Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Denso Corporation

Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Takahiro Goshima

Yoshiyuki Hattori

Kazutoshi Yogo

Kazuma Matsui

Toshihiro Takei

Hideo Wakata

Hitoshi Tanaka

Yoshihisa Nomura

Nobuyasu Nakanishi

Hideyuki Hayakawa

Ken Nomura

Hiromi Otsuki

Hiroyuki Shinkai

Hiroji Kinbara

Toshiya Morikawa

Masashi Kishimoto

Masahiko Kamiya

Takahiro Kiso

Kozi Takagi

Sadayuki Ohno

Masuhiro Kondo

Koji Okazaki

Takashi Ozawa

A brake control apparatus for automotive vehicles is provided which has two separate hydraulic brake lines leading to wheel cylinders and performs a brake assisting operation to hold the wheel cylinder pressure higher than the master cylinder pressure in each of the hydraulic brake lines when a brake pedal is depressed by a vehicle operator. The brake control apparatus also includes a fluid pressure difference regulator which regulates a pressure difference between the two hydraulic brake lines so as to fall within a given allowable pressure range, thereby minimizing adverse effects on the brake assisting operation which are caused by electric and/or mechanical performance difference between the two hydraulic brake lines.

Hydraulic structure of automatic brake control system

A pressure control valve for use in an automobile braking system includes a spool slidably movable for providing selective fluid communication between a pressure fluid source, a wheel cylinder, and a reservoir. The spool has, or is associated with, a pressure-bearing member responsive to a fluid pressure from the wheel cylinder, for applying a first biasing force to the slidable member to urge the slidable member to a position in which the wheel cylinder and the reservoir communicates with each other. An electromagnetic coil responds to an electric signal for generating an electromagnetic force to urge the slidable member to the above position. The slidable member is normally biased by a spring under a second biasing force, greater than the first biasing force, to urge the slidable member to a position in which the pressure fluid source and the wheel cylinder communicate with each other. The fluid pressure in the wheel cylinder is regulated to cause the sum of the fluid pressure in the wheel cylinder and the electromagnetic force from the electromagnetic coil to counterbalance the second biasing force.

Pressure control valve for continuous pressure control to wheel cylinder

An anti-locking control system for use in a motor vehicle having four wheels, comprising a hydraulic pressure supply system for applying a braking pressure from a master cylinder to two pairs of wheel-braking cylinders for braking the pair of wheels and a pump provided in common for the two pairs of cylinders in the hydraulic pressure supply system to decrease both the braking hydraulic pressures in each pair of wheel-braking cylinders. The hydraulic pressure supply system includes a pair of control valves each of which is arranged to have a first position at which the master cylinder is communicated with each of the pair of wheel-braking cylinders and a suction side of the pump is disconnected to the wheel-braking cylinder and a second position for disconnection to the wheel-braking cylinder and communication with the cylinder. Also provided in the control system an electronic control unit for effecting duty control of the pair of control valves so that the time periods at which the pair of control valves are at the second positions are not overlapped with each other. With this arrangement, although the pressure-decreasing is effected by one pump provided in common for the respective wheel-braking cylinders, it is possible to adequately effect the pressure-decreasing with respect to the lower-pressure side wheel-braking cylinder.

Anti-lock brake control system for use in motor vehicle

An anti-skid braking control system for use on a motor vehicle having first and second wheels includes first and second wheel cylinders for braking the first and second wheels, respectively, with a braking medium pressure transmitted from a master cylinder, first and second solenoid-operated valves disposed in pipes interconnecting the master cylinder and the first and second wheel cylinders, respectively, for selectively providing communication between the master cylinder and the first and second wheel cylinders through the pipes, and first and second pumps connected to the pipes, respectively, for delivering a braking medium from portions of the pipes downstream of the valves to portions of the pipes upstream of the valves. The first and second pumps comprise a common housing, a common plunger slidably disposed in the common housing and reciprocally movable therein, and first and second pressure varying chambers defined by the plunger independently of each other and having respective volumes variable in response to reciprocating movement of the common plunger, the first and second pressure varying chambers having inlet ports, respectively, connected directly to the downstream portions of the pipes. When the anti-skid braking control system operates in an anti-skid braking control mode, the common plunger is reciprocally moved to enable the first and the second pumps to reduce the braking medium pressures in the first and second wheel cylinders independently of each other.

Anti-skid braking control system for use on motor vehicle

An accumulator has a piston axially slidably disposed in a cylinder mounted in a casing, the cylinder and the piston jointly defining a reservoir communicating with an inlet/outlet port in the casing. A piston rod axially movably disposed in the casing has an end slidably fitted in the cylindrical hole of the piston. The piston rod is normally urged by a spring to force the piston into the reservoir. The accumulator also includes a switch mechanism for detecting the position of the piston in the cylinder. The switch mechanism may comprise a reed switch, a light-sensitive switch, a pressure-sensitive switch, or a pushbutton switch.

Accumulator

In an automotive infinite transmission, a rotation of an input pulley is transmitted to an output pulley through a belt in such a manner that a transmission ratio is continuously variable. Each of the input and output pulleys has a fixed pulley member fixedly mounted on a rotary shaft and a movable pulley member mounted on the rotary shaft for axial movement toward and away from the fixed pulley member. A tapered pulley surface of the fixed pulley member cooperates with a tapered pulley surface of the movable pulley member to define therebetween an annular groove having a generally V-shaped cross-section. A plurality of drive blocks are arranged between the pulley surfaces of the respective fixed and movable pulley members and circumferentially along the annular groove with the drive blocks being in sliding contact with the pulley surfaces. Provision is made between the drive blocks and the pulley surfaces in sliding contact therewith for reducing frictional forces. When the movable pulley member is moved axially relative to the fixed pulley member, the drive blocks are moved along generally radially extending slits formed in the tapered pulley surfaces of the respective movable and fixed pulley members. The drive blocks are biased radially inwardly against a centrifugal force due to the rotation of the movable and fixed pulley members.

Automotive infinite transmission

A power transmission device for vehicles comprises: a housing rotatably supporting a crank shaft of an engine of the vehicle; a first shaft rotatably supported inside the housing to be coaxial with the crank shaft; a clutch unit having a drive member arranged inside the housing and coupled to the crank shaft, and a driven member fixed to the first shaft; a second shaft rotatably supported inside the housing to be parallel to the first shaft. The device has also infinite variable transmission including a drive pulley consisting of a fixed sheave and an axially movable sheave mounted on the first shaft, a driven pulley consisting of a fixed pulley and an axially movable sheave mounted on the second shaft, and a V belt which is placed the driving and driven pulleys through V grooves defined by the fixed and axially movable sheaves of the driving and driven pulleys. Hydraulic piston-cylinder assemblies are fixed to the axially movable sheaves and to the associated first and second shafts so that they move the axially movable sheaves towards and away from the associated fixed sheaves. A rotary pump is disposed at the housing has a rotary element operatively coupled to the crank shaft for rotation therewith to generate a hydraulic pressure upon rotation, and which supplies the hydraulic pressure to the hydraulic piston-cylinder assemblies.

Power transmission device for vehicles

An electric control system for an automobile transmission includes an endless transmission member running on a pair of V-shaped pulley units, the mutual distances of the conical sheaves of which are hydraulically adjustable to transmit an output torque of an engine to a driven apparatus. The electric control system is arranged to determine an optimum fluid pressure in relation to the actual output torque of the engine and to determine an optimum transmission ratio for low fuel consumption in relation to the actual output power of the engine. The control system produces a first electric control signal indicative of the difference between the optimum fluid pressure and the actual fluid pressure in one of actuators for the respective pulley units and produces a second electric control signal indicative of the difference between the optimum and actual transmission ratios. The pressure of fluid applied to one of the actuators is controlled in response to the first electric control signal, and the flow quantity of fluid applied to the other actuator is controlled in response to the second electric control signal.

Electric control system for automobile transmission

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