Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

Yazaki Corporation

Takuji Akiyama

Takenori Kano

Nobuaki Miki

Masahiro Ito

Yoshikazu Sakaguchi

Kenji Takahashi

Haruki Shirasaka

Takeshi Nasu

Yuji Iwatsuru

Katsutoshi Komatsu

Masayoshi Kato

Munetaka Torii

Koichi Ichigo

Takuo Shimizu

Shuichi Takeda

Takashi Wakasugi

Noriyuki Tani

Koji Ebisu

A vehicle drive apparatus for supplying oil pressure to a hydraulic servo at restart of an engine. The vehicle drive apparatus includes an accumulator that accumulates the oil pressure, an electromagnetic switching valve that retains oil pressure of the accumulator when an oil pump is stopped, a switching valve control unit that controls opening and closing of the electromagnetic switching valve, and a restart determining unit that determines whether or not to restart the vehicle drive source from a stopped state. When it is determined by the restart determining unit to restart the vehicle drive source, the switching valve control unit is started so as to supply the oil pressure accumulated in the accumulator to the hydraulic servo. As a result, engine friction engagement elements are quickly engaged to enable starting of a vehicle.

Vehicle drive apparatus

The connector includes a connector housing having two terminal fittings and terminal receiving chambers for receiving the terminal fittings, and a spacerto be inserted into the connector housing through an opening. A receptacle for inserting an unlocking jig is formed on the spacer. The receptacle is opened at an outer wall of the spacer and a boundary wall to the connector housing. The receptacle is disposed in a manner not to spread across two terminal-receiving chambers. The receptacle communicates with one of the terminal-receiving chambers. A block of a main body of the spacer blocks a path between the receptacle and the other terminal-receiving chamber.

Connector having a spacer for preventing an entrance of foreign particles

In a position detecting switch, a first movable contact is disposed in a first receptacle formed in a sliding body and is urged toward a casing member by a first spring so as to engage first and second stationary contacts mounted in the casing member when the sliding body is in a selected position. In order to prevent non-contact due to rotating moment of the first movable contact relative to the stationary contacts one or more features for inhibiting or reducing the relative moment are provided such as: (1) The first and second stationary contacts can be urged toward the first movable contact by fourth and fifth springs. (2) An elastic member or members can be disposed in a clearance between end walls of the sliding body and walls of the first receptacle. (3) The first spring can be restrained to apply its load to a substantially middle portion of the movable contact. (4) A plurality of the first springs can be provided to apply load the movable contact at a plurality of locations in a lengthwise direction. (5) An interval between the first and second stationary contacts can be increased. (6) An auxiliary receptacle member can be provided in the contact receptacle in the sliding body. (7) A lid can be disposed in the opening of the contact receptacle and have an opening larger than the movable contact but smaller than the contact receptacle.

Position detecting, rotary switch with movable contact-rotor assembly

An electromagnetic valve includes a hydraulic circuit coupling having an input port and a strainer mounted over the input port. The strainer is an entirely planar member and includes a filter portion having a plurality of pores forming a mesh and a retaining portion formed around the outer circumference of the filter portion. The strainer is fixed on the cylindrical wall of the input port of the hydraulic circuit coupling. The hydraulic circuit coupling may have a plurality of projections for engaging and holding the strainer. Alternatively, the retaining portion of the strainer may have a plurality of coplanar projections extending from its outer circumference coplanar with the filter portion and mating with a groove formed around the inner circumference of the input port of the coupling.

Electromagnetic valve

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Aichi, Japan

Takuji Akiyama