Denso Corporation

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Masahiro Okajima

Masaaki Kato

Hiroyuki Kano

Kazuo Yamamoto

Tsutomu Furuhashi

Hiroshi Inoue

Yoshiaki Nishijima

Yoshitomo Oguma

Tetsuo Toyama

Katsunori Iwase

Hitoshi Shibata

Yoshihiro Narahara

Satoru Asai

Shigeki Tojo

Masaaki Katou

Shigeru Ooyanagi

Shinji Sugiura

Tertada Kojima

A reforming device includes a reforming part that subjects a hydrocarbon-based raw material to be reformed to a reforming reaction to form a reducing agent to be supplied to a reducing catalyst for reducing nitrogen oxide selectively. The reforming part has a reforming reaction region through which the raw material to be reformed passes and is reacted with supplied hydrogen atoms supplied so as to be reformed to the reducing agent. For example, a hydrogen permeable membrane having a first surface and a second surface may be provided in the reforming part to permeate hydrogen atoms from the first surface to the second surface and to produce the hydrogen atoms on the second surface. The reforming device can be suitably used for an exhaust gas control system for cleaning exhaust gas, for example.

Reducing agent forming device and exhaust gas control system using the same

A nitrogen oxides purification device has an exhaust gas heating section and a nitrogen oxides purification section. The exhaust gas heating section has a fuel injection device and a catalytic metal. The nitrogen oxides purification device is provided in a heat exchanger having a downstream exhaust gas flow passage located downstream of the nitrogen oxides purification section and an upstream exhaust gas flow passage located upstream of the exhaust gas heating section. Exhaust gas heated at the exhaust gas heating section flows through the downstream exhaust gas flow passage. The exhaust gas to be heated at the exhaust gas heating section flows through the upstream exhaust gas flow passage. Heat is transferred between the downstream and upstream exhaust gas flow passages. The nitrogen oxides purification device operates at low fuel consumption.

Nitrogen oxides purification device

A fuel transfer pipe and a cylinder head of an engine in which a fuel injection device is restricted from being separated from each other by a restricting member. A pressing member is interposed between the fuel transfer pipe and the cylinder head to receive a restricting force of the restricting member presses the fuel transfer pipe to a side opposing the cylinder head and presses the fuel injection device to a side of the cylinder head by a reaction force against the restricting force.

Fuel supply apparatus having resilient injector-pressing member

In an electromagnetic fuel injector, when an opening valve pulse is turned ON by a command from an ECU, a first coil is energized and a first fixed core attracts a moving core and unseats a valve member from a valve seat to open a valve of the fuel injector. A time Tx before the opening valve pulse becomes OFF, a closing valve pulse is turned ON, whereby a second coil is energized and a second fixed core attracts the moving core toward a valve closing direction. As a result, after the valve starts to close, the urging force in the valve closing direction increases rapidly, the time delay from the start of valve closing to the end is shortened, and the valve closing responsiveness improves.

Fuel injection apparatus

In a high pressure fuel injection system, fuel is pumped up from a fuel tank by a low pressure pump and further pressurized by a high pressure pump. Pressurized fuel is accumulated in a common rail connected to injectors which inject fuel into an engine. A high pressure regulator is connected to the common rail to mechanically relieve excessive fuel pressure in the common rail or to electronically reduce the fuel pressure when required. An electronic control unit controls operation of the high pressure pump, the high pressure regulator and the injectors according to engine operating conditions which are fed to the unit from various sensors. The fuel pressure in the common rail is decreased by operation of the high pressure pump and the high pressure regulator either rapidly or gradually according to engine operating conditions. Vapor, including fuel and air, accumulated in the common rail under high ambient temperature is purged out quickly before the engine is stared by driving only the low pressure pump under command from the electronic control unit. The system is also provided with a 'limp-home' function under which a car is driven back home even when some portions of the system fail or malfunction.

High pressure fuel injection system for internal combustion engine

A fuel supply apparatus having a cross sectional area S.sub.0 of a first low pressure fuel passage which is connected to a high pressure pump and which has a pressure regulator, a cross sectional area S.sub.1 of an orifice formed between the first low pressure fuel passage and a second low pressure fuel passage, and a cross sectional area S.sub.2 of the second low pressure fuel passage for supplying the low pressure fuel to the first low pressure fuel passage. Those cross sectional areas are set to satisfy a relationship of S.sub.1 &lt;S.sub.0 &lt;S.sub.2 such that the pressure pulsation generated at the pressure regulator is reduced, and the noise produced by the fuel supply apparatus is reduced.

Fuel supply apparatus

According to the present invention, a fuel injection apparatus includes a casing having a control pressure chamber for storing fuel supplied from fuel passage, a needle valve to which fuel stored in the control pressure chamber applies pressure in the valve closing direction, a valve device for interrupting communication between the fuel passage and the control pressure chamber to seal fuel in said control pressure chamber, and volume changing device for expanding volume of the control pressure chamber after fuel is sealed in the control pressure chamber by the valve device. According to the above fuel injection device, pressure in the control pressure chamber is reduced while the fuel is stored therein by the volume changing device, the nozzle needle is lifted, and injection is started. For this reason, it is not necessary to supply surplus fuel in addition to the injection fuel during the fuel injection. In this way, the fuel supply pump is made smaller in size, and efficiency for use of supplied fuel can be improved. Further, since high-pressure fuel is not discharged from the fuel injection apparatus, pulsation within the common rail can be suppressed, and fuel injection can be stabilized.

To provide a fuel injection pump which can sufficiently and stably supply fuel to a fuel pressurization chamber during a fuel intake stroke, a plunger chamber, a spill port and a spill passage are mutually communicable, while a reflux passage, an intake gallery, an intake passage, an intake port and the plunger chamber are mutually communicable. A reflux passage communicates with a damping chamber through a communication passage. The spill passage and the reflux passage communicate with each other, and when a spill valve opens, high-pressure fuel within the plunger chamber spills from the spill valve and into the intake gallery through the reflux passage, causing pulsation having a pressure level difference to the spill fuel. When the pulsation wave passes through the damping chamber, as the level difference in the pulsation wave is reduced, a sufficient quantity of fuel can stably be supplied from the intake gallery to the plunger chamber.

Fuel injection pump having reduced reflux pulsation effects

A high pressure fuel supply pump comprises a cylinder, the upper part of which is exposed to the outside of a head cover that is a part of the engine housing, and is fixed to the head cover by means of bolts, not shown. The remaining portion of the high pressure fuel supply pump is received in an accommodation hole of the head cover. A pump cam 111 is mounted to a valve camshaft for driving a suction/exhaust valve and drives the high pressure fuel supply pump. The use of an exclusive shaft for pump driving only, a bearing member therefor, and the like is rendered unnecessary, which enables a reduction in the number of parts employed. Further, since the timing with which the pressurized fuel is discharged is controlled through the operation of a solenoid valve, the precision with which fuel injection is controlled is improved.

High pressure fuel supply pump

A fuel injection valve of a diesel engine, comprising a valve body including a concave conical surface in the tip portion of the valve body, and fuel injection holes extending from the concave surface to the outside of the valve body, and a needle valve movable in the valve body and including a cylindrical shaft portion, a first conical surface adjacent to the shaft portion and having a conical angle smaller than that of the concave surface, the lower edge of the first conical surface defining a contact line separably contacting with the concave surface, a second conical surface adjacent to the first surface and having a conical angle substantially equal to that of the concave surface, a third conical surface adjacent to the second surface and having a conical angle greater than that of the concave surface. In case of a smaller lift amount of the needle valve, the fuel flow speed flowing into the fuel injection hole is fast and the atomized fuel injection divergence angle from the injection hole is great, thereby producing active producing mixing of the fuel with the air and enhancing the ignition feature, while in case of a greater lift amount, the fuel flow speed is slow and the atomized fuel injection divergence angle from the injection hole is small, thereby increasing the fuel flow reach and producing an active mixing of the fuel with the air by virtue of the kinetic energy of the atomized fuel flow.

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Kariya, Japan

Masahiro Okajima