PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly stabilize combustion while prematurely warming up in an engine.

SOLUTION: This cooling device of an engine comprises a main thermostat valve 20 allowing a cooling water to bypass a radiator 6 at a predetermined hot set temperature Tw or less and to flow to the radiator 6 at the hot set temperature Tw or higher. The cooling device further comprises an auxilia...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a practicable and highly reliable structure while downsizing a thermostat valve 30 as far as possible.

SOLUTION: This cooling device comprises a valve housing 4a surrounding an introduction opening 2f. The thermostat valve 30 is stored in the valve housing 4a. A pressure relief valve 40 and a water temperature sensor 41 are installed on a flange plate 38 hol...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive force control device 1 capable of exactly acquiring accelerator operation consciousness of a driver and accurately controlling vehicle drive force.

SOLUTION: This device is provided with a frequency analysis part 14 calculating power spectrum of AP operation, and a cruising database 36 storing standard power spectrum corresponding to AP operation con...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve torque capacity without causing enlargement by increasing the number of cam chambers 14 formed by a clutch in a torque transmission device for starting an engine having a roller type clutch built in a first rotor.

SOLUTION: This clutch has a ring shape magnet 16 embedded in a whole circumference of an outer circumference of an inner 12, and magnetic force of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suitably perform increase of fuel and supply of exhaust gas, in operation of an internal combustion engine.

SOLUTION: When a fuel increase condition different from an ignition timing delay increase condition among a plurality of fuel increase conditions and an EGR execution condition are satisfied, the engine is operated without being accompanied by EGR execution an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pasty multifunctional food material using shell of a Crustacea, such as lobster, especially the tail part, as a raw material, and having both vivid tone of color (red color) and original taste and flavor of lobster, and to provide a method for producing the pasty food material.

SOLUTION: This method for producing the pasty food material includes a separati...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide putting-out equipment which permits the arrangement space for parts to be effectively used, and a game machine.

SOLUTION: The putting-out equipment 200 has guide passages 204 and 205 guiding game balls downward by the deadweight of the game balls, putting out means 206 and 206f to put out the game balls from the guide passages 204 and 205, a ball extraction ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide various techniques and devices for reinforcing entertainment software using haptic insertion technique.

SOLUTION: The method for reinforcing entertainment through haptic insertion includes the steps of monitoring the signals during executing entertainment software, recognizing that the monitored signals meet predetermined criteria and generating haptic contr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a coating method which enables coating with powder of small particle diameter on the surface of powder of large particle diameter without distorting the powder or contaminating it with impurities, when the coating is carried out, with regard to the powder material to be used in the sectors of medical care, transport equipment, machinery and electronic devices. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for biodegradation treatment of a material to be treated which enables the biodegradation treatment of a hardly decomposable material to be treated, and can reduce the generation of surplus sludge.

SOLUTION: An inorganic substance for aggregating aerobic bacteria and anaerobic bacteria is mixed into water containing sludge containing both bacteria t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a boring tool having simpler construction than conventional one for preventing the scattering of chips, and to provide a boring machining method using the same.

SOLUTION: The boring tool 10 performs boring machining of a first space in a cylinder bore 31 of a cylinder block 30 having the cylindrical cylinder bore 31 and a crank case 32. The boring tool 10 co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the deterioration of the air-conditioning feeling of an occupant in a cabin due to the drastic fall of the air blowing amount of an air blower caused by the temporary abrupt lowering of the temperature of engine cooling water.

SOLUTION: A vehicular air conditioner is provided with the air blower 4, a heat exchanger 6 for heating the blowing air of the air b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly facilitate countermeasures to the change of a request driving force requested to a driving shaft connected to an axle during gear shift.

SOLUTION: When a damping inhibition flag Fv is a value 1, and damping control by a motor MG2 is inhibited, damping torque Tv is set to a value 0 so that damping control can be prevented from being performed (step S230), an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To contribute in improvement of tracking accuracy by preventing deterioration of in a vehicle controller trackability to a preceding vehicle without erroneous determination that the preceding vehicle does not exist in a state where the own vehicle becomes nearly departed temporarily from its lane even though the preceding vehicle exists.

SOLUTION: Lane departure preven...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a steering wheel with an airbag device allowing easy confirmation of erroneous assembling of an airbag module to a steering wheel main body.

SOLUTION: The airbag module is provided with a plate 40. In the plate 40, a first pin 44 formed with a recessed portion 44a and a second pin 45 formed with a recessed portion 45a are provided at mutually separated posit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a towing device tows an electric vehicle when the vehicle cannot travel under its own power.

SOLUTION: The electric vehicle 10 has: a high voltage line 20 for supplying power from a high voltage battery 16 to a motor generator 15 via an inverter 18; a vehicle control unit (EVCU) 30 for controlling the motor generator 15 and the high voltage line 20, a low vo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve problems with a transmission device for drivingly linking the axle drive units disposed one behind the other with a motor interposed therebetween on a vehicle such as a carrying vehicle, wherein a large space is required for taking out power from a transmission starting end section and the vibration and noise propagating from a power taking out unit to a body fram...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle control using navigation capable of securing safety even when abnormality occurs in a navigation device in a vehicle 2 that performs vehicle control using the navigation device 10.

SOLUTION: The navigation device includes a simple locator 106 for buckup in addition to a normal locator 104. Information is continued to be provided to a control device...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To highly precisely determine an operating state.

SOLUTION: A deviation arithmetic operation part 3 performs the arithmetic operation of a deviation ε between the future location of a self-vehicle and a target course location in a distance L[m] ahead of the self-vehicle based on a road image generated by a front camera 1 and a lane location recognized by a lane recogni...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an engine in which an oil flow path from an oil pump to a transmission is easy to handle.

SOLUTION: An engine 2 includes: a crankshaft; a transmission case for accommodating a transmission having a drive pulley 61 and a driven pulley; a clutch disposed outside the transmission case between the crankshaft and a pulley drive shaft 62 for driving the drive pull...