Nippon Soken, Inc.

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Akio Nara

Hideaki Sasaya

Shigeru Takagi

Hidetaka Hayashi

Yosinori Akiyama

Akio Yazawa

Keiji Tsuchiya

Kazuma Matsui

Kouji Izutani

Keiichi Yamada

Isamu Shigeta

Yasuhiro Oya

Yasuaki Tsujimura

Yoshinori Akiyama

Takao Mitsui

Toshiharu Tatsunaka

Tsuyoshi Adachi

A positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor heating device including of a PTC element, a first electrode formed on its surface, a heat radiating means having heat radiating fins and a second electrode, and conductive particles contained in the first electrode and electrically conductive with the second electrode, and, also, a process for production of a positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor heating device including the steps of printing an electrode material paste containing conductive particles on the surface of a PTC element, heating this to bake it on and form a first electrode having a rough surface, and bringing the first electrode and the second electrode of the heat radiating means into contact by the conductive particles.

Positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor heating device and process

A heating device for heating air-fuel mixture to be fed to an internal combustion engine has a PTC heat generator having a flat ring-like form with a portion of the inner peripheral surface thereof directly exposed to the passage for the mixture. The heating device also has a heat radiating member having an inner peripheral heat radiating surface confronting the mixture passage and jointed to the PTC heat generator in heat conducting relation therewith.

Air-fuel mixture heating device for internal combustion engine

A fuel evaporator comprises a ring-shaped heater element made of PTC ceramic, a pipe made of heat conductive metal and disposed within an air-fuel passage of an internal combustion engine therealong and a pair of terminal members for supplying power to the heater element. The heater element is disposed closely in contact with the outer periphery of the upper end of the pipe. One end of each of the pair of terminal members is closely in contact with each of the upper and under surfaces of the heater element. The fuel evaporator further comprises a plate-shaped compact made of electricity insulating rubber or synthetic resin and formed around the upper end of the pipe. Within the compact, the heater element, the upper end of the pipe and the terminal members are embedded.

Fuel evaporator for internal combustion engine

A fuel filter device for use with diesel engines has a manually operable pump section and a filter container housing therein a filter element and detachably attached to the pump section. The pump section has a manually operable diaphragm facing a chamber having fuel inlet and outlet respectively communicated with a fuel tank and the filter container. The inlet and outlet are provided with valves responsive to the fuel pressure at the inlet and to a pressure variation caused by the diaphragm in the chamber to allow the fuel to flow through the inlet into the chamber and through the outlet into the container in which the fuel flows through the filter element and out of the container to a discharge port of the pump section. An electric heater is disposed in the chamber adjacent to the path of the flow of the fuel in the chamber. A fuel temperature or pressure sensor is disposed downstream of the filter element to provide a signal for the control of the electrical supply to the heater.

Fuel heating type fuel filter device

Around an engine-body of a vehicle, several auxiliary machinery such as an air-conditioner and a power steering-pump are disposed. Pulleys of said auxiliary machinery are driven by means of an endless belt or endless belts by a driving pulley of the engine. In order to obtain the most effective operation of the engine, consideration should be given to the degree of the power loss for driving the auxiliary machinery. For this purpose, according to the present invention, the order by which said several driven pulleys are driven by said driving pulley is determined by the magnitude of the driven torques of the corresponding auxiliary machinery along the running direction of the endless belt toward the driving pulley.

Driving method for auxiliary machinery of a vehicle

A vane pump comprising a cylindrical rotor provided with a diametrically extending vane groove, a vane slidably arranged in the vane groove in radial directions, a cylinder in which the rotor is rotatably arranged, the cylinder having an inner peripheral cam surface with which said vane always comes into sliding contact at its opposed ends, the cam surface of the cylinder having a profile defined by cycloid curves and/or arc portions which have a radius substantially equal to that of the rotor.

Vane pump with cylinder profile defined by cycloid curves

A vane type pump having a housing formed with an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber and having a cylinder portion, a cylindrical rotor mounted for eccentric rotation in the cylinder portion, and a plurality of vane mounted for concentric rotation in the cylinder portion. The rotor is formed with slots through which the vanes extend into a space defined between the inner peripheral wall of the cylinder portion and the outer peripheral wall of the rotor so as to divide the space to define a working chamber variable in volume for pumping effect. The inlet chamber is associated with the cylinder portion to define a fluid confinement initiating line at which the working chamber begins to be isolated from the inlet chamber when the forward end of one of the vanes passes the line. The fluid confinement initiating line is in a symmetrical inclined configuration such that the line is generally symmetrical with respect to the widthwise center line of the cylinder portion and is inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder portion over the substantially entire length of the line beginning at opposite ends of the cylinder portion.

Vane pump with symmetrical inclined fluid confinement initiating line

A filter element for straining liquid formed of a filter material in a convoluted form including two portions, one portion being a planar portion and the other portion being a corrugated portion having a plurality of elevated areas. The filter material is foled in half in the longitudinal center and wound in convolutions so that a series of letters V are formed on a transverse cross-sectional surface thereof. The pitch of the elevated areas is smaller in the central portion of the convoluted filter element corresponding to the end of the filter material at which winding is started and larger in the outer peripheral portion thereof.

Filter element for liquid straining filter

A monolithic catalyst converter comprises a monolithic catalyst retaining catalyst metal, a cylindrical metallic container receiving the catalyst therein, a radial shock absorbing member disposed in a space between the catalyst and the container, an annular metallic plate disposed in each of axially end surfaces of the catalyst, a retaining member fixed to an inner wall of the container so as to be opposed to the annular metallic plate, an axial shock absorbing member disposed between the annular metallic plate and the retaining member and at least one annular sealing member composed of a compact body obtained by compressing metallic fine wire fabric or ceramic fibers, which is disposed in the space under pressure. By disposing the annular sealing member, unpurified exhaust gas is prevented from flowing out of the space.

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Okazaki, Japan

Akio Nara