Abstract: A steering mechanism includes a first rotating column, a second rotating column, and a middle rotating shaft. The first rotating column has a first inclined surface. A second inclined surface matching the first inclined surface is disposed at one end of the second rotating column. One end of the middle rotating shaft is secured to a center of a circle of the first inclined surface, and the other end thereof penetrates through a center of a circle of the second inclined surface. The second inclined surface rotates around an axis of the middle rotating shaft. A luminaire including the steering mechanism can irradiate light at different angles.

Abstract: A ball and socket coupling that avoids threaded tightening-components instead has telescoped components that are bonded together. Such a coupling has a hollow seat-formed link, a counterpart hollow ball-formed link, and a socket-forming collar. Both the links have fitting extensions. The ball-formed link has a spherical bulb at one end as the seat-formed link has a conforming, spherically-widening seat surface at one end. The socket-forming collar has a centrally apertured web with a conforming spherically-narrowing socket surface at one end of an axially elongated sleeve. The coupling is adapted to be assembled and bonded into solid rigidity by workers in the field with the spherical bulb bonded to and clamped between the seat-formed link's spherically-widening seat surface and the collar's spherically-narrowing socket surface. In addition, the collar's elongated sleeve is bonded internally to the seat-an outer sidewall of the seat-formed link's seat-formed end.

Abstract: In a piping connection structure of a vehicle including: a throttle body connected to a power unit of the vehicle to adjust an intake air amount; a fuel injection device for injecting fuel to an intake passage including the throttle body; first pipings attached to the fuel injection device; and second pipings provided separately from the first pipings, and having end parts connected to the first pipings so as to intersect with the first pipings, a connection part between the first pipings and the second pipings has a long adjustment holes, which extend so as to allow adjustment of relative angles between the first pipings and the second pipings.

Abstract: A valve apparatus for an internal combustion engine, the valve apparatus including: a main part having a wall section defining a valve cavity extending along a longitudinal length of the main part and an opening located in the wall section of the main part, the opening flow connected to the combustion chamber; an outer part configured and arranged so as to be reciprocally located in the valve cavity, the outer part having a wall section defining an inner passage extending along a longitudinal axis thereof; an inner part having a first end situated outside of the cavity and a second end situated within the cavity and the inner passage of the outer part, the inner part having a wall section defining an inner passage, a first opening at the first end, and one or more openings in that part of the walled section which is situated within the cavity.

Abstract: A system for mounting a control valve on an engine includes an engine head operatively disposed on a cylinder block of the engine. The engine head has one or more open receptacles. A retainer is operatively configured to hold the control valve in the open receptacle. The retainer is further configured to be removeably engaged with the open receptacle. The retainer is co-axial with the open receptacle.

Abstract: An electronic system generally includes a flatwire electronic site and a flatwire bus electronically connecting the flatwire electronic site and an electronic device in the engine compartment. The flatwire electronic site has a flexible substrate with electronic components attached to the substrate for operation of the electronic device. The flatwire electronic site is mounted to the engine side of the bulkhead for thermal cooling of the flatwire electronic site. A cover is attached to the bulkhead which encloses a flatwire electronic site for environmental protection.

Abstract: A cylinder head assembly for use in a flat head style internal combustion engine. A valve for use in the head has a cup portion above the face of the valve. The cup portion of the valve moves longitudinally in a sleeve or liner in the head of the engine.

Abstract: A pre-assembled valve mechanism for use in valve controlled internal combustion engines and the like which is constructed and arranged to be installed and removed quickly as a unitary module with minimum effort and expenditure of time; the module comprising a cylindrical housing with valve seat and exhaust port, a headed valve cooperable with the seat, a valve guide, a return spring and a valve actuating cam follower coaxially mounted in operating position with the housing.

Abstract: A valve stem seal assembly includes a rigid cylindrical shell and an annular resilient seal body contained entirely within the shell. Integral to the seal body is a frustoconical sealing element adapted to engage a valve guide of an internal combustion engine. The sealing element converges radially inwardly, and upon installation of the assembly on a valve guide the outer surface of the sealing element bends further radially inwardly to effectively seal the top surface of the guide. The seal body includes a stem sealing aperture, which in one preferred embodiment is designed to engage the valve stem without a spring. In a same or similar embodiment, the shell contains a circumferential array of tangs for retention of the assembly on the guide.

Abstract: A valve housing for an internal combustion engine having more than one intake or exhaust valve per cylinder includes complementary upper 14 and lower 16 members, with a transverse junction plane 17 intersecting a longitudinal partition 10 which divides an annular cavity 9 between a central valve bushing and a circumferential wall of the housing into separate coolant supply and return sections 9a and 9b, respectively. An intermediate element 17 is interposed between said members and is provided with openings 19, 20 smaller angular extents than the corresponding coolant sections to provide for proper circulation of coolant between the portions of a given section (9a or 9b) of cavity 9 while permitting different angular relations between said members.

Abstract: The invention provides a mushroom valve housing comprising a cage (1) and a guide (2), Cage (1) comprises legs (3, 4, 5, 6) supporting a valve seat (7) containing an annular space (8). Guide (2) has an annular cavity (9) with two sections (9a, 9b) communicating with space (8) by passages (11 to 14). One passage (12) among the two passages (11, 12) connected to a same section (9b) freely opens into this section whereas the other passage (11) communicates directly with the other section (9a), the passages (11, 13) of two diametrically opposite legs (3, 5) communicating with a same section (9a).

Abstract: To prevent differential deformation and damage, upon operation of large internal combustion engines, such as large Diesel engines, the cage structure is formed with a central valve seat and a lateral passage for inlet and exhaust gases to the cylinder of the internal combustion engine, and the wall opposite the lateral passage is formed with a diametrically interrupting slit extending at least in part transversely to the longitudinal axis of the cage (and hence of the valve), leaving a depending tongue to delimit the valve cage, the interrupted wall structure preventing unbalanced thermal and vibration stresses from interfering with the structural stability of the valve cage.

Abstract: An overhead valve chest for an internal combustion engine with a cylindroconical portion adjacent to the bottom seating of the chest within the cylinder-head and comprising a sealing ring overlapping said cylindro-conical portion and mounted in a groove the diameter of the flat horizontal top wall of which adjacent to the conical portion of said chest is larger than that of the lower wall opposite to the cylindrical wall of said chest, said ring being in continuous bearing engagement with its ends inside of said groove.