Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.

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Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Cable, Inc.

Nobukatsu Arai

Shinya Igarashi

Chihiro Kobayashi

Toshifumi Usui

Yoshihito Sekine

Yuzo Kadomukai

Makoto Yamakado

Yoshio Okamoto

Yoshiyuki Tanabe

Yasuo Namaizawa

Kenji Tabuchi

Hiromasa Kubo

Yasunaga Hamada

Hiroshi Hirayama

Kaoru Uchiyama

Takayuki Saito

Takehiko Kowatari

Atsushi Miyazaki

Hiroatsu Tokuda

Mitsukuni Tsutsui

Eiji Sato

Tadao Osawa

Tetsuo Matsukura

Kenji Tojo

Toshihiko Fukushima

Kunio Fujie

Kimio Kakizaki

Hideki Tanaka

Izumi Watanabe

Tadakatsu Nakajima

Shigeru Machida

Tsutomu Okazaki

Naoshi Uchikawa

Shinjiro Ueda

Akira Arai

Masahiro Mase

Susumu Yamazaki

Seiji Sakagami

Naoki Maeda

Takeshi Okawada

Hirokatu Kousokabe

Kazuaki Nakamori

Tetsuo Udagawa

Youichi Furuhashi

Haruhiko Maeda

A fuel injection apparatus including a controller to output an injection time command signal and an opening movement time command signal to command an opening movement time from a closed state to an open state of an electromagnetic fuel injection valve and a control circuit, coupled to the controller, to change an electric current flowing in a coil of the electromagnetic fuel injection valve between when the electromagnetic fuel injection valve is closed and opened. The controller sends both the injection time command signal and the opening movement time command signal through the same signal line to the control circuit.

Electromagnetic fuel injector and control method thereof

An electromagnetic fuel injection valve in an engine injects fuel by opening/closing a fuel flowing path with a valve element. A controller controls opening/closing of the fuel flowing path and changes magnetic force generated by a control coil driving the valve element so that the magnetic force is less during a valve open state-holding period than at an initial valve-opening time. The controller detects the voltage of a battery and applies the voltage fed from the battery to the control coil, while changing a time interval (Tc), for which current is passed through the control coil, based on the detected voltage, in order to change the magnetic force, without raising the voltage from the battery. The controller also detects increase/decrease of a pressing force on the valve element caused by fuel pressure and changes the time interval (Tc) accordingly.

A thermal type air flow measuring instrument is mounted to a main passage forming an intake air passage of an internal combustion engine and is provided. with an auxiliary passage which includes a heating resistor and a temperature sensing resistor therein and an electronic circuit which is electrically connected to the heating resistor and the temperature sensing resistor. The auxiliary passage is a passage including at least one bent portion composed of a first path substantially parallel to the main passage and a second path having a path different in flow direction from the first path. A member forming the auxiliary passage is fixed in a united form to only a case member for interiorly protecting the electronic circuit, and the case member is fixed to the outer wall surface of the intake air passage. The auxiliary passage structure capable of being handled as a single module united to the case member is effective to the mass production of an air flow control system and the reduction in cost thereof since the structure can be mounted to different kinds of internal combustion engines.

Thermal type air flow measuring instrument for internal combustion engine

In an electromagnetic fuel injection valve for injecting fuel by opening/closing a fuel flowing path, including a valve seat, a valve element for opening/closing the fuel flowing path formed between the valve seat and the valve element, and a drive unit having at least one coil, for driving the valve element. The drive unit includes a first magnetomotive force generating device using the at least one coil and a second magnetomotive force generating device, the first magnetomotive force generating device and the second magnetomotive force generating device being composed so that the first magnetomotive force generating device generates and raises magnetomotive force at a larger rate of change in time in comparison with the second magnetomotive force generating device. A valve opening hold state is held by the second magnetomotive force generating device which uses a smaller current flow in comparison with the first magnetomotive force generating device.

There is disclosed a supercharger for an engine in which intake air is increased in pressure by the use of exhaust gas flowed into the supercharger from the engine, and is fed to the engine. An impeller 2, having a plurality of blades formed on an outer peripheral portion thereof, is received within a casing 1, and a ring-like fluid passage is formed around the plurality of blades, and a first partition 3 and a second partition 4 are provided in the fluid passage to divide this fluid passage into two fluid passages, that is, an exhaust gas passage 6 and an intake air passage 9. There is provided a fluid machine construction for causing the exhaust gas of the engine to flow into and out of the exhaust gas passage, and for causing the intake air to flow into and out of the intake air passage. With this construction, the pressure of the intake air can be satisfactorily increased over a wide range of the engine speed from a low speed to a relatively high speed, and therefore the supercharging of the engine can be effected with the inexpensive machine construction.

Supercharger for engine

An electromagnetic fuel injection valve for injecting fuel by opening/closing a fuel flow path, includes a valve seat, a valve element for opening/closing the fuel flow path formed between the valve seat and the valve element, and a drive unit having at least one coil for driving the valve element. The drive unit includes a first magnetomotive force generating device using the at least one coil and a second magnetomotive force generating device, the first magnetomotive force generating device and the second magnetomotive force generating device being composed so that the first magnetomotive force generating device generates and raises its magnetomotive force at a larger rate of change in time in comparison with the second magnetomotive force generating device. A valve open state is held by the second magnetomotive force generating device which uses a smaller current flow in comparison with the first magnetomotive force generating device.

In a thermal type flow meter having a temperature compensating bridge circuit, the temperature compensating bridge circuit includes a heating resistor, a temperature compensating resistor and a plurality of resistors each having a fixed resistance. The heating resistor and the temperature compensating resistor are supported by a support member in an air flow passage, and the support member is formed by a material having a small temperature coefficient .DELTA..lambda. of thermal conductivity between -0.06 and 0.06 w/m.multidot.k.sup.2. The absolute value of the output error of the flow meter is reduced as a result of variation of the flow quantity or flow velocity of intake air and the intake air temperature.

Thermal type flow meter

A thermal type air flow measuring instrument is mounted to a main passage forming an intake air passage of an internal combustion engine and is provided with an auxiliary passage which includes a heating resistor and a temperature sensing resistor therein and an electronic circuit which is electrically connected to the heating resistor and the temperature sensing resistor. The auxiliary passage is a passage including at least one bent portion composed of a first path substantially parallel to the main passage and a second path having a path different in flow direction from the first path. A member forming the auxiliary passage is fixed in a united form to only a case member for interiorly protecting the electronic circuit, and the case member is fixed to the outer wall surface of the intake air passage. The auxiliary passage structure capable of being handled as a single module united to the case member is effective to the mass production of an air flow control system and the reduction in cost thereof since the structure can be mounted to different kinds of internal combustion engines.

A digital signal obtained by A/D converting an output of a thermal type air flow meter is supplied along two paths. After a time constant is obtained in one path, inverse-transformation is performed to obtain an error together with an output of the other path. The inverse-transformed signal is linearized on the basis of the characteristic of the thermal type air flow meter, and a direction of flow is determined.

Air flow measuring apparatus and method thereof

Air flow rate measuring apparatus and air flow rate measuring method

An air flow meter comprises a main passage for an axial main air flow; an axial subpassage for air flow, disposed in the main passage and formed so that part of the air in the main passage is taken in at an upstream side thereof and flows in the same direction as the axial main air flow; a radial subpassage for air flow, intersecting the axial subpassage at a downstream side of the axial subpassage so that air from the axial subpassage flows into the radial subpassage and is divided into two radial air flows running in different radial directions; the air having passed through the radial subpassage joining the axial main air flow. An air flow sensing means is disposed in the radial subpassage for sensing a flow rate of air therein, and a projection is disposed in the radial subpassage around the intersection of the axial and radial subpassages, for suppressing turbulence of air flow around the intersection.

Air flow meter

An axial flow thermo-type air flow meter for internal combustion engines has a spider disposed in a main air passage formed in a body and having formed therein an auxiliary air flow passage including an axial auxiliary air flow passage portion accommodating a heat-generating resistor element for detecting a rate of engine intake air flow. The auxiliary air flow passage also includes more than one radial air flow passage portions which are connected to the axial air flow passage portion and curved and turned at their radially outer ends and then extend radially inwardly to outlet ends open to the main air passage, whereby the total length of the auxiliary air flow passage is increased to decrease the influence of pulsation of engine intake air flow on the air flow meter. Positioning of the outlet openings of the auxiliary air flow passage within a range of a radius from the axis of the main air flow passage, which radius is 1/2 of the radius of the main air flow passage, is effective to reduce fluctuation of the electric output of the air flow meter due to an unbalanced air flow velocity distribution occurring upstream of the air flow meter.

Thermo-type air flow meter

An object of the present invention is to provide a hot-electrical-resistance type gas flow meter wherein a deterioration of a gas-cooled hot-electrical-resistance is prevented at the maximum flow rate, a decrease of sensitivity is prevented at the minimum flow rate and a wide dynamic range is achieve, and a structural feature of such gas flow meter is that the gas flow meter includes auxiliary path flow resistance changing means for changing a flow resistance of the auxiliary path so that the larger the flow rate of the flow is, the larger the flow resistance of the auxiliary path is.

Hot-electrical-resistance type gas flow meter and internal combustion

A detecting module for an air flow meter for internal combustion engines has an arm provided with a heat wire sensor at one end thereof and with a signal processing unit at the other end, and is provided with a predetermined constant length. A body member assembled with the detecting module is selected from among several varieties of body members produced for engines with different stroke volumes, each of which has an main air path formed by an axial bore having a diameter commensurate with the stroke volume. A bridging member formed across the axial bore which forms the main air path is provided therein with a by-pass path for by-passing a part of the airflow within the main air path and a communicating hollow portion for accommodating the arm. The body member is further provided with a mount for fixing the detecting module, thereon, the height of which is different in each variety of the body members, so that the heat wire sensor is always placed in a predetermined metering area within the by-pass path, irrespective of the diameter of the axial bore forming the main air path, when the arm is accommodated in the hollow portion.

Air flow meter for internal combustion engines and a manufacturing

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