Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Minoru Kuroda

Hideki Kato

Kunio Nanba

Yasuhumi Kojima

Hideo Kiuchi

Hitoshi Tasaka

Masaki Akutagawa

Oyuki Ogawa

Kenji Tsukahara

Susumu Urano

Masataka Naitoh

Hiroshi Yamazoe

Susumu Okino

A safety apparatus for a combustion engine includes a rotary member disposed in a rotating portion of the internal combustion engine, a spiral spring supported by the rotary member at one end and biasing the rotary member in a predetermined direction, an engaging member engaging with the other end of the spiral spring, a housing for receiving the spiral spring, and a guide member arranged over at least the outer side periphery of the overlapping portion of the spiral spring and extending along the circumferential direction of the spiral spring to prevent the spiral spring from expanding in diameter. With this construction, when breakage is caused in the spiral spring, hooking of the broken end onto the engaging member can be prevented by the guide member. Therefore, it can prevent the throttle valve from being biased toward opening direction by the broken spiral spring.

Safety apparatus for combustion engine

A fuel injector to be mounted on a branch of an engine intake manifold has a hollow body with an injection orifice therein and a valve member mounted slidably in the body and having a pintle extending from one end of the valve member and slidably received in and extending through the injection orifice. A sleeve member is mounted on the body to cover the injection orifice and defines a pintle-receiving space into which the forward end of the pintle extends. Communication apertures are formed in the outer end of the sleeve member to communicate the pintle receiving space with an engine intake passage. The total of the cross-sectional areas of the communication apertures is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the pintle-receiving space.

Fuel injection system for internal combustion engine

A malfunction procedure indicating system which monitors continuously the condition of a plurality of inspection items associated with the operation of a vehicle, whereby when the existence of a malfunction in at least one of the plurality of inspection items is detected, a first procedure corresponding to the malfunction is indicated by both verbal representation and visual display during the operation of the vehicle and a second procedure following the first procedure is also indicated by both verbal representation and visual display.

Malfunction procedure indicating system and method

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Nagoya, Japan

Minoru Kuroda