Abstract: A vehicle lamp assembly, of the type in which the color of the light to be produced by the lamp cannot readily be perceived when the lamp is not illuminated, comprises a housing having an inner portion containing a light source and an outer portion enclosed by a lens arranged to collimate light from the light source. The outer portion of the housing is separated from the inner portion by a color filter. The inner surface of the side walls of the inner portion are of stepped form so as to be either substantially parallel to or substantially perpendicular to the optical axis of the assembly.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fluid friction clutch assembly, comprising a drive shaft; a primary disk mounted for rotation on the drive shaft; a driven clutch housing surrounding the primary disk and being rotatably supported with respect to the drive shaft, the clutch housing containing a partition therein defining a work chamber and a reservoir separated by the partition, wherein the partition includes in its radially outer area at least one overflow opening closeable by means of a valve lever comprised of a magnetic material and a return flow orifice associated with pump means for pumping a viscous torque-transmitting medium from the work chamber to the reservoir; a pulley member mounted on the drive shaft for driving the shaft and means, associated with the pulley member, for selectively magnetically actuating the valve lever, in order to selectively open and close the overflow opening.

Abstract: A pair of rotary valves for an internal combustion engine positioned in a cylinder head over a cylinder block. The rotary valves include a pair of rotatable shafts, and a pair of sleeve supports having ports opening to the cylinder or cylinders of the engine. The pair of rotatable shafts can be either hollow or solid. The hollow intake shaft brings in a fuel mixture to an inlet passage that rotates into alignment with an intake opening in the intake shaft to the piston cylinder. The hollow exhaust shaft allows exhaust of burned gases from the piston chamber through an exhaust opening from the piston cylinder to an exhaust passage in the exhaust shaft and to the atmosphere. The solid rotatable shafts are provided with a diametrical intake channel and a diametrical exhaust channel that aligns with the openings to the piston cylinder and to the fuel mixture and to the atmosphere. Drive and timing gearing between the crankshaft and the intake and exhaust shafts are provided.

Abstract: In combination with a vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine mounted within a relatively enclosed engine compartment, an engine fuel conditioning apparatus for heat conditioning fuel prior to flow into the carburetor, the fuel conditioner being located at the uppermost portion of the engine compartment and adjacent the carburetor so that the fuel therein is exposed to the maximum temperature conditions in the engine compartment to pre-heat fuel prior to flowing into a heated carburetor thereby preventing fuel foaming which adversely richens the fuel-air ratio to the engine.

Abstract: A device for the production of a fuel vapor/air mixture for spark-ignition engines comprising a float chamber and a vaporizer chamber with heated vaporizer surface, an intake pipe being provided with a first fixed diaphragm or nozzle, the liquid spaces of the vaporizer chamber and of the float chamber being connected to each other by means of a line, the gas space of the float chamber being connected upstream of the diaphragm or nozzle, viewed in the direction of flow, and the gas space of the vaporizer chamber being connected downstream of the diaphragm or of the nozzle, viewed in the direction of flow, to the intake pipe, by means of lines in each case, and the line from the gas space of the vaporizer chamber into the intake pipe being provided with a second fixed diaphragm or nozzle, which induces a pressure drop of 85 to 99.

Abstract: A modified two-stroke or four-stroke internal combustion engine comprises means and a method for increasing the power output of an internal combustion engine by providing a non-combustible fluid to the engine. The engine transfers thermal energy of combustion to the non-combustible fluid, thereby causing expansion of the fluid, and includes means for converting expansion of the fluid to mechanical power.

Abstract: A fuel vaporizer for an internal combustion engine comprises an air/fuel heating and mixing chamber which vaporizes liquid hydrocarbon fuel to a heated, dry vaporous state and mixes it with heated air for introduction of the mixture into a primary or main air stream for supply to the cylinders of the engine. A first form of the vaporizer uses exhaust gas from the engine to heat the fuel and air, and a second form of the invention uses electrical resistance elements to heat the fuel and air. Both forms of the invention include supplemental vaporized fuel supply devices operable during acceleration and starting.

Abstract: To simulate a candle flame an electric-light bulb (15) is fitted with a light-permeable and light-scattering lamp casing (1). Arranged on the inner surface (5) of the lamp casing are spacing elements (6,7,8) which hold the outer surface (14) of the light bulb (15) spaced from the inner surface (5) of the lamp casing (1). The lamp casing (1) is open at both ends, and cooling air is conducted along the inner surface of the lamp casing by convection.

Abstract: The breathing device for the 4 stroke engine includes a first separating chamber formed as a tappet chamber and a second separating chamber provided above a crank case. The second separating chamber is arranged above the first separating chamber. The crank chamber and the first separating chamber are communicated to each other by a first oil return port and a first vent arranged above the first oil return port. The first separating chamber and the second separating chamber are communicated to each other by a check valve. The second separating chamber and the crank case are communicated to each other by a second oil return port.

Abstract: In an engine system wherein the engine coolant is permitted to boil and the gaseous coolant used as a vehicle for removing heat from the engine, a heating jacket associated with the induction conduit of the engine is supplied with gaseous coolant via a control valve during cold engine starts and during modes of engine operation wherein it is advantageous from the view point of fuel economy to raise the temperature of the engine and/or the incoming fuel charge. The supply is terminated under other modes of operation to avoid heating the incoming charge and reducing charging efficiency.

Abstract: A method of running an internal combustion engine with alternative fuels such as high or low octane gasoline, paraffin, diesel oil, ethanol, methanol or similar fuels and/or mixtures thereof and combustible gases such as LP-gas and the like at unchanged compression ratio, and which each motor cylinder can be supplied with a further medium besides the fuel for running of the engine and the fuel is heated by the heat from the exhaust system (22, 23). The invention also refers to an internal combustion engine for alternative fuels.

Abstract: The present invention provides an engine intake air preheating device having(A) an intake air preheater for preheating air to be fed into an engine, the preheater including a first metal hydride and being disposed within an intake air feeding tube for heat exchange with the intake air,(B) a hydrogen storage container including hydrogen or a second metal hydride, and(C) a pipe having a valve and connecting the intake air preheater to the hydrogen storage container so that hydrogen can move between them;and also an engine preheating device having(A') an engine preheater for preheating an engine, the preheater including a first metal hydride and being mounted on the engine for heat-exchange with the engine,(B) the hydrogen storage container, and(C) the pipe.There is also provided a method for preheating intake air at the time of starting the engine using an engine intake air preheating device such as the one according to the present invention.

Abstract: A luminaire of an HID lamp includes a wiring box pivotally mounted on a yoke and a lamp and reflector mounted on the box. The lamp is mounted with its axis perpendicular to a normally horizontal surface of the box. The reflector is mostly formed as surfaces of revolution but has a flat mounting surface offset from the reflector axis at a predetermined angle, preferably about 36.degree. for use with a lamp having a .+-.15.degree. operating angle deviation from vertical. Thus, the aiming angle can be between 21.degree. and 51.degree. from vertical.

Abstract: An air temperature control system for an engine including an intake manifold, an air mixing housing in communication with said intake manifold; the system includes a control unit means, responsive to at least one engine operating parameter and to the temperature of the air delivered to the intake manifold for generating an actuator control signal in accordance with a stored programmed temperature profile; actuator means responsive to the actuator control signal and mechanically linked to the movable air mixing valve for adjusting the air mixing valve in proportion to the actuator control signal; and means for sensing the temperature of the mixed air delivered to the intake manifold.

Abstract: A V-type internal combustion engine having cam shafts respectively provided in first spaces defined between cylinder heads and head covers of a pair of upwardly diverging cylinder banks and a breather arrangement which includes a pressure buffer chamber provided between the cylinder banks of a cylinder block and having side walls constituted by cylinder block walls of said cylinder banks so as to be closed at its upper portion and communicated with an interior of a crankcase, and a communicating passage for communicating said pressure buffer chamber with an intake passage at a downstream of a throttle valve, and a baffle plate provided in said pressure buffer chamber to confront the open end of said communicating passage.

Abstract: A steering shaft assembly for automotive vehicles comprises an upper shaft mounted thereon with a steering wheel, a lower shaft rotatably supported in place within a column tube and telescopically connected to the upper shaft in such a manner to permit axial adjustment of the upper shaft, and a lock mechanism for releasably fastening the upper shaft to the lower shaft in its adjusted position, a pair of stopper elements respectively integral with the upper and lower shafts to be abutted against each other when the upper shaft is moved downward over a predetermined stroke, an annular tapered projection integral with one of the shafts, and a single shock absorber element of elastic material in the form of a short sleeve member coupled with the other shaft and located between the stopper elements. The shock absorber element is formed at one end thereof with an annular tapered portion to be resiliently coupled over the annular tapered projection by abutment with the stopper elements.

Abstract: A fuel and air mixture induction system is provided for an internal combustion engine and includes a conventional air and fuel mixing carburetor for starting the engine when the latter is cold. However, when operating temperatures of the engine are reached the air and fuel induction system is operative to more thoroughly vaporize liquid fuel by pressurizing and heating not only the induction air but also the fuel and spraying the heated fuel into the heated induction air in a manner such that substantially complete fuel atomization and vaporization occurs. This pressurized fully vaporized fuel and air charge is thereafter discharged in a downstream direction into the air and fuel passage of the carburetor closely upstream from the venturi area thereof.

Abstract: In combusting fuel in an internal combustion engine with a fuel combustion system having a fuel tank, a fuel injecting system for injecting fuel into a cylinder section and a fuel path for providing fluid communication between the fuel tank and the fuel injecting system, a magnetic field is applied, by means of a magnetic field applying device, to the fuel flowing from the fuel tank to the fuel injecting system through the fuel path. The magnetic field applying device is provided either along the fuel path or in the fuel injecting system.

Abstract: This device relates to a novel system for supplying fuel to an internal combustion engine. The system includes a two-stage evaporator serially mounted within the fuel supply system of the internal combustion engine. The evaporator includes a first stage having fuel supply orifices to inject fuel at the top of a chamber in which are mounted a pair of spaced thermal discs. The evaporated fuel is then conducted to the second stage of the evaporator where it is further expanded in a spiral tube heated by, for example, exhaust gases and then conducted to a venturi stack via a fuel supply manifold to the intake manifold of the internal combustion engine. Use of the system results in increased gas mileage as the high degree of vaporization of the fuel results in a much greater efficiency in the burning thereof.

Abstract: An improved intake air heating device of internal combustion engine for motorcycles, having a compact and durable construction and adapted to heat the intake air to be fed to the engine by the heat derived from the exhaust gas. The device has an intake system leading to an intake port of the engine, an air cleaner connected to the intake system, an exhaust system connected to an exhaust port of the engine, an air heater disposed to surround a part of the exhaust system, and a heated air conduit providing a communication between the air cleaner and the air heater. The heated air conduit is arranged within the transverse breadth of the engine.