Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Norihisa Ishii

Sumitaka Ogawa

Nobuo Miura

Masahiro Yoshida

Masayuki Fujita

Jun Hariu

Nabuo Miura

Piping associated with interlocked brakes for front and rear wheel brakes is to be simplified to improve maintainability and provide a brake system suitable particularly for a two-wheeled motor vehicle satisfying racing specifications. A braking system includes hydraulic brakes with three hydraulic systems which are a lever hydraulic system for a front wheel brake, an interlocked hydraulic system for a rear wheel brake and a pedal hydraulic system. A pressure sensor detects a hydraulic pressure in the lever hydraulic system and outputs the detected signal to a control unit in the interlocked hydraulic system through an electric wire. The control unit controls the operation of a motor, thereby causing a hydraulic pressure to be developed in a submaster cylinder, which hydraulic pressure is fed to the rear wheel brake through a control valve. On the other hand, the pedal hydraulic system has a piping independent of that of the interlocked hydraulic system and supplies a hydraulic pressure generated in a master cylinder for the rear wheel brake by operation of a brake pedal to the rear wheel brake through a route separate from the interlocked hydraulic system.

Braking system for a two-wheeled motor vehicle

To obtain optimum combustion of fuel in an internal combustion engine and prevent the occurrence of reverse torque therein, an ignition timing control system having a pulse generating circuit for generating first and second timing pulses corresponding to respective predetermined crank angles of the engine includes means for producing all essential signals and, hence, for setting maximum delay angle ignition timing, based on a reference which is the leading edge of the second timing signal, which edge is unaffected by unstable engine rotation as when the engine is started. To simplify and reduce circuitry, an ignition signal generating circuit and a reverse torque preventing circuit are integrated and adapted to perform both functions.

Ignition timing control system for internal combustion engines

An ignition timing control system for a two-cycle internal combustion engine compares a first reference signal which rises to a predetermined level as a first pulse signal is generated corresponding to a predetermined crank angle and which thereafter decays at a predetermined slope, and a second reference signal of generally trapezoidal shape and having a pulse width corresponding to the pulse width of a second pulse signal corresponding to a predetermined crank angle. When the signal level of the second reference signal rises above that of the first reference signal, an ignition signal is generated. A first reference signal control circuit generates a triangular signal in synchronism with the second pulse signal, which triangular signal rises at a predetermined slope, and controls the first reference signal in such a manner that the first reference signal decays at a slope gentler than the predetermined slope from an instant in time at which the signal level of the triangular signal exceeds a predetermined level.

Ignition timing control system for two-cycle internal combustion engines

An ignition system for a two-cycle engine which comprises a rotational body rotatable in synchronism with the crank shaft of the engine and having thereon a detectable portion extending circumferentially thereof, and a detector placed in the vicinity of the rotational body for detecting the circumferential edge portions of the detectable portion and for producing an electric signal containing amplitude variations appearing at the passage of the edge portions near the detector. The electric signal is processed by an ignition pulse generator which produces an ignition pulse at each time when a selected one of the amplitude variations of the electric signal occurs. The circumferential length of the detectable portion is selected so that the ignition pulse appears when the crank angle of the crank shaft is outside of the reverse rotation allowing angular region.

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Sakado, Japan

Norihisa Ishii