Abstract: The disclosure provides a pump device and an outboard motor equipped with the same. The pump device to be applied to an outboard motor includes a housing that has an insertion hole into which a drive shaft driven by an engine is to be inserted; and a resin cover member that is fixed to the housing to cover an outer wall surface of the housing in a region having the insertion hole. The cover member has a small-diameter insertion hole having an inner diameter smaller than the insertion hole to allow the drive shaft to be rotatably inserted thereto.

Abstract: A throttle device 1 includes a throttle valve 2 which is disposed in an intake passage 101, and includes a first valve body 20 and a first rotatable shaft 21 for rotatably holding the first valve body 20, a bypass valve 3 which is disposed in a bypass passage 8 connected to the intake passage 101 so as to bypass the throttle valve 2, and includes a second valve body 30 and a second rotatable shaft 31 for rotatably holding the second valve body 30, a common motor 4 for applying a driving force to the throttle valve 2 and the bypass valve 3, a first gear 5 configured to be able to transmit or block the driving force of the motor 4 with respect to the first rotatable shaft 21, a second gear 6 configured to receive the driving force of the motor 4 and transmit the driving force to the second rotatable shaft 31, and a sensor 7 for detecting a rotation amount of the second rotatable shaft 31 of the bypass valve 3 or another rotatable shaft rotating in conjunction with the second rotatable shaft 31.

Abstract: This strain wave gear unit includes: a bottomed cylindrical first internal gear having internal teeth formed on a cylindrical part and a teeth-non-formed part protruding farther inward than the tooth bottom of the internal teeth in a corner area where a bottom wall part is integrally connected to the cylindrical part; a flexible cylindrical external gear having external teeth meshing with the internal teeth of the first internal gear, an opposed part opposed to the teeth-non-formed part with a gap therebetween, and an end part opposed to the bottom wall part to make contact therewith; a second internal gear arranged adjacent to the first internal gear and having internal teeth meshing with the external teeth; and a rotation member that causes the external gear to deform in an oval shape and causes the meshing position to move while partially meshing with the first internal gear and the second internal gear.

Abstract: A fluid control valve unit includes: a fluid control valve including a sleeve in a bottomed cylindrical shape defining an axis, and a spool slidably accommodated in the sleeve in a direction of the axis; a cylindrical passage member including an inner peripheral surface to which the sleeve is fitted, a receiving part for receiving an end of the sleeve in the direction of the axis, and an annular groove recessed from the inner peripheral surface; and a snap ring including a notch with a predetermined gap and fitted in the annular groove to be capable of restricting the fluid control valve accommodated in the passage member from falling off in the direction of the axis and to be capable of discharging fluid flowing through a discharge passage formed in the passage member.

Abstract: A fluid control valve includes: a sleeve in a bottomed cylindrical shape, including an inlet, communication ports, an inner peripheral surface, and an inflow annular groove recessed from the inner peripheral surface in a region facing the inlet; a spool slidably disposed on the inner peripheral surface in the sleeve to open and close the communication ports; a C-shaped leaf spring formed by bending a leaf spring into an annular shape with two ends facing each other to form a notch and disposed in the inflow annular groove capable of being contracted in diameter to open and close the inlet; and a restricting part provided on the sleeve for restricting diameter contraction of the C-shaped leaf spring beyond a predetermined inner diameter and for restricting a position of the notch in a region away from the inlet.

Abstract: A pump device includes a housing, a pump element, and an on-off valve. The housing includes a suction passage defining a suction port at an upstream end, a discharge passage defining a discharge port at a downstream end, and a return passage returning a part of a fluid flowing through the discharge passage to midway of the suction passage. The pump element is accommodated in the housing and rotates around a predetermined axis to suck, pressurize, and discharge a fluid. The on-off valve opens and closes the return passage. In the suction passage upstream of an opening at which the return passage is opened to the suction passage, the housing includes a directional wall which directs a flow of a suction fluid sucked into the suction passage from the suction port to divert from a flow of a return fluid returned from the return passage.

Abstract: A liquid container according to the present invention includes: a container 2 temporarily storing a fuel; and a drain unit 3 discharging the fuel from a communication hole 11 provided at a lower portion of the container 2, and the drain unit 3 includes a valve body 15 formed of metal with higher strength and hardness than those of the container 2 made of resin, including a drain passage establishing communication between the communication hole 11 and outside and a valve seat facing the drain passage, which are formed therein, and detachably fixed to the container 2, and a drain screw 16 having a valve element attached to the valve body 15 for opening and closing the drain passage by being separated from or abutting the valve seat.

Abstract: In a throttle device including: a throttle shaft to which a throttle valve is secured; a motor; and a deceleration mechanism decelerating rotation of a drive shaft of the motor and transmitting the rotation to the throttle shaft, the deceleration mechanism includes a throttle gear secured to the throttle shaft, the throttle gear includes a tubular ring into which the throttle shaft is detachably inserted and a gear main body including a gear portion, and the gear main body is formed of a resin by insert processing including the ring.

Abstract: An oil passage switching valve suitable for a valve timing changing apparatus includes: a valve body, opening or closing an oil passage of operating oil; an urging spring, urging to position the valve body to a position corresponding to the retard position in a pause state; and a switching element, positioning the valve body to a position corresponding to the retard position when a state quantity of the operating oil is in a first range, and switching a position of the valve body in response to the state quantity (pressure or temperature) of the operating oil while resisting an urging force of the urging spring to position the valve body to a position corresponding to the advance position when the state quantity of the operating oil is in a second range greater than the first range.

Abstract: The rotary valve device includes a valve 30, a housing H having a joining surface 14b1 located at ends of a fitting hole 14a and a through hole 16, a thermostat 110 partially accommodated in the through hole 16, a cylindrical seal member 80, an urging spring 90, and a passage member 60. The passage member 60 includes a cylindrical holding member 61 that is fitted into the fitting hole 14a and holds the cylindrical seal member 80 and the urging spring 90, and a connector member 62. The connector member 62 includes an annular fitting recess 62a3 into which a part of the cylindrical holding member 61 is fitted, and a detour passage 62a4 that is divided from the fitting recess by a wall portion to partially accommodate the thermostat and bypasses the cylindrical seal member to communicate with the through hole.

Abstract: The present invention includes a phase angle detection unit generating a phase angle signal switched at a timing at which a cogging torque generated with the rotation of a rotor of a brushless DC motor reaches near a peak on a negative side hindering the rotation of the rotor, an inverter circuit energizing coils of respective phases of the brushless DC motor by switching elements according to an input of a driving signal, an energization period calculation unit calculating an energization period Tw from a target rotation speed set for the brushless DC motor, and a drive control unit energizing the coils sequentially by outputting the driving signal to the respective switching elements for each energization period, gradually increasing a duty of the driving signals to the switching elements at a start of each energization period, and decreasing the duty after the phase angle signal is switched.

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 rotation driving device includes: a body 10, made of resin, and having an accommodation hole 13 in a cylindrical shape with an axis S as a center; a motor M, comprising a rotor 60 provided in an accommodation hole of the body and rotating around the axis and a rotation shaft 40 integrally rotating around the axis with the rotor and extending in an axial direction; a first bearing B1 fixed to an end side of the body and a second bearing B2 fixed to the other end side of the body in the axial direction, so as to rotatably support the rotation shaft; and a first cover member 110 connected to the one end side of the body and a second cover member 120 connected to the other end side of the body.

Abstract: A liquid pump device sucking and discharging liquid includes: a pump unit 50, rotating to make the liquid flow; a housing H, accommodating the pump unit and defining a passage 14 of the liquid; and a temperature sensor 80 having a tip region 80a protruded in the passage 14 of the liquid to measure a temperature of the liquid flowing on the passage 14.

Abstract: An electric oil pump includes: a pump unit 2, rotating to make oil flow; a motor 3 driving the pump unit; a control unit 4 exerting driving control on the motor; and a housing 1 accommodating the pump unit, the motor, and the motor control unit. In the electric oil pump, the motor control unit 4 directly receives detection information of a temperature sensor 5 detecting a temperature of the oil and exerts driving control on the motor based on the detection information.

Abstract: To provide an on-vehicle brushless motor device capable of being downsized with respect to an axial direction of a rotor and a method of manufacturing the same. The on-vehicle brushless motor device 1 includes a brushless motor 10 and an electronic substrate 30. The brushless motor 10 includes a rotor 12 and a stator 16 including a plurality of coils 18 arranged around the rotor 12. The electronic substrate 30 includes a through hole 34 penetrating in the axial direction X of the rotor 12 and includes a substrate body 32 arranged along a plane P intersecting the axial direction X on the side opposite to the output shaft of the brushless motor 10, and a terminal 40 fixed on the surface of the substrate body 32 on the side opposite to the rotor 12. A coil wire 20 of the coil 18 is inserted into the through hole 34 and is welded to the terminal 40 on the opposite side of the rotor 12 with respect to the substrate body 32.

Abstract: The present invention provides an oil pump device capable of preventing foreign matters from getting caught at a sliding part of an oil pump, and thus of preventing a situation where the oil pump is locked and prevented from rotating. The oil pump device includes an oil pump connected to a supply target apparatus by a hydraulic circuit, the oil pump discharging and supplying oil to the supply target apparatus through the hydraulic circuit; a motor driving the oil pump; a trapping member interposed along the hydraulic circuit, the trapping member trapping a foreign matter mixed in the oil discharged from the oil pump; and a motor control unit controlling the motor to perform a normal control mode of driving the oil pump in a normal control rotation range and perform, at operational start of the oil pump, a lock-avoiding mode of driving the oil pump with a lock-avoiding rotational speed set in advance as a lower limit.

Abstract: To provide an on-vehicle brushless motor device capable of being downsized with respect to an axial direction of a rotor and a method of manufacturing the same. The on-vehicle brushless motor device 1 includes a brushless motor 10 and an electronic substrate 30. The brushless motor 10 includes a rotor 12 and a stator 16 including a plurality of coils 18 arranged around the rotor 12. The electronic substrate 30 is arranged on a side opposite to an output side of the brushless motor 10 along a plane P intersecting an axial direction X. The on-vehicle brushless motor device 1 further includes a soldering portion 40 that connects a coil wire 20 of the coil 18 and the electronic substrate 30.

Abstract: The present invention provides an intake device and a fuel delivery pipe for a multiple-cylinder engine including a transpiration gas passage or an intake air pressure collecting passage capable of reducing the number of components and improving assembly operability. The intake device and the fuel delivery pipe for a multiple-cylinder engine include: a throttle body including a plurality of bores, each of which communicates with an inside of each cylinder of the engine, and provided with throttle valves for adjusting intake volumes inside the bores in an openable and closable manner; injectors provided in the throttle body and injecting a fuel to the bores; a delivery pipe for supplying the fuel to the injectors; and an intake pipe communication passage connected to an inside of the bores and communicating with the inside of the bores, and the intake pipe communication passage is formed integrally with the delivery pipe.

Abstract: A transmission mechanism includes: an intermediate shaft secured to a support portion provided in a valve body of an electric throttle valve and disposed in parallel to a motor shaft and a valve shaft; and an intermediate gear rotatably disposed at the intermediate shaft, in which the intermediate gear has a first intermediate gear engaged with a motor gear secured to the motor shaft and a second intermediate gear engaged with a valve gear secured to the valve shaft, the first intermediate gear and the second intermediate gear are integrally configured to be aligned in an axial direction of the intermediate shaft, a hemispherical recessed portion recessed upward around an axial center of the intermediate shaft is formed at a lower end portion of the intermediate gear, and a projecting portion projecting upward in a hemispherical shape around the axial center of the intermediate shaft and supporting the recessed portion is formed in a surface of the support portion facing the recessed portion of the intermedia