Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) of an injection control system of an internal combustion engine measures an engine rotation speed in a period from a time point when an exhaust valve opens to a time point when a top dead center of a next cylinder is detected after a single injection is performed. The ECU calculates a rotation speed fluctuation caused by the single injection based on the engine rotation speed. The engine rotation speed provided immediately after the single injection is measured after a cylinder pressure increased by the single injection decreases to substantially the same level as the cylinder pressure provided in the case where the single injection is not performed. Therefore, the rotation speed fluctuation corresponding to torque generated by the single injection can be measured accurately.

Abstract: An injection quantity control apparatus for accurately performing an injection quantity learning process in a diesel engine creates an environment for obtaining a characteristic value in a one-to-one relationship with an actual injection quantity. A controller performs a one-shot injection operation for a cylinder of an engine while the environment is established. An injection command quantity is corrected based on an engine speed variation caused by the one-shot injection. After establishment of the condition and before the injection, the opening of a valve is controlled to be smaller than a reference and an opening of each of a diesel throttle and variable turbocharger is controlled to be larger than a reference. A composition of an air flowing into a combustion chamber is stabilized to ensure that the characteristic value detected after the one-shot injection is in a one-to-one relationship with the actual injection quantity.

Abstract: An electronic control unit (an ECU) of a fuel injection system performs a learning injection based on a learning injection quantity and obtains multiple influence values of an operating state of an engine generated through the learning injection. The ECU calculates a learning value for correcting the injection quantity in a normal operation based on the multiple influence values. The ECU determines whether the influence value obtained during the learning injection is within a predetermined range of the influence value. The ECU calculates a provisional learning injection quantity for bringing a subsequent influence value into the predetermined range if the influence value obtained in an early stage of the obtainment is out of the predetermined range. Then, the ECU calculates the other influence values by performing the other learning injections based on the provisional learning injection quantity.

Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) of an injection control system of an internal combustion engine determines that a load of a fuel pump is stabilized when a pressure-feeding operation delay elapses since a command pressure-feeding quantity outputted to the fuel pump reaches a certain pressure-feeding quantity necessary to maintain a target injection pressure. The ECU permits a single injection when a waiting period necessary to measure rotation speeds once for each cylinder before the single injection is performed elapses since the load of the fuel pump is stabilized. Thus, the single injection timing is determined based on the time point when the command pressure-feeding quantity is stabilized, the pressure-feeding operation delay, and the waiting period. Therefore, an injection quantity learning operation can be performed highly accurately in a short period.

Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) of an engine calculates a first modification value for decreasing a correction value of an injection period when a state variation of the engine caused by a single injection is greater than a target value. The ECU calculates a second modification value for increasing the correction value when the state variation is less than the target value. The second modification value is greater than the first modification value. Thus, a period necessary to converge the correction value can be shortened when the correction value is increased. The first modification value is increased if a difference between the state variation and the target value exceeds a permissible value when the correction value is decreased. Thus, the injection quantity is decreased quickly to prevent excessive fuel injection.

Abstract: The present invention performs an injection quantity learning process with only data acquired within a prescribed time. When the number of pieces of accumulated data reaches a prescribed count, a controller determines whether a time difference between when an oldest piece of data was acquired and when a latest piece of data was acquired is less than the prescribed time. When the difference is less than the prescribed time, the controller corrects a command quantity based on the prescribed number of pieces of data. According to this method, when the injection quantity is corrected, old data having been acquired before the prescribed time is discarded and the command quantity is corrected using only the prescribed number of pieces of data having acquired within the prescribed time, thereby enhancing learning accuracy.

Abstract: A transceiver determines a modulation method to be used in a signal transmission based on an evaluated transmission channel condition and a difference between transmission powers of communicating transceivers. In this way, the transceiver can choose an optimal modulation method even in the communications between transceivers having different transmission powers. The transceiver comprises a transmission channel condition evaluator for evaluating a transmission channel condition based on a signal received from a counterpart transceiver; and a modulation method selector for determining a modulation method to be used in transmitting a signal to the counterpart transceiver based on the evaluated transmission channel condition and a difference between transmission power of the transceiver and that of the counterpart transceiver.

Abstract: An electroplating device including an anode inserted through and disposed in a hole provided in a work and communicating with the outside, and a member for rotating the work about its center axis and supplying a plating electric current to the work. Alternatively, a separate member may supply the plating electric current to the work. A plating solution in the hole in the work may be allowed to flow. Thus, a uniform plated film can be formed on both of the outer and inner surfaces of the work having the communicating with the outside such as a ring-shaped work, of which a ring-shaped bonded magnet is representative, by using the electroplating device.

Abstract: A fuel injection control device of a diesel engine performs a learning injection during a no-injection period, in which a command injection quantity is zero or under. A difference between a variation in the engine rotation speed in the case where the learning injection is performed and a variation in the engine rotation speed in the case where the learning injection is not performed is calculated as a rotation speed increase. A torque proportional quantity is calculated by multiplying the rotation speed increase by the engine rotation speed at the time when the learning injection is performed. An injection correction value is calculated from a deviation between the actual injection quantity, which is estimated from the torque proportional quantity, and the command injection quantity. The command injection quantity is corrected based on the injection correction value.

Abstract: If a user presses a clutch pedal to perform gear-shifting operation while a vehicle is traveling, a clutch disc, which has been engaged with a flywheel rotating with an engine, is brought to partial clutch engagement and slides on an end surface of the flywheel to generate friction. Thus, a first phenomenon in which a decreasing rate of the engine rotation speed rapidly increases occurs. Then, a second phenomenon in which the clutch disc is completely disengaged from the flywheel to eliminate the friction and the decreasing rate of the engine rotation speed returns to an original state occurs. If the first and second phenomena are detected successively when neither an engine side nor a power transmission system side transmits power for varying an engine rotation speed, it is determined that the clutch disc is disengaged.

Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) of an engine calculates a first modification value for decreasing a correction value of an injection period when a state variation of the engine caused by a single injection is greater than a target value. The ECU calculates a second modification value for increasing the correction value when the state variation is less than the target value. The second modification value is greater than the first modification value. Thus, a period necessary to converge the correction value can be shortened when the correction value is increased. The first modification value is increased if a difference between the state variation and the target value exceeds a permissible value when the correction value is decreased. Thus, the injection quantity is decreased quickly to prevent excessive fuel injection.

Abstract: The present invention performs an injection quantity learning process with only data acquired within a prescribed time. When the number of pieces of accumulated data reaches a prescribed count, a controller determines whether a time difference between when an oldest piece of data was acquired and when a latest piece of data was acquired is less than the prescribed time. When the difference is less than the prescribed time, the controller corrects a command quantity based on the prescribed number of pieces of data. According to this method, when the injection quantity is corrected, old data having been acquired before the prescribed time is discarded and the command quantity is corrected using only the prescribed number of pieces of data having acquired within the prescribed time, thereby enhancing learning accuracy.

Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) of an injection control system of an internal combustion engine measures an engine rotation speed in a period from a time point when an exhaust valve opens to a time point when a top dead center of a next cylinder is detected after a single injection is performed. The ECU calculates a rotation speed fluctuation caused by the single injection based on the engine rotation speed. The engine rotation speed provided immediately after the single injection is measured after a cylinder pressure increased by the single injection decreases to substantially the same level as the cylinder pressure provided in the case where the single injection is not performed. Therefore, the rotation speed fluctuation corresponding to torque generated by the single injection can be measured accurately.

Abstract: An injection quantity control apparatus for accurately performing an injection quantity learning process in a diesel engine creates an environment for obtaining a characteristic value in a one-to-one relationship with an actual injection quantity. A controller performs a one-shot injection operation for a cylinder of an engine while the environment is established. An injection command quantity is corrected based on an engine speed variation caused by the one-shot injection. After establishment of the condition and before the injection, the opening of a valve is controlled to be smaller than a reference and an opening of each of a diesel throttle and variable turbocharger is controlled to be larger than a reference. A composition of an air flowing into a combustion chamber is stabilized to ensure that the characteristic value detected after the one-shot injection is in a one-to-one relationship with the actual injection quantity.

Abstract: An electronic control unit (an ECU) of a fuel injection system performs a learning injection based on a learning injection quantity and obtains multiple influence values of an operating state of an engine generated through the learning injection. The ECU calculates a learning value for correcting the injection quantity in a normal operation based on the multiple influence values. The ECU determines whether the influence value obtained during the learning injection is within a predetermined range of the influence value. The ECU calculates a provisional learning injection quantity for bringing a subsequent influence value into the predetermined range if the influence value obtained in an early stage of the obtainment is out of the predetermined range. Then, the ECU calculates the other influence values by performing the other learning injections based on the provisional learning injection quantity.

Abstract: A fuel injection control device of a diesel engine performs a learning injection during a no-injection period, in which a command injection quantity is zero or under. A difference between a variation in the engine rotation speed in the case where the learning injection is performed and a variation in the engine rotation speed in the case where the learning injection is not performed is calculated as a rotation speed increase. A torque proportional quantity is calculated by multiplying the rotation speed increase by the engine rotation speed at the time when the learning injection is performed. An injection correction value is calculated from a deviation between the actual injection quantity, which is estimated from the torque proportional quantity, and the command injection quantity. The command injection quantity is corrected based on the injection correction value.

Abstract: A gear grinding machine and a gear grinding method, in which a gear-shaped grinding stone is caused to engage a gear-like workpiece and one of the gear-shaped grinding stone and the gear-like workpiece is reciprocated relatively to the other in axial direction thereby to grind the tooth flanks of the workpiece, are disclosed. The rotational resistance is applied by a brake unit to the rotationally driven side. The grinding resistance and the rotational resistance interfering with the relative reciprocal motion are detected by torque sensors and input to a control unit, the average value of each of the signals is compared with a reference value by an arithmetic unit and, in the case where there is a difference between the average value and the reference value, the rotational resistance is changed by activating the brake unit. Thus, a high machining accuracy can be maintained even when the sharpness of the grinding stone is reduced.

Abstract: A transceiver determines a modulation method to be used in a signal transmission based on an evaluated transmission channel condition and a difference between transmission powers of communicating transceivers. In this way, the transceiver can choose an optimal modulation method even in the communications between transceivers having different transmission powers. The transceiver comprises a transmission channel condition evaluator for evaluating a transmission channel condition based on a signal received from a counterpart transceiver; and a modulation method selector for determining a modulation method to be used in transmitting a signal to the counterpart transceiver based on the evaluated transmission channel condition and a difference between transmission power of the transceiver and that of the counterpart transceiver.

Abstract: A molded product having pores in its surface, an inorganic powder, a fat and oil and media are placed into a treating vessel, and a kinetic energy is supplied to the contents of the treating vessel, thereby forcing the inorganic powder into the pores and hardening it in the pores. In another process, a molded product having pores in its surface and an inorganic powder producing material are placed into a treating vessel, and a kinetic energy is supplied to the contents of the treating vessel, thereby forcing an inorganic powder produced from the inorganic powder producing material into the pores and hardening it in the pores. The inorganic powder producing material performs a role of producing an inorganic powder by the collision of pieces of the inorganic powder producing material against one another, against the molded product and against the inner wall of the vessel, and a role as media for forcing the produced inorganic powder into the pores.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electroplating device including an anode inserted through and disposed in a hole provided in a work and communicating with the outside, and a member for rotating the work about its center axis and supplying a plating electric current to the work. The present invention also provides an electroplating device including an anode inserted through and disposed in a hole provided in a work and communicating with the outside, a member for rotating the work about its center axis, and a member for supplying a plating electric current to the work. Further, the present invention provides an electroplating device including an anode inserted through and disposed in a hole provided in a work and communicating with the outside, and a means for allowing a plating solution in the hole in the work to flow.