Abstract: A vehicle which has a function to help a person walk and a function that a helper can move a person, comprises a frame (1) extending around a body of a user for supporting the body of the user when the user walks using the vehicle, wheels (7,9) mounted on the frame, and a seat plate (11) which can project from the generally lateral side of the user into an area where the legs of the waling user move. The seat plate is withdrawn from the area where the legs of the walking user move when the user walks using the vehicle.

Abstract: A flexible sheet is inserted under a care-receiver lying horizontally on a stationary bed. Next, one edge of the flexible sheet is wrapped around a drawing rod. The rod with the edge of the flexible sheet wrapped on it is manually pulled forward to move the care-receiver to a movable bed.

Abstract: A direct-injection type compression-ignition internal combustion engine, wherein a collision surface is formed in a cavity formed at the top surface of a piston and fuel is injected in the form of a continuous fluid flow from a fuel injector to the collision surface. The timing of the start of the fuel injection from the fuel injector is determined to near the compression top dead center and the initial combustion is performed in the cavity. The fuel colliding with the collision surface is pulled into the squish area due to the reverse squish flow caused when the piston descends after the compression top dead center and the majority of the combustion following the initial combustion is performed in the squish area after the compression top dead center.

Abstract: An electrically heated heating member (13) is arranged in a cavity formed in the top surface of the piston (2) and fuel is injected from the nozzle (9) of the fuel injector (8) toward the heating surface (15) of the heating member (13) in the form of a continuous fluid stream. This injected fuel strikes the heating surface (15) in the form of a continuous fluid stream and receives heat from the heating surface (15) to atomize and simultaneously disperses inside the cavity (7). Next, the atomized fuel is self-ignited.

Abstract: An engine comprising one pair of scavenge ports alternately covered and uncovered by a piston, a richer air-fuel mixture and a leaner air-fuel mixture being separately fed into the cylinder from the scavenge ports, the richer air-fuel mixture flowing into the cylinder towards the inner wall thereof, located opposite the exhaust port, and the leaner air-fuel mixture flowing into the cylinder so that it overlays the richer air-fuel mixture.

Abstract: A 2-stroke engine having a combustion chamber and a scavenge port which is open to the combustion chamber. When the engine is operating under a light load in which a large amount of unburned components, incompletely burned components and oxygen remains in the combustion chamber, fresh air is fed into the combustion chamber from the scavenge port at a low speed so that the fresh air does not disturb the residual gas in the combustion chamber. As a result of this, oxidation of the unburned components and the incompletely burned components continues without interruption during the expansion stroke and the compression stroke and causes self-ignition of the residual gas at the end of the compression stroke. The self-ignited residual gas causes ignition of the fuel injected into the combustion chamber from a fuel injector.