Abstract: A diaphragm type damper has a combined member, which is formed by welding a marginal portion of a diaphragm to a half body having a concave portion formed therein, and is fixed to a pressure chamber portion to which high pressure fluid is introduced. A wall thickness of a welding portion of the half body is not relevant to welding, and the heat capacity of the welding portion is small. Since the half body is allowed to have a large wall thickness, leakage from the welding portion and damage to that portion can be prevented. In addition, the diaphragm type damper of this present invention can be easily assembled, since it requires only fixing the combined member to the pressure chamber portion.

Abstract: There is provided a vane compressor which prevents leakage of refrigerant gas by decreasing the number of airtight interfaces between component parts and prevents seizure from occurring between its rotor and its side block without surface treatment of the side block. The vane compressor has a cam ring. The rotor is rotatably received in the cam ring. A first head is secured to one end face of the cam ring. A second head is secured to another end face of the cam ring in a manner such that the second head closes an opening of the another end face of the cam ring and one end face of the rotor can be brought into contact with the second head. The side block is received in the first head in a manner such that it closes an opening of the one end face of the cam ring and another end face of the rotor can be brought into contact with the side block.

Abstract: A method for carrying out fuel injection using a variable nozzle hole type fuel injection nozzle and a jerk type fuel injection pump. The variable nozzle hole type fuel injection nozzle has in its tip a well formed by an enclosing wall in which are provided a number of nozzle holes (35). A rotary valve (7) rotatable by an actuator (9) is disposed in the well and has fuel passages (73) so provided in the same number as the nozzle holes (35) that the fuel passages (73) can be connected with the nozzle holes (35) to a degree which varies with the angle of the rotary valve (7). A non-injection period in the rotation of the jerk type fuel injection pump B is detected using an encoder pulse and when the jerk type fuel injection pump B is rotating at high speed the angle of the rotary valve (7) is changed in steps until the rotary valve (7) reaches a target angle (.theta.D) corresponding to a required nozzle hole area by the actuator (9) being driven a required number of times only in the non-injection period.

Abstract: When forming a circular tube-shaped header pipe by rolling a plate material, surfaces extending at a right angle to the internal and external surfaces of the plate material are formed at the two side edges extending in the lengthwise direction, and the plate material is rolled in such a manner that the two side edges face opposite each other while setting the two side edges in a non-contact state. In this process, the gap between the two side edges is set at or less than 0.3 mm. In order to manufacture this header pipe, a plate material that has been cut to a specific length is trimmed in the direction of its short side to achieve a specific dimension and also at a right angle to the front and rear surfaces of the plate material. After a piping insertion hole is formed, the entirety of the plate material is rolled so that its cross section achieves a U-shape.

Abstract: The fuel injection nozzle according to the present invention comprises a nozzle body provided with nozzle holes, a needle valve that opens and closes the nozzle holes, an armature that is mechanically linked with the needle valve and a stator that faces opposite the armature, so that, by displacing the stator with a micromotor, the lift quantity of the needle valve can be adjusted. In addition, a cover member that rotates slidably around the circumference of the nozzle body is provided and by causing this cover member to rotate with a micromotor, the opening area of the nozzle hole contributing to injection is varied. With these structural features, it becomes possible to intentionally achieve a desired injection pattern.

Abstract: There is provided a clutchless variable capacity swash plate compressor. A valve element is arranged at an intermediate portion of a refrigerant inlet passage, for increasing and decreasing an opening area of the intermediate portion. An urging member urges the valve element in a direction of a large valve opening position in which the opening area is large. An accumulator accumulates the high-pressure refrigerant gas therein to build up pressure for urging the valve element in a direction of a small valve opening position in which the opening area is small. When suction pressure of the suction refrigerant gas is high, a pilot valve closes to inhibit the supply of a high-pressure refrigerant to the accumulator to thereby bring the valve element to the large valve opening position, whereas when the suction pressure is low, the pilot valve opens to permit the supply of the high-pressure gas to the accumulator to bring the valve element to the small valve opening position.

Abstract: A variable capacity vane compressor includes side members secured to opposite end faces of a cylinder block, respectively, and a rotary plate mounted in one of the side members, for adjusting compression starting timing of the compressor to thereby increase or decrease capacity or delivery quantity of the compressor.

Abstract: In a laminated heat exchanger, an intake portion and an outlet portion for heat exchanging medium are provided at one end portion in the direction of lamination. The intake portion is made to communicate with a most upstream pass distance from the one end portion in the direction of lamination via a communicating pipe, and the outlet portion is made to communicate with the most downstream pass at one end portion in the direction of lamination. The communicating pipe is further made to communicate with an odd-numbered pass in the vicinity where the odd-numbered pass changes from the even-numbered pass that immediately precedes it. In addition, the intake portion at one end portion in the direction of lamination is made to communicate with the pass immediately preceding the most downstream pass.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to prevent the quantity of airflow by a fan from decreasing in dependence on the distance between the fan and obstacles such as an engine in a device for introducing and discharging cooling air having a shroud with a high covering rate. In the device for introducing and discharging cooling air having the shroud with the high covering rate, an airflow direction changing member is provided downstream of the fan, and each fixed blade of the member has a shift angle in the radial direction and an attack angle in a rotation direction of the fan, so that the air tends to be discharged outward in the radial direction.

Abstract: Whether a thermal image is in a steady state or an unsteady state is judged based on measurement values of temperatures of objects and ambient temperature and previously obtained relational expressions between ambient temperature and the temperatures of the objects and an air conditioner is controlled based on the result of the judgment.

Abstract: A reciprocating compressor is provided. Compression chambers are formed on at least one end of pistons slidably received within respective cylinder bores of a cylinder block. A cylinder head is secured to the cylinder block and has a high-pressure chamber and a low-pressure chamber formed therein. A separating member is arranged between the cylinder block and the cylinder head. The separating member has a valve sheet, a valve plate, a stopper plate. The valve sheet is formed with suction valves and discharge valves. The valve plate is arranged between the valve sheet and the cylinder block, and formed with refrigerant outlet ports and relief holes each opening into a corresponding one of the compression chambers, for communicating with a corresponding one of refrigerant inlet ports formed through the stopper plate when the corresponding suction valve opens.

Abstract: A vane compressor has at least one of a front-side member and a rear-side member thereof formed with a suction chamber opening toward a cam ring, which has a substantially arcuate or annular shape and extends around a drive shaft. The cam ring has one end face formed with a refrigerant inlet port for supplying a low-pressure refrigerant into compression chambers formed between vanes. Alternatively, a front head is arranged on one end face of the cam ring. A shell encloses another end and an outer peripheral surface of the cam ring and holds a movable plate in a state opposed to the other end face of the cam ring such that the movable plate can be moved along a central axis of the drive shaft. An inside of the shell and the movable plate defines a high-pressure chamber therein. Each adjacent pair of the vanes, the front head, and the movable plate defines a compression chamber therein.

Abstract: A refrigerant compressor is provided. A cylinder block has a plurality of cylinder bores axially formed therethrough. A plurality of pistons are slidably received in the cylinder bores, respectively. A housing is secured to the cylinder block and has a crankcase defined therein. A drive shaft extends through the crankcase and has one end on a cylinder block side. A torque-transmitting member is received within the crankcase and mounted on the drive shaft, for rotation in unison with the drive shaft for converting torque transmitted from the drive shaft into reciprocating motion of each of the pistons. A bearing supports the one end of the drive shaft.

Abstract: An air-mix door control device for an automobile air-conditioning system home-position-sets the air-mix door for the full-hot position or the full-cool position when it is necessary to control an air-mix door for a new target opening position other than a full-hot position or a full-cool position under a condition that an opening position detecting unit for detecting an opening position of the air-mix door causes a trouble. Also, the air-mix door control device calculates a reverse drive time required for reversely driving the air-mix door from the home-position-set position to the new target opening position so as to correct a time error derived from a torque variation of an air-mix door motor actuator due to a battery voltage. Thus, the air-mix door control device reversely drives the air-mix door according to the reverse drive time and controls the air-mix door for the new target opening position.

Abstract: A grinding apparatus according to the present invention grinds a work having a plurality of non-circular work faces to be worked with a grindstone driven by a motor. The work faces are disposed at intervals. Distances between a grindstone unit, bearings and a gear train which are adjacent to each other, are substantially equal to a distance between adjacent work faces of the work. The gear train and the bearings can be respectively positioned between the adjacent work faces of the work in grinding. Therefore, it is possible to prevent interference of the gear train and the bearings with the work faces other than the work face which is being ground by the grinding wheel by a simple structure.

Abstract: In a distributor type fuel injection pump and a power transmission pump for transmitting power to the fuel injection pump, when a rotation system member of the injection pump is seized if anything should happen, only an injection pump is damaged to thereby greatly reduce damage to an engine. To this end, an annular groove is provided in a rotor to which power from the engine is transmitted, and the annular groove constitutes a frail portion of the rotor. The annular groove is positioned along the rotor so that all or most of the sliding portions of the rotor are located on a side of the groove opposite to a power supply side. When seizure occurs in the sliding portions of the rotor to prevent rotation, the rotor is twisted off at the annular groove by the power from the engine, so that rotation of a power supply side portion of the rotor is not prevented.

Abstract: A working oil receiving chamber 8 is provided with an expanding and contracting member 12. The expanding and contracting member 12 is comprised of an expansible and contractible bellows 2a made of metal, and a bottom portion 12b made of metal and for closing opposite open ends of the bellows portion 12a, so that the member 12 can expand as the pressure of the working oil in the working oil receiving chamber 8 is increased and can contract as the pressure is decreased. A slightly compressed gas is filled in the expanding and contracting member 12.

Abstract: An amorphous hard carbon film deposited on a substrate wherein the film further contains silicon and nitrogen. A method for deposition of an amorphous hard carbon film containing silicon and nitrogen on a substrate wherein a carbon source, a silicon source and a nitrogen source are introduced in a deposition chamber in which the substrate are placed to deposit the film on said substrate. A mechanical part having a slidable member or slidable members wherein the slidable member(s) is coated with the above amorphous hard carbon film. A method for the use of the above amorphous hard carbon film wherein the film is coated on the surface of a slidable member of a mechanical part.

Abstract: A first PTC heater and a second PTC heater are provided at the downstream side of a heater core that uses engine cooling water for its heat source, and the second PTC heater is positioned at a foot outlet. Under conditions that require the use of the PTC heaters, power is supplied to all the PTC heaters if the discharge mode is set to a FOOT mode or a DEF/FOOT mode, whereas power is supplied only to the first PTC heater if the discharge mode is set to a DEFROST mode. In an air conditioning control apparatus for vehicles provided with a heater core and PTC heaters, warm air at appropriate temperatures can be supplied through both the foot outlet and the defrost outlet during an initial stage of heating in which the temperature of the engine cooling water is low. In addition, since no power is supplied to the second PTC heater unless the foot outlet is open, energy resources are saved.

Abstract: Heat-exchanging conduit tubes for a laminated heat exchanger made of aluminum material containing aluminum alloy having a brazing material claded and formed by folding one plate or overlaying two plates and brazing to connect edge joints of the folded plate or the overlaid plates, wherein the folded plate or the overlaid plates have projections protruded from one or both faces of the opposed plates toward the other plate, the projections are joined in contact with a flat face of the other plate or the projections of the other plate, and the edge joints of the folded plate or the overlaid plates are joined, and the height of the edge joint of the each plate is smaller than those of the projections. Thus, the heat-exchanging conduit tubes can be securely brazed to provide flat tubes having a satisfactory pressure resistance, and a method for producing them can be attained.