Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

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Denso Corporation

Toyota Jidoshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Kiyohiko Watanabe

Yoshiyuki Hattori

Toshiaki Nakamura

Kazuma Matsui

Toshihiro Takei

Tohru Yoshinaga

Shunsaku Ohnishi

Yasuyuki Kawabe

Osamu Fujishiro

Toshihiko Igashira

Tokio Kohama

Kazuhiro Sakurai

Kouji Yoshizaki

Shinichi Okabe

Yukihiro Shinohara

Hiroshi Hirayama

Akihiro Izawa

Takaaki Itou

Toshihiro Takada

Tetsuo Nagami

Masakatsu Sanada

Masahiko Ogai

Hiroaki Ichikawa

Noboru Takagi

Makoto Miwa

Akikazu Kojima

Yukihiro Kato

Kenichi Harada

Kouhei Igarashi

Keiji Ito

Atsuya Okamoto

Masahiro Yamashita

Yoshifumi Watanabe

Tadashi Akiyama

Niro Takaki

Masatoshi Basaki

Hiroshi Hosoi

Takeo Miyoshi

Koji Shimoji

Takashi Fukunaga

Koichi Gomi

Masahiro Shigenaga

Katsuyuki Mori

Kimitaka Saitoh

Kenichi Hirada

Shunaku Ohnishi

Syunsaku Ohnishi

When a driving region of an engine is in a specified self-ignited combustion region, a valve timing is controlled in such a manner as to establish a negative valve overlap period in which an exhaust valve and an intake valve are closed. During the negative valve overlap period, a direct injection is performed to reform a fuel. After the direct injection, a port injection is performed to control an output. Thereby, a self-ignited combustion control is performed. During the self-ignited combustion control, a fuel reform degree of the fuel injected by the direct fuel injection is detected, and a self-ignited combustion condition in a present combustion cycle is estimated based on the fuel reform degree detected in the present combustion cycle. A fuel injection quantity of the intake port fuel injection is corrected according to the estimated self-ignited combustion condition in order to stabilize the self-ignited combustion condition.

Controller for internal combustion engine

A pressure detecting apparatus having a pressure introducing pipe is installed on an intake surge tank for detecting inner pressure in the intake surge tank. The intake surge tank is provided with a throttle passage having a throttle is disposed in the intake surge tank along a flow direction of the gas for increasing a flow speed of the gas. A pressure inlet at a leading end of the pressure introducing pipe is positioned in a vicinity of the throttle.

Pressure detecting apparatus and installation structure of same

An idle intake control device provided with a backflow preventing means for preventing a backflow near an idle intake regulating valve and producing only a forward flow in order to prevent idle intake air containing combustion products from flowing back and being adhered to an idle intake regulating valve in an idle intake passageway for bypassing an intake regulating valve provided in an intake passageway of the engine.

Idle intake control device

An electrically heatable catalytic converter for internal combustion engines is provided. This catalytic converter includes a honeycomb multi-layered core member wound around an electrode. The multi-layered core member consists of a plurality of flat metal foil sheets and a plurality of corrugated metal foil sheets arranged alternately and bonded to each other for preventing the core member from telescoping in the direction of exhaust gas flow, especially, during high-load engine operation.

Electrically heatable catalytic converter

To enable bonding flat and corrugated sheets at their contact points by laser welding or other welding methods while laminating and spirally winding the sheets, a process of producing a metal catalyst carrier for exhaust gas purification in the form of a metal honeycomb column composed of flat and corrugated metal sheets alternately laminated, wound together, and bonded to each other, the process includes the steps of: forming plural openings in a flat sheet of a metal; laminating one piece of the flat sheet having the openings formed therein and one piece of a corrugated sheet of a metal and bonding the laminated flat and corrugated sheets to each other to form a composite sheet; and spirally winding the composite sheet around an axis to form columnar turns each composed of an outer flat layer composed of the flat sheet and an inner corrugated layer composed of the corrugated sheet, while bonding an outer turn and an adjoining inner turn by welding an inner corrugated layer of the outer turn, in a portion exposed in one of the openings of an outer flat layer of the outer turn, to an outer flat layer of the adjoining inner turn through said one of the openings to bond the outer turn and the adjoining inner turn.

Process of producing metal catalyst carrier

An electrically heated catalytic converter having a substrate for a catalyst, a rod-like metal electrode connected to the substrate, and a casing accommodating the substrate. The substrate for the catalyst is formed as a scroll-like cylindrical laminated assembly of thin metal sheets wound around the electrode. The electrode extends from the laminated assembly along the central axis, bends towards the wall of the casing and penetrates the casing. The electrode is fixed to the casing via an insulating material at the point where it penetrates the casing. When the electricity is fed to the electrode, electric current flows through the electrode to the laminated assembly, and to the casing, and heat is generated in the substrate by the electric current and the temperature of the catalyst carried by the substrate quickly reaches the activating temperature. The rod-like electrode of the present invention is formed as a hollow pipe. Since the heat mass of the hollow pipe electrode is very small compared with the solid metal rod electrode, only a small amount of the heat generated by the electric current is consumed for heating the electrode of the present invention. Therefore, a large amount of the heat generated by the electric current is used for heating the substrate for the catalyst, and the time required for heating the substrate for the catalyst is greatly reduced.

Electrically heated catalytic converter for an engine

An electric heater comprises a central electrode and a ring electrode with a honeycomb heat generator disposed therebetween. The honeycomb heat generator is formed by winding a conductive foil strip around the central electrode until the size of the rolled honeycomb body just fits to the ring electrode. The surface of the conductive foil strip is coated by an insulating material, thereby preventing a short circuit between two layers of the conductive foil strip wound around the central electrode. A plurality of bonding parts are provided to electrically connect adjacent layers of the conductive foil strip wound around the central electrode. The bonding parts are disposed along a plurality of bonding lines extending across the layers of the conductive foil strip. The bonding parts are disposed on every other bonding line along each layer of the conductive foil strip.

Electrically heatable honeycomb body of a catalytic converter equipped

An exhaust gas purifying apparatus includes a carrier of a honeycomb structure which is made of at least one flat metal plate and at least one corrugated metal plate which is superimposed on the flat metal plate. A catalytic layer is formed on the surface of the carrier. The carrier suited for being coated with the catalytic layer is disposed in an exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine. The carrier is provided, on an axially intermediate portion thereof, with a large number of louvers which causes a haphazard secondary motion in the exhaust gas. A predetermined portion of the carrier including the turbulence producing portion and an additional region located adjacent to said predetermined region is coated with a larger amount of catalyst than that with which the remaining portion of the carrier is coated, whereby good purifying efficiency can be obtained for a long time.

Exhaust gas purifying apparatus

An electrically heating catalytic apparatus that quickly heats catalyst to an activation temperature even when the engine is started at a low temperature below the catalyst activation temperature. The apparatus employs an electrically conductive catalyst carrier that is electrically heated. The carrier is provided with local hot spots to be energized. Since the heat is locally generated, the heat capacity of the catalyst carrier is small to shorten a temperature increasing time.

Electrically heated catalytic apparatus

A flat-corrugated combined sheet 16 is obtained from a flat sheet 10 and corrugated sheets 12 and 14 which are welded together. The combined sheet 16 is rolled, so that a catalyst carrier 18 of a honeycomb structure to which an exhaust gas is contacted is obtained. At a middle part of the catalyst carrier 18, the flat sheet 10 has a section 10-1 free of corrugated sheet, and is formed with louvers 21, so that, in the rolled state, a turbulence generating section 30 is created. At a location upstream from the turbulence generating section 30, the flat sheet 10 has spaced sections 10-2 free of corrugated sheet, so that, in the rolled state, low flow-resistance sections 22 are created. The dissipation of heat of the exhaust gas is reduced at the sections 22, so that the temperature of the exhaust gas introduced into the turbulence generating section 30 at locations downstream from the low flow-resistance sections 22 is high, thereby promoting an activation of the catalyst at the section 30.

Catalyst carrier for a catalytic converter for purifying an exhaust gas

An electrical heating type catalytic device having a metallic catalyst carrier constituted by layering metallic foils, surfaces of the metallic foils being coated by an insulation film, adjoining metallic foils being joined conductively in only some regions of the metallic catalyst carrier.

Electrical heating type catalytic device

A spark plug for internal combustion engines includes a third electrode in addition to a center electrode and a ground electrode which define a normal or main spark gap. Defined between the center electrode and the third electrode is an auxiliary gap adjoining the normal gap and adapted to produce a capacitive discharge at a voltage lower than that of the normal gap, and a discharge is induced across the normal gap by the capacitive discharge across the auxiliary gap.

Spark plug for internal combustion engines

A regenerative pump has a pump housing and a disc-like impeller mounted in the housing so as to be rotated by a motor. The impeller is provided with circumferential rows of radial vane grooves formed in the opposite end faces of the impeller adjacent to the outer periphery thereof. The rows of grooves are surrounded by a circumferential fluid passage which is formed between the impeller and the pump housing and communicated with suction and discharge ports formed in the pump housing and open to the circumferential fluid passage adjacent to the outer peripheral edges of respective end faces of the impeller. Each of the vane grooves has a bottom face which is arcuate as viewed in a radial section of the impeller. The suction port is substantially tangential to the bottom face of each vane groove in the adjacent end face of the impeller at the junction between the groove bottom face and the end face of the impeller.

Pump apparatus

An electric fuel pump for pumping a liquid fuel from a tank to an engine. The pump device has a regenerative pump section and an electric motor section for driving the regenerative pump section. The regenerative pump section includes a pump casing having a first inner surface and a second inner surface axially opposing to and spaced from each other to define therebetween a pump chamber, a shaft adapted to be rotatingly driven by the electric motor section and an impeller accommodated by the pump chamber and mounted on the shaft for rotation therewith but axially movably relatively thereto. The impeller has one axial end surface opposing to the first inner surface with a first gap formed therebetween, and the other axial end surface opposing to the second inner surface of the pump casing with a second gap formed therebetween. The first inner surface and the second inner surface of the pump casing has axial thrust generating surfaces which are so shaped as to gradually decrease the first and the second gaps towards the downstream sides as viewed in the direction of flow of fuel introduced into these gaps. In consequence, axial thrust forces are generated by wedging action of the fuel introduced into the gaps so that the impeller is kept out of contact with the inner surfaces of the pump casing during operation of the pump device.

Electric fuel pump device

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Okazaki, Japan

Kiyohiko Watanabe