A fiber is obtainable from or comprises a propylene/??-olefin interpolymer characterized by an elastic recovery, Re, in percent at 300 percent strain and 1 cycle and a density, d, in grams/cubic centimeter, wherein the elastic recovery and the density satisfy the following relationship: Re >1481-1629(d). Such interpolymer can also be characterized by other properties. The fibers made therefrom hav...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress speed change shocks when changing the speed of a transmission during the coast down, and to suppress overdischarge of a power storage device such as a battery. Ž

SOLUTION: In the coast down state, when the vehicle speed V to change the state from the output of the decelerated torque to the output of the creep torque is at the timing of the threshold V2 (S200)...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a riding rice transplanter designed to install a suction pipe at a specified position so as to enable almost all of the lubricating oil in a transmission case to be used as lubricating oil through sucking it and therefore enable the lubricating oil to be efficiently used without its residence in the transmission case. SOLUTION: This riding rice transplanter is such...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an obstacle detecting device for a vehicle capable of finely and accurately deciding an obstacle being a trouble in the traveling of the vehicle. Ž

SOLUTION: This device is provided with a vehicle estimated traveling trajectory arithmetic unit 24 for calculating an estimated traveling trajectory on which a vehicle is presumed to travel from a steering angle at...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a constitution where a clutch piston of an auxiliary transmission for enabling the start control under the increase of torque, does not receive the returning force from lubricant pressure inside of the auxiliary transmission. Ž

SOLUTION: In starting, the auxiliary transmission 20 is kept in a low-speed stage (decelerating stage) selecting state by releasing a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the safety by preventing car speed from being kept in a variable state even when a gradient is changed in controlling the driving force to achieve a target acceleration, and preventing the sudden acceleration under bad weather. Ž

SOLUTION: Whether the acceleration with a target acceleration tACC1 of tACC1 ≥ 0 or the deceleration of tCCC1 < 0 is checked in S41....

A vehicle drive force control apparatus is provided that can stabilize the output of the electric motor (4) even if the engine rotational speed experiences an acute change. The output of an engine (2) is delivered to the left and right front wheels (1L and 1R) through a transmission (30) and also to an electric generator (7). The output voltage of the electric generator (7) is supplied to an elect...

The hybrid vehicle is provided with a power distribution mechanism (20) distributing a power of an internal combustion engine (16) to a wheel side output shaft (6) and a first motor generator (18), and a transmission (14) transmitting a power of a second motor generator (12) to the wheel side output shaft (6). An electronic control unit (30) executes a rotation synchronization control for synchron...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for preventing a vehicle from a turnover, the device adequately forecasting the turnover of a vehicle independently of the height of the gravity center of the vehicle and preventing the vehicle from the turnover based on the forecast. Ž

SOLUTION: The device for preventing the vehicle from the turnover is provided with; a steering angle speed detection...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure effective traveling performance at a road having a low friction coefficient μ on its surface. Ž

SOLUTION: A vehicle is provided with an accelerator position detecting means 11, a vehicle speed detecting means, and speed change controlling means 8 and 13 controlling speed change of an automatic transmission 5 based on positions of an accelerator and speed of a v...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a package filled with jelly-like medicine, food or the like to be taken out of a bag with a one-touch operation of a single hand after unsealing, by forming a cross section of a core to be approximately circular, forming a longitudinal seal along at least one of its lengthwise directions and filling and sealing contents. SOLUTION: Upper and lower openings of a cylin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize the interference of a collision evading operation by automatic steering with a driver's spontaneous collision evading operation in a device for automatically steering a steering device so as to evade contact with an opposite vehicle. SOLUTION: A reference steering amount is set based on the vehicle behavior change of a present vehicle generated by steering in a re...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the collision possibility of a driver's own vehicle and a vehicle running on the opposite lane from being erroneously judged at the exit part of a curve. SOLUTION: Based on the state of the oppositely oncoming vehicle detected with an object detection means 4 and the future moving tack of the driver's own vehicle estimated with a moving track estimation means M1, a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead storage battery which can solves problems in the conventional lead storage batteries in which 4 corners are formed into swollen corner portions for maintaining the specified external dimensions, and each end plate of a group of pole plates is forcedly housed by a vertical rib projectionally provided at an inner surface of a swollen wall portion thereof, i.e....

A document feeder for transporting a document to a predetermined reading position at which image reading is performed by an image reading portion, including: a document transport portion for transporting the document to a reading standby position upstream of the reading position; and a control portion for controlling the document transport portion so that the document is made to stop at the readin...

An apparatus for controlling the distance between vehicles enables the distance to be controlled smoothly. A target vehicle speed determining section sets target vehicle speed based on the distance deviation between actual inter-vehicular distance and target inter-vehicular distance between host vehicle and preceding vehicle, and on the traveling speed of the preceding vehicle; calculates a tempor...

Luminescent polymers having sterically twisted arylene repeat units are provided, which are particularly suited as electroluminescent polymers. Monomers necessary for the synthesis of the sterically twisted polyarylene are provided, as are electroluminescent device utilizing these polymers.

A method of producing a light redirecting structure comprising a three dimensional structure formed from a segment of sheet plastics material having at least one parallel or concentric array of cuts 15, 16, 17, 18 is disclosed. The cutting is performed with a laser and may form more than one parallel array of cuts 15, 16, 17, 18. In a first a...

A quick connect coupling (24) for a battery watering system is disclosed. The coupling has a housing (38) with inlets and outlets, each having a collar (40) with a tapered bore (42). A collet having flexible fingers (50) attached to a ring (54) is axially movable within the collar (40). The fingers (50) have inwardly pointing teeth (58) positioned distally to the ring (54). The collet receives a c...