Abstract: An engine is provided with: an engine body; an intake line connected to a combustion chamber of the engine body; a first fuel line connected to the intake line and configured to supply a first fuel to the intake line; and a second fuel line connected to the intake line at a position downstream of where the first fuel line is connected and configured to supply a second fuel having a lower explosive limit that is lower than that of the first fuel.

Abstract: This electric compressor comprises: a housing that includes a stator having a cylindrical shape; a rotating shaft that is disposed inside the housing and that has a rotor facing the stator; a low pressure wheel that is fixed to one axial side of the rotating shaft; a high pressure wheel that is fixed to the other axial side of the rotating shaft; a low pressure side air bearing that rotatably supports, in the housing, a low pressure side shaft section of the rotating shaft; a high pressure side air bearing that rotatably supports, in the housing, a high pressure side shaft section of the rotating shaft; a first air flow path that supplies compressed air from the housing to either one of the low pressure side air bearing and the high pressure side air bearing; a second air flow path that branches from the first air flow path and that supplies the compressed air to the other of the low pressure side air bearing and the high pressure side air bearing; and an air flow rate adjustment device that adjusts a flow ra

Abstract: A compressor includes: a shroud surface; a front-side inner peripheral surface formed on a front side of the shroud surface in the axial direction and disposed outward of a front end of the shroud surface in the radial direction; and at least one projection protruding from the front-side inner peripheral surface inward in the radial direction. A rear end of the at least one projection is configured to be connected to the front end of the shroud surface. The at least one projection is formed in a plate shape, and in a cross-sectional view along an axis of the impeller, has an inclined front edge extending obliquely to the axis of the impeller from a front end of the projection toward a rear side.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder block that includes a space part formed in a columnar shape; a cylinder liner that is formed in a cylindrical shape and that is disposed in the space part; a piston that is movably supported in an axial direction by the cylinder liner; a cylinder head that is fastened to the top of the cylinder block; and a gasket that is disposed between the cylinder block and the cylinder head and between the cylinder liner and the cylinder head. A contact area between the cylinder liner and the gasket and a contact area between the cylinder head and the gasket are the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to a wastegate actuator mechanism comprising an elongated link plate and a pin which are rotatable relative to each other. The wastegate actuator mechanism further comprises a sliding assembly including a bushing fixedly connected to the link plate and a sleeve fixedly connected to the pin. Assembly of the wastegate actuator mechanism involves pressing the bushing into the eye of the link plate and allowing material of the link plate to deform and to be received in recessed portions of the bushing in the process and/or arranging the sleeve on the pin and allowing material of the pin to deform and to be received in recessed portions of the sleeve in a process of forming an end section of enlarged diameter on the pin.

Abstract: In this centrifugal compressor, when a passage cross-section of a bypass passage at a connection point where the bypass passage and a compressor inlet passage are connected to each other is defined as an outlet cross-section of the bypass passage, a range of the outlet cross-section on the downstream side of the center of the outlet cross-section in the axial direction of an impeller and on the upstream side of the center in the rotation direction of the impeller is defined as a first range, and a portion of a passage wall surface of the bypass passage at the outlet cross-section that belongs to the first range is defined as a first-range wall surface portion, at least the first-range wall surface portion of the passage wall surface of the bypass passage at the outlet cross-section is formed from a curved line.

Abstract: A processing unit of a command generation device which is provided separately from a general-purpose inverter, performs following processing. A rotation calculation unit calculates a value relating to a rotation of a rotor of a virtual power generator when the virtual power generator is driven according to an active power command based on a rotor model that simulates a driving of the virtual power generator and calculates a value relating to the rotation of the rotor of the virtual power generator and an active power command. A target determination unit determines a target value of a voltage frequency and a target value of an active power based on the calculated value relating to the rotation. A command generation unit generates a control command for the inverter based on the determined target value of the voltage frequency and the target value of the active power.

Abstract: This fuel injector comprises: a main body portion including an inflow port into which fuel supplied from a fuel supply source flows, a flow passage through which the fuel that has flowed in from the inflow port flows, and a discharge port which is connected to the flow passage and which discharges the fuel; a valve unit at least a portion of which is formed using a magnetic body, which is disposed so as to be capable of moving in a straight-line direction between a position closing the discharge port and a position opening the discharge port, which is urged in the direction opening the discharge port by means of the pressure of the fuel flowing in from the inflow port, and to which an elastic force is imparted by an elastic member in the direction closing the discharge port; a solenoid device which includes a coil, which generates an electromagnetic force by causing a drive current to flow through the coil, and which drives the valve unit in the direction opening the discharge port, by means of the electromag

Abstract: Provided are a variable geometry turbine and a turbocharger with the same. The variable geometry turbine is provided with a turbine impeller, a housing, a plurality of nozzle vanes, and a link mechanism. Inside the housing, a link compartment in which the link mechanism is accommodated is formed, the link compartment being separated from a nozzle flow path by a hub-side member having a hub side surface defining the nozzle flow path. The link mechanism and each of the plurality of nozzle vanes are coupled together via a nozzle shaft penetrating through the hub-side member. The hub-side member has at least one communication hole providing communication between the nozzle flow path and the link compartment. When each of the plurality of nozzle vanes is fully opened, the opening of the at least one communication hole on the nozzle flow path side is formed on the inner side radially of the turbine impeller than the leading edge of each of the plurality of nozzle vanes.

Abstract: A rotary electrical machine includes a rotor, a stator, and a housing having a flow passage section. The flow passage section has an inner circumferential wall that makes contact with an outer circumferential surface of the stator, an outer circumferential wall arranged on the outside of the inner circumferential wall in the radial direction, and a partition wall section, which is provided in a portion in the circumferential direction, and connects the inner circumferential wall and the outer circumferential wall in the radial direction. The stator has a yoke section extending in the circumferential direction, and a plurality of teeth extending radially inward from the yoke section. The yoke section has a first portion connected to each of the teeth, and a second portion arranged between two first portions adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. The partition wall section faces the second portion in the radial direction.

Abstract: A variable geometry turbine includes a variable nozzle unit for adjusting a flow of exhaust gas in an exhaust gas passage for introducing exhaust gas to the turbine rotor. The variable nozzle unit includes a plurality of nozzle vanes disposed in the exhaust gas passage at intervals in the circumferential direction of the turbine rotor. When the exhaust gas passage is divided into a near-tongue region in the vicinity of a tongue portion of the scroll passage and a far-tongue region which is a region other than the near-tongue region, the plurality of nozzle vanes includes at least one near-tongue nozzle vane disposed in the near-tongue region and at least one far-tongue nozzle vane disposed in the far-tongue region. The at least one near-tongue nozzle vane has, in at least one of a leading edge or a trailing edge of the near-tongue nozzle vane, a notch that is cut out to a greater extent than a leading edge or a trailing edge of the far-tongue nozzle vane.

Abstract: In this engine control device for controlling an engine with a turbocharger, a rotation speed increase mode includes at least one stage of fuel injection in one combustion cycle of the engine, a high-idle mode includes at least two stages of fuel injection in one combustion cycle of the engine, and a high-idle mode execution unit is configured to retard the timing of the second stage fuel injection in one combustion cycle of the engine in the high-idle mode, relative to the timing of the first stage fuel injection in one combustion cycle of the engine in the rotation speed increase mode.

Abstract: A variable geometry turbine includes: a turbine rotor; a scroll passage forming part which forms a scroll passage; an exhaust gas passage forming part which forms an exhaust gas passage for introducing an exhaust gas from the scroll passage to the turbine rotor; and a variable nozzle unit including a plurality of nozzle vanes disposed in the exhaust gas passage and configured to be rotatable about respective rotation centers. The exhaust gas passage forming part includes: a first plate member having an annular first plate part; and a second plate member having an annular second plate part which defines the exhaust gas passage between the first plate part and the second plate part and is disposed closer to a turbine outlet than the first plate part in an axial direction of the turbine rotor.

Abstract: A turbine according to at least one embodiment is provided with: a turbine wheel having a plurality of blades; a turbine housing internally forming a turbine wheel accommodating space for accommodating the turbine wheel; and a wastegate valve for controlling the flow rate of exhaust gas flowing through a wastegate passage formed inside the turbine housing. The wastegate passage is configured to connect a scroll passage formed inside the turbine housing and a region upstream of a trailing edge of each of the plurality of blades in the turbine wheel accommodating space.

Abstract: The present invention suppresses leakage of combustion gas from a contact surface. A cylinder head (20) is attached to a cylinder block. The surface (26) of the side of the cylinder head (20) that is attached to the cylinder block includes a first region (AH1) and a second region (AH2) that has higher hardness than the first region (AH1).

Abstract: A regeneration control apparatus for controlling, in an exhaust gas treatment apparatus of a diesel engine including a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) disposed in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and a diesel particulate filter (DPF) disposed downstream of the DOC, execution of forced regeneration to remove an exhaust particulate matter (PM) which accumulates on the DPF through a temperature increase of the DPF, includes: a late-post injection amount determination part which determines a late-post injection amount. The late-post injection amount determination part is configured to determine an upper limit value of the late-post injection amount on the basis of an air excess ratio of exhaust gas flowing into the DOC obtained on the basis of a temperature index of the DOC.

Abstract: This command generation device generates a control command for a power conversion device which converts DC power outputted by a DC power supply device to AC power and supplies the same to a bus, and which converts AC power from the bus to DC power and supplies the same to the DC power supply device.

Abstract: This misfire detecting device for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders, for detecting a misfire of the internal combustion engine, is provided with: a pulsation component acquiring unit for performing a frequency analysis of operating parameter data indicating a change over time in an operating parameter correlated with an overall operating state of the plurality of cylinders, and for acquiring a pulsation component spectrum, which is a frequency spectrum of pulsations of the internal combustion engine; a difference parameter acquiring unit for acquiring a difference parameter correlated with a degree of difference between the operations of each of the plurality of cylinders; and all-cylinder misfire determining unit for determining that an all-cylinder misfire has occurred in the internal combustion engine if the pulsation component spectrum acquired by the pulsation component acquiring unit falls below a first threshold and the difference parameter acquired by the difference paramet

Abstract: This pipe branching device is provided with a main pipe and a branch pipe branching off from the main pipe. The main pipe includes a first pipe and a second pipe fitted into the first pipe in an axial direction of the first pipe. A chamber communicating with the branch pipe is provided between the first pipe and the second pipe. A flow path communicating with the chamber from the inside of the second pipe is provided.

Abstract: This sound quality evaluation method for a wastegate valve comprises: a vibration data acquisition step for acquiring a plurality of pieces of vibration data that indicate vibration occurring in a wastegate valve and that are in a prescribed time period during which the degree of openness of the wastegate valve changes; a POA data acquisition step for acquiring POA values at a prescribed frequency band of 0.5 kHz or greater from a plurality of frequency spectra attained by performing frequency analysis on each of the plurality of pieces of vibration data; and a vibration noise evaluation step for evaluating vibration noise occurring in the wastegate valve on the basis of the plurality of POA values.