PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of projection feeling caused by the ratio control of a CVT when vehicle speed is shifted from acceleration to normal running and the like without degrading fuel consumption. SOLUTION: This control device estimates the surplus quantity of torque Ti of an internal combustion engine, which is generated by the ratio control of a CVT, when it is detected ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress vibration of drive system at starting just after starting to rotate an engine from the engine stopping state. Ž

SOLUTION: A motor/generator 2 is reversely rotated at a predetermined large torque TM/G-Hi0from a state where the engine 1 stops to rotate, and the engine 1 is started to rotate by outputting an ignition command when an engine rotating spee...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speed reduction gear maintaining a specified strength without increasing the thickness of a flange and free from oil leakage even if planetary pin holes (shaft supporting holes) on the speed reduction gear side and connection hole forming positions for a mate machine interfere with each other. SOLUTION: A planet gear 14 is supported by a planetary pin 30 supporte...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To change a gear without clutch operation by forcedly holding a misfire condition by cancelling switch output of a gear change switch for a constant time after the gear change switch is operated on the basis of the switch output of the gear change switch. SOLUTION: When a gear change switch 12 is turned on by gear change operation, input side electric potential of a NAND gate...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress vehicle speed fluctuation in a boundary where an operating state is switched by providing a judging means for judging whether an engine operating point is within an area, and an engine torque/change gear ratio changing means for changing engine torque command value and change gear ratio command value. SOLUTION: In S10, a judgment is made on whether or not disconti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To consume excessive regeneration current surely in a hybrid type vehicle coupling two motors, driving wheels and an engine. Ž

SOLUTION: The drive controller for a hybrid type vehicle comprises first and second motors, an output shaft 14, a differential rotating unit, a means 89 for detecting deceleration operation, an engine control means 90 for bringing an engine into ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To turn on a relay provided between a motor and a high voltage battery during travel of a vehicle. Ž

SOLUTION: When an engine 1 is stared based on an operator's ignition key operation before the relay 5 is turned on, rotation speed of the engine 1 is controlled to a predetermined rotation speed and the relay 5 is turned on under a condition where rotation speed of the en...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power train control device in which the requested driving force to be calculated is adapted to the characteristics of the driving operation of a driver, and any excessive driving operations of the driver can be reduced. Ž

SOLUTION: The power train control device which calculates the requested driving force based on the request for acceleration, and controls ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To satisfy the request for acceleration by enhancing the drive responsiveness of an electric-driven supercharger. Ž

SOLUTION: The engine driving state is classified, for example, as shown in Fig. 2, into a first zone X in which the engine speed and the target torque as the engine load are set as parameters, and an engine 1 is in a natural intake operation, a second zone ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power output device provided with an electric motor and an internal combustion engine which has an in-cylinder fuel injection valve and a port fuel injection valve, and to provide a control for switching between the fuel injection valves and adjustment of fuel injection. Ž

SOLUTION: When switching between the fuel injection from the in-cylinder fuel injectio...

An ECU (Electronic Control Unit) executes a program including a step of detecting a driver's preference potential Hdr, a step of calculating a target engine output Ptgt using Hdr when a deceleration request is detected, a step of calculating a target slippage tsl using Hdr, a step of calculating a target engine speed tne, a step of calculating a target ISC (Idle Speed Control) opening tidle from P...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To immediately reduce the speed of a vehicle securely for a necessary period of time especially when a preceding vehicle suddenly reduces the speed. Ž

SOLUTION: The actual distance between vehicles is detected by a vehicle distance sensor 14. A first target increased/reduced speed is calculated by a main ECU 18 by using the vehicle distance deviation, the deviation betwe...

Various technologies for removing shoulder-bed effects from measurements of an earth formation made in a wellbore. In one implementation, a methodology for removing the shoulder-bed effects includes receiving the measurements and constructing a layered model of the earth formation. Each layer has a set of parameters corresponding to one or more types of the received measurements ascribed to each l...

A method provided for detecting stratification within a vehicle battery. The method includes determining whether a state of charge of the vehicle battery is greater than a predetermined state of charge threshold. A determination is made whether a working capacity of the vehicle battery is greater than a working capacity threshold. A determination is made whether a voltage differential of the vehic...

A laser processing method which can accurately cut an object to be processed along a line to cut is provided. A modified region 7 formed by multiphoton absorption forms a cutting start region 8 within an object to be processed 1 along a line to cut 5. Thereafter, the object 1 is irradiated with laser light L2 absorbable by the object 1 along the line to cut 5, so as to generate fractures 24 from t...

The holding device for a material web roll (1) comprises a pivot (3) to support the roll, a wiper (4), and a drive (5) which can move the wiper relative to the longitudinal axis (L) of the pivot. The material web roll is rotatable relative to the wiper, and the drive can move the wiper into braking engagement with the roll to brake the roll during its rotation. The wiper encompasses the wiper in r...

A laminated piezoelectric element is applicable as a driving source of opening and closing mechanism of an injection nozzle in a fuel injecting device. A laminated piezoelectric/electrostrictive element 1 has: a columnar laminate 10 constituted by alternately laminating a plurality of piezoelectric/electrostrictive layers 14 and inner electrode layers 18, 19; and outer electrodes connected to the ...

In coherent scatter computed tomography, the scatter angle from object points ( 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 ), which are located on a line ( 36 ) perpendicular to the central beam ( 45 ) in the plane of rotation, varies as a non-linear function of the fan-angle of the detector row ( 37 ). According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a single-line energy-resolved detector for CSCT data acq...

A computer tomography apparatus (100) for examination of an object of interest (107), the computer tomography apparatus (100) comprising detecting elements (123) adapted to detect electromagnetic radiation coherently scattered from an object of interest (107) in an energy-resolving manner, and a determination unit (118) adapted to determine structural information concerning the object of interest ...

Interpolation of the momentum transfer prior to the filtered backprojection reconstruction in computer tomography baggage inspection or medical applications may not result in best image quality or minimal computational cost. According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a non-linear energy binning of an energy-resolved single-row detector is provided, which automatically leads to a Cartes...