Abstract:
An ignition system for an internal combustion engine capable of starting the engine even when a battery voltage is insufficient for ignition. A secondary voltage feedback circuit connected to a secondary winding of a transformer constituting a part of a DC--DC converter rectifies a secondary voltage of polarity opposite to that of the voltage applied to an ignition capacitor. The rectified voltage is fed back to the output side of the battery to compensate for lowering of voltage supplied to an ignition control circuit (10) from the battery (3).
Abstract:
A projection cathode-ray tube includes a multilayered interference film interposed between a face plate and a cathode-ray tube. In order to improve brightness in a direction of the normal, then on a face plate, a phosphor layer is composed of a first layer substantially consisting of large size phosphor particles and a second layer substantially consisting of small size phosphor particles. In addition, a phosphor density of the phosphor layer is set from 20 to 50% larger than that necessary to produce a maximum brightness on a cathode-ray tube without the multilayered interference film. The phosphor particles of the phosphor layer are preferably material having a high reflectance.
Abstract:
Apparatus and method for measuring a dissolved gas in oil wherein air is blown into an oil sample through a bubble generator, bubbles are passed through the oil sample to extract dissolved gas therefrom, a resulting air-extracted gas mixture is contacted by a gas sensor for detecting and measuring the dissolved gas and the mixture is recirculated through the oil sample. Preferably, the air bubbles are within the range of 0.1 mm to 8.0 mm, and, also, the volume of the apparatus is selected so that the quantity of the gas to be measured is not more than 20% of the combined volume of the extraction vessel, the sensor chamber, and the connecting conduit.
Abstract:
An ignition control apparatus for an engine which includes an ignition circuit for igniting a cylinder, and an ignition timing controller for controlling the ignition circuit so as to properly control the ignition timing of each cylinder. The ignition timing controller includes a first signal generator for generating a reference signal corresponding to a prescribed crank position of the cylinder in sync with the rotation of the engine, a second signal generator for generating a pulse signal in sync with the rotation of the engine. The pulse signal contains a prescribed number of pulses per revolution of the engine. A pulse counting circuit starts to count the number of pulses generated by the second signal generator from the time of occurence of the reference signal and generates an ignition signal for the ignition circuit so as to ignite the cylinder when it counts a prescribed number of pulses generated by the second signal generator. A counter controller controls the prescribed number of pulses to be counted by the pulse counting circuit. A starting controller may be provided for controlling the ignition circuit in such a manner that the ignition timing of the cylinder is controlled based, instead of the output signal of the pulse counting circuit on the output signal of the first signal generator during engine starting.
Abstract:
An internal combustion engine stop device comprises a power generation winding 1 for generating electric power corresponding to the rotation of an engine to charge a capacitor 2 for an ignition coil 4; a self-reset type stop switch 11 having normally opened contacts; a self-holding circuit 24 for bringing the output of the power generation winding to a short-circuit state and holding the short-circuit state; and voltage restraint or malfunction prevention elements 32, 36-38 arranged between the stop switch and the power generation winding to restrain a voltage applied to the stop switch.
Abstract:
A semiconductor substrate including a top epitaxial compound layer comprising: a single-crystalline semiconductor wafer substrate; a strained layer superlattice (SLS) structure layer having a lattice constant varying from that of the wafer substrate to that of the top compound semiconductor layer and formed on the wafer substrate; a semiconductor buffer layer having the same lattice constant as that of the top compound semiconductor layer and formed on the SLS structure layer; another SLS structure layer for filtering dislocations having a fixed lattice constant equal to that of the top semiconductor layer and formed on the buffer layer; and the top semiconductor layer formed on the another SLS structure layer.
Abstract:
An alternating current of a magneto-generator (1) is rectified and is used to charge a capacitor (3), and an electric charge of the capacitor (3) is discharged into an ignition coil (9) through a thyristor (8), wherein a triggering level of the thyristor (8) is changed to be at one of two levels (V.sub.4), (V.sub.5), one of the two levels (V.sub.5) corresponding to a comparatively low engine rotational velocity which is lower than a predetermined velocity and the other level (V.sub.4) corresponding to a comparatively higher level of engine rotational velocity higher than the predetermined engine rotational velocity.
Abstract:
A method of packaging food in raised state, comprising the steps of forming a displaceable wall portion integrally with and in the central section of a bottom wall of a food container so that the wall portion can be projected into and out of the container when the wall portion is pressed inward and outward, inserting a food in the container with the wall portion kept projecting outward, sealing the container with a film, and pressing the wall portion so as to be projected into the container and thereby raise the food above the plane of the upper end of the container against the tension of the film. Since the food is placed in the container with the displaceable wall portion kept projecting outward, the falling of the food during the food packing operation can be prevented. When the displaceable wall portion of the food-packed and sealed container is pressed inward to raise the food, a recess occurs in the lower surface of the container, which recess enables the container to be piled stably on the raised surface of another similar food-packed container.
Abstract:
An ignition device for an internal combustion engine comprises a generating coil, an ignition circuit including an ignition capacitor, a signalling coil connected to the ignition circuit, and a switching means which renders the ignition signal to become ineffective on the basis of the latter half cycle of the ignition signal generated from the signalling coil and renders the ignition signal to become effective by releasing the ineffective condition of the ignition signal on the basis of the former half cycle, whereby the ignition signal is supplied to the ignition circuit within an ignition signal ineffectual period.
Abstract:
An ignition system for an outboard internal combustion engine in which the ignition timing is controlled by the throttle setting of the engine. The system includes a signaling coil, which forms a part of a magneto, a thyristor switch for discharging a capacitor which is charged by a generating coil of the magneto to supply ignition current to an ignition coil, and a delay circuit connected between the signaling coil and the thyristor switch. The delay circuit is reset every period of the output of the generating coil, so that, even when the engine rotates at a high speed, the delay operation is positively carried out. As a result, the ignition timing is maintained substantially unchanged irrespective of the speed of the engine, and electromagnetic noise from the signaling coil is greatly suppressed.