PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller capable of suppressing the shift shock of a step type automatic transmission during shifting in a drive device for a vehicle having the step automatic transmission.

SOLUTION: While an automatic transmission part 20 is shifted, the torque capacity of an input clutch (first clutch C1) is lowered by an input clutch control means 82 since a transmis...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem in a conventional power transmission wherein abrupt variation of torque and impact noise according to the operation of a stopper mechanically limiting the relative rotation of the turbine shell side to the turbine hub side of the output side rotating element of a fluid transmission device installed between the output shaft of a drive source and the input...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a continuously variable transmission apparatus capable of balancing the vibration of each power roller of both speed change units of a double cavity type toroidal continuously variable transmission.

SOLUTION: A toroidal continuously variable transmission is of double cavity type. In the continuously variable transmission apparatus, front and rear plate-shape...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pinion shaft and a planetary gear device having a long lifetime even when they are used at a high-speed rotation under a high-temperature condition.

SOLUTION: The pinion shaft 5 for rotatably supporting a pinion gear 3 of the planetary gear device is fixed to a carrier 4 by caulking. The pinion shaft 5 is formed of a high-carbon chromium bearing steel. The...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for providing wind speed information which is simple in a configuration, and not affected by a change of wind direction or direction difference to see.

SOLUTION: In the device 100 equipped with a rotation axis 1 which rotates vertically and a plurality of blades 2 attached to a circumferential direction of the rotation axis 1, the figures 20 are dra...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an awakening device which can inhibit a cost increase of the whole device, by composing only a general purpose discharge lamp as a light source.

SOLUTION: The awakening device 1 comprises a memory section 2 which stores the awakening operation starting time and the awakening time, the discharge lamp 4 as the light source, a light adjusting control section 3 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a correcting circuit which rereads correct bit information in a latch circuit without re-actuating operation, a driver circuit equipped with the same correcting circuit, and a video device as to a correcting circuit which includes a fuse storing bit information of correction data, a detecting circuit detecting the stored bit information, and a memory composed of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an on-screen display device which improves the operability of a user who desires to select his favorite language for OSD display out of a plurality of kinds of languages without increasing the manufacturing cost of equipment.

SOLUTION: An optical disk device 1 can displays an OSD image of a specified language on a display unit 12 without rewriting data for O...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To output a route map data in consideration of correlation of station labels.

SOLUTION: A map data output device stores a station location information data 21 in which a station number and location information based on a latitude and longitude are related, a route station order information data 22 in which a route number for identifying a route and the station number i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an on-vehicle machine capable of displaying facilities registered in a favorite list of the Internet so as to be able to identify on a drawing map of navigation, and to provide an icon display method.

SOLUTION: At registering of a home page address with an icon, in the favorite list LLT of a communication unit 52, the location information of the facilities, ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow an Internet user to previously register a keyword of a person or the like, and allowing automatic purchase of an item about the registered keyword, or impartment of opportunity for a purchase order and provision of information related thereto.

SOLUTION: This sales system has: a database 46 recording media information capable of being retrieved by the keyword; ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an important article depositing apparatus, wherein more customers are able to deposit important articles by customers themselves (or herself) to simply deposit important articles without intervention of a third person such as the clerk of a financial institution and reducing costs concerned with management.

SOLUTION: The important article depositing apparatu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain output control corresponding to the degree of secrecy without uniformly inhibiting the outputs of secret documents in an image processing apparatus such as a copying machine.

SOLUTION: The image processing apparatus is provided with: a rule storage means 20 for storing an approval rule indicating a condition of a document requiring approval for output and app...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an IC card capable of transmitting authentication performance of user authentication using biometrics information to a terminal device.

SOLUTION: A biometrics authentication command 100 provided in an IC card 1 authenticates, in response to a command from the terminal device, a user by collating biometrics information 101a read from the user by the terminal ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bill processing machine capable of preventing mixing of external reject bills with internal reject bills at the time of recovering.

SOLUTION: A take-out omitted bill storage part 18, an internal reject bill storage part 19, a supplied and recovered bill storage part 20, an external reject bill storage part 21, a receipt-exclusive denomination bill stacker ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To estimate the course of an object present in front of one's own vehicle with high accuracy even when the steering angle of the one's own vehicle is suddenly changed.

SOLUTION: As regards a course estimating method based on the past positional history of an object and a course estimating method based on the relative position of the object and the traveling state of th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a non-contact IC tag stuck to a circular article such as an optical disk, wherein stability is not lost even when the circular article to which the IC tag is stuck is in a high speed rotation state, electric efficiency is excellent in communication with a reader and stable communication is achieved.

SOLUTION: The stability is maintained even when the article...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance sealing durability by enhancing adhesion durability between a gasket body 1 and a substrate 3 in a substrate-integrated gasket integrated with the substrate 3 such as a separator of a fuel cell with an adhesive.

SOLUTION: The adhesive 20 is applied to the surface of the substrate 3 in the width W2 wider than the width W1 of a bottom surface 11a of the gasket...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell provided with a mixing tank which easily sucks out a premixed liquid stayed inside.

SOLUTION: The fuel cell 1 is provided with a fuel tank 31, the mixing tank 41, an electromotive section 50, an air feed 60, a condenser 81, a mixed liquid feed passage 43, a mixed liquid recovery passage 44, and a water feed passage 84. The mixing tank 41 communic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cell characteristic evaluation device obtaining stable power generation characteristics by making the temperature distribution near the cell uniform, and also to provide a fuel cell.

SOLUTION: The cell characteristic evaluation device has a pair of cell supporting pipes 8a, 8b supporting by coming in contact with the both surfaces of a cell 4, and a surrou...