Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

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Nok-megulastik Co., Ltd.

Nobuyuki Kobayashi

Toshimitsu Ito

Takashi Hattori

Hiroshi Itoh

Hiroshi Ito

Toshiaki Isobe

Yasuhiro Shimizu

Nobuhisa Ohkawa

Masahiko Nakada

Kazuhiko Norota

Koji Okawa

Katsunori Yagi

Toshio Kondo

Mitsuru Takada

Masakazu Ninomiya

Kazuo Shinoda

Hideaki Norimatsu

Hideo Kiuchi

Mitsuo Kawai

Yoichi Sugiura

Nobuyuki Ito

Takahide Kuma

Akinori Osanai

Atsushi Suzuki

Hiroshi Okano

Toshinari Nagai

Hiroshi Kanai

Mamoru Kobashi

Takao Akatsuka

Mitsuhiro Umeyama

Takayuki Otsuka

Naoto Kushi

Kenji Harima

Toshio Suematsu

Kouichi Osawa

Susumu Harada

Hiromi Otsuki

Yukihide Hashiguchi

Haruo Watanabe

Tatsumasa Sugiyama

Kunio Endo

Mitsuo Nakamura

Oyuki Ogawa

Shuji Yuda

Katsuhiko Teraoka

Norio Komoda

Kaoru Wakahara

Hisao Ohtani

Teruo Fukuda

Kazuhiko Iwano

Ken Tanoue

Naoki Sugita

Mamoru Hirokawa

Hideji Suzuki

Minoru Bitou

Hideo Kiucihi

Shigenobu Obara

Yozi Nishimura

Eiichi Moriyama

Masaru Kinoshita

Kenichi Kametaka

A body and an arm are produced as separate components, a fitting recess and a flange are formed on the body, and a magnetic head mounting portion, a fitting portion capable of being fitted to and removed from the fitting recess of the body, and an engagement portion engaging with the flange of the body and prevented from falling off in an axial direction are formed on the arm. At least two fitting recesses are formed in an interval in the axial direction of the body. The arm is fitted to the body, and the fitting portion is molded by a resin to the body. A moving coil of a motor is molded to the body. The fitting portion of the arm is shaped into a ring shape. The fitting portion is shaped into the ring shape having a transverse opening. A rotary bearing having, or not having, a sleeve is fitted into a shaft hole of the body.

Actuator arm assembly for a magnetic disk apparatus

An air-fuel ratio control apparatus includes: a determining part for determining a target purge ratio in accordance with operating conditions of an engine; a purge control part for controlling a flow rate of evaporated fuel, supplied from an evaporated fuel purge system into an intake passage of the engine, by actuating a purge control valve based on the target purge ratio, and for storing an evaporated fuel flow rate of the purge control valve; a fuel injection control part for generating a drive signal in accordance with a fuel injection time, and for controlling an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture to the intake passage by actuating a fuel injection valve in accordance with the drive signal; an estimating part for estimating the ratio of an evaporated fuel flow rate to an intake air flow rate based on sensed operating conditions of the engine and on the stored evaporated fuel flow rate of the purge control part; and a fuel injection time determining part for determining a fuel injection time based on the estimated ratio, and for supplying the fuel injection time to the fuel injection control part.

Apparatus for controlling air-fuel ratio of air-fuel mixture to an

An air-fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine which includes an evaporative fuel purge system having a canister for temporarily storing fuel vapor, detects an air to fuel ratio in the exhaust gas from the engine. An air-fuel ratio controller controls the air-fuel ratio in exhaust gas from the engine by varying a fuel quantity supplied to the engine so that the air-fuel ratio approaches a predetermined target air-fuel ratio. The evaporated fuel is purged from the canister at a specific purging rate determined based on engine operating conditions. An air-fuel ratio-shift is controlled based on the derivation of an amount by which the air-fuel ratio has shifted from the target air-fuel ratio due to a cause independent of the purging operation. The first amount, which is relatively constant over time in comparison to a second amount of air-fuel ratio shift occurring as a result of the purging operation, is derived based on a first detected air-fuel ratio-shift amount when the purge system is purging at a first purging rate. The second air-fuel ratio-shift amount is detected when the purge system is purging at a second purging rate different from the first purging rate.

Air-fuel ratio control system for internal combustion engine having

A device for determining deterioration of a catalytic converter for an engine equipped with a catalytic converter disposed in the exhaust passage and upstream and downstream air-fuel ratio sensors disposed in the exhaust passage upstream and downstream of the catalytic converter, respectively, wherein the device calculates the area surrounded by the output response curve of the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor and a predetermined reference value line, the device determining whether or not the catalyst is deteriorated in accordance with the area calculated when the output of downstream air-fuel ratio sensor stays on a rich side or lean side air-fuel ratio for more than a predetermined time during feedback control of air-fuel ratio by the output of upstream air-fuel ratio sensor.

Device for determining deterioration of a catalytic converter for an

A device for determining a deterioration of a catalytic converter for an engine equipped with a catalytic converter disposed in the exhaust passage and upstream and downstream air-fuel ratio sensors disposed in the exhaust passage upstream and downstream of the catalytic converter, respectively, wherein the device calculates the lengths of the output response curves of the upstream and downstream air-fuel ratio sensors LVOM and LVOS, respectively when the engine air-fuel ratio is feedback controlled, then the device determines whether or not the catalyst is deteriorated in accordance with the magnitude of the ratio LVOS/LVOM.

A malfunction detecting apparatus for an evaporated fuel purge system includes a first control valve for controlling a flow of fuel vapor in a purge passage between a canister and an intake passage, a second control valve for controlling a flow of air from the atmosphere to the canister via an air inlet opening of the canister, a first control part for turning OFF the second control valve and for turning ON the first control valve during a first time period, so as to subject the purge passage, the canister, and a vapor passage to a negative pressure of the intake passage during the first time period, and a first discriminator for detecting whether or not a malfunction has occurred in the system, in accordance with a pressure change rate derived from pressures of the system sensed at a start of the first time period and at an end thereof. The apparatus further includes a second control part for detecting whether or not a pressure of the system reaches a prescribed negative pressure after it is detected that no malfunction has occurred in the system, and for turning OFF the first and second control valves during a second time period after the prescribed negative pressure is reached, and a second discriminator for detecting whether or not a malfunction has occurred in the system, in accordance with a pressure change rate derived from pressures of the system sensed at a start of the second time period and at an end thereof.

Apparatus for detecting malfunction in evaporated fuel purge system used

A device for determining a deterioration of a catalytic converter for an engine equipped with a catalytic converter disposed in the exhaust passage and upstream and downstream air-fuel ratio sensors disposed in the exhaust passage upstream and downstream of the catalytic converter, respectively, wherein the device calculates the lengths of the output response curves of the upstream and downstream air-fuel ratio sensors LVOM and LVOS, respectively, and the areas surrounded by the output response curves and a reference voltage line of the upstream and downstream air-fuel ratio sensors AVOM and AVOS, respectively, the device determining whether or not the catalyst is deteriorated in accordance with the relationship between the ratio LVOS/LVOM and the ratio AVOS/AVOM.

A device for detecting an occurrence of misfiring comprising a crankshaft sensor, which crankshaft sensor is used to detect the elapsed time required for the crankshaft to turn by a predetermined crankshaft angle during combustion in the cylinders. The difference in the elapsed time between cylinders where every other power stroke is performed is found and a determination is made as to at which cylinder the misfiring occurred when the difference exceeds a set value. The difference in elapsed times between cylinders with power strokes of crank angles 360.degree. apart is found and an estimated value of the difference changing due to acceleration or deceleration is found from that difference. This estimated value is used to correct the set value.

Device for detecting occurrence of misfiring in multicylinder engine

An engine having a fuel injector for normally feeding a lean air-fuel mixture into the engine cylinders. Ignition timing is determined so that it is suitable for the lean air-fuel mixture. The gear changing operation of the transmission of the engine is detected from the change in the engine speed and the change in the absolute pressure in the intake passage. When the gear changing operation is carried out, a rich air-fuel mixture is fed into the engine cylinders, and the ignition timing is retarded.

Control device of an internal combustion engine

Disclosed is an engine having an air-fuel ratio control apparatus for obtaining various air-fuel ratios, the range of which is between the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio or lower than that ratio and the high air-fuel ratio providing a very lean air-fuel mixture. A plurality of ignition timing maps is provided, these maps having a respective order of priority determined by the air-fuel ratio. During operation of the engine, parameters substantially related to the air-fuel ratio ranges are detected, and a map having the highest order of priority is selected from the maps which meet the engine parameters. The ignition timing is calculated from the selected map.

Apparatus for controlling ignition timing in an internal combustion

In an internal combustion engine, when the opening of a throttle valve is smaller than a relatively small definite value, the feedback of the air-fuel ratio of the engine is controlled so that the air-fuel ratio is brought close to a first target air-fuel ratio. When the opening of the throttle valve is equal to or larger than a relatively small definite value and is smaller than a relatively large definite value, the feedback of the air-fuel ratio of the engine is controlled so that the air-fuel ratio is brought close to a second target air-fuel ratio on the rich side with respect to the first target air-fuel ratio. Further, when the opening of the throttle valve is equal to or larger than the relatively large definite value, the air-fuel ratio of the engine is controlled to be a power fuel increment air-fuel ratio.

Method and apparatus for controlling air-fuel ratio in internal

An ignition timing control apparatus for a spark ignition internal combustion engine for a vehicle having a manually operated transmission system. The apparatus includes an ignition control system for controlling ignition timing in such a manner that the timing is advanced when the engine speed drops due to engagement of the clutch of the transmission apparatus to begin the initial movement of the vehicle. The drop in the engine speed is sensed by detecting whether a second order difference value of the engine speed is lower than a reference value. This realizes quick control of the engine speed.

In an internal combustion engine having a throttle valve, a flag or switch having hysteresis characteristics using the operation of the throttle valve is provided.

An internal combustion engine has an intake system, a fuel injector for injecting fuel into the intake system, a means for supplying pressurized fuel to the fuel injector, and a means for controlling the pressure difference between the pressurized fuel and the current value of atmospheric pressure to be substantially equal to a determinate value. In this fuel injection method, an actual fuel injection time interval is calculated by determining a basic fuel injection time interval according to engine operational parameters, and subsequently: if the current value of atmospheric pressure is higher than a certain standard value, then a reduction correction amount is applied to the basic fuel injection time interval, to derive the actual fuel injection time interval, but otherwise an increase correction amount is applied. Then the fuel injector is controlled to be open for substantially the actual fuel injection time interval. A device is also disclosed for practicing this method. Optionally, in both the above cases, the absolute value of the correction amount may diminish as the absolute value of the intake system pressure diminishes; and, further, the correction may be performed by multiplying the basic fuel injection time interval by a correction coefficient determined by adding, to the product of a first and a second correction value, a third correction value, the first correction value being a function only to intake system pressure, and the second and third correction values being functions only of ambient atmospheric pressure.

Fuel injection method and device providing simple atmospheric pressure

A clutch damper for absorbing vibrations occurring during transmission of torque in a clutch mechanism for automobiles or the like, wherein a plurality of buffer members stepwisely operated are provided between a hub slipped over a shaft and a clutch disc, and a spacer member for restraining a play of the members to transmit the torque smoothly is provided.

Clutch damper

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