Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Takeshi Sakuragi

Takashi Izuo

Masahiko Asano

Kiyoharu Nakamura

Yutaka Sugie

Hidenori Uebayashi

Hajime Morimoto

Keiichi Oikawa

An electromagnetically driven valve device is formed by attaching a lower core assy, an armature, an upper core assy, and an upper case in that order from bottom, to a cylinder head of an engine. Each of the lower core assy and the upper core assy is unitarily formed so as to have a predetermined shape by resin-molding a core and a coil that form an electromagnet as well as an armature bearing, etc. The lower core assy is fastened together with the upper core assy to the cylinder head, and is thus attached to the mounting surface.

Electromagnetically driven valve device

An electromagnetic drive-type die casting decompression valve comprises a drive shaft, provided inside a drive block, driven by electromagnetic force from a solenoid, and a valve shaft, provided inside a valve block separate from the drive shaft, provided with a valve body on one shaft end. Also, a closing spring working jointly to urge the valve body in a closing direction is provided on the valve shaft, while an opening spring working jointly to urge the valve body in the opening direction is provided on the drive shaft. The valve block is also provided in a replaceable manner. According to this type of electromagnetically driven die casting decompression valve, bouncing is not caused at the time of closing a decompression valve, and it is also possible to significantly decrease maintenance time and repair costs even when problems arise, such as molten metal infiltrating into a valve body.

Electromagnetic drive-type die casting decompression valve, drive method for such a valve, and a die casting unit

A control unit controls an electromagnetically driven valve including a valve body, an electromagnetic drive portion and a spring so as to be opened and closed by an electromagnetic force of the electromagnetic drive portion and a spring force of the spring that is formed of a pair of gas pressure springs each urging the valve body towards a valve opening end position and a valve closing end position, respectively. The control unit includes a controller, when an operation of the valve body is stopped and held in a holding position that is one of the valve opening end position and the valve closing end position, decreases a gas pressure of one of the pair of gas pressure springs that urges the valve body towards a non-holding position opposite to the holding position so as to become lower than a gas pressure of the one of the pair of gas pressure springs that urges the valve body towards the non-holding position when the valve body is operated.

Control unit of electromagnetically driven valve and control method thereof

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Takeshi Sakuragi