperature measurement system, the non-invasive temperature measurement system thermally contacting an outside surface of the vessel wall enclosing the medium; determining a temperature of the medium based on the second temperature data medium properties and properties of the vessel wall; and comparing the first temperature data with the determined temperature of the medium to validate the invasive temperature measurement system.

A method for determining a function criterion of a measuring transducer of a motor vehicle, comprising: determining, with the aid of preconditions, whether a predefined vehicle state of the motor vehicle is present; capturing measured values of at least three measuring transducers which measure the same measured variable; calculating a measure of central tendency from the captured measured values; calculating a comparison value from the captured measured value with respect to the calculated measure of central tendency; ascertaining the function criterion of the measuring transducer, based on a comparison of the calculated comparison value with a threshold value, the capture of the measured values being carried out within a time period after the initialization of the controller, the ascertained function criterion being determined if the preconditions have been met and the provided vehicle state is thus present.

A lifetime estimation system for estimating a lifetime of a heating source is provided in an apparatus for heating a target object using the heating source and performing a feedback control of a target object temperature using a temperature controller based on a temperature measurement value of the target object measured by a temperature measuring device. The temperature controller controls a power supplied to the heating source and performs a temperature control using a state space model to perform the feedback control of the temperature of the target object. The lifetime estimation system includes a temperature monitor unit that monitors the temperature measurement value of the target object, a hunting amount detection unit that detects a hunting amount in a stable region of the monitored temperature of the target object, and a lifetime estimation unit that estimates a lifetime of the heating source from the detected hunting amount.

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to trim temperature sensors are disclosed. An example method includes: sampling a first value indicative of a temperature of a first die of a multi-chip module (MCM) with a first temperature sensor, the first die including a first transistor having a channel including a first material; and calibrating a second temperature sensor configured to sample a second value indicative of a temperature of a second die including a second transistor have a second channel including a second material, the calibrating based on the first value.

A device and a method for managing batteries of a vehicle are disclosed. The device may include: batteries arranged in a vehicle, a plurality of temperature sensors mounted at different locations of the batteries, and a controller that, when a failure occurs at an arbitrary temperature sensor among the plurality of temperature sensors, estimates a temperature value at the failed temperature sensor using big data, and controls discharge of the batteries based on the estimated temperature value.

Devices, systems and methods for using system-level malfunction indicators to monitor the operation and resiliency of the autonomous driving system components are described. One example of a method for diagnosing a fault in a component of an autonomous vehicle includes receiving, from an electrical sub-component of the component, an electrical signal, receiving, from an electronic sub-component of the component, a message, and determining, based on the electrical signal and the message, an operational status of the component.

A temperature interpolation device includes: a temperature data reading/writing unit which continues to record both time information and temperature data in a nonvolatile storage medium in the operation of a target device whose temperature data is read, and which checks the time information recorded in the nonvolatile storage medium at predetermined time intervals so as to determine whether or not data is lost in a predetermined time section; and a past temperature estimation unit which uses, when the temperature data reading/writing unit determines that the data is lost, the data recorded in the nonvolatile storage medium and a calculation parameter recorded in a calculation parameter setting unit so as to estimate and interpolate the lost data with a temperature interpolation formula.

The present invention discloses is a method for collecting a temperature of a heating pipeline, the method comprising: collecting a circuit signal of a heating resistor; calculating a current resistance value of the heating resistor according to the circuit signal; and calculating a current temperature of the heating pipeline according to the current resistance value. By using the method for collecting the temperature of the heating pipeline, measurement of the temperature of the heating pipeline can be realized by directly measuring the resistance value of the heating resistor in the heating pipeline, which may avoid the use of an additional temperature sensor, thereby reducing the number of connecting wires or other accessories.