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The demands on valve seat insert materials, in terms of providing greater wear-resistance at higher temperatures, enhanced machinability and using non-environmentally hazardous materials at a reasonably low cost have intensified in recent years. Due therefore to these strong demands in the market, research was made into the possibility of producing a new valve seat insert material. As a result a high speed steel based new improved material was developed, which satisfies the necessary required demands and the evaluation trials, using actual gasoline engine endurance tests, were found to be very successful.

Laser induced fluorescence (LIF) is a useful method for visualizing the distribution of the air-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber. The way this method is applied mainly depends on the fluorescent tracer used, such as biacetyl, toluene, various aldehydes, fluoranthene or diethylketone, among others. Gasoline strongly absorbs light in the UV region, for example, at the 248-nm wavelength of broadband KrF excimer laser radiation. Therefore, when using this type of laser, iso-octane is employed as the fuel because it is transparent to 248-nm UV light. However, since the distillation curves of iso-octane and gasoline are different, it can be expected that their vaporization characteristics in the intake port and cylinder would also be different. The aim of this study was to find a better fuel for use with LIF at a broadband wavelength of 248 nm. Three tasks were undertaken in this study.

The front exhaust pipe and the heat-shield plate of the catalytic converter are excited by the engine vibration. Noise radiation occurs on their surface. Concerning vehicle exterior noise, noise radiated from the exhaust system is often one of major sources as well as engine and exhaust noise. This paper describes the longitudinal vibration model-as a beam-is applied to the high frequency vibration that causes the noise radiated from the exhaust system. It describes also some methods of reducing such noise radiation by isolating the vibration from the front exhaust pipe. These methods are: adding mass to the front pipe, changing the material of the front pipe to a smaller Young's modulus one, installing flexible pipe composed by two sections, and so on.

Front-end airflow predictions are generally carried out at the styling stage in the development process for vehicle cooling systems. These predictions have taken on increasing importance in recent years in studying the heat radiation capacities of the radiator. This paper presents a method for simulating front-end airflow rates. Two- and three-dimensional front-end airflow simulations are iirst analyzed experimentally. A technique for predicting a three-dimensional airflow from a numerical analysis of a two-dimensional airflow is then examined, and a comparison is made with actual vehicle data. A sample application of this simulation method is presented and a comparison is made with experimental data. Good quantitative agreement is seen between the calculated and experimental results. This paper also discusses the present status of three-dimensional analysis which is expected to become a major trend in the future.

We have developed a vibration damping technique for the Oil Pan to reduce radiation noise. This technique makes use of oil viscosity. To increase vibration damping of oil pan, we use oil viscosity by forming a thin oil film between the oil pan bottom and an added inner plate. This paper presents the results of vibration tests that were conducted to study the oil damping mechanism and results of applying to a small high-speed diesel engine.

The present paper is Part 1 of two consecutive studies. Part 1 describes three subjects: definition of the equivalent temperature (teq), measurements of teq using a clothed thermal manikin in a vehicle cabin, and modeling of the clothed thermal manikin for teq simulation. After defining teq, a method for measuring teq with a clothed thermal manikin was examined. Two techniques were proposed in this study: the definition of “the total heat transfer coefficient between the skin surface and the environment in a standard environment (hcal)” based on the thermal insulation of clothing (Icl), and a method of measuring Icl in consideration of the area factor (fcl), which indicates the ratio of the clothing surface to the manikin surface area. Then, teq was measured in an actual vehicle cabin by the proposed method under two conditions: a summer cooling condition with solar radiation and a winter heating condition without solar radiation.