PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead storage battery usable either as a closed type or an open type, of which, life property is improved by improving adhesive property between an anode current collector and an active material, and increase of discharging capacity is attained by increasing the specific surface area of the anode active substance. Ž

SOLUTION: Of the lead storage battery, elec...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a running vehicle for agricultural use capable of running in a proper power transmitting form complying with the road surface situation by changing the differential limitation region of a differential device and of precluding the differential device from making a differential motion by regulating the differential motion limitation region. Ž

SOLUTION: The diffe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a belt type continuously variable transmission capable of improving sealing performance of an operating oil supply mechanism by a simple composition, and capable of securing lubricity of a planetary gear mechanism or the like even in towing of a vehicle. Ž

SOLUTION: In the belt type continuously variable transmission 1 provided with the operating oil supply me...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular control device capable of restraining a shock, when the next shift request is generated in the middle, by controlling torque of a prime mover when shifting by a continuously variable transmission. Ž

SOLUTION: This vehicular control device is equipped with the continuously variable transmission for changing the torque of the prime mover when shiftin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for a drive unit for a vehicle capable of restraining torsional resonance from getting large by a rotary member including an electric transmission connected to a first driving force source. Ž

SOLUTION: This controller for the drive unit for the vehicle is provided with the electric transmission and a rotation condition switching mechanism in a pow...

A control apparatus for a vehicular power transmitting system including an electrically controlled differential portion having an electric motor, and an automatic transmission portion, the control apparatus including shift control portion operable upon determination that a jump shift-down action of the automatic transmission portion directly to a target gear position while skipping at least one in...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an engine-assisted multi-axle vehicle that prevents acceleration performance degradation by suppressing driving wheel slips. Ž

SOLUTION: Whether or not each of many driving wheels 76L, R to 82L, R is slipping is determined, and driving wheels determined to be slipping are automatically braked to suppress the slips. If an accelerator is operated, the number of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the belt slip of a continuously variable transmission at the time of restarting after rapid deceleration so as to heighten startability by fixing a gear ratio at the time of detecting rapid deceleration, to a rapid deceleration time target gear ratio, releasing this fixing at the time of a nearly stop state of a vehicle, and controlling in such a way as to lower en...

In an apparatus and method of controlling the fuel injection of a direct injection engine, switching is performed, in accordance with the driving condition, between homogeneous combustion, in which fuel is injected from the fuel injection valve during the intake stroke and combusted, and stratified combustion, in which fuel is injected from the fuel injection valve during the compression stroke an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive control device for starting an automobile capable of reducing shock produced instantaneously when gears are switched immediately after a prime mover is started and also preventing the prime motor from being stopped when the automobile is started. Ž

SOLUTION: This drive control device comprises an engine 100, gear engagement devices for gear shifting 21...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress an excess increase in computational quantity required for the correction of road data while securing the travel safety of a vehicle based on prestored road data. Ž

SOLUTION: A curve estimating part 65 estimates the actual shape (for example, polarity, radius, curvature and depth) of a curve in accordance with the recognition result of a curve recognizing part...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a packaged absorptive article from breakage by pressure-sealing upon being packaged regarding an individually packaged absorptive article and a manufacturing method therefor. Ž

SOLUTION: This individually packaged absorptive article consists of an absorptive article 1N and a packaging sheet 2 to wrap the absorptive article 1N. The sheet 2 is formed into a cyli...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lane deviation preventing device for achieving lane deviation prevention with high response, and for improving traveling safety and cognition to a driver under such circumstances as lane deviation. Ž

SOLUTION: This lane deviation preventing device is provided with a deviation determination means for determining that its own vehicle is apt to deviate from a t...

A method for automatic bill payment is disclosed. The method includes providing for an automatic bill payment process for a user of a portable consumer device, where the automatic bill payment process automatically pays periodic bills of the user at predetermined times. The method also includes providing for an automatic reminder process, where the automatic reminder process automatically sends re...

In an image scanning apparatus, when documents on a document tray are sequentially transferred, and different control is performed according to a scanning speed when an upper surface height of the documents is lowered thereby turning off a height detection sensor. In a first control mode which is not high-speed scanning, the document tray is elevated little by little during an inter-transfer time ...

A reverse flow rinsing fluid filtering device, particularly for large diameter piping. Housing (12) has inlet port (14), outlet port (20) and a battery of filtering discs divided into three groups D1, D2 and D3 by partition rings 80a and 80b. In the rinsing stage, when the filtering discs become separated from each other, the discs of each group are supported on one of the partition rings thereby ...

The invention is directed to novel sEH inhibitors and their use in the treatment of diseases mediated by the sEH enzyme.

The aim of the invention is to produce stainless steel for all stainless steel products both in the austenitic and the ferritic range, based on liquid pig-iron and FeCr solids, without using a supply of electrical energy. According to the invention, the liquid pig-iron, after being pre-treated in a blast furnace (1), is subjected to a DDD treatment (dephosphorisation, desiliconisation and desulphu...

The aim of the invention is to produce stainless steel for all stainless steel products both in the austenitic and the ferritic range, based on liquid pig-iron and FeCr solids, without using a supply of electrical energy. According to the invention, the liquid pig-iron, after being pre-treated in a blast furnace, is subjected to a DDD treatment (dephosphorisation, desiliconisation and desulphurati...