Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Osamu Ito

Nobuhito Hobo

Yutaka Suzuki

Yoshihiko Tsuzuki

Makoto Shiozaki

Takashi Naitou

Masaharu Sumiyoshi

Hiroshi Sami

Shizuo Kawai

Itsushi Kawamoto

Satoshi Haseda

Tetsuya Nakamura

Takashi Hasegawa

Yoshimune Konishi

Daisaku Sawada

Shigeyuki Akita

Hiroshi Okada

Taro Tanaka

Kenji Goto

Yukihiro Kato

Jun Tarui

Tatehito Ueda

Takashi Shigematu

Yoshifumi Watanabe

Osamu Ina

Yuji Takeda

Suguru Sato

Michio Iyoda

Yukinori Miyata

Mikio Kumano

Iwao Yokomori

Teruo Nishio

Hironari Nukata

Kenro Sekino

Takashi Hisegawa

Yoshihiko Huruya

A semiconductor pressure transducer comprises a metal housing having a cylindrical recess to which an inlet passage of a medium to be measured is opened, a glass base being received in the recess and having a large diameter cylindrical portion and a small diameter cylindrical portion integrally connected to the large diameter cylindrical portion, a rubber O-ring interposed between a bottom of the recess and the base, a metal tubular collar disposed in the recess around the base to come into contact with the bottom of the recess, the collar urged by a caulked portion of the housing to press the base, a sensor chip provided on an end of the small diameter cylinder of the base for generating an electric signal in response to pressure of said medium, an annular clearance provided between the collar and the base, and an introducing passage provided in the base for introducing the medium from the inlet passage to the sensor chip.

Semiconductor pressure transducer

In a fuel injection system which electrically controls an amount of pressurized fuel supplied to an internal combustion engine, an electromagnetic valve which opens to inject the pressurized fuel is disposed at an upstream of a throttle valve in an intake pipe so that a group of cylinders of the engine is supplied with fuel therefrom. A pressure regulator is provided to regulate a pressure of the pressurized fuel in proportion to an intake pressure present at a downstream of the throttle valve.

Fuel injection system for internal combustion engines

Apparatus for providing information for an agricultural work machine comprising a distance detector which detects the distance travelled by an agricultural vehicle, a fuel consumption detector, which detects the amount of fuel consumed by the engine of the agricultural vehicle, a circuit for inputting the working width of the agricultural vehicle, an operating circuit for calculating fuel consumption rate indicative of the amount of fuel consumed per unit working area, and a display for displaying the calculated information. The fuel consumption detector may be replaced with a timer which detects the working time of the agricultural vehicle so that working efficiency may be obtained in place of the fuel consumption rate. The total area to be worked may be input in order to estimate the time of completion of the agricultural work or the fuel consumption rate at the time of completion of the work. Various function keys may be provided to selectively obtain necessary information among various kinds of information.

Apparatus for providing information for agricultural work machine

A fuel injection device for Diesel engines includes a combustion detector comprising a photoelectric transducer and a light path extended through a nozzle body to transmit the light of a combustion flame developed in an engine cylinder to the photoelectric transducer. One end of the light path is opened to an oil sump communicating with a nozzle opening so that only when the nozzle opening is opened for injecting fuel and then a combustion flame is developed, the light of the flame is passed through the light path and reaches the photoelectric transducer thereby generating an electric signal indicative of the actual time of the combustion. The whole or part of the light path may be comprised of optical fibers.

Fuel injection device for Diesel engines

The intake pressure and temperature of a Diesel engine equipped with a supercharger are sensed and the sensed intake pressure value is divided by the sensed intake temperature value to obtain an intake density. A value indicative of the intake density is divided by a value indicative of the air-excess ratio computed in accordance with the operating condition of the engine producing a smoke-limit injection amount. The smoke-limit injection amount is compared with the injection amount corresponding to a part-load condition of the engine and the smaller one of the values is applied to a linear solenoid for controlling the fuel injection amount adjusting member in the fuel injection pump of the engine.

Electric control apparatus for a fuel injection pump

An electric control apparatus for a fuel injection pump comprises a fuel flow sensor for detecting the net quantity of fuel supplied to the fuel injection pump, operating condition sensors for detecting operating condition parameters of an engine, a servo device for driving a fuel injection quantity controlling element of the fuel injection pump which controls the fuel injection quantity of the fuel injection pump, and an electric control circuit for receiving detection signals from the fuel flow sensor and the operating condition sensors, computing the actual fuel injection quantity and the desired fuel injection quantity, and determining an error between the computed actual fuel injection quantity and desired fuel injection quantity to drive the fuel injection quantity controlling element of the fuel injection pump through the servo device in accordance with an error representing signal, thereby controlling the actual fuel injection quantity at the desired fuel injection quantity. By ensuring high detection accuracy of the fuel flow sensor, it is possible to accomplish high precision control of the fuel injection quantity without utilizing the position of a moving part of the fuel injection quantity controlling element of the fuel injection pump.

Electric control apparatus for fuel injection pumps

An electrical governor for a fuel injection pump with a spill ring comprises an acceleration pedal operating amount (PA) detector, an engine rotational speed (N) detector, a spill ring displacement detector, a maximum limit injection amount pattern memory for storing the relation between the engine rotational speed (N) and the maximum smoke concentration generating injection amount (Qmax), a partial load injection amount pattern memory for storing the relation between the rotational speed (N) and the partial load injection amount (Qpar) corresponding to the acceleration pedal operating amount (PA) with the acceleration pedal operating amount (PA) as a parameter, a minimum limit injection amount pattern memory for storing the relation between the rotational speed (N) and the minimum limit injection amount (Qmin), a target position pattern memory for storing the relation between the target injection amount (Qf) and the spill ring displacement target position (V.sub.SN), microcomputer means for reading out the values Qmin, Qpar and Qmax for the detected values PA and N and calculating the values Qf' and V.sub.SN ' corresponding to the detected values PA and N by interpolation, and actuator drive means for correcting the spill ring displacement in accordance with the calculated target position V.sub.SN ', thereby correcting the change in the fuel injection amount caused by the change in rotational speed. The governor alternatively includes a target position pattern memory for storing the relation between the values PA, N and V.sub.SN for a corresponding value Qf.

Electrical fuel injection pump governor

An optimum control method for internal combustion engines uses the values of an engine control variable, such as engine timing, which are arranged in a map and stored in a memory. During normal operation, the engine is operated in accordance with one of the mapped engine control variable values related to engine operating conditions. During a fuel consumption minimization operation, the mapped engine control variable value is changed by an incremented amount to operate the engine therewith, and the mapped engine control variable value is replaced by the changed engine control variable value, if it is detected that the change by the incremented amount is in a direction to reduce the fuel consumption rate of the engine. This optimum engine control method can compensate for changes in the characteristics of engines caused during the manufacture or caused by changes over time during their operation, thereby ensuring the operation of an engine at a minimum rate of fuel consumption.

Method of reducing fuel consumption rate in internal combustion engines

A knocking detector for an internal combustion engine includes a vibration unit comprising an inertial mass member and springs which are mounted in a housing attached to an engine body. The spring constants of the springs are so selected that the resonant frequency of the vibration unit becomes substantilly equal to the frequency of vibration due to knocking of the engine, and the vibration of the vibration unit is detected and converted into an electric signal.

Piezoelectric knocking detector for internal combustion engine

In a carburetor, a heating device comprises a honeycomb heater element disposed within at least one of fuel and air passages of the carburetor to heat the fuel and/or air passing therethrough, the honeycomb heater element being made of a ceramic composition to have a positive temperature coefficient of resistance and being connected at the opposite ends thereof with an electric power source across an ignition switch of the engine, whereby the liquid fuel and/or air is heated by the heating device when the temperature of the liquid fuel or the air is lower than a critical temperature defined by the ceramic composition of the heater element.

Carburetors with heating device

A function signal having a desired characteristic curve is generated through the logical operation on a vehicle speed signal indicative of the speed of a vehicle, a ratio signal indicative of the air-to-fuel of the mixture supplied to the engine mounted on the vehicle, and a pressure signal indicative of the pressure in the intake manifold of the engine. The position of an electromagnetic valve for adjusting the amount of fuel supplied to the engine is controlled in response to the function signal, thereby controlling the air-to-fuel of mixtures in accordance with the various driving conditions of the vehicle including the vehicle speed.

Electric air-to-fuel ratio control system

A desired function signal is provided by a logical circuit which selects one of a signal corresponding to the speed of a vehicle carrying an internal combustion engine, a signal corresponding to the intake pressure, a signal corresponding to the air-to-fuel ratio of the mixture supplied to the engine, and a signal corresponding to the opening of a throttle valve in accordance with the driving conditions of the vehicle. The amount of additional intake air flowing through an additional intake system provided in the engine is controlled in accordance with the desired function signal, thus providing an air-fuel mixture ratio which suits the driving conditions of the vehicle, the running speed of the vehicle in particular.

Air-to-fuel ratio control system for internal combustion engines

A control system for an internal combustion engine wherein the torque developed by an internal combustion engine is detected to provide optimum control of the ignition timing of the engine and thereby to ensure an improved engine efficiency as well as an improved fuel economy. The system comprises an engine torque detector for detecting the torque developed by the engine, a signal generator for generating signals used to periodically change the ignition timing of the engine, a phase discriminator for discriminating the phase relation between the output signals of the engine torque detector and the periodic change signal generator, and ignition timing control means for controlling the ignition timing in response to the output of the phase discriminator.

Control system for an internal combustion engine

An electric governor for an internal combustion engine comprises an engine speed sensor, a phase shifter, a twin-T type filter and a multiplier for multiplying outputs of the phase shifter and the twin-T type filter. The twin-T type filter is arranged to vary its gain and phase in response to the difference between the peculiar frequency thereof and the frequency of the speed signal, whereby the multiplied outputs varies its amplitude and polarity in response to the frequency difference. A servo motor which is adapted to control the engine speed control mechanism is connected to the multiplier, so that the engine can be controlled to run at a predetermined speed which corresponds to the peculiar frequency of the twin-T type filter.

Electric governor

There is provided a vehicle engine-driven alternator wherein an internal combustion engine is coarsely adjusted to a preset speed by an engine governor, the turning driving force of the engine is transmitted to an alternator through a magnetic slip coupling, and the excitation current to the magnetic slip coupling is controlled by an excitation control circuit which compares the number of revolutions of the alternator with a preset value to generate an output depending on the result of the comparison, thereby providing a source of alternating current having an extremely accurate preset frequency.

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