A hose reel cart utilizes metal and coated metal component construction for increased durability and stability while still remaining lightweight for increased hose capacity and maneuverability. Additionally the hose reel can pivot about an axis which is substantially perpendicular to the horizontal rotary axis of the hose reel thereby enabling the hose to be readily removed from the hose reel irre...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten dimension of a hydraulic pressure generation unit in the axial direction by disposing a plurality of one-way clutches such that they overlap with each other in the axial direction. SOLUTION: An oil driving member 8 has a cup-like shaped tip with a cylindrical portion 8a. A first one-way clutch 45 is interposed between an inner periphery of the cylindrical portion a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve safety at turning right or left and improvement of fuel consumption in a following travel control device for following a preceding vehicle while a predetermined following distance is maintained. Ž

SOLUTION: When a stop state of an own vehicle is detected and turning right or left of the own vehicle is foreseen in a state of following travel to the preceding ve...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead acid battery, the structure of which can improve productivity. Ž

SOLUTION: An electrode group is housed in a battery case 1, and a lid 2 is attached to the battery case 1 liquid-tightly. The lid 2 is constructed by bonding a vent plug unit 8 to a lid body 2A. Ž

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a front body structure of a vehicle capable of reducing the bottom G occurring in the second half of a head-on collision. Ž

SOLUTION: In the front body structure 10 comprising a transmission case 20 arranged in an engine room, and a front cross member 12 which is arranged on the forward side of the vehicle from the transmission case 20 and displaced to the bac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of a driving device for a vehicle, controlling the gear ratio of a continuously variable speed transmission part and the gear ratio of a stepped shifting part to obtain favorable fuel consumption. Ž

SOLUTION: In a continuously variable speed running state in which a differential part (a continuously variable transmission part) 11 is steplessly...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive device for a vehicle capable of miniaturizing the drive device or improving fuel consumption. Ž

SOLUTION: A switch clutch CO and a switch brake BO as a differential state switching device for selectively switching a power distribution mechanism 16 to the differential state (continuously variable shift state) operable as an electric continuously variabl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the vibration and noise of a vehicle while reducing the size of a vehicular drive assembly which has a differential mechanism functioning as an electric differential device with differential operation or improving fuel consumption. Ž

SOLUTION: The drive assembly attains both advantages of the fuel consumption improving effect of a transmission whose speed cha...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device which restrains a vehicle from causing vibration or noise in a drive unit for the vehicle which is provided with a differential mechanism functioning as an electrical differential device by means of differential action. Ž

SOLUTION: In transmission mechanism 10 which is provided with a stepless changed-speed part 11 which is configured to be ca...

One of the manager control units among multiple control units includes a first coordination portion that coordinates a control target value derived based on an instruction from a driver or a first control unit and expressed by a first unit of physical quantity, with an instruction value from a second control unit and expressed by the first unit of physical quantity; a conversion portion that conve...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a motor axis supporting mechanism of an orthogonal axis type geared motor capable of easily preventing the axial rattling of the motor axis and easily adjusting an engagement position of a pinion and a gear. Ž

SOLUTION: This motor axis supporting mechanism of the hypoid gear type geared motor comprises the motor axis 3 provided with a hypoid pinion 2 engaged w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pneumatic tire and its manufacturing method capable of enhancing the draining performance when the vehicle is running and also enhancing the die releasing characteristic at the time of vulcanization. Ž

SOLUTION: The pneumatic tire has sipes 5 at the tread surface 1, and at least one 5a of the opposing wall surfaces of each sipe 5 is formed with surface uneve...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To rapidly and accurately stick adhesive tape without crashing to a tape sticking face of a shape where two linear parts cross. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a pressing roller 17 rotatably connected to two bodies 11 and 13, a first guide roller 21 rotatably attached substantially in parallel with this pressing roller 17 to the one body 11, a second guide roller 22 at...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cutter device of simple structure for forming perforations and cutting at high speed for the subdivision pack forming perforations and cutting at a heat sealing section of a subdivision pack packaging material in which a powder agent is sealed dividedly into continuous films. SOLUTION: A cutter device is constituted of a cutter main body 2 with a perforation blad...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce vibration transmission to a gear side to reduce gear noise even if bending vibration is generated in a relatively long rotary shaft. SOLUTION: This structure has a reduction driven gear 2 constituting one of gear trains transmitting power, formed with an inner spline; a pair of ball bearings 5 supporting the reduction driven gear 2 at both the ends of the reduction ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce gear noises by reducing the transmission of vibration to gears even if bending vibrations occur in a relatively long rotating shaft. Ž

SOLUTION: This bearing structure has a reduction driven gear 2 formed with an inner spline while constituting one of gear trains to which power is transmitted; a pair of ball bearings 5 supporting the reduction driven gear 2 at ...

A distance from a printing section to a heat sealing section of a medicine packaging apparatus is shortened without generating wrinkles on a package sheet. A unfolding guide 65 included in a packaging unit 4 for unfolding and opening a package sheet 61 has a main ridge 94 extending along with the fold of the package sheet 61, and a pair of unfolding guide surfaces 90a, 90b which are convex curved ...

The composite structure of the present invention comprises an elongate core material of a sintered diamond material comprising 80% by volume or more diamond particles of a mean particle size not larger than 3.5 mum that are bound by an iron group metal; and a shell layer of a sintered alloy comprising at least one kind of hard particles selected from among carbide, nitride and carbonitride of at l...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for outputting power from a motor via a transmission to a driving shaft, making it possible to change the shift stage of the transmission when impossible to change it with the synchronization of the rotating speed of the motor. Ž

SOLUTION: When the shift stage of the transmisision is changed to increase the rotating speed Nm2 of the motor (S300), cons...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more quickly cancel power circulation, and to suppress excessive power from being input/output to/from a battery when canceling the power circulation. Ž

SOLUTION: When power circulation is generated, an engine is operated at an operation point obtained by changing only the torque of a target operation point so that a direct toque from the engine can be made equal to a...