PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To cooperatively and appropriately control a fixed speed travel controller and a safety device when a vehicle passes a curve existing ahead of the traveling direction of the vehicle during carrying out of fixed speed travel control. Ž

SOLUTION: When the current speed VP of a vehicle detected by a speed sensor 33 is larger than a proper speed VS, and the deceleration inte...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure a continuity of a medicine supply channel and to achieve a stable supply of medicine. Ž

SOLUTION: In the medicine packaging device, either a removable chute or a hopper or the mainframe is equipped with a slide section and an engaging section to be connected to the slide section, and the other is equipped with a slide member having a hook section formed therein...

A shift control system for a V-belt type continuously variable transmission is provided. The shift control system comprises a controller programmed to store an actual transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission at stop of an associated vehicle drive source, and inhibit, at restart of the vehicle drive source, an initializing operation for returning an operational position of the s...

To provide an iron-based sintered alloy excellent in shape accuracy and wear resistance, and reduced hostility to mating materials, and having sufficient hardness after tempering, as well as a manufacturing method thereof. Iron-based alloy powder of a composition comprising Cr: from 1 to 3.5 mass %, Mo: from 0.2 to 0.9 mass %, V: from 0.1 to 0.5 mass % and the balance of Fe and impurities, and car...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an engine enhanced in durability by suppressing a temperature rise in a transmission case to prevent early degradation of a V-belt. Ž

SOLUTION: The V-belt 57 is a resin belt 57 formed by connecting a plurality of blocks whose connection parts to a drive pulley 55 and a driven pulley 56 are formed of resin, and a clearance between the drive pulley 55 and the dr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a driver from receiving unfamiliar feeling caused by generation of large auxiliary steering torque in a region of a small driving force/ braking force distribution amount, in a cooperative control device for a vehicle for cooperatively controlling a driving force/braking force distributor and an electric power steering gear to reduce a torque steering phenomenon. S...

A blood filtration device (16) encapsulates a filter pad assembly (20) within a flexible housing (18). The filter pad assembly (20) includes first and second filter media layers (44, 46). A first heat and pressure sealed region (28) integrally bonds the peripheries of the first and second media layers (44, 46) together. The flexible housing (18) comprises a peripheral rim (34) aligned with the fir...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to prevent a feeling of tardiness caused by a delay in engine start during a shift from a motor running mode to an engine running mode. SOLUTION: An engine as a driving source is driven to start in a step S4. In this case, a judgment of a step S5 becomes NO when the starting of the engine is slow, and a step S7 and the following steps are carried out. A cl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sealed lead-acid battery having an expanded grid having a satisfactory trickle service a life and capable of restricting an abnormal conditions of the ear of the positive plate. SOLUTION: The distance between the positive and negative plates is set to 1.2 mm or smaller and the cross section of the ear of a homopolar plate per 20-hour rate capacity of the battery ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power transmission device for a hybrid vehicle adopting an electric motor with a minimum physique, reducing size, weight, cost, and fuel consumption of the vehicle, and providing comfortable vehicular traveling. SOLUTION: This power transmission device for the hybrid vehicle is provided with a gear type transmission 2 switchable to a plurality of transmission ran...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive-line control system for a vehicle which comprises a differential mechanism functioning as an electric differential gear by differential action and an automatic transmission provided between the differential mechanism and driving wheels, and suppresses a shift shock caused in the case when a power transmission line is changed from a power-transmission shu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve energy efficiency in a device having an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. Ž

SOLUTION: When a target rotation speed Nm1* of a motor MG1 becomes a negative value to generate energy circulation (S140), an optimum correction rotation speed Nesai is set on the basis of a gear ratio Gr of a transmission, a cooling water temperature Tw of the engine, ...

A control system for a drive unit of a vehicle, in which a power distribution mechanism is arranged on a route from a prime mover to a wheel, and a transmission is arranged on an output side of the power distribution mechanism. The control system includes a revolution frequency controller that restrains a variation in a revolution frequency of the prime mover by controlling a revolution frequency ...

Steering stability of a vehicle under a traveling state such as cornering is enhanced by controlling a state.of the vehicle based on cornering powers of right and left wheels. A detecting unit 1 detects action force containing longitudinal force Fx, lateral force Fy and vertical force Fz which act on each wheel. A specifying unit 2 specifies a friction coefficient between the wheels and road surfa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reduction drive mechanism having improved sound vibrating performance and durability. Ž

SOLUTION: The reduction drive mechanism comprises an electric motor 5 for outputting driving force, a first reduction mechanism 33 consisting of a planetary carrier 63 for reducing the driving force to be output, a planetary gear 65 rotatably supported by the planetary ca...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve high-accuracy travel control without disturbing the behavior of a vehicle even in steering operation, in a device for controlling a hybrid vehicle that drives either of front wheels and rear wheels by an engine, and drives the other by a motor generator. Ž

SOLUTION: In the device, a steering angle of a steering wheel is detected. When the steering angle reache...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an oil supplying mechanism of a transmission with less constituent members at a low cost in a simple construction and to provide a method for manufacturing a transmission case. SOLUTION: The oil supplying mechanism of transmission to supply oil in a main side case into a sub-side case includes an oil sump constituent member 20 having an L-shaped side section attach...

An adhesive tape (T) inserted into a tape inserting clearance defined between a tape supplying roller (10) and a tape guide (12) is supplied to joining rollers (6) while being wound around the tape supplying roller (10) under guidance. At the tape inserting clearance (c), one side edge of the adhesive tape is guided to a tape positioner (13) in slide contact, to be positioned in a tape width direc...

A method of limiting speed of a light-weight utility vehicle is provided. The method includes receiving a terrain roughness signal generated from a motion sensor. The signal indicates a roughness of a terrain over which the utility vehicle is traversing. The method additionally includes determining a peak-to-peak amplitude of the terrain roughness signal and limiting the speed of the utility vehic...

Procedimiento de compresión de un apilamiento (48) de electrodos (24,28) de un acumulador, que comprende una etapa que consiste en colocar el apilamiento en el interior de una cubeta (40) del acumulador, caracterizado porque comprende además las etapas que consisten en: - colocar una bolsa (440) que contiene inicialmente un material elástico (441) poroso comprimido bajo vacío o mecánicamente, sien...