Abstract: A process for machining a lead of a plunger to be used in a variable fuel injection rate type in-line fuel injection pump includes machining a plunger blank to form a port hole and then hardening. After this, the plunger blank is additionally machined, while being chucked by a NC machine, to form a shallow hole overlapping the lower end portion of the port hole. The plunger body is then machined in the chucked state with the machining reference of the shallow hole to form a longitudinal groove and a lead.

Abstract: A prestroke adjustment mechanism for a fuel injection pump comprises a U-shaped lever provided on the outer surface of the pump housing for rotating a timing control rod of the injection pump and a rotation limit pin provided on the same outer surface for limiting the rotation of the U-shaped lever. The timing control rod is linked with a control sleeve on the pump plunger for adjusting the prestroke. By limiting the rotation of the U-shaped lever, the rotation limiting pin limits the height of the control sleeve for ensuring establishment between the top of the control sleeve and the bottom of the upper section of the plunger barrel of a gap for dissipating the force of the spill jet during fuel spill. As a result, the downward force of internal turbulence produced by the spill jet is dissipated, thereby preventing the control sleeve from slipping downward and ensuring stable and reliable prestroke adjustment.

Abstract: Where a vehicle deviates from a calculated optimal route, the system displays a message indicating the vehicle's deviation. The driver of the vehicle commands computation of a new optimum route. The system selects a new starting point from a point substantially ahead of the vehicle, recomputes the optimal route, and determines the route from the new starting point to the destination. The new starting point is far enough ahead of the vehicle to ensure that the route computation is completed before the vehicle reaches it. This prevents overrunning the new starting point before the calculation of a new optimum route is completed. Navigation guidance, computed for the new optimal route, is then displayed.

Abstract: A control system for a vehicle safety device includes an acceleration detecting device for detecting the deceleration of the vehicle, an integrating device for integrating the deceleration from the acceleration detecting device, a collision judgment device for comparing the integral value, obtained by the integrating device, with a trigger threshold level so as to judge whether or not a collision has occurred, and for outputting an activation instruction signal when the collision judgment device judges that the collision has occurred, and a drive circuit responsive to the activation instruction signal from the collision judgment device so as to activate the vehicle safety device. The control system further includes a deceleration compensation device for adjusting the trigger threshold level in accordance with the deceleration in such a manner that the trigger threshold level becomes low when the deceleration is large and that the trigger threshold level becomes high when the deceleration is small.

Abstract: In a method for detecting malfunction in microcomputer system, in which a given job is processed in a multiple task processing manner, it is discriminated whether or not each of tasks was executed normally after the each execution thereof, and each count of counters provided for all of the tasks except for a prescribed task is changed in response to result of the discrimination. Each count of all counters is checked at the time of the execution of the prescribed task to determine whether or not all of the tasks were executed normally.

Abstract: The compressor activation control unit a rotation detecting means for detecting whether or not the motor is normally activated when the compressor is activated, a judging means for judging that the compressor interior is filled with a liquid refrigerant when the motor is not judged to be in the normal activating condition by the rotation detecting means, and a control means for step-driving the motor at a very slow-speed no more then one rotation per second through the driving circuit when the motor interior is judged to have been filled with the liquid refrigerant by the judging means.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a sensor for detecting an operating condition of a vehicle, and a control device. When the output of the sensor is normal, the control device controls an actuator in accordance with the output of the sensor. When the output of the sensor exceeds a limit value and therefore becomes abnormal, the control device controls the actuator using backup data. As the backup data, auxiliary backup data is first used, and thereafter predetermined main backup data is used. The auxiliary backup data gradually varies from a value of the output of said sensor, obtained immediately before the output of the sensor exceeds the limit value, toward the main backup data, so that the auxiliary back data becomes closer to the main backup data.

Abstract: An automatic vehicle steering system is provided for automatically steering a vehicle along a lane in a road. A video sensor is included for generating a plurality of frames of video images of the road. A computer processor analyzes the frames to determine the lane boundaries of the road and the position of the vehicle. The system advantageously utilizes engagement of a cruise control switch and a steering control switch to initiate processing of the image data and automatic steering of the vehicle. In such manner, the reliability and efficiency of the system is increased while at the same time minimizing complexity and cost.

Abstract: An automobile air-conditioner wherein a controlled variable used to determine the control mode of a component of the air-conditioner is corrected or restricted according to the amount of shifting of the head part setting temperature for driving the component of the air-conditioner based on the corrected or restricted controlled variable. With this arrangement, an occupant of the automobile senses an enhanced change of the air-conditioning operation when the head part setting temperature is changed.

Abstract: A hydraulic power unit for a vehicle comprises a motor, a pump to be driven by the motor to pump up an oil stored in an oil tank, a gas filling type accumulator connected to the pump, a pressure sensor disposed at a portion near an outlet port of the accumulator for detecting a pressure of the oil in the accumulator, a control unit operatively connected to the pressure sensor and a relay opertively connected to the control unit for controlling an operation of the motor.

Abstract: A variable capacity vane compressor includes a bearing arrangement having a radial bearing radially supporting a drive shaft of the compressor, and a thrust bearing rotatably supporting a capacity control element. The bearing arrangement comprises an annular member fixed in a through hole formed through a side block of the compressor, through which the drive shaft extends. The annular member has an inner peripheral surface in which the radial and thrust bearings are received. The annular member is formed of a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion substantially equal to that of a material forming the radial bearing. The thrust bearing has a first race disposed on a side thereof close to a rotor of the compressor, and a second race disposed on a side remote from the rotor. The first race is force-fitted in a through hole formed through the capacity control element and slidably fitted in the inner peripheral surface of the annular member.

Abstract: A heat exchanger tank partition device in which tank portions are partitioned into chambers by partition plates held between a pair of separable tank plates. These partition plates can be located into the required position, which facilitates assembly and provides good precision and brazing integrity. The result is a simple and secure arrangement which minimizes the risk of leakage of the heat exchange medium occurring.

Abstract: An acceleration sensor includes a tubular bobbin only one end of which is fixed to a body whereas the other end is movable relative to the body axially of the bobbin. Supported on the body are magnets for attracting a magnetic member, mounted within the bobbin, to a reference position. A detection member is mounted around the bobbin so as to detect a displacement of the magnetic member from the reference position. A gel can be filled in a receiving space of the body in which the bobbin is received. The body can be of a tubular shape, with covers fixedly secured respectively to opposite ends of the body, in which case opposite ends of the bobbin are disposed in opposed, spaced relation to inner sides of the covers, respectively. The body can be received in a housing, and a circuit board can be received in an auxiliary receiving space in the housing.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for injecting compressed fuel to an engine through a reciprocative motion of a plunger includes a vertically-elongated plunger barrel, and a plunger having a shaft portion which is vertically and reciprocatively slidable along the inner space of the plunger barrel, at least one of the inner wall of the plunger barrel and the peripheral surface of the shaft portion of the plunger being formed with an oil groove for temporarily storing oil which ascends from a cam chamber through a reciprocative motion of the plunger, wherein the oil groove has at least two side walls one at the upper side of the oil groove and one at the lower side of the oil groove, and wherein lower side wall is downwardly slanted to return the stored oil to the cam chamber.

Abstract: A condenser of the type having a receiver tank formed integrally with the condenser has each of two opposed header tanks composed of a tube-receiving plate and a tank plate. The tank plate of one of the header tanks is formed of an extruded section member having a hollow portion forming a receiver tank and the extruded section member further has auxiliary passages. The tube-receiving plates of the header tanks are structurally independent so that formation of tube-receiving holes and application of cladding material can be performed for each tube-receiving plate, and a condenser having a plurality of flow paths can be constructed. In addition, if heat transfer between the hollow portion and the one header tank has a negative effect on the operation of the condenser, a heat insulating space is formed between the hollow portion and the one header tank for controlling heat transfer therebetween.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump plunger which enables the timing of the fuel injection to be controlled in accordance with the engine load, and can be used to prevent the emission of exhaust smoke and to achieve quieter engine operation, and under full-load conditions enables the engine to regain speed rapidly.

Abstract: A rotor magnet of the type including a plurality of circumferentially arranged magnets of alternately opposite polarities, wherein each of the magnets has a magnetizing pattern such that the magnetic force is minimum at predetermined portions near opposite ends of the magnet and gradually increases from the predetermined portions toward the center of the magnet and also from the predetermined portions toward the opposite ends of the magnet. With this magnetizing pattern, the rotor magnet has a substantially sinusoidal waveform-like magnetic flux density distribution pattern when the motor is rotating. As a consequence, the magnetic polarity changes smoothly and the motor can, therefore, operate at a low operation noise.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump that provides an improved fuel injection cutoff spill rate at high fuel pressures without degrading the mechanical strength or durability of a control sleeve that is provided with a spill port and fits over the plunger of the pump, and also does not affect fuel injection timing. In the fuel injection pump the length of an inclined lead is extended in the high rack direction, the effective fuel injection stroke is adjusted by controlling the relative positions of the inclined lead and the spill port, and an auxiliary inclined lead is formed on the end portion of the inclined lead in communication therewith, with this auxiliary inclined lead arranged so that it does not extend below the fuel suction and discharge port in the longitudinal direction of the plunger.

Abstract: In a fuel injector, a plurality of pairs of first and second injection ports are formed in a distal end portion of a nozzle body, and are spaced from one another peripherally of the nozzle body. The angles of the first and second injection ports relative to an axis of the nozzle body is different from each other. The inner ends of the first injection ports are disposed at a valve seat, and the inner ends of the second injection ports are spaced from the inner ends of the first injection ports toward the distal end of the nozzle body in the axial direction of the nozzle body. Each pair of first and second injection ports have a substantially common outer end. At an initial stage of the lift of the needle valve, the injection of fuel from the first injection ports is effected preferentially due to a throttle effect between the abutment portion and the valve seat.

Abstract: A control system for a vehicle safety device includes a pair of acceleration sensing circuits. The outputs of the acceleration sensing circuits correspond to a deceleration of the vehicle in a direction of running of a vehicle, and are in opposite phase with each other. A differential calculation device effects calculation in accordance with the difference between the outputs of the acceleration sensing circuits, so as to cause noises, applied to the acceleration sensing circuits, to cancel each other, thereby preventing an inadvertent activation of the vehicle safety device due to such noises.