Abstract: An adjustable damping force type shock absorber having a function to detect a damping force generated thereon and a function to adjust the damping force thereof.

Abstract: Wheel cylinders supplied with oil pressure from a master cylinder are respectively provided in brake mechanism provided in wheels of a vehicle. The wheel cylinder has a brake piston provided to form a first fluid chamber to supply oil pressure from the master cylinder, and a brake piston driven by the oil pressure of the first fluid chamber. The wheel cylinder has a piston mechanism formed by laminating thin plate shaped piezoelectric elements, and the piston mechanism is controlled to be expanded or contracted by controlling the voltage applied to the piezoelectric elements to vary the volume of the first fluid chamber.

Abstract: A compact, piezoelectrically operated pressure modulator for antiskid control of a hydraulic braking system. In its simplest form, the modulator comprises a body in which are formed a main hydraulic passage adapted to connect the master cylinder to a wheel cylinder, and a pressure relief passage for relieving the pressure in the wheel cylinder. The main passage is opened and closed by a normally open shutoff valve operated by a piezoelectric actuator, and the relief passage is controlled by a normally closed shutoff valve operated by an associated piezoelectric actuator. Adjusting mechanisms are provided to adjust the axial position of the piezoelectric elements of the actuators in such a manner that the valve clearance of the shutoff valves is adjusted to an optimal amount.

Abstract: A multiple-turn scroll pump comprises a pumping unit on each lateral side of a base plate of an oscillatable scroll piston driven by an eccentric drive. Each pumping unit includes a spirally shaped groove in a scroll housing and a spirally shaped displacement blade forming part of the scroll piston. The groove in one of the pumping units extends from the peripheral part of the scroll housing through at least one turn of a spiral and terminates at the intermediate part of the housing. The groove in the other pumping unit also begins close to the peripheral part of the scroll housing but extends through a number of spiral turns greater than that of the groove in the first pumping unit. Passages are provided in the scroll piston to communicate grooves in both units in such a manner that the fluid drawn into the first pumping unit is compressed mainly in the second pumping unit and is discharged solely therefrom.

Abstract: A multiple-vane rotary compressor having a cylinder bore profile especially designed to reduce the fluctuation in the overall drive torque applied to the rotor shaft. The cylinder bore profile is configured and designed so that the individual drive torque applied to an individual vane during the compression and delivery strokes varies along a drive torque-vane angle curve which approximates an isosceles triangle having a lower side corresponding to a range of angle of 180.degree.. The cylinder bore profile includes, for a profile section extending through an angle of 180.degree., a first region (i) in which the amount of vane projection is held substantially constant at a maximum value (D), a second region (ii) in which the amount of vane projection decreases at a higher rate, and a third region (iii) in which the amount of vane projection decreases to zero at a lower rate, the imaginary transitional point (A.sub.3) between the second and third regions being located at an angular position of 90.degree..

Abstract: Hydraulic fluid supply system for supplying high pressure hydraulic fluid to power actuators for power steering systems includes a pumping mechanism having independent pumping chambers adapted to discharge fluid to a supply line leading to the power actuator. The supply line contains a variable orifice and a flow control valve responsive to the pressure difference generated by the variable orifice. The pumping chambers include at least first and second pumping chambers connected to first and second feed lines. A switching valve operatively interconnected to the variable orifice and actuated by an electrically operable drive mechanism selectively connects the second feed line to the supply line or to the first feed line.

Abstract: A compressor bypass passage has an inlet portion and an outlet portion which is connected to the suction passage. The inlet portion of the bypass passage has an opening which is able to be open to the compression chamber when the compression chamber is in a decreasing volume stroke, thereby to spill the refrigerant from the compression chamber into the suction passage. A control pressure chamber is formed in the housing. A valve member is arranged in the inlet portion of the bypass passage. The valve member is actuated in response to a variety of pressures of the refrigerant in the control pressure chamber for adjusting the area of the opening of the inlet portion of the bypass passage. A pressure supply passage for supplying a refrigerant, which pressure is higher than the pressure in the suction passage, is connected to the control pressure chamber. A spill passage for spilling a part of the refrigerant interconnects the control pressure chamber to the suction passage.

Abstract: A scroll-type pump suitably used as a compressor in an automobile air-conditioning system. The pump is provided with a stationary scroll member and a movable scroll member, which movable scroll member rotates while maintaining contact with the stationary scroll member. A scroll shape of each of the scroll members is formed by a plurality of alternately arranged arc sections of a small radius of curvature and arc sections of a large radius of curvature smoothly connected to each other. A pump having an overall shape which corresponds to the shape of the space in which the pump is to be arranged in the vehicle is obtained.

Abstract: A vane-type rotary pump and a vane-type rotary compressor are integrated into a single unit and are driven by a common shaft. The compressor assembly is positioned at the rear of the pump assembly to minimize the number of mechanical seals required to seal the pump assembly along the shaft. The combined pump and compressor unit is provided with a regulating mechanism for reducing the compressor output during moderate or off modes of the refrigerant circuit.

Abstract: A rotary compressor is provided with a rotary valve arranged rotatably in the housing unit. The rotary valve is partially exposed to an interior space of the housing unit. The interior space is divided into a plurality of variable working spaces. A return port is formed in the rotary valve for feeding a cooling medium into an inlet port from the working space. A quantity of the cooling medium discharged from the working space through an outlet port is changed in accordance with the rotation of the rotary valve controlled by the actuator.

Abstract: A rotary vane type compressor provided with a rotor member arranged eccentrically in the cylindrical housing. Vane plates are radially slidably arranged in the rotor member, so that the vane plates always contact an inner cylindrical surface of the housing. Valve means are provided for a positive close-off of the supply of oil during non-operation of the compressor while maintaining a supply of oil in a necessary amount during operation of the compressor. The compressor further includes an oil reservoir arranged in the rotor member for storing an amount of oil to be directed to a pair of bearing units.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improvement in the configuration of the inner face of a housing of a through vane type rotary compressor for use in a car cooler or the like, in which both the top ends of a vane passing through the center of a rotor are always kept in sliding contact with the inner face of the housing.In the present invention, the configuration of the inner face of the housing is determined so that substantial face-to-face contact is produced between the rotor and the housing in a certain region with the point for contact with the rotor being as the center, and the configuration of the subsequent curved portion is defined by such a curve that the velocity of the sliding movement of the vane in the radial direction of the rotor is expressed by a gentle function where said velocity monotonously changes.

Abstract: A rotary compressor formed with an unloading port maintaining a working space in communication with a suction chamber and opened and closed by a valve, to vary the capacity of the compressor. The internal pressure of the working space is sensed in a compression stroke or this pressure and the pressure of a fluid drawn by suction are both sensed, so as to open and close the valve based on the sensed internal pressure of the working space or the pressure differential between the internal pressure of the working space and the pressure of the fluid drawn by suction, to give suitable hysteresis to the operation characteristics of the on-off valve to stabilize the operation of the on-off valve.

Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a cylindrical-shaped housing, a rotor rotatably mounted in the housing and formed with diametrically extending slits, and a pair of movable vanes each slidably disposed in each of the slits with its opposite ends extending beyond the associated slit in abutting relation to the inner surface of the housing. The clearances between the movable vanes and the slits of the rotor are made larger about the central portion of the rotor than adjacent to the outer periphery thereof by making each of the vanes thinner about its central portion than at its opposite end portions or making each of the slits wider about the central portion of the rotor than adjacent to the outer periphery of the rotor.

Abstract: A vane type rotary compressor comprises a cylindrical housing, side plates secured on axial opposite ends of the housing, a rotor rotatably mounted in the housing and a plurality of vanes each slidably received in one of slots formed in the rotor. The housing, side plates, rotor and vanes cooperates with one another to define a working space of a variable volume. The rotor is formed with an increased diameter portion substantially in a central position of the rotor as viewed in an axial direction of the latter. An axial length (L.sub.4) of the increased diameter portion, an axial length (L.sub.3) of the vanes, an axial length (L.sub.2) of the slots, an axial length (L.sub.1) of the housing, distance (L.sub.5) between a forward end of the slots and a forward end of the increased diameter portion, and distance (L.sub.6) between a rear end of the slots and a rear end of the increased diameter portion have the relationships, L.sub.1 >L.sub.3 >L.sub.4, L.sub.2 >L.sub.3, L.sub.3>L.sub.4 +L.sub.5, and L.

Abstract: A rotary compressor including a housing having therethrough a cylindrical bore, end plates attached to the housing to close the open axial ends of the bore respectively, an eccentric rotor rotatable in the bore and vanes slidably mounted in the rotor. A working chamber defined between the adjacent pair of vanes communicates with a discharge chamber outside of the housing through a discharge opening in the wall of the housing. First and second passages have their respective one ends opening to the cylindrical bore and the respective other ends communicating with the discharge chamber. The one end of the first passage is positioned at a location or adjacent thereto where the leading one of the adjacent pair of vanes is positioned when the working chamber defined therebetween has its volume starting to decrease.

Abstract: A rotary compressor including two rotary disc-shaped members having a diameter slightly smaller than that of a rotor each disposed on opposite ends of the rotor and supported on the same rotary shaft as the rotor for rotation, and two disc-shaped recesses each formed on one of inner opposite end surfaces of a housing for receiving therein one of the plurality of rotary disc-shaped members. A small gap is formed between the inner end surfaces of the housing and the end surfaces of the rotor, and small gaps are formed between surfaces of the rotary disc-shaped members and surfaces of the disc-shaped recesses. The area through which a fluid leaks from the high pressure side to the low pressure side in the housing is minimized, and resistance is offered by the tortuous path to the flow of the fluid toward the rotary shaft, to thereby minimize the leakage of fluid during operation of the compressor.

Abstract: A through-vane type rotary compressor having a cylinder chamber of novel shape wherein a segment of the peripheral edge of the cylinder chamber connecting two circularly arcuate segments together has a shape represented by the formula ##EQU1## and the slider has opposite ends each maintained in sliding contact with the peripheral edge at its arcuate end. The slider smoothly rotates along the peripheral edge of the cylinder chamber without impinging thereon while the acceleration of the sliding movement of the slider shows smooth changes.

Abstract: An AC generator for a vehicle comprises a rotor having a pair of finger magnetic poles and an armature iron core. By deviating pole pieces of the finger magnetic poles by predetermined angles relative to each of opposed tooth portions of the armature iron core, torque variation applied to each of the pole pieces during rotation is cancelled, and magnetic sound can be greatly decreased without reducing the output of the AC generator.

Abstract: A polyphase AC generator of a type designed for installation in automobiles, has a so-called Lundell type rotor in which an exciting coil is enclosed by a plurality of pairs of finger type magnetic poles and which is rotated by a vehicle-mounted engine. The shape of the finger magnetic poles is modified to an irregular trapezoidal shape having a side opposite to a base displaced with respect to said base in the direction of rotation of the rotor, thus changing the waveform of magnetic flux flowing through the rotor and an armature core and thereby reducing magnetic noise of the generator under load operation.