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Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi-high-technologies Corporation

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Babcock-hitachi K.k.

Hiatchi, Ltd.

Yasunaga Hamada

Yoshio Okamoto

Yoshiyuki Tanabe

Makoto Yamakado

Hiromasa Kubo

Kenji Tabuchi

Yuzo Kadomukai

Yasuo Namaizawa

Yzo Kadomukai

Nobukatsu Arai

Toshio Takahata

Kiyoshi Amou

Yoshihiro Sukegawa

Takehiko Kowatari

Hiroshi Kanazawa

Akira Nishioka

Hideo Tatsumi

Kenichi Gunji

Kenji Nakayama

Ikuhisa Hamada

Yukihiro Yoshinari

Toshifumi Mukai

Hiroshi Yokota

Koichi Kashiwa

Yoshinori Taguchi

Shozo Kawasaki

In a rotating electrical machine, in the case where a cylindrical component is fixed by press fitting or the like, the opening edge of the cylindrical component is widened toward the end to provide peeps for facilitating the insertion of the cylindrical component. However, the outer shape of a rotor expands due to the peeps, and a gap needs to be provided between the rotor and a stator in consideration of the expanded portion of the outer shape, which causes the degradation of the performance of the rotating electrical machine. In addition, in the case where magnets are fixed only by the tightening force of a magnet cover, the greater the centrifugal force becomes, the larger the clamping margin becomes and similarly the larger the peeps become, and thus the expanded portion also becomes larger. However, if the opening edge is not widened to the end, the absence of the peeps makes it difficult to insert the magnet cover. The purpose of the present invention is to solve such a problem and to allow the magnets to be fixed with the magnet cover without degrading the performance of the rotating electrical machine. Cutout portions are provided at the opening edge of the magnet cover, and the cutout portions at the opening edge of the magnet cover are bent toward the internal diameter after being press fitted in order to fix the magnets.

Structure for preventing scattering of magnet and retaining magnet for rotating electrical machine

A cylinder-shaped flow passage in which a first fluid flows includes an internal cylinder which is smaller in diameter than the flow passage. A swirl-generating stator having four vanes is radially fixed in the internal cylinder. A header space for supplying a second fluid is provided to the outer circumference of a wall surface of the internal cylinder in contact with flow separation areas which are formed along downstream surfaces of the swirl-generating stator as the first fluid runs into the swirl-generating stator. The wall surface of the internal cylinder is formed with openings through which the flow separation areas communicate with the header space. The second fluid supplied into the header space flows through the openings into the flow separation areas, and is diffused along the vanes of the swirl-generating stator to be swirled and mixed into the first fluid applied with swirling force by the swirl-generating stator.

Fluid mixing apparatus

An electromagnetic fuel injector of an internal combustion engine having a plurality of electromagnetic coils for valve driving wound separately on a bobbin in an axial direction. The bobbin has a step difference of the outer diameter so that the bobbin outer diameter in the region with the second coil to be wound thereon is smaller then the bobbin outer diameter in the region with the first coil to be wound thereon, and the bobbin inner diameter has a step difference in that the bobbin inner diameter in the region with the first coil to be wound thereon is made large partially so as to secure an annular space to interpose a seal ring therein.

Electromagnetic type fuel injector valve

An electromagnetic fuel injector is provided with a first coil having a large rate of change in time of magnetomotive force and a second coil having a smaller rate of change in time of magnetomotive force than the first coil. During a valve opening operation at the time of opening the valve, current is passed through at least the first coil, and then current of a smaller current value than in the opening operation is caused to flow so as to hold the valve open, using the first and second coils.

Fuel injection apparatus, fuel injection method and internal combustion engine

A fuel injection apparatus including a controller to output an injection time command signal and an opening movement time command signal to command an opening movement time from a closed state to an open state of an electromagnetic fuel injection valve and a control circuit, coupled to the controller, to change an electric current flowing in a coil of the electromagnetic fuel injection valve between when the electromagnetic fuel injection valve is closed and opened. The controller sends both the injection time command signal and the opening movement time command signal through the same signal line to the control circuit.

Electromagnetic fuel injector and control method thereof

The target peak current value, where a current value is reduced in conformity to a drop in the voltage of a battery is stored in target peak current storage unit . ON-signals are sent from current control circuit to power transistor in response to the injection command pulse coming from engine controller so that current is applied to coil . Then, the current flowing to coil is detected by the current detecting resistor . Comparator compares this detected current and the target peak current value read from the target peak current storage unit conforming to the voltage of battery . If agreement is found between these two values, OFF-signals are sent to power transistor from current control circuit in response to the switching command coming from comparator . Then, On/Off signals to effect holding of the coil are sent from current control circuit to power transistor . The linearity of the injection volume despite changes in battery voltage can be maintained.

Fuel injector and internal combustion engine

Using a control coil having a high response characteristic suited to the valve opening and a hold coil suited to a hold to be held a large force by a small large current, during the valve opening time a high voltage is applied to the control coil suited to the valve opening and during a valve opening hold time a low and stabilized voltage is applied to the hold coil suite to the holding, and then a valve body driven. In a fuel injection apparatus, a drive manner during a valve opening time and a hold time is optimized.

Electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus, an internal combustion engine having an electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus, and a drive circuit of an electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus

An electromagnetic fuel injection valve in an engine injects fuel by opening/closing a fuel flowing path with a valve element. A controller controls opening/closing of the fuel flowing path and changes magnetic force generated by a control coil driving the valve element so that the magnetic force is less during a valve open state-holding period than at an initial valve-opening time. The controller detects the voltage of a battery and applies the voltage fed from the battery to the control coil, while changing a time interval (Tc), for which current is passed through the control coil, based on the detected voltage, in order to change the magnetic force, without raising the voltage from the battery. The controller also detects increase/decrease of a pressing force on the valve element caused by fuel pressure and changes the time interval (Tc) accordingly.

A laminated fuel swirl element is employed, in which a strong swirl force flow is imparted to the fuel at a remote position relative to an injection hole, while on the other hand, at a position near the fuel injection hole, a weak swirl force is imparted to the fuel. A complex solid cone spray can be obtained in this way, which spray has a superior dispersion characteristic obtained by attracting small diameter droplets, which are generated at an outer peripheral portion of the spray, through a spray portion which is generated in the vicinity of a central area of the spray and has a large velocity.

Fuel injector and internal combustion engine having the same

Using a control coil having a high response characteristic suited to valve opening and a hold coil suited to a hold to valve open during fuel injection using a small current, during the valve opening time, a high voltage is applied to the control coil suited to the valve opening operation and, during the time the valve is to be held open a low and stabilized voltage is applied to the hold coil. In a fuel injection apparatus, drive manner employed during a valve opening time and a valve hold time is optimized.

Electromagnetic system fuel injection apparatus an internal combustion engine having an electromagnetic system fuel injection apparatus, and a drive circuit of an electromagnetic system fuel injection apparatus

A laminated structure fuel swirl element is employed, in which a strong swirl force flow is imparted to the fuel at a remote side against an injection hole and on the other hand, at a near side of the fuel injection hole, a weak swirl force is imparted to the fuel. A complex solid cone spray can be obtained, such a spray has a superior a dispersion characteristic by attracting small diameter droplets which are generated at an outer peripheral portion of the spray through a spray which is generated at a vicinity of a central portion of the spray and has a large velocity. In the spray characteristics in an electromagnetic system fuel injector of a direct injection gasoline engine, a complex solid cone spray can be obtained, as a result a good ignitability of the engine can be obtained by a spray having a small spreading angle by making strong an inertia force and a discharge amount of the unburned gas components of the combustion can be reduced by a spray having a short reaching distance and a large spreading angle by making weak the inertia force.

In an electromagnetic fuel injection valve for injecting fuel by opening/closing a fuel flowing path, including a valve seat, a valve element for opening/closing the fuel flowing path formed between the valve seat and the valve element, and a drive unit having at least one coil, for driving the valve element. The drive unit includes a first magnetomotive force generating device using the at least one coil and a second magnetomotive force generating device, the first magnetomotive force generating device and the second magnetomotive force generating device being composed so that the first magnetomotive force generating device generates and raises magnetomotive force at a larger rate of change in time in comparison with the second magnetomotive force generating device. A valve opening hold state is held by the second magnetomotive force generating device which uses a smaller current flow in comparison with the first magnetomotive force generating device.

A laminated fuel swirl element is employed, in which a strong swirl force flow is imparted to the fuel at a remote position relative to an injection hole, while on the other hand, at a position near the fuel injection hole, a weak swirl force is imparted to the fuel. A complex solid cone spray can be obtained in this way, which spray has a superior dispersion characteristic obtained by attracting small diameter droplets, which are generated at an outer peripheral portion of the spray, through a spray portion which is generated in the vicinity of a central area of the spray and has a large velocity. As to the spray characteristics in an electromagnetic fuel injector of the direct injection type for use in a gasoline engine, a complex solid cone spray can be obtained, and, as a result a good ignitability of the engine can be obtained by a spray portion having a small spreading angle produced by making the inertia force strong, and the amount of the unburned gas components of the combustion can be reduced by a spray portion having a short distance or extent of travel and a large spreading angle produced by making the inertia force weak.

When an electromagnetic coil receives an electric supply, a stationary core, a yoke, and a movable core form a magnetic circuit. The movable core is attracted to a side of the stationary core against the force provided by a return spring member. A fuel passage for injection of fuel is then opened. Axial direction stepwise differences are formed on the movable core. One end face of the stationary core opposes the stepwise difference through a first gap. A projection portion of the yoke is provided toward an inner side of the yoke. This projection portion opposes a position of a side to provide an axial direction magnetic attraction through a second gap. By the provision of the first and second gaps, plural axial direction magnetic attraction gaps are formed and become a part of the magnetic circuit. By increasing a magnetic attraction efficiency of the movable core, an improvement in performance of a fuel injector and a fuel injector having a compact size and a light weight structure can be attained.

Fuel injector for use in internal combustion engine

An electromagnetic fuel injection valve for injecting fuel by opening/closing a fuel flow path, includes a valve seat, a valve element for opening/closing the fuel flow path formed between the valve seat and the valve element, and a drive unit having at least one coil for driving the valve element. The drive unit includes a first magnetomotive force generating device using the at least one coil and a second magnetomotive force generating device, the first magnetomotive force generating device and the second magnetomotive force generating device being composed so that the first magnetomotive force generating device generates and raises its magnetomotive force at a larger rate of change in time in comparison with the second magnetomotive force generating device. A valve open state is held by the second magnetomotive force generating device which uses a smaller current flow in comparison with the first magnetomotive force generating device.

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Yasunaga Hamada