Throttle position sensor

Engines

Published in Tom Denton, Alternative Fuel Vehicles, 2018

A throttle position sensor is used to supply information as to whether the throttle is at idle, full load or somewhere in between. Many cars do not have a throttle cable but instead use an electrical actuator controlled by the ECU.

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Published in IISE Transactions, 2023

Xiaomeng Peng, Xiaoning Jin, Shiming Duan, Chaitanya Sankavaram

An air intake system is one of the most critical components in an automotive engine. There are three critical embedded sensors in the system for measuring the amount of air and enabling continuous airflow into the engine: Mass Air Flow (MAF) sensor, Throttle Position Sensor (TPS) and Manifold Absolute Pressure (MAP) sensor. The MAF sensor determines the mass flow rate entering the engine. In the air intake system, the throttle body controls the amount of air flow into the engine. A TPS monitors the throttle plate position. An MAP sensor provides the intake manifold pressure information to the electronic control unit.

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