Abstract: An electric control system for an automobile transmission includes an endless transmission member running on a pair of V-shaped pulley units, the mutual distances of the conical sheaves of which are hydraulically adjustable to transmit an output torque of an engine to a driven apparatus. The electric control system is arranged to determine an optimum fluid pressure in relation to the actual output torque of the engine and to determine an optimum transmission ratio for low fuel consumption in relation to the actual output power of the engine. The control system produces a first electric control signal indicative of the difference between the optimum fluid pressure and the actual fluid pressure in one of actuators for the respective pulley units and produces a second electric control signal indicative of the difference between the optimum and actual transmission ratios.

Abstract: A torque transmission belt means comprises a metallic ring which extends around a driving pulley and a driven pulley and a plurality of blocks made of hard material, which are linked up by the ring so as to be shiftably engaged therewith. Each block is provided with a concave portion in the front surface or the rear surface in the moving direction of the ring and an elastic member is fixed to the front surface or the rear surface of a back plate portion of each block, which forms a bottom of the concave portion so that each elastic member is contacted with the back plate portion of the adjacent block. Since each block is contacted with the adjacent blocks through the elastic members, the torque transmission belt means silently operates.

Abstract: An electrically operated fuel pump device comprises a regenerative pump component and an electric motor component operatively connected to the regenerative pump component to actuate the same. The regenerative pump component includes a pump casing having spaced inner surfaces thereof cooperating with each other to define therebetween a pump chamber. An impeller is disposed within the pump chamber rotatably and axially movably. Clearances are defined between axial end faces of the impeller and the inner surfaces of the pump casing, respectively. Liquid fuel increased in pressure to a discharge pressure by the rotation of the impeller is introduced into the clearances to act on the axial end faces of the impeller so as to minimize the direct contact of the axial end faces of the impeller with the respective inner surfaces of the pump casing.

Abstract: A fuel pump apparatus has an electric motor and a regenerative pump having a pump housing and an impeller rotated by the motor shaft journalled by a bearing to the pump housing. The impeller is operative to produce in the pump housing a fluid pressure which is unbalanced in the circumferential direction of the impeller and forms circumferentially unbalanced radially inward forces the resultant force of which is applied through the impeller to a first side of the peripheral surface of the shaft. The discharge port of the pump is open to the interior space within the motor.

Abstract: A torque transmission belt means comprises a ring having excellent bending and tensile strength which is extended around pulleys positioned in the driving side and the driven side and a series of blocks composed of main blocks made of non-compressive material having high strength and secondary blocks made of elastic material, which are alternately arranged along the ring so as to be shiftably engaged therewith.

Abstract: A torque transmission system has driving and driven pulley units around which an endless V-belt extends. Each pulley unit has a stationary pulley part rotatable with a shaft and a movable pulley part disposed to define with the stationary pulley part a circumferentially continuous groove for receiving the V-belt. The movable pulley parts of the pulley units are axially resiliently biased so that the radii of the circle along which the V-belt engages the driving and driven pulley units are varied to change the speed-change ratio of the transmission system. The movable pulley part of the driven pulley unit is axially shifted by the action of fly weights held between a stationary plate fixed to the shaft and a holder fixed to the movable pulley part.

Abstract: A regenerative pump apparatus has a housing and a substantially disc-shaped impeller rotatably housed by the housing. Circumferential rows of radial vane grooves are formed in the outer peripheral portions of both side surfaces of the impeller. Each circumferential row includes first vane grooves of an axial depth equal to or greater than a half of the impeller thickness and second vane grooves of an axial depth smaller than a half of the impeller thickness. The first and second vane grooves are arranged alternatingly in the circumferential direction in each row, such that the first vane grooves and the second vane grooves in one row are axially aligned with the second vane grooves and the first vane grooves in the other row.

Abstract: A torque transmission system has driving and driven pulley units drivingly connected by an endless V-belt. Each of the driving and driven pulley units includes a stationary pulley rotatable with a shaft and a movable pulley disposed to define with the stationary pulley a circumferential continuous groove for receiving the V-belt. The movable pulleys of the driving and driven pulley units are axially resiliently biased so that the radii of the circles along which the V-belt engages the driving and driven pulley units are varied to change the speed-change ratio of the transmission system. The movable pulley of the driven pulley unit is axially shifted by fly weights. The driving and driven pulley units are provided with cam mechanisms each comprising a cam member and a follower member. When the load on the driven pulley unit is suddenly varied, the cam mechanisms are operative to keep constant the rotational speed of the driven pulley unit irrespective of variations in the load on the driven pulley unit.

Abstract: A pressurized fluid-operated power transmission device, is typically shown being shaft driven from an automotive engine as the drive for the compressor of a cooler and a fan is provided with a centrifugal governor and valving for limiting output rotational speed of the power transmission device. In one embodiment a noise-preventing back-flow check valve is provided.

Abstract: A torque transmission belt means which is extended between a driving pulley and a driven pulley for transmitting a driving force from the driving pulley to the driven pulley.The torque transmission belt means comprises a plurality of ring-shaped metallic strips which are superimposed on each other, and two kinds of blocks which are arranged along the metallic strips so as to be shiftably engaged therewith.Only one kind of blocks are contacted with said pulleys and the other kind of blocks are bevelled on opposed surfaces facing to the direction of the movement so that they can tilt with respect to one kind of blocks when they are entrained around the pulleys.

Abstract: A worm type compressor comprises a cylindrical worm provided with a plurality of spiral-like passages in its inner periphery for forming fluid sealing chambers, a rotor slidably disposed within the worm and provided with an internal fluid outlet opening for discharging a compressed fluid and a pinion gear disposed within the rotor so as to be rotated about an axis perpendicular to and away from the rotor axis while engaged with the spiral-like passages.A worm type compressor further comprises a compressed fluid escape means which is provided in each of the finishing portions of the spiral-like passages of the worm for letting the compressed fluid escape from each of the spiral-like passages in the final stage of the fluid compressing step.

Abstract: A polyphase AC generator of a type designed for installation in automobiles, has a so-called Lundell type rotor in which an exciting coil is enclosed by a plurality of pairs of finger type magnetic poles and which is rotated by a vehicle-mounted engine. The shape of the finger magnetic poles is modified to an irregular trapezoidal shape having a side opposite to a base displaced with respect to said base in the direction of rotation of the rotor, thus changing the waveform of magnetic flux flowing through the rotor and an armature core and thereby reducing magnetic noise of the generator under load operation.

Abstract: A gas bag protection apparatus for protecting occupant of a motor vehicle upon collision thereof, comprises a gas supply source of a high pressure gas, a gas bag normally deflated and operatively inflated upon an emergency, and a diffuser for supplying a high pressure gas from the gas supply source into the bag to be inflated. Improvement resides in provision of a centrifugal separator chamber provided between the gas supply source and the diffuser, for separating, from the high pressure gas flow, residues produced at an explosion of an igniter which is adapted to cause the gas supply source to feed the high pressure gas. A residue collecting cavity may be provided in combination with the separating chamber, both of which may be in a coaxially aligned configuration.

Abstract: An air bag device designed to protect passengers in a vehicle. In the device, an inflatable gas bag is inflated by a gush of high pressure gas which is discharged from a gas supply source through a gas discharging pipe and guided by a housing. The housing has defined therein large openings to introduce ambient air, and has mounted, at the region where the inflatable gas bag are mounted, gas permeable supporting plates and valve members urged against the gas-permeable supporting plates. The gush of the high pressure gas discharged through the gas discharging pipe sucks in and mixes with the ambient air introduced through the large openings in the housing. The resultant air-high pressure gas mixture passes through the supporting plates, opens the valve members and then, flows into the inflatable bag to inflate the latter.

Abstract: In a safety bag device for use in a vehicle and of the type wherein a rupture plate is interposed between a high pressure gas container and a conduit leading to an inflatable safety bag. A nozzle having a plurality of nozzle holes opened into the conduit is interposed between the rupture plate and the conduit. A spool is slidably fitted to the nozzle in such a way that it may normally close a predetermined number of nozzle holes, but may be displaced away from the nozzle to open them in response to the increase in pressure in the nozzle chamber when the rupture plate is ruptured in case of a collision, whereby the flow rate of the high pressure gas flowing into the inflatable safety bag may be suitably controlled so as to prevent very rapid expansion of the bag resulting in the injury to an occupant.