Abstract: An exhaust emission control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is capable of suppressing a nasty smell due to the hydrogen sulfide generated upon recovery from SOx poisoning.

Abstract: An electronic equipment is provided with a main display section, an auxiliary display section which displays status information of the electronic equipment, a plurality of buttons provided above and/or below the auxiliary display section, and a controller. The controller displays definitions or meanings of the plurality of buttons, within the auxiliary display section at positions corresponding to each of the plurality of buttons, depending on an operation mode of the electronic equipment.

Abstract: Characteristic menu information corresponding to applications are stored in a menu storage unit. A menu development unit discriminates an application which is now started and develops a menu corresponding to the application on a screen using the stored menu information. In the menu operation, a menu is developed on the screen by operating a defined button, a menu item is selected by scrawling while the menu is being developed and the selected menu item is executed by operating the defined button.

Abstract: An electronic equipment is provided with a main display section, an auxiliary display section having a display area smaller than that of the main display section, and a controller displaying a plurality of status information of the electronic equipment in the auxiliary display section by a combination of a message using characters and at least one of symbols and a color display and/or a blinking display of the auxiliary display section.

Abstract: A variable-nozzle type turbo charger capable of temporarily decreasing the back pressure of the engine at the start of the engine. The turbo charger is equipped with a plurality of nozzle vanes of which the opening degree can be changed and are capable of changing the areas of turbine nozzles at the time when exhaust gases of an engine are guided from said turbine nozzles formed among said nozzle vanes to a turbine rotor, wherein an actuator that adjusts the opening degree of the nozzle vanes is so controlled that the areas of the turbine nozzles are larger than a minimum area for a predetermined period of time from the start of the engine, and, after the passage of said predetermined period of time, said actuator is so controlled that the areas of said turbine nozzles become the minimum area to promote the warming-up of the engine when the water temperature of the engine or the engine load is smaller than a predetermined value.

Abstract: The temperature and air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine are sensed to generate signals indicative thereof and the amount of fuel to be injected into the engine is determined in accordance with the signals, thus controlling the air-fuel ratio at a predetermined value and thereby decreasing the abnormal temperature rise in the exhaust system.

Abstract: A multi-cylinder internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders, each comprising a combustion chamber and an accumulation chamber which are interconnected to each other via an accumulation valve. The accumulation chambers are interconnected to each other via a common connecting passage. The opening operation of the accumulation valve is controlled so that the accumulation valve remains opened during the compression stroke. In the first half of the compression stroke, a jet of the combustible mixture is spouted out into the combustion chamber from the accumulation chamber to create a strong swirl motion in the combustion chamber. In the latter half of the compression stroke, the combustible mixture in the combustion chamber flows into the accumulation chamber to accumulate the combustible mixture under high pressure, which is spouted out into the combustion chamber at the next cycle.

Abstract: Disclosed is an internal combustion engine comprising a combustion chamber and an accumulation chamber which are interconnected to each other via a valve. The opening operation of the valve is controlled so that the valve remains opened during the compression stroke. In the first half of the compression stroke, a jet of the combustible mixture is spouted out into the combustion chamber from the accumulation chamber to create a strong swirl motion in the combustion chamber. In the latter half of the compression stroke, the combustible mixture in the combustion chamber flows into the accumulation chamber to accumulate the combustible mixture under high pressure, which is spouted out into the combustion chamber at the next cycle, in the accumulation chamber.