Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Katsumi Hirabayashi

Yukimori Kobayashi

Koji Hotta

Toshio Takeda

Ichiro Kimura

Hirotaka Kurita

Shinji Kazaoka

Hirohito Terashima

Daigo Usa

An oil pump apparatus includes a body, a first rotor and a second rotor disposed in the body so as to be able to rotate and a regulator valve mechanism for regulating the pressure of oil discharged to portions of an engine, wherein the regulator valve mechanism is disposed in the inside of the body and the engine and includes a regulator valve member which moves in the direction being in parallel with a rotation as of the first and second rotors in response to the discharged oil pressure.

Oil pump apparatus

In an auto-tensioner, a damping device is used to control a fluid communication between a first fluid chamber and a second chamber for adjusting an engagement of an idler pulley with a belt-shaped power transmission member in such a manner that when a tension thereof is decreased, a quick propulsive movement of the idler pulley to the belt-shaped power transmission member is allowed by the first urging member, while when the tension is increased, the idler pulley is retracted gradually from the belt-shaped power transmission member by a registration of the belt-shaped power transmission member.

Auto-tensioner

An automatic hydraulic tensioner according to the present invention is provided with a communication mechanism for allowing a space radially inside a plunger-side end wire portion of a coil spring to communicate with a small clearance between the plunger and a cylinder. This automatic hydraulic tensioner thus succeeds, with a simple structure, in preventing bubbles from remaining within a pressure chamber and appropriately maintaining the tension applied to a power transmitting means such as a belt, a chain or the like.

Automatic hydraulic tensioner

An auto-tensioner including a body having a cylindrical bore defined therein; a shaft having first and second ends, the first end of the shaft being slidably and rotatably engaged with the cylindrical bore of the body, the body including a mechanism for sealing the shaft in the cylindrical bore so as to be fluid-tight; a support arm having upper and lower ends, the lower end of the support arm being fixedly connected to the second end of the shaft; a pulley rotatably connected to the upper end of the support arm, the pulley being operatively engaged with a belt under tension; a mechanism for rotatively urging the shaft and the support arm whereby the support arm maintains a tension engagement between the pulley and the belt, the urging mechanism being operatively connected between the body and the shaft; and a mechanism for converting rotational movement of the shaft into axial movement thereof along the cylindrical bore, the converting mechanism operatively connected between the shaft and the body, wherein the cylindrical bore includes an inner end and an outer end, the inner end of the cylindrical bore being formed so as to define a pressure chamber and a fluid chamber between the inner end of the cylindrical bore and the first end of the shaft, the pressure and fluid chambers are further formed so as to define a narrow fluid passage therebetween, the pressure and fluid chambers are filled with a viscous fluid, the body has a reservoir chamber defined therein and formed so as to be located above the pressure and fluid chambers, the reservoir chamber is filled with viscous fluid and gas, a first main fluid passage is defined in the body to communicatively connect the pressure chamber with the reservoir chamber, and a second main fluid passage is defined in the body to communicatively connect the fluid chamber with the reservoir chamber; and a valve mechanism located in the first fluid passage for selectively controlling fluid communication of the pressure and fluid chambers with each other and with the reservoir chamber.

The characteristics of the auto-tensioner of the present invention resides in a second reservoir chamber 24 which resides within a plunger 11 extending toward inside of a spring 15. Accordingly, without changing the whole length of a cylinder 10, sufficient amount of operating oil can be reserved and the smooth flow of operating oil into a pressure chamber 23 from the second reservoir 24 chamber can be conducted.

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Anjo, Japan

Katsumi Hirabayashi