A vehicular automatic transmission TM has a torque converter TC connected to the engine E and an automatic transmission mechanism (gear trains 13a, 13b, 14a, 14b) connected to the output side of the torque converter, the drive power from the engine for which gear shifting is performed via the torque converter and the automatic transmission mechanism is transmitted to the wheels and the vehicle is ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power outputting apparatus capable of suppressing noises generated at the time of starting an internal combustion engine.

SOLUTION: By judging whether a parking gear 92 of a parking lock mechanism 90 and a parking lock pole 94 are fitted to each other or not, if they are in the state of being fitted, a motor MG2 outputs a torque obtained by adding a pushin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce dragging torque at low cost.

SOLUTION: A friction clutch device comprises a friction clutch 15 having torque transmitting members 3 and 13, a clutch member 71 connected to the member 3 and a clutch member 75 connected to the member 13, an armature 17 movable to a fastening position for pressing the clutch 15 and to a fastening release position in which a fast...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead storage battery in which an element has a overpressure degree of 50 kgf/dm2or more to a separator surface area, and of which the life performance excels in spite of a thin shape electrode plate.

SOLUTION: The element is inserted into an open face of a battery case in a state that a surface of an electrode plate is laid horizontally and in the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead storage battery in which reliability coming from a bag shape separator is maintained, improvement of vibration-resistant nature can be carried out at low cost, and improvement of an engine starting property can be carried out by suppressing voltage drop at the time of a large current discharge that flows at the time of engine start.

SOLUTION: The batt...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing apparatus of storage batteries by which at the time when a positive electrode 2 is stored on a shelf 4a together with a separator 1, this positive plate 2 can be aligned certainly by guiding the tip section with the plate guide 7, and the storage battery manufactured by this manufacturing equipment of the lead storage batteries.

SOLUTION: In ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform regenerative control reflecting running state of a vehicle or intention of a driver.

SOLUTION: When an aperture AP of an accelerator becomes a value 0, that is, accelerator off (S102), larger regenerative torque Tm2* is set (S108) the larger the acceleration stored as the last acceleration just before acceleration off is so as to regeneratively control motor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance lifetime of a battery by prolonging discharge time of the battery in a system linkage system using batteries for power transmission lines of a wind power generator and a power company.

SOLUTION: The battery 15 is connected between a rectifier 12 and a system linkage inverter 13, and the battery 15 is charged through a diode D3 and a charge/discharge control ...

Compounds of the formula (I) wherein X is O or S, useful for the inhibition of the replication of HIV-1 and reverse transcriptase mutants thereof, in vitro and in vivo.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel octafunctional epoxy compound which is in liquid state at room temperature.

SOLUTION: The epoxy compound is 1,1,1,1-tetra(2,3- diglycidylpropyloxymethyl)methane of formula: C[CH2O-CH2-CH(OG)-CH2(OG)]4(G indicates a glycidyl group). The epoxy compound is prepared by oxidizing 1,1,1,1-tetra(allyloxymethyl)methane to ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electroconductive film which is an inexpensive film having optical properties such as transparency which do not cause any problem even when placed in an LCD, and having antistatic properties and an electromagnetic wave-shielding function.

SOLUTION: In the polymer film to the surface of which an electroconductive polymer is attached, the electroconductive ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a resistor in which a heat generation layer of low resistance and low stress is stably deposited at a high film deposition rate.

SOLUTION: In the resistor, a heat generation layer 3 consisting of amorphous silicon is film-deposited on a substrate 1 by a catalyst CVD (chemical vapor deposition) method. A catalytic body used for the catalyst CVD method consist...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surface foreign matter inspection device that realizes short time for foreign matter inspection and high detection sensitivity.

SOLUTION: The surface foreign matter inspection device for inspecting foreign matter on an inspected body 4 with an optical means comprises a stage 4a movable with the inspected body 4 mounted thereon; a light radiating means 5 fo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for drying a chemical reagent in a material for manufacturing a product used especially in producing a reagent test strip.

SOLUTION: The speedy drying process is achieved by drying a selected medicine on a support body drawn passing a prescribed radiant energy source (preferably, an IR source), and a high quality product can be obtained. Further, th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processing device and a power source control device capable of further enhancing reliability of the information processing device and performing an appropriate fault recovery processing in accordance with types of faults occurring in various parts of the information processing device.

SOLUTION: A storage device 110, as an example of an informa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a charge receipt/sale system for a portable telephone capable of eliminating labor and cost on creating and distributing a charging bill and a ticket for a user and capable of easily performing payment, receipt or sale without impairing current convenience of the user.

SOLUTION: A communication center server is connected with POS cash registers provided in a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To carry on entry/exit processing even if a train ticket is detected while electrostatically attracted to a fullness sensor part of a ticket collection box.

SOLUTION: An automatic ticket checker which allows a passenger to enter and exit by performing arithmetic processing based upon data recorded on a train ticket thrown in a throw-in slot of a main body of the automa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ticket examination processing system which excellently finds abnormality in its early stage.

SOLUTION: The ticket examination processing system is equipped with a plurality of ticket examination processors (21) and a central information processor (22) which performs centralized processing for ticket examination histories sent from those processors (21). Ea...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a parking booking and paying machine which meets various demands of parking lot users and a parking system equipped with the booking and paying machine.

SOLUTION: A display part 4 of a booking and paying unit 4 in a parking lot is controlled by a main control unit 42. This main control unit 42 is provided with vacancy information on the parking lot by refere...