US 11,995,617 B2
Maintenance method for zirconia-type oxygen analyzer, maintenance system, and zirconia-type oxygen analyzer
Yosuke Kawashima, Musashino (JP)
Assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/656,598.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-061832 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0318765 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. G01N 27/416 (2006.01); G01N 27/407 (2006.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/20 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/20 (2013.01) [G01N 27/4073 (2013.01); G01N 27/4163 (2013.01); G01N 33/0006 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A maintenance method for an oxygen analyzer that uses a zirconia sensor to measure an oxygen concentration of a gas to be measured, the maintenance method comprising:
storing in a memory, by the oxygen analyzer, a calibration coefficient for correcting, based on a measured value of a physical quantity measured by the zirconia sensor for a standard gas having a known oxygen concentration, a conversion formula for converting a measured value of a physical quantity measured by the zirconia sensor into the oxygen concentration of the gas to be measured;
approximating, by an information processing apparatus, a change over time in the calibration coefficient by a quadratic curve;
determining, by the information processing apparatus, a timing at which a rate of change of the calibration coefficient, estimated by the quadratic curve for the change over time in the calibration coefficient, reaches a predetermined upper limit of the rate of change as a timing at which the zirconia sensor should be calibrated; and
presenting, by the information processing apparatus, the timing at which the zirconia sensor should be calibrated.