Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically selecting process information for a plurality of image parts, in which a CPU, in an automatic reproduction process routine, determines a positional relation between two image parts in a page image based on figure vector data corresponding to the two image parts (S110). A rule including data such as vertical relative positions, types, and colors of the two image parts as a condition part and process information as an action part is previously stored as rule base RB in an external hard disk unit. When the two image parts are in a non-separate relation, the CPU reads attribute data of the two image parts in the non-separate relation (S150), and determines final process information by exchanging the attribute data with rule base RB (S190 and S200). The results of the processing including the final process information are then stored as a process information table TBL3.

Abstract: A two-stroke engine comprising a spark plug arranged at the center of the inner wall of the cylinder head, and a fuel injector arranged on the periphery of the inner wall of the cylinder head. A depression extending from the point beneath the spark plug to the point beneath the tip portion of the fuel injector is formed on the top face of the piston. When the engine is operating under a light load, fuel is injected by the fuel injector only once toward the depression, and conversely, when the engine is operating under an intermediate load, fuel is injected twice. Namely, a first injection is carried out when the piston is at a lower position, and a second injection is carried out when the piston is at a higher position, to thus direct fuel toward the depression.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprising a spark plug arranged at the center of the inner wall of the cylinder head, and a fuel injector arranged on the periphery of the inner wall of the cylinder head. A depression is formed on the top face of the piston. This depression is defined by a flat bottom wall and a pair of extended straight side walls which diverge toward the fuel injector side. Fuel is obliquely injected on the flat bottom wall of the depression from the fuel injector.

Abstract: A two-stroke engine comprising three exhaust valves and two intake valves. These exhaust valves and these intake valves are arranged on the peripheral portion of the inner wall of the cylinder head, and one additional intake valve is arranged on the central portion of the inner wall of the cylinder head. The valve openings of the three intake valves, which are located on the exhaust valves side, are masked by the masking walls. The central portion of the combustion chamber is scavenged by the fresh air fed from the additional intake valve, and the peripheral portion of the combustion chamber is scavenged by the fresh air fed from the remaining two intake valves.

Abstract: A fuel injector comprising a needle valve and a stop member cooperating with the needle valve. The stop member selectively controls the maximum amount of lift of the needle valve to provide a smaller maximum lift or a larger maximum lift thereof whereby, when the required amount of fuel to be injected by the fuel injector is small, the needle valve is lifted to the smaller maximum lift, and when the required amount of fuel is large, the needle valve is lifted to the larger maximum lift.

Abstract: A two-stroke engine including a pair of intake valves. A masking wall is provided for each intake valve to mask the valve opening between the valve seat and the peripheral portion of the intake valve, which is located on the exhaust valve side, for the entire time for which the intake valve is open. The exhaust valves open earlier than the intake valves, and the exhaust valves and the intake valves are closed at substantially the same time.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprising a spark plug arranged at the center of the inner wall of the cylinder head, and a fuel injector arranged on the periphery of the inner wall of the cylinder head. A depression extending from the position beneath the spark plug to the position beneath the tip portion of the fuel injector is formed on the top face of the piston, and fuel is injected toward the depression. When the engine is operating under a heavy load, the fuel moving along the axis of injection impinges upon the concaved inner wall of the depression at substantially a right angle. When the engine is operating under a light load, the injection time is retarded, and at this time, the fuel moving along the axis of injection impinges upon the concaved inner wall of the depression at an acute angle.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine having an air blast valve which injects fuel together with pressurized air in the form of a conical shaped spray of fuel. A depression is formed on the top face of the piston, and the conical shaped spray of fuel is injected from the air blast valve toward the depression. The longitudinal width of the depression in the moving direction of the spray of fuel is larger than the transverse width of the depression in the direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the spray of fuel, and the opposing side walls of the depression, which define the transverse width of the depression, are positioned slightly outward from the side face of the conical shaped spray of fuel.

Abstract: A diesel engine comprising a plurality of cylinders each having a precombustion chamber and a fuel injector. A first camshaft for driving intake valves and a second camshaft for driving exhaust valves are arranged on the cylinder head and extended in parallel to the longitudinal axis of the engine body. Each precombustion chamber and each fuel injector is arranged centrally between the first camshaft and the second camshaft.

Abstract: A two-stroke engine having an intake valve and an exhaust valve arranged on an inner wall of the cylinder head, an intake passage connected to the cylinder via the intake valve, a fuel injection device arranged in the cylinder, for injecting fuel into the cylinder, a pressure regulator for regulating a fuel pressure supplied to the fuel injection device on the basis of a scavenging pressure in the intake passage, to thereby increase the fuel pressure in accordance with an increase of the scavenging pressure, and a control device for controlling the injection of fuel by the fuel injection device for a time ranging from a time at which the intake valve is opened to a time at which the scavenging pressure becomes equal to a pressure in the cylinder after the intake valve is closed.

Abstract: A swash plate type compressor having a pair of axially combined front and rear cylinder blocks forming therein a plurality of cylinder bores, a swash plate chamber, and an oil chamber in which a lubricating oil is stored to be stirred by a swash plate rotatably received in the swash plate chamber, a drive shaft centrally rotatably mounted in the combined cylinder blocks to cause a rotation of the swash plate, a plurality of reciprocatory double-headed pistons slidably fitted in the cylinder bores and operatively engaged with the swash plate via shoe members to be reciprocated by the rotation of the swash plate, a pair of thrust bearings axially supporting the swash plate, front and rear housings having suction chambers for the refrigerant gas before compression and discharge chambers for the refrigerant gas after compression, the front housing further having a shaft sealing chamber formed therein and separated from the suction chamber thereof to define an intermediate pressure chamber between the high pressur

Abstract: A through hole in a cylinder block through which a bolt is inserted to assemble the cylinder block and the front and rear housings as one body, and is positioned above a horizontal plane on which a drive shaft lies, is utilized as a part of a passage for a lubricating oil so that a sufficient lubrication is supplied to a thrust bearing and other elements, and thus an effective mass production of a swash type compressor can be carried out because it becomes unnecessary to form an oil passage in the drive shaft, which passage is difficult to machine.

Abstract: A two stroke engine equipped with a mechanically driven supercharger in the intake passage downstream of throttle valve. A bypass air passage bypassing the supercharger is provided, and a bypass air control valve is arranged in the bypass air passage. When the engine is idling, the bypass air control valve is controlled so that the level of vacuum in the intake passage between the throttle valve and the supercharger is maintained at a constant value.

Abstract: A thrust bearing lubricating system of a swash plate type compressor having a main lubricating oil passageway bored in the center of a drive shaft on which a swash plate is mounted to be axially supported by a pair of front and rear thrust bearings, an oil pumping mechanism for pumping lubricating oil from an oil sump in the bottom of a cylinder block assembly and supplying the lubricating oil into the main lubricating oil passageway, and at least front and rear radial branch lubricating oil passageways formed in the drive shaft to be communicated with the main lubricating oil passageway and to allow spouting of the lubricating oil toward the front and rear thrust bearings, the front and rear radial branch lubricating oil passageways having different cross-sectional areas from one another to equalize an amount of lubricating oil supplied to both thrust bearings.

Abstract: A fuel supply device comprising an air compressor for supplying pressurized air to an air blast valve via a pressurized air passage, an oil supply device for supplying oil in an engine crankcase to the compressor, and an oil separator arranged in the pressurized air supply passage to separate oil from pressurized air discharged from the air compressor and return the thus-separated oil to the engine crankcase.

Abstract: A clock movement for table or wall clocks, the movement including at least a synchronous motor section and analog display section, the synchronous motor section adapted to receive a fixed cycle pulse signal to rotatably drive analog indicating hands at a fixed speed.The synchronous motor section includes an elongated C-shaped stator disposed within a case and a rotor rotatably supported by the case and rotated between stator poles of the stator, the rotor having a rotor pinion engaged by a first reduction wheel, the rotation of the first reduction wheel being transmitted to the analog indicating hands through a time indicating gear train, both of the first reduction wheel and time indicating gear train being disposed within the case.The gear train from the rotor to the time indicating gear train is disposed on a straight or curved line extending from the central stator axis to provide an elongated configuration to the movement case.

Abstract: A two-stroke engine having an intake valve and an exhaust valve which are arranged on the cylinder head. A masking wall is formed on the inner wall of the cylinder head to mask the valve opening between the valve seat and the peripheral portion of the intake valve, which is located on the exhaust valve side, for the entire time for which the intake valve is open.

Abstract: A two-stroke internal combustion engine comprising a cylinder head 14 having combustion chambers 18 with two intake valves 24 and two exhaust valves 26 arranged therein. Two intake manifolds 30 and 32, respectively, have branch pipes connected to each respective intake port 24. An intake control valve 48 l is arranged in one of the manifold 32, which closes at idling and under a low load of the engine. Further, a swirl S is generated about an axis of the combustion chamber 18 by a portion of exhaust gas caused to flow back from the exhaust ports 22 into the combustion chamber 18 after being once exhausted through the exhaust ports when the exhaust valves are opened, resulting in a two layered stratification in the combustion chamber between fresh air and remaining exhaust gas. A supply of fuel causees a further three layered stratification among a fuel mixture, fresh air, and burned gas, by supplying fuel at alternating cycles of the engine when the engine is under a low load.

Abstract: A two-cycle internal combustion engine having three, or a multiple of three, cylinders comprises a cylinder head having an intake port and exhaust port opened to a combustion chamber, to which fresh air compressed by a supercharger is introduced via an intake valve. The intake and exhaust valves are operated in response to a crank angle. A one-way valve is provided in the intake port so as to prevent air or gas from flowing back toward the supercharger. The exhaust valve is opened earlier than the intake valve when the speed of the downward movement of the piston is relatively high, so that a part of exhaust gas in the exhaust port flows back to the combustion chamber in the condition. In a heavy load condtion, cross scavenging and air charging effects due to exhaust pulsation can be achieved.

Abstract: A two-cycle internal combustion engine comprises a cylinder head having an intake port and two exhaust ports opened to a combustion chamber, to which compressed fresh air is introduced via an intake valve. The intake valve and two exhaust valves are operated in response to a crank angle. One of the exhaust valves is opened earlier than the other exhaust valve and the intake valve when the speed of the downward movement of the piston is relatively high, such that a part of exhaust gas in the one exhaust port flows back to the combustion chamber in that condition. An exhaust gas swirl rotating around a cylinder axis is formed when the exhaust gas flows back and the fresh air is slowly introduced onto the exhaust gas swirl in that condition.