Denso Corporation

Shinsuke Miyazaki

Yuichiro Moritani

Koji Hashimoto

Katsuya Torii

Noriyuki Inagaki

Osamu Shimane

Akira Furukawa

Masato Arai

Kazushi Sasaki

Takaaki Oohashi

Eiji Takemoto

Hidetoshi Uchiyama

Takaaki Ohashi

Naomi Ozeki

A low pressure EGR regulating valve is driven by an electric actuator, and an output of the electric actuator is transmitted to an intake air throttle valve through a link device. An ECU executes a failure determination to determine presence of a failure in a case where a sensed opening degree, which is sensed with a low pressure EGR opening degree sensor, is other than an opening degree that corresponds to a maximum opening degree of the throttle valve limited by a mechanical stopper. The ECU executes the failure determination after the energization of the electric actuator is stopped in response to stopping of the engine.

Low pressure exhaust gas recirculation apparatus

A valve is configured to control an opening in a passage. A valve angle sensor is configured to send an electric signal according to a rotation angle of the valve. In a storing process, an actual measurement value of a valve angle at a mechanical full open position is stored as an actual full open valve angle. In a first setting process, a first output value at a mechanical full close position is set. In a second setting process, a second output value at the stored actual full open valve angle is set. The output characteristic is set as an angle to output value relation according to the first output value and the second output value.

Method for setting sensor output

A link apparatus includes a cam plate, a lever and an accommodation member. The cam plate has a cam groove. The lever has a roller engaged with the cam groove and a pin which is inserted through a center of the roller so that the roller is rotatably supported on the pin. The accommodation member accommodates the cam plate and the lever. The accommodation member and the pin have a distance 'A' therebetween. The roller has a thickness 'B' along an axial direction of the pin. The value of the distance &#x201c;A&#x201d; is smaller than the value of the thickness &#x201c;B&#x201d;.

Link apparatus

In a low-pressure EGR system, a mechanical stopper limits a rotation range of a low-pressure EGR regulating valve at a limit opening degree of the low-pressure EGR regulating valve on its fully-open side and outside an EGR amount adjustment opening degree range of the low-pressure EGR regulating valve. After an engine is stopped, a failure detection unit rotates the low-pressure EGR regulating valve to its fully-open position to such an extent that rotation of a linking device is prevented by the mechanical stopper, and is configured to determine that a failure has occurred when an opening degree of the low-pressure EGR regulating valve detected by a low-pressure EGR opening sensor is different from the limit opening degree of the low-pressure EGR regulating valve.

Low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation system

A gear subassembly is for an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system including an EGR valve and a rotatable shaft provided for the EGR valve. The gear subassembly includes a gear and a cam. The gear is a part of reduction gears and is fastened to the rotatable shaft to rotate therearound. The cam is fastened to the gear and is a part of a link mechanism. The gear includes a metal shaft-fastening part used for fastening the gear to the rotatable shaft, and a metal cam-fastening part used for fastening the gear to the cam. The gear is formed by resin-molding with the shaft-fastening part and the cam-fastening part serving as insert parts.

Gear subassembly and exhaust gas recirculation system

When a failure occurs in synchronizing mechanism, an intake air throttle valve is rotated in a direction that is opposite from a normal operational time valve closing direction, so that an arm of a driven plate contacts a throttle valve side stopper to stop rotation of the intake air throttle valve. Thereafter, when a low pressure EGR valve is rotated from a full close position to a full open position, an EGR valve side stopper contacts the arm of the driven plate to stop the low pressure EGR valve. A rotational angle of the EGR valve is sensed with a sensor and is outputted to an ECU. The ECU determines that a failure mode is set when a valve angle sensed with the sensor coincides with a rotation stop position of the EGR valve.

A converting mechanism is provided between an EGR control valve driven by an actuator and an intake-air valve for generating negative pressure, so that the intake-air valve is also driven by the actuator. The converting mechanism has a cam plate rotated together with the EGR control valve and an arm rotated together with the intake-air valve. A cam groove formed in the cam plate is engaged with a driving pin of the arm. The intake-air valve is held at its maximum valve opening position, when the EGR control valve is rotated in a first angular range, while the intake-air valve is rotated from the valve opening position to a maximum valve closing position when the EGR control valve is rotated in a second angular range.

Low pressure EGR apparatus

An actuator includes an electric motor and a drive force transmitting mechanism. The drive force transmitting mechanism includes a rotary gear and a rotary cam. The rotary gear transmits a drive force of the electric motor to an EGR valve to drive the same. The rotary cam transmits the drive force of the electric motor to a mode change valve to drive the same. The rotary cam is releasably linkable to the rotary gear to receive the drive force of the electric motor through the rotary gear.

Exhaust gas recirculation system

A throttle device which prevents the entry of foreign compounds into a slidable contact portion between a brush and a commutator is provided to prevent the malfunctioning of a motor. A first shielding portion is integrally formed in a brush holder, which is attached to a yoke of a motor for holding a brush. The plate-shaped first shielding portion covers the vicinity of the yoke in the outer periphery of the yoke. Accordingly, the first shielding portion covers a gap left between the yoke and the brush holder, and a slidable contact portion between a commutator and the brush on a throttle gear side. Therefore, the first shielding portion prevents a foreign compound, generated in an engagement portion between the throttle gear and a reduction gear and falling onto a motor, from moving to the slidable contact portion, so that it is possible to prevent poor contact between the commutator and the brush.

Throttle device

In an electronically controlled throttle apparatus, a coil spring is shaped to extend from a U-shaped hook portion which is a joint between a first spring portion having a returning function and a second spring portion having an opening function to the other end of the second spring portion. A coating of a lubricant is provided on a sliding contact area between the inside circumferential surface of the coil spring and the outside circumferential surface of the second spring inside circumferential guide. Thus, the sliding resistance in relative motion between the coil spring and the second spring inside circumferential guide can be significantly reduced.

Electronically controlled throttle apparatus

In a gear case of a throttle body, a valve gear is fixed to one end of a throttle shaft, an intermediate reduction gear is rotatable around an intermediate shaft, a pinion gear is fixed to a motor shaft of a drive motor, and a full close position stopper is provided for defining the full close position of a throttle valve. Those are provided all in alignment with the longitudinal centerline of the gear case. For car models where the throttle body bore inside diameter is identical but the rotation direction of the drive motor differs, only some components in the gear case need be replaced and the other components in the gear case can be used as common components.

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Chiryu, Japan

Shinsuke Miyazaki