Denso Corporation

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Mitomu Mohri

Jun Yamada

Masayasu Ushida

Jiro Kondo

Kinya Takahashi

Takao Nojiri

Seiji Yaoko

Motohiro Okada

Yasuhiro Shimura

A solenoid valve includes: a moving core; a coil for generating magnetic force that attracts the moving core; a stator that forms a magnetic circuit in cooperation with the moving core and attracts the moving core; and a cup-shaped member disposed at the inner periphery of the stator and on the outer periphery of the moving core. The cup-shaped member reciprocatably supports the moving core, and restricts hydraulic fluid leakage from the moving core side to the outer periphery side. A collar made of a soft magnetic material, disposed so as to face a face on the stator side in the axial direction of the moving core, and forming a magnetic circuit in cooperation with the moving core and the stator.

Solenoid valve

A shoe housing receives a driving force from a crankshaft and a vane rotor rotates with a camshaft in combination. The vane rotor is received in the shoe housing in such a way as to freely turn. Each of the vanes of the vane rotor partitions each of three receiving chambers into a retard hydraulic chamber and an advance hydraulic chamber. A check valve is disposed in an advance supply passage. The check valve allows a working oil to flow from an oil pump through the advance supply passage to the advance hydraulic chamber and prohibits the working oil from flowing back from the advance hydraulic chamber through the advance supply passage to a drain.

Valve timing controller

A filter is annularly attached around a peripheral wall of a housing. The filter is composed of a filtering element that covers a fluid passage for inhibiting foreign objects from entering, a supporting portion for supporting the filtering element, and a connecting portion for connecting between both ends of the supporting portion. The connecting portion is narrower than the supporting portion. The filter is movable radially in two directions according to a clearance between the filter and the housing. A contact portion is formed, with being able to be slid within a movable range of the filter, between an outer surface portion of the peripheral wall that surrounds an opening of the fluid passage and an inner surface portion of the filter that surrounds the filtering element.

Flow amount control device

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Kariya, Japan

Mitomu Mohri