PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tea extract which can exhibit various useful effects without deteriorating an appearance with dregs or precipitates, when added to an acidic drink, and contains a large amount of polymerized catechin divided from a tea extract.

SOLUTION: This method for producing the purified tea extract includes adjusting the pH of a polymerized catechin extract collected...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine which can enhance players' entertaining potentialities for the specified game with the generation of new playing potentialities in the specified game through a display of prescribed performance images during the freeze control, by carrying out the freeze control to put a control processing pertaining to the progress of games on standby only for a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pleat type filter cartridge for liquid using polymer-based nano-fiber nonwoven fabric, having required level of completeness and pressure resistance, and stably manufacturable.

SOLUTION: The polymer-based nano-fiber nonwoven fabric is sandwiched with support materials and the support materials are pressedly integrated with the nano-fiber nonwoven fabric by...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an underwater repair system realizing a specific constitution capable of performing a repair work by welding a backing plate to a repairing part in an inner wall of a pool even in a narrow spare, and preventing a blowout hole from generating in the welding part, and to provide an underwater repair method using the same.

SOLUTION: The underwater repair system...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently and effectively reduce the power transmission loss of a hybrid vehicle.

SOLUTION: A hybrid drive mechanism 10A has a first transmission 400 between an output rotating shaft 380 of a motor generator MG1 and a counter shaft 700 and a second transmission 500 between an input shaft 370 connected to an output rotating shaft of a motor generator MG2 and the co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller capable of promptly starting an engine even when an automatic transmission unit is in shifting a gear when motor travel is changed to engine travel.

SOLUTION: If there is a request to start the engine when the automatic transmission unit 20 is in shifting, a transfer torque capacity control means 78 performs transfer torque capacity control, tha...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent breather blowing in a drive device of a hybrid vehicle by controlling a first motor.

SOLUTION: In a control device for a hybrid vehicle, an internal combustion engine is connected to a power distribution mechanism, a first motor outputting torque controlling the number of rotations of the combustion engine is connected to the power distribution mechanism; a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller capable of avoiding shock at the start of an engine during motor travel, for a drive for a hybrid vehicle having an engine and an electric motor as its sources of driving forces.

SOLUTION: When predetermined requirements are met, a travel condition control means 76 changes a transmission map shown in Figure 7, and disables or regulates speed cha...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular torque tube capable of mitigating any stress concentration to local parts by the bending moment generated when a vehicle travels.

SOLUTION: A projecting dimension b from a mounting part 34 at the horizontal direction side of a vehicle of the other end of a hub 32 is set to be longer than a projecting dimension a from the mounting part 34 at the v...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem wherein when the driving force of an internal combustion engine is required for acceleration, it takes a long time to synchronize engine rotation and the rotation of a driving shaft, when connecting a clutch.

SOLUTION: This hybrid car is provided with a driving shaft 4 for transmitting a driving force to a driving wheel 3; a first transmission syst...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively prevent both insufficient bearing lubrication in a low temperature and oil leakage in a high temperature.

SOLUTION: In a railway vehicle gear device, a gear ratio of a gear and a pinion for a vehicle traveling on a usual line at the maximum speed of 120 km/h or higher is 6.5 or larger. An axle 3 is supported by a bearing 1 in a cantilevered manner, and a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To further improve fuel efficiency by reducing energy consumption due to rotational speed control that is performed when an automatic transmission part is held in a neutral state in order to secure controllability in switching the automatic transmission part to a state of power transmission.

SOLUTION: If the automatic transmission part 20 is held in a neutral state whi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller of a vehicle power transmission having an electric differential unit where the differential state of a differential mechanism is controlled and a transmission unit, the controller allowing an engine start to be quickly executed without causing torque fluctuation due to resonance even if a speed change by the transmission unit coincides with engine s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric parking brake system capable of avoiding wasteful power consumption.

SOLUTION: This electric parking brake system includes: temperature calculating means which calculates temperatures of brake pads 40A, 40B during operation of a parking brake and parking brake force control means DCP which obtains contraction rates of the brake pads using expansi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller of a vehicle power transmission having an electrically controllable differential unit, the controller capable of quickly lowering engine rotational speed even if the operating condition of an electric motor is restricted.

SOLUTION: An engine stopping control means 112 includes a means for restricting the differential state of a differential unit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent turn-assisting control from being performed while a power transmission mechanism is in an starting-assisting state by prohibiting providing one of left/right idler wheels with driving force and the other with breaking force right after starting-assisting control that assists starting by driving the left/right idler wheels is finished. SOLUTION: Starting is assisted...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tire vulcanizing method capable of accurately imparting quantity of heat necessary for vulcanization to a mold in a multimold system using electromagnetic induction heating. SOLUTION: In a method for vulcanizing a tire by charging an unvulcanized tire T in the mold disposed in the container 1 at an on-off station 10 and heating the mold at a heating station 20 by...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stably control the rotating speed ratio of left-right wheels over a wide range by surely and quickly avoiding interference with an anti-lock brake system by simple control logic. Ž

SOLUTION: Hydraulic pumps 3L and 3R are interposed between output shafts 10L and 10R and axles 11L and 11R of a differential device 2, and hydraulic passages 15 and 16 for communicating a d...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress an erroneous determination of a road surface state since a value of a slip ratio difference specified from wheels according to the type of a tire does not properly correspond to a determination value even when the determination value is properly set in advance and has a possibility of leading to the erroneous determination of the road surface. Ž

SOLUTION: An ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toroidal type continuously variable transmission, which is easy to process fueling hole of a thrust-type rolling bearing and can surely supply lubricating oil to a pocket, in which a rolling element is stored through a fueling hole, without causing a low efficiency of transmission. SOLUTION: A straight line fueling hole 84, which passes through a center of each p...