Abstract: An intake manifold which can ensure a pressure resistance strength, a mechanical strength, and the like and also reduce a passage resistance and an outboard motor which can be made smaller and thinner in a width direction. A resinous intake manifold made of a resin and configured to be applied to an engine of an outboard motor includes: a surge tank which forms a flat contour and includes an intake inlet; and a plurality of branch pipes which defines intake passages communicating with an internal space of the surge tank, wherein a contour wall of the surge tank includes a plurality of ridge portions which protrudes toward the internal space and is oriented toward the intake passage side.

Abstract: A valve device of the present invention includes: a body (10) defining a passage (11) through which fluid flows; a valve shaft (20) pivotably supported by the body; a butterfly valve (30) fixed to the valve shaft to open and close the passage; and a drive unit (60) configured to impart a rotational drive force to the valve shaft. The body has a protrusion portion (17) formed integrally in a manner of protruding from an outer wall (10a) of the body, and the drive unit (60) is fixed to the body (10) via the protrusion portion (17). Accordingly, influence of heat of high-temperature fluid can be suppressed or prevented, and the opening and closing operation can be performed with high precision.

Abstract: A fuel supply device of an engine includes a primary pump suctioning fuel to discharge the fuel to a first pipeline, a secondary pump connected in series to the primary pump via the first pipeline, and suctioning the fuel from the primary pump to supply the fuel through a second pipeline to an engine side, a tank storing the fuel and accommodating the secondary pump, an outflow part causing part of the fuel flowing from the first pipeline through the secondary pump to the second pipeline in the tank to flow outward, a third pipeline returning, to a suction side of the primary pump, gas-liquid mixed fuel generated by vaporizing the fuel flowing out from the outflow part, and a preloading part in one of portions of a circulation path formed between the primary pump and the tank by the first pipeline and the third pipeline and preloading the fuel.

Abstract: A rotary-type valve device is provided, and includes: a tubular valve having an inner passage Ip and opening parts opened in an outer circumferential wall and rotating about a predetermined axial line a shaft rotating integrally with the valve, a housing accommodating the valve, supporting the shaft to be able to turn, and defining a communication port causing the inner passage to communicate with outside; a passage member assembled in the housing such that that the passage member abuts on an outer circumferential wall of the valve and defining a radial-direction passage. The valve includes a recessed part in the axial line direction and surrounding one end part of the shaft. The housing includes a tube part inserted into the recessed part and supporting the one end part and a support hole supporting the other end part of the shaft.

Abstract: A rotary-type valve device includes: a tubular valve having an inner passage and opening parts opened in an outer circumferential wall from the inner passage toward an outward side in a radial direction; a housing accommodating the valve and turnably supports the valve; a tubular passage member assembled in the housing such that the passage member abuts on the outer circumferential wall of the valve and defining a radial-direction passage; and a biasing spring biasing the passage member toward the outer circumferential wall The passage member includes an abutting member abutting on the outer circumferential wall, and an intervening member having an annular pressing part intervening between the abutting member and the biasing spring and partially pressurizing the abutting member. The abutting member includes an annular sealing surface aligned with the annular pressing part in a biasing direction of the biasing spring.

Abstract: A pressure sensor is provided and includes housings that are formed to have a tubular shape; a pressure measurement member that is accommodated inside the housing and includes a piezoelectric substance; a diaphragm that has a flexible plate-shaped part fixed to a tip side of the housings and a transfer part protruding on an axis to transfer a load to the pressure measurement member; and a heat shielding plate that is held by the housings such that the diaphragm is covered, comes into contact with the diaphragm in a central region corresponding to the transfer part, and defines an annular void between the heat shielding plate and the diaphragm in a region other than the central region.

Abstract: An accelerator pedal device of the present invention includes: an accelerator pedal; a hysteresis generation mechanism that generates a hysteresis in pedal effort during a depression operation and a return operation of the accelerator pedal; a reaction force addition mechanism that adds a reaction force in a direction to push back the accelerator pedal; and a control unit that controls the drive of the reaction force addition mechanism in a manner that, with a predetermined target opening degree at which the accelerator pedal is depressed as a boundary, a ratio of change in the pedal effort in an opening degree range above the target opening degree becomes relatively larger than a ratio of change in pedal effort in an opening degree range below the target opening degree.

Abstract: An electromagnetic switching valve includes: a sleeve; a spool; an electromagnetic actuator, including a plunger having a through passage and a stator exerting a magnetomotive force on the plunger; and a transmission member of a tubular shape, interposed between the plunger and the spool and transmitting a driving force. The stator includes an insertion hole through which the transmission member is inserted. The transmission member includes: a facing wall facing the through passage; a first internal passage formed closer to the plunger than the facing wall and communicating with the through passage; a first opening formed closer to the plunger than the insertion hole and opening the first internal passage in a radial direction; second internal passages formed closer to the spool than the facing wall; and second openings formed closer to the spool than the insertion hole and opening the second internal passages in the radial direction.

Abstract: A valve device includes a body that defines a passage through which a fluid flows, a shaft that is movably supported with respect to the body and defines an axis, a valve element that is fixed to the shaft to open and close the passage; and a cylindrical bearing bush that movably supports the shaft with respect to the body, in which the bearing bush includes a mixed region in which a metal core material and expanded graphite are mixed with each other, and a first expanded graphite region made of only the expanded graphite such that the metal core material is not exposed in an inner circumferential side region in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the shaft.

Abstract: A throttle device, comprising: a throttle valve (13) disposed in a plurality of intake passages (12) of a throttle body (11); a throttle shaft (14) supporting the throttle valve (13); a motor (15) for driving the throttle valve (13) to open and close through the throttle shaft (14); a rotation transmission mechanism (20) interposed between the motor (15) and the throttle shaft (14); and a position sensor to detect a displacement in the rotation transmission mechanism (20). The rotation transmission mechanism (20) includes a pinion (21) driven by the motor (15) and a control gear (23) interlocked with the pinion (21) and integrally connected to the throttle shaft (14). The position sensor (30) to detect an angular displacement of the control gear (23) and the rotation transmission mechanism (20) are disposed between the plurality of intake passages 12.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to remove drift of a piezoelectric element and thereby obtain a highly precise pressure detection signal by means of a simple configuration. A pressure detection signal processing device 200 includes: a charge amplifier 210 that accumulates electric charge produced by a piezoelectric element 35 in response to a received pressure and outputs a corresponding voltage signal; drift component extraction units 230 and 240 that extract a drift component of the piezoelectric element 35 by performing differential processing on the voltage signal; and a drift correction unit 250 that generates, based on the extracted drift component, a correction signal for removing the drift component and feeds the correction signal back to an input side of the charge amplifier.

Abstract: Provided is a pressure sensor capable of curbing the influence of heat and securing prescribed sensor precision. The pressure sensor includes: a tubular housing (10, 20); a pressure measurement member (80) accommodated in the housing and including a piezoelectric element; a diaphragm (30) including a flexible plate-shaped portion (31) secured to a distal end of the housing and a projecting portion (32) adapted to transmit a load to the pressure measurement member; and a shielding plate (40) disposed adjacent to the flexible plate-shaped portion to shield the diaphragm from a pressure medium, and the shielding plate (40) is secured to the flexible plate-shaped portion (31) by a bonding region (A) in a linear shape.

Abstract: A pressure sensor of the present invention comprises a cylindrical housing (10, 210); a diaphragm (30) which is fixed to the front end of the housing and exposed to a pressure medium; a pressure measuring member (70, 270) comprising a first electrode (71), a piezoelectric element (72) and a second electrode (73) laminated in sequence inside the housing; a first conductor (91, 210) in a long shape which is electrically connected to the first electrode; a second conductor (92, 290) in a long shape which is electrically connected to the second electrode; and a restricting member (100, 300) having insulation which is arranged inside the housing so as to restrict relative movement between the first conductor and the second conductor According to this configuration, it is possible to suppress or prevent variations in parasitic capacitance so as to suppress or prevent the occurrence of noise.

Abstract: Provided is a throttle device including a total of two throttle units in two cylinders in an engine, each of the throttle units having a throttle shaft, throttle valves, and a motor driving and rotating the throttle shaft, in which a return spring provided in a first throttle unit and a return spring provided in a second throttle unit out of the two throttle units are components of the same type and have mutually different installation forms in the throttle units such that biasing torques at the same degree of opening of the throttle valves differ from each other, thereby enabling performances of responding to a change in rotation speed to be different from each other.

Abstract: A connection unit connected to a rotation body by fitting to transmit a rotation force includes a rotation shaft, having a width across flat portion; and a core member, having fitting portions fitted to the rotation body in a direction perpendicular to the width across flat portion and an annular portion that the width across flat portion are slidably fitted, and held on the rotation shaft to be capable of moving relatively in two dimensions along the width across flat portion while rotating integrally with the rotation shaft. Accordingly, generation of vibration or noise can be prevented, and easiness of assembly work, cost reduction, miniaturization and the like can be achieved.

Abstract: Provided is a throttle device including a total of two throttle units in an engine for each two cylinders, each of the throttle units having a unit body having intake air passages corresponding to the four cylinders of the engine, a throttle shaft rotatably supported by the unit body, throttle valves secured to the throttle shaft to open and close the intake air passages for the cylinders, and a motor driving and rotating the throttle shaft, in which a first motor provided in a first throttle unit and a second motor provided in a second throttle unit out of the two throttle units have mutually different responsivities to a change in rotation speed.

Abstract: Provided is an electronically controlled throttle device for an engine driving to open and close a throttle valve (8) of a valve body (3) to which rotation of a motor (15) is transmitted from a driven gear (14) via a throttle shaft (6), and disposing a substrate (22) on which an excitation conductor (23) and a signal detection conductor (24) are arranged to face an exciting conductor (21) rotating together with the throttle shaft (6). The driven gear (14) comprises an embedded core metal (25), and has one side surface to which an exciting conductor (21) is exposed, the core metal (25) and the exciting conductor (21) being insert-Molded of a synthetic resin material and prepared, and a caulked portion (6a) of the throttle shaft (6) is inserted and fixed into a shaft hole (25a) extending through the core metal (25).

Abstract: The disclosure provides a combustion abnormality detecting device, a combustion abnormality detecting method, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, a misfire detection accuracy is increased by increasing a piezoelectric detection accuracy. A charge amplifier (210) outputting a voltage signal corresponding to a charge generated by a piezoelectric element (35) in response to a received pressure, a drift component extracting part (230) extracting a drift component of the piezoelectric element (35), a drift correcting part (250) generating a correction signal for removing the drift component based on the extracted drift component and feeding back the correction signal to an input side of the charge amplifier (210), and a misfire detecting part (400) performing misfire detection based on the correction signal are included.

Abstract: A phase changing unit of the present invention changes the relative rotational phase of a first rotating body and a second rotating body, and includes: a rotating member to which an external drive shaft is connected and to which a rotational driving force is applied; and a relative rotation mechanism that generates a relative rotation between a first rotating body and a second rotating body by the rotation of the rotating member. The rotating member includes: an action part that is made of metal and acts on the relative rotation mechanism; a connection part which is made of resin and to which the drive shaft is connected; and a fragile part that is made of resin and functions to cut the transmission of a rotational force between the drive shaft and the rotating member when an excessive load has occurred.

Abstract: An exhaust valve device for a vehicle includes: a valve element 7 axially supported by a rotating shaft 5 in a bore 4 of a valve body 3 produced through casting; sealing projections 21 and 22 integrally formed on an inner circumferential surface of the bore 4 to follow one side portion 7a and the other side portion 7b of an outer circumferential edge of the valve element 7 at a fully closed position; sealing surfaces 21a and 22a of the sealing projections 21 and 22, the right side portion 7a and the left side portion 7b of the valve element 7 at the fully closed position abutting respectively on the sealing surfaces; R-shaped corners 21b and 22b formed between the inner circumferential surface of the bore 4 and the sealing surfaces 21a and 22a; and diameter enlarged portions 25 formed in the inner circumferential surface of the bore 4 to enlarge the bore 4 that are adjacent respectively to the sealing surfaces 21a and 22a of the sealing projections 21 and 22 and correspond to lengths of the sealing surfaces 2