PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology capable of improving mounting performance and cost in a turbocharger, by making common use of a means for controlling supercharging pressure by the turbocharger and a means for preventing surging in the turbocharger.

SOLUTION: This control device has a waist gate valve 15 arranged in an exhaust bypass passage 19 bypassing a turbine 12 and contro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a turbine blade ring structure, easy in assembling, and capable of successively installing a seal member.

SOLUTION: This turbine blade ring structure has a first stage upstream side heat shielding ring 29, a first stage downstream side heat shielding ring 31 arranged at an interval on the downstream side in the axial direction of a first stage blade ring 27 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an engine for suppressing excess air fed to a catalyst device after stopping combustion.

SOLUTION: The control device 1 for the engine 2 is provided with a turbocharger 3, a turbo rotation restriction means restricting rotation of a turbine 3b constituting the turbocharger 3, and the catalyst device 7 arranged on the downstream of the tu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gas supply device for an internal combustion engine for efficiently accumulating gas pressure when gas at a pressure higher than that of an intake pressure is accumulated in a pressure accumulation part arranged for accumulating gas.

SOLUTION: This gas supply device for accumulating compressed gas and supplying it to the internal combustion engine 1 is pro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a seal ring stably forming a film of sealed fluid on a sliding surface portion.

SOLUTION: This seal ring 10 is mounted to an annular groove formed in one of two members relatively rotatably assembled, is slidably arranged with respect to the side wall surface on the non-sealed fluid side of the annular groove and the peripheral surface of the other member, a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce shocks which may occur in gear shifting by reducing variation in output torque.

SOLUTION: An ECU executes a program including a step (S116) of controlling a friction engagement element so that the torque capacity Tch of the friction engaging element which is made from an engagement state to a disengagement state by down-shifting is gradually reduced to start ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric control valve and an electric actuator attaining a drive control circuit coping with biting of foreign matters in the valve with a simple constitution with a timer and a relay.

SOLUTION: The electric control valve comprises a micro switch 5 for detecting an overload caused by driving regulation of a valve element, a full-closure detector 2 for de...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sliding bearing capable of shaping its exterior surface side without using an outer mold which is divided into sections corresponding to the number of slits to be shaped by the outer mold and facilitating manufacturing and reducing cost.

SOLUTION: The sliding bearing 1 comprises a bearing body 11, slits 14 and 15 extended from one end face 12 in the axial ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the seizure on a sliding surface between the inner peripheral face of a bearing and the outer peripheral face of a shaft without forming a foreign matter discharge groove in the bearing.

SOLUTION: In order that an oiling hole 9 of the bearing 6 is overlapped with an inner wall face 8a of the end of an oil groove 8 of a bearing seat portion 4 in the peripheral ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To cancel the execution of unnecessary inhibit control after determining the moving direction of a vehicle when executing inhibit control without providing a special sensor.

SOLUTION: An ECU executes a program which includes a step (S106) of calculating a synchronous rotating speed NS(2) of a MG(2) 140A after cancelling D-inhibit control when the D-inhibit control is i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve sound absorbing performance by providing a middle tube passage formed with a smaller diameter than diameters of a front tube passage and a rear tube passage.

SOLUTION: The duct component is formed by a tube forming an air flow passage piercing in a fore and aft direction. It is provided with the front tube passage 31, the middle tube passage 38, and the rear...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dew proofing device of a desiccant air conditioner capable of preventing dew condensation in a sensible-heat heat exchanger in ventilating operation.

SOLUTION: This desiccant air conditioner comprises a dew-proofing control means for executing either an exhausting operation where only a first blower 10 is operated while stopping a second blower 11, or a de...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an on-vehicle navigation apparatus and an emergency information providing method, which change emergency information acquired externally to an information presentation mode for output, according to the drive situation of a vehicle, and transmits the emergency information to a user appropriately.

SOLUTION: The on-vehicle navigation apparatus comprises: an ext...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toner which is satisfactory removability and can satisfy both hot storage resistance and low-temperature fixability because a core-shell structure toner having a uniform covering resin layer can be made, and to provide a method for manufacturing the toner and an image forming method that uses the toner.

SOLUTION: In the toner for electrostatic latent image...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve variation in generated force (load)-bending characteristic.

SOLUTION: The variable shape mirror apparatus comprises: a substrate 11; a plurality of electrodes 12 provided on the substrate; a spacer 13 which is arranged and fixed on the substrate; a supporting member 16 which is arranged on the spacer and has an opening at the center penetrating through from ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To notify of a result of the comparison based on the comparison between the acceleration detected by an accelerometer for detecting acceleration generated while a vehicle is being driven and a boundary area of the acceleration a driver has set before starting to drive the vehicle.

SOLUTION: A driving support device 21 comprises accelerometers 43 and 45 for detecting th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a production management method for analyzing product physical circulation in a production line as a whole, in order to specify the root cause of productivity deterioration which cannot be found out by only monitoring an individual production device, in the production management of a production line.

SOLUTION: This production management system is provided wit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a suspicious person monitoring system identifying suspicious persons in a timely manner without imposing heavy burdens on monitoring personnel and the like.

SOLUTION: The suspicious person monitoring system is configured to identify suspicious persons among people entering a predetermined monitored area 2. When a person enters the monitored area, the system ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent areas from being not inspected at joints when images of a film running on a conveyor are divided for each inspection.

SOLUTION: A method for inspecting a film running on a conveyor includes a process of imaging the film; a process for digitizing the picked up images to obtain image data; a means for writing the image data in a temporary storage means by mean...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle management method allowing suppression of introduction cost of a DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) system by reducing the number of installed DSRC wireless machines in entrance/exit management of a vehicle, and allowing efficient practical use of a garage space without separately providing a path for an entrance and a path for an exit.

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