Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Akros Co., Ltd.

Nihon Parkerizing Co., Ltd.

Ichiro Hiratsuka

Shigeru Nakajima

Takuya Niimi

Kazuki Saai

Yusuke Ikai

Kazumi Ogawa

Akikazu Matsumoto

Arata Suda

Masaki Kato

Daishi Kobayashi

Tomoyoshi Konishi

Taiyu Iwata

Takayuki Kurumi

Shun Mizuno

Yosuke Taguchi

Megumi Sugisawa

Mie Tokuhara

This vehicle mechanical component includes a mechanical component body, a heat insulating layer formed on the mechanical component body, and a protective layer formed on the heat insulating layer and including an inorganic compound that includes an alkoxide and scale-like inorganic solid particles dispersed in the inorganic compound.

Vehicle mechanical component and piston

Any one or more members of an engine, that is, a piston, a cylinder head and a valve, has a wall face disposed face-to-face to a combustion chamber, and the wall face is coated by a heat-insulation coating film. The heat-insulation coating film includes a heat-insulative layer formed on a surface of the wall face, and an inorganic-system coated-film layer formed on a surface of the heat-insulative layer. The heat-insulative layer includes a resin, and first hollow particles buried inside the resin and exhibiting an average particle diameter being smaller than a thickness of the heat-insulative layer. The inorganic-system coated-film layer includes an inorganic compound.

Engine and piston

An aluminum alloy member includes a main body including an aluminum alloy serving as a base material, and an electrolytic oxidation ceramic coating coated at a portion of a surface of the main body and including a most outer layer and an inner layer which is arranged close to the main body relative to the most outer layer, the inner layer in which an aluminum oxide is richer than the most outer layer, the most outer layer in which a volume of a titanium oxide or a total volume of the titanium oxide and a zirconium oxide is richer than the inner surface.

Aluminum alloy member and method for manufacturing same

A variable valve timing control device includes a rotation member for opening or closing a valve, a rotation transmission member engaged with the rotation member to be relatively rotatable, a vane provided on either one of the rotation member or the rotation transmission member, a hydraulic chamber formed between the rotation member and the rotation transmission member and including an advance angle chamber and a retarded angle chamber, the advance angle chamber and the retarded angle chamber being formed by dividing the hydraulic chamber by the vane, a first hydraulic passage for supplying and discharging a fluid to the advance angle chamber, and a second hydraulic passage for supplying and discharging the fluid to the retarded angle chamber. The vane includes a surface hardness determined to be higher than a surface hardness of a sliding surface of the rotation member or the rotation transmission member for sliding the vane.

Variable valve timing control device

A sliding mechanism includes a first sliding member made of an aluminum alloy material, the aluminum alloy material being supplemented with at least an element selected from Sb ranging from 0.05 to 0.20 weight %, Na ranging from 0.001 to 0.01 weight %, Sr ranging from 0.001 to 0.05 weight %, and Ca ranging from 0.0005 to 0.01 weight %; and a second sliding member arranged so as to be brought into sliding engagement with the first sliding member. The second sliding member is made of a material which is obtained by caking a rapidly solidified aluminum powder containing therein at least an Si element and a Fe element. Preferably, the Si element has an average particle diameter of 3 &#x3bc;m or less.

Sliding mechanism and variable valve timing mechanism for internal combustion engine

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Nagoya, Japan

Ichiro Hiratsuka