An optical recording medium (50), a method of recording/reproducing data on/from an optical recording medium, and an apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from an optical recording medium are provided to enable optimum recording/reproducing conditions for the optical recording medium to be quickly determined. The optical recording medium includes a reference signal area (56), in which refere...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To position the axial direction of each rotary element of an unit output shaft easily and accurately. SOLUTION: In an unit output shaft 6 for supplying a pressurized oil to a clutch, each rotary element is inserted from its end 6A side and engagingly locked at its other end side. An oil retainer 60 installed on the inner periphery of a casing 14 is inserted from the end 6A si...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact hybrid drive unit having a small length of a shaft and allowing the use of an existing engine and transmission without changing their layout. SOLUTION: This hybrid drive unit 1 is constituted so that a first clutch C1 and a second clutch C2 arranged in series between the engine and the transmission T/M and consisting of wet multiple disc clutches and a mo...

In control apparatus and method for a hybrid vehicle, a target driving power and a target driving torque are calculated from at least one of detected values and estimated values of both of a vehicle speed and an accelerator opening angle, a target engine speed is calculated from the target driving power; and target values of motor torques of the first and second motors/generators and of an engine ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method capable of producing a three-dimensional blade which has small curvature or strain in an abutted part to a mold (a pattern) to be installed with a blade at high production efficiency. SOLUTION: This is a manufacturing method for a sipe blade which has a three-dimensional bending shape. A bending shape is applied to an at least abutted part 2 to a mold (a p...

An apheresis apparatus and method is disclosed for increasing the purity and yield of platelets separated from donated whole blood in a centrifuge. The whole blood in the centrifuge is diluted by recirculating fluid, such as plasma or saline, at a first flow rate, to mix with further withdrawn whole blood prior to entering the centrifuge. As plasma is collected, it is recirculated through the cent...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve high-speed work in case of a working machine of low fuel consumption specifications or in case where an operator wishes to finish work early at his or her convenience. SOLUTION: In a riding rice transplanter mounted with an engine with an electronic governor mechanism thereon, an operating unit is provided with a mode selecting switch 37 for switching 'a normal mod...

In a parallel hybrid vehicle, an revolution speed of an engine, a revolution speed of a motor/generator, and a regenerative power obtained by the motor/generator are calculated under both of released and clutched states of a lock-up clutch for each gear speed range achievable by a transmission on the basis of an estimated requested vehicular deceleration state and a driving state related to one of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain unintended impact from occurring in a vehicle to maintain a smooth travel condition, when an internal combustion engine is started by an output of a motor, in a travel drive condition by the motor in stop of the internal combustion engine. Ž

SOLUTION: In the EV travel condition where the internal combustion engine 11 under a stopped condition is separated fro...

A hybrid vehicle comprises a torque converter TC, which is connected to an engine E, a gear-type speed change mechanism, shift clutches 13c and 14c, a drive power transmission system, which transmits output rotation to drive wheels 6, and a second motor generator 2, which can drive the drive wheels 6. A control system for this hybrid vehicle comprises a throttle controller TH and a shift control v...

A transmission control apparatus is used with a vehicle having an internal combustion engine (12), a transmission (14) connected to the engine and having a plurality of gear positions, and a generator (16) which is disposed between the transmission (14) and drive wheels (18a) and which is capable of generating electric power through regenerative braking during deceleration of the vehicle. The cont...

The car separation control has a following car (200) and a car in front with an information panel (100d). The car in front has an indicator (100c) setting the panel to a predetermined shape. The car behind has an imager (200a) acquiring the signal and determining (200b) the image type with validation (200c) of the shape indication, and measuring the distance (200d).

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vertical decanter type centrifugal separator having a rubber skirt being a solid matter discharge chute free from wear or sticking due to dehydrated solid matter even in the case of treating slurry of an inorganic material having large difference of the specific gravity from a liquid. SOLUTION: In the vertical decanter type centrifugal separator, the main part of...

A transmission control system for a hybrid vehicle is comprised of a hybrid transmission (4, 7 and 8) including two motor/generators (MG1, MG2) and a controller (22) connected to the hybrid transmission. The controller is arranged to change the torque control of the motor/generator under the torque control to the revolution speed control and to change the revolution speed control of the other moto...

A torque distribution control device for a four-wheel drive vehicle is disclosed, wherein a torque transmitted from an engine to prime drive wheels is distributed by an electromagnetic clutch to sub-drive wheels on an on-demand basis. A pre-torque is determined based on a vehicle speed and a throttle opening degree in a feed-forward sense. A compensation torque is determined based on the rotationa...

An electric cutter comprises a disk housing (1) for a water cooled disk blade (D), a motor (M) for driving said disk blade (D) about a rotation axis (A) and an arm (36) having a first end (35) articulated to said disk housing (1) and a second end (37) articulated to a supporting element supporting said motor (M), said arm (36) turning said disk housing (1) in order to keep said disk blade (D) in a...

Artefacts in the reconstructed volume data of cone beam CT systems can be removed by the application of respiration correlation techniques to the acquired projection images. To achieve this, the phase of the patients breathing is monitored while acquiring projection images continuously. On completion of the acquisition, projection images that have comparable breathing phases can be selected from t...

Bubble columns fractionate with vapor-liquid mass transfer efficiencies approaching that of distillation towers when vapor velocities in excess of 50% of jet flood are used. If the vapor velocities are pushed above about 70% of jet flood then the distillation performance of a given column packing becomes similar for both liquid continuous operation (bubble column mode) and vapor continuous operati...

A yarn withdrawal apparatus for continuously withdrawing a yarn from a feed yarn package and then from a reserve package, where the trailing yarn end on the feed package is knotted to the leading end of the yarn on the reserve package. The transition of the yarn from the feed yarn package to the reserve yarn package is detected by a sensor, which includes a movable yarn guide, which moves during t...

A bradykinin B2-receptor antagonist peptide, kinestatin, isolated from toad (Bombina maxima) defensive skin secretion, and analogs thereof, is disclosed. The structure of kinestatin is pGlu-Leu/Ile-Pro-Gly-Leu/Ile-Gly-Pro-Leu/Ile-Arg-NH2. Also disclosed are kinestatin analogs, prodrugs including the peptides, fusion peptides and multimeric peptides including the peptide sequences, pharmaceutical c...