Abstract:
A valve timing control apparatus of an internal combustion engine may include a driving rotational body to which torque is transmitted from a crankshaft, a driven rotational body fixed to a camshaft to which torque is transmitted from the driving rotational body, an electric motor disposed between the driving rotational body and the driven rotational body and relatively rotating the driving rotational body and the driven rotational body when electric power is applied thereto, and a deceleration mechanism that decelerates a rotational speed of the electrical motor and transmit the decelerated rotational speed to the driven rotational body.
Abstract:
Hydraulic spring drive apparatus comprising: a rotatable cam shaft having fixed thereon a number of cams; a number of rocker arms, one following each cam, each pivotally attached at one end to a pressure bar and at another to an expansible, compressible connecting means in turn connected to a crank portion of a crank shaft. The cams, crank shaft, and expansible compressible connecting means are arranged so that a number of connecting means expand against the compression of one connecting means. The pressure bar is movable to position the rocker arms for a selected degree of connecting means compression.
Abstract:
A 4-cycle engine including a crankshaft connected to a piston and supported at opposite ends by a crankcase for rotation. The crankshaft is formed at one of its two output shaft sections with a groove extending peripherally along the outer peripheral surface of one output shaft section substantially in the form of a endless loop having a cross point. A plurality of followers engaged in the groove have their movements transmitted, through respective linkages, to an exhaust valve and a suction valve respectively. A governor device is located at the other output shaft section and operative to actuate an engine rpm. controller depending on the speed of rotation of the crankshaft.
Abstract:
There is provided an apparatus for driving intake and exhaust valves (12) of an internal combustion engine. The apparatus comprises a valve lift controlling means (16) connected to the valves to control the lift of the valves in response to the engine operating conditions, valve driving cams (13) fixed on a cam shaft (14) and being in contact with the valve lift controlling means (16), and a phase controlling means (23) arranged on the cam shaft (14) to control the relative rotational phase of the valve driving cams, i.e., the open and close timing of the valves (12) in response to the engine operating conditions.
Abstract:
An engine generator has an opening and closing mechanism including: a control shaft provided to a valve shaft of a choke valve to be rotatable relative thereto within a predetermined angular range; an urging member urging the valve shaft relative to the control shaft in a direction in which an opening degree of the choke valve decreases; a restriction mechanism that sets a minimum opening degree of the choke valve by restricting a range of rotation of the control shaft; a choke operating portion which, upon operation, drives the restriction mechanism in a direction in which the minimum opening degree of the choke valve decreases; and a negative pressure mechanism driven by a negative pressure generated during an operation of the engine to cause the control shaft to rotate to increase the minimum opening degree of the choke valve within the range of rotation restricted by the restriction mechanism.
Abstract:
An engine generator has an opening and closing mechanism including: a control shaft provided to a valve shaft of a choke valve to be rotatable relative thereto within a predetermined angular range; an urging member urging the valve shaft relative to the control shaft in a direction in which an opening degree of the choke valve decreases; a restriction mechanism that sets a minimum opening degree of the choke valve by restricting a range of rotation of the control shaft; a choke operating portion which, upon operation, drives the restriction mechanism in a direction in which the minimum opening degree of the choke valve decreases; and a negative pressure mechanism driven by a negative pressure generated during an operation of the engine to cause the control shaft to rotate to increase the minimum opening degree of the choke valve within the range of rotation restricted by the restriction mechanism.
Abstract:
In a variably operated valve system for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine and a control apparatus for the variably operated valve system, a first valve stop mechanism is configured to switch between a valve operation state in which one of a pair of intake valves from among the pair of intake valves of a part of a plurality of cylinders is operated to be open or closed and a valve stopped state in which the valve open or closure operation of the one of the intake valves is stopped, a second valve stop mechanism is configured to switch between the valve operation state in which the other of the pair of intake valves from among the pair of intake valves of the part of the cylinders is operated to be open or closed and the valve stopped state in which the valve open or closure operation is stopped.