Abstract: A reflective screen with a gradient of reflectivity is moved by a control handle outside a cabinet to display different parts of the screen through a window to a LED and a phototransistor. The changing of the light reflected by the screen from the LED to the phototransistor is used to control an electrical parameter, providing a low cost control device.

Abstract: A fuel injection pumping apparatus for supplying fuel to an internal combustion engine comprises a rotary distributor member having a transverse bore mounting pumping plungers arranged to be moved inwardly by cam lobes on a cam ring. The outward movement of the plungers is controller by varying the axial position of the distributor member. Fuel flows from the bore by way of a delivery passage to an outlet and also when the distributor member is set to provide low fuel delivery through a restricted passage and a flow channel. The period in terms of degrees of rotation of the distributor member for a given displacement of fuel through the outlet is extended as compared with an apparatus in which the restricted passage and flow channel are not provided. The cam ring is also angularly adjustable and the restricted passage and flow channel are positioned so that flow of fuel through the restricted passage ceases as the cam ring moves angularly with increasing speed.

Abstract: In effecting individual cylinder fuel injection control in an electronically controlled diesel engine, wherein rpm variations with every explosion cylinder are detected and compared with one another, and a fuel injection quantity control actuator is controlled with every cylinder so as to make the rpm variations of respective cylinders uniform, so that engine vibrations due to a dispersion in fuel injection quantity between the cylinders can be controlled, a movement value corrected driving command timing to the fuel injection quantity control actuator is determined in accordance with a difference between individual cylinder correction quantities of last time and this time and a driving command is given to the fuel injection quantity control actuator with every cylinder in accordance with the movement value corrected driving command timing.

Abstract: A relay arrangement for transmitting electrical signals from various switches of an automobile to various devices controlled by the switches comprises a cable, and a boss plate rotatably held to the steering shaft of the automobile. The cable has a spiral winding between two sun gears, and the boss plate extends between two neighboring turns of the winding. The number of turns of the winding is in excess of the maximum number of revolutions that the steering wheel can make. When the boss plate is rotated during the rotation of the steering wheel, the plate slides through the winding in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the winding.

Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for an internal combustion engine, which comprises an accumulator for storing therein pressurized fuel while maintaining the pressure thereof at a predetermined high level. A fuel injection valve is arranged to inject the pressurized fuel in the accumulator into a combustion chamber of the engine. The injection valve is controlled to open and close by an output signal from an external control unit. A pressurizing pump is arranged to pressurize the fuel delivered from a fuel-feed pump and to supply it into the accumulator through a check valve.

Abstract: A fuel injection carburetor in an internal combustion engine, comprising: a fuel injection valve provided at a position upstream of a throttle valve mounted in an intake passage; and an idling bypass air passage bypassing the throttle valve; wherein the range of fuel spray angle of the fuel injection valve is determined such that the fuel injection valve is disposed in such a manner that a position on the surface of the throttle valve, to which the sprayed fuel reaches, is always located at an opening forward end in the downstream direction of the throttle valve rather than an opening forward end in the upstream direction within the total throttle opening of the throttle valve from the full closing to the full opening, there are provided a bypass air valve of a wax-type provided in the idling bypass air passage and in which the higher the temperature rises, the less the flowing area of the bypass air passage is made, and a hot water passage for circulating the engine coolant from a position adjacent the openi

Abstract: The governor device includes an electromagnetic clutch capable of utilizing the driving force of a diesel engine for driving a control rack of fuel injection pumps. The electromagnetic clutch is controlled based on the difference between a preset engine speed and an actual speed. With this device, electrically controlled governor operation can be executed without use of an electric actuator such as a solenoid or the like.

Abstract: Improved light reflector apparatus for use in an electronic flash unit or the like is formed by an injection molding operation, which causes both precise shaping of a reflector and accurate mounting of the reflector securely within a housing. A light-reflecting flexible sheet is placed in a mold so that its light-reflecting front surface is centrally positioned adjacent a mold forming surface. The forming surface, which is larger than the sheet, has a contour adapted for shaping the sheet to reflect light into a beam of illumination. Liquid plastic is injected into the mold under pressure against the opposite surface of the sheet, thus pressing its light-reflecting surface into intimate contact against the forming surface. Because the sheet is smaller, the border of the forming surface is not covered by the sheet. Plastic flows beyond outer edges of the sheet against the uncovered border of the forming surface.

Abstract: A luminous indicating device and comprising at least one luminous block adapted to be buried in a road surface so that a radiating surface thereof is flush with the road surface. The luminous block is formed of a composite material block and at least one luminous element which is formed of a transparent material block and a light source buried at one end portion of the block to radiate light from the other end surface of the block. The luminous block is buried in the composite material block so that the other end surface of said transparent material block is flush with a top surface of the composite material block.

Abstract: A cam shaft operated fuel injector having an elongated fuel injection nozzle, a linear pumping plunger with an axis normal to the axis of the nozzle in two embodiments and parallel to the axis of the nozzle in three embodiments and ball check valve means for the pumping plunger arranged to minimize the high pressure chamber volume and to simplify the design and assembly of the unit injector. One embodiment employs an inlet metering valve, another embodiment employs end of injection spill control and another embodiment is adapted for receiving a metered charge of fuel from a separate low pressure distributor pump having a governor controlled linear metering valve and a sleeve like distributor rotor surrounding the metering valve.

Abstract: Vacuum-regulated system for automatic disengagement of a manual clutch in a vehicle for eliminating mechanical rattle from the vehicle gearbox during idling. A servo unit in the system is joined to the clutch releasing arm and is controlled by the gearbox shift lever for moving the release arm to disengaged position when the lever is in neutral position. The control cable of the clutch pedal is connected to the servo unit via springs, against the force of which the pedal can move in the disengaging direction when the servo unit is holding the clutch in disengaged position.

Abstract: In a fuel injection system, as an engine crankshaft rotates twice, a working chamber contracts and expands a number of times equal to twice the number of engine combustion chambers. Each time the working chamber expands, fuel is conducted to the working chamber. During alternate contractions of the working chamber, fuel is directed from the working chamber toward each of the combustion chambers in sequence to be injected thereinto at a first timing. During the intervening contractions of the working chamber, fuel is directed from the working chamber toward each of the combustion chambers in sequence to be injected thereinto at a second timing. The second timing follows the first timing by a fraction of at least one operating stroke of the engine. In another fuel injection system of this invention, fuel is periodically injected into an engine combustion chamber at a first timing with respect to rotation of the engine crankshaft.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine with extended power stroke and shortened compression stroke has an improved efficiency over internal combustion engines having strokes of equal length.

Abstract: A fuel injection system for a diesel engine having a fuel injector with a fuel accumulator chamber connected by an orifice to a fuel source having a pressure controlled by an electronic controller, an injection valve control chamber connected by a second orifice to the fuel source and a solenoid valve controlled by the electronic controller for momentarily releasing the control chamber pressure for momentarily injecting a charge of fuel from the accumulator chamber in a mount and at a rate determined by the source pressure and the pulse width of the solenoid operating pulse.

Abstract: The invention relates to a candle-shaped luminary, primarily intended for use in churches, chapels and other places of worship, which includes a cylindrical pipe, preferably made of a plastic material, with an outer jacket that is provided with a wax, stearin or imitation wax coating. A container of liquid fuel, preferably liquid wax or liquid paraffin, with a wick that extends from the upper side of the container through a wick-guiding tube, is mounted exchangeably inside the pipe. The exchangeable container is provided with an upper cover which corresponds to the width of the pipe, which abuts seamlessly against or on the upper edge of the pipe after the fuel is inserted, resulting in the exact image of the upper front area of a natural candle.

Abstract: A high-pressure fuel injection system for a diesel engine including a plurality of main pumps for injecting fuel each located at one of cylinders of the engine and formed with a fuel injection port, a metering and distributing pump formed with fuel discharge ports corresponding in number to the cylinders of the engine for discharging fuel to be injected in timed relation to the rotation of the engine, a plurality of injected fuel metering valves for metering the fuel to be injected before introduction into the metering and distributing pump, a plurality of pipes for fluidly connecting each of the main pumps for injecting fuel with each other discharge ports of the metering and distributing pump, and an actuating mechanism connecting the engine with each of the main pumps for injecting fuel to actuate each of the main fuel injection pump for injecting fuel in timed relation to the rotation of the engine.

Abstract: A control device for Diesel engines with which a rapid shutoff of the latter is possible by emptying the suction chamber of the injection pump by aspiration. The control device includes a control valve, which in the operating position (I) opens up the feed line of the feed pump toward the suction chamber and in the reversed shutoff position (II) blocks this feed line between the compression side (D) of the feed pump and the suction chamber. The control valve is an electromagnetic shutoff valve. A further part of the control device is an electric fuel pump, which as a special aspirating pump is disposed in an aspiration line leading from the suction chamber back to the fuel tank. For emergency engine shutoff, the control valve, displaced into its blocking position (II), blocks the flow of fuel between the feed pump and the suction chamber, while the aspirating fuel pump that has been turned on at the same time empties the suction chamber by aspiration.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump is provided with a device for adjusting the start of fuel injection which includes a turnable roller ring and a stop engaged in the roller ring and mounted on a shaft turnable by an actuating adjusting lever between two end positions. The stop is positioned eccentrically to the axis of the shaft. The stop limits the angle of twist of the roller ring to adjust the start of fuel injection.

Abstract: An electromagnetic drive clutch for the compressor in an air conditioning system for a bus used both in the city and in over-the-road operation incorporating two drive pulleys of different diameters, concentrically arranged armatures connected with the respective pulleys by a spring assembly, concentrically arranged coil assemblies and a common rotor associated with the coil assemblies and armatures to selectively drive the rotor from the smaller or larger pulley thereby varying the drive speed of the compressor and thus varying the output characteristics of the compressor to enable adequate cooling to be provided for the interior of the bus during over-the-road movement when the engine speed of the bus is relatively high and also adequate cooling during city driving when the engine speed of the bus is relatively low.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for a diesel engine includes a housing having a bore within which a plunger reciprocates according to the operation of the engine, the bore defining a pumping chamber at an end of the plunger. The pumping chamber is communicated to a fuel intake passage only when the plunger is moving in a direction to enlarge the size of the pumping chamber and being communicated to fuel injection nozzles only when the plunger is moving in a direction to reduce the size of the pumping chamber. A first electromagnetic valve for fuel shutoff is provided at a middle portion of the fuel intake passage. A second electromagnetic valve, advantageously used also for fuel amount control by timely venting the pumping chamber in its compression stroke, communicates the pumping chamber to the intake passage downstream of the first electromagnetic valve for at least a predetermined short time period when the first electromagnetic valve is closed.