Abstract: Provided is a decorative sheet having excellent abrasion-resistance. Also, provided is a decorative sheet capable of reducing abrasion sound. A decorative sheet is provided with; a linear irregularity pattern formed by a plurality of groove parts arranged side by side; and a protrusion pattern that coexists inside the linear irregularity pattern, is arranged at random without having any regularity with respect to the linear irregularity pattern, and is formed to have at least a height equal to or higher than a height of a protrusion part of the linear irregularity pattern. The protrusion pattern reinforces the linear irregularity pattern.

Abstract: Provided is a decorative sheet having excellent abrasion-resistance. Also, provided is a decorative sheet capable of reducing abrasion sound. A decorative sheet is provided with; a linear irregularity pattern formed by a plurality of groove parts arranged side by side; and a protrusion pattern that coexists inside the linear irregularity pattern, is arranged at random without having any regularity with respect to the linear irregularity pattern, and is formed to have at least a height equal to or higher than a height of a protrusion part of the linear irregularity pattern. The protrusion pattern reinforces the linear irregularity pattern.

Abstract: A tensioner for vehicle belts produces reduced rattling because radial forces are not transferred to the plunger. A tensioner body has a columnar hole extending from an open end toward a closed end. The plunger is fitted into the columnar hole and separates the columnar hole into first and second chambers. The plunger has sufficient clearance with respect to the body to permit restricted passage of fluid between the chambers. A rod pressed by the belt extends into the columnar hole and presses the plunger against the biasing force of a spring. In order to reduce the transfer of radial forces from the rod to the plunger, either the lower surface of the rod or the upper surface of the plunger is formed in a semi-spherical shape.

Abstract: For preventing very small amplitude vibrations of the rod in a tensioner during high speed movement of a belt to be tensioned by the tensioner, a tube which is connected to a plunger which moves together with the rod is overlapped with a stationary member so as to define an annular clearance therebetween in an operating chamber of the tensioner. By filling an operating fluid in the clearance, shear strain is generated upon high speed movement of the plunger, which resists movement of the plunger.

Abstract: A hermetically sealed autotensioner used for adjusting tension of engine belts comprises a cylinder, a plunger slidably fitted in the cylinder and having a rod projeced from the cylinder, a free piston slidably fitted in the cylinder, and a rod guide fitted in the tip portion of the cylinder so as to slidably support the rod. When a large thrust force acts on the rod, the rod guide serves as a bearing for the rod so that no scuffing or rocking motion occurs between the cylinder and the plunger.

Abstract: For adjusting an angular phase difference between an engine crank shaft and an engine cam shaft, fluid under pressure is supplied into one or more chambers defined therebetween. The adjusted condition is maintained or held by mechanical engagement between both shafts.

Abstract: A self-contained hydraulic lash adjuster in which a bag member is disposed in a reservoir chamber formed within a plunger. An open upper end portion of the bag member is fixedly mounted with a metal ring therein so as to be fixed to an upper end portion of the reservoir chamber in spite of successive deformation of the bag member in accordance with oil-volume variation in the reservoir chamber.

Abstract: A self-contained type automatic belt tensioner adjusts a tension of an engine timing belt for automobiles. The tensioner comprises a body, a plunger slidably mounted in the body, a reservoir chamber located in the plunger, a pressure chamber disposed between the plunger and a closed wall of the body, a rod member fixed to the plunger, a bellows shaped elastic diaphragm located in the reservoir chamber with one end thereof being fixed to the rod member and the other end being fixed to the body, a check valve allowing a fluid flow only from the reservoir chamber to the pressure chamber, and a return spring interposed between the plunger and the closed wall of the body so as to bias said plunger in the direction of the rod member.

Abstract: A free piston type auto-tensioner adjusts a tension of an engine timing belt for automobiles. The auto-tensioner includes a body, a plunger slidably disposed in the body to form a first oil chamber, a free piston slidably disposed in the body to form a second oil chamber, a first seal member disposed between the body and the piston, a second seal member disposed between the piston and a rod of the plunger, an oil passage formed in the plunger to establish an oil communication between the first and second oil chambers, a check valve disposed in the oil passage, a first spring biasing the plunger, and a second spring biasing the piston.

Abstract: A cylinder control device for a variable-cylindered engine. The device comprises a body slidable within a bore formed in a block and urged by a spring always in contact with a cam, a plunger mounted in the body and slidable by hydraulic pressure in the direction perpendicular to the direction of sliding of the body, the plunger having a groove which is adapted to be engaged by the upper end of a valve stem 40 and an escape bore which is adapted to be positioned right above the upper end of the valve stem when the plunger is slided to a cylinder-inoperative position; and means for controlling said application of the hydraulic pressure to the plunger under the control of a computer.

Abstract: An auto-tentioner of timing-belt used for apparatus such as automobiles, which comprises a body, a plunger inserted into the body, a piston inserted in the pluner and protruding from the body so as to push the timing-belt, and a spring at the rear end of the body and pushing the body to the direction of timing-belt, thereby making it possible for the auto-tentioner fully to follow up the extraordinary expansion of the timing-belt.

Abstract: An auto-tensioner for belt systems and a method for adjusting the belt tension, said auto-tensioner comprising an idler pulley, a tensioner body, a bracket fixed to the tensioner body and swingable around a first fixing bolt, a second fixing bolt inserted in a slit of the bracket so as to adjust the swing degree of the bracket, and a third bolt for positioning the idler pulley; while said adjusting method comprising the steps of making the first and second fixing bolts to be half-tightened state, tightening the third bolt to position the idler pulley, adjusting the spring force for biasing the bracket, fully tightening the first and second fixing bolts, and finally removing the third positioning bolt, thereby to avoid the troublesomeness in the adjusting works of belt tension.

Abstract: An automatic tensioner for adjusting the tension in a timing belt, V belt, or the like has a locking mechanism. The tensioner has a plunger always biased toward a large oil chamber containing oil. A rod having a head that is pressed against the timing belt or the like is inserted in the body of the tensioner so as to form a small oil chamber. A piston is received in the body of the tensioner. Normally, the piston bears against the plunger. If oil should leak from the large oil chamber, then the plunger will move downward, permitting the piston to engage the rod. Thus, the rod is locked.

Abstract: A self-container hydraulic valve lifter includes a lifter body slidably mounted in a lifter case, a free piston slidably mounted between the lifter body and the lifter case, a plunger slidably mounted in the lifter body and dividing an interior portion of the lifter body into a reservoir chamber and a pressure chamber, a check valve for allowing fluid flow from the reservoir chamber to the pressure chamber, and an operating chamber formed between the free piston and the lifter case and communicated with the reservoir chamber in order to decrease the diameter of the pressure chamber in comparison with that of the free piston.

Abstract: A self-contained tensioning device for a belt or similar structure and which includes a plunger slidably mounted in a body member, a free piston slidably mounted in the plunger and having a head portion extending from a shoulder of the body member and which contacts with an idler pulley so as to apply a tensioning face to the belt, a projection provided on the shoulder and projecting axially so as to minimize the distance between a portion of the idler pulley contacting the head portion and the shoulder of the body member.

Abstract: A spot welding control method is disclosed wherein the welding current and welding time are controlled, in response to changes in the shape of the point of the electrode tip. At each weld point, the lowest value of the varying resistance between the electrode tips is detected in an initial welding period, and each detected lowest value is successively held and stored. At each weld point, a running average of the lowest resistance values is computed, bases on the resistance date of a group of weld points composed of the weld point just completed through a number of preceding weld points, the number of which is preset. The weld conditions are changed from one set of predetermined parameters to another when the computed average reaches the then prevailing threshold limit, following which the threshold is reset. The thresholds are preset depending upon the degree of wear of the electrode tip, whereby welding is continued under newly-selected weld conditions corresponding to the present threshold.

Abstract: A control method of resistance welding for controlling weld conditions, such as welding current and welding time, in response to a change in material of weldments, which comprises the steps of detecting the local lowest value of resistance between electrode tips appearing in an initial welding period, comparing the detected lowest value with a plurality of reference resistance values preset correspondingly to materials of weldments of different sorts and divided into plural classes to determine the material of a weldment under process, and changing the weld conditions, such as welding current and welding time, depending upon the determined material.

Abstract: A hydraulic autotensioner of a sealed type is used to give tension to a belt or a chain. The hydraulic autotensioner includes a body member having a large diameter oil chamber, a plunger having a small diameter oil chamber and a small passage, a piston whose head extends outside the body member and a spring for biasing the plunger.

Abstract: A sealed-type automatic tensioner has a body assembly composed of upper and lower tubular bodies held in threaded engagement with each other, a tubular plunger slidably disposed in the body assembly, a piston slidably disposed in the tubular plunger and having a portion extending slidably through a hole in a top wall of the upper tubular body. The lower tubular body and the tubular plunger jointly define a larger-diameter hydraulic chamber, and the tubular plunger and the piston jointly define a smaller-diameter hydraulic chamber. A bottom wall of the tubular plunger has an aperture through which the larger- and smaller-diameter chambers communicate with each other. A compression coil spring is disposed in the first tubular body and acts between the top wall of the upper tubular body and the tubular plunger for normally urging the tubular plunger to move into the larger-diameter chamber.

Abstract: A variable cylinder device for internal combustion engines having a movable rocker arm and a movable rocker shaft in which an oil-supplying type lash adjuster is fitted to a housing having a main oil-passage and the rocker shaft is secured to a rocker support. Oil for lubricating the sliding surface of movable rocker shaft is supplied from the main oil-passage through a series of passages formed in the housing and the rocker support, especially through a pipe protruding from the rocker support and slidably inserted into the housing. The housing is further provided with a mechanism for reducing the oil-pressure in the main oil-passage and a mechanism for preventing rotation of the rocker support.