Abstract: A pressure detecting apparatus having a pressure introducing pipe is installed on an intake surge tank for detecting inner pressure in the intake surge tank. The intake surge tank is provided with a throttle passage having a throttle is disposed in the intake surge tank along a flow direction of the gas for increasing a flow speed of the gas. A pressure inlet at a leading end of the pressure introducing pipe is positioned in a vicinity of the throttle.

Abstract: An idle intake control device provided with a backflow preventing means for preventing a backflow near an idle intake regulating valve and producing only a forward flow in order to prevent idle intake air containing combustion products from flowing back and being adhered to an idle intake regulating valve in an idle intake passageway for bypassing an intake regulating valve provided in an intake passageway of the engine.

Abstract: To enable bonding flat and corrugated sheets at their contact points by laser welding or other welding methods while laminating and spirally winding the sheets, a process of producing a metal catalyst carrier for exhaust gas purification in the form of a metal honeycomb column composed of flat and corrugated metal sheets alternately laminated, wound together, and bonded to each other, the process includes the steps of: forming plural openings in a flat sheet of a metal; laminating one piece of the flat sheet having the openings formed therein and one piece of a corrugated sheet of a metal and bonding the laminated flat and corrugated sheets to each other to form a composite sheet; and spirally winding the composite sheet around an axis to form columnar turns each composed of an outer flat layer composed of the flat sheet and an inner corrugated layer composed of the corrugated sheet, while bonding an outer turn and an adjoining inner turn by welding an inner corrugated layer of the outer turn, in a portion ex

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying apparatus includes a carrier of a honeycomb structure which is made of at least one flat metal plate and at least one corrugated metal plate which is superimposed on the flat metal plate. A catalytic layer is formed on the surface of the carrier. The carrier suited for being coated with the catalytic layer is disposed in an exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine. The carrier is provided, on an axially intermediate portion thereof, with a large number of louvers which causes a haphazard secondary motion in the exhaust gas. A predetermined portion of the carrier including the turbulence producing portion and an additional region located adjacent to said predetermined region is coated with a larger amount of catalyst than that with which the remaining portion of the carrier is coated, whereby good purifying efficiency can be obtained for a long time.

Abstract: An electrically heating catalytic apparatus that quickly heats catalyst to an activation temperature even when the engine is started at a low temperature below the catalyst activation temperature. The apparatus employs an electrically conductive catalyst carrier that is electrically heated. The carrier is provided with local hot spots to be energized. Since the heat is locally generated, the heat capacity of the catalyst carrier is small to shorten a temperature increasing time.

Abstract: An electrically heating catalytic apparatus that quickly heats catalyst to an activation temperature even when the engine is started at a low temperature below the catalyst activation temperature. The apparatus employs an electrically conductive catalyst carrier that is electrically heated. The carrier is provided with local hot spots to be energized. Since the heat is locally generated, the heat capacity of the catalyst carrier is small to shorten a temperature increasing time.

Abstract: A flat-corrugated combined sheet 16 is obtained from a flat sheet 10 and corrugated sheets 12 and 14 which are welded together. The combined sheet 16 is rolled, so that a catalyst carrier 18 of a honeycomb structure to which an exhaust gas is contacted is obtained. At a middle part of the catalyst carrier 18, the flat sheet 10 has a section 10-1 free of corrugated sheet, and is formed with louvers 21, so that, in the rolled state, a turbulence generating section 30 is created. At a location upstream from the turbulence generating section 30, the flat sheet 10 has spaced sections 10-2 free of corrugated sheet, so that, in the rolled state, low flow-resistance sections 22 are created. The dissipation of heat of the exhaust gas is reduced at the sections 22, so that the temperature of the exhaust gas introduced into the turbulence generating section 30 at locations downstream from the low flow-resistance sections 22 is high, thereby promoting an activation of the catalyst at the section 30.

Abstract: A metal catalyst carrier for exhaust gas purification, comprising: a metal honeycomb column composed of flat and wavy metal sheets laminated, wound together, and bonded to each other to provide numerous exhaust gas flow paths along the column axis, the honeycomb column having a quasi-elliptical cross section defined by a pair of mutually facing linear portions and a pair of mutually facing curved portions in a plane perpendicular to the column axis, the flat and wavy sheets being bonded in a greater bond rate in the major axial end portions than in the other portion of the quasi-ellipse, the bond rate being defined as a quotient obtained by dividing a bonded length by a total length of lines on which the laminated and wound flat and wavy sheets are in contact with each other; and a columnar metal case fittingly enclosing the honeycomb column and bonded to the honeycomb column only in the portions corresponding to the curved portions of the quasi-elliptical cross section.

Abstract: To improve the strength of the laser weld bond between an inner honeycomb column and an outer metal case, a metal honeycomb assembly comprises a metal honeycomb column composed of a flat metal sheet and a wavy metal sheet which are mutually laminated and spirally wound together, the metal honeycomb column having an outermost circumferential portion in the form of a composite wavy sheet composed of a plurality of superposed layers of the wavy metal sheet; and a metal case fittingly enclosing the metal honeycomb column, the metal case and the metal honeycomb column being bonded together by laser-welding the wave peaks of the composite wavy sheet to an inner wall of the metal case.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-point welding method capable of certainly welding an object having a number of points to be welded for a short time. First, an approximately cylindrical base body is formed by alternately laminating a flat sheet and a corrugated sheet and then winding them in a spiral shape. In this case, there exist a number of contact points of the flat sheet to the corrugated sheet, that is, points to be welded. Next, there is provided an electrode apart from one end surface of the base body by a specified interval and facing to the end surface. After that, by intermittently applying a current across the electrode and the one end surface of the base body thereby intermittently generating electric discharges between the electrode and the one end surface of the base body, to thus fuse and weld the points to be welded of the flat sheet to the corrugated sheet.

Abstract: An automatic focusing camera includes a first distance measurement circuit for measuring a first distance to an object located at a central portion of a frame, a second distance measurement circuit for measuring a plurality of second distances to other objects located at a peripheral portion of the frame, a CPU for comparing the first and second distance with a shortest photographing distance of the camera, for, when the first distance is shorter than the shortest photographing distance, selecting the shortest photographing distance as an object distance regardless of the second distance, for, when the first distance is not shorter than the shortest photographing distance and the second distance is shorter than the shortest photographing distance, selecting the first distance as the object distance, and for, when the first and second distances are not shorter than the shortest photographing distance, selecting a shorter one of the first and second distances as the object distance, and a mechanism for focusing

Abstract: Disclosed in an intake pipe pressure detecting device for detecting the pressure in that section of an intake pipe in an internal combustion engine which is on the downstream side of a throttle valve provided in the intake manifold. The pressure detecting device comprises a mixing chamber which has an opening in the wall of the intake pipe, a pressure introducing path which opens onto this mixing chamber, and air inlets adapted to allow fresh air to enter the mixing chamber, thereby generating an air flow directed from the mixing chamber to the intake pipe.