PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To release a step-in base in a single lever operation, allow the confirmation of locking by the operating sound of a locking claw and improve snow clogging resistance in the step-in base for use in step-in binding of a snowboard.

SOLUTION: The cutting depth of a groove 1A is so constituted as to upward float a lock pin 3 by the operation of one of release levers 2A and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle traveling control unit capable of demonstrating the response to the behavior to a preceding vehicle and changing or switching the response characteristic so as to meet the feeling of a driver when a plurality of set inter-vehicle times are set.

SOLUTION: The follow-up control to meet the feeling of a driver can be realized by changing the response ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically switch a mode from a low-speed following traveling mode to a high-speed following traveling mode.

SOLUTION: All of vehicle speed areas of a following traveling control target is divided into a plurality of vehicle speed areas. When a vehicle follows a preceding vehicle while keeping a following distance from the preceding vehicle constant in each vehic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a condition in which an engine cannot be started while receiving a reaction force of a drive shaft by a motor.

SOLUTION: An automobile is provided with a mechanical pump driven by an engine 22 and an electric driven pump 92 as pumps for generating hydraulic pressure used for actuating a transmission gear 60 to transmit a power from a motor MG2 to a ring gear...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly shift and reduce a load to a synchronization mechanism even when weight of a vehicle is drastically changed, and to lower a floor of a hybrid vehicle.

SOLUTION: In the vehicle, a transmission 16 is connected to a crankshaft 12a of an engine in a disconnectable manner through an electric generator 18 and a speed change clutch 14, and has a plurality of drivi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain a target yaw angular acceleration, even when a required driving force difference between right and left wheels cannot be realized because the realizable range of driving force difference between right and left wheels has decreased or the like, in a right and left independent drive type vehicle for independently controlling the driving forces of the right and left...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving operation assist device for a vehicle to assist the driving operation of the driver by executing a deceleration control and an operational reaction force control when the car lane of the vehicle concerned is running on curved road.

SOLUTION: A controller sets a control point to be controlled lying on a curve ahead of the vehicle concerned and calcu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the energy efficiency of a device and downsize a motor.

SOLUTION: The device is structured so that in a relatively low speed operation, a brake B is actuated and clutches C1 and C2 are disengaged to enable a power distribution integrating mechanism 30 to function as three-element type, and the coupled condition is generated in which the rotating speed of the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress shift shock when a shift stage is shifted when braking force is outputted to a driving shaft by an electric motor through a transmission and to suppress heat generation on a clutch and a brake required for shifting of the shift stage.

SOLUTION: When requirement for shifting of the transmission 60 is performed when the braking force is outputted from a motor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly perform shift of a transmission for shifting and transmitting power from an electric motor to a driving shaft even when negative driving force is outputted from the electric motor.

SOLUTION: When the number of rotations Nm1 of a power generation motor usually driven as a generator becomes less than 0 and negative torque is outputted from a driving motor usu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inter-vehicle distance control device capable of precluding a rear-end collision owing to insufficient inter-vehicle distance with a high probability and free of a risk to give a sense of incongruity to the driver even if changing-over is made from the normal running to the decelerative running.

SOLUTION: The inter-vehicle distance control device is equip...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle condition sensing device capable of sensing an unstable condition of the vehicle behavior or its preliminary indication accurately even when the gripping force of a tire has lowered.

SOLUTION: The vehicle condition sensing device is to sense the vehicle condition using the alignment torque Ta given from the road surface and the side slip angle β. T...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make driver's driving operation effective even when vehicle speed is reduced and alarm is given.

SOLUTION: A running control system detects possibility of contact of own vehicle with an object in the front by a radar device 30, an obstacle detection processing device 2, and a controller 5 to correct generation amount of driving torque corresponding to stepping-on am...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an Fe-based wear-resistant sliding material wherein seizing resistance, wear resistance and heat crack resistance can be improved.

SOLUTION: The Fe-based wear-resistant sliding material has a martensitic base phase wherein 0.15-0.5 wt.% carbon is dissolved and 10-50 vol.% in total of special carbides of at least one chosen from Cr, Mo, W and V is dispersed. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress problems in acceleration response and surging of an electric supercharger when drives of the electric supercharger and a motor are controlled according to operation conditions of an engine in a powertrain equipped with the electric supercharger.

SOLUTION: Both of the motor and the electric supercharger are put in non-operation state in a zone X where a targ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vacuum pump control method and mounting structure for a diesel hybrid vehicle, capable of appropriately maintaining negative pressure inside a negative pressure tank during EV traveling.

SOLUTION: Negative pressure inside the negative pressure tank is detected during EV traveling (Yes in Step S10, Step S11), and when negative pressure runs short, an engine...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely prevent contamination inside a transmission case with external foreign materials such as water when air flows into the transmission case from a breather, by eliminating the breather provided in a transmission to adjust internal pressure of the transmission case.

SOLUTION: The tractor is provided with am extraction pipe 80 over the transmission case 30, and in...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To change a coast shifting line to obtain a requested re-acceleration performance without causing deceleration with a sense of incongruity and deterioration of fuel economy when coasting.

SOLUTION: The coast shifting line is changed from α toward β so that a target input engine speed tNpri becomes higher as degree of importance of power performance is higher, and reque...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device capable of securing vehicle starting performance, in a vehicular driving device having a differential mechanism functioning as a shift mechanism by the differential action.

SOLUTION: This device has a changing clutch CO, and is constituted gradually changeable to a state capable of mechanically transmitting motive power by putting a motive p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the rotary shaft supporting structure of a transmission which does not cause deformation of the inner ring guard of a bearing even if the axial length of a rotating shaft is shortened.

SOLUTION: A nut member 3 is tightened while one edge side of the boss section 102a of a reduction driven gear 102 abuts the side 103a of a pinion gear 103, and a conical beari...