Abstract: The present embodiment is a catalyst for a fuel cell including: a catalyst metal; and a carrier that supports the catalyst metal, in which an outer surface area of the carrier to an inner surface area of the carrier, which is a ratio between the inner and outer surface areas of the carrier, is 0.56 to 0.69, and a proportion of the catalyst metal supported on an outer surface of the carrier is 23% to 35%.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a battery module that can prevent the breakage of batteries due to the expansion or contraction of the batteries when charging and discharging the batteries. [Solution To Problem] A battery module includes a plurality of stacked batteries and a restraint part for restraining the plurality of batteries. The restraint part is composed of a pair of end plates arranged at either end in the stacking direction of the plurality of batteries and tension bands for connecting the pair of end plates and constraining the plurality of batteries in a pressurized state. The tension bands include elastically deformable concave-convex parts.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a battery module that can prevent the breakage of batteries due to the expansion or contraction of the batteries when charging and discharging the batteries. [Solution To Problem] A battery module includes a plurality of stacked batteries and a restraint part for restraining the plurality of batteries. The restraint part is composed of a pair of end plates arranged at either end in the stacking direction of the plurality of batteries and tension bands for connecting the pair of end plates and constraining the plurality of batteries in a pressurized state. The tension bands include elastically deformable concave-convex parts.

Abstract: An exhaust-gas introducing passage is branched, on an outlet side of a valve, into parts, correspondingly to the number of an exhaust port of an internal combustion engine and the branching section is located at a position directly opposed to a movable valving element of the valve so as to cause exhaust gas to easily flow only in the direction of the outlet, which has introducing passages of exhaust gas communicating with a plurality of intake ports of the internal combustion engine to approach as near as possible a state in which each of the introducing passages is isolated from another introducing passages, and they assume an aspect just as if the introducing passages do not substantially communicate with one another.

Abstract: An exhaust-gas introducing passage is branched, on an outlet side of a valve, into parts, correspondingly to the number of an exhaust port of an internal combustion engine and the branching section is located at a position directly opposed to a movable valving element of the valve so as to cause exhaust gas to easily flow only in the direction of the outlet, which has introducing passages of exhaust gas communicating with a plurality of intake ports of the internal combustion engine to approach as near as possible a state in which each of the introducing passages is isolated from another introducing passages, and they assume an aspect just as if the introducing passages do not substantially communicate with one another.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation device in accordance with the present invention has an exhaust gas recirculation valve interposed between the exhaust system and the intake system of an internal combustion engine, an exhaust gas recirculation cooler for cooling exhaust gas sent from the exhaust gas recirculation valve to the intake system, and a bypass valve that bypasses the exhaust gas recirculation cooler and sends the exhaust gas to the intake system. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler is put adjacently between the exhaust gas recirculation valve and the bypass valve.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation device in accordance with the present invention has an exhaust gas recirculation valve interposed between the exhaust system and the intake system of an internal combustion engine, an exhaust gas recirculation cooler for cooling exhaust gas sent from the exhaust gas recirculation valve to the intake system, and a bypass valve that bypasses the exhaust gas recirculation cooler and sends the exhaust gas to the intake system. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler is put adjacently between the exhaust gas recirculation valve and the bypass valve.

Abstract: In the wall portion of a valve housing deposed in connection with an engine block, a cooling-water-taking-out passage that has a cooling water inlet port having an opening on the to-be-connected surface of the valve housing to an engine block, and that takes out the cooling water coming from a cooling water passage of the engine block is integrally formed, and thereby the cooling water inlet port is configured to be connected with the cooling water passage.

Abstract: In the wall portion of a valve housing deposed in connection with an engine block, a cooling-water-taking-out passage that has a cooling water inlet port having an opening on the to-be-connected surface of the valve housing to an engine block, and that takes out the cooling water coming from a cooling water passage of the engine block is integrally formed, and thereby the cooling water inlet port is configured to be connected with the cooling water passage.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation system capable of regulating the degree of valve opening with high accuracy in order to properly recirculate exhaust gas to the combustion chamber (1a) of a four-cycle engine (1) for automobiles even in the case of the diesel turbo-type car which usually generates high temperature and pressure exhaust gas. In the exhaust gas recirculation system disclosed herein, two closure valves (19, 20) are provided on the movable shaft (23) so that exhaust gas can flow into a movable space (10a) through openings formed by the movement of the two closure valves (19, 20) in their movable range. The pressure effecting on the two closure valves (19, 20) is canceled out and the movement of the movable shaft (23) is not prevented by high pressure of the exhaust gas. Therefore, even in the case of high temperature and pressure exhaust gas of the diesel turbo-type car or like vehicles, the movable shaft can be driven accurately with a relatively small power stepping motor (17).

Abstract: An exhaust gas re-circulation valve which allows the accurate control of high temperature and pressure exhaust gas flowing through the engine exhaust gas re-circulation passage of a turbo diesel vehicle or the like. Valve seats 28, 29, valves 31, 32 and a valve shaft are mounted on a valve housing 21 and an adjustable adjusting mechanism 36,51,28b,71 is provided which allows both the first valve 31 and the first valve seat 28 and the second valve 32 and the second valve seat 29 to close in abutment by displacement or deformation. In this way even if there is an irregularity in the process or assembly accuracy of the components of the exhaust gas re-circulation valve, it can be absorbed by the adjustable mechanism 36, 51, 28b, 71. As a result the formation of gaps between the valve and the valve seat as a result of irregularities in the in the process or assembly accuracy of the components of the exhaust gas re-circulation valve can be prevented and valve accuracy can be improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mounting device for an exhaust gas re-circulation valve which prevents the overheating, due to high temperature exhaust gas, of a stepping motor powering the opening and closing of the valve and the valve main body of an exhaust gas re-circulation valve which opens and closes the exhaust gas re-circulation passage of an engine. The valve body 201 of the exhaust gas re-circulation valve is buried in a component 100 of the engine having a lower temperature than the exhaust gas. In such a way, the high temperature of the exhaust gas may be absorbed, dispersed and radiated and as a result there is no need to provide a separate cooling structure such as a coolant chamber and the overheating of the stepping motor 300 due to high temperature exhaust gas may be prevented.

Abstract: An elastic body 51 is provided to absorb impact energy generated by the collision between rotor positioning portions 31 and shaft portion positioning portions 29 when a shaft portion 24 is moved into a female thread portion 26 to determine the initial position of the shaft portion 24, and so the impact noise generated by the collision between the rotor positioning portions 31 and the shaft portion positioning portions 29 can be reduced. Also, the force of impact imparted to the shaft portion positioning portions 29 by the rotor positioning portions 31 decreases, and so it is possible to prevent deformation of the rotor positioning portions 31 and the shaft portion positioning portions 29.

Abstract: Exhaust gas re-circulating valves are provided in an exhaust gas re-circulating passage communicating with an exhaust system and an intake system of an engine provided with a plurality of cylinders such that the distance between the exhaust gas re-circulating valve and a corresponding cylinder is identical for all the cylinders.

Abstract: A supercharge pressure control apparatus comprises a crimped member for securing an enclosure to a mounting member fixed in an internal combustion engine by crimping, a notch formed at one end portion of the crimped member for preventing the end portion from becoming cracked, a diaphragm disposed inside the enclosure for partitioning the interior of the enclosure into a first pressure room and a second pressure room, a holder disposed on the diaphragm and inside the second pressure room, a spring disposed inside the second pressure room for urging the diaphragm in the direction of the first pressure room or in the opposite direction through the holder, and a rod which is able to move backward and forward in accordance with the pressure of gas applied to the first pressure room for controlling the pressure of air to be supplied into the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A secondary air supplying apparatus for an internal combustion engine and a gas heating apparatus are provided to enable high-performance exhaust gas purification in a catalytic apparatus of the internal combustion engine, in particular, even at a low-temperature starting time. A secondary air supplying apparatus supplies secondary air to the catalytic apparatus through a secondary air introducing path for communicating the intake side of the internal combustion engine with an exhaust manifold. In the apparatus, a gas heating apparatus having an exothermic body is provided for the secondary air introducing path.

Abstract: A flow quantity valve controller includes a unit for positioning so that a phase of a stepper motor becomes a predetermined phase when a motor shaft making a linear move with rotation of the stepper motor is pulled most into the stepper motor side. When the motor shaft is pulled most into the stepper motor side, a flow quantity valve controller changes a stepper motor drive signal to a drive signal corresponding to a predetermined phase.

Abstract: A pushing type motor-driven control valve device for opening and closing a valve by a reciprocating motion of a motor shaft driven by normally and reversely rotating a motor, said pushing type motor-driven control valve device comprises a valve shaft for driving the valve; a motor shaft for driving the valve shaft, said motor shaft being separated from and disposed coaxially with the valve shaft; a valve shaft spring for urging the valve shaft in a first direction of closing the valve; and a motor shaft spring for urging the motor shaft in a second direction of opening the valve; wherein a first pushing force applied on the motor shaft by the motor shaft spring is set to be smaller than a second pushing force applied on the valve shaft by the valve shaft spring.