PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shredder which is easy in maintenance, reduces the number of components and, moreover, has high rigidity.

SOLUTION: The shredder is provided with left and right fixed side walls 9, front and rear support shafts 10 which are laid and held across the front and rear lower parts of the fixed side walls 9, front and rear rocking side walls 11 disposed on the su...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power distribution controller of a four-wheel drive vehicle capable of improving convergence property of vehicle behavior during an operation of a vehicle behavior controller.

SOLUTION: Transfer clutch torque Ttr during vehicle behavior control such as VDC control, TCS control, or ABS control is set at a value that allows avoiding of control interference w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve good accelerating performance of a vehicle with a fluid coupling.

SOLUTION: The vehicle controlling device comprises an engine 100, a motor generator 500 assisting the engine 100, and a fluid coupling 200 transmitting the driving power input from the motor generator 500 to an automatic transmission 300. The vehicle controlling device also comprises an ECT_EC...

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

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...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely obtain required braking force even when fuel supply stop for an engine is prohibited.

SOLUTION: The device is equipped with a fuel supply stop means 53, a belt-type transmission 26, a pump 26, a fuel supply stop prohibition means 54, and a pump pressure control means 56. The fuel supply stop means 53 stops the fuel supply to the engine. The belt-type transmis...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speed control method for a vehicle for suppressing change in behavior of the vehicle, even when an accelerator operation not intended by a driver is performed.

SOLUTION: The speed control method for a vehicle comprises the steps of: detecting an operation amount of a pair of accelerator operation members disposed at right and left sides of a steering syste...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the operability of an automatic transmission at extremely low temperatures where an oil amount is hard to be secured.

SOLUTION: This control device of an automatic transmission comprises an actual gear shift ratio detection means S4 detecting the actual gear shift ratio of the automatic transmission, a hydraulic pressure detection means S5 detecting a hydrau...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely and detachably mount a terminal box comprising various components necessary to feed electricity to an exciting coil, on a solenoid valve with a simple constitution.

SOLUTION: The solenoid valve 1 is provided with a first mounting face 1C and a second mounting face 1D for mounting the terminal boxes 2, a terminal hole 37 for accommodating a coil terminal 36 of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a sufficient accelerating performance in a vehicle mounting a fluid coupling.

SOLUTION: A controller of the vehicle is mounted with an engine 100, a motor generator 500 to assist the engine 100, and the fluid coupling 200 for transmitting driving force inputted from them into an automatic transmission 300. There is also provided with an ECT_ECU 400 for adjus...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control method of an automatic transmission for shifting a gear at a proper timing in accordance with gear shift patterns in deceleration by a comparatively simple method.

SOLUTION: In this gear shift control method of the automatic transmission 10 wherein the gear shift is performed by switching an ordinary gear shift pattern and a deceleration gear shift...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely prevent big shock when switching forward mode to reverse one due to an operating error while allowing intentional forwarding/reversing operation.

SOLUTION: In a control unit 20, when switching to a reverse mode during forward mode of a vehicle, based on a mode signal from an inhibitor switch 22 and detected vehicle speed from a vehicle speed sensor 21, the de...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stably support a connecting part of an input shaft of a speed reducer and an output shaft at a driving source side without elongating an axial length, to prevent fretting and the like, and to store and transport the reducer independently from a driving source side.

SOLUTION: A shaft hole 122H is formed on an end part 122A of the input shaft 122 (hollow type) to inse...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the lowering of a primary pressure in restarting an engine, caused by the difference between a gear ratio in substantial engine stop and that in actual engine stop in a V belt-type continuously variable transmission.

SOLUTION: This control device stores the gear ratio in engine stop of a vehicle, so that the stored shift ratio is referred in restarting the e...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power transmission keeping a proper center distance of a power transmission gear without increasing the number of components.

SOLUTION: One bearing member 24 comprises a first recessed part 24a holding an end part of a driven-side rotating shaft 20, and a second recessed part 24b separated from the first recessed part 24a in the direction orthogonal to the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem that a shock may occur during a gear change owing to the deviation in an overshoot amount in a conventional clutch to clutch change gear control means.

SOLUTION: On a clutch to clutch change gear carried out in 2 to 3 change gear (up shifting), when an engine rotation control can be made with an electromagnetically actuated valve, a friction engaging...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely predict a traveling pattern.

SOLUTION: A comparison processing means 91, which compares the traveling pattern representing the traveling past records when the vehicle traveled along a specified route in the past with the traveling pattern of a part of the specified route, and a traveling pattern prediction processing means 92, which predicts the remaining ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an obstacle detecting device for a vehicle capable of finely and accurately deciding an obstacle being a trouble in the traveling of the vehicle.

SOLUTION: This device is provided with a vehicle estimated traveling trajectory arithmetic unit 24 for calculating an estimated traveling trajectory on which a vehicle is presumed to travel from a steering angle at...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the corrosion of the exposed magnetic surface of a slider.

SOLUTION: A slider 100 is formed on a substrate 404. The corrosive component 406 of the slider 100 is exposed to an environment (chemicals, water, air or the like) in contact with the slider 100. The cut groove area 408 of the substrate 404 is positioned near the slider 100. The cut groove area 408 is...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an analyzing method of a positive electrode active material for estimating the useful life of a lead-acid battery in a short period of time.

SOLUTION: A water solution with a chemically converted positive electrode active material added thereto is adjusted to an acidic state where pH is about 3.0 by adding thereto a nitric acid water solution. Then, titratio...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead acid storage battery capable of clarifying the size and the distribution of BaSO4contained in a negative electrode active material bringing about excellent lifetime characteristic and provide a method to yield such a negative electrode active material practically.

SOLUTION: The lead acid storage battery has a negative electrode whose active m...