Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Limited

Mazda Motor Corporation

Aisin Corporation

Itsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Takahashi

Hajime Itoh

Jun Kamo

Yoshikazu Fujinaga

Tohru Takemura

Haruhiko Yoshida

Takayuki Hirai

Hideaki Habara

Masashi Okamoto

Kunihiro Aoki

Kouji Ohbori

Kenji Kondou

Toshiaki Nishimoto

Teruhiko Sugimori

Yasushi Nakahara

Kazutami Mitani

Takano Nakai

Yoshiyuki Kamoyama

Toru Hirota

Yohei Suzuki

Yoshinari Tokunaga

Shigehiro Tanabe

Kouzi Ohbori

Kenya Fujimoto

Kouji Takehashi

Kenji Kondo

Takuma Mukai

The valve timing control unit includes a valve timing control mechanism that includes a driving rotary body, a driven rotary body, an electric motor and a deceleration gear each for setting the relative rotational phase of the driving rotary body and the driven rotary body, and a phase sensor unit that detects the actual phase of the driving rotary body and the driven rotary body. The valve timing control unit includes a controller that controls the electric motor to reduce a phase difference between the actual phase and a target phase, and the controller includes a swing controller that swings the target phase in vicinity of the target phase when the target phase is maintained and the actual phase having a fluctuation amount is held in a holding region, in which the fluctuation amount is less than a preset value.

Valve timing control unit

A hydraulic supply device for a valve stopping mechanism includes: a specific hydraulic oil supply passage which constantly supplies hydraulic oil, a valve stopping mechanism incorporated in a cylinder head, and configured to stop at least one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve, a valve stopping oil passage which supplies hydraulic oil to the valve stopping mechanism, a control valve which controls the supply of hydraulic oil to the valve stopping oil passage, and a communication oil passage which communicates between the valve stopping oil passage and the specific hydraulic oil supply passage, and provided with a restrictor therebetween. The specific hydraulic oil supply passage is connected to an oil supply portion for a portion to be lubricated or for a portion to be cooled in the engine at a position downstream of a connection position with respect to the communication oil passage in an oil supply direction.

Hydraulic supply device for valve stopping mechanism

Disclosed is a porous polypropylene hollow fiber membrane of large pore diameter which have (a) rectangular pores formed by microfibrils that are oriented in the lengthwise direction of the fibers and joint portions that are composed of stacked lamellae, the pores being contiguous with each other from the inner wall surface to the outer wall surface of the hollow fiber membrane to form a stacked, multicellular structure, (b) an average pore diameter ranging from 1.7 .mu.m up to 10 .mu.m as measured with a mercury porosimeter, (c) a porosity of 80 to 95%, and (d) an air permeability of not less than 4.times.10.sup.5 l/m.sup.2.hr.0.5 atm. This hollow fiber membrane can be produced by melt-spinning polypropylene, annealing the resulting unstretched hollow fiber under specific conditions, and then cold-stretching and hot-stretching the annealed hollow fiber under specific conditions.

Porous polypropylene hollow fiber membrane of large pore diameter,

Porous polyethylene hollow fiber membrane of large pore diameter,

A porous polypropylene hollow fiber membrane of large pore diameter which have (a) rectangular pores formed by microfibrils that are oriented in the lengthwise direction of the fibers and joint portions that are composed of stacked lamellae, the pores being contiguous with each other from the inner wall surface to the outer wall surface of the hollow fiber membrane to form a stacked, multicellular structure, (b) an average pore diameter ranging from greater than 1 .mu.m up to 10 .mu.m as measured with a mercury porosimeter, (c) a porosity of 70 to 95%, and (d) an air permeability of not less than 4.times.10.sup.5 l/m.sup.2 .multidot.hr.multidot.0.5 atm can be produced by melt-spinning polypropylene, annealing the resulting unstretched hollow fiber under specific conditions, and then cold-stretching and hot-stretching the annealed hollow fiber under specific conditions.

Process of making porous polypropylene hollow fiber membrane of large

An acrylonitrile polymer film is disclosed which film comprising a polymer containing higher than 80% by weight of acrylonitrile units, having higher than 300,000 of weight average molecular weight, and having molar fraction Ne for the segment of polymerization initiator bonded to the terminal of the polymer satisfying the following equation:

Process for preparing acrylonitrile polymer film

Porous membranes and production processes thereof

Disclosed is a porous membrane consisting of a film-forming polymer characterized in that:

Porous membrane

Porous membranes are produced by dissolving a film-forming polymer in a good solvent for the polymer, forming a film of the resulting polymer solution, and forcibly contacting saturated steam or mist-containing steam with at least one surface of said film. Such porous membranes have pores having a narrow pore diameter distribution and extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the membrane surface at a high surface pore density on at least one surface thereof.

Process for producing porous membranes

Disclosed is a hollow-fiber filter module having a novel structure in which a large number of hollow fibers for filtration use are disposed in a rectilinear fashion, two exit planes are defined by the opposite open ends of the hollow fibers, a filtrate collection chamber is formed over one of the exit planes, and one or more filtrate conduits are provided in order to conduct the filtrate collected in the filtrate collection chamber to the other exit plane. A reinforcing ring helps secure the filtrate conduits. This hollow-fiber filter module permits the efficient utilization of a hollow-fiber filter membrane and, therefore, can reduce the space occupied by the module. Moreover, a plurality of such hollow-fiber filter modules can be connected in series and used in the form of a hollow-fiber filter module assembly having a length of several meters.

Hollow-fiber filter module

Disclosed is a hollow-fiber filter module having a novel structure in which a large number of hollow fibers for filtration use are disposed in a rectilinear fashion, two exit planes are defined by the opposite open ends of the hollow fibers, a filtrate collection chamber is formed over one of the exit planes, and one or more filtrate conduits are provided in order to conduct the filtrate collected in the filtrate collection chamber to the other exit plane. The hollow-fiber filter module permits the efficient utilization of a hollow-fiber filter membrane and, therefore, can reduce the space occupied by the module. Moreover, a plurality of such hollow-fiber filter modules can be connected in series and used in the form of a hollow-fiber filter module assembly having a length of several meters.

Hollow-fiber filter module with filtrate conduit

The present invention discloses a hollow-fiber filter module comprising (a) an annular member, (b) a filter membrane consisting of a large number of hollow fibers, (c) a fastening member attached to the inside surface of the annular member for bundling and fixing the hollow fibers in a U-shaped pattern with their both ends left open, (d) a supporting member consisting of a plurality of supporting pillars or a cylinder, said supporting member being joined to said annular member and extending along the U-shaped portions of the hollow fibers, and (e) a hollow fiber retaining member joined to the supporting member and extending through the space enclosed in the U-shaped portions of the hollow fibers. This hollow-fiber filter module is suitable for use in water purifiers for treating large volumes of water containing minute colloidal particles and can be efficiently regenerated by gas bubble treatment to restore its filtering function.

Growing community of inventors

Hiroshima, Japan

Hiroshi Takahashi