Abstract: In a supercharger, a pair of oil film dampers are installed by way of oil films on an inner circumferential wall of a bearing housing and respectively install thereon ball bearings for a rotor shaft. A hollow, generally cylindrical thrust member selectively abuts at the opposite axial ends upon the dampers, whereby to hold the oil film dampers, the ball bearings and therefore the rotor shaft in place relative to the bearing housing. The thrust member is fixed to the bearing housing by a pin received in a tangential groove of the thrust member, i.e., a groove elongated in parallel to a tangential line of a circular cross section of the thrust member.

Abstract: An apparatus for analyzing control data for finding a cause of a trouble produced in a device controlled with a plurality of controlled variables. The apparatus includes sensors sensitive to a condition of the device for producing signals indicative of parameters reflective of the sensed condition. The parameter indicative signals are fed to a control circuit which calculates a valve corresponding to a setting of each of the controlled variables from a desired relationship. The calculated values are stored in time sequence along with the corresponding values of the parameter indicative signals. The stored values are transferred from the first memory to a second memory upon occurrence of a command signal indicating a trouble produced in the device. The transfer values are analyzed to find a cause of the trouble.

Abstract: In a production supervising system of a work, a wireless type production supervising data processing apparatus is mounted on the work. The wireless type production supervising data processing apparatus includes a wireless type interface unit, and an IC card. The IC card includes CPU, EEPROM for storing the production supervising data, ROM for storing the program data, and RAM capable of storing other data than the production supervising data. The wireless type interface unit includes antennas, a receiver, a transmitter, a demodulator connected to the receiver, and a modulator connected to the transmitter. During the production of the work, the production supervising data previously stored in EEPROM are read from the IC card and processed in the interface unit and thereafter transmitted from the interface unit toward the external data controlling apparatus.

Abstract: According to the present invention, in order to effect a shockless shift in an automatic transmission of a vehicular power train, a servo activating hydraulic fluid pressure applied to a shifting friction unit is controlled in response to a predetermined variable other than an engine throttle opening which causes a change in engine output torque from a predetermined pattern of variation of the engine output torque against variation of the engine throttle opening.

Abstract: An apparatus for scanning recording media (a cassette tape deck) with an automatic medium-change mechanism (automatic cassette tape change mechanism) and a novel structure for mounting same in a vehicle are disclosed. The apparatus is installed in the vehicle body, specifically on a floor console located between the left- and right-hand seats and behind the shift lever of the vehicle transmission to leave the forward field of vision clear and to facilitate operation of the cassette tape deck.

Abstract: A steering behavior dependent control system for controlling vehicular driving characteristics performs one or more control operations, such as anti-rolling suspension control, power assist control in a power steering system, rear wheel steering angle control in a four wheel steering system and so forth. The control system includes a steering angle sensor for monitoring steering angular displacement and produces a steering angle indicative signal. The control system is also provided a steering neutral position detector which detects steering at approximately a neutral position to produce an assumed steering neutral position indicative signal. A center value of a steering neutral range is projected on the basis of the steering angle indicative signal and the assumed steering neutral position indicative signal. Steering angle dependent control is thus performed by comparing the steering angle indicative signal value with the aforementioned center value to derive a magnitude of steering angular displacement.

Abstract: An actively controlled suspension system monitors acceleration exerted on a vehicular body for producing a vehicular attitude change indicative suspension control parameter. Acceleration dependent suspension control is performed based on the vehicular attitude change indicative suspension control parameter for suppressing vehicular body attitude change. The suspension control system further monitors engine driving condition to detect unstable engine driving condition. The engine driving condition detector disables the acceleration dependent suspension control when the unstable condition of the engine is detected. Disabling of the acceleration dependent suspension control while the unstable engine driving condition is maintained, avoids influence of the vehicular body vibration caused by engine vibration which is caused by fluctuation of engine outputs in unstable condition.

Abstract: An anti-skid brake control system monitors wheel deceleration during a period from a timing at which vehicular braking operation is initiated to a timing at which anti-skid brake control becomes active. Because the magnitude of wheel deceleration during the period set forth above is approximately inversely proportional to a road friction, the difference of deceleration can be a road friction indicative data. A vehicle body deceleration gradient data for the first skid control cycle is approximated or projected on the basis of the road friction indicative data so as to derive a projected vehicle body speed indicative data and a target wheel speed indicative data for the first skid control cycle.

Abstract: A vehicular height control system includes means for detecting road roughness condition on the basis of a vehicular height indicative signal which is produced by a vehicular height sensor. The control system also includes means for detecting the road roughness condition satisfying a predetermined condition for disabling vehicular height control. Disabling of vehicular height control keeps the control system free from fluctuation of vehicular height indicative signal value due to uneveness of the road surface.

Abstract: An input protector device for a semiconductor device such as a CMOS device, in which a first resistor is formed on an insulating film of a semiconductor substrate, and a second resistor is formed of an impurity diffusion region in the substrate, the first and second resistors and a capacitor being coupled to one another in series to constitute a filter circuit, and in which first and second diodes each cooperated with at least one of the first and second resistors, by-passing noises having low and high voltages, respectively, and a high frequency noise is cut by the filter circuit, thereby effectively preventing latchup.

Abstract: A valve drive train for a V-type internal combustion engine is disclosed in which at least one of the cam profiles and/or cam phases of the first and second cam shafts in left or right cylinder bank is diffrent from the other.

Abstract: A spark advance control system includes a high octane value spark advance schedule and a regular octane value spark advance schedule, respectively including advance limits and retard limits at different spark advance angles. Spark advance control schedules are selected during normal spark advance control operation. The high octane value spark advance schedule is selected when spark advance is maintained at an angular value higher than a predetermined regular-to-high octane value schedule switching, which is set near an advance limit in the regular octane value spark advance schedule. In the alternative, the regular octane value spark advance schedule is selected when spark advance is maintained at an angular value lower than a predetermined high-to-regular octane value schedule switching criterion, which is set near the retard limit in the high octane value spark advance schedule.

Abstract: A suspension control system introduces capability of automatically adjusting sensibility of attitude change depending upon a vehicular speed with maintaining capability of manual adjustment of the sensibility for the vehicular attitude change. The actively controlled suspension system employs a pressure control valve which is operable in response to a control signal and controls fluid pressure in the fluid chamber of a hydraulic cylinder as a replacement of the conventional hydraulic shock absorber. The pressure control valve is associated with a controller which detects bounding and rebounding acceleration and stroke speed in bounding and rebounding motion for detecting vehicular attitude change and deriving a control signal to operate the pressure control valve to suppress attitude change. The controller is response to a vehicle speed indicative parameter for adjusting sensitivity of attitude change and whereby adjusting suspension control characteristics.

Abstract: An anti-skid brake control system is capable of optimizing vehicular braking characteristics in order to minimize the braking distance. The anti-skid brake control system takes a feature of the vehicle speed dependent wheel slippage threshold. For this, the anti-skid brake control system of the invention employs a wheel slippage threshold deriving means which derives a wheel slippage threshold on the basis of a vehicle speed. The wheel slippage threshold is compared with an actual wheel slippage detected on the basis of a vehicle speed and a wheel speed. Brake pressure in a wheel cylinder is reduced when the detected wheel slippage is increased across the wheel slippage threshold.

Abstract: A safety belt arrangement employs a pretensioning mechanism or device which has a pulley assembly which includes a plurality of pulley segments separated from each other. The segments are normally placed apart from a gear corotatable with a spool shaft. On the other hand, the segments are driven in response to collision shock toward the gear of the spool shaft for transmitting a retracting force generated by a gas generator to a belt spool for pretensioning the belt.

Abstract: An anti-skid brake control system detects wheel acceleration and deceleration. The operational mode, i.e. whether to increase or decrease fluid pressure in a wheel cylinder or to hold the fluid pressure in the wheel cylinder constant, is selected on the basis of brake control parameters including the wheel acceleration and deceleration. In an initial stage of each cycle of anti-skid control, the fluid pressure is held at a level at which wheel deceleration exceeds a predetermined deceleration threshold. The predetermined deceleration threshold is reduced to a predetermined modified value after wheel deceleration has dropped below the predetermined deceleration of the wheel and anti-skid brake control is thus started.

Abstract: In a load carrier controlling system a lift cylinder is subjected to the weight of a load carrier and is hydraulically extendable to lift the load carrier. A lift control valve is provided which is shiftable between a neutral position and a predetermined position wherein discharge of hydraulic fluid from the lift cylinder is allowed to permit a downward movement of the load carrier. A variable flow regulator is disposed between the lift cylinder and the lift control valve, the variable flow regulator having a first state which imparts a first degree of flow restriction to hydraulic fluid flow passing therethrough in one direction from the lift cylinder to the lift control valve, and a second state which imparts a second degree of flow restriction to the hydraulic fluid flow passing therethrough in the one direction.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling an ignition timing for an internal combustion engine mounted in a vehicle are disclosed in which a limit value for the ignition timing value is provided so that a difference between a current ignition timing and a previous ignition timing is within the limit value and the limit value is set according to a magnitude of an engine acceleration. For example, when an abrupt engine acceleration occurs, the limit value is set to 15 degrees. When the engine is in a steady state (no abrupt acceleration from an idling condition), the limit value is set to four degrees. Therefore, no vehicle body shock occurs due to the abrupt change in an engine output torque caused by the abrupt change in the ignition timing and a response characteristic of a rise in the engine output torque during the abrupt acceleration can be assured.

Abstract: A vertical MOSFET device has a first conductivity type substrate layer serving as a drain, a second conductivity type channel region extending into said substrate layer from a top surface, and a first conductivity type source region extending into the channel region from the top surface. The channel region has a peripheral subregion extending deeply into the substrate layer from the top surface under an insulated gate electrode, and a shallow central subregion shallower than the peripheral subregion. There is further provided a second conductivity type underlying layer formed under the shallow central subregion so as to form a voltage regulating diode with the channel region at a position shallower than the bottom of the peripheral subregion.

Abstract: The output of an oxygen sensor and the engine operation are monitored and, in the event that the voltage generated by the sensor remains within a predetermined window for a predetermined time while the engine temperature is above a predetermined level and the engine is operating within a given set of conditions which define a suitable testing zone, the sensor is indicated as malfunctioning.