Nippon Soken, Inc.

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Ken Nomura

Toshihiko Igashira

Seiko Abe

Yoshiyuki Hattori

Hisasi Kawai

Kazuma Matsui

Hitoshi Yoshida

Yasuhiko Ishida

Seikou Abe

Akira Kuno

Toshihiro Takei

Toshikazu Ina

Yoshio Shinoda

Yuji Takeo

Michihiro Ohashi

Tomohisa Yoshimi

Yuichi Yagami

Minoru Iwata

Tsuyoshi Takahashi

Yuichi Imani

Mikio Wada

Takahiro Goshima

Tetsuya Nagata

Masahiko Kamiya

Takao Komoda

Atsushi Iwase

Kozi Takagi

Hitoshi Tanaka

Hiroshi Tsuda

Masakazu Yoshida

Makio Hamanishi

Mitiaki Ujihashi

Koji Nakane

A pressure detecting apparatus for detecting vehicle tire air pressure. In a cylindrical housing mounted axially in parallel with a tire wheel, a setting magnet, a rotor magnet and a reversing magnet are coaxially provided and the rotor magnet is supported by a shaft rotatably and axially movably in response to a tire air pressure introduced to a bellows in the housing. When the air pressure is normal, the rotor magnet is attracted by the setting magnet. When the air pressure is reduced, the rotor magnet is separated by the movement of bellows, rotated by the repulsion force of the reversing magnet and finally attracted to said reversing magnet. By this operation, position of the magnetic poles of the rotor magnet is reversed and this reversion is detected electrically by a magnetism detecting unit.

Pressure detecting apparatus for detecting vehicle tire air pressure

A brake oil pressure control device including a main line system for a normal braking operation, and a subline system for antiskid control and acceleration slip control. The main line system connects a master cylinder to a wheel cylinder, and has a first valve which opens the main line for a normal braking operation, and closes the main line when an antiskid control or acceleration slip control is in effect. The subline system has an oil pump connected to the wheel cylinder through a subline having a second valve, which is controlled to open and close the subline for the antiskid control or acceleration slip control. Inlet and outlet ports are connected by a relief pipe having a third valve and a relief valve. The relief valve opens the relief pipe under pressure from the master cylinder when a discharge pressure from the oil pump is higher than the pressure at the master cylinder, to restrain the discharge pressure from the oil pump. The third valve opens the relief pipe for an antiskid control, and closes the relief pipe for an acceleration slip control.

Brake oil pressure control device

A hydraulic braking system having an antiskid function and a holding function for keeping the vehicle immobile during vehicle stoppage is further provided with a malfunction alarm function wherein the components of the braking system are checked each time the holding function is performed and the operator is provided, directly or indirectly, with a warning in the event there is failure or malfunction of the components.

Hydraulic braking system with malfunction alarm junction

In an automotive infinite transmission, a rotation of an input pulley is transmitted to an output pulley through a belt in such a manner that a transmission ratio is continuously variable. Each of the input and output pulleys has a fixed pulley member fixedly mounted on a rotary shaft and a movable pulley member mounted on the rotary shaft for axial movement toward and away from the fixed pulley member. A tapered pulley surface of the fixed pulley member cooperates with a tapered pulley surface of the movable pulley member to define therebetween an annular groove having a generally V-shaped cross-section. A plurality of drive blocks are arranged between the pulley surfaces of the respective fixed and movable pulley members and circumferentially along the annular groove with the drive blocks being in sliding contact with the pulley surfaces. Provision is made between the drive blocks and the pulley surfaces in sliding contact therewith for reducing frictional forces. When the movable pulley member is moved axially relative to the fixed pulley member, the drive blocks are moved along generally radially extending slits formed in the tapered pulley surfaces of the respective movable and fixed pulley members. The drive blocks are biased radially inwardly against a centrifugal force due to the rotation of the movable and fixed pulley members.

Automotive infinite transmission

An apparatus for holding a motor vehicle door in a desired opening degree thereof comprises a touch sensor provided on the door for detecting whether or not the touch sensor is touched by an operator, an engaging member pivotally mounted at one end thereof onto a vehicle body, a pair of piston-cylinder assemblies each including a friction member which is driven by pneumatic power to clamp the engaging member, and a control unit for receiving signals from the touch sensor and delivering commands to a power supply unit to drive the piston-cylinder assemblies upon receipt of the signal indicating that the touch sensor is touched by the operator.

Apparatus for holding a motor vehicle door in a desired opening degree

A valve device including a housing formed with a passage, valve elements for opening and closing the passage, a spring for urging the valve elements, and a controller for displacing the valve elements against the spring force. The spring has at least two deflection modes, one of which shows a larger spring constant than the other deflection mode and appears in one of two valve positions. The controller outputs a relatively large force for displacing the valve elements to the valve position at which the spring is deflected at the larger spring constant.

Valve device

An internal combustion engine fuel injection system includes a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the fuel or cooling water in the engine. When the detected temperature is higher than a given value, e.g., 50.degree. C., a pressure regulator for controlling the pressure of fuel supplied to a fuel injection valve is controlled so as to increase the fuel pressure irrespective of the intake pipe negative pressure and thereby increase the quantity of fuel supplied to the engine. In the case of an electronically controlled fuel injection control system, a predetermined correction quantity corresponding to the detected temperature from the temperature sensor is added to the basic fuel injection quantity calculated in accordance with given operating parameters of the engine, thereby increasing the quantity of fuel supplied to the engine.

Temperature compensated fuel injection system for internal combustion

A device for atomizing the fuel for an internal-combustion engine comprising a fuel pump, an electromagnetic fuel-injection valve connected to said fuel pump, an air-injection port adjoining the injection port of said electromagnetic fuel-injection valve, an electromagnetic air flow-controlling valve connected to said air-injection port, and an air pump for feeding air to said air flow-controlling valve, wherein said air flow-controlling valve is controlled in such a manner that the injection of air from said air-injection port takes place simultaneously with the injection of fuel from said fuel-injection valve, whereby the air pump and the driving circuit thereof are of a comparatively small size and the amount of power necessary for driving the air pump is of comparatively small.

Device for atomizing the fuel for an internal-combustion engine

A suction heating device for an internal combustion engine including a first metal member having a planar portion and a cylindrical portion extending from the flat portion for defining a passage for a fuel-air mixture, and a second metal member having a planar portion and a cylindrical portion extending from the planar portion and arranged outside the cylindrical portion of the first metal member with a predetermined spacing. The two cylindrical portions are joined to each other at the end to provide a casing for mounting therein a ceramic heater of positive temperature coefficient characteristic having a specific Curie point.

Air-fuel mixture heating device for internal combustion engine

A flexible barium titanate ceramic PTC heater for use in, for example, an intake pipe of an internal combustion engine to heat the air-fuel gas mixture is formed as a thin disc-shaped ceramic sheet constituted by a plurality of individual coplanar ceramic segments having interior edges positioned in spaced side-by-side relationship. The juxtaposed edges of the ceramic segments are united to each other by a flexible, heat-resistant, electrically non-conductive rubber band disposed in the space between the segments and bonded thereto by an electrically non-conductive adhesive to form the segments into a thin disc-shaped sheet which can be flexed without causing flexing of any of the individual segments. The ceramic heater is positioned in a metallic casing with one planar face thereof bonded to the inner surface of the casing by an electrically conductive adhesive. A stainless steel wool cushioning member engages the other planar face of the ceramic heater to support the heater in the metallic casing.

Flexible ceramic PTC electric heater assembly

A fuel heating apparatus for an internal combustion engine has a tubular extension member extending downwardly from the bottom end of an intake pipe into a mixture distribution chamber defined in an intake manifold beneath the inlet opening thereof connected to the intake pipe. An annular electric heater element is disposed in the mixture distribution chamber in vertical alignment with the tubular extension member so that the part of fuel which flows in liquid phase on the inner peripheral surfaces of the intake pipe and the tubular extension member falls therefrom onto the annular electric heater and heated and vaporized thereby and can be easily mixed with air from the intake pipe.

Fuel heating apparatus for internal combustion engine

A fuel evaporator comprises a metal member composed of a pipe portion and a flange portion, a heating element made of PTC ceramic, which is closely adhered to the metal member and an electric connector for electrically connecting the heating element and an electric power source. The metal member is supported by an insulating member which is interposed between an air-fuel passage and an intake manifold. The fuel film flow flowing downwards along the wall of the air-fuel passage is received by the flange portion of the metal member and is heated by the heat transmitted from the heating element. Consequently, unvaporized fuel is effectively evaporated.

Fuel evaporator for internal combustion engine

An intake manifold for a multicylinder internal combustion engine having fuel supplying means such as a fuel injection device or a carburetor includes a branch intake conduits each communicating with one of the cylinders of the engine, an extension tube connected to a primary suction conduit of the carburetor, and an incoming fuel charge heating device mounted on the bottom of the intake manifold. The extension tube has a curved portion in its wall directed toward a part of the surface of the bottom of the intake manifold at which the axial center lines of the branch intake conduits gather together and cut to form an open end of the extension tube. The incoming fuel charge heating device has a heating surface disposed near the open end of the extension tube, which is smoothly curved toward the bottom of the intake manifold. The open end of the extension tube is disposed on a plane forming an acute angle with the wall of the tube at the outermost edge of the open end and contiguous at the innermost edge thereof with a straight portion of the wall of the tube, as viewed in cross section. The incoming fuel charge heating device may include positive-temperature-coefficient thermistors.

Intake manifold for multicylinder internal combustion engine

An ignition device for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine having an ignition coil, also positive and negative high voltages being alternately generated across the secondary winding of the ignition coil, and a distributor, the distributor comprising a center electrode, two electrical distributing conductors in the rotor of the distributor, the center electrode being connected electrically with the two electrical distributing conductors, the electrical distributing conductors including at least one center conductor and two projecting conductors for distributing electric power to side electrode, two diodes having opposite polarities being connected between the center conductor and the projecting conductors for electrical distribution, respectively, and a plurality of side electrodes adapted to be electrically coupled successively with the projecting conductors according to the rotation of the rotor, whereby positive and negative high voltages are supplied alternately to the side electrodes through the corresponding projecting conductors.

Ignition device for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine

A fuel evaporator for an internal combustion engine is comprised of a metallic casing which is composed of a heating plate portion and a supporting portion projecting from the outer periphery of the heating plate portion downward, a heating element fixed to the heating plate portion within the casing, an insulating and adiabatic covering member which covers the supporting portion and an electrically connecting means which connects the heating element and a battery. The supporting portion of the casing is inserted in a hole formed in an intake pipe so that the heating plate portion is exposed therewithin. Since the supporting portion of the casing is covered with the insulating and adiabatic covering member, very little of the heat of the heating element is dissipated from the supporting portion into the intake pipe. By forming the supporting portion into a plurality of strip shaped legs, the heat escaping therefrom can be further reduced.

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Okazaki, Japan

Ken Nomura