Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

K.k. Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho and Toyota Jidosha Kogyo

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho Seisakusho

Masatoshi Yamada

Eiichi Yasuda

Hiroshi Ito

Katsumi Kono

Kagenori Fukumura

Shinya Nakamura

Masataka Osawa

Ryoichi Hibino

Masanobu Kimura

Yujiro Oshima

Kiyomi Kawamura

Akinori Saito

Kenji Imai

Toshihide Narita

Junzo Hasegawa

Kaoru Nakamura

Hideyuki Suzuki

Masahiro Kojima

Makoto Koike

Taro Aoyama

Katsuhiko Hattori

Katsuhiko Sugiyama

Masaharu Sumiyoshi

Kazuhiro Kozuka

Nobuyuki Nagashima

Nobuyuki Mori

Masaaki Noguchi

Yasuhiro Kondo

Yoshiyasu Uchida

Tatehito Ueda

Eiji Hashimoto

The present invention realizes high-speed and stable controls irrespective of the characteristic perturbations accompanied with the variation in operation point of a plant. The principle of the invention is applied to slip control of a lock-up clutch of a transmission and to idling engine speed control. A plant input calculation unit OC working as a controller recognizes an actual plant plus a characteristic compensator CC as an augmented plant EOB. The characteristic compensator CC compensates for the characteristic perturbations of the augmented plant EOB accompanied with the variation in operation point, so that the augmented plant EOB always works at a design point with respect to the plant input calculation unit OC working as the controller. The characteristic compensator CC compensates for frequency-dependent gain and phase deviations through filter operations and for a stationary gain deviation by multiplying predetermined constants.

Devices for controlling plant, clutch slip, and idling engine speed and

A clutch slip control device includes: a slip revolution speed detecting circuit for detecting an actual slip revolution speed of a clutch; a memory unit for storing constants set to satisfy response and stability of a feedback control system of the slip conditions, the constants being determined by a high-order function approximating variation in input-output frequency characteristics of a plant input for actuating the clutch and the actual slip revolution speed; a first calculation circuit for calculating a first parameter using the constants stored in the memory unit, the first parameter discretely reflecting past data of the plant input, which are obtained in a current feedback control cycle through in a cycle executed a plurality of times before; a second calculation circuit for calculating a second parameter using the constants stored in the memory unit, the second parameter discretely reflecting past data of a deviation of the actual slip revolution speed from a target slip revolution speed, which are obtained in the current feedback control cycle through in the cycle executed a plurality of times before; and a plant input determination circuit for determining a next plant input based on the first parameter and the second parameter.

Clutch slip control device and method of manufacturing the same, clutch

To suppress a separation of working fluid from the vane surface during operation at and around a fluid coupling condition attained after a substantial completion of torque conversion, the aerofoil and the array of stator vanes of a torque converter for vehicles are arranged such that a pressure side leading edge area and a suction side trailing edge area of the vane respectively satisfy the following conditions based upon the parameters assumed in FIG. 2:

Stator of torque converter for vehicles improved to suppress separation

A system for controlling engine speed for a vehicle such as a fork-lift. The system has an accelerator pedal for controlling an engine speed, and a control lever for controlling the direction of movement of the vehicle, or the system is provided with a seesaw type accelerator pedal for controlling the engine speed and the direction of movement of the vehicle. An EXNOR gate is provided for detecting deceleration of the engine while the accelerator pedal is depressed. When deceleration is detected, the throttle valve is returned to an engine idling position or the supply of fuel is cut. Thus, an effective engine braking can be obtained when the direction of movement of the vehicle is changed while the accelerator pedal is depressed. A window comparator is provided for detecting the area near the end of deceleration, so that the engine speed is increased prior to the commencement of acceleration.

System for controlling engine speed when direction of vehicle changed

A control device for use in a cargo handling vehicle in which a single power plant provides both the vehicle drive and the power to the cargo handling device has a continuously variable transmission. The cargo handling device is actuated by means of a hydraulic pump. Whether or not the cargo handling device is in operation the operator need not adjust the degree of depression of a drive pedal to maintain constant vehicle speed because automatic compensation means are provided for that purpose. The demands upon the vehicle operator are accordingly reduced.

Running control device on cargo handling vehicles

An electro-pressure conversion control device comprising a fluid passage formed in a device body, which fluid passage includes a fluid inlet at one end, a throttle, a jetting hole at the other end, and a control pressure taking port provided between said throttle and said jetting hole and a plate which is driven by an electrical actuator in such a manner as to go across the axis of the jetting hole thereby to open and close the jetting hole whereby the jetting hole operates as a variable throttle. The plate is displaced in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the jetting hole by the electrical actuator to control the degree of opening of the jetting hole thereby to control the pressure in the fluid passage between the throttle and the jetting point so as to provide a pressure which varies according to an electrical signal applied to the electrical actuator.

Electro-pressure conversion control device

An intermittent type swirl injection nozzle providing substantially improved spray characteristics while being easy to manufacture and install. The nozzle includes a nozzle body and a needle valve slidably disposed in a guide hole of the nozzle body with a spray hole communicating a body seat formed inside the nozzle body and the forward end of the needle valve. A swirl passage is provided around the needle valve for giving a swirl flow influence around the axis of the needle valve to fuel when the needle valve is lifted from the body seat. A straight passage is provided in a portion where the inner wall of the guide hole and the needle valve make sliding contact for giving the fuel a straight flow influence in the axial direction of the needle valve. The two flows are joined prior to passing through the spray hole.

Intermittent type swirl injection nozzle

A method and device for forming mixture gas for a direct fuel injection type internal combustion engine, which has a piston with a recess forming a combustion space, air intake means with swirling means for switching intake air to be supplied into the combustion chamber, and an intermittent swirl injector nozzle having at least one tangential passage for swirling fuel supplied through fuel supplying means to the combustion chamber, to jet the fuel in conical form to the swirling intake air, to form a mixture gas, and which comprises the steps of supplying swirling intake air into the combustion space, the swirling intake air having a swirl speed in conformance to the speed of the internal combustion engine, and spraying fuel from the swirl injection nozzle onto the swirling intake air in the combustion space at a fuel spray angle varied in response to the engine speed, thereby controlling the spray travel distance of the fuel and allowing the fuel to float in the combustion space without being stuck onto a wall of the combustion space under a wide range of operating conditions of the engine.

Method and device for forming mixture gas in direct injection type

This invention relates to a cargo-handling vehicle equipped with a cargo-handling apparatus and having a single power plant adapted to commonly drive a hydraulic pump for driving and a hydraulic pump for cargo-handling. A driving command signal in the form of an analog or digital electric signal output from a driving operation device in response to the operated amount thereof is output to first conversion means. The first conversion means converts the driving command signal or the operated amount of the driving operation device to power plant revolution data for driving which is determined by the preset function, and then outputs the data to selection means. A cargo-handling command signal in the form of an analog or digital electric signal output from a cargo-handling operation device in response to the operated amount thereof is output to second conversion means. The second conversion means converts the cargo-handling command signal or the operated amount of the cargo-handling operation device to power plant revolution data for cargo-handling which is determined by the preset function, and then outputs the data to the selection means. The selection means selects at least one of the data and then outputs the selected data to control means for regulating the speed of the power plant. The control means regulates the power plant speed in accordance with the input data.

Revolution controller for a single power plant in cargo-handling vehicles

A direct injection internal combustion engine of a compression ignition type in which portions of an injected fuel spray which have not been evaporated are prevented from striking the walls of the combustion chamber, and the fuel spray is prevented from catching up the air around it when moving in the combustion chamber, thereby providing an engine having reduced combustion noise, reduced amount of smoke and noxious emissions, and improved fuel economy. A combustion chamber is formed in the piston substantially in the form of a spherical cavity gradually narrowing towards the opening of the cavity at the top surface of the piston. An air intake mechanism swirls intake air supplied to the combustion chamber. A swirl injector injects a fuel spray substantially in the form of a hollow cone having a velocity component in a direction tangential of the central axis of the nozzle. The nozzle is offset from the central axis of the cavity and inclined with respect to the central axis of the cavity so that the fuel spray is injected in a forward direction of a swirl stream of intake air in the cavity.

Direct injection internal combustion engine of compression ignition type

An intermittent swirl type injection valve having a spray angle, capacity coefficient and fuel spray travel distance set so that the valve produces optimum engine operating conditions, with the spray angle, capacity coefficient and fuel spray travel distances being determined taking into account the gap area A.sub.c, the spray hole diameter d.sub.e, and the area A.sub.g of tangential passages in the valve. The injection valve includes a valve body and a valve needle slidably fitted in a valve hole formed in the valve body. A spray hole in the valve body merges with a valve seat provided at an end of the valve hole, and the spray hole is shaped to receive the lower end of the valve needle. Tangential passages swirl the fuel when the needle valve leaves the valve seat to open the valve to spray fuel substantially conically through the spray hole. The injection valve is designed so as to satisfy the following conditions:

Intermittent swirl type injection valve

Disclosed is a sensor for detecting flow quantity of fuel supplied to a fuel injection system based on an idea that the flow quantity of fuel supplied to a fuel injection system is detected by means of detection of a displacement of a spill-ring. This sensor is provided with a detection member connected with a spill-ring of a fuel injection system, a coil assembly consisting of a coil for detecting the displacement of the spill-ring which is fitted to one end of a bobbin which is arranged to face with the detection member but not to contact the detection member, the one end of the bobbin being arranged to face with the detection member, and a coil for temperature compensation, the two coils being arranged side by side along the bobbin with a predetermined space therebetween, and a member for holding the coil assembly and for fitting the coil assembly to the fuel injection system.

Sensor for detecting flow quantity of fuel supplied to fuel injection

In a sealing or piston cup for maintaining lubricating oil on a sealing surface, the sealing surface thereof is formed with a circumferentially extending angular recess or groove which functions to retain lubricating oil. The sealing cup with the recess can ensure a smooth and stable operation of the device.

Sealing cup for hydraulic piston-cylinder device

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Nagoya, Japan

Masatoshi Yamada