Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Otics Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Chuo Spring Co., Ltd.

Katsutoshi Kitagawa

Akira Sugiura

Tetsuya Niwa

Tomiyasu Hirano

Tamotsu Yamamoto

Kiyoshi Isogai

Tomoki Miyoshi

Kazuo Ito

Hiroki Yamauchi

Naka Takita

Itsuo Koga

Nobuo Ohmori

Makoto Okamoto

The present invention provides a variable valve operating mechanism which includes two valve operating members for opening and closing two valves individually, a drive cam provided on a single camshaft, two swing arms for transmitting a power of the drive cam to the valve operating members individually by swinging about a different axis to the camshaft, and a variable device for modifying a displacement of the swing arm per rotation of the drive cam in accordance with an operating condition of an internal combustion engine. The variable device includes a single control shaft, an actuator for driving the control shaft, and a cam device that operates in conjunction with the control shaft to dissimilate the displacement of the two swing arms.

Variable valve operating mechanism

The present invention provides a variable valve mechanism which includes a rotating cam provided on a camshaft, a swing arm that contacts with the rotating cam to swing, a drive arm that drives a valve in conjunction with the swing arm, a variable arm that turns the drive arm around a swing axis of the swing arm, an actuator that drives the variable arm, and cam device that is provided between the swing arm and the drive arm. The variable arm is provided so as to be able to rotate relatively around the same axis as the swing arm, and the cam device changes the initial position of the drive arm with respect to the swing arm accompanying the turning of the drive arm.

Variable valve mechanism

This four stroke V-configuration engine has two cylinder banks which have equal numbers of cylinders, angled with respect to one another at a bank angle .alpha. different from 90.degree.. For each bank of cylinders, the angular positions of the crank shaft crank pins therefor are evenly spaced apart around the central axis of the crank shaft, and between the banks of cylinders the angular positions of a pair of corresponding cylinders are separated by a crank angle of 90.degree.-.alpha.. A first set of balance weights is provided so as to rotate about an axis parallel to the rotational axis of the crank shaft in the same direction and at the same speed as the crank shaft, and a second set of balance weights is provided so as to rotate about an axis parallel to the rotational axis of the crank shaft in the opposite direction and at the same speed as the crank shaft. The positions and the weights of the first and second sets of balance weights are such as to cancel out the first order imbalance moments of reciprocating and of rotational motion.

V-type four stroke engine with counter rotating balance weights

An elastic supporting and sealing member, for mutually supporting a first body and a second body, and for sealing the gap between the first body and the second body, includes a first portion and a second portion of wire net and a piece of thermal foaming material, between the first and the second wire net portion, which expands and foams when it is heated up. A method of making such a member includes the steps of flattening a tubular shaped piece of wire net, and of introducing a strip shaped piece of such thermal foaming material between the two sides of the flattened tube of wire net, so that the longitudinal directions of the strip shaped piece of thermal foaming material and of the flattened wire net tube substantially coincide.

Elastic supporting and sealing member with thermal foaming strip

A valve drive device for an internal combustion engine characterized in a movably pivoted rocker arm, at either a cam-contacting part or a valve stem-contacting part thereof, having installed therein a built-in oil pressure tappet for automatically absorbing a gap created at such contacting part. Between the oil pressure tappet and the cam or the valve stem, in contact with the oil pressure tappet, a movable plate is provided, having a curved surface where the movable plate and/or the oil pressure tappet contact each other, thereby lubricating the contacting part to prevent its abrasion.

Valve drive device for an internal combustion engine

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Seto, Japan

Katsutoshi Kitagawa