Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshihiko Kobayashi

Hirohumi Michioka

Mineo Ogino

Masaki Noda

Toshinari Oonishi

Minoru Hayashi

A catalytic converter system for purifying exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine has a catalytic converter of the so-called monolithic type having a catalytic body of a honeycomb shape. The body has an elongated cross-sectional-shaped inlet surface located transverse to the flow of exhaust gas. An exhaust pipe of a relatively small diameter has an end facing the inlet of the catalytic body. In order to direct the exhaust gas to the outermost portion of the elongated inlet of the catalytic body, the exhaust pipe is, on the end facing the inlet, provided with a guiding means for forming one opening on each side of the exhaust pipe in the direction along which the inlet of catalytic body is elongated. The exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe is partly diverted therefrom via the side openings toward the outermost peripheral portion of the inlet of the catalytic body. Accordingly, the catalytic converter can be used to effectively purify exhaust gas.

Catalytic converter system for an internal combustion engine

The intake fuel charge of an internal combustion engine is heated by utilizing the heat from the exhaust gases which are controlled by a valve mounted on a shaft having a counterweight secured to the shaft to control rotation thereof. A stopper which is engaged by the counterweight is provided for limiting the extent of rotation of the shaft and a spiral bimetallic member is arranged with its inner end secured to the shaft and with its outer end adapted to engage the stopper during engine warm up at relatively low ambient temperature conditions. An engagement member is mounted on the bimetallic member to engage the stopper when the second end of the bimetallic member moves in the direction opposite the direction whereby it would normally engage the stopper. The engagement member may be mounted a distance spaced from the outer end or it may be secured in back-to-back relationship with a second stopper member being provided.

Intake fuel mixture heating system for internal combustion engine

A distributor constructed by providing a silicon coating on a surface of a rotor brush thereof. Only the end surface of the rotor brush is coated, employing an ion-plating coating method.

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Toshihiko Kobayashi