Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toru Fujikawa

Masaru Shimizu

Yukihisa Oda

Tokihiko Akita

Yoshinori Taguchi

Tadashi Terazawa

Shigemitsu Suzuki

Makoto Shirai

Naoto Toma

Masanobu Matsusaka

Kazumasa Futamura

Atsutoshi Ikegawa

Yasuhiro Kobayashi

Hirotaka Kurita

Yasutaka Miura

Yoshikuni Ito

Hideki Tsuchiya

Futoshi Kushigemachi

A valve opening/closing timing control apparatus includes a phase displacing mechanism for displacing relative phase between a drive-side rotational member and a driven-side rotational member rotatable in unison with a cam shaft, a first pump driven by an internal combustion engine, a second pump driven by a drive source different from the internal combustion engine, a locking mechanism capable of locking the relative phase to an initial phase suitable for starting the internal combustion engine, and an urging mechanismfor urging the phase displacing mechanism in the advancing direction between the most retarding phase and the initial phase, a minimal urging force of the urging mechanism being set so as to override the displacing force toward the retarding phase side at the minimal pressure.

Valve opening/closing timing control apparatus

A rotary valve apparatus includes a casing having a fluid passageway, a rotor rotatably mounted in the casing and configured to control, by rotation thereof, a flow state of fluid flowing in the fluid passageway, a drive mechanism for rotating the rotor, and a lock mechanism configured to allow transmission of a rotational force from the drive mechanism to the rotor and to inhibit rotation of the rotor under non-rotation driving state of the driving mechanism.

Rotary valve apparatus

In order to provide an engine oil supply apparatus including a second oil pump () which can draw in and discharge oil quickly regardless of whether or not a first oil pump () is driven and which does not need to be large, an engine oil supply apparatus (Y) includes a first oil pump () drawing oil through a first oil passage () from an oil holder () holding oil, a second oil pump () connected in series with the first oil pump () through a connection oil passage () and driven independently of the first oil pump (), a first supply oil passage () for supplying oil to a first circulation section () from the first oil pump (), and a second supply oil passage () for supplying oil to a second circulation section () from the second oil pump (). In the engine oil supply apparatus (Y), a first oil reservoir () holds oil to be supplied to the second oil pump () and is provided independently of the oil holder () is provided.

Engine oil supply apparatus

A throttle valve control device for controlling the amount of inlet air fed to an internal combustion engine has a throttle valve disposed in an air intake passage, a throttle shaft integrally connected with the throttle valve so as to rotate with the throttle valve in a body, a driving source for generating driving torque, and a driving torque transmitting mechanism disposed between the driving source and the throttle shaft for transmitting the driving torque to the throttle shaft. The driving torque transmitting mechanism includes a torque limiting mechanism for limiting the transmitted driving torque to a predetermined level.

Throttle valve control device

A throttle control apparatus that maintains a vehicle's ability to run during a throttle system failure includes a throttle-controlling ECU that calculates a throttle opening instruction value from an accelerator stroke signal outputted from an accelerator pedal sensor, and supplies a motor with a current value based on the instruction value, to control the opening of a throttle valve. If the deviation between the instruction value and the output value from a throttle sensor is greater than a reference value, the ECU determines that there is a system failure. If it is determined that a system failure exists, an internal combustion engine controlling ECU varies the number of cylinders of the engine in operation to vary the engine output, depending on whether the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal by the driver is greater than a predetermined value.

Throttle control apparatus

A throttle control apparatus controls the amount of inlet air fed to an internal combustion engine on the basis of the degree of opening of a throttle valve. The throttle valve is constituted by a valve body that is fixedly mounted on a valve shaft which is rotatably supported on a housing. The valve shaft is connected, via a reduction mechanism, to an output shaft of a coreless DC motor that is accommodated within the housing. The DC motor is operated to increase or decrease the amount of inlet air to the engine based on a change of the acceleration pedal position, for example by rotating the valve body by way of the valve shaft through an angle that corresponds to the change in position of the accelerator pedal. Employing a DC coreless motor allows the throttle valve to respond to a very quick positioning of the acceleration pedal with a relatively great degree of accuracy.

A control system for a variable displacement engine for an automobile changes a number of the cylinders of the engine when an engine load changes. The system sets an amendment value to a throttle valve opening in accordance with a throttle valve opening and an engine revolution. The system controls the throttle valve before the system changes a number of the cylinders. Thus the throttle valve is controlled to obtain the same torque before and after the change of the number of the cylinders.

Control device for a variable displacement engine

A hydraulic valve lifter having function to stop valve drive comprises a cylinder, a lifter body sliding in the cylinder, a cam driving the lifter body, a tappet sliding in the lifter body, a valve driven by the tappet, a plunger located between the lifter body and the tappet, a reservoir formed in the lifter body and being in fluid communication with a hydraulic source always, a first pressure room formed in the tappet and separated from the reservoir via the plunger, a check valve controlling a communication between the reservoir and the first pressure room, a piston sliding in the lifter body and having a rod driving the check valve, a second pressure room located at one side of the piston and being in fluid communication with the hydraulic source via a control valve, a room located at the other side of the piston, and a passage decreasing a pressure in the room.

Hydraulic valve lifter having function to stop valve drive

A throttle control apparatus includes an accelerator operation mechanism, a throttle shaft, a driving source, an electromagnetic clutch mechanism, driving control means, accelerator operational amount detecting means, accelerator abnormality detecting means, throttle valve opening amount detecting means, throttle abnormality detecting means, valve abnormality detecting means and clutch control means. The accelerator abnormality detecting means judge the abnormality of the accelerator operational amount detecting means and the throttle abnormality detecting means judge the abnormality of the throttle valve opening amount detecting means. Furthermore, the valve abnormality detecting means judge the operation of the throttle control as abnormality when the amount of the throttle valve opening is more than a prescribed value under the condition which the operational amount of the accelerator operation amount is less than a prescribed value. As a result of abnormality judgments of these three kinds, when at least one of them is judged as abnormality, the electromagnetic clutch mechanism is driven by the clutch control means so as to separate the driving source from the throttle shaft.

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Obu, Japan

Toru Fujikawa