Abstract: A thermoelectric material, which has a superior thermoelectric characteristic and is environment-friendly and is suitable for mass productivity due to the lower cost, is provided. The thermoelectric material is an iron alloy that mainly contains Fe, V and Al and that carbides are dispersed into the matrix, wherein [V concentration?C concentration] is 20 or more at % to 32 or less at % and [Al concentration+Si concentration] is 20 or more at % to 30 or less at %. Especially in the thermoelectric material of the present invention, a high Seebeck coefficient can be kept and a lower electrical resistivity can be obtained, thereby improving an output factor and achieving a superior thermoelectric characteristic.

Abstract: A method for controlling an exhaust gas purification device 1 equipped with branch exhaust passages 2 and 3 connected to an exhaust passage 100 on the engine side; a shutoff valve 4 capable of shutting off exhaust gas at the exhaust inlets 2a and 3a of the branch exhaust passages 2 and 3; a nitrogen oxide adsorbing material 5, disposed inside each of the branch exhaust passages 2 or 3, temporarily adsorbing nitrogen oxides in an excess air atmosphere, and detaching the adsorbed nitrogen oxides in a rising temperature atmosphere or a reducing atmosphere; a first combustion device 6, disposed on the exhaust upstream side of the nitrogen oxide adsorbing material 5 inside each of the branch exhaust passages 2 or 3, having an air nozzle 61, and changing the air supplied from the air nozzle 61 into the rising temperature atmosphere or the reducing atmosphere; and a second combustion device 7, disposed on the exhaust downstream side of the nitrogen oxide adsorbing material 5 inside each of the branch exhaust passage

Abstract: In the context of an enclosure-housed engine in which an engine 10 is housed within an enclosure 2, the present invention is such that arranged in an intake chamber 8A, separate from one or more chambers where a radiator 18 and the engine are disposed, there is engine intake equipment comprising an air cleaner 22 and an intake silencer 23; the constitution being such that at least one wall face of said intake chamber is subjected to a cooling airstream, intake and exhaust of which are driven by a radiator fan; and the constitution being such that the radiator fan 19 is driven, regardless of whether or not engine coolant within the radiator is circulating, when outside air temperature is greater than or equal to a prescribed temperature.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device 1 is equipped with a plurality of branch exhaust passages 2 and 3; a junction exhaust passage 110; a shutoff valve 4 switching between allowing and shutting off the flow of exhaust gas to the respective branch exhaust passages 2 and 3; a nitrogen oxide adsorbing material 5 temporarily adsorbing nitrogen oxides in an excess air atmosphere and detaching the adsorbed nitrogen oxides in a reducing atmosphere and reducing the nitrogen oxides in the reducing atmosphere to produce ammonia; a first combustion device 6, disposed on the exhaust upstream side of the nitrogen oxide adsorbing material 5 and having an air supply unit, changing the air supplied from the air supply unit into the reducing atmosphere; and a selective reduction catalyst 19, provided inside the junction exhaust passage 110, selectively reducing the nitrogen oxides by using ammonia as a reducing agent.

Abstract: In the context of a frame-mounted engine generator in which mounted within a frame (2) there are an engine (10), an engine-driven electric generator (11), an electric power converter (14) that converts generated electric power to a prescribed frequency, and a control box (17) having an internal control circuit board (16) for a radiator fan or other such accessory equipment, the present invention is such that the control box and the electric power converter are arranged in stacked fashion in that order as one proceeds toward an interior direction relative to a frame open face, and is such that a hinge (21) provided at one edge of the control box causes the control box to be constituted so as to be rotatable.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a method for operating a workable homogeneous charge compressed ignition engine in which a compression ignition operation is performed by spark ignition to shorten a load input time and a load cutoff time. In the homogeneous charge compressed ignition engine operating method, a mixture gas is burned by compression ignition in a combustion chamber, and fuel and air are previously mixed to produce the mixture gas. The homogeneous charge compressed ignition engine includes a spark ignition device 53 which performs spark ignition to the mixture gas. A temperature controller 35 substantially keeps an intake air temperature of the mixture gas constant. A spark ignition operation, a spark-assist compression ignition operation in which spark ignition is supplementarily used, and a non-spark compression ignition operation in which the spark ignition is not used are switched according to magnitude of a load.

Abstract: A canopy installation member for installing a canopy is firmly fixed on a rotation table frame. A rotary working machine having a working machine installed at the front of a rotation table frame (5), an engine (8) mounted on the rotation table frame (5), and a canopy detachably installed at the rear of the rotation table frame (5), wherein the engine (8) is placed and fixed on the rotation table frame (5) with a horizontally placed frame-like engine support member (31a, 31b) interposed between the engine and the frame, and a canopy installation member (32a, 32c) is raised at one side of the engine support member (31a, 31b).

Abstract: There is provided a power transmission device for a working vehicle, in which a drive takeoff shaft for front wheels can be easily mounted on or dismounted from a transmission case and hence the workability of assembly, maintenance, and the like can be improved but the cost of manufacturing the transmission case and the like can be easily reduced. In the power transmission device for a working vehicle provided with: an engine mounted on a running vehicle body having front wheels and rear wheels; a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission for variably transmitting power from the engine; and the transmission case for transmitting a transmission output from the hydrostatic continuously variable transmission, the drive takeoff shaft for front wheels for transmitting a driving force to the front wheels and the hydrostatic continuously variable transmission are arranged on a center plate disposed on the front side of the transmission case.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a work vehicle that does not slip. The work vehicle has an engine (10) generating a rotational power, a hydraulic stepless transmission (HST) (20) having a hydraulic pump (22) and a hydraulic motor (24) and changing the speed of rotation generated by the engine (10) and transmitting it to drive wheels (40), an actuator (73) for adjusting the transmission ratio of the HST (20) by changing the tilt angle of a movable swash plate (22a) of the hydraulic pump (22), a shift lever (speed setting means) (50) for setting the speed of a motor output shaft (25) changed by the HST (20), and a control device (60) for controlling operation of the actuator (73) so that the speed of the motor output shaft (25) changed by the HST (20) changes at a predetermined rate of change (?) until it reaches the speed (preset speed) set by the shift lever (50).

Abstract: The subject invention provides a hydraulic saildrive apparatus comprising an upper unit 103 having an input shaft 1 connected to an engine 102 inside a boat, and a lower unit 104 having an output shaft 4 including a propeller shaft 2 and also having a lower portion protruding from the boat's bottom, wherein the upper unit 103 is provided with a hydraulic forward and reverse switching clutch 5 for transmitting the rotation direction of the input shaft 1 to the propeller shaft 2, the clutch 5 being capable of changing the rotation direction between forward and reverse relative to the input shaft 1.

Abstract: It is an object, in a hydraulic stepless transmission, to change capacity of a hydraulic pump to thereby make output characteristic different between forward and reverse travel and obtain efficient output characteristics. In the hydraulic stepless transmission formed of the hydraulic pump 10 and a variable displacement-type hydraulic motor 11 and including control means 4, 10 for carrying out capacity control based on a load received by the hydraulic stepless transmission, a pressure control valve 204 is connected to control pressure portions of the control means 4, 10 for carrying out the capacity control according to pressure in a hydraulic circuit 13 on a discharge side of the hydraulic pump 10 to carry out the capacity control of the variable pump and the motor 11.

Abstract: A casing (31) is provided around a power transmission shaft (3a) interposed between a crankshaft (2a) of an engine (2) and a power transmission device (3). A dynamo apparatus (10) and a cooling fan (23) cooling the dynamo apparatus are constructed in the casing (31) around the power transmission shaft (3a) and are driven by the power transmission shaft (3a). The casing (31) is cylindrical and comprises a connection surface at a side of the engine (2), a connection surface at a side of the power transmission device (3) and an outer peripheral surface between the connection surfaces. Intake holes (3d) are formed in the connection surface (3e) of the casing (31) at the side of the power transmission device and the intake hole is formed at an inner peripheral side of a blade of the fan, and are arranged on a circle centering on the axial direction of the connection surface (3e) at an inner peripheral side of blades (23a) of the fan (23).

Abstract: A swing type working vehicle, wherein a space at the foot portion of an operator can be increased when pedal operation is not required. A step is installed on the front part of a swing table frame, and pedals for operating hydraulic actuators are disposed on the step. The base parts of the pedals are supported so that these pedals can be swung forward and backward. When the pedals are swung backward, they are brought into contact with the operating members of the hydraulic actuators to disable the operation, and when the pedals are swung forward, they are held in the state of being brought into contact with the step.

Abstract: Provided is an engine capable of activating a catalyst in an exhaust purifying apparatus during low-temperature ignition. The engine (101) comprises a main engine body provided with a plurality of cylinders (6a-6f), an exhaust purifying apparatus comprising an oxidation catalyst (31) provided to a fuel injection apparatus (14) for injecting fuel into the cylinders (6a-6f) and to the main engine body exhaust path, and a controller (50) for adjusting the fuel injection amount and fuel injection timing by the fuel injection apparatus (14), wherein during the low temperature ignition of the engine (101) that performs a cylinder cut-off operation for cutting off the injection of fuel into specified cylinders (6a-6c), the controller (50) injects fuel at least one time at or after the top dead center within a single combustion cycle of the operating cylinders (6d-6f) other than the specified cylinders.

Abstract: An engine in which a fluctuation in the amount of fuel injection is reduced in the entire operating tolerance of the engine. The engine (1) has an engine body (5) provided with a turbocharger (7), an engine speed sensor (21), a turbo sensor (22), a boost sensor (23), and an ECU (20) for correcting the amount of fuel injection. A control means recognizes an engine speed, a supercharging pressure, a supercharger speed, a fuel injection amount and corrects the fuel injection amount.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to simplify the linkage mechanism of a shift operating device and to unitize the shift operating device so as to improve the reliability of assemble accuracy. A forward traveling pedal and a rearward traveling pedal are rotatably supported by a installation plate; the installation plate rotatably supports a shift operating rotary sleeve connected through one link to the basal end of the forward traveling pedal (a forward traveling pedal rotary sleeve) and connected through one link to the basal end of the rearward traveling pedal (a rearward traveling pedal rotary sleeve); the forward traveling pedal, the rearward traveling pedal, the shift operating rotary sleeve and the installation plate are constructed as an integral unit; and the shift operating rotary sleeve is rotated forward and rearward interlockingly with the operation of the forward traveling pedal and the rearward traveling pedal so as to slant swash plates of a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic motor of a HST.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a cover for a power shovel which can be manufactured at a low cost by reducing the number of parts and production man-hours and can be improved in maintainability. In the power shovel 50 which include an upper revolution structure (10) having: a body frame (11), a seat support stand (13) disposed at the rear of the body frame (11) and covering an upper part of the engine, and a device frame (12) disposed on a front part of the body frame (11) and storing hydraulic devices, side and a rear parts of the seat support stand (13) and the side part between the device frame (12) and the body frame (11) are covered by left and right side-covers (14) and (15) and a rear cover (16).

Abstract: An earth moving device for a working vehicle, in which earth and sand flowing rearward over an earth moving blade does not enter through a gap between a bush and a piston rod into an angle cylinder tube. An angle cylinder is formed by including an angle cylinder rod and an angle cylinder tube. The angle cylinder rod is pivotably supported on a vertically movable frame, and the angle cylinder tube is pivotably supported on the earth moving blade.

Abstract: Provided is an engine capable of performing post-injection control with a proper fuel injection amount. The engine (1) comprises an engine body (10) equipped with a turbocharger (7), an engine rotational speed sensor (21), an acceleration opening degree sensor (24), a boost sensor (23), a turbo sensor (22), and an ECU (100) for performing post-injection control. The ECU (100) recognizes the rotational speed of the engine, the supercharging pressure, the load on the engine, and the rotational speed of the supercharger, and so performs the post-injection control that the rotational speed of the supercharger becomes equal to the target rotational speed of the supercharger calculated in the ECU (100).

Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device (1) comprising a main exhaust passage (2) and a branch exhaust passage (3) connected to an exhaust passage (100) on the engine side; shutoff valves (4A) and (4B) capable of shutting off exhaust gas at the exhaust inlets (2a) and (3a) of the main exhaust passage (2) and the branch exhaust passage (3); a nitrogen oxide adsorbing material (5); an adsorbed material detachment unit (6), having an air nozzle (61); and a combustion device (7) including an air nozzle (71), a fuel nozzle (72) and an ignition plug (73), wherein the exhaust gas from the exhaust passage (100) on the engine side is discharged directly from the exhaust outlet (3b) of the branch exhaust passage (3).