Abstract:
PURPOSE:To prevent malfunctioning of a timing control means, by prohibiting operation of a starter at the time when a step motor is operated in an apparatus for controlling the valve timing by the rotation of a step motor. CONSTITUTION:An inner sleeve 36 on the side of a cam shaft 18 and an outer sleeve 38 on the side of a timing pulley 28 are respectively formed with slits 40, 42, and the valve timing is controlled by moving roller bearings 44, 46 in the slits 40, 42 by a step motor 50. Signals relating to the pressure in an intake pipe, the water temperature, the engine speed, etc. are applied to a control circuit, which controls the valve timing to render the actually measured value equal to an aimed value stored in its memory. With such an arrangement, operation of a starter is prohibited when the step motor is in operation but an engine is not in operation, whereby it is enabled to prevent malfunctioning of a control apparatus due to the drop of voltage and to control the valve timing accurately.
Abstract:
PURPOSE: To measure a movement distance without contacting by outputting the detection signal of the movement distance on the basis of an electric output which is generated by a magnet pickup provided to a fixed member and varies in level periodically. CONSTITUTION: The magnet pickup 92 is provided to a motor housing and a detection piece 93 made of a permanent magnet is provided on an end surface of an inner sleeve 50 at one point on the circumference which faces the magnet pickup. The magnet pickup 92 generates a periodic voltage output during the rotation of the inner sleeve and its peak level is outputted when the magnet pickup 92 is brought to face the detection piece 93. In this, case, the output voltage level varies with the distance between the magnet pickup 92 and detection piece 93. This distance depends upon the position of a bearing supporter 56, whose position corresponds to valve timing, so the valve timing is detected. COPYRIGHT: (C)1984,JPO&Japio
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To reduce the thrust force by forming the one end of a slit as linear shape paralleled to a cam shaft, in the device wherein a slider moving toward the cam shaft direction generates the relative revolution of a pair of sleeves formed between a crank shaft side and a cam shaft side. CONSTITUTION:Slits 13, 14 intersecting each other are formed on an outer sleeve 10 receiving the driving force from a crank shaft and on an inner sleeve 6 connected with a cam shaft B, the slit 13 of the inner sleeve 13 is extended in linear shape paralleled to the cam shaft B. Bearings 15, 16 reciprocate toward the cam shaft B inside of both slits 13, 14, the opening or closing timing of a valve is changed. The thrust force generated in the outer sleeve 10 is transferred to the bearing 16 as the antithrust force via a case 12, a motor 21, an output shaft 22 and a slider 17, accordingly, the thrust force generated in the outer sleeve 10 is cancelled by said anti-thrust force.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To restrain change-over shock in a means which relatively turns cam shaft side and crankshaft side sleeves by means of a slider to change over a valve timing by making change-over control of a motor according to a revolution number of the motor for shifting the slider. CONSTITUTION:When revolution of an output shaft 22 driven by a motor 21 is converted into linear motion of a driving sleeve 23 through means of a screwed part 22A, a slider 17 is reciprocated laterally and the motion is transmitted via a shaft 15 to bearings 15 and 16 which are engaged in slits 13 and 14 on sleeves 6 and 10 intermateably formed. Phases of a cam shaft B and a crankshaft which are connected for interlocking with a timing gear C are thereby varied to change a valve timing into two conditions. The output shaft 22 of the motor 21 is provided with a pulse generator, not illustrated, which generates a pulse signal according to the revolution number of the output shaft. The change-over control of the motor 21 may be performed according to the output pulse signal.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology capable of accurately estimating an adsorbed amount of impurities on a chemical filter. SOLUTION: The fuel cell system comprises an adsorber arranged on an air supply path to an air electrode of a fuel cell and including the chemical filter housed for adsorbing the impurities contained in air to itself, a measuring means for measuring an air amount per unit time which passes through the adsorber, a detection means for detecting a concentration of the impurities contained in the air before an amount of air, which is measured by the measuring means, enters the adsorber, an estimating means for estimating the amount of the impurities per unit time adsorbed to the chemical filter based on the amount of the air, the concentration of the impurities, and adsorption efficiency of the chemical filter, and an output control means for outputting an alarm when an accumulated value of the amount of the impurities exceeds a predetermined value. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To securely prevent generation of steam white smoke when an off-gas to be exhausted from a fuel cell is discharged into the air, regarding a fuel cell system. SOLUTION: The fuel cell system is provided with a cooling means 6 in the off-gas discharge flow-path 4 to discharge into the air the off-gas to be exhausted from the fuel cell 2, and discharges into the air the off-gas which has been cooled below the atmospheric temperature by the cooling means 6. The off-gas discharge flow-path 4 is preferably provided with a plurality of discharge outlets 42, from each of which the off-gas is dispersedly discharged. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a direct injection spark ignition internal combustion engine that ensures positive ignitability for enabling a stratified charge combustion region to expand positively on a heavy load side. SOLUTION: A spark plug and a fuel injection valve that injects fuel directly into a cylinder are provided. The fuel injected from the fuel injection valve is made to travel along a path near the spark plug, either directly or being deflected. A crank mechanism offsets the center of a crankshaft with respect to a central axis of a piston, so as to reduce a crank angular velocity during a compression stroke. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cylinder-injection-of-fuel-type spark ignition internal combustion engine capable of surely enlarging a stratiform combustion area to a high load side by securing the ignitionability. SOLUTION: This cylinder-injection-of-fuel-type spark ignition internal combustion engine is provided with a fuel injection valve for injecting comparatively thin approximately fan-shaped fuel to make the fuel collide with a bottom wall of a cavity on a top of piston at an acute angle, the bottom wall of the cavity is provided with plural fuel guide passages adjacent to each other to guide plural collided fuel parts to a sidewall of the cavity under the consideration of radially dividing the injection fuel into plural fuel parts, the sidewall of the cavity is provided with a first fuel deflection passage and a second fuel deflection passage for deflecting two of plural fuel parts guided by plural fuel guide passages to pass through the neighborhood of an ignition plug, and a collision angle TH1 of the fuel in the first fuel guide passage 81a for guiding the fuel part to the first fuel deflection passage is smaller than a collision angle TH2 of the fuel in the second fuel guide passage 81b for guiding the fuel part to the second fuel deflection passage. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce fuel consumption in the whole cylinder operation and to suppress the deterioration of exhaust emission at the start of the whole cylinder operation in a cylinder injection type spark ignition internal combustion engine in which the engine operation is started by injecting a fuel into only a part of cylinders in at least air intake process to operate by the partial cylinders and then the whole cylinder operation is started after the fuel pressure in an accumulator reaches the level enabling compression process injection by the operation of partial cylinders. SOLUTION: At the start of the whole cylinder operation, a part of cylinders is operated by a layered combustion in which the fuel is injected only in the compression process after operation by a first combustion system wherein the fuel is injected in at least air intake process.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the turbulence in the cylinder of the latter half of a compression stroke at a stratified charge combustion and also stir a fuel sufficiently in a suction stroke at the homogeneous combustion time and form a favorable homogeneous mixture in the cylinder. SOLUTION: In a cylinder injection type spark ignition internal combustion engine provided with an ignition plug 6 and a fuel injection valve 7 for injecting the fuel directly in a cylinder and for carrying out the stratified charge combustion by a compression stroke fuel injection and the homogeneous combustion by a suctions stroke fuel injection, a tumble flow strong weak variable means 10 which can weaken the tumble flow formed in the cylinder at the suction stroke at the stratified charge combustion time in comparison without the homogeneous combustion time is provided. This tumble flow strong weak variable means 10 has the lift amount variable mechanism of the suction valve 3 and reduces the lift amount of the suction valve 3 at the stratified charge combustion time in comparison with the homogeneous combustion time.