PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the efficiency, to improve the steering stability, and to increase the steering nature by utilizing a driving force being applied to front wheels which are steering wheels.

SOLUTION: At a front wheel driving force target value operation section 36 of a transfer clutch controlling section 30, a longitudinal driving force of the front wheel is calculated in s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speed reduction controlling device for vehicle which can suppress a sense of incongruity occurring at the time of the lost of a preceding vehicle when a speed reduction is generated by controlling a change gear and a braking device while making them cooperate in order to correct a positional relationship with the preceding vehicle.

SOLUTION: This speed red...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller and a control method for a vehicle equipped with an automatic clutch capable of restraining abrupt reverse movement induced by a protection function when detecting abnormality of a clutch, and the vehicle.

SOLUTION: A clutch release command generating means 104 releases the clutch when a temperature abnormality determining means 102 detects temp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving situation determination device for variously determining the present driving situation in order to allowing a driver to recognize the dangerous condition according to the degree of the dangerous condition, and performing the driving operation to avoid the dangerous condition earlier.

SOLUTION: The driving situation determination device mounted on a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a filling and packaging apparatus for granulate, by which a long film can be filled with the granulate in a short time.

SOLUTION: The filling and packaging apparatus for granulate includes a rotor 10 for performing a stocking operation and a discharging operation for the granulate while rotating in its circumferential direction. The rotor 10 has a large numb...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of boxy sound resulting from the operation of an internal combustion engine and to improve the energy efficiency.

SOLUTION: In a hybrid vehicle which runs by converting power from the engine to torque by means of a planetary gear and two motors MG1, MG2 so as to output the power to a drive shaft, an action line of the engine 22 for avoiding th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vibration reducing plate capable of reducing the case vibration of an automatic transmission using a simple constitution and through easy installing procedure.

SOLUTION: The automatic transmission is equipped with a gearing mechanism to be fed with rotation and emit it upon speed changing, a torque converter to transmit the rotation of an engine to the gea...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a running resistance sensing device for a vehicle to work with a device to calculate the running resistance (gradient resistance) of the vehicle during application of brakes, capable of avoiding generation of a large presumptive error in the running resistance owing to generation of a slip.

SOLUTION: The braking force FB of the vehicle is presumed on the bas...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a geared motor having a motor frame and a gear case and capable of preventing shaft axis run-out of a motor shaft without increasing machining precision of the motor frame and the gear case.

SOLUTION: The motor frame 16 and the gear case 14 are mutually connected, and two bearings 34, 36 are arranged inside the gear case 14. A one end part side of a motor sh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller of a driving gear for a vehicle capable of controlling the revolution of engine revolving speed in the condition where the bad influence is not given to the durability of the bearing of the first element, although the revolution of the first element is controlled or the engine brake power is enlarged during deceleration running.

SOLUTION: A swit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce musical noise artifacts that are introduced from noise suppression, and to predict noise with further accuracy in speech including during talking.

SOLUTION: The gain-constraining noise suppressing system 100 operates by applying a spectrum gain G(m, k) to each short time spectrum value S (m, k) of a speech signal 115, where m is the frame number, and k is the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus in which the number of parts is decreased and structure is improved simply and its driving method.

SOLUTION: This magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus comprises a rotation lever supporting a pinch roller guiding so as to bring a tape into contact with a capstan shaft and installed rotatably on the deck, a review a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead acid storage battery which is improved in cycle life and capacity recoverability after discharge for a long period while maintaining maintenance-free performance, compared with a lead acid storage battery using a conventional positive electrode using Pb-Ca based alloy substrate and an electrolytic solution.

SOLUTION: The lead acid storage battery is e...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead-acid battery capable of improving the utilization ratio of an active material and of increasing capacity of the battery.

SOLUTION: This lead-acid battery is composed by stacking a paste type positive electrode plate 2, a retainer or separator 3 and a paste type negative electrode plate 1. The lead-acid battery is characterized by that the paste type p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide pulse laser equipment and its method for efficiently generating high power optical pulses.

SOLUTION: Laser equipment for generating an optical pulse is disclosed and preferably, the laser equipment comprises a reflection gain element including a fiber gain medium. The reflection gain element is coupled to a controllable reflection/transmission module, having...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily perform the maintenance of the steering valve device of a hydraulic type steering device and the elevating/lowering valve device of a hydraulic type elevating/lowering device in a combine harvester. SOLUTION: In the combine harvester for which a mission case 1 provided with the hydraulic type steering device for a pair of left and right traveling devices is arranged...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely compensate an oversteer generated on a rear wheel drive vehicle in the middle of turning by increasing torque distribution quantity less than a value in proportion to lateral acceleration at the time of distributing torque in accordance with an increase in the lateral acceleration of the vehicle between left and right wheels of the rear wheel drive vehicle. SOLUT...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the engine startability by setting the weight of a positive electrode grid body with lead as a main component to a specific range wt.% of a positive electrode active material quantity. SOLUTION: As results of CCA(Cold Cranking Ampere) test of batteries using 22.0 g (65 wt.% relative to a positive electrode active material quantity) of a positive electrode cast grid...

A vehicle drive system with a vehicle electric power generation control device is configured to prevent drive belt (6) between an engine (2) and a generator (7) from slipping without causing the output of the generator (7) from declining. When the target load torque Tg* of the generator (7) is limited to the maximum transmittable torque value Tslip in order to prevent the belt (6) from slipping, t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a camera module which is aimed at making it small in size, light in weight, low in cost and prolonged in service life. Ž

SOLUTION: For the shafts of gears constituting a lens moving mechanism, the shaft of a final-stage gear for transmitting driving force to a cylindrical cam is made of resin and other shafts are made of metal. Ž

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