PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sipe blade having a three-dimensional structure capable of being suppressed in its deformation or damage.

SOLUTION: A three-dimensional shape comprising two diamond-shaped cones, of which the sides are connected in common to form diamond-shaped bases, is set as an element shape. The element shapes are continued along one plane to form a three-dimensional s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize vehicle turn capable of reducing a driver's feeling of wrongness in preventing deviation to the outside of a turning radius.

SOLUTION: The allowable maximum value ϕ'limit of yaw rate is calculated based on a steering angle δ and velocity V of its own vehicle (step S33), then the limiting value Mk of a target yaw moment is calculated based on the value obtain...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To decrease a driver's feeling of wrongness such as accelerating of own vehicle under conditions of low visibility.

SOLUTION: A regulator controlling braking/driving force so as to make own vehicle velocity V agree with a target vehicle velocity V*is provided. When the driver performs preparation action such as raising a foot above a brake pedal (a step S2 "Ye...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle control device capable of mitigating feel of tiredness and fatigue when constant speed driving mode is selected, while minimizing fluctuation in a driving speed.

SOLUTION: The vehicle control device is applied to a vehicle having constant speed driving mode. When the constant speed driving mode is selected, the device controls the vehicle so as to ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly detect a curving road position in front of an own vehicle to execute slowdown control before the curve at proper timing.

SOLUTION: When the own vehicle is located between a point before a curving road position Yc annunciated from a navigation device 16, immediately before the position Yc, and distant from there by a second curve recognition distance Lth2, a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly switch from a motor traveling mode to an engine traveling mode without loss time, and without giving decelerating ill feeling to a user.

SOLUTION: A power output device comprises a transmission connected or disconnected to an engine through a clutch, a drive shaft to which power is transferred through the transmission, a motor connected to the transmission ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for deaeration packing capable of performing a simple and smooth sealed packaging, when an item to be packaged is packaged in a packaging material.

SOLUTION: An approximately semicircular packaged item storing part 86 is formed in a seat 84 corresponding to a paper roll in a temporary packaged item 72. An approximately semicircular recess part 102 i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To fully increase the occasions to carry out low temperature combustion in a control device for a diesel engine vehicle provided with a diesel engine carrying out low temperature combustion in a first operation range and carrying out normal combustion in a second operation range, and an automatic stepped transmission having a clutch.

SOLUTION: This control device for t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operation environment comfortable for a user, by reducing the number of occurrence of vibrations or the like caused by shift between two kinds of power sources or changing shifts in a transmission, in a power output device provided with two kinds of the power sources and the transmission.

SOLUTION: The power output device comprises: the transmission conne...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress wrong installation of a driving gear on an output shaft of a rotation source, and further to reduce a manufacturing cost of the driving gear.

SOLUTION: A female spline 32E for mounting and a female spline 32F for preventing wrong installation are provided on the inner peripheral side of the shaft bore 32A of the driving gear 32. By this structure, the femal...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speed change device for a work vehicle in which speed change shock can be securely reduced in a relatively simple constitution even in such a work vehicle like a bulldozer that almost all the work is conducted by total load operation of an engine.

SOLUTION: In this speed change device, output torque of the engine 1 is converted into torque corresponding to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speed change control device for an automatic clutch type gear transmission in which shock due to engine inertia in down-shift speed change can be reduced.

SOLUTION: In this speed change control device for an automatic clutch type gear transmission, a synchronous gear transmission and an automatic clutch 4 with a plurality of speeds selective are provided. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To securely position a rotary shaft in the axial direction while reducing the number of parts of a device by abutting a bearing on an end face side of a sun gear.

SOLUTION: A casing 5 of a running device 1 is rotatably supported by a support member 2, and a running motor 4 and reduction gear mechanisms 14, 19, 23 are arranged inside it. An outer ring 28 of a rolling be...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for a continuously variable transmission for a vehicle capable of sufficiently obtaining return performance of speed change ratio of the continuously variable transmission when the vehicle stops.

SOLUTION: Since discharge amount of an electric oil pump 34 is increased immediately before stopping the vehicle by a discharge amount increase control...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To sufficiently correspond to demand for output increase without causing delay of operation and giving sense of incongruity to a user and to prevent deterioration of emission from an engine as much as possible.

SOLUTION: This power output device is provided with the diesel engine 150, a shifting gear unit 160 connected with or disconnected from the diesel engine throug...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem of an agricultural machine equipped with a belt type continuously variable transmission wherein a vehicle starts suddenly when a worker's foot leaves a clutch pedal 53 after stepping on the pedal to stop the vehicle.

SOLUTION: This belt type continuously variable transmission 3 is provided between an engine 1 and a main transmission case 2 of the agr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To indicate the progression rate of a vehicle together with a route change guiding marker concerning a path to go by reflecting the shape of complex intersection when a vehicle enters the complex intersection.

SOLUTION: Information on an intersection node, link where the vehicle enter, longitude and latitude and true north direction concerning the complex intersection ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dynamic drive scheme to eliminate a defect dependent on the data pattern in a displayed image.

SOLUTION: The drive scheme to drive pixels of a passive matrix liquid crystal display having row electrodes and column electrodes includes a selection step, the selection step applying row waveforms and column waveforms to the display to generate selected pixel v...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead storage battery that prevents the mounting section between a pedestal and an electrode column from being fused when energizing a large current to the lead storage battery and can withstand large current energization.

SOLUTION: In the lead storage battery, the pedestal 4 is welded to a strap 5, where lug groups 2a, 2a, and so on of electrodes 2, 2, and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control valve type lead storage battery with long life by restraining occurrence of a crack and a hole in an inter-cell connection body even at a trickle use for long period, and improving reliability of an inter-cell connection part, as well as to provide an inter-cell connection structure with excellent productivity not bringing force a defect like fall-off ...