Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Nippon Steel Corporation

Takashi Iwaki

Hiroshi Matsumoto

Juzo Shibata

Kazunori Itou

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Nobuyuki Uematsu

Kunitoshi Watanabe

Mamoru Takeda

Takashi Hayashi

A hydrogen engine system comprises an engine, a metal hydride container connected with the engine and providing the engine with hydrogen, a heat intermedium providing mechanism connected with the hydrogen occluding alloy container and providing the metal hydride container with heat intermedium, a first control mechanism connected with the heat intermedium providing mechanism and controlling the heat intermedium providing mechanism so that the temperature of the heat intermedium supplied to the metal hydride container be kept at a constant value, and a second control mechanism connected with the heat intermedium providing mechanism between the first control mechanism and the metal hydride container and controlling the amount of the heat intermedium supplied from the heat intermedium providing mechanism to the metal hydride container.

Hydrogen engine system

Method for starting a hydrogen engine and a method for stopping a

Hydrogen engine system with metal hydride container

Method for controlling heat of a metal hydride container

A torque detecting apparatus for an electrical power steering system, having a steering wheel, a first steering shaft connected to the steering wheel, a second steering shaft connected to a vehicle wheel to be steered, an electric motor connected to the second steering shaft, and a controller for operating the motor to produce a driving force corresponding to a torque detected by the torque detecting apparatus. The apparatus comprises: an elastic coupling having an elastic member, and coupling the steering shafts while permitting relative rotation of the steering shafts through elastic deformation of the elastic member; a first and a second detector shaft supported rotatably relative to each other; a first and a second speed-up device for increasing angular velocities of rotary movements of the first and the second steering shafts and transmitting the rotary movements to the first and second detector shafts, respectively; and a detector associated with the detector shafts to detect an angle of relative rotation of the detector shafts and thereby detect the steering torque, and producing an electric signal representative of the torque, said signal being applied to the controller.

Torque detecting apparatus for electrical power steering system

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Okazaki, Japan

Takashi Iwaki