PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the slip of the machine body by its bend weight, in a case when a driver leaves from the machine body without stopping the engine while the change lever is left at the neutral position, or the change lever is shifted to the neutral position on the way of running on an uphill road. SOLUTION: While a hydraulic operation type running clutch 10 is provided to the input t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce shift shock by starting clutch engaging action when the gear shift to the target gear step is finished after waiting until the difference between the present engine speed and the engine speed suitable to the target engine speed becomes lower than a specific value. SOLUTION: An A/T controller 5, which inputs output signals from an accelerator sensor 1, a brake switch...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress change in the gear alignment by displacing a plurality of shafts to such positions that the displacing directions and the amounts of the shafts generated by the meshing load of gears are made equal using elastic members. SOLUTION: A driving gear 1 and a follower gear 2 meshing with each other are mounted on a driving shaft B and a follower shaft C which are instal...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate a large torque distribution ratio and prevent a pinion from tumbling. SOLUTION: A differential device of present invention comprises a differential case 37 rotated by an engine, supporting holes formed in the case wall, pinion gears 49 supported by the holes with possibility of sliding and rotating, a sun gear 55 on the output side meshing with the pinions 49, and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the shift shock in shifting via the intermediate gearing range(s) by judging such a condition as shifting via the intermediate range, and changing the shock reducing control amount due to the shock reduction control on the basis of the result from judgement. SOLUTION: A down-shift in an automatic transmission 3 from a certain high-speed gearing range into a low-spe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate the high-level operation of a navigation device by outputting the same control data with at least two different specified voices recognized by a speech recognizing device. SOLUTION: The speech recognition device 10 is connected to the navigation device 20. In a ROM 15 for speech recognition data storage of the speech recognizing device 10, both of data when a to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect various types of fires. SOLUTION: The smoke detector of multiple sensors is provided with an ionic sensor and a photoelectric sensor at least. The outputs from the sensors are sent to a circuit for continuously generating variable coefficients. One coefficient corresponds to each sensor output. The respective coefficients and sensor outputs are multiplied by a multi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a safe and convenient gas absorbing lead acid battery with the accumulation of hydrogen gas restricted by pasting a pressure sensitive adhesive applied synthetic resin film to an opening in the outside wall of a battery jar for the gas absorbing lead acid battery. SOLUTION: For a gas absorbing lead acid battery, an acid proof non-porous synthetic resin film 12 to w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a lead acid battery to be changed any time after purchased by a user himself by providing the lead acid battery with a battery mounting/ demounting tool. SOLUTION: A lead acid battery 1 is provided with a battery mounting/ demounting tool 3. The lead acid battery 1 preferably has a storage room 2 to store the tool 3. It is desirable that the tool 3 is made of resin o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a long service life-high initial performance sealed lead-acid battery which can restrain necessary interfacial discharge even when deep discharge is repeated and can restrain a resistance increase between active materials by adding electron conductive carbon fiber whose elongation has a prescribed value into a positive electrode active material. SOLUTION: Electron ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positive electrode plate for a lead-acid battery which can promote supply of electrolyte into a positive electrode active material and can smoothly move water generated at discharge time to the electrolyte by adding a prescribed quantity of fluorinated graphite having a specific chemical formula and an acidproof water absorptive substance into the positive electr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the power efficiency of a hybrid vehicle and to improve the drive efficiency of the engine. SOLUTION: The hybrid vehicle comprises an engine 11, a generator 16, and an output shaft 14 coupled via a planetary gear unit 13 to output the torque of an electric motor 25 to the shaft 14. In this case, engine number-of-revolutions control means so controls the number of r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a small and lightweight worm geared motor in which the time required for assembling the worm gear to be coupled with a motor is shortened. SOLUTION: A worm gear case 2 has an open face 3 to be coupled with a motor case 1 and a worm gear G is inserted from the open face into the gear case 2 and then a worm W is screwed to the circumferential face at the free end of a...

A tubular, rigid, porous, ceramic separator for a rechargeable, deep-discharge battery assembly, the separator having a porosity greater than 40%. A plurality of battery cells, each embodying such separators, are assembled with a common terminal to form the positive electrode in a motive traction battery.

A slow scanning CT Scanner providing slice data simultaneously for a plurality of slices so as to avoid blurring between adjacent slices due to patient movement.

The device includes a linear filter (23) attenuating in a single direction and via which the light is incident on a number of photodiodes arranged adjacent to each other in he direction in which the filter attenuates. The colour value is computed from the measurement signals generated by the photodiodes. The light is fed via a number of light conducting fibres whose light output ends are arranged ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a system of a high working rate by directly controlling a common I/O device from either of two PLCs limited as the objects of duplex operation so as to switch the charge of majority decision at the time of generating a fault. SOLUTION: The programmable logic controllers PLC 1 and 2 are provided with the control function of the I/O device 4 as the objects of duplex ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and method for automatically guiding automobile for which the alteration of a road can be inexpensively done. SOLUTION: This automobile guiding device guides an automobile along a desired course on the road to which a reference marking is attached. This device has a laser radar 32 for irradiating the reference marking with a laser pulse and receiving refle...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate the production and storage by having an approximately axially symmetric general structure. SOLUTION: A plasma torch comprises a core torch 1 and three coaxial casings including an outer structure 2 for enclosing electric connection to couple fluid to outside of the torch integral at its proximal end, to which the torch core 1 at least partially overlaps, and int...