Abstract: A method manufactures a fuel delivery pipe including a crude metal made of forged iron, a nickel-phosphorus plating layer formed on an inner surface of the crude metal, and a nonmetal paint film formed on an outer surface of the crude metal. The method includes coating the outer surface of the crude metal with paint to form the paint film, machining the crude metal with the paint film formed thereon to form a machined surface inside the crude metal, and electroless plating the machined crude metal in nickel-phosphorus plating solution to form the nickel-phosphorus plating layer on the machined surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rocker arm with a lash adjuster which includes a rocker arm body portion including a circular fitting hole, a large-diameter hole, and a step portion at a boundary between the fitting hole and the large-diameter hole; a lash adjuster having a snap ring groove formed on an outer circumferential surface of the lash adjuster, and a snap ring fitted to the snap ring groove, wherein the lash adjuster is inserted in the fitting hole, the snap ring increases in diameter, hooks on the step portion, and prevents the lash adjuster from slipping off; and a diameter-reducing member that is assembled in the rocker arm body portion and that reduces the diameter of the snap ring by operation of the diameter-reducing member from an outside of the rocker arm body portion until the snap ring is not engaged with the step portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a shim for a valve drive mechanism which is interposed between a pad surface of a rocker arm and a stem end surface of a valve. The shim includes a ship top surface that is contacted by the pad surface. The shim top surface is rotated about a center thereof to be cut, is provided with a center hole at the center thereof, and is shaped such that the pad surface does not contact an intersection line between an inner peripheral surface of the center hole and the shim top surface when the rocker arm is swung.

Abstract: The present invention provides a variable valve mechanism of an internal combustion engine which includes a main arm that is capable of swinging and that drives a valve when swinging, a first sub arm that is provided on one side in the lateral direction of the main arm and that swings when driven by a first cam, a second sub arm that is provided on the other side in the lateral direction of the main arm and that swings when driven by a second cam, and a switch device that performs switching between a first coupled state where only the first sub arm of the first and second sub arms is coupled to the main arm, and a second coupled state where only the second sub arm of the first and second sub arms is coupled to the main arm.

Abstract: A delivery pipe includes a pipe integrally including at least one cylindrical tube section and at least one flat tube section, and a valve attachment including a hollow cylindrical portion and a connection portion having a planar shape. The flat tube section includes a planar attachment portion having a distribution hole extending through the planar attachment portion in a thickness direction thereof. The hollow cylindrical portion has a closed end closed by the connection portion and is configured to be attached to a fuel injection valve. The connection portion has an introduction hole that extends through the connection portion in a thickness direction thereof and communicates with the distribution hole of the planar attachment portion. The valve attachment is connected to the planar attachment portion at a position adjacent to one of edges of the planar attachment portion. The edges extend along an axial direction of the pipe.

Abstract: The present invention provides a turbocharger including a compressor housing provided therein with an air flow path in which an impeller is disposed and a bearing housing. The air flow path includes a suction port and a discharge scroll chamber. The compressor housing includes a shroud surface and a diffuser surface. The bearing housing includes a facing surface which is facing to the diffuser surface. A cleaning agent supplying units are provided in the diffuser surface and the facing surface. The cleaning agent supplying units include porous supplying portions for forming at least a portion of the diffuser surface or the facing surface, and a cleaning agent for preventing adhesion of deposits is supplied from the porous supplying portions to the diffuser surface or the facing surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a variable valve mechanism of an internal combustion engine, which includes a main arm having at a rear end thereof a supported portion that is continuously supported swingably by a support member without floating upward, a sub arm which has a tip end to which a roller contacting a cam is rotatably attached, in which a center of the roller is located rearward of the pressing portion and forward of a swing center of the supported portion, which has a rear end that is swingably supported with respect to the main arm by a support pin, and in which a center of the support pin is located rearward of the center of the roller and forward of the swing center of the supported portion, and a switch pin that is inserted in a central portion of the roller.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a compressor housing, a bearing housing and a back plate. A discharge scroll chamber has such a shape that a cross-sectional area thereof gradually increases toward a discharge port in a circumferential direction. The compressor housing includes a scroll piece assembled to a shroud piece. The scroll piece includes a suction port-forming portion, a suction-side concave surface and a scroll outer periphery. The shroud piece includes a shroud fit-in portion, an inner peripheral concave surface, a shroud surface and a diffuser surface. The back plate includes a facing surface, an outer peripheral annular fit-in portion and an outer peripheral concave surface. The outer peripheral concave surface has such a shape that a cross sectional shape thereof formed by a plane including a rotation axis of an impeller gradually changes in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A vehicle engine includes: a cylinder head; a cam housing fixed to a top of the cylinder head; a cam cap fixed to a top of the cam housing; a camshaft rotatably supported between the cam housing and the cam cap, the camshaft supporting a cam; a rocker arm configured to be pushed by the cam; and a valve configured to operate by being pushed by the rocker arm; and an oil pipe that is formed integrally with the cam cap. Lubricant oil is supplied through the oil pipe to a contact point between the cam and the rocker arm.

Abstract: A lifter structure applied to an internal combustion engine and is actuated by a cam, includes a cylindrical lifter guide, a lifter body reciprocally moved in the guide while sliding on an inner circumferential surface of the guide, with drive of the cam, a pair of opposed walls continuous to an end of the lifter body, a pin extending through holes of the opposed walls and having two ends swaged onto outer surfaces of the opposed walls respectively, a roller disposed between the opposed walls, plural swaging side regions located at the same sides of the outer circumferential surface of the lifter body as the outer surfaces of the opposed walls, plural swaging side opposite regions located opposite the swaging side regions respectively, and plural escape recesses formed in the swaging side opposite regions so as to be spaced from the swaging side regions respectively.

Abstract: A method of producing a fuel distribution pipe includes providing a forged bar made of metal, forming a main bore in the forged bar so as to extend along an axial direction of the forged bar, forming an injector bore having an injector opening in the forged bar, forming a bolt through hole having a bolt opening in the forged bar, obtaining a base pipe having the main bore, the injector bore and the bolt through hole from the forged bar, and bending the base pipe such that the injector opening of the injector bore and the bolt opening of the bolt through hole are provided along a line parallel to the axis of the main bore. The injector bore directly communicates with the main bore and the bolt through hole does not communicates with the main bore.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rocker arm with a lash adjuster which includes a rocker arm body portion including a circular fitting hole, a large-diameter hole, and a step portion at a boundary between the fitting hole and the large-diameter hole; a lash adjuster having a snap ring groove formed on an outer circumferential surface of the lash adjuster, and a snap ring fitted to the snap ring groove, wherein the lash adjuster is inserted in the fitting hole, the snap ring increases in diameter, hooks on the step portion, and prevents the lash adjuster from slipping off; and a diameter-reducing member that is assembled in the rocker arm body portion and that reduces the diameter of the snap ring by operation of the diameter-reducing member from an outside of the rocker arm body portion until the snap ring is not engaged with the step portion.

Abstract: A lubrication structure for a rocker arm includes a lash adjuster mounted in an accommodating portion located in an end of the rocker arm and a pushrod abutting against a lower end of the lash adjuster. The rocker arm is formed with an arm-inside oil supply passage for supplying lubrication oil to the lash adjuster. The lubrication oil guided into the accommodating portion is further guided through a through guide hole of the accommodating portion to an outer peripheral surface of the accommodating portion. The lubrication oil is further guided from an outer oil supply passage formed downwardly in the outer surface of the accommodating portion to the abutment between the lash adjuster and the pushrod.

Abstract: A fuel distribution pipe includes a pipe having a tubular main bore through which fuel is to be passed, a cylindrical injector attachment portion having a cylindrical injector bore to which an injector is to be attached, and a cylindrical bolt attachment portion having a cylindrical bolt bore through which a bolt is to be passed to fix the pipe to the cylinder head with the bolt. The injector bore communicates with the main bore such that an axis of the injector bore intersects with an axis of the main bore. An axis of the bolt bore intersects with the axis of the main bore.

Abstract: The present invention provides a variable valve mechanism for an internal combustion engine which includes an input arm, an output arm, a switching pin, and a displacing device. The displacing device includes a pressing device that presses the switching pin from any one of the coupling position and the non-coupling position to the other one of them, a return spring, and a stopper mechanism. The return spring is provided outside of the input arm and the output arm so as to act on one end of the switching pin, which is exposed from the input arm and the output arm. The stopper mechanism includes a displacement restricting groove that is provided on an outer periphery of the switching pin, and a lock member that is engaged with the displacement restricting groove and contacts one end of the displacement restricting groove when the switching pin is stopped at the non-coupling position.

Abstract: A vehicle engine includes a cylinder head, a cam housing fixed to a top of the cylinder head, a cam cap fixed to a top of the cam housing, a camshaft rotatably supported between the cam housing and the cam cap, the camshaft supporting a cam, a rocker arm configured to be pushed by the cam, and a valve configured to operate by being pushed by the rocker arm. The vehicle engine has an oil pipe that is formed integrally with the cam housing.

Abstract: A rocker arm unit constituting a valve gear includes a support member, a rocker arm including a roller and walls opposed to each other with the roller being interposed between them and a wire member bridging the support member side and the rocker arm side with each other. The walls have shaft holes into which both ends of a shaft member rotatably supporting the roller extend respectively. The walls have lengthwise ends connected to each other via a receiving portion supported on a top of the support member so that the rocker arm is swung. The wire member has an extending portion extending from the support member side to the rocker arm side and having a distal end. The rocker arm side includes a part located away from the receiving portion. The distal end of the extending portion serves as an engagement portion engaging the rocker arm side part.

Abstract: A rocker arm unit which constitutes a valve gear of an internal combustion engine, includes a lash adjuster including a cylindrical body and a plunger formed into a cylindrical shape and accommodated in the body, a rocker arm extending in a direction perpendicular to a vertical direction, and a clip configured to be fixed to an upper end of the body and formed with a retainer having a retaining portion which is configured to be swaged onto an inner circumferential surface of the upper end of the body. The clip has an extension extending integrally from the retainer. The extension has an upper end engaged with the rocker arm to prevent the rocker arm from falling off the lash adjuster. The retaining portion is configured to abut against the stepped portion of the plunger from above to prevent the plunger from coming off upwardly out of the body.

Abstract: The present invention provides a variable valve mechanism of an internal combustion engine which includes a rotary cam, an output arm, an input member, and a switching device that switches between a coupled state and a non-coupled state. The variable valve mechanism changes a drive state of the valve by the switching operation. The input member includes an annular input roller that contacts the rotary cam, and a swing pin that is inserted into the input roller so as to rotatably support the input roller and that swings relative to the output arm when in the non-coupled state. A center of the relative swinging movement is located at a position different from a rotation center of the input roller which is located inward of the input roller.

Abstract: The present invention provides a shim for a valve drive mechanism which is interposed between a pad surface of a rocker arm and a stem end surface of a valve. The shim includes a ship top surface that is contacted by the pad surface. The shim top surface is rotated about a center thereof to be cut, is provided with a center hole at the center thereof, and is shaped such that the pad surface does not contact an intersection line between an inner peripheral surface of the center hole and the shim top surface when the rocker arm is swung.