| Mazda Motor Corporation Patent applications |
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| 20120119546 | FRAME STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE - In a frame structure for a vehicle having a reinforcement body provided inside a frame body, the frame body comprises a first face portion and a second face portion extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to a rotational-axis direction of a bending moment occurring when a torsional load acts on a vehicle body, and third face portions positioned between the first and second face portions, and the reinforcement body comprises third-face connection portions connected to the third face portions, a first-face connection portion connected to the first face portion at a corner portion, a first-face non-contact portion provided away from the first face portion, a second-face connection portion connected to the second face portion at a corner portion, and a second-face non-contact portion provided away from the second face portion. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119476 | PASSENGER PROTECTION OF VEHICLE - A cell of a curtain airbag is configured such that its upper portion is closed in an inflated state of the curtain airbag, whereas its lower portion is open and connected to a gas flowing passage from an inflator. Accordingly, a passenger protection device of a vehicle which can properly prevent an interior material from being broken and scattered can be provided. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120111302 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING SPARK-IGNITION DIRECT INJECTION ENGINE - A method for controlling an engine includes, when the engine is operating within a particular range with comparatively low engine speed and high load, setting an effective compression ratio of 10:1 or above, retarding ignition timing by a predetermined amount and retarding the ignition timing within a first, relatively low engine speed range more than within a second, higher engine speed range, setting an injection mode of an injection valve to divided injections performed at least twice in a period from an intake stroke to an earlier-half stage of a compression stroke, performing, within the first engine speed range, a final injection in the earlier-half stage of the compression stroke, and performing, within the second engine speed range, the final injection in a late stage of the intake stroke and at least one injection other than the final injection in a middle stage of the intake stroke. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120098299 | FRAME FOR VEHICLE - A frame for a vehicle which is formed to have a closed cross section and constitutes part of a vehicle body, comprising a first face portion on which a compressive force acts when a load acts from an outside, a second face portion on which a tensional force acts when the load acts from the outside, a pair of third face portions which are located between the first face portion and the second face portion and form ridgelines together with the first face portion, and a lateral reinforcement potion which is provided at least one of the third face portions and extending in a line shape from the first face portion toward the second face portion. Accordingly, the frame for a vehicle which can increase the bending strength of the frame is provided. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120097466 | BATTERY MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF ELECTROMOTIVE VEHICLE - A battery unit comprises plural side connection portions which are provided at its both-side end portions in a vehicle width direction and connected to said vehicle-body member, and these connection portions are connected to a high rigidity portion of a vehicle-body member, concretely, to the vehicle-body member at a specified position where floor cross members integrally connected to a vehicle floor panel are located, to the vehicle-body member at a specified position where a torque box is located, or to the vehicle-body member at a specified position where a kick-up portion of the vehicle floor panel is located. Accordingly, the torsional rigidity of the vehicle body can be increased by utilizing the battery unit mounted below the vehicle body floor (vehicle floor panel). | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120082841 | HEAT-INSULATING STRUCTURE - Disclosed is a heat-insulating structure which can be used, for example, to reduce the cooling loss of an engine. The heat-insulating structure includes a hollow particle layer made of a lot of hollow particles densely packed on a surface of a metallic base material. The hollow particle layer is covered with a coating. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120080008 | KNOCK CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A knock control apparatus for internal combustion engine includes: a knock signal normalization unit that normalizes a knock signal extracted from an output signal of a knock sensor; a knock determination threshold setting unit that sets a knock determination threshold on the basis of the normalized knock signal; a knock intensity computation unit that calculates knock intensity on the basis of the normalized knock signal and the set knock determination threshold; a knock determination unit that determines a presence or absence of a knock on the basis of the calculated knock intensity; and a knock correction amount computation unit that calculates a knock correction amount to correct the calculated knock intensity in a case where an occurrence of a knock is determined. The knock signal normalization unit normalizes a standard deviation of the knock signal by dividing the knock signal by an average value of the knock signal. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120073543 | KNOCK CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A knock correction amount computation portion computes, on the basis of intensity of a knock in a case where the presence of an occurrence of the knock is determined, a knock correction amount by which to move a spark timing of the internal combustion engine to be on a retard side and returns the knock correction amount to be back on an advance side in a case where the absence of an occurrence of a knock is determined. In a case where a value of the knock correction amount to be on the retard side becomes equal to or exceeds a predetermined value, the knock correction amount computation portion limits and holds the knock correction amount at the predetermined value and returns the limited knock correction amount to be back on the advance side in a case where the absence of an occurrence of a knock is determined. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120062163 | WIPER CONTROL APPARATUS - In a wiper control apparatus, a water drop detector outputs an output signal in accordance with water drops adhering to a windshield of a vehicle. When a traveling determination portion determines that the vehicle is traveling, a first level setting portion sets a sensitivity for detecting the output signal to a first sensitivity. When the traveling determination portion determines the vehicle is not traveling, a second level setting portion sets the sensitivity for detecting the output signal to a second sensitivity that is larger than the first sensitivity. A water drop adhesion determination portion determines that water drops adhere to the windshield when a determination waiting time elapses in a state where detection of the output signal continues. A driving control portion controls a wiper driving portion to drive the wiper when the water drop adhesion determination portion determines that water drops adhere to the windshield. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120046854 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING DIESEL ENGINE - This disclosure provides a method of controlling a diesel engine. The method includes adjusting an EGR ratio according to an engine load so that a cylinder O | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120045585 | METHOD FOR THE FORMATION OF MULTI-LAYER PAINT FILMS - A method of forming a multi-layer paint film comprising coating an aqueous first colored base paint (A) on an electro-deposition paint cured paint film to form a first colored base paint film, coating an aqueous second colored base paint (B) on the first colored base paint film without preliminary heating of the first colored base paint film to form a second colored base paint film, coating a clear paint (C) coated on the second colored base paint film after preliminary heating of the first paint film and second paint film to form a clear paint film, and heating and curing the three paint films at the same time, wherein a talc pigment is included in each of paint (A) and paint (B) in an amount of from 1 to 5 mass % with respect to the total resin solid fraction of each of paint (A) and paint (B). | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120042849 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING DIESEL ENGINE WITH FORCED INDUCTION SYSTEM - This disclosure provides a control device for a diesel engine. When the engine is within a particular operating range with a low engine speed and a partial engine load and in a low temperature state where a cylinder temperature at a compression stroke end is lower than a predetermined temperature, a forced induction system sets a forcibly inducting level higher than a predetermined level that is higher than that in a high temperature state where the cylinder temperature is above the predetermined temperature. At least within the particular operating range, an injection control module performs a main injection where a fuel injection starts at or before a top dead center of the compression stroke to cause main combustion mainly including diffusion combustion and performs a pre-stage injection where the fuel injection is performed at least once prior to the main injection to cause pre-stage combustion before the main combustion starts. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120032468 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE OF WINDSHIELD - A support structure of a windshield of the present invention comprises a frame having an open section opening forward in a vehicle and a support member provided inside the frame and connecting an upper face portion and a lower face portion of the frame. The frame has a windshield support portion supporting a lower side portion of the windshield at part of the upper face portion. The support member includes a rear support portion attached to the upper face portion of the frame and a front support portion attached to a cowl panel at a specified location positioned in front of the rear support portion. The windshield support portion is positioned between the front and rear support portions in the vehicle longitudinal direction. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120019027 | FRONT VEHICLE-BODY STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A pair of sub frames is provided on the outside of a heat exchanger in a vehicle width direction, there is provided a stiffener which interconnects front ends of the sub frames and projects forward, and the stiffener is connected to lower portions of the sub frames. Accordingly, the sufficient attachment rigidity of the stiffener can be secured in the normal state, whereas in the vehicle collision state the stiffener can be easily separated off the sub frames without resisting improperly, so that the safety of pedestrian can be secured. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120004826 | DIESEL ENGINE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DIESEL ENGINE - A diesel engine is provided, which includes an engine body to be supplied with fuel containing diesel fuel as its main component, a geometric compression ratio being set to 15:1 or below, a fuel injection valve arranged in the engine body so as to be oriented toward a cylinder of the engine body and for directly injecting the fuel into the cylinder, and a control module for controlling a mode of injecting the fuel into the cylinder through the fuel injection valve. The control module performs a main injection where the fuel is injected to cause a main combustion mainly including a diffusion combustion and performs a plurality of pre-stage injections where the fuel is injected prior to the main injection to cause a pre-stage combustion prior to the main combustion. The control module controls the injection mode of the injections to adjust a heat release rate. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120003082 | COOLING DEVICE OF TURBOCHARGER OF ENGINE FOR VEHICLE - There are provided first and second water supply passages to supply cooling water from an engine to first and second center housings of first and second turbochargers, and first and second return passages to return the cooling water from the first and second turbochargers to the engine. A cooling-water connection portion of the first water supply is located above the level of a cooling-water connection portion of the second water supply passage. A vapor releasing passage is provided between the second turbocharger and an upper tank provided on the outside of an engine body at a position located above the connection portion of the second return passage of the second turbocharger. Accordingly, the function of vapor releasing from the first and second turbochargers can be improved, thereby increasing the layout flexibility around the engine. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120003075 | LUBRICATION DEVICE OF TURBOCHARGER OF ENGINE FOR VEHICLE - A first turbocharger comprises a first center housing and a first return passage. A second turbocharger comprises a second center housing and a second return passage. The first return passage joins the second return passage at a junction. The length of the second return passage from the second center housing to the junction is longer than that of the first return passage from the first center housing to the junction. A bellows-shaped vibration absorption portion is provided at the second return passage. The first return passage comprises a first upstream return passage and a first downstream return passage, and the first upstream and downstream return passages are connected to each other via the flexible hose. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120000441 | DIESEL ENGINE FOR VEHICLE - A diesel engine for a vehicle comprises an engine body mounted in the vehicle having a plurality of cylinders that is supplied with fuel, a plurality of fuel injection valves for directly injecting the fuel into the cylinders, and an injection control module for controlling a mode of injecting the fuel into the cylinders through the fuel injection valves. The injection control module sets a fuel injection amount per cylinder at least according to a load on the engine body, performs a main injection, and performs at least one pre-injection where fuel is injected prior to the main injection. The injection control module further executes a cylinder-cutoff operation mode where the fuel supplies to the cylinder or the cylinders are stopped when the engine body is under a low load condition where the fuel injection amount per cylinder is below a predetermined amount. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120000309 | RANGE SENSING APPARATUS - A housing slidably guides a slider, which is driven in response to selection of a shift range of an automatic transmission. Upper and lateral sides of a movable range of the slider are covered with the housing. Thereby, application of hydraulic fluid and foreign objects to guide rails is limited to limit malfunction of the slider. Furthermore, even when the hydraulic fluid and foreign objects adhere to the guide rails, the hydraulic fluid and foreign objects can be collected at ends of the movable range of the slider and can be expelled to an outside of the housing through open ends of the housing. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120000197 | AUTOMOBILE-MOUNT DIESEL ENGINE WITH TURBOCHARGER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DIESEL ENGINE - An automobile-mount diesel engine with a turbocharger is provided, which includes an engine body with the turbocharger, the engine body being mounted in the automobile and supplied with fuel containing diesel fuel as its main component, a fuel injection valve arranged in the engine body so as to be oriented toward a cylinder of the engine body and for directly injecting the fuel into the cylinder, an injection control module for controlling a mode of injecting the fuel into the cylinder through the fuel injection valve, and an EGR amount control module for adjusting an amount of EGR gas introduced into the cylinder. EGR and fuel injection are adjusted based on speed-load conditions of the engine. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120000196 | TURBO-CHARGING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE ENGINE - The disclosure provides a turbo-charging apparatus for a vehicle engine, which includes a first and second turbocharger, an inter-turbine passage connecting a discharging port of a first turbocharger turbine with an introducing port of a second turbocharger turbine, a bypass passage connecting an introducing passage of the first turbocharger turbine with the inter-turbine passage, and a control valve for opening and closing the bypass passage. The inter-turbine passage extends substantially straight from the discharging port of the first turbocharger turbine toward the second turbocharger when viewed from a direction parallel to turbine shafts of the first and second turbochargers, which are arranged substantially parallel to each other, so that the inter-turbine passage connects with an outer circumferential part of the second turbocharger turbine so as to extend in a direction tangent to an outer circumference direction of the second turbocharger turbine. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110320108 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING AUTOMOBILE-MOUNT DIESEL ENGINE AND THE AUTOMOBILE-MOUNT DIESEL ENGINE - This disclosure provides a method of controlling a diesel engine, which includes executing a premix combustion pattern fuel injection containing one or more injections at a first timing, while introducing an amount of EGR gas according to an operating condition of the engine into a cylinder, when an engine load is low, to operate in a premix combustion mode, executing a diffusion combustion pattern fuel injection containing one or more injections at a second timing that is later than the first timing, when the engine load is high, to operate in a diffusion combustion mode, and executing a diffusion combustion pattern fuel injection at a third timing that is later than the second timing, while introducing the amount of EGR gas according to the operating condition of the engine into the cylinder, when shifting from the diffusion combustion mode to the premix combustion mode with a decrease in engine load. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110319227 | IDLE STOP CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A vehicle idle stop system is disclosed. The idle stop system comprises an engine, an automatic transmission, a first oil pump driven by said engine and generating hydraulic pressure which is supplied to a friction element of said automatic transmission, a second oil pump capable of operating and generating hydraulic pressure which is supplied to a friction element of said automatic transmission during an engine stop, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the engine to stop when a predetermined engine stop condition is satisfied, and to control the second oil pump to supply hydraulic pressure to a predetermined friction element coupled to a forward starting gear of the automatic transmission, the hydraulic pressure supplied to couple the predetermined friction element when the engine is automatically stopped and when a gear range of the automatic transmission is in a neutral range. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316295 | LOWER VEHICLE-BODY STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - In a lower vehicle-body structure of a vehicle, there is provided a rear connecting member swingably supporting a rear portion of a lower arm at a sub frame and a front side frame, the rear connecting member comprising a support portion to support the lower arm, a fifth connection portion to connect the sub frame and the support portion, and a fourth connection portion to connect the front side frame and the support portion. Further, there is provided a separation mechanism to separate the fourth connection portion off the front side frame in the vehicle frontal collision. Accordingly, the sub frame and the lower arm are separated off the front side frame by the separation mechanism. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315129 | EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION DEVICE OF ENGINE - A connecting passage is formed inside a cylinder head, which extends rearward from an exhaust passage and connects to the exhaust passage. The connecting passage branches inside the cylinder head into two branch passages, which open at a rear end face of the cylinder head, respectively. An opening portion, one of opening portions of the branch passages, connects to an EGR cooler, and another opening portion, the other of opening portions of the branch passages, connects to a bypass pipe. Accordingly, the exhaust gas recirculation device of an engine which can restrain the device from being improperly large sized, providing the EGR cooler and the bypass pipe, can be provided. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315128 | DIESEL ENGINE FOR VEHICLE - A diesel engine body is provided with a geometric compression ratio ε within a range of 12:1 to 15:1. The engine body has an intake valve for opening and closing an intake passage of a cylinder, an exhaust valve for opening and closing an exhaust passage of the cylinder, and an exhaust gas re-circulation passage communicating with the intake and exhaust passages and for partially re-circulating exhaust to the intake passage. During low engine load and rotation speed conditions, the exhaust valve is opened during an intake stroke, and the intake passage is choked. The exhaust valve is closed before the intake valve in the later stage of the intake stroke. An opening area S | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315106 | OIL SUPPLY DEVICE OF ENGINE - There are provided first and second extending oil passages supplying operational oil to intake-side and exhaust-side lash adjustors, a first connection oil passage interconnecting one end portions of the oil passages, and an oil-pressure control valve selecting a first state in which the first extending oil passage does not connect to a drain oil passage or a second state in which the first extending oil passage connects to the drain oil passage. An orifice is provided in an oil passage which is located on the side of the first connection oil passage relative to a supply portion of the operational oil supplied to the lash adjustor and located on the side of the first connection oil passage relative to another supply portion of the operational oil supplied to the lash adjustor. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315098 | COOLING DEVICE OF WATER-COOLED ENGINE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An intake-side space around intake ports and an exhaust-side lower space around exhaust ports are provided in a main cooling jacket portion. These spaces are connected to each other. In a sub cooling jacket portion, an exhaust-side upper space is provided at a level above the exhaust-side lower space. The main cooling jacket portion and the sub cooling jacket portion are connected to each other via a cylindrical-hole connecting passage extending vertically and separate from each other vertically via a wall portion in another area than the connecting passage. Accordingly, a cooling device of an engine which can restrain the exhaust gas from being cooled too much improperly is provided. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110314779 | OIL SEPARATION DEVICE OF ENGINE - An extension piece portion is provided at a lower end portion of a screen plate so as to extend from the lower end portion, beyond a gas-passing through hole, to an oil pocket portion. An oil guide portion is provided at respective gas-hitting-side face portions of the screen plate and the extension piece portion so as to guide oil trapped at the above-described face portions into the oil pocket portion. Accordingly, it can be prevented that part of the oil in the middle of dropping down into the oil pocket portion from the screen plate is carried away by the gas flow passing through the gas-passing through hole, so that the efficiency of oil trap can be improved. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110308492 | BALANCER DEVICE OF ENGINE - An oil pump unit comprises a pump shaft and a pump housing which stores the pump shaft. A balancer unit comprises a pair of balancer shafts and a balancer housing which stores the balancer shafts. The pump housing and the balancer housing are coupled to each other at least in the vicinity of a periphery of the pump shaft, and at a coupling portion in the vicinity of the periphery of a power transmission shaft is formed a connection groove which connects the inside to the inside of the coupling portion. Accordingly, it can be retrained that the reliability of journal portions of the balancer shaft of the balancer unit and the like is deteriorated by dusts and the like contained in high-pressure oil from the oil pump unit in a balancer device of an engine. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110301026 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION CATALYST - An exhaust gas purification catalyst includes a catalytic layer on a carrier, in which a particle component A and a particle component B are mixed. The particle component A is composed of catalytic-metal-doped CeZr-based mixed oxide powder, and has a particle size distribution with a peak in a particle size range of equal to or greater than 100 nm and equal to or less than 300 nm. A CeO | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110301025 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION CATALYST - An exhaust gas purification catalyst includes a catalytic layer containing a particle component A-1 and a particle component A-2 with different catalytic metal contents, each of which is composed of catalytic-metal-doped CeZr-based mixed oxide powder. The particle component A-1 having the lower catalytic metal content is supported on a particle component B composed of Zr-based-oxide-supported alumina powder, and the particle component A-2 having the higher catalytic metal content is supported on a particle component C composed of CeZr-based mixed oxide powder in which catalytic metal is not solid-dissolved. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110297469 | BATTERY MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF ELECTROMOTIVE VEHICLE - Plural battery modules mounted on a first mount portion of a battery unit which is positioned below a front floor portion are arranged in a vehicle longitudinal direction such that the longitudinal direction of each of the battery modules matches a vehicle width direction and the short side of a rectangular section of each of the battery modules extends in a vehicle vertical direction, and plural battery modules mounted on a second mount portion which is positioned below a rear floor portion are arranged in the vehicle width direction such that the longitudinal direction of each of the battery modules matches the vehicle longitudinal direction and the long side of the rectangular section of each of the battery modules extends in the vehicle vertical direction. Accordingly, the plural battery modules can be arranged efficiently. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110296684 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING CAPACITIES OF COMBUSTION CHAMBERS OF A MULTI-CYLINDER ENGINE - This disclosure provides a method of adjusting capacities of combustion chambers of a multi-cylinder engine having a cylinder head with recessed parts that partially form the combustion chambers and a mating surface for mating with a cylinder block, which includes casting a cylinder head material having flat reference surfaces on top of the recessed parts of the cylinder head, machining the cylinder head material to form the mating surface, measuring distances in a height direction from the mating surface to the reference surfaces, respectively, and adjusting machining margins of machining portions of the reference surfaces of the recessed parts based on the measured height direction distances. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110259662 | AIRBAG DEVICE - An airbag ( | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110246049 | ABNORMAL COMBUSTION DETECTION METHOD FOR SPARK-IGNITION ENGINE, AND SPARK-IGNITION ENGINE - When a maximum value of vibration intensity (maximum vibration intensity) (Vmax) acquired from a vibration sensor ( | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110241868 | SOUND PRODUCING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A sound producing apparatus for a vehicle notifying a vehicle's approach outside the vehicle comprising an original-tone generating portion generating an original tone of a vehicle's approaching sound for recognition of a vehicle's approach, a modulation-tone generating portion generating a modulation tone from the original tone with a comb filter function which is configured to apply gains to frequency components so that a gain to be applied to a specified frequency component of a times-tone row which has frequencies of n-times of a fundamental frequency is greater than that to be applied to the other frequency component than the specified frequency component of the times-tone row, a sound-pressure setting portion setting a sound pressure of the approaching sound of the modulation tone, and a speaker producing outside the vehicle the vehicle's approaching sound of the modulation tone with the set sound pressure. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110241372 | TONNEAU COVER DEVICE OF VEHICLE - A tonneau cover device of a vehicle equipped with a rear opening portion formed at a rear portion of a vehicle body, a back door to open and close the rear opening portion, and a rear baggage compartment formed in front of the rear opening portion, comprises a tonneau board provided so as to extend substantially horizontally over the rear baggage compartment, the tonneau board comprising plural split boards which are split in a vehicle longitudinal direction, longitudinally-adjacent split boards being coupled to each other via a hinge portion extending in a vehicle width direction, and first and second connecting members as a folding mechanism pulling upwardly the split boards when the back door is opened so that the split boards bend around the hinge portion. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110241328 | SEATBELT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING THE SAME - A seatbelt device comprises a seatbelt including a shoulder belt to restrain a passenger's upper body and a lap belt to restrain a passenger's waist portion, a tongue fixed to the seatbelt and parting the seatbelt into the shoulder belt and the lap belt, a first retractor fixed to a pillar and coupled to a tip of the shoulder belt, a second D ring attached to a position of an inner panel of a side sill below the pillar and supporting the lap belt so as to let the lap belt slide therein, and a second retractor fixed to another position of the inner panel of the side sill located in front of the second D ring and below a seat slide rail, the second retractor being coupled to a tip of the lap belt. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110241321 | INTERIOR STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - An interior structure of a vehicle comprises a shock absorbing member attached to a vehicle body inside a roof trim above a pillar trim, a curtain airbag device including a curtain airbag stored in a roof trim and an inflator to supply gas to the curtain airbag, wherein the curtain airbag has a bending portion in which a rear end portion of the curtain airbag bends forwardly in a storage state, a gas supply portion of the inflator is provided in front of the bending portion of the curtain airbag, and the shock absorbing member holds the bending portion of the curtain airbag inserted into an inside from a vehicle front side with an opening, a holding clip and a storage portion. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110241318 | PASSENGER PROTECTION APPARATUS OF VEHICLE - A passenger protection apparatus comprises an airbag having a concaved receiving portion at its specified position which corresponds to a face of a small-sized passenger seated in a passenger's seat when the airbag inflates in a vehicle collision, an inflator supplying gas to the airbag in a collision of a vehicle to inflate the airbag before the passenger's seat, a position sensor detecting a longitudinal sitting position of the passenger seated in the passenger's seat, and a seatbelt device, an airbag unit for pop-up seat, and a knee airbag unit which adjust a restraint position of the passenger in accordance with the longitudinal sitting position of the passenger so that the face f the small-sized passenger is received at said receiving portion of the airbag in the vehicle collision. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110239986 | SPARK-IGNITION ENGINE CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM - When preignition is detected, and an engine speed is less than a predetermined value (Nex), an air/fuel ratio is enriched (S | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110239645 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR TURBOCHARGED DIESEL ENGINE - Disclosed is a control apparatus for a turbocharged diesel engine. The control apparatus comprises an engine start controller ( | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110239638 | EXHAUST SYSTEM OF MULTI-CYLINDER ENGINE - Provided is an exhaust system of a multi-cylinder engine capable of increasing the air-intake and thereby increasing the engine output with a simple configuration. The exhaust system is provided with low velocity-side passages | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110238279 | DIAGNOSIS FOR MULTIPLE CYLINDER ENGINE - Methods and systems for diagnosing a multiple cylinder engine are provided herein. An exemplary method of diagnosing an internal combustion engine system having a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine is described. In one example, cylinder air-fuel imbalance is determined from the squared value of a difference of two values. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110237429 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION CATALYST - A catalytic metal | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236655 | MULTILAYER COATING FILM STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING MULTILAYER COATING FILM - A double-structure coated object includes an outer plate portion configured to produce a target color by stacking a coating film of a first paint and a coating film of a second paint, and an inner plate portion on which a coating film of the second paint is formed. When the coating film is formed on the inner plate portion, and then the first paint and the second paint are sequentially applied to the outer plate portion, paint dust on the inner plate portion is prevented from causing viewers to feel something different about color. To achieve this, the ratio (1BC)/(1BC+2BC) of the spectral reflectance (1BC) of the color of the coating film made of the first paint to the spectral reflectance (1BC+2BC) of the target color is configured to fall within a predetermined range. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236280 | METHOD FOR PURIFYING EXHAUST GAS AND SYSTEM THEREFORE - A method is provided for purifying exhaust gas from an engine having an exhaust passage with a selective reducing catalyst and an oxidation catalyst upstream of the selective reducing catalyst. The method calculates an amount of NOx that flows into the selective reducing catalyst; sets an amount of an additive agent to be supplied to the selective reducing catalyst based on the calculated amount of NOx; determines a degradation degree of the oxidation catalyst; determines whether a correction to the amount of the additive agent is necessary based on the determined degradation degree of the oxidation catalyst; corrects the amount of the additive agent to be supplied when the correction is necessary; and supplies the additive agent to the selective reducing catalyst in the corrected amount if the amount is determined to be corrected and in the uncorrected amount if the amount is determined not to be corrected. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236253 | ALUMINUM ALLOY - The present disclosure relates to aluminum alloy including about 1.4% by mass to about 1.6% by mass Mn; about 0.75% by mass to about 2.1% by mass Cu; about 0.4% by mass to about 0.7% by mass Fe; about 0.2% by mass to about 0.5% by mass Mg; about 0.1% by mass to about 0.2% by mass Ti; about 0.03% by mass to about 0.07% by mass Si; and the balance aluminum and incidental impurities. In the aluminum alloy, Al—Mg—Cu compounds are dispersed in a matrix. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110233967 | FLOOR PANEL STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - In a vehicle in which a driver's seat is provided on a floor panel and an operational pedal, such as a brake pedal, is provided in front of the driver's seat, a slant floor portion is provided in an area of the floor panel where a heel of a driver pressing the operational pedal is placed. This slant floor portion slants with a specified slant degree in such a manner that its front portion is positioned at a higher level than its rear portion. An interference avoidance portion which is comprised of a horizontal face portion is provided in front of the slant floor portion. This interference avoidance portion has a slant degree which is smaller than the specified slant degree of the slant floor portion so as to avoid interference with the heel of the driver's foot. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110233225 | FUEL TANK STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - Inside a fuel tank body which is installed at a vehicle and in an inside space of which an air inlet of a breather pipe is arranged a fuel-level rise delaying device to delay a rise in a level of fuel supplied in the fuel tank body in a specified range around the air inlet of the breather pipe from a fuel-level rise in the other range. Accordingly, a fuel tank structure of a vehicle which can increase a tank volume with a proper outer shape of the tank is provided. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110232409 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - There is provided, in one aspect of the present description, an automatic transmission. In one example, the automatic transmission comprises a transmission case, a valve body which is arranged in the transmission case, a control valve mechanism which controls oil pressures in parts of the automatic transmission and is installed in the valve body, and a solenoid valve which is attached to the valve body and is arranged at a first side of the valve body and in the transmission case. The automatic transmission further comprises an electronic control unit which controls the solenoid valve, is attached to the valve body, and is arranged at a second side of the valve body that is opposite to the first side across the valve body. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110224882 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: an abnormal combustion detection unit for detecting an abnormal combustion due to self-ignition occurring; a pre-ignition determination unit for detecting abnormal combustion occurrence timing based on abnormal combustion detection information to determine whether or not the abnormal combustion is the pre-ignition based on comparison between pre-ignition determination timing and the abnormal combustion occurrence timing; a heat-source pre-ignition determination unit for determining whether the pre-ignition is the heat-source pre-ignition or the compression pre-ignition based on comparison between the abnormal combustion occurrence timing set by the pre-ignition determination timing and heat-source pre-ignition determination timing; a first avoidance unit for avoiding the heat-source pre-ignition in a case where the pre-ignition is determined as the heat-source pre-ignition; and a second avoidance unit for avoiding the compression pre-ignition in a case where the pre-ignition is determined as the compression pre-ignition. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110219897 | POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - There is provided, in one aspect of the present description, a power transmission apparatus. In one example, the power transmission apparatus comprises, a first driving shaft extending in a first direction, a second driving shaft extending in a second direction, a bevel driving gear arranged on the first driving shaft, and a bevel driven gear arranged on the second driving shaft and meshed with the bevel driving gear. The power transmission apparatus further comprises a fitting shaft formed on the first driving shaft, a fitting hole formed in the bevel driving gear, a contacting surface contacting the first driving shaft so as to restrict movement of the bevel driving gear in a first axial direction, and a snap ring installed so as to restrict movement of the bevel driving gear in a second axial direction that is opposite to the first axial direction. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110215555 | REAR STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A seat is arranged in front of a back door. An airbag is configured to inflate into a space between the seat and the back door in a rear collision of a vehicle. Herein, when a lower frame portion of a headrest support structure body receives a rearward load in the rear collision of the vehicle, an upper frame portion of the headrest support structure body is moved forwardly around a rotational point of connecting members which pivotally connect an upper portion of the headrest support structure body to the vehicle-body side wall. Accordingly, a headrest attached to the upper frame portion is moved forwardly so that the space between the headrest and the back door can be expanded longitudinally and the passenger's head portion can be supported securely. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110198889 | LOWER STRUCTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - A suspension cross member comprises a middle-portion attaching member which extends upwardly from a suspension cross member body, and a pipe-shaped attaching member which is supported at a support portion provided at an upper portion of the middle-portion attaching member. A side portion, in a vehicle width direction, a front portion and a rear portion, in a vehicle longitudinal direction, of a side face portion of the attaching member are supported at the support portion. A lower portion of the attaching member is supported at the support portion with a specified support rigidity, in the vehicle longitudinal direction, which is lower than that of the supporting of the side portion, the front portion or the rear portion of the side face portion of the attaching member. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110198832 | LOWER STRUCTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - A positioning pin and a bolt hole positioned near this pin are provided at a plate-shaped rear-portion attachment face portion of a suspension cross member. A positioning hole having the positioning pin inserted thereinto and a bolt hole positioned near this positioning hole are provided at a tunnel frame on the side of a vehicle. The rear-portion attachment face portion and the tunnel frame are fastened by a bolt inserting into the bolt holes together with a nut. Accordingly, the support rigidity of the suspension cross member during the normal vehicle traveling can be secured and the smooth retreat of the power unit to restrain the collision load from having bad influence on passengers in the vehicle frontal collision can be achieved. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110180339 | STRUCTURE OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE - This disclosure provides a structure of an electric vehicle, which includes an engine, an electric generator for being driven by the engine, a battery for being supplied and charged with generated power at least from the electric generator, a motor for being supplied with power from the battery to drive driving wheels. The engine, the electric generator, and a power transmission device for transmitting a motive force of the engine to the electric generator are integrally formed to constitute a power generation unit. The power generation unit is arranged inside an engine room so that at least the engine is located rearward from wheel axles of left and right front wheels. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110180047 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SUPERCHARGED ENGINE - A supercharged engine has a geometric compression ratio ser to 16 or more and is designed to perform a compression self-ignition combustion under an air-fuel ratio leaner than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio at least in a low engine speed range. On a lower engine load side than a given engine load within an engine operating region at which the compression self-ignition combustion is performed, a fresh air amount is reduced and an effective compression ratio (ε′) is increased, as compared with a higher engine load side than the given engine load within the engine operating region, and, on the higher engine load side than the given engine load, a supercharging pressure based on a supercharger ( | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110180038 | ENGINE CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - An engine is designed to allow a compression self-ignition combustion under an air-fuel ratio leaner than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to be performed at least in a partial-load range of the engine. Under a condition that an engine speed varies at a same load in an engine operating region of the compression self-ignition combustion, a compression end temperature Tx, which is an in-cylinder temperature just before an air-fuel mixture self-ignites, is controlled to be raised higher in a higher engine speed side than in a lower engine speed side. As one example of control for the compression end temperature Tx, an internal EGR amount is controlled to be increased larger in the higher engine speed side than in the lower engine speed side, to raise a compression initial temperature T | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110179719 | BACK DOOR STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A back door structure of a vehicle comprises an inner panel and an outer panel of a back door, a latch provided at a central portion, in a vehicle width direction, of a lower side portion of the back door, a latch opening portion formed at a latch attachment portion of the lower side portion, a reinforcing member provided at the lower side portion, the reinforcing member reinforcing a periphery of the latch opening portion, and side wall portions provided on both sides of the reinforcing member, in the vehicle width direction, the side wall portions extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction between the inner and outer panels of the back door and connecting the inner panel to the outer panel. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110168468 | STRUCTURE OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE - This disclosure provides a structure of an electric vehicle, which includes an engine, an electric generator which is driven by the engine, a battery which is supplied and charged with generated power at least from the electric generator, and a motor which is supplied with power from the battery to drive driving wheels. The engine and the electric generator are arranged inside a floor tunnel that is formed in a center part of a floor panel along the vehicle width axis so as to extend along the vehicle front-to-rear axis and bulge upward. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110156447 | REAR VEHICLE-BODY STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - In a rear vehicle-body structure of a vehicle in which a damper support portion supporting an upper end portion of a suspension damper is provided at a rear wheel house, on a vehicle-inside wall face of the rear wheel house are provided a first brace member which interconnects a front portion of the damper support portion and a rear side frame and a second brace member which interconnects a rear portion of the damper support portion and the rear side frame. Accordingly, the rigidity of the damper support portion provided at the rear wheel house can be improved easily and effectively, and this structure can have superiority in its applicability. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110132676 | BATTERY ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - In a vehicle which comprises an electric motor to drive front wheels and/or rear wheels of the vehicle, a battery to supply an electric power to the electric motor, a dash panel partitioning a vehicle-inside space from a vehicle-front side space located in front of the vehicle-inside space, a floor panel partitioning the vehicle-inside space from a vehicle outside located below the vehicle-inside space, and a tunnel portion provided at the floor panel so as to project upwardly toward an inside of the vehicle-inside space, the battery is arranged so that a front-side part thereof is positioned in front of the dash panel and a rear-side part thereof is positioned inside of the tunnel portion in the vehicle longitudinal direction. Accordingly, an appropriate weight balance of the vehicle between front wheels and rear wheels of the vehicle can be provided. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110126522 | EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR TRANSVERSE ENGINE - Disclosed is an exhaust apparatus (E) for a transverse engine ( | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110126521 | EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR TRANSVERSE ENGINE - An exhaust upstream section ( | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110114056 | ENGINE WITH VIBRATION SUPPRESSION STRUCTURE - There is provided, in one aspect of the present description, an engine. In one example, the engine comprises a cylinder block, a cylinder head, a sheet metal gasket interposed between the block and the head, a first projection projecting outwardly and laterally from a side portion of the block, and a second projection projecting outwardly and laterally from a side portion of the head, the first projection and the second projection facing each other along a coupling surface between the block and the head. The engine further comprises an extension extending from a main body of the sheet metal gasket and located between the first projection and the second projection, and a resilient portion which is provided in the extension, formed resiliently in a direction perpendicular to the coupling surface, and compressed between the first projection and the second projection when the head is fastened on the block. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110113871 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING OUTPUT CHARACTERISTIC OF AIR FUEL RATIO DETECTING MODULE - This disclosure provides a method for measuring an output characteristic of an air fuel ratio sensor based on an output value of the air fuel ratio sensor at the time of changing a fuel injection amount. Under a predetermined condition, an increase in the fuel injection amount is started from a particular cylinder and the increase in the fuel injection amount is continued for a given time period, or a decrease in the fuel injection amount is started from the particular cylinder and the decrease in the fuel injection amount is continued for the given time period. Therefore, the output characteristic of the air fuel ratio detecting module can be measured with sufficient accuracy, regardless of the contacting strength of emission gas for every cylinder against the air fuel ratio detecting module. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110113870 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING ABNORMALITY OF ENGINE - This disclosure provides a method of detecting a cylinder-to-cylinder gap abnormality of an air fuel ratio with sufficient accuracy according to an individual specificity of an air fuel ratio detecting module. Particularly, the method may be used for an engine to detect the cylinder-to-cylinder gap abnormality of the air fuel ratio of supplied air fuel mixture abnormality based on an output value of a linear O | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110109132 | SEAT DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A seat device for a vehicle comprises a seat for a passenger including seatbacks to support a passenger's back portion, reinforcing structure bodies provided inside the seatbacks along an outer periphery of the seatbacks, headrests provided at upper portions of the reinforcing structure bodies to support a passenger's head portion, connection support portions provided beside the reinforcing structure bodies to connect the reinforcing structure bodies to a vehicle-body member, and move-allowance portions to allow lower portions of the reinforcing structure bodies to move rearwardly in a vehicle rear collision so that the headrests move forwardly or upwardly. Accordingly, a passenger's head portion can be protected effectively with a simple structure. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110109130 | SEAT SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - A seat for a passenger comprises reinforcing structure bodies reinforcing seatbacks, connection support portions connecting the reinforcing structure bodies to a vehicle-body wall portion so as to support the reinforcing structure bodies at the vehicle-body wall portion, pressure-receiving portions provided in the seatbacks and supported so as to move rearwardly by being pressed by passengers in a vehicle rear collision, the pressure-receiving portions being arranged at a specified height position which is a distance upwardly away from lower end portions of the seatbacks, and headrest moving-mechanism portions moving headrests forwardly or upwardly in accordance with a rearward move of the pressure-receiving portions. Accordingly, a passenger's head portion can be protected effectively with a simple structure. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110107751 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION CATALYST - In an exhaust gas purification catalyst in which Rh-doped CeZr-based mixed oxide powder and precious-metal (at least one of Pt and Pd)-supporting heat-resistant powder are included in a catalyst layer 2 provided on a support 1, Rh-doped CeZr-based mixed oxide particles either contain at least one of Pr, La, and Y, or are complexed with Al | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110104511 | METHOD OF BONDING METALLIC MEMBERS, AND METALLIC BONDED BODY - By respectively abutting first and second outer diameter sections of a second metallic member against first and second inner diameter sections of a first metallic member, and energizing the first metallic member and the second metallic member using a pair of electrodes while pressurizing both metallic members in an axial direction thereof, a first junction where the first inner diameter section and the first outer diameter section are bonded and a second junction where the second inner diameter section and the second outer diameter section are bonded are formed between both metallic members, and a gap in which the metals do not come into contact with each other is formed between both junctions over a predetermined axial length. Accordingly, a high joint strength can be secured using less energy for bonding. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110101736 | REAR STRUCTURE FOR AUTOMOBILE - A rear structure for an automobile is provided. One exemplary rear structure includes an interior pressure release vent disposed in a rear cargo compartment in a rear part of the automobile. The interior pressure release vent discharges air from a passenger compartment and the rear cargo compartment to an outside of the automobile. The rear structure may also include a cargo cover disposed above the rear cargo compartment to divide the rear cargo compartment from the passenger compartment. The cargo cover has a mesh portion with reticulated through-holes passing through the cargo cover in a vertical direction. Further, a water receptor is disposed below the mesh portion of the cargo cover and above a floor of the rear cargo compartment, such that the water receptor is positioned to receive water drops from the dripping-wet personal effect that is put on the mesh portion. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110101721 | TRUNK BOX STRUCTURE OF AUTOMOBILE - A cargo compartment structure for an automobile is disclosed. In one example, the cargo compartment comprises a trunk box disposed in a cargo compartment in a rear part of the automobile, the trunk box having an opening on its upper side; a cargo board capable of changing its position between a closed position where the opening is closed by the cargo board, and an open position where the opening is opened, the open position of the cargo board being frontward of the closed position; and a board holder for holding the cargo board in a specific state so that a top surface of the cargo board is downwardly inclined toward a rear side of the automobile and so that while the cargo board is in the open position, a rear end of the cargo board is disposed rearward of a front end of the trunk box. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110097594 | JOINING METHOD OF DISSIMILAR METAL PLATES AND DISSIMILAR METAL JOINED BODY - The joining method of the present invention includes a lapping step of lapping the aluminum alloy plate ( | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110095575 | MOVABLE ROOF STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A roof member comprises a front roof and a rear roof which are connected to each other, at least one of which is made of a board-shaped hard roof member. A grip (i.e., an operational member) to be gripped by a passenger is provided at a specified position of the front roof so as to transmit an opening-operational force or closing-operation force by the passenger to the roof member. A guide shaft (i.e., a moving mechanism) is provided to position the grip such that the grip is movable relatively to the roof member. Accordingly, a movable roof structure of a vehicle which can properly improve the operation and handling and decrease the operational force with a simple and light mechanism can be provided. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110095568 | FRONT VEHICLE-BODY STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - Part of a front side frame is configured to be deformed so as to bend outwardly, in a vehicle width direction, by a collision load in a vehicle frontal collision. A sub frame provided at a lower portion of a front vehicle body is joined to the front side frame via a reinforcement. A front portion of the reinforcement is located at a position which corresponds to a bending portion of the front side frame which is to be deformed so as to bend outwardly, in the vehicle width direction, by the collision load in the vehicle frontal collision. Accordingly, the bending of the front side frame at its bending portion when the collision load acts in the vehicle frontal collision can be promoted, so that the collision load against passengers can be decreased securely. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110095567 | VEHICLE-BODY STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - At an upper part of a center pillar, a length L | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110094473 | SPARK-IGNITION INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Provided is a spark-ignition internal combustion engine capable of ensuring engine output power while setting a geometric compression ratio of an engine body to a high value. In the spark-ignition internal combustion engine, each of a clearance between a top surface ( | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110093186 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Control apparatus for an internal combustion engine including: a second knock detection unit for detecting occurrence of a second knock due to an effective compression ratio when ignition timing is on a retard side of a predetermined value in the case where a first knock is detected; a second knock suppression unit for suppressing the second knock when the second knock is detected; a first abnormal ignition detection means for detecting occurrence of first abnormal ignition due to the pre-ignition or the post-ignition when a knock intensity of the second knock is equal to or larger than a predetermined value; and a first abnormal ignition suppression unit for suppressing the first abnormal ignition by performing fuel control for the internal combustion engine when the first abnormal ignition is detected. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110079194 | COMBUSTION TIMING PREDICTION METHOD FOR COMPRESSION SELF-IGNITION INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, CONTROL METHOD FOR COMPRESSION SELF-IGNITION INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, AND COMPRESSION SELF-IGNITION INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE SYSTEM - A combustion timing prediction method for a compression self-ignition internal combustion engine includes the steps of: specifying types of a plurality of hydrocarbon components contained in a hydrocarbon fuel and proportions of the respective types in the hydrocarbon fuel; calculating, on the basis of a temperature in a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, a value of a first function serving as a function of the temperature for each of the types; calculating, on the basis of the proportion and the first function relating to each of the types, a value of a second function, which is a function that increases in value in response to an increase of the value of the first function and/or the proportion, for each of the types; integrating the values of the second function relating to the respective types; and predicting, on the basis of the integrated value of the values of the second function, the combustion timing of the hydrocarbon fuel in the internal combustion engine to be steadily later as the integrated value increases. As a result, the combustion timing of the hydrocarbon fuel in the compression self-ignition internal combustion engine can be predicted with maximum accuracy. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110077121 | AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION DRIVE APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - An oil-pressure output device (electric pump unit) is arranged on an outer wall face of an automatic transmission which is positioned on an opposite side to an engine (left side of a vehicle). An arrangement position of the oil-pressure output device is out of a movable range of one of the steered driving wheels which is located on the opposite side to the engine (left front wheel). Accordingly, a simpler layout change between a case of attaching the oil-pressure output device to the automatic transmission and another case of not attaching the one can be provided, so that commonality of components or layout of the automatic transmission and its surrounding devices and structures can be provided. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110074185 | SEAT DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - There are provided a seatback supporting backs of plural passengers seated on a bench type of seat cushion, a headrest provided at an upper portion of a first portion of the seatback and supporting a head of the passenger seated in front of the first portion, a pressure-receiving portion provided at a second portion of the seatback which is arranged beside the first portion so as to move rearwardly when being pressed by a rearward move of the passenger seated in front of the second portion, and a headrest moving mechanism provided to connect the pressure-receiving portion to the headrest so that the headrest is moved forwardly or upwardly in accordance with a rearward move of the pressure-receiving portion. Accordingly, the passenger's head can be protected with a simple structure. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110073390 | REAR VEHICLE BODY STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A rear floor panel extends rearwardly from a kick-up portion formed at a rear portion of a floor panel. A lateral connecting member which constitutes part of a rear suspension connects to supporting portions to support both rear wheels. An engine is arranged below the rear floor panel and in front of the lateral connecting member. A generator is arranged below the rear floor panel and in back of the engine. Accordingly, the traveling stability of the vehicle can be improved and the yaw inertia moment of the vehicle can be decreased. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110073062 | OIL PAN STRUCTURE - There is provided, in one aspect of the present description, an oil pan structure attached to a lower portion of an engine for a vehicle. In one example, the oil pan structure comprises has an approximately rectangular bottom wall which accumulates oil continually, a long side wall, and a short side wall, the approximately rectangular bottom wall being surrounded by the long side wall and the short side wall. Further, the bottom wall has a deep bottom section provided approximately in a center of the bottom wall and in a portion where the oil is pumped up, a shallow bottom section which has a depth that is shallower than that of the deep bottom section, and a connecting wall section extending vertically and connecting the deep bottom section with the shallow bottom section, the shallow bottom section being provided on both sides of the deep bottom section. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110068608 | DRIVING POSITION ADJUSTING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A driving position adjusting apparatus for a vehicle comprises a driver's seat provided on a floor panel of a vehicle compartment, an operational pedal, such as an accelerator pedal, which is operated by a driver seated in the driver's seat, an incline-face portion which is provided on the floor panel, on which a heel of the driver operating the operational pedal is placed, the incline-face portion having an upper face which is inclined so that a front portion thereof is located at a higher position than a rear portion thereof, and a heel-placement height adjusting device which adjusts a height position of the driver's heel placed on the incline-face portion at least by moving up or down the incline-face portion. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110067679 | SUPERCHARGED DIRECT-INJECTION ENGINE - Disclosed is a supercharged direct-injection engine, which comprises a supercharging device ( | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110062750 | FRONT BODY STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A front body structure of a vehicle comprises a pair of front side frames, a bumper reinforcement, a bumper face, a leg-part sweeping-away member which is provided below the bumper reinforcement and extends in a vehicle width direction, a front end of which is positioned in front of the bumper reinforcement, and a support member which supports the leg-part sweeping-away member at the front side frame. The support member has a specified length in the vehicle longitudinal direction, and comprises beads which absorb an impact load inputted in the vehicle longitudinal direction through their deformation in the longitudinal direction. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110057487 | SEAT STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A seat structure of a vehicle, comprising a seatback frame which is provided on a vehicle-inside of a seatback which is provided at a rear portion of a seat cushion and supports a back of a passenger, a side frame which extends vertically beside the seatback frame, and a pad member which covers the side frame, the pad member forming a shape of the seatback, wherein an impact reduction portion to reduce an impact from a vehicle side is provided at the side frame. Accordingly, the seat structure of a vehicle which can reduce the impact load from the vehicle side portion at the vehicle side collision and thereby properly decrease the load inputting to the passenger's chest portion can be provided. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110048584 | SURFACE TREATMENT METHOD OF METAL MATERIAL - In a process which is before a treatment process of forming a chemical conversion, TiO | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110045968 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION CATALYST - A catalyst layer includes: a first mixed oxide particle component | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110041786 | SPARK IGNITED INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE SYSTEM - There is provided, in one aspect of the present description, an internal combustion engine system. In one example, the system comprises a controller configured to control an intake valve closing timing varying mechanism to vary a closing timing of the intake valve to regulate air charged in a combustion chamber in accordance with engine operating conditions and, in a first engine operating condition where a least volume of air is required to be charged into the combustion chamber, retard a closing timing of the intake valve to a most retarded crank angle which is after bottom dead center during a cylinder cycle and satisfies the following formulas: | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110031781 | BODY STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A hinge reinforcement is provided at a hinge pillar at a specified position which corresponds to an upper door-hinge attachment portion. Attachment portions which extend toward a hinge pillar inner and are attached to this hinge pillar inner are provided at the hinge reinforcement which corresponds to the upper door-hinge attachment portion. A branch frame and a gusset member which transmit an impact load inputted from a front side frame extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction to the attachment portions via the hinge pillar inner are provided so as to extend from the front side frame. Accordingly, the impact load inputted to the vehicle body at the vehicle collision can be properly transmitted to the vehicle rear portion, so that the deformation of the vehicle compartment can be restrained surely. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110030649 | LUBRICANT SUPPLY DEVICE FOR AUXILIARY MACHINE OF ENGINE - An example lubricant supply device for an auxiliary machine of an engine includes a cam formed at one end of a cam shaft rotatably supported by a cylinder head. The lubricant supply device further includes a housing, for storing the auxiliary machine, attached to an attaching surface formed at an end of the cylinder head. The housing may hold a driven member driven by the cam. The lubricant supply device may further include a lubricant hole formed on the attaching surface through which lubricant is supplied from a lubricant passage formed in the cylinder head to the cam storage space. The lubricant supply device may further include a metal gasket positioned between the attaching surface and the housing to seal the cam storage space and outside. The metal gasket has a hole for communicating with the lubricant hole and a slit communicating between the hole and the cam storage space. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110030500 | OPERATIONAL PEDAL SUPPORT STRUCTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - An operational pedal support structure of an automotive vehicle comprises a fixed pedal support member on the side of a dash panel, a swing pedal support member, a pedal body supported at the swing pedal support member via a first pivotal axis, a downward-move restricting means to allow a downward move of the first pivotal axis only in case the rotational lever rotates, and a pressing portion provided at the rotational lever so as to press down the swing pedal support member. The pressing portion is positioned in front of the second pivotal axis. Accordingly, the operational pedal support structure of an automotive vehicle equipped with a means for compulsively moving down the pedal at the vehicle frontal collision, which can be made compact and simple with a high reliability, can be provided. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110029221 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR ENGINE - One example method for an engine having an automatic stopping function in which the engine is automatically stopped when a predetermined engine stopping condition is satisfied, and then the engine is automatically restarted when a predetermined engine restarting condition is satisfied, includes the following: a first step for driving a motor so as to increase an engine rotating speed of the engine up to a predetermined rotating speed and maintain the engine rotating speed, in a case in which a predetermined first condition is satisfied when the engine rotating speed is below the predetermined rotating speed during automatic engine stopping; and a second step for restarting a fuel supply into the engine in a case in which a predetermined second condition is satisfied after the first step is executed. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110011061 | CONTROL METHOD OF SPARK-IGNITION ENGINE AND SPARK-IGNITION ENGINE SYSTEM - In a specified operating area including a low engine-speed and low engine-load area, an excess air ratio λ is set at a specified ratio which is two or greater and three or smaller and an ignition timing θig of a spark plug is set at a timing of MBT to provide the maximum torque as a normal combustion control (S | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110006571 | SEAT DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - In a seatbelt device for a sub seat, a retractor to wind up a webbing is attached to a sub-seat back support member. A buckle to detachably hold a tongue provided at the webbing is provided on a side of the sub-seat cushion which is opposite to a disposition side of the main seat in a vehicle width direction. Accordingly, the seat device for a vehicle which can ensure the sufficient sitting rigidity of the sub seat and the proper support rigidity of the retractor can be provided. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110006560 | FRAME STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE - A frame body comprises a first face portion on which a compressive force acts in case a load is applied, a second face portion on which a tensional force acts, and third and fourth face portions which connect the first and second face portions. The third and fourth face portions are respectively equipped with a reinforcing member which comprises a base portion which is away from the frame body and plural base portions which project from the base portion and are joined to the frame body. The convex portions have plural convexities which are arranged so as to extend both in the longitudinal and sectional directions of a frame. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110005891 | PARKING DEVICE OF TRANSMISSION - According to an operation of a shift lever to parking range, a cam member at a parking rod comes in between a parking pole and a support member, and the parking pole swings so that a pawl portion of the parking rod can engage with a parking gear. A concave holding portion to hold the support member is formed at a transmission case. The support member comprises a first cylindrical outer face having a first radius R | 01-13-2011 |
| 20100313829 | COOLING-WATER PUMP ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE OF ENGINE - A pump attaching portion is formed at a specified outside portion of an engine body beside a boss portion of a cylinder-head fastening bolt in such a manner that the pump attaching portion is continuous from the boss portion. The pump attaching portion has an attachment face, which contains a cooling-water introducing port, which is located on the outside of the flange wall and faces toward an engine front side in such a manner that the position of the attachment face is retreated from the flange wall. Accordingly, the sufficient pump-support rigidity can be ensured, restraining the pump attaching portion from projecting greatly toward the side of the engine body. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100313561 | TURBOCHARGED ENGINE FOR VEHICLE - Two turbochargers are arranged vertically near a one side of a crank-shaft direction at a one-side face of an engine body so that the large-size turbocharger is located above the small-sized turbocharger, and an exhaust-gas purification device is arranged an open space made on the other side of the crank-shaft direction so that its exhaust inlet is located above and its outlet is located below. Accordingly, the turbochargers and the exhaust-gas purification device can be arranged compactly and the layout of some devices around the engine can be facilitated. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100299107 | ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - Disclosed is an acoustic analysis apparatus. The acoustic analysis apparatus is configured to allow a user or operator to set a plurality of load input points corresponding to respective sound input sources, and an evaluation point for evaluating a level of a sound pressure transferred from each of the set load input points (S | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100273004 | MULTI-LAYER COATING FILM STRUCTURE - The average light transmissivity of a wavelength range of 300 through 390 nm of upper-layer coating films is less than 0.5% and the average light transmissivity of a wavelength range of 390 through 450 nm of those is 6.5% or less. Or, the average light transmissivity of the wavelength range of 300 through 390 nm of the upper-layer coating films is 0.5% or more and the average light transmissivity of the wavelength range of 390 through 450 nm of those is 4.5% or less. Accordingly, the deterioration resistance against lights can be improved without forming any second coating film in a multi-layer coating film structure comprising the upper-layer coating films formed on a lower-layer coating film formed by an electrocoating or the like. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100263469 | FLOOR STRUCTURE OF DRIVER'S SEAT FOR AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - A floor structure of a driver's seat for an automotive vehicle comprises an organ type of accelerator pedal supported swingably at a support point with its lower-end hinge portion, a hanging type of brake pedal provided beside the accelerator pedal and supported swingably at a support point with its upper pivotal portion, a floor mat covering an upper face of a front portion of a floor panel located in front of the driver's seat, and an incline forming member provided at a specified portion of the floor mat located in back of a pressing-face board of the accelerator pedal, the incline forming member forming an incline portion at an upper face of a heel placing area on which a driver's heel is placed, the incline portion being inclined so that its front portion is positioned at a higher level than its rear portion. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100250103 | CONTROL OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An exemplary method of controlling an internal combustion engine system is described herein. The internal combustion engine system includes an internal combustion engine, a valve driving mechanism which reciprocally drives an intake valve and an exhaust valve for a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, a turbocharger including a turbine and a compressor, and a first EGR passage which communicates an exhaust passage downstream of the emission control device and an intake passage upstream of the compressor. The exemplary method includes shutting off supplying fuel to the combustion chamber under a predetermined condition, and decreasing a lift of the intake or exhaust valve for the combustion chamber during the shutting off supplying fuel to the combustion chamber compared to in a case of supplying fuel to said combustion chamber. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100247744 | METHOD FOR PAINTING AUTOMOBILE BODY AND SYSTEM THEREFOR - A method for painting an automobile body, which comprises: a first paint film-forming step K | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100244497 | CONNECTION STRUCTURE AND ASSEMBLY METHOD OF TUBE-SHAPED FRAMES - A first split-bracket is joined to a first tube-shaped frame by lazar welding. A second split-bracket is joined to an end portion of a second tube-shaped frame by the lazar wielding. The second tube-shaped frame equipped with the second split-bracket is assembled to the first tube-shaped frame equipped with the first split-bracket. A second flange of the first split-bracket and a second flange of the second split-bracket are joined temporarily by spot welding. The second flange of the first split-bracket and the second flange of the second split-bracket are joined by continuous welding with lazar welding. Accordingly, the tube-shaped frames can be connected properly without forming any hole at a wall of the tube-shaped frame, ensuring the rigidity of the connection portion of the tube-shaped frames. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100244484 | PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A pedestrian protection device for a vehicle is provided at a vehicle-body front portion which comprises an engine room, a cowl box provided at an upper portion of a dash panel and extending in a vehicle width direction, and an engine hood pivotally supported at the vehicle body via a first hinge provided at a rear end portion so as to cover over the engine room. An engine-hood guide mechanism guides the engine hood upwardly and rearwardly so as to cover at least part of the cowl box when a collision of a pedestrian against a front bumper face is detected or predicted, and lowers the engine hood downwardly when a load acting on the engine hood exceeds a specified load. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100242901 | CONTROL OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An exemplary method for controlling an internal combustion engine system includes, when a desired torque is equal to or greater than a first torque, opening an exhaust valve and injecting pilot fuel into a combustion chamber at a first pressure before an exhaust top dead center in a cylinder cycle, opening an intake valve in the cylinder cycle after said injecting, and injecting main fuel in the cylinder cycle after said opening of said intake valve. The method further includes, when a desired torque is less than said first torque, opening said exhaust valve and injecting pilot fuel into the combustion chamber at a second pressure that is greater than the first pressure before an exhaust top dead center in the cylinder cycle, opening said intake valve in the cylinder cycle after said injecting, and injecting main fuel in the cylinder cycle after said opening of said intake valve. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100242900 | CONTROL OF DIRECT FUEL INJECTION ENGINE - Various systems and methods are disclosed for controlling an internal combustion engine system having an internal combustion engine, and a fuel injector which directly injects fuel into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. One example method comprises, when a desired torque for the internal combustion engine system is in a first range, injecting a first stage fuel into the combustion chamber so that it ends during a middle stage of a compression stroke at the latest in a cylinder cycle; determining combustion of the first stage fuel initiated by its compression self-ignition; and injecting a second stage fuel into the combustion chamber in a period when the determined combustion of the first stage fuel continues at a timing determined so as to cause combustion of the second stage fuel with its compression self-ignition. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100242899 | SUPERCHARGED DIRECT FUEL INJECTION ENGINE - Various systems and methods are disclosed for controlling an internal combustion engine system having an internal combustion engine, a fuel injector which directly injects fuel into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, and a supercharger which supercharges air into the combustion chamber. One example method comprises, injecting fuel into the combustion chamber multiple times so that a first part of the fuel is self ignited and a last part of the fuel being injected during the compression stroke or later in a cylinder cycle when a desired torque of said internal combustion engine system is in a first range; and increasing a pressure of air which the supercharger charges into the combustion chamber as amount of fuel injected into the combustion chamber during a cylinder cycle increases when the desired torque is in the first range. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100242647 | MANUAL TRANSMISSION - A gear train for first gear, a gear train for another specified forward gear and a gear train for reverse gear are arranged in order from the opposite side to an engine. A synchronizer for reverse gear is arranged on a first countershaft between a first driven gear of the gear train for reverse gear and a driven gear of the gear train for first gear. The synchronizer for reverse gear connects the first driven gear of the gear train for reverse gear and the driven gear of the gear train for first gear when a reverse shift is selected. Accordingly, the manual transmission which can shorten its axial size can be provided. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100242473 | ENGINE WITH SUPERCHARGER - A four-cylinder engine has a valve overlap period during which an exhaust valve and an intake valve of each cylinder are both opened. Cylinder pipes for cylinders having adjacent ignition timings of the engine are connected to a turbo charger, and cylinder pipes for cylinders having adjacent ignition timings are connected to another turbo charger. Accordingly, a properly great supercharging pressure can be obtained in a low engine-speed area. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100237659 | LOWER VEHICLE-BODY STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A reinforcing member is provided at a lower-outside corner of a side-sill reinforcement so as to extend in the vehicle longitudinal direction including a connection portion of the side sill to a center pillar for straining deformation of the corner. A deformation promoting portion which is provided at an upper portion of the side-sill reinforcement at a specified position which corresponds to the connection portion for prompting deformation of the upper portion of the side-sill reinforcement. Accordingly, a lower vehicle-body structure of a vehicle which can properly restrain the side sill and the center pillar from coming toward the vehicle inside at the vehicle side crash can be provided. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100218375 | METHOD OF PRODUCING METAL CLOSED-SECTION MEMBER - The present invention provides a method capable of accurately producing a metal closed-section member in a relatively simple manner. The method of producing a metal closed-section member formed in a cross-sectionally closed shape, from a metal plate workpiece, comprises a first press-forming step of using a first forming die assembly to press-form the plate workpiece into a convex shape, and a second press-forming step of providing a second forming die assembly, and, after the first press-forming step, under a condition that the press-formed plate workpiece is positioned between a receiving die and a core die of the second forming die assembly, causing relative movement of the core die with respect to the receiving die to press-form the press-formed plate workpiece into a given shape so that two sidewalls of a convex-shaped portion of the press-formed plate workpiece formed on respective ones of both sides of a top wall of the convex-shaped portion of the press-formed plate workpiece during the first press-forming step are displaced toward an inward side of the press-formed plate workpiece and cross-sectionally closed together. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100217504 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING ENGINE SYSTEM AND ENGINE SYSTEM - A valve overlap period is increased as a desired torque of an engine increases by advancing an opening timing of an intake valve at a rate greater than that of retarding a closing timing of an exhaust valve in a low engine-torque area in which the desired torque of the internal combustion engine is relatively low (step S | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100214055 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE INVERTER APPARATUS AND PROTECTION METHOD THEREFOR - In an electric vehicle inverter apparatus | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100207428 | SIDE VEHICLE-BODY STRUCTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - A second closed cross section which projects toward the outside from a third lower flange of a side sill outer and a lower end portion is provided. Lower cross sections of the third lower flange and the lower end portion contact a second upper wall portion. The second closed cross section and a third closed cross section are formed by a side sill reinforcement of a frame member of a vehicle body. Thereby, a split line can be made be recognized as on body with the second closed cross section, so that both increasing the vehicle-body rigidity and improving the exterior appearance can be achieved. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100206856 | LASER WELDING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A laser welding method including a step of welding upper and lower metal plates, a step of picking up an image of a molten pool near a molten hole from the side of the upper metal plate during an execution of the welding step, a step of determining whether a welding state of the metal plates is proper or not by analyzing a generation state of the molten pool based on the image picked up in the picking-up step, and a step of adjusting at least one of a parameter of the irradiated laser beams and a feeding speed of the filler wire so that the welding state of the metal plates becomes proper in case the welding state determined in the determining step is not proper. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100206265 | EXHAUST PASSAGE STRUCTURE OF MULTI-CYLINDER ENGINE - Three or more independent passages are coupled to respective cylinders which are different from each other, and a collective portion where the independent passages collect is provided. An exhaust turbocharger is arranged downstream of the collective portion. Rotary throttle valves are arranged respectively in the independent passages upstream of the collective portion. At least two of the throttle valves are supported by a common rotary axis. The independent passages with the throttle valves supported by the common rotary axis are coupled to cylinders which have exhaust strokes which are not adjacent to each other. Accordingly, the exhaust gas can be supplied to the exhaust turbocharger efficiently. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100201108 | INTERIOR STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A door trim covers a door body of a side door. An article storage portion is provided at a lower portion of the door trim. A seat is provided beside the side door so that the seat and the side door are overlapped when viewed from a vehicle side. A side airbag device includes an airbag which inflates beside the seat with gas supplied from an inflator at a vehicle side crash and protects chest and waist portions of a passenger. A recess is provided at the door trim. The recess is concaved toward a vehicle outside at an upper portion of the door trim above the article storage portion. A covering member which restrains the airbag from coming into the recess is provided at the door trim so as to cover almost half of the recess. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100194146 | SIDE VEHICLE-BODY STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A pillar reinforcement of a center pillar comprises an upper part and a lower part with a boundary line of these parts being positioned below the middle level of the pillar reinforcement. The upper and lower parts respectively include side wall portions which extend along a vehicle side face and pairs of vertical wall portions which extend inwardly from front and rear end portions of the side wall portions. The pair of vertical wall portions of the lower part is slant relative to the vehicle width direction so that the distance between the vertical wall portions becomes wider toward the inward direction, and a slant angle of the pair of vertical wall portions of the lower part is greater than that of the vertical portions of the upper part. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100194089 | SEATBELT DEVICE OF VEHICLE - A belt anchor comprises an anchor portion which changes the extending direction of a belt body toward a vehicle front, a bolt which supports the anchor portion, and a nut which fastens the bolt. The belt anchor is fixed to a lift gate inner and a second reinforcement at a position which is located near a pivotal axis of a hinge. Accordingly, a seatbelt device of a vehicle which can ensure both the properly-large slant angle of the belt body and the support strength of the belt anchor, keeping appropriate flexibility of the vehicle layout, can be provided. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100182425 | VEHICLE INTERIOR STATE RECOGNITION DEVICE - A vehicle interior state recognition device comprises an illuminating means for illuminating infrared rays into a vehicle compartment, an image pick-up means for picking up an image inside the vehicle compartment into which the infrared rays are illuminated by the illuminating means, and a recognizing means for recognizing specified information based on the image picked up by the image pick-up means. Objects of the image picked up by the image pick-up means include a seat which is movable relative to a vehicle body and a passenger seated in the seat, and the recognizing means determines a size of the passenger by comparing contour of the seat with contour of the passenger on the image picked up. Accordingly, the body size of the passenger seated in the seat can be determined accurately. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100181692 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOLDING RESIN FOAM PRODUCT - An example molding method includes: feeding a molten foamable resin by injection in a cavity formed in a molding die; allowing the molten foamable resin to flow in the cavity; and foaming and solidifying the molten foamable resin to mold a resin foam product. The example molding method performs flow rate control by controlling a flow rate of the molten foamable resin at a welding portion to be equal to or higher than a flow rate of the molten foamable resin at an upstream portion adjacent to the welding portion. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100179025 | SHIFT CONTROL DEVICE OF AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - A control device, in which a shift-up control is automatically executed when an engine's over revolution with a turbine speed for a shift gear set by a manual shift mode exceeding a preset limit speed A is executed, is configured such that a controller detects an engine's over revolution (Yes in step s | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100175660 | DIRECT-INJECTION SPARK-IGNITION ENGINE - Disclosed is a direct-injection spark-ignition engine designed to promote catalyst activation during cold engine operation. A fuel injection timing for a fuel injection period in an compression stroke (second fuel injection period F | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100156071 | SIDE AIRBAG STRUCTURE - A side airbag unit disposed in a side support of a seat capable of absorbing collision energy sufficiently during a side collision of a vehicle is described. In one example, the airbag unit comprises: a low expansion member disposed inside of a front skin of the seat, wherein one end of the low expansion member is attached to the inside of the front skin in the vicinity of a fragile part of the seat and the other end of the low expansion member is attached to the seatback frame through a slit. The low expansion member inhibits the front skin from expanding due to the inflation of the airbag, and a cushion pad located outside of the slit in the vehicle width direction and inside of the fragile part in the vehicle width direction is moved outward and frontward by the inflation of the airbag in a vehicle collision. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100154735 | ENGINE BALANCER - An engine balancer includes a pair of balancer shafts and a balancer housing for housing the balancer shafts, and is placed in an oil pan at the bottom of an engine. The balancer housing includes a pair of front and rear bearing walls respectively supporting the balancer shafts with rolling bearings interposed therebetween. The bearing walls of the balancer housing are attached to bearing walls for a crankshaft. The housing body has an aperture at the top thereof. The aperture of the housing body is covered with a plate-shaped cover member thinner than a member forming the housing body. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100148541 | ROOF OPENING STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE - A roof is split into plural parts, a front roof and a rear roof. A roof-storage space is formed between a passenger's seat and a rear bulkhead which forms a rear end of a vehicle compartment, in which the roof is stored when the roof is open. There is provided a support mechanism which substantially horizontally supports the roof which is stored in the roof-storage space so that an upper space of the roof-storage space between the passenger's seat and the bulkhead is covered with only one of the plural parts of the roof. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100148535 | DOOR STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE - There is provided a door structure for a vehicle. The door structure comprises an upper door hinge; a lower door hinge; a door main body having an upper hinge mounting portion at which the door main body is mounted with the upper door hinge and a lower hinge mounting portion at which the door main body is mounted with the lower door hinge; an outer impact bar disposed in the door main body and extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle; an inner impact bar disposed in the door main body and extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle; and a connecting bracket connecting the front end of the outer impact bar and the front end of the inner impact bar to the upper hinge mounting portion of the door main body. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100140978 | VEHICLE BODY STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF VEHICLE BODY - In a vehicle body structure in which a vehicle-body frame of front side frames with a flangeless structure having a rectangular closed cross section and a vehicle-body panel of a dash panel are welded, a concave portion is formed at a specified portion of the vehicle-body panel to which the vehicle-body frame is welded so as to be concaved toward one side which is opposite to a disposition side of the vehicle-body frame and extends in its longitudinal direction, a temporary connection portion which temporarily connects the vehicle-body frame to a side of the concave portion is formed, and a lazar welding portion which connects the vehicle-body frame to the vehicle-body panel is formed near the temporary connection portion so as to extend along the longitudinal direction of the vehicle-body frame. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100122686 | DIESEL ENGINE - A wall shape of a cavity consists of an inward protruding portion located at the periphery of an opening, a center portion projecting toward a fuel injector, and a peripheral portion connecting the inward protruding portion and the center portion. The fuel injector and the cavity are configured so that fuel injected from fuel injector directs to the proximity of the border between the inward protruding portion and the peripheral portion. The peripheral portion consists of a first portion located farthermost from the fuel injector, a second portion located between the inward protruding portion and the first portion, and a third portion located between the first portion and the center portion. The radii of arcs of the peripheral portion decrease from the second portion to the first portion and increase from the first portion to the third portion. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100099554 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION CATALYST - An exhaust gas purification catalyst includes a support and a catalytic layer provided on the support. The catalytic layer contains: a NOx storage material which stores NOx in exhaust gas when an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas is leaner than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, and releases the NOx when the air-fuel ratio is close to the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio or richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio; and CePr-based mixed oxide particles doped with a catalytic metal and formed by complexing at least Ce and Pr. The CePr-based mixed oxide particles contain a Ce oxide and a Pr oxide which are at least partially dissolved in each other. The catalytic metal is dissolved in the oxide particles. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100097036 | CHARGE METHOD AND DEVICE OF BATTERY FOR ELECTRIC MOTOR VEHICLE - The present invention is a charge method of a battery for an electric motor vehicle, in which a battery is charged by an outside electric source. A residual charge quantity of the battery is detected before charging. A maximum-quantity charge time Ttotal which is required for the residual charge quantity of the battery becoming the maximum quantity is calculated based on detection result. A driving-start time tds of the electric motor vehicle is estimated. A first charge is executed so as to be started from a driving stop of the electric motor vehicle, continued for a period of time which is shorter than the maximum-quantity charge time Ttotal, and completed before the driving-start time tds. A second charge is executed so as to be started after the first charge is completed and completed at the driving-start time tds. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100082191 | MOTOR CONTROL METHOD FOR ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLE AND DRIVING APPARATUS FOR ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLE - Disclosed is a motor control method for an electric-powered vehicle ( | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100081537 | AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION AND ADJUSTING METHOD OF GAP IN AXIAL DIRECTION OF AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - An automatic transmission comprises a transmission mechanism including plural planetary gear sets, a transmission case storing the transmission mechanism, and an end cover closing an opening at one end of the transmission case. A planetary gear set disposed the closest to the end cover is assembled in such a manner that before the end cover is attached to the transmission case, a sun gear is assembled to the transmission case and a pinion carrier is assembled to the end cover. A thrust washer is disposed between an end face of the sun gear and an end face of an inner peripheral portion of the pinion carrier. The thrust washer is a member for adjusting a gap which is formed in an axial direction in the transmission case, and the member is selected from plural ones which have different axial thicknesses from each other. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100080419 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - An image processing device comprising a camera to pick up frame images at the times, a basic template creating portion to create a basic template of a picked-up object in the first image, an image transformation parameter calculating portion to calculate a transformation matrix to execute an image transformation of an object of the first image to an object of the second image, a template transforming portion to create a transformation template by transforming the basic template with the transformation matrix, and a template matching processing portion to execute a template matching processing to the second image with the transformation template to detect the object and to determine that the picked-up object in the second image is identical to the basic template when a matching degree by the matching means is higher than a specified degree. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100078961 | SLIDE DOOR STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - There is provided a slide door structure of a vehicle which has a slide door to slide in a vehicle longitudinal direction at a side of a vehicle body, comprising a center rail which extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction at the side of the vehicle body so as to guide a roller provided at the slide door, and an expansion preventing bracket which is provided at a front end portion of the center rail so as to connect a pair of guide-face portions which face to each other for preventing an expansion of a center-rail end. Accordingly, the expansion of guide-rail end can be prevented in case the outward load acts on the slide door when the slide door is in the closed state. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100077990 | CONTROL OF SPARK IGNITED INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - There is provided a method of controlling a spark ignited internal combustion engine having a fuel injector which injects fuel directly into its combustion chamber. The method comprises injecting a total amount of fuel into a combustion chamber by early in a compression stroke during a cylinder cycle at a first engine speed. The method further comprises injecting a first stage of fuel into the combustion chamber during a cylinder cycle by an early in a compression stroke of the cylinder cycle, and injecting a second stage of fuel by late in the compression stroke during the cylinder cycle at a second engine speed less than the first engine speed, after injecting the first stage of fuel. The amount of the second stage fuel is greater than an amount of said first stage fuel. Accordingly, the first and second stage fuels may not be pre-ignited before the spark ignition. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100077989 | CONTROL OF SPARK IGNITED INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - There is provided, in one aspect of the present description, a method of controlling a spark ignited internal combustion engine having a fuel injector which injects fuel directly into its combustion chamber. The method comprises stopping the fuel injection if a desired torque for the engine is a predetermined torque or less and a speed of the engine is a predetermined speed or greater. The method comprises resuming the fuel injection by injecting a first amount of fuel directly into the combustion chamber during a negative pressure period and injecting a second amount of the fuel into the combustion chamber during an intake period. The method further includes resuming the fuel injection by injecting a third amount of the fuel directly into the combustion chamber during the negative pressure period and injecting a fourth amount of the fuel into the combustion chamber during the intake period. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100072015 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF CLUTCH FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION AND AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - In a clutch manufacturing method, inner peripheral portions of drum members, of two clutches are connected to a sleeve member, and a piston, a seal plate and a return spring are provided between the drum members, an insulator to apply electric isolation between the piston and the drum member or between the seal plate and another drum member is attached to either the piston or the seal plate. Then, the drum member, to which the electric isolation with the insulator is not applied, is connected to the sleeve member. Then, the piston, return sprig and seal plate are assembled to the sleeve member to which the drum member has been connected. Finally, the drum member, to which the electric isolation with the insulator has been applied, is connected to the sleeve member with electric welding. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100071500 | PEDAL DEVICE OF AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - There is provided a pedal device of an automotive vehicle, which comprises a plate-shaped pedal body, a lower end of which is rotatably supported at a pivot (support axis) which is disposed on a vehicle floor at a position where a foot of a driver seated in a driver's seat is to be located, the pedal body being provided so as to rotate around the pivot and swing longitudinally according to a pressing operation of the driver's foot, and a slant-face member which is provided behind the pivot which supports the lower end of the pedal body, the slant-face member having a slant upper face which extends obliquely rearward and downward with a slant angle within a rage of 13.5 to 23.5 degrees. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100071351 | EXHAUST EMISSION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ENGINE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An exhaust emission control system, which comprises control means | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100066124 | VEHICLE BODY STRUCTURE - A crash can with a cross-shaped cross section is provided between a side frame and a bumper beam. The crash can connects to an end portion of the side frame in a state where its four projecting portions are directed respectively in upper, lower, right and left directions. The bumper beam comprises a protruding portion which extends in the vehicle width direction. The right and left projecting portions are joined to a top face of the protruding portion and that the upper and lower projecting portions are joined to upper and lower faces of the protruding portion respectively. Plural beads are formed at the crash can at positions which avoid spot-joint positions. Accordingly, the impact energy can absorbed effectively by the crash can. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100066065 | ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE OF CURTAIN-SHAPED COVER MEMBER OF VEHICLE - An attachment structure comprises a top ceiling, a cover member to cover a window glass from the inside of a vehicle compartment, an airbag which is stored along an upper edge portion of the window glass in its non-operation state and inflates downward through a gap which is formed between the window glass and the side end portion of the top ceiling which is pressed down by the airbag receiving a gas pressure from an inflator; and support members to support the cover member longitudinally at a position which is on an outside of the inflating airbag. Accordingly, the proper inflation of the airbag can be provided despite of the cover member at the window. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100064787 | ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE FOR SENSOR TO BE MOUNTED TO ENGINE OF VEHICLE - Disclosed is an arrangement structure for a sensor to be mounted to an engine of a vehicle, wherein the engine is arranged in an engine compartment | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100060441 | DRIVING ASSIST DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - An alarm sound according to the distance of a dangerous object exiting around a vehicle is created. A reference sound which enables a driver to recognize the distance of the dangerous object when the driver hears the alarm sound, comparing with the reference sound, is created. The alarm sound and the reference sound are generated at the same time or a different timing. It is preferable that the sound volume of the alarm sound be greater than that of the reference sound. Accordingly, the driver can be warned precisely of the distance of the dangerous object from the vehicle with the sound. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100045072 | FRAME STRUCTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - A pair of side frames extends longitudinally away from each other in a vehicle width direction, which includes a closed cross section formed by an outer panel having a U-shaped cross section with its vehicle's inward side opening and an inner panel having a U-shaped cross section with its vehicle's outward side opening. A cab-mount bracket is provided on a vehicle-outward side of a front portion of the side frame to support a cabin. The cab-mount bracket includes an upper portion which is joined to a side face of a side portion of the outer panel and extends in an outward direction, and a lower portion which includes an extension portion extending in a vehicle inward direction beyond the side face of the outer panel and be joined to a lower face of a bottom portion of the inner panel. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100032970 | IMPACT ENERGY ABSORBER AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF - A main body of an impact energy absorber is formed by integrally molding a deformable portion and a plurality of deformation controlling portions which are adapted to control the direction of plastic deformation of the deformable portion. The deformation controlling portions have such a configuration and shape that, when a compression load equal to or greater than a predetermined value is input to the main body in a tube axis direction, the deformable portion undergoes plastic deformation in at least one of a radially outward direction and a radially inward direction of the main body concurrently with the compressive plastic deformation in the tube axis direction. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100032928 | INTERIOR STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH CURTAIN AIRBAG - A second tether member is made of a long cloth member. Its rear end is fixed to a specified lower-side position of a fifth pillar which is located below the middle portion of this pillar in the vertical direction (i.e., at the position which is away from the top end of the fifth pillar by a distance of about 100 mm or greater) via a fixing pin. Its front end is fixed to a body portion of a curtain member via a seam portion. Accordingly, there can be provided the interior structure of a vehicle equipped with a curtain airbag which can properly form the tension line at the curtain member. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100032220 | ENGINE INTAKE PASSAGE STRUCTURE OF FRONT VEHICLE BODY - There is provided a duct, an inlet portion of which is disposed so as to be exposed to an upper-side portion of an air intake opening and an outlet portion of which connects to an inlet of an intake passage of an engine. There can be provided an engine intake passage structure of a front vehicle body which can properly reduce a risk of the water coming into the inlet of the intake passage of the engine even when the vehicle travels on the flooded road. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100018190 | PARTICULATE FILTER REGENERATING SYSTEM - Disclosed is a particulate filter regenerating system which comprises a fuel injection device ( | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100011896 | AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - An automatic transmission comprises a converter case storing a torque converter, a transmission case storing a transmission mechanism, the transmission case connecting to the converter case at a front thereof and having a rear wall portion to close an end at a rear thereof, a lubricating-oil introduction passage provided at the converter case to introduce lubricating oil, a rear-side lubricating-oil supply passage provided at the rear wall portion to supply the lubricating oil to the transmission mechanism, a lubricating-oil supply pipe extending toward the rear wall portion in the transmission case, an upstream end of which connects to the lubricating-oil introduction passage and a downstream end of which connects to the rear-side lubricating-oil supply passage, wherein the lubricating-oil supply pipe is supported between the converter case and the rear wall portion. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100000501 | CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DUAL-FUEL ENGINE - Various systems and methods are described for controlling a dual-fuel engine that has an evaporated gas providing device for providing an evaporated gas into the engine and is operable with hydrocarbon fuel or non-hydrocarbon fuel, alternatively. One example method comprises operating the engine with one of the fuels on the basis of a driver's request, and in response to a determination of a cold engine operation, operating the engine with the non-hydrocarbon fuel for a specified period irrespective of the driver's request. If it is determined that an evaporated fuel is to be provided to the engine while the engine is operating with non-hydrocarbon fuel due the cold engine operation, then switching to operation with hydrocarbon fuel and thereafter providing evaporated fuel into the engine. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100000493 | SPARK IGNITED INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND MANUFACTURING THE SAME - There is provided a spark ignited internal combustion engine having a geometric compression ratio of 13.0 or greater. The engine comprises combustion chambers having a cylinder stroke volume of 0.3 liter or greater, with the spark plug in the chamber ceiling having its spark point in the combustion chamber, and a cavity being formed on the top surface of the piston. At least part of the cavity defines a spherical surface that a hypothetical sphere having its center at the spark point contacts when the piston is at top dead center. The cavity is formed so that V | 01-07-2010 |
| 20090322123 | FRONT VEHICLE BODY STRUCTURE - A single wire is provided between a pair of front side frames and a power plant, respective front ends of which are coupled to front end portions of the pair of front side frames. Accordingly, the impact load can be dispersed to the both-side front side frames in case the central portion of the vehicle front collides with the pole-shaped obstacle and the power plant can be suppressed from moving rearward. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090319156 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An internal combustion engine is described herein. The engine may include a combustion chamber having a pair of intake ports arranged at one side, and an exhaust port arranged at the other side. The engine may also include a fuel injector configured to inject fuel into said combustion chamber from a side of said intake ports toward a side of said exhaust port, a variable flow restrictor capable of making flow resistance of said second intake port greater than flow resistance of said first intake port, a first spark plug arranged on a ceiling of the chamber and having its spark gap in the proximity of a center portion of said ceiling, and a second spark plug arranged on said ceiling and having its spark gap which is positioned closer to said first intake port in the axial direction of said crankshaft than said first spark plug. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090309537 | Battery-charging method and battery-charging apparatus - Disclosed is a battery-charging method and apparatus which is designed to improve charging efficiency during charging of a battery using an external power source, without increasing the number of components. The battery-charging method of the present invention comprises the steps of: forming an electric circuit which includes: an alternating-current generator operable to output alternating current, and an external power source; a diode rectifier operable to rectify the alternating current output from the alternating-current generator into a direct current by a diode; and a battery which is chargeable using an output of the alternating-current generator, which are serially connected in this order; and supplying an alternating current fed from the external power source, between the alternating-current generator and the diode rectifier (S | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090306852 | DRIVING OPERATION SUPPORT DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE - A driving operation support device for a vehicle is provided herein. One exemplary driving operation support device includes a road sensor for acquiring information regarding a section of road ahead of a vehicle over which the vehicle is traveling. The driving operation support device may also include a controller for determining whether the section of road is passable for the vehicle based on the information acquired by the road sensor. The driving operation support device may further include a display provided between the section of road and a driver of the vehicle. The controller may display a guidance element on the display at a position overlapped with the section of the road as seen from the perspective of the driver, such that the guidance element indicates whether the road is passable based on the determination of the controller. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090298673 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION CATALYST - An exhaust gas purification catalyst includes a catalyst layer formed on a support. The catalyst layer contains Ce-containing oxide particles having an oxygen storage/release capacity and a catalytic metal. The catalyst layer further contains a large number of iron oxide particles of 300 nm diameter or less that are dispersed therein and are in contact with the Ce-containing oxide particles. When observed by electron microscopy, the proportion of the area of iron oxide particles of 300 nm diameter or less to the total area of all of iron oxide particles in the catalyst layer is 30% or more. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090261612 | INSTRUMENT PANEL DEVICE - An instrument panel device comprises an instrument panel body, a meter cluster portion, a display indication portion, an instrument-panel recess portion comprising a bottom face portion extending from a central portion of the recess portion to a driver's-seat-side end portion of the recess portion and a portion of difference in level which rises upward from a front end portion of the bottom face portion, a projection portion provided in front of the steering wheel, the projection portion being formed in such a manner that a specified portion of the bottom face portion of the recess portion which is located in front of the steering wheel projects upward. A meter-panel face portion of the meter cluster portion is provided at the projection portion. The display indication portion is provided at a central portion of the portion of difference in level. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090248257 | SEAT DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - An egress-start determining device determines a start of egress of a passenger seated in a seat of a vehicle. A completion determining device determines completion of a driver's head moving out of a door opening of the vehicle after the start of egress of the passenger. A seat-sitting-face height adjusting device adjusts a height of a sitting face of the seat in such a manner that the height is adjusted to a first height during a time from the start of egress of the passenger to the completion of the driver's head moving out of the door opening of the vehicle, and the height is adjusted to a second height after the completion of the driver's head moving out of the door opening of the vehicle. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248244 | ONBOARD DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS - There is provided an onboard device control apparatus which controls an operation of an onboard device, comprising a plurality of sensor nodes which comprises a state-detecting sensor portion to detect a specified state, a data processing portion to conduct calculation processing of data obtained by the state-detecting sensor portion, a memory portion to memorize specified data, and a communication portion to send and receive the data by wireless, respectively, a network forming means to form a network of the plurality of sensor nodes which are provided at plural locations in a vehicle compartment, and a control means to control the onboard device based on plural data of the plural sensor nodes forming the network. Accordingly, the onboard device can be properly controlled, considering the whole situation of a vehicle. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090246506 | STRUCTURAL POLYMER INSERT AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - A structural polymer insert. The insert includes a substrate having a surface and an adhesive with the substrate being an admixture of a polypropylene component and a glass fiber component. The surface has a plurality of oxygen atoms, optionally introduced by air plasma, in an amount of 1 to 60 atomic percent of all the atoms present on the surface. The foam adhesive is attached to the surface through one or more reactive moieties resulted from oxidative action of the oxygen atoms. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090243336 | FRAME STRUCTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - A reinforcement member is provided inside a frame member at a space which includes a bend portion operative to bend in such a manner that the reinforcement member comes to contact an inner face of an inside side face portion of the frame member as the frame member bends at the bend portion. Accordingly, the amount of energy absorption even after the bending start of the frame member can be properly increased. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090243321 | Tonneau cover apparatus for an automobile - A tonneau cover apparatus for an automobile including a baggage compartment, a baggage compartment opening, and a gate which covers the baggage compartment opening to be openable is provided. The tonneau cover apparatus includes a cover member extending from a position spaced apart from the baggage compartment opening toward the baggage compartment opening to cover the baggage compartment, and a guide portion which is formed at a portion of the baggage compartment opening to be covered by the gate and guides vertical movement of the cover distal end of the cover member. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090243272 | SUSPENSION SUBFRAME STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - Disclosed is a suspension subframe structure of a vehicle, which is capable of improving the overall rigidity of a suspension subframe to effectively receive input loads from suspension arms, while reducing the overall weight of the suspension subframe. The suspension subframe structure for supporting a plurality of suspension arms | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090243271 | SUSPENSION SUBFRAME STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A structure of a suspension subframe ( | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090241495 | PARTICULATE FILTER - Disclosed is a particulate filter | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090237269 | SURROUNDINGS MONITORING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A real-image picking-up means picks up a real image of a blind area. A moving object detecting means recognizes a moving object from the real image and detects a moving state of the moving object. An imaginary-image specifying means specifies an indication manner of an imaginary image which is to be indicated for showing the moving state of the moving object. An indicating means indicates the imaginary image of the moving object in the indication manner which is specified by the imaginary-image specifying means such that the imaginary image of the moving object indicated by the indicating means overlaps the real image picked up by the real-image picking-up means. There can be provided a surroundings monitoring device for a vehicle which can easily recognize the state of the moving object in the image of the blind area. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090236329 | INDUCTION HEATING SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR-DRIVEN VEHICLE - Disclosed is an induction heating system for a motor-driven vehicle (VC), which comprises a polyphase-type AC motor ( | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090236166 | FRAME STRUCTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - A centroid of bend portions of a front side frame (frame member) is offset to a specified direction of a vehicle width direction (a bending direction of the front side frame) from a centroid of a different portion from the bend portions. Accordingly, a frame structure which can properly provide the bend portion without causing any improper increase of the number of members can be provided. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090236039 | ADHESION ASSEMBLY METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ARTICLE - A heat energy as a second trigger energy is applied to an overlap portions in such a manner that a terminal portion of a first chain-reacting cure area which is presumed to be generated by applying the heat energy as a first trigger energy to an vehicle-body assembly member overlaps a start portion of a second chain-reacting cure area which is to be generated by applying the heat energy as the second trigger energy to the adhesive agent between the vehicle-body assembly member and the vehicle-body member. Accordingly, the adhesive agent can be made cure surely. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090235897 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE OF SPARK-IGNITION DIRECT-INJECTION TYPE AND FUEL INJECTING METHOD THEREOF - A multi-hole injector directly injects fuel into a combustion chamber. Intake air is introduced into the combustion chamber through intake ports to provide tumble flow in the combustion chamber. A cavity is formed in a part of the top surface of a piston which is eccentric to the exhaust side. In the intake stroke, fuel injection ends in a downstroke of a piston. When the crank angle is 100 degrees after the top dead center in the intake stroke at which the fuel injection ends, a most downward lower spray collides with a part of the top surface of the piston which ranges on the intake side from the edge on the exhaust side of the cavity. A most upward upper spray does not come into contact with a spark plug. Thus, the fuel injection can enhance the tumble flow to promote homogeneous dispersion of fuel-air mixture in the combustion chamber. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090235524 | ASSEMBLING METHOD FOR TIMING SYSTEM OF ENGINE - Disclosed is an assembling method for a timing system of an engine to wind a timing chain ( | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090230730 | Driver-side floor structure of vehicle - A floor structure on a driver side of a vehicle where a control pedal, such as a brake pedal | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090217906 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE CONTROL METHOD AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE SYSTEM - A system and method of controlling an internal combustion engine are provided. The method may include closing said intake valve at a timing in a first range, which is before a maximum charge closing timing with which an amount of air inducted into said cylinder from said air intake passage would be maximized at a given engine speed, during a cylinder cycle when a desired amount of air to be inducted into said cylinder is less than or equal to a predetermined air amount at the given engine speed. The method may further include closing said intake valve at a timing in a second range, which is after said maximum charge closing timing and separated from said first range during a cylinder cycle, when a desired amount of air to be inducted into said cylinder is greater than said predetermined air amount at the given engine speed. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090216427 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Methods and systems for controlling an internal combustion engine are provided. One example method may include closing an intake valve later during a cylinder cycle than a timing with which an amount of air inducted into a cylinder from an air intake passage would be maximized, and earlier during the cylinder cycle as a desired amount of air to be inducted into the cylinder increases, while an engine is operating at a given engine speed. The method may further include closing the intake valve earlier during a cylinder cycle as the engine speed increases when the desired amount of air to be inducted into the cylinder is at a maximum. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090215567 | AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - An automatic transmission comprises a multi-plate brake to brake a specified rotational element of a transmission mechanism, which includes a plurality of frictional plates, a piston, a piston cylinder member comprising cylinder in which the piston slides, and oil-pressure chambers which are formed between the piston and the cylinder and bias the piston toward the frictional plates with an oil pressure supplied thereto, and a valve body to supply the oil pressure to the oil-pressure chambers. Herein, the valve body is provided in the vicinity of an outer periphery of the piston cylinder member so as to be connected to the piston cylinder member via a connection portion, and there is provided an oil passage to supply the oil pressure from the valve body to the oil-pressure chambers via the connection portion. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090200778 | AIRBAG DEVICE - Intended is to always provide effective impact reduction by releasing gas at a timing of pushing into airbag. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090184559 | Armrest structure for vehicle seat - In an armrest structure for a vehicle seat, an armrest is mounted at a mounting portion on the outboard side of a seat back and is arranged close to a door trim panel. The armrest is capable of moving inboard upon receipt of an inboard load. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090184501 | Side impact absorbing structure for vehicle - A side impact absorbing structure for a vehicle is provided. The structure includes an impact absorbing member which is accommodated in a car body side wall at a position corresponding to a seating region set on a seat, and a buffer unit which is accommodated in the car body side wall and cooperates with the impact absorbing member upon lateral collision to moderate an impact on a side portion of a passenger. The buffer unit includes a rigid body portion which is arranged at a position where the rigid body portion does not overlap the impact absorbing member in the car body side wall and the seating region when seen from the side of a car body. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090173312 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Disclosed is an internal combustion engine, which has a geometric compression ratio of 13.0 or greater, and a combustion chamber ( | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090173307 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Disclosed is an internal combustion engine (A), which has a valve overlap period (T) during which an intake valve ( | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090159055 | CANISTER STRUCTURE - A branch pipe is coupled to a middle portion of an outside-air connection pipe. A fresh-air inlet of the branch pipe opens into the outside air. A check valve is provided in the branch pipe. The check valve restrains air in the outside-air connection pipe from flowing out into the outside air via the branch pipe and allows the outside air to flow into the outside-air connection pipe via the branch pipe when an inside pressure of the outside-air connection pipe decreases to a specified negative pressure. The fresh-air inlet of the branch pipe is positioned at a specified level higher than a fresh-air inlet of the outside-air connection pipe and disposed in a space formed between wheel house panels and a mud guard. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090159045 | SPARK-IGNITION GASOLINE ENGINE - A spark-ignition gasoline engine having at least a spark plug, the engine including an engine body having a geometrical compression ratio set at 14 or more, and an intake valve and an exhaust valve provided, respectively, in intake and exhaust ports connected to each of a plurality of cylinders of the engine body. The intake and exhaust valves are adapted to open and close corresponding respective ones of the intake and exhaust ports. The engine further includes an operation-state detector adapted to detect an operation state of the engine body and a control system adapted, based on detection of the operation-state detector, to perform at least an adjustment control of an ignition timing of the spark plug, the control system being operable, when an engine operation zone is a high-load operation zone including a wide open throttle region within at least a low speed range, to retard the ignition timing to a point within a predetermined stroke range just after a top dead center of a compression stroke. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090153393 | OBSTACLE DETECTING CONTROL DEVICE OF VEHICLE - A control device controls operational devices based on obstacle-detection state detected by the radar device and controls a radar-waves transmitting portion of the obstacle detecting device based on detection of a vehicle speed sensor. The control device is configured to control the radar-waves transmitting portion so that a ratio of transmission term of radar waves transmitted to plural transmission areas is changeable in accordance with detection of the vehicle speed. Accordingly, any obstacle present in any transmission area can be detected promptly and surely. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090153295 | SMART KEYLESS ENTRY SYSTEM - A transmitting antenna to transmit a request signal in a vehicle compartment is disposed off the center line of the vehicle compartment in a vehicle width direction. The output strength of the request signal transmitted by the transmitting antenna is switched in such a manner that a receivable output range of the request signal by a portable device reaches one of both doors which is equipped with one of access switches which has been operated. Accordingly, it can be properly recognized whether the portable device is located inside the vehicle compartment or outside the vehicle compartment even if the transmitter to transmit the request signal in the vehicle compartment is disposed off the center line of the vehicle compartment in the vehicle width direction. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090152902 | FRONT STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - Disclosed is a vehicle front structure which comprises a rectangular frame-shaped shroud frame | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090146455 | FRONT BODY STRUCTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - A front side frame includes a bend portion which is operative to bend outward when an impact load acts on the front side frame from ahead. The bend portion is provided in a specified location such that the bend portion in a bending state substantially contacts a damper of the suspension from a vehicle front side. Accordingly, a rear end of the front side frame can be prevented properly from moving back when the impact load acts on the front side frame from ahead. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090143930 | HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE - A hybrid electric vehicle and method for controlling a hybrid electric vehicle are disclosed. The method may include determining a vehicle operating condition of a hybrid electric vehicle, determining at least a phase of a primary alternating current, determining at least a phase of a driving current to be supplied to a motor of the hybrid electric vehicle on the basis of said operating condition, determining whether or not a phase of said primary alternating current is the same as a phase of a driving current, and supplying at least part of said primary alternating current from a generator to the motor via a second feed circuit when the phase of said primary alternating current is the same as the phase of said driving current. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090140559 | REAR-SEAT OCCUPANT PROTECTION APPARATUS - Disclosed is a rear-seat occupant protection apparatus, which is designed to protect, during a frontal collision of a vehicle, a rear-seat occupant (B) seated in a rear seat ( | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090130332 | COATING FILM DRYING METHOD AND COATING FILM DRYING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for drying a coating film ( | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090129105 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE OF VEHICLE - A vehicle is equipped with a slide door, a seat provided near an ingress-egress opening, and an ingress-action detector to detect a passenger's ingress action through the ingress-egress opening. The vehicle is further equipped with an illumination device which comprises lower illuminators which are configured to illuminate lower areas which are located below a beltline of the vehicle such that a passenger's upper body is not illuminated, vehicle-inside upper illuminators which are configured to illuminate an upper-specified area in the vehicle compartment which is located above the beltline, and an illumination controller to control the illuminators. When the ingress action is detected by the ingress-action detector, the illumination controller prohibits the illuminations of the illuminators and starts the illuminations of the illuminators. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090120068 | METHOD AND SYSTEM USING A REDUCTION CATALYST TO REDUCE NITRATE OXIDE - A method of controlling a system having an internal combustion engine, a filter in an exhaust passage, a reduction catalyst downstream of said filter capable of reducing nitrate oxide contained in the exhaust gas with reductant supplied thereto is provided. The method may include, in a first mode, combusting a first amount of particulate matter trapped in said filter and supplying a first amount of reductant to said reduction catalyst when an amount of particulate matter trapped in said filter is less than a predetermined trapping amount (α). The method may further include, in a second mode, combusting a second amount of particulate matter that is greater than said first amount of particulate matter and supplying a second amount of reductant to said reduction catalyst when an amount of particulate matter trapped in said filter is equal to or greater than said predetermined trapping amount (α). | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090114174 | UPPER STRUCTURE OF ENGINE - Disclosed is an upper structure of an engine having three or more cylinders arranged in a row. A first one of a pair of adjacent cylinders among at least three of the cylinders serially arranged in a cylinder row direction is provided with a second spark plug at a position on an opposite side of a second one of the pair of adjacent cylinders, and the second one of the pair of adjacent cylinders is provided with a second spark plug at a position on an opposite side of the first one of the pair of adjacent cylinders. The present invention can provide enhanced flexibility in design of a head cover of the engine. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090108577 | OCCUPANT PROTECTION DEVICE OF VEHICLE - A lap-belt pre-tensioner operative to draw in a lap belt is disposed on an upper face of a projecting portion so as to extend in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle from an disposition portion of a lower support member, and on the upper face of the projecting portion is provided a groove portion so as to accommodate the lap-belt pre-tensioner in such a manner that the lap-belt pre-tensioner substantially does not project into an ingress-egress opening. Accordingly, there can be provided an occupant protection device of a vehicle equipped with a slide door in which the lap-belt pre-tensioner does not project into the ingress-egress opening. | 04-30-2009 |
