The present invention provides a paste electrolyte comprising an organic solvent of not high dielectric constant, soluble lithium salts, and clays, with the clays being swollen by the solvent, and rechargeable lithium batteries containing the paste electrolyte. The paste electrolyte according to the present invention can improve the electrochemical properties and cycling stability of rechargeable ...

A hybrid vehicle including an internal combustion engine; a continuously variable transmission for transmitting a force between a first pulley and a second pulley through a metal belt; and a motor. An output shaft of the internal combustion engine is connected to the first pulley. The second pulley is connected to an output shaft of the motor. The output shaft of the motor is connected to a drivin...

Apparatus and methods are provided for mass production of transmission holograms onto a continuous web of photosensitive material, one method involving the mounting of a master transmission hologram onto the outside surface of a clear hollow drum, the clear hollow drum being rotatable and having means for directing an irradiating wavefront propagated from a radiation source through the master tran...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To carry out a proper shift during driving by an auto-cruising apparatus. SOLUTION: Based on the deviation DVCRS of the actual vehicle speed V from a set vehicle cruising speed VCRS and the deceleration value DV of a vehicle, a first shift determining means M61 judges whether shift down is necessary or not to retain the set vehicle cruising speed VCRS. Based on the running lo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a follow-up property of an actual vehicle speed to a set vehicle cruising speed during driving by an auto-cruising apparatus. SOLUTION: Based on the running load degree, which is the deviation of the actual driving torque TDSACT from the reference driving torque TRLACT, in other words, the load generated in excess of that at normal driving due to inclination of a d...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure the transmission ratio of sufficient range without increasing the size of a generator or a motor in a hybrid vehicle in which the drive force of an internal combustion engine to the generator and a drive ring through a planetary gear mechanism, and the power generated by the generator is supplied to the motor to drive the drive ring. SOLUTION: A planetary carrier 1 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control basic performance of a vehicle when a communication line causes a failure in a control system for the vehicle in which a controller controlling behavior of the vehicle is connected with the common communication line. Ž

SOLUTION: An engine controller 122, a braking force controller 141, and a steering controller 143 are connected to the communication line 18, a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To positively secure negative pressure for a negative pressure type brake booster, and meanwhile, enhance fuel consumption per hour in a control device for a vehicular engine. SOLUTION: When a vehicle is in a normal running condition, the control of an air-fuel ratio in response to operating conditions, is executed by communicating the chambers 22a and 22b of a surge tank 22 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wind speed-up device for effectively increasing the speed of the wind flow by restraining a back pressure and a wind power generator with the usage of it. Ž

SOLUTION: This wind speed-up device 10 is equipped with a wind guide plates 11a and 11b as a pair of wind guide bodies, and four partition plates 12 connecting them. Three windmills 13 for generating pow...

A gear type manual transmission equipped with one or more synchronizing mechanisms employing generally U-shaped reverse shift forks consisting of two arms, each of which is pivotally supported at one arm by a first support secured to one of transmission shafts which extends in parallel with one another and is stationary relative to the transmission case and pivotally supported at the other arm by ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a switch back capable of being smoothly braked when a switch back is operated during the traveling of an industrial vehicle. SOLUTION: A transmission 3 operationally connected to a torque converter 2 of an engine-type forklift truck comprises a forward clutch 8 and a backward clutch 9. A controller 41 controls a clutch valve 10decelerating zone to the stop of a veh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To diagnose replenishment abnormality occurring in a system for replenishing a vessel with fluid, such as pressure accumulation abnormality such that an accumulator is not normally accumulated or that pressure accumulation operation continues though pressure accumulation is already completed, with a simple structure. SOLUTION: Auxiliary brake device 26 installed to front whee...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To downsize a continuously variable transmission and to reduce costs. SOLUTION: A torque converter 12 is stored within a torque converter case. A positively/reversely switching mechanism 13 and a belt type continuously variable transmission 14 are stored within a transmission case 41. An input shaft 42 for transmitting power from the torque converter 12 to the continuously va...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a deceleration control device to prevent a shock from occurring at the time of braking control in conjunction with deceleration control during changing deceleration of a vehicle. Ž

SOLUTION: This vehicular deceleration control device includes a position switching deciding means 98 (S5) deciding if the deceleration of the vehicle is under change or not, and a b...

A control system for hybrid vehicles in which an electric prime mover is connected to an output shaft through a transmission, comprising: a running state judging means for judging whether or not a downshifting is being carried out to increase speed change ratio of the transmission while a vehicle is coasting; a creep torque lowering means for lowering creep torque generated by the electric prime m...

An X-ray based measuring device of the invention includes: X-ray imaging means (102, 103, 311) which have their detection areas divided into a plurality of detector units (102a to 102d, 201'), detect X-rays transmitted through an inspection object (106), and pick up X-ray images in interested areas (310, 902, 902') of the inspection object; conversion means (211, 212) for converting analog image s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method capable of simply and efficiently manufacturing the master model for molding a tire, which has a complicated design or shape including a part difficult to process by a tool like the side surface part of a block design part having a complicated shape including undulation or a guide groove for arranging a complicated sipe blade having a three-dimensional sha...

A mobile networkable device eg. mobile phone or PDA (50), includes a reader (60) adapted to read a memory tag (20) on an article (2), such as a printed document. In use, the reader (60) reads the memory tag (20) on the article (2) to obtain co-ordinate data for a location B of a place mentioned in the article. The device (50) communicates the co-ordinate data of destination location B to the serve...

This invention relates to a method of producing a dopant gas species containing a required dopant element for implanting in a target and to an ion source for implementing such a method. In particular, although not exclusively, this invention relates to producing dopant ions for implanting in semiconductor wafers using an ion implanter. The present invention provides a method of producing a dopant ...

An investigative X-ray apparatus comprises a source of X-rays emitting a cone beam centred on a beam axis, a collimator to limit the extent of the beam, and a two-dimensional detector, the apparatus being mounted on a support which is rotatable about a rotation axis, the collimator having a first state in which the collimated beam is directed towards the rotation axis and the second state in which...