Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Yoshiaki Ito

Masaki Okamura

Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

Shoichi Sasaki

Toshinori Takahashi

Kisaburo Hayakawa

Kosuke Aiki

Hideto Inagaki

Hiroki Matsuoka

Makoto Yamazaki

Eiji Sato

Akihiro Misawa

Kenichi Harada

Satoshi Inagaki

Shinichi Goto

Mitsuhiro Nawashiro

Makoto Tamaki

Tadaoki Ichikawa

Minoru Iwata

Norihito Kino

Ryuichi Deguchi

Masaru Nakano

Shinya Ohori

Toru Hanafusa

Hiroshi Moribe

Kazutoshi Sukigara

Toshio Kato

Syuji Tomura

A hybrid vehicle includes a first gear mechanism which transmits the power of the internal combustion engine to the motor generator side, while accelerating the power between the internal combustion engine and the motor generator; a second gear mechanism which transmits the power of the motor generator side to a vehicle drive shaft, while decelerating the power between the motor generator and the vehicle drive shaft; a third gear mechanism which transmits the power of the drive motor side to the vehicle drive shaft, while decelerating the power between the drive motor and the vehicle drive shaft; a clutch mechanism which switches connection and disconnection between the drive shaft of the motor generator and the first gear mechanism or the second gear mechanism; and a control device which controls the clutch mechanism. The motor generator is not connected to both the vehicle drive shaft and the internal combustion engine at the same time at the time of normal traveling.

Hybrid vehicle

A series hybrid vehicle is equipped with an engine, a first motor generator, and a second motor generator. The vehicle has a reduction gear that is a first power transmission mechanism for engaging the engine with the first motor generator, a reduction gear that is a second power transmission mechanism for engaging the first motor generator with a vehicle drive shaft, and a clutch that is capable of engaging the first motor generator with one of the two reduction gears in a switching manner. The vehicle further has a transmission that switches between transmission gear ratios and engages the second motor generator with the vehicle drive shaft.

Series hybrid vehicle

On start of an engine, a difference &#x394;Pm between a first intake pipe pressure Pmand a second intake pipe pressure Pmis computed. Reduction correction of wall surface deposition correction is prohibited until the state that the difference &#x394;Pm is equal to or less than a reference value &#x394;Pmref continues over a predetermined number of strokes nref of the engine. After the state that the difference &#x394;Pm is equal to or less than the reference value &#x394;Pmref continues over the predetermined number of strokes nref of the engine, permission is given for the reduction correction.

Automobile with fuel injection controller

Torque pulsations generated in the torque of an engine are obtained from detection signals from a crankshaft angle detection sensor and an engine water temperature detection sensor at the time of an engine starting operation. A control unit controls an MGvia a drive circuit so that a damping torque of the same phase as the torque pulsations is generated, and ensures that the torque pulsations of the engine are not transmitted to a ring gear from a planetary carrier.

Torque transmission device and method of reducing effects of torque pulsations

A control unit of the present invention for an electric vehicle capable of being driven using torque from an electric motor generated in response to a torque instruction, comprising an electric motor rotation speed detection and estimation unit for detecting or estimating rotation speed of the electric motor, a drive wheel rotation speed detection and estimation unit for detecting or estimating rotation speed of drive wheels, and a torque instruction compensation unit. The torque instruction compensation unit compensates the torque instruction so as to control vibration of the vehicle based on rotational speed of the electric motor detected or estimated by the electric motor rotation speed detection and estimation unit and drive wheel rotation speed detected or estimated by the drive wheel rotation speed detection and estimation unit.

Control unit and control method for controlling vibration of an electric vehicle

A casing accommodates therein three primary colors of chip LEDs. The casing is disposed in a through hole of a plate-shaped light guide. The chip LEDs are mounted on both surfaces of a substrate so as to face a peripheral surface of the through hole (light incident surface). The casing is made of a transparent synthetic resin accommodating therein the substrate and the chip LEDs. The light emitted from the chip LEDs can be introduced directly into the light incident surface of the light guide. The three primary color of chip LEDs are controlled so that a desired color and intensity of light can be efficiently introduced into the light guide.

Light emitting diode lamp device

A vehicle display lighting device the lighting device includes a light emitting assembly arranged along the outer circumference of the display dial in front of the front surface. The light emitting assembly directs lights across at least the front surface of the display dial. The lighting device also includes a control assembly for controlling the operation of the light emitting assembly. The light emitting assembly may one or more light sources for emitting light, and a transmitting assembly for radiating the light from the light source across at least the front surface of the display dial.

Vehicle display lighting device

The exhaust pipe of an engine has a double-wall structure consisting of an inner pipe and an outer pipe, and the inner pipe is spaced from the outer pipe with a predetermined clearance (heat insulating layer). The exhaust pipe includes a fitting for connecting other parts. At this fitting portion, the outer pipe has a outer hole. Likewise, the inner pipe has an inner hole. A nipple is situated on the outer pipe around the edge of the outer hole and is fixed to the outer pipe. An oxygen sensor is fitted to the nipple, and it extends through the inner hole of the inner pipe. A seal which is provided between the oxygen sensor and the flat portion of the inner pipe slidably contacts the step and the flat portion such that the fitting is unaffected by unequal thermal expansion between the inner and outer pipes.

Engine exhaust pipe

A manufacturing method and apparatus therefor for forming an elongate body such as a window molding for automobiles in which a thin member H is formed by pressing a thick member V by a press roller 4. The press roller 44 presses the thick member at a definite pressure in order to join an outer support 15 and a head 12V of the window molding by a specified length according to a longitudinal position. At the same time, a moving range for pressing of the press roller 44 is set within a fixed range.

Manufacturing method and apparatus for forming an elongate body having

In an image processor system, a processor includes a first two-dimensional look-up table for receiving first and second digital data as an address, a second two-dimensional look-up table for receiving an output digital data of the first two-dimensional look-up table and a third digital signal as an address, and a latch circuit for temporarily storing the output digital data of the second look-up table. The processor is flexible and the functions thereof can be varied by changing the contents of the look-up tables.

Image processor system having multifunction look-up table units

An exhaust apparatus connected to a V-type internal combustion engine which is mounted in an engine compartment in a front part of a vehicle. The exhaust apparatus comprises a front exhaust manifold and a rear exhaust manifold connected to banks of the V-type engine respectively, an exhaust assembly connected to the exhaust manifolds and a catalytic converter interposed in the exhaust assembly. The wall thickness of the front exhaust manifold is made thinner than that of the rear exhaust manifold. By the thin front exhaust manifold, the heat capacity of the front exhaust path extending from the front exhaust manifold toward the catalytic converter is lessened, thereby suppressing the dropping of temperature of the exhaust gas flowing through the front exhaust path. As a result, the dropping of temperature of the exhaust gas reaching the catalytic converter is suppressed as a whole, and a catalyst in the catalytic converter is warmed up quickly to a required temperature.

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Yoshiaki Ito