The customer (1) is informed separately of the preferred time for them to collect the ordered goods at the pick-up location (13). A bonus is calculated which depends on the time when the customer collects the goods and this bonus is then given to the customer accordingly. An Independent claim is also included for a delivery system (17) for customer orders, especially for goods ordered via the int...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air mat which can quickly discharge air. SOLUTION: This air mat is equipped with an air mat body 1A, an air feeding/discharging means 7, and a connector 10. In this case, the air mat body 1A expands/shrinks by the feeding/discharging of air. The air feeding/discharging means 7 is connected to the air mat body with air tubes 5 and 6, and feeds/ discharges air to/...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a radiography system which removes the defects of conventional technology, can confirm the angle information on both tilt angles from one operation position, and can lessen the burden of an operator. SOLUTION: The X-ray head 4; 16; 76, the more than one head angle sensor 58, 60; 78, 80, and the display means 64; 94 are provided in the system. Each of the head angle...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely detect the generation of porosity in a laser welded part. SOLUTION: The reflected beam of a laser beam applied to the welding part F of a work 5 is detected by a sensor 6a and converted to electric signals. At a measuring device 7, the frequency distribution of the electric signals is calculated and the signal strength in the specified frequency band of the calculat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for laser welding two metal sheets under a condition that a clearance is formed between the metal sheets to release vapor of protective layer. SOLUTION: Two sheets 1, 2 having a protective layer of a low evaporating temperature are laser welded after the clearance G1 is formed between the sheets so that the vapor of the protective layer ge...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a electric tightening tool which reduces high peak pressure generated in oil pulses when a bolt is tightened and prevents a lowering of a tightening torque due to oil leak. SOLUTION: An elastic body 7 is provided between a planetary gear mechanism part 3 and a hammer case 6. The elastic body 7 is also provided on the outer periphery of the connection part 8 between...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positioning unit which can be provided integral with a hand-held tool device so as to position a tool at the predetermined processing point. SOLUTION: The positioning unit for a hand-held tool device 3 for propelling a tool 2 in an operating direction A is equipped with a non-contact type distance measuring means 4 which allows fixation onto the hand-held tool de...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method capable of simply and efficiently manufacturing the master model for molding a tire, which has a complicated design or shape including a part difficult to process by a tool like the side surface part of a block design part having a complicated shape including undulation or a guide groove for arranging a complicated sipe blade having a three-dimensional sha...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and a method for controlling a power train which drives a vehicle mounted with an automatic transmission as a driver's intention corresponding to a driving condition varied depending on a driver and a control function. SOLUTION: This power train controller comprises a control sensor 1 for detecting the present traveling condition and a driver's operation a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent generation of noises and to output required output to a drive shaft. SOLUTION: When the output shaft of an engine and a CVT are directly connected mechanically in order not to cause slipping, the target number of revolutions Ni* of an input shaft is set from a target torque Ti* requested by the CVT input shaft and a map for booming noises counter-measure (S106), an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make engine output smooth so as to improve drivability. SOLUTION: When a reset condition from fuel cutoff is satisfied, whether or not a down counting timer tmF/C has reached '0' is discriminated (step S12). When the down counting timer tmF/C has reached '0', that is, the intake air quantity is predicted to be sufficiently converged on the target value, reset processing fr...

In a method of operating a gas turbine plant (32) with an integrated steam process (33) and with an air storage facility (34), a partial mass flow (17) is drawn from a high-pressure turbine (15) of the gas turbine plant (32) and led through a heat exchanger (20) for cooling one or more structures of the gas turbine plant (32). This heat exchanger (20) is driven by a cooler medium (4, 6). The parti...

PURPOSE:To unpack a package by a single hand while the package is carried by the other hand by forming one of aligned pieces of a packaging material longer than the other piece, applying a first easy-to-open seal at a base close to the packaging material surrounding a housed object and applying a second easy-to-open seal between the shorter aligned piece and the packaging material. CONSTITUTION:Fo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid vehicle which has a planetary gear device as a power distribution mechanism, enables infinite speed changes of an engine and an output shaft, enables the coexistence of an S-HEV(series-hybrid electric vehicle) system and a P-HEV(parallel-hybrid electric vehicle) system, does not need an additional speed changer, and presents high fuel efficiency. SOLUTION:...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect a shift state of a continuously variable transmission as control information to control practice of restraint control to restrain change- over to an automatic shift control mode in simple constitution and favourably in precision. SOLUTION: A control device is provided with a speed change state detection means to detect a shift state of a continuously variable transm...

This invention relates to a vehicle cruise controller which controls engine output and gear shift position such that a detected vehicle speed is identical to a target vehicle speed. A shift to lower gear is performed when a difference between the target vehicle speed and detected vehicle speed reaches a first predetermined value alpha 1. A mechanism is provided for estimating a travel resistance ...

A shift shock reducing apparatus installed in a vehicle which is equipped with a power train constituted by a continuously variable transmission (CVT) and an engine. The shift shock reducing apparatus comprises a calculating section which calculates an inertia torque caused by a shifting from a rate of change in a CVT ratio per time and an output torque correcting section which corrects a toque in...

The present invention is proposed to avoid the generation of shocks when the output of an engine is switched with that of an electric motor connected by a clutch. The invention comprises a first electric motor connected mechanically to an engine and a second electrical motor connected mechanically through a clutch to an engine. The drive force is transmitted to the drive wheel through a transmissi...

PURPOSE: To prevent fluctuation in a vehicle speed in a drastic change of a traveling load of a vehicle so as to accomplish smooth traveling. CONSTITUTION: In the case of a high traveling load, if a vehicle speed detection value is larger than a target vehicle speed by an offset value or more (step Sb6), a command value for required braking force is rapidly increased by a value d2 (step Sb7), and ...

PURPOSE:To improve the precision of the initial value of the estimated oil pressure by setting the first standard value and the second standard value which is higher than the first standard value in a brake operation oil pressure estimating means, and estimating the pressure reduction rate of the working oil pressure small, when the brake operation oil pressure in decompression which is estimated ...