Abstract: An air meter for an internal combustion engine. The air intake passage of the internal combustion engine includes a main passage and an L-shaped auxiliary passage. The auxiliary passage includes a first flow passage, a second flow passage and a corner portion arrnaged at a corner thereof. The first flow passage communicates to the second flow passage through the corner portion. The first flow passage is disposed in parallel with the main passage and has a hot wire sensor arranged therein. The second flow passage is arranged perpendicularly to the main passage. The first flow passage has a circular radial cross section. The second flow passage is in the shape of a groove with a bottom, the groove having a square cross-section. The first flow passage is open to the corner portion at a level of the bottom of the second flow passage.

Abstract: A hot-wire air flow meter for detecting air flow intake has a main passage (21) and a generally parallel sub-passage (31) for bypassing said main passage, and located in the sub-passage is a hot-wire element (2a) for detecting air flow intake. A dished member (34) is located upstream from an inlet (31a) of the sub-passage, the dished member having a base portion adjacent the sub-passage inlet and an upstream projecting edge (30a) extending from said base portion. The upstream extending edge (30a) at least partially surrounds the inlet (31a) and is located between the sub-passage inlet and the main passage, the effect of the dished member tending to stabilize air flow entering the sub-passage so that the air flow is less affected by bends in pipework upstream from the air flow meter.

Abstract: An air flow meter for an internal combustion engine comprises an intake air passage of an internal combustion engine, which is composed of a primary flow passage and an auxiliary flow passage having a specified length and a portion adapted to project within the primary flow passage and made substantially parallel to the direction of the air flow passing through the primary flow passage. A sensor for measurement of an intake air flowrate is disposed within the auxiliary flow passage. The primary flow passage is provided with a portion where the cross-sectional area of the primary flow passage is gradually reduced. In the vicinity of this cross-sectional area reducing portion, there is disposed an outlet of the auxiliary flow passage.

Abstract: A hot-wire air flow meter for providing an air flow meter capable of accurately detecting the quantity of air drawn into the internal combustion engine and stabilizing the air flow distribution. The hotwire air flow meter includes a main passage forming an air horn for the internal combustion engine, a hot-wire element for measuring the quantity of air drawn in, a bypass passage installed in the main passage and containing the hot-wire element, the bypass passage consisting of a first passage formed along the main passage axis and a second passage formed in the radial direction of the main passage, and a throttled portion formed between the bypass passage and a throttle valve located downstream of the bypass passage.

Abstract: The present invention whose object is to provide a hot wire type of flow meter capable of accurately detecting a flow rate under various conditions required for satisfying a desire for low fuel consumption of an engine system and space saving in an engine room, the present invention being characterized in a hot wire type of air flow meter including a main flow passage forming an air intake flow passage of an internal combustion engine, a hot wire element measuring intake air, and a bypass having the hot wire element therein and disposed in the main flow passage, the hot wire type of air flow meter comprising: a flow passage forming the bypass, and formed in the axial direction of the main flow passage; and a flow passage forming the bypass and formed in the radial direction of the main flow passage, the flow passage having a structure designed in such a manner that the upper stream portion of an outlet portion thereof projects over the lower stream portion of the same.

Abstract: A compact hot-wire type air flow meter for an internal combustion engine with a high measuring accuracy is provided with a primary flow path forming an intake air passage and an auxiliary flow path incorporating therein a hot-wire element for measuring the intake air. The auxiliary flow path is defined by a flow path in an axial direction of the primary flow path and a flow path in a radial direction of the primary flow path.

Abstract: A fuel atomizer in which one or more substantially recesses are formed at the distal end of a vibration amplifier member, and a part of wall material of a vibrating reed is caused to flow into those recesses due to plastic fluidity, thereby firmly fixing both the vibrating reed and the vibration amplifier member to each other.

Abstract: An intake structure having a throttle body and an intake body connected to the upstream end of the throttle body and provided with a by-pass air passage for mounting an air flow meter. Locating construction is provided on the joint surfaces of the throttle body and the intake body so as to locate these bodies coaxially to each other.

Abstract: A control device for a throttle valve for use with an internal combustion engine installed in a vehicle. The device has a throttle valve shaft secured to the throttle valve, and a linkage to be driven by a linkage member including an accelerator wire for opening and closing the throttle valve. The linkage is a three-joint linkage mechanism including a throttle lever secured to the throttle valve shaft, a lever-mounting shaft secured to the throttle body, a drive lever rotatably mounted on the lever-mounting shaft, and a rod connecting the throttle lever and the drive lever.

Abstract: An intake air flow sensor comprises a sensor main body and a connection unit main body, the former consisting of a main passage for passing intake air and a bypass passage for bypassing part of the air flowing through the main passage and joining it again to the air of the main passage. An intake air flow meter is disposed in the bypass passage to measure the intake air quantity. The bypass passage has an opening which opens to the main passage. A ring is fitted into the main passage of the sensor main body in such a manner as to close part of the opening of the bypass passage. An insulator is clamped by the ring and the connection unit main body. According to this construction, the area of the opening of the bypass passage to the main passage is not changed due to deformation of an insulator when the insulator is interposed between the sensor main body and the connection main body and they are fixed together by bolts.

Abstract: An exhaust emission control apparatus for a Diesel engine includes a filter collecting particulates contained in exhaust gases of the Diesel engine and a fuel supply device supplying fuel required for burning the collected particulates. The fuel supply device controls the amount of supplied fuel so that the temperature of the filter can be raised to a level high enough for burning the collected particulates but not so high as to damage the filter itself by the heat applied thereto. A control unit executes the fuel control on the basis of the temperature of the filter and the pressure drop across the filter.

Abstract: An exhaust emission control device for a diesel engine which controls the burner for oxidizing particulates in an exhaust gas of the diesel engine trapped in a filter by a burner being ignited after a predetermined time from a starting of the diesel engine.

Abstract: An exhaust emission control system for a diesel engine including a trap in the form of a filter formed of heat-resistant material for trapping carbon particulates. The trap has no directionality with respect to air permeability, and combustion gas, for heating the trap or a fuel for activating a catalyst provided to the trap, is supplied to the trap from a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction in which an exhaust gas flows from the engine to the trap. Upon a blocking of the trap as a result of an accumulation of the trapped carbon particulates, the trapped carbon particulates can be removed by oxidation treatment, to thereby enable regeneration of the trap to be effected with a high degree of efficiency.

Abstract: An exhaust emission control device for Diesel engines comprising a trap disposed in an exhaust pipe connected to an exhaust manifold and a trap-heating burner disposed outside the exhaust pipe, whereby a combustion gas from the burner is led to the outer peripheral portion of the trap to heat the same.According to the exhaust emission control device for Diesel engines of the present invention, the stable oxidation of particulates collected on the trap in the exhaust pipe is achieved independently of the flow rate of the exhaust gas, the exhaust pressure and the amount of O.sub.2 in the exhaust gas.

Abstract: A throttle valve linkage for use with a multi-carburetor assembly comprising a pair of carburetors has first and second levers secured respectively to the throttle shafts of the first and second carburetors, first and second link members respectively connected at one ends to the free ends of the first and second levers. The other ends of the first and second link members are pivotally connected by a common pivot pin which is slidably movable in a guide channel. The rotation of the first carburetor throttle shaft is transmitted by the linkage to the second carburetor throttle shaft so that the latter is rotated in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the first carburetor throttle shaft.