摘要:
A method for measuring the flow rate of fluid such as liquified petroleum gas fuel for an automobile fuel. A signal of the fluid flow rate and a signal of the fluid temperature are produced by using the signals from an electric heater and a first, second, and third temperature-dependent resistors in a signal processing circuit. The produced signals are supplied to a computer circuit to carry out modification, linearization, and multiplication by a conversion constant for linearization which is corrected regarding temperature characteristic. The result of calculation in the computer circuit is displayed on a display device.
摘要:
In the range where the fuel efficiency may be improved by relatively increasing the load of working cylinders at the time of partial loading of a multicylinder internal combustion engine, the intake pressure of the engine is maintained at a fixed optimum value. Also, the number of working cylinders is controlled, so that a torque actually required by the driver is obtained, and under any load, the maximum improvement of fuel efficiency may be attained at a saving of fuel consumption.
摘要:
A gas flow measuring apparatus includes first and second temperature dependent resistors located in a gas tube respectively downstream and upstream of an electric heater which is also located in the gas tube. The first and second temperature dependent resistors are connected to form a bridge circuit together with first and second reference resistors. Between a pair of diagonal junctions of the bridge circuit, a potential difference is produced depending on the flow rate of the gas and the power supplied to the electric heater, and a measuring circuit controls the power supplied to the electric heater so that the potential difference is maintained at a predetermined value irrespective of a change in flow rate of the gas. The measuring circuit includes a chopper circuit to convert the potential difference into a square wave having a peak-to-peak value substantially equal to the potential difference and having a center reference level of the square wave corresponding to a voltage level determined by a reference voltage generator and an adder circuit. The square wave from the chopper circuit is then amplified and half rectified and applied to a sample-hold circuit to produce a voltage signal representative of the potential difference. A differential amplifier having two inputs of the voltage signal from the sample-hold circuit and a predetermined voltage produces an output signal which is used to control the power supplied to the electric heater. A current flowing into the electric heater is used to determine the flow rate of the gas.
摘要:
A method for detecting knock for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders in which a vibration sensor is attached to each cylinder and a peak value of vibration detected by the sensor is sampled over a predetermined interval near the top dead center. The sampled value is converted from analog to digital and stored for a predetermined number of sampling times to obtain the average value for each cylinder. Then the frequency of occurrences in which the ratio between the sampled peak value and the average value exceeds a reference value is obtained, and the knock is determined when the frequency of occurrences in any one cylinder exceeds a predetermined value or when the average frequency of occurrences of the all cylinders exceed another predetermined value.
摘要:
The timing of spark ignition is set in normal operating conditions at a programed spark advance angle corresponding to the MBT (minimum spark advance for best torque). When knocking of the engine is detected by a vibration sensor, the ignition timing is delayed by a predetermined amount, e.g., 2.DELTA..theta., for each engine cycle that knocking is detected in synchronism with the rotation of the engine. When knocking is not detected, the ignition timing is advanced by another predetermined amount, for each engine cycle that knocking is not detected. e.g., .DELTA..theta.. In this method for controlling the spark timing, the amount of retardation, 2.DELTA..theta., is selected to be larger than the other amount of advance, .DELTA..theta..
摘要:
In a carburetor for an internal combustion engine, a control valve is disposed with an air passage through the carburetor structure to control the flow quantity of air to be mixed with fuel from a float chamber and a pneumatic servo-motor is operatively connected with the control valve to control the opening degree of the valve. The pneumatic pressure applied to the servo-motor is electrically controlled to satisfy the following function in relation to the engine intake manifold vacuum and the engine speed.Pd=f(Pv, N)where the character Pd is the pneumatic pressure applied to the servo-motor, and the characters Pv and N respectively indicate the engine intake manifold vacuum and the engine speed.
摘要:
In an apparatus for controlling an electromagnetic valve which is adapted for use with the fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, after the expiration of a predetermined time the control of the energization of the electromagnetic coil of the electromagnetic valve is changed from constant-voltage control to constant-current control, and any surge voltage caused during the control change is selectively absorbed, thereby ensuring stable energization of the electromagnetic valve despite variations in the supply voltage or the like.
摘要:
A digital interpolator in which a value previously stored in a program memory circuit such as an ROM is read out by addressing it with an output of a counter having a predetermined value preset therein, the value read out is accumulated in an accumulator, a control circuit controls the supply of N-1 or N clock pulses to the accumulator and the counter, and the digits in the output of the accumulator which digits are ones located at the digit position whose figure is equal to the exponent of a radix number for operation to denote N and greater digit positions are stored in another memory circuit, whereby the output of the program memory circuit is divided by N and an interpolated value is determined by digital proportional division technique.
摘要:
A road surface detecting device has a circular plate connected with an axle of a vehicle so as to be rotated with said axle, and has a large number of teeth at regular intervals in its outer periphery. A rotary sensor detecting the passage of the teeth of the circular plate, and generates a pulse signal, and a microcomputer receive the pulse signal. The microcomputer calculates instantaneous speeds of a wheel from the period of the pulse signal and calculates an average value of a plurality of instantaneous speeds obtained in the predetermined rotations of a wheel another average value of a plurality of instantaneous speeds obtained in the next predetermined rotations of a wheel is also calculated as a presumed speed of a vehicle based on one and another average values. The microcomputer then calculates an absolute value of a difference between the instantaneous speeds in the predetermined rotations after next of a wheel and the presumed speed of vehicle, cancels an absolute value of an oldest difference every time when an absolute value of a newest difference is obtained, and calculates a successive integrated value by adding absolute values of a predetermined number of differences to one another. The microcomputer determines the road surface condition to be a bad condition when the successive integrated value is not less than a predetermined value or as a good condition when the successive integrated value is not more than the predetermined value.
摘要:
Disclosed is a local area network for a vehicle which comprises a plurality of terminal stations each having an input/output port for various signals, a main-loop formed by series connection of the terminal stations and transmission lines, a sub-loop arranged in parallel to the main-loop and formed by series connection of the terminal stations and transmission lines, and controllers. One of the terminal stations receives a large amount of information such as an audio signal from an audio transmitter and one of the other terminal stations supplies a large amount of information such as an audio signal to an audio receiver. When the main-loop is in a normal operation state, the main-loop operates as a token-passing system and the sub-loop acts as a direct transmission route from one of the terminal stations to another terminal station, and when the main-loop is in an abnormal operation state, the main-loop is coupled with the sub-loop and the transmitting of information such as an audio signal is stopped, and simultaneously, the sub-loop is switched to the token-passing system. Thus, the double loops, i.e., the main-loop and the sub-loop, are effectively utilized. In addition, any decrease in the reliability of various signals transmission when a failure of the main-loop occurs, can be prevented.