The computer tomography (CT) scanner includes a portal cabinet (14) and a bed (18) for supporting a body (16) to be scanned inside an opening in the cabinet (14). An x-ray beam source (12) is attached to the cabinet and a drive unit (24) rotates the x-ray source around the body. An x-ray detector system (13) is arranged on the side of the body opposite to the x-ray source (12). The detector system...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the safety and reliability of a device for controlling the behavior of a vehicle according to monitoring outside of the vehicle. SOLUTION: This shift control device for an automatic transmission has a microcomputer 1 instructing a down-shift in the case of judging that the condition of travel in front of one's own vehicle is a condition to reduce speed on the basis...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent driving force control performance from being worsened immediately after acceleration by keeping the target fuel injection quantity from being restricted by the upper limit of the fuel injection quantity. SOLUTION: Target engine torque taking account of influence on driving force by inertia from an engine to driving wheels is computed by a computing means 72 from th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make high safety compatible with high operability of a vehicle by making the intervention of behavior control appropriate in the case of estimating the traveling state of the vehicle and controlling yaw rate behavior according to the estimated result. SOLUTION: A first target yaw rate &psi (&theta ) is set on the basis of the steering wheel steering angle and vehicle spee...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To dispense with large operating force heretofore required to operate from clutch OFF to the braking of a parking brake by a main clutch lever. SOLUTION: In this lever device for a controller, the main clutch lever 25 permitting main clutch operation and brake operation is disposed at the rear part of a steering wheel 22. A clutch wire 20 is connected to the rotating base par...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a hybrid vehicle capable of avoiding worsening of fuel consumption and complexity of control following start-up by executing stop time shift control at the sudden stop of the vehicle to permit a rapid start at an appropriate change gear ratio, and dispensing with the start-up of an engine in the stop time shift control. SOLUTION: Upon detecting...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a hybrid vehicle capable of effectively reducing the influence of output degradation of an electric motor in the hybrid vehicle provided with a heat engine and the electric motor as drive sources. SOLUTION: A hybrid vehicle is provided with an engine 10 for generating power by fuel combustion, as a drive source for generating power transmitted ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make better fuel economy compatible with high operability by preventing booming noise and vibration during lock-up operation to permit lock-up control from a low vehicle speed area. SOLUTION: Booming noise and vibration during lock-up control are prevented by a torque fluctuation detecting means 109 for detecting the excess- shortage of generated torque of an engine, a gen...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a driver from feeling a sense of incompatibility by intervention of excessive-early or excessive-late control and provide both high safely and high operability of a vehicle by appropriating the intervention conditions of an understeer control and the oversteel in the case where a brift-out by the understeer state and a spin by the oversteer state are avoided by per...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately complete the behavior control. SOLUTION: This behavior controller is provided with ECU 2 estimating the yaw rate behavior of a vehicle from a first and a second target yaw rate and a real yaw rate so as to control the yaw rate behavior. When completion conditions are formed during oversteer control, the ECU completes its behavior control. The completion condi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately perform an alarm for behavior control. SOLUTION: This behavior controller is provided with ECU 2 estimating yaw rate behavior of a vehicle from detection results of respective types of sensors 11-110 so as to control the yaw rate behavior, and an alarm device 38 alarming for the execution of the behavior control. After starting the behavior control, the ECU s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately perform antiskid control by holding steering stability without increasing the brake distance at all times including in braking the turning of a vehicle. SOLUTION: A friction coefficient between a traveling road face and the wheels of a vehicle is estimated and a target slip rate is set as a function of the friction coefficient based on the estimation method. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rubber tire vulcanization bladder and a rubber tire vulcanization method. SOLUTION: An expandable butyl rubber bladder for use in the vulcanizing press of a hydrocarbon rubber such as a pneumatic tire is a crosslinked elastomer containing isobutylene repeating units, and the bladder composition contains lecithin, particularly preferably a liquid modified lecithin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a balloon breaker which can largely reduce the frictional resistance of a weft due to its contact and can easily be maintained. SOLUTION: A plurality of bar-like members 12 which are extended in the picking direction and are arranged so as to approach each other in the picking direction are provided. A space surrounded by the plurality of bar-like members 12 is for...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly conduct starting from an engine stopped state at favorable responsiveness in a control device for a starting clutch serially provided with a belt type continuously variable transmission mechanism to receive input of power from an engine through a power transmission mechanism including a hydraulic actuation type friction element on a transmission of an idling opera...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent generation of belt slip caused by a load applied on a belt type continuously variable transmission mechanism before side pressure of a drive pulley or a driven pulley of the continuously variable transmission mechanism starts up in starting from an engine stopped state in a control device for a starting clutch serially provided with the continuously variable transm...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the assembly property of the peripheral member of a differential gear. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a differential case 3, bevel gear type differential mechanism 7, serclip 16 installed on the facing ends of respective rear shafts 15, 17 connected to the facingly arranged output side gears 11, 13 and thrust block 27 burying the clearance between facing en...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect the fastening force of two electromagnetic clutches of a driving force distribution device respectively while restraining the number of parts to minimum. SOLUTION: The electromagnetic clutches CL, CR arranged while adjoining to the right/left of a symmetrical surface P in order to distribute the drive force to two shafts have outer guides 24L, 24R, inner guides 25L,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clutch drum structure having a few number of parts, which can set the number of tooth of a pulse gear at will and shorten the axial direction size of the clutch drum. SOLUTION: A clutch drum 3 is arranged inside a transmission case 1 and the rotation speed of this clutch drum 3 is detected by a rotation speed sensor 20. Pulse teeth 3d for generating a pulse signa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the shock at the engage/disengage time of a clutch of a speed change step except a maximum speed step in an automatic transmission using a mesh type transmission, providing a clutch for engaging/disengaging with a power shaft on each gear and carrying out the automatic speed change by the control of an oil pressure for engaging/disengaging the clutch. SOLUTION: In t...