PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a riding comfortableness during follow-up traveling while assuring a safety for follow-up traveling. SOLUTION: In an electronic control unit 50, a plurality of target acceleration possibles &alpha a and &alpha b are calculated using different control gains from a vehicle speed and vehicle interval by the first and second calculation parts 51a and 51b of a target ac...

A unit for controlling valves being actuated by electromagnets for a pressure fluid includes a housing having a housing frame and a lid defining an interior. At least one valve coil and components of the at least one valve coil, such as a wound coil body and a yoke ring, are disposed in the housing. The at least one valve coil is spaced from the housing frame defining interstices therebetween, and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the manufacturing cost of a differential gear by lightening its differential case, imparting high abrasion resistance to sliding portions thereof on differential rotary members, and improving the dimensional accuracy and thus machinability of each component part. SOLUTION: A differential gear comprises a bevel gear type differential gear mechanism 33 having pinion g...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently correct uniformity characteristics of a tire without impairing an external appearance of the tire and without damaging the tire. SOLUTION: When predetermined internal pressure is given (214) at a high temperature of 80C or higher in a PCI (postcure inflating) step, a ply cord of a carcass of the tire is elongated until it is stabilized. At this time, a part cor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential device having a differential limit function and facilitating miniaturization and lightening of weight. SOLUTION: A plurality of pinion gears 13 engaged with a sun gear 14 and a ring gear 15 are arranged between the sun gear 14 and the ring gear 15. A planetary carrier 11 having a plurality of pinion gears 13 connected thereto is arranged and then the...

An X-ray image radiographing system for radiographing a subject is provided with an X-ray source to emit X-rays; a digital X-ray detector to detect a digital X-ray image of the subject, wherein the subject is placed between the X-ray source and the digital X-ray detector in an arrangement to satisfy the following formulas so that an edge of the digital X-ray image is enhanced oven an edge-enhanced...

A driving control apparatus for a vehicle which includes an engine which generates power by fuel combustion; a transmission which changes engagement/disengagement states of plural frictional engagement devices so as to realize plural shift speeds whose gear ratios are different from each other; a fuel cut device which stops fuel supply to the engine when a predetermined fuel cut condition includin...

In the case where a signal for coasting time downshifting is output while fuel cut is performed and fuel supply is stopped, and a hydraulic pressure P_C1 of a low speed side frictional engagement device is being gradually increased and an engine speed NE is being increased, when the fuel cut is cancelled and the fuel supply is restarted, the hydraulic pressure P_C1 is reduced t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle control device capable of sufficiently exhibiting engine characteristics. Ž

SOLUTION: This vehicle control device controlling a hybrid vehicle capable of running by driving at least one of an engine 2 and a motor generator 3 drives the engine 2 with a torque exceeding a transmission limit value, when required torque reaches the transmission limit val...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a braking force controller for a vehicle enhancing the regenerative efficiency as much as possible by effectively utilizing the regenerative braking as much as possible while preventing relatively abrupt fluctuation of the braking force and sense of incongruity attributable thereto when the friction braking force is converted into the regenerative braking force....

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To uniformize charge/discharge reaction of both pole plates, and to improve service life performance by setting the porosity of an active material of the distant part more than the lug part of a positive electrode plate higher than the close part, reversing this in a negative electrode plate, and respectively making the high/low parts of porosity of active materials of both p...

A hybrid driving device is provided with an engine shaft I, a motor shaft II, and a countershaft III. A parking gear 54, which has conventionally been placed on the countershaft, is placed on the engine shaft I to reduce torque loads applied to parts associated with a parking mechanism 8 and, at the same time, the countershaft is placed so as not to overlap an engine or a motor in a radial directi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an internal combustion engine provided with a crankshaft, a main shaft of a transmission holding a transmission gear train, a clutch arranged on an extension line of the main shaft, and a countershaft of the transmission holding a gear train meshing with the transmission gear train to transmit power to the crankshaft, the clutch, the main shaft, and the counter ...

A downhole tool 410 includes a removable memory unit 422a, 422b which, when removed, can communicate via a link 416 with a surface computer 414. The communication link 416 with the computer 414 can be via serial cable, USB, firewire (RTM), Ethernet, wireless, infrared, wifi (RTM), Bluetooth (RTM) or fibre optics. The removable memory unit 422 stores data acquired by a logging while drilling (LWD) ...

In a guide for a transmission chain, a slide rail elongated in the direction of travel of the chain, and having a front surface for sliding engagement with the chain, is supported by a rail support which extends perpendicularly from the back side of the slide rail. The guide is formed by sandwich molding and comprises a glass fiber-reinforced polymer resin forming a core of the rail support, and a...

A downhole actuator 10 is described which comprises a permanent magnet 40 movable under the influence of a magnetic field generated, in use, by an electrical circuit, the permanent magnet 40 occupying a selected one of a plurality of stable positions when the electrical circuit is not energised. The actuator may be used to actuate bias means in a downhole steering device (fig 4). Movement of the p...

The tension control method uses a tension regulator for compensating a defect occurring in the web (01) during its manufacture which affects its tension, for maintaining the tension within a permissible range, by reducing the required tension value. An independent claim for a device for regulating the tension of a web fed through a web processing machine is also included.

An optical recording medium (50), a method of recording/reproducing data on/from an optical recording medium, and an apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from an optical recording medium are provided to enable optimum recording/reproducing conditions for the optical recording medium to be quickly determined. The optical recording medium includes a reference signal area (56), in which refere...

A fuel vapor storage canister is provided. The canister includes a vapor storage chamber of variable volume, a partition, vapor adsorbing material, and a volume compensator. The partition is movable within the canister and partially defines the vapor storage chamber. The vapor adsorbing material is located in the vapor storage chamber. The volume compensator includes a spring having at least three...

There is provided a running support system for a vehicle, which supports running of a vehicle by using a radar and image recognition means as obstacle detecting means, and in which appropriate support control based on a result of detection performed by each control means is set. A result of obstacle detection performed by a millimeter wave radar (21) is checked against a result of obstacle detecti...