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20130075179 | MOTORCYCLE - A motorcycle includes a fuel tank that stores fuel, a fuel filling joint hydraulically connected to the fuel tank, a first pressure reducing valve hydraulically connected to the fuel tank to reduce pressure of the fuel to first pressure, a second pressure reducing valve hydraulically connected to the first pressure reducing valve to reduce the pressure of the fuel to second pressure, a fuel cell unit hydraulically connected to the second pressure reducing valve to generate electric power via reaction of the fuel and an oxidizing agent, a high-pressure side structure that supports the fuel tank, the joint, and the first pressure reducing valve while keeping relative arrangement thereof, a low-pressure side structure that supports the second pressure reducing valve and the fuel cell unit while keeping relative arrangement thereof, and a main structure that detachably fixes the high-pressure side structure and the low-pressure side structure. | 03-28-2013 |
20130087116 | OIL PASSAGE STRUCTURE OF ENGINE - An oil passage structure for an engine of a vehicle is provided with a connecting rod swingably coupled to a crankshaft rod by a plurality of crankpins, the plurality of crankpins being disposed between a plurality of crank journals, and a plurality of support portions for rotatably supporting the crankshaft by the plurality of crank journals in a cylinder block. The crankshaft has a first oil passage formed therein, the first oil passage supplying oil from an opening formed in one end face thereof to sliding surfaces of the plurality of crankpins, the plurality of support portions have a second oil passage formed therein, the second oil passage supplying the oil to a sliding surface of each of the plurality of crank journals, and the first oil passage and the second oil passage communicate with each other in some of the support portions and in some of the crank journals. | 04-11-2013 |
20130169005 | Structure Of Vehicle Body Rear Part - A vehicle rear body part includes a rear side member provided on both sides of a rear floor and a lower part of a back door opening section higher than the rear side member. The rear floor is divided into a main rear floor panel and left and right side rear floor panels with the rear side member placed therebetween. In the rear side member, rear side member upper panels are configured to close an opening in an upper part and joined to flanges on both the left and right sides. Upright sections are provided at rear ends of the rear side member upper panels. The upright sections are joined to a lower part of the opening section. The upper panels, the rear side member, and the floor panels and are joined in three layers in the flanges of the upper panels. | 07-04-2013 |
20130180488 | VALVE TRAIN MECHANISM OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve train mechanism of an internal combustion engine including a cylinder head formed with an intake port and an exhaust port, and a camshaft including a valve for opening or closing the intake port and the exhaust port formed in the cylinder head of the engine, a cam mounted to the camshaft so as to be rotated together, and a rocker arm supported on a rocker shaft to be swingable, in which the valve is opened or closed by swinging the rocker arm by rotation of the cam. The rocker shaft is formed with an oil passage, inside the rocker shaft, extending in an axial direction and with an oil outlet communicating with the oil passage and extending in a radial direction of the rocker shaft. | 07-18-2013 |
20130186370 | FUEL SUPPLY DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A fuel supply device for an internal combustion engine including a throttle valve and an airbox is provided with a main injector disposed at a downstream side of the throttle valve, an auxiliary injector disposed at an upstream side of the throttle valve and in the airbox, and a delivery pipe disposed inside the airbox and adopted to supply and distribute a fuel to the auxiliary injector. The delivery pipe has both ends which are supported on two side walls of the airbox. | 07-25-2013 |
20130203587 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CATALYST FOR PURIFICATION OF EXHAUST GAS - Provided is a method for producing a catalyst for purification of exhaust gas, including the steps of: adding Zr ions to a solution containing a platinum hydroxide polymer; diluting the solution to which the Zr ions are added by using an aqueous ammonium acetate solution; immersing a support made of Al | 08-08-2013 |
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20130112160 | FOUR-STROKE CYCLE ENGINE - There are output pistons | 05-09-2013 |
20130119810 | ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE - The present invention provides an electric rotating machine capable of providing a high quality and efficient machine operation with reduced oscillation and noise by lowering torque ripple. The electric rotating machine includes a stator having a plurality of teeth facing a rotor, and a plurality of slots providing spaces for winding coils around the teeth. The rotor has a pair of permanent magnets embedded therein and located in a “V” shape configuration. Six slots of each set of the plurality of slots face one magnetic pole formed by the permanent magnets of each pair and the adjacent flux barriers. The plurality of teeth includes long teeth and short teeth. The distance xL between each of the long teeth and the rotor and the distance xS between each of the short teeth and the rotor meet the condition 0.1≦(xS−xL)/xL≦0.3. | 05-16-2013 |
20130125863 | BI-FUEL ENGINE FOR VEHICLE - A bi-fuel engine is equipped with an engine body, a plurality of branched intake pipes, a surge tank, and an air cleaner. Each of the branched intake pipes has a length including a slant portion and a bend. The bend is located on the side of the engine body and connects at an end to the slant portion and at the other end to a downstream end of the branched intake pipe. The slant portion extends from the bend to the upstream end of the branched intake pipe obliquely to a horizontal direction of the engine body so as to define between the surge tank and an upper portion of the engine body a space which is large enough to permit a cylinder head cover to be installed to and uninstalled from the upper portion of the engine body. | 05-23-2013 |
20130133312 | EXHAUST GAS REFLUX AMOUNT ADJUSTING DEVICE - There is provided an exhaust gas reflux amount adjusting device capable of reducing the possibility of deterioration of a catalyst causing an operation failure of an EGR valve. An EGR gas reflux amount restricting device | 05-30-2013 |
20130133633 | REMOVAL APPARATUS FOR REMOVING UNBURNED DEPOSITS IN EGR FLOW PASSAGE OF VEHICLE - There is provided a removal apparatus for removing unburned deposits in an EGR flow passage of a vehicle. A control device of the removal apparatus is provided with a deposit removal implementing unit. The EGR gas flow control valve flows a part of exhaust gas through the EGR flow passage in a case where the control device determines that a temperature of cooling water of an engine is equal to or more than a predetermined temperature. The deposit removal implementing unit implements removal of the unburned deposits in the EGR flow passage in a case where the control device determines that the engine is in a high-load condition while the exhaust gas flows in the EGR flow passage and that it is a deposit removal implementation timing. | 05-30-2013 |
20130146378 | INTAKE SYSTEM OF VEHICLE ENGINE INSTALLED IN ENGINE COMPARTMENT - In an intake system of an engine of a vehicle, an intake duct includes a horizontal portion having a front end and a rear end in the front-rear direction of the vehicle and located to extend in the front-rare direction of the vehicle to be opposite to a top face of a battery, and a vertical portion extending curvedly from the front end of the horizontal portion and extending downward in a height direction of the vehicle along a front face of the battery. The vertical portion is formed with an air intake at a bottom thereof in the height direction of the vehicle. The air intake is located at a front side of the battery in the front-rear direction of the vehicle to be higher in the height direction of the vehicle than a bottom edge of the front face of the battery. An opening of the air intake is directed downward in the height direction of the vehicle. | 06-13-2013 |
20130166122 | ENGINE START CONTROL APPARATUS - An engine start control apparatus/method for a series hybrid vehicle is provided. The vehicle includes an engine, a motor/generator, a battery unit chargeable with electric power generated by the motor/generator, and a traction motor operable to receive electric power from the battery unit or motor/generator. A demanded power level is determined based on a sensed vehicle speed level and a sensed accelerator pedal position. A discharge capacity level of the battery unit is determined in terms of a power level available from the battery unit. The engine starting procedure is initiated upon the determined demanded power level reaching a predetermined relationship with the determined discharge capacity level so that the motor/generator is enabled to generate electric power before the determined demanded power level reaches the determined discharge capacity level. | 06-27-2013 |
20130174814 | BI-FUEL ENGINE - A surge tank | 07-11-2013 |
20130175856 | IN-VEHICLE POWER SOURCE DEVICE - There is provided an in-vehicle power source device having favorable workability for replacing a fuse that melts down when an overcurrent flows to an electric load. A battery selector switch | 07-11-2013 |
20130193783 | ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE - An electric rotating machine includes a stator having a plurality of stator teeth facing a rotor. The rotor has a plurality of pairs of permanent magnets. Permanent magnets of each pair are located in a “V” shape configuration and form a magnetic pole. Every other tooth of the plurality of stator teeth is a long stator teeth and an adjacent tooth is a short stator teeth. Adjusting recesses formed in the rotor are at symmetrical, about a d-axis of each magnetic pole, locations in a way that each of the adjusting recesses has a width made equal to a width of one of the stator teeth and their deepest levels are equidistant from a d-axis of the magnetic pole in one and the opposite circumferential directions angularly about the axis of the rotor by 56° in electrical degrees. | 08-01-2013 |
20130197759 | ENGINE RESTART CONTROL DEVICE - There is provided an engine restart control device. A controller is configured to stop an engine which is adapted to generate a driving force for running a vehicle when a predetermined stop condition is met and configured to restart the engine when a predetermined restart condition is met after stopping the engine. A steering torque detector is configured to detect a steering torque of a steering handle which is adapted to be operated by a driver. A reaction force generator is configured to give a steering reaction force to the steering handle. The controller restarts the engine when the steering torque detected by the steering torque detector exceeds a predetermined threshold and control the reaction force generator to give the steering reaction force to the steering handle until the steering torque detected by the steering torque detector exceeds the predetermined threshold. | 08-01-2013 |
20130197787 | ENGINE RESTART CONTROL DEVICE - There is provided an engine restart control device. A controller is configured to stop an engine which is adapted to generate a driving force for running a vehicle when a predetermined stop condition is met and configured to restart the engine when a predetermined restart condition is met after stopping the engine. A steering torque detector is configured to detect a steering torque of a steering wheel which is adapted to be operated by a driver. The controller includes an origin torque setting unit configured to set the steering torque detected by the steering torque detector when the predetermined stop condition is met and the engine is stopped as an origin torque. The controller restarts the engine when the steering torque detected by the steering torque detector exceeds a predetermined threshold with reference to the origin torque set by the origin torque setting unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130200845 | CHARGING/DISCHARGING CONTROL APPARATUS - A hybrid electric vehicle 1 has a battery state detecting unit for detecting a temperature and SOC of a battery pack, a storage unit for storing a first target SOC calculation map in which a battery temperature and a target SOC which enables regenerative power generation at that battery temperature are associated with each other, and a second target SOC calculation map in which a battery temperature and a target SOC which enables startup of an internal combustion engine at that battery temperature are associated with each other, and a charging/discharging control unit for acquiring a target SOC which corresponds to the detected battery temperature based on the first target SOC calculation map or the second target SOC calculation map to control charging/discharging so that the detected SOC matches the acquired target SOC. | 08-08-2013 |
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20130112498 | EXHAUST DEVICE OF ENGINE - An exhaust device of an engine includes an exhaust pipe connected to the engine, a silencer connected to the exhaust pipe and structured of an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder in which plural holes are formed, and a sound absorbing material disposed in a space formed between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder. The exhaust device further includes a partition wall partitioning the space and supporting the sound absorbing material so that the sound absorbing material does not move in an axial direction of the silencer, and the partition wall includes a continuous hole allowing exhaust gas to flow through an upstream side to a downstream side of the partition wall in the space. | 05-09-2013 |
20130133612 | CRANKCASE STRUCTURE OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A bearing holding portion supporting a crankshaft in a manner to rotate freely via a bearing and fittingly holding the bearing is formed in a crankcase. A second cross section passing through a crankshaft axis line and along an orthogonal direction to a cylinder axis line is set to have a larger cross-sectional area than a first cross section passing through the crankshaft axis line and along a direction of the cylinder axis line in the bearing holding portion. | 05-30-2013 |
20130146012 | INTAKE CONTROL DEVICE - An intake control device includes: an air cleaner disposed above an engine; a pair of right and left intake ducts projecting toward a front of a vehicle body from the air cleaner to take an outside air in the air cleaner; and a sensor unit coupled to a throttle cable extended from a throttle grip, and detecting an operation amount of accelerator, in which the sensor unit is disposed between the pair of right and left intake ducts at a position above the engine and below the air cleaner. | 06-13-2013 |
20130149920 | COOLING WATER PASSAGE STRUCTURE OF OUTBOARD MOTOR - An outboard motor has a driveshaft and a propeller shaft connected to each other while placing gears in between in a casing of a lower unit. A cooling water passage structure of the motor has main water intakes provided on the left and right of the casing, a cooling water passage which guides therethrough water taken up through the main water intakes to a cooling water pump, and sub water intakes disposed on the left and right of the pointed portion of the gear case provided to the casing to give an appearance of bullet in the front-back direction. The sub water intake on the left is allowed to communicate through a left cooling water passage with the main water intake on the left. The sub water intake on the right is allowed to communicate through a right cooling water passage with the main water intake on the right. | 06-13-2013 |
20130149921 | EXHAUST STRUCTURE OF OUTBOARD MOTOR - Exhaust gas from an engine passes through a lower unit, and passes through a propeller boss coupled to a propeller shaft to be discharged into water. A stopper is provided at a rear end portion of a gear case of the lower unit, and a bush is inserted into and attached to an inner surface of the stopper. An inside diameter of the bush is set to substantially the same diameter as an outside diameter of a front end portion of the propeller boss, and the bush and the propeller boss are disposed by being overlapped with each other in an axial direction. | 06-13-2013 |
20130166174 | AIR-FUEL RATIO CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE FOR OUTBOARD MOTOR, AIR-FUEL RATIO CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - An air-fuel ratio control device has an open loop controller which controls an air-fuel ratio to be a target air-fuel ratio, a feedback controller that shifts the target air-fuel ratio to a logical air-fuel ratio, and feedback controls the air-fuel ratio to be the logical air-fuel ratio by using a feedback correction coefficient determined based on an output of an O | 06-27-2013 |
20130167802 | ENGINE CONTROL DEVICE AND ENGINE CONTROL METHOD - An engine of a vehicle is provided with an engine control device including an idle speed control (ISC) device provided for an intake bypass passage connecting an upper side and a lower side of a throttle valve installed in an intake passage so as to control an idle speed of the engine by adjusting an amount of air flowing through the intake bypass passage at a time of idling of the engine. The engine control device includes a throttle opening degree sensor disposed in the intake passage and configured to detect a degree of opening of the throttle valve, an intake pressure sensor disposed in the intake passage and configured to detect an intake negative pressure at the lower side of the throttle valve, and a control unit configured to control an output of the engine. The control unit is configured to perform an engine output suppression control of suppressing the output of the engine after determining that an ISC valve of the ISC device is abnormal in a case where the degree of opening of the throttle valve detected by the throttle opening degree sensor is within a predetermined range and when the intake negative pressure detected by the intake pressure sensor is low compared with a threshold value. | 07-04-2013 |
20130168986 | PROTECTOR - A vehicle is provided with a protector for absorbing shock for a vehicle body cover to be attached to an outer edge portion of the vehicle body cover on an outer side of a vehicle body. The vehicle body cover is composed of a plurality of vehicle body cover parts which are coupled with each other so as to constitute the vehicle body cover, and the protector includes an attachment portion attached so as to straddle outer edge portions of adjacent vehicle body cover parts among a plurality of vehicle body cover parts. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173141 | ACCELERATION SHOCK REDUCTION CONTROL DEVICE, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING ACCELERATION SHOCK REDUCTION - An acceleration shock reduction control device, which reduces an acceleration shock occurring when a vehicle shifts from a deceleration state to an acceleration state, includes a first detector that detects rotation information of an engine mounted on the vehicle, a second detector that detects rotation information of a driving wheel which rotates by an output transmitted from the engine, and a controller that performs control to reduce the acceleration shock based on deviation information between the rotation information detected by the first detector and the rotation information detected by the second detector. | 07-04-2013 |
20130178119 | FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM OF OUTBOARD MOTOR - A fuel supply system of an outboard motor for supplying a fuel stored in a fuel tank to an intake port of an engine includes: a vapor separator which is disposed on one of left and right sides of the engine in terms of a traveling direction of a hull and to whose upper portion a vapor vent pipe having a tip open to an atmosphere is connected; and an in-line high-pressure fuel pump which is connected to the vapor separator via a fuel pipe and to whose upper portion an air vent pipe passing a position higher than the fuel pipe is connected, wherein the vapor vent pipe includes a folded portion formed so as to extend toward the other side out of the left and right sides of the engine and thereafter return to the one side. | 07-11-2013 |
20130178120 | FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM OF OUTBOARD MOTOR - A fuel supply system of an outboard motor includes: a vapor separator which separates a fuel sent from a fuel tank by a low-pressure fuel pump into gas and liquid to release fuel vapor to an atmosphere; a fuel cooler which is disposed under the vapor separator to cool the fuel by cooling water passing through a cooling water pipe; a drain pipe connected to a side surface of the fuel cooler which faces downward while the outboard motor is tilted up; and an in-line high-pressure fuel pump connected in a middle of a fuel pipe connected to a side surface of the fuel cooler different from the side surface to which the drain pipe is connected. It is possible to easily and surely draw off the fuel in the fuel pipe while the outboard motor is tilted up. | 07-11-2013 |
20130178121 | EXHAUST STRUCTURE OF OUTBOARD MOTOR - Exhaust gas from an engine passes through a lower unit, and passes through a propeller boss coupled to a propeller shaft to be discharged into water. An outside diameter of a front end portion of the propeller boss is set to be equal to or larger than an outside diameter of a rear end portion of a gear case in the lower unit. | 07-11-2013 |
20130180605 | BRAKE PIPE STRUCTURE OF MOTORCYCLE - A brake pipe structure of a motorcycle includes: a first brake pipe connecting a master cylinder and an ABS unit; and a second brake pipe connecting the ABS unit and a hydraulic wheel braking part. The first brake pipe and the second brake pipe are suspended and held between a front fork and a body frame so as to pass near a center axis of a steering shaft under a head pipe. | 07-18-2013 |
20130192553 | CAM HOUSING STRUCTURE FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL CAM - In a cam housing structure for a three-dimensional cam including: plural intake side supporting parts rotatably supporting an intake side camshaft from above; and plural exhaust side supporting parts rotatably supporting an exhaust side camshaft from above at an upper part of a cylinder head, any one of the supporting parts of the intake side supporting parts or the exhaust side supporting parts is coupled to two or more pieces of the other supporting parts via reinforcing members. | 08-01-2013 |
20130192554 | LUBRICATING STRUCTURE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - There is provided a lubricating structure for an internal combustion engine which has a crankcase, a cylinder block, a cylinder head housing a valve driving device, and a cam housing provided on an upper portion of the cylinder head to support an intake-side camshaft and an exhaust-side camshaft, the lubricating structure including: a main oil passage formed in the cam housing; an oil passage formed in an outer wall upper portion of the cylinder head so as to communicate with the main oil passage; and a pipe connection portion formed so as to allow an external oil pipe to be connected to the oil passage from an outside. | 08-01-2013 |
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20130205760 | EXHAUST CONTROL DEVICE FOR ENGINE - An exhaust control device for an engine performs exhaust control of an exhaust system composed of exhaust pipes connected to a plurality of cylinders respectively and gathering to a collecting pipe. The exhaust control device includes at least two kinds of exhaust valves that perform the exhaust control at different parts in the exhaust system; and a single actuator that drives the exhaust valves to open and close. | 08-15-2013 |
20130213723 | FUEL PUMP DEVICE FOR VEHICLE ENGINES - A fuel pump device is installed in an engine compartment of a vehicle. The engine is placed in the engine compartment with a crankshaft extending in the vehicle width direction. An in-vehicle component is placed at one side of the engine compartment in the vehicle width direction relative to the engine. In the fuel pump device, an attachment is mounted on an end of the top of a cam housing mounted on the upper surface of the cylinder head. The end of the top of the cam housing is located at the other side of the engine compartment in the vehicle width direction relative to the engine. The attachment is so inclined with respect to the vehicle longitudinal direction as to be directed obliquely backward and upward from the cam shaft member toward the engine hood and the dash panel. | 08-22-2013 |
20130214446 | METHOD OF FORMING RESIN MOLDED PRODUCT - A method of molding a resin molded product wherein a resin material in a molten state containing a forming agent is injected through a gate into a cavity of molding die thereby forming the form-molded product, wherein the gate communicating with the cavity of the molding die is continuously formed to the rising wall portion of the foam-molded product; the rising wall portion is provided with a rib at a position apart from the gate at a predetermined distance; a foaming of the molten resin material injected from the gate into the cavity is suppressed at a region corresponding to the upstream side portion of the foam-molded product, while the foaming of the molten resin material is promoted at a region corresponding to the downstream side portion of the foam-molded product. | 08-22-2013 |
20130220241 | COMBUSTION STATE CONTROL APPARATUS - An ECU includes: an electronically controlled valve opening degree control unit for increasing the opening degree of an electronically controlled valve, as a temperature of a coolant detected by a water temperature detecting unit is higher; and a gear ratio control unit for changing the gear ratio of an automatic transmission to a gear ratio to be used when a vehicle runs at a slow speed, when the temperature of the coolant detected by the water temperature detecting unit is equal to or higher than a temperature when the electronically controlled valve opening degree control unit sets the opening degree of the electronically controlled valve to be a maximum opening degree, and when an engine speed detected by an engine speed detecting unit is slower than a preset engine speed and a load to an engine detected by a load detecting unit is larger than a preset load. | 08-29-2013 |
20130221116 | COOLING WATER CONTROL VALVE APPARATUS - A cooling water control valve apparatus capable of independently controlling flow rates of cooling water in two lines with a single apparatus for cooling water control and capable of achieving cost reduction. | 08-29-2013 |
20140117705 | REINFORCEMENT STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE SLIDE DOOR - A front side of the rear slide door | 05-01-2014 |