Abstract: A pressure regulating device for high pressure fuel systems includes a pressure sensing element attached directly to a pressure chamber. The pressure sensing element includes a semiconductor element that deflects in response to a deflection of a portion of the pressure caused by fuel pressure within the pressure chamber. A coil is electrically connected with the pressure sensing element and is configured to generate a magnetic field that moves a magnetic armature to control fuel pressure.

Abstract: A pressure regulating device for high pressure fuel systems includes a pressure sensing element attached directly to a pressure chamber. The pressure sensing element includes a semiconductor element that deflects in response to a deflection of a portion of the pressure caused by fuel pressure within the pressure chamber. A coil is electrically connected with the pressure sensing element and is configured to generate a magnetic field that moves a magnetic armature to control fuel pressure.

Abstract: A pressure regulating device for high pressure fuel systems includes a pressure sensing element attached directly to a pressure chamber. The pressure sensing element includes a semiconductor element that deflects in response to a deflection of a portion of the pressure caused by fuel pressure within the pressure chamber. A coil is electrically connected with the pressure sensing element and is configured to generate a magnetic field that moves a magnetic armature to control fuel pressure.

Abstract: A solenoid pressure transducer for measuring and controlling pressure within a system includes pressure sensing technology incorporated into a solenoid valve such that a common pressure chamber is used to sense pressure of a fluid and to control the flow of the same fluid. A solenoid sleeve forms the pressure chamber and a sensing element attached to the sleeve is used to measure pressure within the sleeve. The pressure measurement is then used by the solenoid sleeve to control the position of the solenoid valve.

Abstract: The detector applies an analog input signal through respectively positive and negative offset voltages to the inputs of two comparators, one of which produces a first output signal as the input signal passes beyond a predetermined minimum voltage in the positive going direction, and the other of which produces a second output signal when the input voltage exceeds a minimum predetermined value in a negative going direction. The input signal is also applied directly to the input of a third comparator the output of which produces a third signal each time the input signal crosses over zero voltage in a positive going direction. The first and second comparator output signals are applied to the reset and set terminals, respectively, of a first flip flop. The output of this first flip flop, and the output of the third comparator are applied through an AND gate to the set terminal of a second flip flop.

Abstract: The device comprises a housing having therein a valve chamber, fluid inlet and exhaust ports opening on opposite ends, respectively, of the chamber, and an outlet port for connection to fluid pressure operated apparatus. Two solenoid coils are wound in the housing to surround said chamber and two armatures which are mounted in the chamber to reciprocate independently of each between said inlet and exhaust ports. Two springs normally urge said armatures to first limit positions in which a valve on one armature closes the exhaust port, and a valve on the other armature opens the inlet port to place it in communication with the outlet port. When both solenoid coils are energized the armatures shift in the same direction to close the inlet port and open the exhaust port to exhaust fluid from the outlet port to a sump. One coil alone may be energized to shift one armature to close the inlet port without causing the other armature to shift, thus maintaining the exhaust port closed.

Abstract: The mechanism includes a housing containing a plurality of switches and a cam shaft which is frictionally coupled by a first clutch band to a pivotal brake lever. Two cam members, which are rotatable on the cam shaft, are frictionally connected by another pair of interconnected clutch bands to a clutch lever. The cam shaft and the two cam members are pivotal within certain angular limits in response to pivotal movements of the vehicle's brake and clutch, respectively, to control the brake lights, cruise control and a starting switch. If after prolonged use the angular throw of the clutch or brake exceeds the throw for which it was originally designed, limit means associated with the cam members and cam shaft cause the associated clutch band to allow relative angular rotation between the cam shaft or cam member and the associated brake or clutch lever.

Abstract: A switch mechanism is disclosed as including a body member containing the switching elements for an electrical circuit and a rotary external actuator for producing corresponding rotary motion to the switching elements for placing the switch mechanism into its controlling conditions. The actuator is held in a restrained position upon the body member and also resiliently biased into a controlling condition by a single element, a coil spring.

Abstract: The dipstick has an enlarged head and an integral, flexible shank which extends slidably through the dipstick tube of a conventional engine crankcase so that a pair of spaced thermistors, which are mounted on the shank adjacent its inner end, normally will be immersed beneath the level of the oil in the crankcase. The shank contains a ground conductor which is connected adjacent one end to one side of the thermistors, and adjacent its opposite end has sliding, resilient engagement with the inside of the dipstick tube. The opposite sides of the thermistors are connected by two additional conductors which extend upwardly in the shank to register with a pair of openings that are formed in diametrally sides of the shank near the dipstick head.

Abstract: Two wire leads project from opposite ends of a dielectric housing having a sealed chamber containing a fusible metal alloy link, which operatively connects the wire leads electrically to one another. A flexible, pre-loaded, dielectric spring element in the chamber engages and exerts upon the link a predetermined stress, which is operative to cause the link suddenly to fail and interrupt the connection between the leads, when the ambient temperature of the link exceeds a predetermined temperature range. In one embodiment the two wire leads project into the chamber and have spaced, confronting ends interconnected by the link, one side of which is held under compressive stress by the spring element.

Abstract: The housing has a flexible diaphragm secured over a fluid pressure inlet port in one end thereof, and a cover secured over an opening in the opposite end thereof. A plunger is mounted to reciprocate in the housing between said diaphragm and said cover in response to changes in fluid pressure at the inlet. Secured in the housing beneath the cover is a ceramic chip or substrate, which has a plane surface that extends normal to the axis of the plunger. A spirally shaped resistor element is printed or otherwise formed on the face of the chip, and a conically coiled compression spring is located in the housing between the resistor element and the plunger, and in such manner that its outer convolution at the larger end thereof is engaged with the outer convolution of the spirally shaped resistor element. The smaller end of the spring is connected to the plunger to be reciprocated thereby toward and away from the resistor element.

Abstract: This pressure sender or transducer comprises a metal housing having a steel cover and containing a rolling diaphragm which is secured over a cavity in the housing to communicate at one side with fluid under pressure, such as the oil in the crankcase of an automobile. Mounted centrally in the opposite side of the diaphragm is a rigid cup, which rotatably supports one end of a reciprocable plunger which in one embodiment carries two sets of equi-angularly spaced, resilient metal wipers or contacts, four of which are slidably engaged with the cylindrical operating surface of a printed resistor, which is mounted in the closed end of the cover, and four others of which are slidably engaged with the inner peripheral surface of the cover itself. The resistor comprises a steel can having a thin layer of porcelain baked on its outer peripheral surface, and a thin, cylindrical layer of resistance material printed and baked onto the porcelain layer with one end in electrical contact with the steel can.