Abstract: A fiber reinforced composite member molding apparatus includes a pair of molds for clamping prepreg formed of long carbon fibers impregnated with resin, induction heating coils for heating thermoplastic resin contained in the prepreg via the molds, and cooling passages for cooling the resin via the molds after the resin is melted, wherein the molds each have a design surface brought into contact with the layered prereg, the design surface being divided into a plurality of regions, and a plurality of cells provided along the design surface to be open at the back of the design surface and individually correspond to the regions of the design surface, the induction heating coils are arranged in the cells, and the cooling passages are formed in each of the molds to run along the design surface.

Abstract: Provided is a fuel pressure monitoring system of a vaporizer using a safety module which issues a fault signal by detecting a pressure using a fuel pressure sensor disposed in a pressure regulating chamber of the vaporizer within a predetermined time after an engine is stopped and determining that the pressure regulating mechanism fails when the detected pressure exceeds a threshold stored in a storage device to be increased to a predetermined pressure or higher, and the pressure regulating mechanism is determined to fail only when a water temperature of cooling water in the engine of the vaporizer reaches a predetermined temperature at which warming up of the engine can be determined to be completed.

Abstract: A pilot type solenoid valve may include a movable core including a main valve and a pilot valve. The main valve may open or close a valve seat. The pilot valve may be connected to a base end side of the main valve and may be axially movable alone such that the movable core is biased in a closing direction by a spring and is slidable in a guide sleeve of a fixed core wound with an electromagnetic coil. When the pilot type solenoid valve is fully open by a electromagnetic force of the electromagnetic coil, a contact portion of the main valve may contact a contacted portion of the guide sleeve to restrict movement of the main valve toward a base end, and the pilot valve may be sucked and held in a state where a base end of the pilot valve does not contact the fixed core.

Abstract: An electromagnetically driven injector may include an electromagnetic coil, a movable core, a doughnut-shaped fixed core, a valve, a coil spring, and at least one plate spring. When the electromagnetic coil is not energized, a valve closed state may be maintained by a valve element of the valve normally biased in a valve closed direction by cooperation of the coil spring and the at least one plate spring.

Abstract: An electromagnetically-driven injector may include a valve body of an on-off valve biased in a valve-closed direction by a coil spring, which is arranged in a stroking direction of the valve body, and at least one plate spring, which is provided at a right angle in the stroking direction of the valve body and arranged in such a manner as to support the valve body, and keeps a valve-closed state when energization is not provided. The at least one plate spring may include a plurality of plate springs arranged in the stroking direction of the valve body.

Abstract: Provided is a fuel pressure monitoring system of a vaporizer using a safety module which issues a fault signal by detecting a pressure using a fuel pressure sensor disposed in a pressure regulating chamber of the vaporizer within a predetermined time after an engine is stopped and determining that the pressure regulating mechanism fails when the detected pressure exceeds a threshold stored in a storage device to be increased to a predetermined pressure or higher, and the pressure regulating mechanism is determined to fail only when a water temperature of cooling water in the engine of the vaporizer reaches a predetermined temperature at which warming up of the engine can be determined to be completed.

Abstract: A cylindrical case includes a case main body made of a composite material of reinforcing fibers impregnated with a thermosetting resin, and an outward flange on the case main body. The outward flange includes: a bonding layer; a foundation layer disposed on the bonding layer; one flange constituting layer having a leg layer which is laminated from one slope surface of the foundation layer to the bonding layer and a wall layer which rises from the one slope surface; and the other flange constituting layer having a leg layer which is laminated from the other slope surface of the foundation layer to the bonding layer and a wall layer which rises from the other slope surface. The foundation layer is formed by laminating roving layers, while the flange constituting layers are formed by laminating a plurality of biaxial fabric layers including a biaxial fabric of a non-crimp structure.

Abstract: A blank sheet including a plurality of main fibers arranged in parallel with each other, auxiliary fibers and a resin that consolidates the fibers is heated to a temperature at which the resin softens, and then pressed against a fan blade mold with the direction of the main fibers aligned with the longitudinal direction of the fan blade mold. The fan blade mold is shaped so that the length thereof in the longitudinal direction along the surface of a center part thereof in the width direction is shorter than the length thereof in the longitudinal direction along the surface of end parts thereof in the width direction. When the blank sheet is pressed against the fan blade mold, a center part in the width direction of the blank sheet at an end part in the longitudinal direction is pulled with a greater force than end parts in the width direction of the blank sheet at the end part in the longitudinal direction, thereby preventing occurrence of wrinkling.

Abstract: A fiber reinforced composite member molding apparatus including a lower mold with a cavity, an upper mold with a core for clamping layered prepreg to the cavity, cartridge heaters for heating the layered prepreg via the lower mold and the upper mold, and cooling medium passages for cooling the layered prereg via the lower mold and the upper mold, the lower mold and the upper mold being brought nearer to each other according to shrinkage of thermoplastic resin contained in the layered prereg during cooling, further includes pins moved into and out of the cavity, cylinders for moving the pins into and out of the cavity, and a controller for causing the pins to project into the cavity to come into contact with and apply pressure to the layered prepreg during cooling. The apparatus can mold a fiber reinforced composite member without producing delamination in a thicker end portion of the layered prepreg without an increase in molding time.

Abstract: A fiber reinforced composite member molding apparatus includes a pair of molds for clamping layered prepreg, or stacked sheets of prepreg formed of long carbon fibers impregnated with resin, induction heating coils for heating thermoplastic resin contained in the prepreg via the molds, and cooling passages for cooling the resin via the molds after the resin is melted, wherein the molds each have a design surface brought into contact with the layered prereg, the design surface being divided into a plurality of regions, and a plurality of cells provided along the design surface to be open at the back of the design surface and individually correspond to the regions of the design surface, the induction heating coils are arranged in the cells, and the cooling passages are formed in each of the molds to run along the design surface. This configuration allows the molds to have sufficient rigidity and produces a uniform temperature distribution in heating and cooling.

Abstract: A fiber reinforced composite member molding apparatus comprises a pair of mold parts which are brought nearer to and away from each other, and in a mold clamping state, clamp laminated sheets of prepreg formed of woven fiber fabric impregnated with resin, and heat sources for heating the resin in the prepreg through the pair of mold parts, wherein the two mold parts each comprise a base mold and a design mold which is detachably attached to the base mold and brought into contact with the prepreg, wherein the design molds of the mold parts are made of a metal lower in thermal expansion rate than the base molds. The mold parts having such split structure can reduce the burden on operators handling replacement of the mold parts, and also can suppress, during heating for molding, the influence of thermal expansion of the mold parts upon a to-be-molded fiber reinforced composite member.

Abstract: In a fiber reinforced composite member molding apparatus comprising a lower mold having a cavity, an upper mold having a core which, in a mold clamping state, engages with the cavity in the lower mold and thereby clamps layered prepreg, and heat sources for heating the layered prepreg through the lower mold and the upper mold, and adapted to mold a fiber reinforced composite member from the layered prepreg by applying pressure while heating resin in the layered prepreg between the lower mold and the upper mold by the heat sources, the lower mold is equipped with a cavity heat-escape prevention portion and the upper mold is equipped with a core heat-escape prevention portion. During heating for molding, escape of heat from the periphery of the cavity of the upper mold and the periphery of the core of the lower mold can be prevented, which allows a fiber reinforced composite member to be molded with almost no defects such as wrinkles.

Abstract: A boss for attachment of an auxiliary device to a fan case of an engine includes a pedestal including a plurality of accumulated layers of reinforcement fibers and a matrix combining the reinforcement fibers together, the pedestal including a bottom face in a shape capable of being in close contact with an outer periphery of the fan case; and an embedded body embedded in the pedestal and including a combining structure combinable with the auxiliary device.

Abstract: A blank sheet including a plurality of main fibers arranged in parallel with each other, auxiliary fibers and a resin that consolidates the fibers is heated to a temperature at which the resin softens, and then pressed against a fan blade mold with the direction of the main fibers aligned with the longitudinal direction of the fan blade mold. The fan blade mold is shaped so that the length thereof in the longitudinal direction along the surface of a center part thereof in the width direction is shorter than the length thereof in the longitudinal direction along the surface of end parts thereof in the width direction. When the blank sheet is pressed against the fan blade mold, a center part in the width direction of the blank sheet at an end part in the longitudinal direction is pulled with a greater force than end parts in the width direction of the blank sheet at the end part in the longitudinal direction, thereby preventing occurrence of wrinkling.

Abstract: A heated blank sheet is held by a frame-like shaped blank holder device, the blank sheet including a plurality of main fibers arranged in parallel with each other, a plurality of auxiliary fibers arranged in parallel with each other so as to intersect with the main fibers, and a resin that consolidates the main fibers and the auxiliary fibers, and the blank sheet held by the blank holder device is pressed against a fan blade mold with the direction of the main fibers aligned with a longitudinal direction of the fan blade mold to apply an appropriate tension along the direction of the main fibers to the blank sheet, thereby preventing occurrence of wrinkling.

Abstract: A cylindrical case includes a case main body made of a composite material of reinforcing fibers impregnated with a thermosetting resin, and an outward flange on the case main body. The outward flange includes: a bonding layer; a foundation layer disposed on the bonding layer; one flange constituting layer having a leg layer which is laminated from one slope surface of the foundation layer to the bonding layer and a wall layer which rises from the one slope surface; and the other flange constituting layer having a leg layer which is laminated from the other slope surface of the foundation layer to the bonding layer and a wall layer which rises from the other slope surface. The foundation layer is formed by laminating roving layers, while the flange constituting layers are formed by laminating a plurality of biaxial fabric layers including a biaxial fabric of a non-crimp structure.