Abstract:
An improved system for treating waste material in a molten state wherein the waste material in the form of finely pulverized combustible waste material including incombustible material, e.g., pulverized coal, dried sludge derived from sewerage or the like is burnt in a primary combustion furnace and then burnt in a secondary combustion furnace, the incombustible material is molten to form a flow of molten slag and the resultant molten slag is taken to the outside of the system is disclosed. Floatable dust in the combustion waste gas is collected and agglomerated in the atmosphere of a swirling flow having a high temperature enough to keep the incombustible material in a molten state, whereby a flow of molten slag is produced and then it is cooled so as to allow it to be discharged to the outside of the system. The molten slag may flow back by its own gravity weight to the combustion furnace against a counterflow of the waste gas. Any combustible material in the waste material can be burnt in the combustion furnace at a high efficiency and a temperature in the interior of the furnace can be maintained constant at an elevated level. Further, the resultant molten slag can smoothly be discharged from the combustion furnace to the outside of the furnace.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for starting a cold internal combustion engine under optimum conditions. Engine r.p.m. is maintained to a desired value until either the car is started, driven, or the temperature of the engine reaches a predetermined value, whichever first occurs. During this time, the ratio between the air and fuel fed to the engine is kept at the optimum values corresponding to the prevailing engine conditions during this time.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a rotating mechanism of a throttle valve for a fuel supply device of an internal combustion engine. The mechanism has an actuator for opening the throttle valve upon depressing of an accelerator, a cam lever pivotally secured to a throttle shaft and having a cam set to open the throttle valve more than the movement of said actuator upon depressing of the accelerator, a throttle lever for coupling the cam lever to the throttle shaft, and an engaging member mounted at the cam lever side to take an engaging position or a nonengaging position of the throttle lever. In this rotating mechanism of the throttle valve, the engaging member can operate to take the engaging position with respect to the throttle shaft when the actuator becomes impossible to operate. Thus, the rotating mechanism can operate the throttle valve by the operation of an engaging member to take an engaging position or nonengaging position of a throttle lever having a cam set to open the throttle valve more than the movement of an actuator of a stepping motor or a DC motor for opening the throttle valve in response to the depression of an accelerator without using the actuator even if the stepping motor or the DC motor becomes defective to cause the throttle valve to become impossible to operate. The invention thus allows the vehicle to travel and to accelerate the increase in an air amount by opening the throttle valve more than the movement of a stepping motor as an actuator by the cam lever particularly when the vehicle is necessary to be abruptly accelerated in case like racing thereby preferably accelerating the vehicle.
Abstract:
An electronic control fuel injection system for a spark ignition internal combustion engine is described which controls air flow rate as function of fuel flow rate by transmitting an operator's depression stroke of an accelerator pedal to a fuel selecting mechanism which determines the fuel flow rate, applying a signal representative of the selected fuel flow rate to a computer together with various correction information, calculating by the computer from the selected fuel flow rate and correction information, the optimum air flow rate, and determining the opening of a throttle valve from the calculated result via a throttle valve servo mechanism. The invention is particularly useful in eliminating hesitation of an automobile while attaining both fuel economy and low harmful exhaust emissions.
Abstract:
An exhaust gas recirculation valve driven by an electric motor. The valve comprises a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port, a valve member disposed within said housing, an electric motor attached to the upper portion of said housing, a changing means for changing the rotation of said electric motor into the vertical movement of said valve member, said changing means being disposed between the shaft of said electric motor and a valve rod. The valve member is operated by said electric motor through the intermediary of said changing means. Therefore, the valve can be controlled delicately independent of the engine manifold vacuum. The valve may be incorporated into an electronic fuel injection system adapted to calculate the amount of fuel supply to an internal combustion engine by means of a control unit so as to obtain an optimum air-fuel mixture or air-fuel ratio. In this case, an actuating signal calculated on the basis of said amount of fuel supply and the information of sensors is given to said electric motor so as to obtain an optimum opening of the valve. Therefore, the valve can be controlled very accurately.
Abstract:
A throttle valve driving mechanism comprising an actuator disposed near a throttle valve shaft, and an oscillating slide block mechanism disposed between an actuator shaft and said throttle valve shaft. Said oscillating slide block mechanism comprises a throttle lever provided at one end thereof with a roller, an actuator shaft disposed in a position on a straight line between said throttle valve shaft and said roller at the time when the throttle valve is fully closed and a certain distance away from the center of said roller toward the center of said throttle valve shaft, a rotatable lever secured to said actuator shaft, said rotatable lever having a groove within which said roller slides freely with small clearances, the center of said throttle valve shaft, the center of said roller and the center of said groove being arranged in the same direction when the throttle valve is fully closed. Said oscillating slide block mechanism is adapted to ensure a higher resolution of the opening of the throttle valve in a range of rotation of said actuator corresponding to a range of small opening angles of the throttle valve, and to give a higher speed to the action of the throttle valve in a range of rotation of said actuator corresponding to a range of medium or large opening angles of the throttle valve.
Abstract:
A fuel feed system of a fuel priority type for an internal combustion engine. The fuel feed system of the invention has a small auxiliary control unit with no calculation function in addition to a main control unit. When the main control unit malfunctions or is out of order, it is changed over to the auxiliary control unit which insures injection, for instance, at a constant air fuel ratio and in proportion to the degree of movement of an accelerator pedal. Therefore, even when the main control unit is out of order, the driver can drive his vehicle safely to a service station, etc., without stopping the engine. When the main control unit is in a normal state, the main control unit performs engine air control (EAC) at a variable air fuel ratio in the entire range of operation.
Abstract:
An exhaust system of an automotive vehicle, comprises a muffler having a front end face to which an exhaust pipe is connected, and a tail pipe connected at its one end to the front end face of the muffler, the other end of the tail pipe being opened rearward of a rear end face of the muffler, so that the tail pipe is rendered considerably long to effectively silencing exhaust noise even in a small-sized passenger car having a narrow rear overhang.
Abstract:
A fuel feed device for an engine capable of electronically controlling the fuel feed rate corresponding to the suction air flow rate in the intake passage, comprising an air flow rate detecting device for generating electric signals of frequencies proportional to suction air rate, a plurality of electromagnetic valves with a different fuel passage section from one another disposed at a suitable position in the intake passage and adapted so as to permit supplying through a fuel pressure regulator the fuel of a fixed pressure differential with the suction pressure near a fuel outlet, and an electric control means for driving the electromagnetic valves selectively in synchronism with or to follow the frequency of the electric signals or a divided frequency thereof in accordance with the engine operating condition. Thus an accurate and highly reliable fuel supply is achieved over a wide range of engine operating condition from idling to maximum speed operation.
Abstract:
A fuel feed device for an engine capable of electronically controlling the fuel feed rate corresponding to the suction air flow rate in the intake passage, comprising an air flow rate detecting device for generating electric signals of frequencies proportional to suction air rate, a plurality of electromagnetic valves disposed at a suitable position in the intake passage and adapted so as to permit supplying through a fuel pressure regulator the fuel of a fixed pressure differential with the suction pressure near a fuel outlet, and an electric control means for driving the electromagnetic valves with a shifted phase with one another to control the respective opening times thereof in accordance with the engine operating condition. Thus the accurate and highly reliable fuel supply is achieved over the wide range of engine operating condition from the idling to the maximum speed operation.