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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an abnormality diagnostic device for an exhaust emission control device, diagnosing the presence or absence of abnormality regarding the exhaust emission control device employing a method for absorbing and removing a specific component in exhaust gas by using absorbing liquid. SOLUTION: This abnormality diagnostic device for an exhaust emission control device is applied to exhaust emission control devices 20, 30 which hold the absorbing liquid absorbing the contacted specific component when the absorbing liquid is brought into contact with the specific component (for example, NOx and CO2) in the exhaust gas, which are arranged in an exhaust pipe 11, and which absorb and remove the specific component by bringing the absorbing liquid into contact with the exhaust gas. The abnormality diagnostic device includes state sensors (ph sensors 22e, 32e) for detecting an absorbing liquid state. It is determined based on the detection values from the state sensors whether or not emission control functions by the exhaust emission control devices 20, 30 are abnormal. For example, when the amount of NOx absorbed in the absorbing liquid calculated based on the detection values from the state sensors is remarkably small with respect to NOx emissions discharged from a combustion chamber per predetermined time, it is determined that the emission control functions by the exhaust emission control devices are abnormal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an abnormality detection device for a reducing agent pump capable of detecting poor rotation of an impeller and searching a factor of the poor rotation. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a pump case having a pump chamber formed therein, and the impeller disposed in the pump chamber and driven and rotated by an electric motor part, and is applied to an urea water pump (reducing agent pump) delivering urea water (reducing agent water solution) reducing nitrogen oxide contained in exhaust gas of an engine. The device is provided with an erroneous stopping detection means S10 detecting erroneous stopping of the electric motor part, and an erroneous stopping factor searching means searching whether deposition of urea in urea water in the pump case is a factor of the erroneous stopping or not when the erroneous stopping is detected by the erroneous stopping detection means S10. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel injection valve capable of performing fuel injection at an optimum rate of fuel injection in various engine operating ranges. SOLUTION: This fuel injection device comprises: a first nozzle hole group 14 and a second nozzle hole group 15; a control chamber 20; a first needle valve 12 and a second needle valve 13; and an inflow-outflow changing means for changing a fuel flow flowing out of the control chamber. The first needle valve and the second needle valve open and close the nozzle holes of the first nozzle hole group and the second nozzle hole group, respectively. The lifts of these needle valves are controlled by the pressure of the fuel in the control chamber. The inflow-outflow changing means comprises two fuel outflow passages 26, 27 communicating with the control chamber and a three-position control valve 32. The three-position control valve can change the position between a first position where both fuel outflow passages are isolated, a second position where only one fuel outflow passage is isolated, and a third position where both fuel outflow passages are opened. The three-position control valve is changed to the second position at the beginning of the lifting of the needle valves, and to the third position at the later stage of the lifting of the needle valves. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To use a reducing agent in an early stage by instantaneously unfreezing a freezed reducing agent without causing an increase in load of a power supply due to power consumption. SOLUTION: A DPF 12 and an SCR catalyst 13 are arranged in an exhaust pipe 11, and a urea water adding valve 15 for adding and supplying urea water into the exhaust pipe 11 is arranged between the DPF 12 and the SCR catalyst 13. As a structure of a urea water supply system, urea water in a predetermined concentration is stored in a urea water tank 21, and a urea water pump 22 is arranged in the tank 21. A urea water supply pipe 23 is connected to the urea water pump 22. The urea water supply pipe 23 is composed partially by a double pipe structure. One of two passages formed thereby is made to serve as a urea water passage, and the other thereof is made to serve as an engine cooling water passage. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spark plug for an internal combustion engine excellent in ignitability as well as an internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: The spark plug for the internal combustion engine is provided with a metal fitting 2 having a fitting screw part 21 at an outer periphery, an insulator 3 retained at a center axis side of the metal fitting 2, a center electrode 4 retained at a center axis side of the insulator 3, a ground electrode 5 fitted to the metal fitting 2 and forming a spark discharge gap G against a tip part 41 of the center electrode 4, and an O - ion generating part 6 generating O - ion. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel injection nozzle having simple construction for surely preventing fuel leakage from a nozzle hole. SOLUTION: An outer needle 5 has an enlarged inner-diameter portion 10 formed on the inner periphery side of the front end where an upper seat 5a is provided. On the enlarged inner-diameter portion 10, a second piece 5B is mounted via an intermediate member 5C. The intermediate member 5C has mechanical property of flexibility or elasticity more than the first piece 5A and the second piece 5B. When a lower seat 5b provided at the front end of the second piece 5B is seated on a second seat surface 8 and then an upper seat 5a of the first piece 5A is seated on a first seat surface 7, the intermediate member 5C can flex relative to the first piece 5A to permit a seat position to be displaced along the second seat surface 8 to the the downstream side. As a result, a first needle hole 3 is surely sealed at its upstream and downstream sides. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reforming device for generating a reducing agent capable of selectively reducing NOx, and to obtain a reducing agent from fuel of an internal combustion device in an exhaust emission control device for purifying exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine by selective reduction reaction. SOLUTION: In the reforming device including a reforming part 150 that subjects a hydrocarbon-based raw material to be reformed to a reforming reaction to form a reducing agent to be supplied to a reducing catalyst 14 for reducing nitrogen oxide selectively, and a hydrogen atom supply means 151 supplying hydrogen atoms to the reforming part 150, the raw material to be reformed is reformed to the reducing agent by reacting, when the raw material passes through a reforming reaction area in the reforming part 150, with hydrogen atoms supplied by the hydrogen atom supply means 151. In the exhaust emission control device provided with this reforming device, the reducing catalyst 14 is provided within an exhaust gas passage 12 through which exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine 10 is passed so as to selectively reduce nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas. The raw material to be reformed is the fuel used for the internal combustion engine 10. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and a production method where the raw material disposed of upon exchanging or washing is reduced, the precision in the atomization shape and atomization quantity of the raw material atomized from an atomization port is increased, the ratio at which the raw material is effectively used is increased, and there is no need of exhausting the film deposition raw material in a reaction chamber every film deposition. SOLUTION: (1) Since a raw material atomization head 8 adopts a structure where a stop valve 12 is arranged at a position directly before an atomization port 11, the quantity of the raw material to be disposed of upon exchanging or washing can be reduced. (2) Since the raw material retaining between the stop valve 12 and the atomization port 11 is made hardly present, the precision in the atomization shape and atomization quantity can be increased. (3) Since the liquid raw material is almost uniformly atomized toward the film deposition range in a film deposition base 1 by a perforated plate 42, among the raw material atomized from atomization pores into a reaction chamber 2, the ratio of the raw material to be effectively used increases. (4) Since the liquid raw material is almost directly atomized and fed to the film deposition base 1 by the perforated plate 42, there is no need of exhausting the vaporized raw material at the inside of the reaction chamber 2 every film deposition. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laser ignition device for an internal combustion engine capable of improving emission and fuel consumption by positively detecting abnormality of a laser beam generating means for generating laser beams. SOLUTION: The laser ignition device for the internal combustion engine is provided with a laser beam output control part 101 for performing output control of ignition signals; a laser beam generating part 61 for generating laser beams based on the ignition signals; a laser beam irradiation part 63 for irradiating an air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber 20 of the internal combustion engine with laser beams to activate the air-fuel mixture; a laser beam detecting part 64 for detecting laser beams generated by the laser beam generating part 61; and an abnormality detecting part 65 for detecting abnormality of the laser beam generating part 61 based on the detected laser beams and ignition signals. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a purifying device for an internal combustion engine capable of suppressing accumulation and storage of carbon-based compounds such as unburnt fuel and deposit sticking to a piston which partitions a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: The purifying device for the internal combustion engine is provided with a laser beam irradiation device 2 irradiating an injection hole of a cylinder fuel injection valve 15 with laser beams. The irradiation intensity and irradiation timing of laser beams irradiated by the laser beam irradiation device 2 are controlled based on the injection quantity and injection timing of fuel. For instance, irradiation of laser beams is started when a nozzle needle 15b of the cylinder fuel injection valve 15 is in a fully lifted state, and irradiation of laser beams is terminated when the cylinder fuel injection valve 15 completely terminates the injection supply of fuel. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI