Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Tokyu Co., Ltd.

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

K.k. Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

K.k. Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Kazunori Yoshida

Susumu Kawabata

Masakazu Obayashi

Hiroshi Arakawa

Yasuhiro Kondoh

Masakatsu Kuroishi

Fuzio Suzuki

Fumitaka Yoshizumi

Hajime Suzuki

Junzo Hasegawa

Yoshikatsu Kisanuki

Fujio Suzuki

Tsuneyuki Egami

Takahiro Moroi

Hideo Nakai

Masakazu Hashimoto

Masao Shiraki

Hajime Kurita

Naofumi Kimura

Takashi Kamo

Tsutomu Saito

Akira Kobayashi

Mitosi Ando

Ryuzou Hori

Takayuki Inoue

Katsuji Abe

Takashi Maeno

Masashi Yamashita

Yoshio Kimoto

Hajime Kamimae

Shigeki Takeo

Akio Arakawa

Nobuharu Mimura

Yasushi Suzuki

Takeshi Kobayashi

Munechika Yamazato

Yusuke Itoh

Masahiro Hamanaka

Hiroyuki Kanayama

Akinori Matsuda

Susuma Kawabata

Hidehiko Tanaka

Naoki Katayama

Yoichi Makino

A compressor valve structure permits improvement in durability and volumetric efficiency of a compressor and limits power losses. The width of the base portion of each suction reed valve is shorter than the width of the valve flap. The valve base plate has support portions, receiving portions, main coupling portions, and auxiliary coupling portions. Each support portion receives a central area of corresponding one of the valve flaps. The receiving portion receives a distal area of the valve flap. The main coupling portion extends from the support portion and couples the support portion to the receiving portion. The auxiliary coupling portion extends from the support portion. The suction ports are formed through the valve base plate, while leaving the support portions, the receiving portions, the main coupling portions, and the auxiliary coupling portions.

Compressor having suction reed valve and valve plate arrangement

A compressor includes a valve base plate, which is arranged between a suction chamber and a compression chamber and has a suction port. The valve base plate includes a sealing surface, a recessed groove, a receiving surface, and a support surface. The sealing surface is flush with a fixing surface and contacts the valve portion in an annular manner. The recessed groove is located at an outer side of the sealing surface and recessed with respect to the fixing surface. The recessed groove includes a bottom portion and separates an edge portion of the valve portion from the bottom portion. The receiving surface is flush with the fixing surface and capable of contacting a distal zone of the valve portion. The support surface is flush with the fixing surface and capable of contacting a middle zone located at an inner side of the sealing surface of the valve portion.

Compressor

A compressor includes a discharge chamber, compressor chamber, valve plate, and discharge reed valve. The valve plate includes a fixing surface, exposed to the discharge chamber, and a discharge port, which communicates the discharge chamber and the compression chamber. The discharge reed valve includes a fixed portion, fixed to the fixing surface, a base portion, separable from the valve plate, and a valve portion, which closes the discharge port. The valve plate includes an annular seal surface, recessed groove, receiving surface, and support surface. The seal surface contacts the valve portion around the discharge port. The recessed groove is arranged in the fixing surface outward from the seal surface. The receiving surface is flush with the fixing surface and contacts a distal region of the valve portion. The support surface is flush with the fixing surface and contacts a central region of the valve portion.

A compressor includes a discharge chamber, a compression chamber, a partition wall, and a discharge reed valve. The partition wall is arranged between the discharge chamber and the compression chamber and includes a fixing surface facing the discharge chamber. The partition wall includes a discharge port that communicates the discharge chamber and the compression chamber. The discharge reed valve includes a fixed portion, an intermediate portion, and a valve portion. The fixing surface includes a first groove portion, which extends around the discharge port, and a valve seat surface, which is arranged between the discharge port and the first groove portion. The first groove portion extends to a range overlapped with the intermediate portion. A part of the valve portion at a distal side does not close the first groove portion. The valve seat surface includes a receiving portion.

A sprung structure is provided with an acceleration computing section. A damping force estimating section (16) of a relative velocity estimating section (12) estimates a damping force by reading information from a damping force characteristic storing section (14) in accordance with a valve opening degree instruction and the relative velocity between sprung and unsprung structures estimated in the last control cycle. An estimating and computing section 18 estimates the relative velocity between sprung and unsprung structures in accordance with the above acceleration and estimated damping force. A suspension system is controlled in accordance with the relative velocity.

Sprung- and unsprung-structure relative-velocity computing apparatus for

In a vibration isolating device, a main chamber has a part of a wall constituted by a first elastic member to be deformed by input vibration and is filled with liquid, and a sub chamber has a part of a wall constituted by a second elastic member and is filled with liquid, and the main chamber communicates with the sub chamber through a main flow path. A liquid pressure adjusting plate is installed within the main chamber and divides the main chamber into a first chamber and a second chamber and vibrates in an opposite phase to that of the input vibration. The first chamber communicates with the second chamber through a sub flow path and the dimensions of the sub flow path is set so that the sub flow path is choked during high frequency vibration of the liquid pressure adjusting plate.

Liquid filled type vibration isolating device

A weft inserting device using a profiled reed for an air jet loom is equipped with a plurality of reed pieces each having a C-shaped guide notch. The line of guide notches forms a weft passage where weft injected from a main nozzle flies. Each guide notch has a upper wall parallel to the floor surface on which the device is placed, a deep wall perpendicular to this surface, a lower wall which gradually becomes wider toward an opening, an upper connecting portion which connects the upper wall to the deep wall, and a lower connecting portion which connects the deep wall to the lower wall. The radius of curvature of the upper connecting portion is set equal to or smaller than 1 mm, and the radius of curvature of the lower connecting portion is set greater than the radius of curvature of the upper connecting portion.

Weft inserting device for an air jet loom having reed pieces with

A warp insertion monitoring method and apparatus for positively protecting woven cloth from defects due to warp insertion error or failure. A warp detector is disposed on a loom so as to have a warp presence/absence detection region located at a front or rear side and in the vicinity of a reed which serves for beating a weft inserted through a shedding formed by the upward/downward motion of healed frames against a cloth fell. The presence or absence of abnormalities in respect to the positions at which warps are inserted through the reed is identified on the basis of detection information available from the output of the warp detector. Detection timing for the warp detection information is so established as to fall within a period during which the loom is stopped, so that the presence or absence of errors in respect to the warp insertion can be detected before the loom is restarted.

Detection of warp in reed dent before loom start up

A take-up rate and a let-off rate in warp feed on a loom are controlled while a displacement (.DELTA.L) of a cloth fell position C is taken into account. The system comprises a cloth fell position compensation circuit (2, 16, 21) which outputs a cloth fell compensation signal (.DELTA..omega..sub.c) to compenate a displacement (.DELTA.L) of the cloth fell position (C) when a weaving condition such as a target weft density (D*), a target warp tension (T*) or the kinds of weft and warp yarns is changed. The cloth fell compensation signal is added to a basic warp feed rate (.omega..sub.f) obtained from D*, so that the displacement motion of the cloth fell is completed in a shorter time. According to this compensation, a weft density of a resultant fabric rapidly coincides with the target weft density.

System for controlling warp take up and let off rates

A jet loom comprising a weft measuring roller for continuously drawing out a weft from a supply package, a weft storage unit for temporarily accumulating and storing the weft drawn out from the supply package by the weft measuring roller, a main nozzle for jetting air to insert the weft into the warp shed, and a driving unit for sinusoidally varying the rotating speed of the weft measuring roller. The weft stored in the weft storage unit runs in a free running period in a free running mode at a comparatively high running speed. After the stored weft has exhausted, the weft is supplied for insertion directly from the weft measuring roller, so that the weft runs in a constrained running mode at a running speed constrained by the surface speed of the weft measuring roller. When the running mode of the inserted weft changes from the free running mode to the constrained running mode, the driving unit drives the weft measuring roller so that the surface speed of the weft measuring roller is higher than a speed Vf defined by: Vf=Lo/tc, where Lo is the weft length of the loom and tc is a time necessary for one weaving cycle of the loom.

Weft insertion in jet loom

In a jet loom in which weft yarns are stored in weft yarn storing units according to a weaving command, and are jetted in the weft insertion cycles thereof, a device for controlling the storing unit comprises: rotation detecting means for detecting the rotational condition of the loom spindle, to output a spindle rotation signal; a rotation control circuit which, according to a weft yarn jetting order, calculates the number of standby cycles between weft insertion cycles, and calculates the speeds of rotation of the storing units to store weft yarns in advance according to the numbers of standby cycle, to output rotation command signals; a drive circuit for receiving the spindle rotation signal and the rotation command signal, to output drives signal to determine the speeds of rotation of the storing units; and drive means provided for the storing unit, each receiving the drive signal to drive the storing unit at a speed of rotation corresponding to the drive signal thus received, a weft yarn as long as a predetermined weft insertion length being stored in the storing units in the weft insertion cycles selected according to the weft yarn jetting order.

Device for controlling weft yarn storing units for jet looms

A coating quality measuring device and a pattern plate including one reference pattern portion having a large pattern width and a plurality of strip pattern portions each having a smaller pattern width. The pattern plate is disposed opposite the coated surface. The pattern plate is reflected off the coated surface and a reflected image is formed on an image sensor. The image sensor successively outputs signals each corresponding to the light level of each strip pattern portion on a line extending in a width direction of each strip pattern portion of the reflected image. A computing device calculates an average signal level of the signals outputted by the image sensor, divides the difference between the average signal level and the signal level of each signal by the signal level of the reference pattern portion and calculates a square average value of the obtained division value to obtain a measure of the coating quality of the coated surface.

Coating quality measuring device and method

A coating quality measuring device has a pattern plate including one reference pattern portion having a larger pattern width and a plurality of strip pattern portions having different pattern widths which are smaller than that of the reference pattern portion and are decreased in order. The pattern plate is disposed opposite the coated surface. The pattern plate is reflected on the coated surface and a reflected image is formed on an image sensor. The image sensor successively outputs signals each corresponding to the lightness of each pattern portion on a line extending in a width direction of each pattern portion of the reflected image. A computing device calculates a difference between the peak value of the signal level of the output signal corresponding to each strip pattern portion in the reflected image and the signal level of the output signal corresponding to the ground portion, divides the calculated difference by the signal level of the output signal corresponding to the reference pattern portion and detects the pattern width of the strip pattern portion wherein the division value becomes not larger than a predetermined value, thereby to obtain the coating quality of the coated surface.

Coating quality measuring device

A weft yarn storage unit disposed between a yarn supply package and a weft insertion device for storing a weft yarn to be inserted in the warp shed, comprises a differential yarn feeding device for feeding the weft yarn from the yarn supply package, and a yarn storage means for winding the fed weft yarn therearound by co-operating with the differential yarn feeding device, storing the wound weft yarn therearound and unwinding the stored weft yarn therefrom by co-operating with the weft insertion device, the yarn storage means being continuously rotating in a direction opposite to the direction in which the weft yarn is unwound at a predetermined circumferential speed in response to an insertion speed of the weft yarn. This weft yarn storage unit allows high-speed weft insertion while preventing the yarn breakage by reducing ballooning of the weft yarn when the weft yarn is released off the yarn storage drum.

Weft yarn storage unit for jet looms

An apparatus for inserting a weft into a shed by jetting fluids in a jet loom comprises a plurality of thin plate-like members arranged in alignment in the direction of weft insertion on a sley, each of the thin plate-like members being provided with an opening in the same position of each of said thin plate-like members to form a guiding channel, and nozzle means for jetting fluids through the guiding channel. Each of the thin plate-like members is provided with at least one cavity which is formed adjacent the circumference of each of the openings of the thin plate-like members on a downstream sidewall, in the direction of weft insertion, of the mutually facing sidewalls thereof. Due to the formation of the aforesaid cavity, the amount of the fluid flow escaping through the space between each two adjacent thin plate-like members outside of the guiding channel without narrowing the width of the space therebetween. As a result, the flight of the weft is remarkably stabilized and the flying speed of the weft is increased with reducing the consumption of fluids jetted from nozzle means.

Apparatus for inserting a weft into a shed by jetting fluids in a jet

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Kazunori Yoshida