Hitachi, Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Unisia Jecs Corporation

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Other

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Bridgestone Corporation

Ntt Electronics Corporation

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.

Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.

Atsugi Unisia Corp.

Makoto Nakamura

Seinosuke Hara

Shinichi Takemura

Yutaka Narita

Tadayuki Oshima

Taisuke Tokuwaki

Hiroki Furubayashi

Yoshihiko Yamada

Tadaaki Hattori

Toshio Kojima

Tsuneyasu Nohara

Keisuke Takeda

Mikihiro Kajiura

Tsuyoshi Imamura

Shigeru Sakuragi

Yoshiaki Miyazato

Tetsuro Goto

Yutaka Matayoshi

Toshio Honda

Yukio Fukuura

Seiji Tsuruta

Naoki Okamoto

Masatoshi Tobayashi

Fumio Sugiyama

Tsutomu Hibi

Kenji Narita

Tomio Hokari

Kenichi Ishiguro

Tomoko Kodama

Kenichi Machida

Hiroshi Komatsu

Shunichi Aoyama

Masato Yoshikawa

Hideyuki Nosaka

Koichi Murata

Hideo Suzuki

Masahiko Watanabe

Kazuo Naito

Seiji Suga

Hiroyuki Fukuyama

Noriyuki Kamiya

Shoji Morita

Akiko Tanaka

Setsuo Akiyama

Tomoyuki Murakami

Kimikazu Sano

Akira Hidaka

Akinori Suzuki

Seiji Yamaguchi

Kyohei Takakuwa

Noboru Ishihara

Shigeru Asakawa

Eisuke Tsuchiya

Satoru Watanabe

Kenji Yokoyama

Hiroyuki Itoyama

Katsuya Moteki

Hirokazu Shimizu

Kyohta Koetsuka

Takanobu Sugiyama

Yoshinori Isahaya

Atsushi Ohta

Yoshiyuki Takano

Sumio Kamoi

Kunifumi Sawamoto

Tomoya Tsukada

Shigeo Muranaka

Akihiko Sugikawa

Takayasu Fujimori

Mitsuo Miura

Yosuke Tajika

Takashi Tanaka

Tatsunori Saito

Takayuki Yoshii

Kazuaki Iwamura

Shin Sumida

Isamu Iizuka

Toshio Chikaraishi

Michiyuki Amano

Teruhiko Ukita

Sakae Shimotsuma

Hong-Ming Lin

Chong-Ren Maa

Mieko Kakegawa

Yoshikazu Urabe

Ryozo Kawai

Yoshito Shuto

Noriomi Hosaka

Tsuyoshi Masuda

Yoshinori Ichinosawa

Kyoichi Ashikawa

Yuhki Imai

Toshinari Hojima

Takashi Nakajima

Yuichi Murakami

Kazuto Tomogane

Kei Uchiyama

Shunichi Tohno

Kazuhisa Hatakeyama

Toshio Uchibori

Provided is a thermally stable bisphenol composition whose increase in the Hazen color number is suppressed even under higher temperature conditions. A bisphenol composition including an aryl alkyl sulfide or a dialkyl disulfide at 0.1 ppb by mass to 1% by mass with respect to a bisphenol. A bisphenol composition including an aryl alkyl sulfide or a dialkyl disulfide at a predetermined ratio is thermally stable in terms of the Hazen color number, and shows no coloring problem under high temperature conditions. By using such a bisphenol composition, a polycarbonate resin having an excellent color tone can be produced.

Bisphenol composition and method for producing same, and polycarbonate resin and method for producing same

A fixing device receives a recording material having a toner image and applies pressure and heat to fix the toner image. The fixing device includes a fixing member, a sliding member, a pressing member, and a heating member. The fixing member has a rotatable endless belt shape that includes an inner circumferential resin layer. The sliding member is pressed against the inner circumferential surface of the fixing member with a lubricant interposed between the sliding member and the inner circumferential surface. The sliding member has a resin coating layer and slides on the inner circumferential surface. The pressing member presses the recording material toward an outer circumferential surface of the fixing member. The heating member generates heat to heat the recording material. A surface hardness of the inner circumferential surface of the fixing member is smaller than a surface hardness of the sliding surface of the sliding member.

Fixing device configured to restrain increases in rotational torque of a fixing member, image forming apparatus and method of manufacturing fixing device

A variable combustion system for an internal combustion engine, which suppresses mechanical compression ratio change control by a variable mechanical compression ratio control mechanism and carries out internal EGR amount change control by a variable valve actuating control mechanism on a preferential basis in a first operating region in which a compression self-ignition combustion is carried out, and which suppresses the internal EGR amount change control by the variable valve actuating control mechanism and carries out the mechanical compression ratio change control by the variable mechanical compression ratio control mechanism on a preferential basis in a second operating region in which a spark ignition combustion is carried out.

Variable combustion system for an internal combustion engine

Provided is a variable valve device for an internal combustion engine. The variable valve device includes intake- and exhaust-side swing arms that pivot to open and close intake valves and exhaust valves in two cylinders #1, #2, intake- and exhaust-side hydraulic lash adjusters that serve as pivot points of the respective swing arms, a variable valve system that continuously varies valve lift characteristics of the intake valves and lost motion mechanisms that stop opening and closing of the intake exhaust valves by lost motion of the intake- and exhaust-side hydraulic lash adjusters on the cylinder #1. The maximum valve lifts of the intake valves are set larger than valve lifts of the exhaust valves. The minimum valve lifts of the intake valves are set smaller than the valve lifts of the exhaust valves.

Variable valve device for internal combustion engine

A valve control apparatus includes first and second engine valves; a first drive cam configured to rotate integrally with the drive shaft; a second drive cam provided on the drive shaft and configured to rotate integrally with the drive shaft; a swing cam configured to swing; a transmission mechanism configured to convert a rotation of the first drive cam into a swinging force and to transmit the swinging force to the swing cam; a first swing arm configured to open the first engine valve by a swing of the swing cam; a second swing arm configured to open the second engine valve by a rotation of the second drive cam; a control mechanism configured to vary a swing amount of the swing cam by varying an attitude of the transmission mechanism; and a connection changeover mechanism configured to connect and disconnect the first swing arm with/from the second swing arm.

Valve control apparatus for internal combustion engine

A charging apparatus for an electric vehicle is provided with: a charging cable including a proximal end connected to a main body, a connector provided on a distal end, and an extra length absorbing section provided between the distal end and the proximal end; a measuring section configured to detect an elongation of the charging cable from an initial length thereof; and an electric current control section configured to start applying an electric current to the charging cable under a condition that an elongation of the charging cable exceeding a threshold value is detected by the measuring section.

Charging apparatus for electric vehicle

In a variably operated valve system for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine and a control apparatus for the variably operated valve system, a first valve stop mechanism is configured to switch between a valve operation state in which one of a pair of intake valves from among the pair of intake valves of a part of a plurality of cylinders is operated to be open or closed and a valve stopped state in which the valve open or closure operation of the one of the intake valves is stopped, a second valve stop mechanism is configured to switch between the valve operation state in which the other of the pair of intake valves from among the pair of intake valves of the part of the cylinders is operated to be open or closed and the valve stopped state in which the valve open or closure operation is stopped.

Variably operated valve system for multi-cylinder internal combustion engine and control apparatus for variably operated valve system

A variable valve system for an internal combustion engine includes a plurality of engine valves provided per one cylinder; a swing arm configured to perform an opening-and-closing operation of at least one of the plurality of engine valves by swinging about a fulcrum given by a support member; a variable lift mechanism configured to cause the swing arm to swing, and to vary a lift amount of the at least one of the plurality of engine valves; a valve stop mechanism provided for the at least one of the plurality of engine valves and configured to stop the opening-and-closing operation of the at least one of the plurality of engine valves by producing a lost motion of the support member; and an engine-speed limiting section configured to variably limit a maximum rotational speed of the internal combustion engine in accordance with a displacement amount of the lost motion.

Variable valve system, control apparatus and variable valve apparatus for internal combustion engine

A multi-cylinder internal combustion engine is provided with a variable valve actuating system. At a startup of the engine, a controller performs: causing an initial exhaust valve opening timing of a first combustion cylinder to approach bottom dead center; and setting a second valve overlap period greater than a first valve overlap period, wherein the first valve overlap period is a period from an initial intake valve opening timing of the first combustion cylinder to an initial exhaust valve closing timing of the first combustion cylinder, and wherein the second valve overlap period is a period from an initial intake valve opening timing of a second combustion cylinder to an initial exhaust valve closing timing of the second combustion cylinder immediately after an initial combustion event of the second combustion cylinder after an initial combustion event of the first combustion cylinder.

Variable valve actuating apparatus for internal combustion engine, and controller for variable valve actuating apparatus

A variable valve apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a control shaft, a camshaft having first and second camshaft members rotatable relative to each other, a rotary cam rotating together with the second camshaft member for opening and closing of an exhaust valve, an eccentric drive cam rotating together with the first camshaft member, a rocker arm caused to swing with rotation of the eccentric drive cam, a swing cam caused to swing by the rocker arm for opening and closing of an intake valve, a control cam formed on the control shaft to change an operating position of the rocker arm according to a rotational phase of the control shaft and vary the amount of swinging movement of the swing cam, a phase control mechanism adapted to control a relative rotational phase of the first and second camshaft members and an actuator for rotating the control shaft.

Variable valve apparatus for internal combustion engine

In a variably operated valve apparatus of an internal combustion engine and a start control apparatus of the same engine, the internal combustion engine being equipped with a crank position control mechanism by means of which a stop position of a piston is controllable at a time of an engine stop and the variably operated valve apparatus being capable of variably controlling at least a closure timing of an intake valve, the closure timing of the intake valve is placed at a first position which is more advance angle side than the stop position of the piston of one of engine cylinders in a compression stroke and which is stop controlled by means of the crank position control mechanism and one of the remaining cylinders which is in a suction stroke has its the intake valve open, at the time of the engine stop.

Variably operated valve apparatus of internal combustion engine and start control apparatus of internal combustion engine

In an automatic gain control circuit, a peak detection circuit detects and outputs the peak voltage of an output signal from a variable gain circuit. An average value detection/output amplitude setting circuit detects the average value voltage of an output signal from the variable gain circuit, and outputs a calculated voltage. An amplification circuit controls the gain of the variable gain circuit by amplifying the difference between the output voltages of the peak detection circuit and average value detection/output amplitude setting circuit. The number of base-emitter junctions of transistors on a path in the peak detection circuit from input ports which receive output signals from the variable gain circuit to an output port which outputs a voltage to the amplification circuit is equal to the number of base-emitter junctions of transistors on a path in the average value detection/output amplitude setting circuit.

Automatic gain control circuit

In a signal output circuit, an input buffer externally receives a single-phase switching instruction signal to switch a state of the output circuit a shutdown disable state or a shutdown enable state, and converts and outputs the single-phase switching instruction signal into a differential switching instruction signal. A generation control circuit outputs a generation control signal for controlling generation of a control voltage in the control voltage generation circuit based on the differential switching instruction signal. A control voltage generation circuit outputs the control voltage upon changing a value of the control voltage in accordance with a logic of the single-phase switching instruction signal. An output circuit externally receives a differential input signal, outputs a differential output signal upon impedance-converting the differential input signal, and switches between the shutdown disable state and the shutdown enable state of the differential input signal.

Signal output circuit

A valve control apparatus includes a variable mechanism configured to vary operating states of two intake valves by varying a swing range of a single swing cam; a primary swing arm configured to receive swinging force from the swing cam by becoming in contact with the swing cam, and configured to open/close one of the two intake valves; a secondary swing arm configured to open/close another of the two intake valves; and a connection changeover mechanism configured to connect/disconnect the primary swing arm with/from the secondary swing arm in accordance with an operating state of engine. The connection changeover mechanism disconnects the primary swing arm from the secondary swing arm to maintain the another of the two intake valves in a non-lifted state, when the variable mechanism controls a swing amount of the primary swing arm within a range below a predetermined amount. The connection changeover mechanism connects the primary swing arm with the secondary swing arm to open and close both of the two intake valves together, when the variable mechanism controls the swing amount of the primary swing arm within a range greater than or equal to the predetermined amount.

There is provided an actuator device for a variable valve apparatus. The variable valve apparatus has a control shaft to vary operation characteristics of an engine valve by an axial movement thereof. The actuator device has a rotatable screw shaft, a movable member axially movable with rotation of the screw shaft and a transmission mechanism unit that converts an axial movement of the movable member to the axial movement of the control shaft. An amount of the axial movement of the movable member is larger than an amount of the axial movement of the control shaft.

Actuator device and variable valve apparatus of internal combustion engine

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Kanagawa, Japan

Makoto Nakamura