Abstract: A manufacturing method for a rotary electric machine according to the present invention comprises steps of: (1) preforming a coil including a plurality of element coils of an insulated conductor; (2) inserting a first side of a first element coil of the element coils into a first slot of a stator core through an opening of the first slot; (3) inserting a second side of the first element coil into a second slot in which a first side of a second element coil of the element coil has been already inserted; (4) electrically connecting coil ends of a plurality of the coils to each other; and (5) rotatably mounting a rotor inside the stator core.

Abstract: A rotating machinery is to be provided wherein coils can be wound round a stator core in a minimized state of connected parts. In a rotating machinery comprising a stator formed annularly and a rotor disposed rotatably on the inner periphery side of the stator, the stator comprises a stator core, the stator core having in the circumferential direction a plurality of slots each having a coil inserting portion on the inner periphery side, and coils wound by lap winding within the slots, at least the lap-wound winding portion of the coils in each slot being constituted by a continuous line and wound at a coil end so as to straddle the inner periphery side and the outer periphery side of the slot. According to this construction there is no increase in the number of connected parts even if the number of turns in the winding portion is increased.

Abstract: In a fluid abrasive machining method for abrasively machining a fine pore on a work (5) to be machined by supplying a slurry (7) which is an abrasive machining fluid from a supplying device (2) to the work to be machined comprising steps of: supplying the slurry to the work to be machined from the supplying device; measuring a first pressure (P1) upstream in a discharge side of the supplying device; measuring a second pressure (P2) downstream of a measuring point of the first pressure (P1) and at an upstream side of the work to be machined; calculating a pressure difference (dp) between the first pressure and the second pressure; and terminating a machining operation when the pressure difference dp reaches a specific value. A fluid abrasive machining apparatus (100) which can perform the above-mentioned fluid abrasive machining method is provided.

Abstract: A high-pressure fuel pump is provided for an internal combustion engine having an intake system and an exhaust system installed to the front and back of the engine, respectively. The fuel pump is located adjacent to a front upper part of the engine so as to be driven by a camshaft, but is positioned in an inclined position relative to the engine instead of a vertical position. This arrangement shifts the fuel pump backward in installing position with an effect of eliminating mechanical interference of the fuel pump with an engine compartment hood, and provides a long distance between the fuel pump and a dash panel behind the fuel pump with an effect of lowing energy of an impact applied to the fuel pump from the dash panel when the engine moves rearward due to a front-end collision.

Abstract: A high-pressure fuel pump is provided for an internal combustion engine having an intake system and an exhaust system installed to the front and back of the engine, respectively. The fuel pump is located adjacent to a front upper part of the engine so as to be driven by a camshaft, but is positioned in an inclined position relative to the engine instead of a vertical position. This arrangement shifts the fuel pump backward in installing position with an effect of eliminating mechanical interference of the fuel pump with an engine compartment hood, and provides a long distance between the fuel pump and a dash panel behind the fuel pump with an effect of lowing energy of an impact applied to the fuel pump from the dash panel when the engine moves rearward due to a front-end collision.

Abstract: A power train has an engine, such as a multi-valve, double overhead camshaft engine, which is equipped with a mechanical supercharger and an intercooler, and a transmission operationally coupled to the engine. The engine, which is adapted to provide the maximum output according to the maximum supercharge volume of the mechanical supercharger, has an intake valve closing time which is retarded more than 65 degrees of a crank angle after bottom dead center on an intake stroke and a maximum speed for the maximum output of less than 6,000 rpm. The transmission provides, in its highest gear, the power train with a total reduction ratio in a relatively small range of 2.1 to 2.8.

Abstract: An intake system has a recirculation passage, through which supercharging air discharged from a supercharger is recirculated into the supercharger, and a recirculation control valve disposed in the recirculation passage, by which the recirculation passage is gradually opened and closed as the pressure of supercharging air downstream from the supercharger changes between a low specified pressure, below the atmospheric pressure, and a high specific pressure, above the atmospheric pressure. The air intake system further has a bypass passage, for allowing air to bypass an intercooler, which is opened and closed by a bypass control valve at an interim specified pressure between the high and low specified pressures.

Abstract: In a lysholm compressor having intermeshing male and female rotors rotated in a casing to compress an axially flowing gas, discharge-side shafts of the rotors are borne by discharge-side bearings to fix the discharge-side shafts in thrust direction while suction-side shafts of the rotors are borne by suction-side bearings to allow the suction-side shafts to move in the thrust direction. Clearances of the rotors to the casing are properly set or selected.

Abstract: The invention provides a supercharged engine including a supercharger and an intercooler disposed downstream of the supercharger. The engine has a geometric compression ratio equal to or higher than 8.5. The supercharger is an internal compression type mechanical supercharger having a pressure ratio higher than 1.8 wherein the pressure ratio is defined as a ratio of a pressure at an inlet opening to a pressure at an exit opening of the supercharger. Intake valve closing timing of the engine supercharger is in the range of 50 to 100 degrees in crank angle as measured from bottom dead center, and an overlapping period during which both intake and exhaust valves open is equal to or below 17 degrees in crank angle wherein the intake valve closing timing is defined as the timing when valve lift is equal to or less than 1 millimeter, and the overlapping period is to be measured on the basis of a valve lift of zero.

Abstract: Oil feed and discharge lines (34) and (35) are respectively connected between an engine (15) and an external oil feed type engine-driven supercharger (I) so as to circulate a lubricating oil (0) between them. The lubricating oil (0) used in the engine (15) is fed through the oil feed line (34) to the supercharger (I) while the lubricating oil (0) used in the supercharger (I) is returned through the oil discharge line (34) to the engine (15). As a result, the lubricating oil and associated parts exclusively for the supercharger can be eliminated.

Abstract: An intake system has an intake passage provided with a throttle valve and a supercharger for delivering a supercharger pressure to intake air engine cylinders. A bypass passage is connected to the intake passage so as to allow an intake air flow to bypass the supercharger. The intake air flow in the bypass passage is controlled by a valve, disposed in the bypass passage, which operates to variably cause the intake air to flow in the bypass passage only with a negative pressure created in the intake passage upstream of the supercharger. A pressure is applied to the valve during closing so as to cancel the supercharger pressure acting on the valve in an opening direction.

Abstract: An air intake system for a supercharged automotive engine has an independent air intake passage an end of which is communicated independently and separately with a combustion chamber of each cylinder and a supercharger for supercharging intake air. The air intake valve closing timing is delayed after bottom dead point and the independent air intake passage is shaped so that the number of revolutions which causes maximum inertia in the independent air intake passage by supercharging in a high-speed region is higher than the number of revolutions of the engine at which maximum horse power is generated.

Abstract: An intake system comprises an intake passage provided, in order from an upstream side of the intake passage, with a throttle valve, a mechanical compressor supercharger and an inter-cooler for delivering supercharged air discharged by the supercharger into cylinders of an internal combustion engine. The intake passage has a supercharger bypass passage for allowing an intake air flow to bypass the supercharger, and an inter-cooler bypass passage for allowing a supercharged air flow to bypass the inter-cooler. Pneumatic valves, disposed, respectively, in the supercharger and inter-cooler bypasses passages, are controlled to open both the bypass passages when the internal combustion engine operates in a range of lower loads, to open at least the supercharger bypass passage when the internal combustion engine operates in a range of medium loads, and to close both the bypass passages when the internal combustion engine operates in a range of higher loads.

Abstract: A mechanical supercharger of an internal combustion engine has a housing formed with inlet and outlet ports and a pair of spiral screws rotatably received in the housing for partially compressing air introduced in the mechanical supercharger and carrying it from the inlet port to the outlet port. The supercharger is disposed after a throttle valve in an intake system of the engine, and is provided with a relief port allowing compressed air to be relieved from the supercharger. The relief port is formed in the housing between the inlet and outlet ports where air is compressed to allow compressed air to be relieved. A relief valve is controlled to variably open according to engine operating conditions and relieve compressed air in the supercharger.

Abstract: An air feeding system for a vehicle engine equipped with a supercharger comprises an inlet passage provided in an engine room with its first section interconnecting an air cleaner and a throttle valve, its second section interconnecting the throttle valve and the supercharger, and its third section interconnecting the supercharger and an engine body of the vehicle engine for feeding a cylinder in the engine body with intake air introduced through the air cleaner into the first section. The air cleaner is disposed at a front portion of one side half of the engine room and the supercharge is disposed in the other side half of the engine room. A part of the inlet passage including the first and second series is arranged to extend backward from the air cleaner and then to extend further along a dash panel forming a rear end of the engine room from one side half to the other side half of the engine room so as to reach temperature.

Abstract: In the present invention, in addition to a main throttle valve which is conventional, a sub-throttle valve for exclusive use of a mechanical supercharger is provided. By this sub-throttle valve, a flow rate of intake air is throttled by a fixed amount when the mechanical supercharger is switched from a non-connected state to a connected state. This makes it possible to prevent supercharged air from being bypassed to upstream of the supercharger through a bypass and also prevents generation of air intake noises. Moreover, in the case where the mechanical supercharger is of a type involving interior compression, at the time of the switching operation torque shock can be prevented and controllability of engine output by an accelerator pedal is improved.

Abstract: A method of producing bioactive ceramics containing apatite crystal useful for artificial tooth roots or artificial bones, which comprises the steps of(i) reacting (A) at least one type of silicic acid ester such as tetramethoxysilane or tetraethoxysilane; (B) at least one type of phosphorus compound represented by general formula (II), (III), or (V): ##STR1## (where each of R.sub.5 to R.sub.9 is hydrogen, an alkyl group, with 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a phenyl radical, or an aralkyl group with 7 to 10 carbon atoms in which at least one of R.sub.10 to R.sub.12 is hydrogen, and m: 0 type 10); and (C) at least one water soluble calcium salt, the reaction being carried out in the presence of water at at pH of not higher than 8 to prepare a gel; and(ii) sintering the resulting gel to obtain the bioactive ceramics containing not less than 5 wt% of apatite and not more than 2wt% of Na compound as NA.sub.2 O.

Abstract: In a V-type internal combustion engine having a pair of upwardly diverging cylinder banks and an auxiliary unit disposed at an upper portion in a space defined between the cylinder banks, a suction arrangement includes intake ports provided at an inner side of the respective cylinder banks, inclined inwardly by a predetermined angle with respect to respective clyinder axes, and extending upwardly in a generally vertical direction so as not to interfere with the auxiliary unit, and cylinder communicating portions connected to upper portions of the intake ports in communication with the respective cylinders to permit the introduction of the intake gas thereto.