PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solar heat collector the piping of which is free from freezing damage and can collect solar heat highly efficiency. SOLUTION: This hybrid solar heat collector is provided with finned pipes (12) through which a liquid is made to flow and a air flow passage (14) around the pipes (12) inside. The collector obtains a hot liquid in the pipes (12) by collecting solar e...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To compute an accurate car body slip angle without being affected by disturbance such as the change of the road surface. SOLUTION: This car body slip angle estimating device is provided with a steering angle sensor 1, a wheel speed sensors 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, a longitudinal acceleration sensor 4, a lateral acceleration sensor 3, a tire model setting part TM, a tire slip rate comp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable to attach a stator on a desired position of a transmission case by devising a shape of a holder and to attach a electric motor part on the transmission case without complicating the transmission case, to simplify attachment of various transmission case for increasing versatility, and to eliminate need of an attachment structure on the stator itself to optimize a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress and prevent the vibration of a drive system when the tightening of a friction element in a transmission is delayed. Ž

SOLUTION: When a predetermined condition is satisfied in a state that the rotation of an engine 1 is stopped and a vehicle is started by actuating the engine, a motor generator 2 is rotated reversely at predetermined high torque TM/G-Hi0

An installation for manufacturing accumulators employs a plurality of pallets for supporting the accumulators, a loading station (3), an unloading station (4), a power supply (5), and an electrolyte feeder (6). A casing (7) with projecting supports (8) is positioned side by side and aligned in vertical direction for supporting the pallets to create the same number of accumulator (A) manufacturing ...

An alarm system includes a miniature camera ( 10 ), a loudspeaker ( 20 ), a vehicle speed sensor ( 30 ), a longitudinal G sensor ( 40 ), a lateral G sensor ( 50 ) and an on-vehicle unit ( 60 ). A CPU ( 60 a) of the on-vehicle unit ( 60 ) executes respective programs ( 61 )-( 64 ) in a ROM ( 60 h), thereby outputting, if a traveling distance during a period for which a driver D continues to take an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely detect and determine the duplicate feed of sheets such as paper sheets without overlooking the duplicate feed even when they are duplicate-fed in an approximately completely coincident and duplicate manner. SOLUTION: In detecting the duplicate feed by transmitting the ultrasonic wave from an ultrasonic transmitter 1 to an ultrasonic receiver 2 which are arranged acr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce engaging shocks generated when a specified clutch is engaged at the time of restarting an engine. SOLUTION: A controller is provided with a means for determining whether a shifting position is selected in a forward traveling position or not (step 340), a means for determining whether the engine restarting is caused by the non- intension of starting of a driver or no...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To keep the operability from being damaged due to a time lag at the time of departure by providing a sensor to detect the pedal actuating operation at the time of switching the speed change gear, and operating an actuator in a shorter time than usual. SOLUTION: A speed change control device of a tractor is adapted to quickly complete speed change when the actuating operation ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve both fuel consumption and power performance by determining the target output torque of a power source based on a target output and the present output speed of the power source, and controlling the power source to attain the target output torque. SOLUTION: A target output P is determined based on the target driving force F determined according to a map prepared in a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive device for a hybrid electric car which can improve the transfer of the torque of a first drive power source when the torque is transmitted to wheels. SOLUTION: In a drive device for a hybrid car which can transmit the torque of first and second motors/generators 20 and 21 and an engine 1 to wheels 45, a carrier 29 which functions to become a reaction elemen...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress and prevent imparting of a sense of incongruity to a driver when reducing speed of a self-vehicle according to speed reduction of a preceding vehicle. SOLUTION: When a follow-up traveling mode for making the self-vehicle follow the preceding vehicle is set, braking force and driving force are calculated to make an actual inter-vehicle distance L coincide with a ta...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a driver from having sense of incongruity. Ž

SOLUTION: When a new preceding vehicle is detected as the preceding vehicle closest to own vehicle and it is discriminated that old preceding vehicle which has been the preceding vehicle closest to own vehicle until then becomes the preceding vehicle closest to own vehicle after a first predetermined time t1 (step S...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a driver to smoothly exchange from Stop & Go control to ACC. Ž

SOLUTION: When the speed of the own vehicle reaches or has reached control upper limit speed during the Stop & Go control (step S4), and when a controller detects acceleration of an antecedent vehicle as a separating tendency of the antecedent vehicle with respect to the own vehicle (step S5), the c...

A method of evaluating a fluid from a subterranean formation drawn into a downhole tool involves drawing fluid into an evaluation flowline and drawing fluid into a cleanup flowline. A property of the fluid in the evaluation flowline, such as the optical density, can be measured and from this a stabilisation point D1 of the fluid property is detected; that is, the point where the fluid can be consi...

The present invention provides a reporter system comprising a reporter gene encoding a reporter protein that is secretable from cells in which it produced or expressed either in vitro or in vivo and excretable in a body fluid from whole animals comprising such systems. The reporter system is useful for the detection of gene activation events or biochemical changes related to, or that occur, as a r...

A tire tread comprising a tread pattern composed of a plurality of elements in relief in the form of blocks and/or ribs defined by grooves. A plurality of these elements in relief are provided with at least one incision oriented at an average orientation defined as being the angle between a straight line passing through the ends of the incision on the running surface and the transverse direction o...

The invention relates to a method and a device for winding a thread bobbin (1). According to said invention, a thread is guided back and forth during the traversing stroke (6), before being deposited on the rotatively driven thread bobbin (1) and the thread is wound until a final diameter of the thread bobbin has been attained. To obtain a specified partial quantity of wound thread on the thread b...

The invention concerns a method for producing carbon fibre-reinforced light-weight metal components by infiltrating a fibre preform made of carbon fibres with a light-weight molten metal. In order to produce carbon fibre-reinforced light-weight metal components that have a large portion by volume of carbon fibres and are free from holes and with a low degree of mechanical strain being exerted on t...