PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a good clutch connecting feeling by reflecting the intention of a driver in relation to clutch control. SOLUTION: In a clutch controller provided with a clutch, a clutch actuator for engaging and disengaging the clutch, and a clutch control means 85 for controlling the clutch actuator, an accelerator opening estimating means 81 for estimating the accelerator openin...

PURPOSE:To prevent racing of an engine and enhance acceleration performance in a power-on downshift by a clutch-to-clutch speed change. CONSTITUTION:When decreasing of engine output is judged to be practicable at a step 340 (when a catalyst temperature S is decided lower than a specified temperature S1), engine torque-down is executed at the time of performing a 3 to 2 downshift (steps 360-390). D...

The present invention provides a methodology for increasing the critical current density carried by high transition temperature; superconductive materials. The methodology is employed using any Noble metal to form an electrically conductive coating; and is used with any high transition temperature superconductive material conventionally known. The resulting improved superconducting material demons...

PURPOSE:To prevent slip control surely from being started unnecessarily at the time of bad road travel and at the time of shift up by providing a means which considers that spinning has occurred only when an engine rotational speed change rate and a drive speed change rate are both large. CONSTITUTION:Engine control is started according to the result of spinning decision. Slip control is carried o...

PURPOSE:To reduce troubles in driving operation by storing a shift gear, which is selected by a shift lever with operation of a clutch pedal at starting, as a start gear and, if once the shift gear is operated, sending the start gear to a shift gear selection means as control information. CONSTITUTION:When a shift lever 3 is operated by stepping on a clutch pedal 1 at starting so as to be set a st...

PURPOSE:To perform adequate slip control in accordance with a road surface condition, in the case of a slip control device for a vehicle in which a driving force distributing means for distributing an engine output to right/left drive wheels is provided in a power transmitting route reaching the right/left drive wheels from an engine. CONSTITUTION:By an ECU40 for controlling action of opening/clos...

PURPOSE:To perform proper slip control in accordance with a road surface condition, in the case of a vehicle in which a driving power distributing means for distributing an engine output to right/left drive wheels is provided. CONSTITUTION:By an ECU40 for controlling action of opening/closing valves 26, 27, 31, 32 and relief valves 33, 34 in a brake control system 15 and action of a throttle openi...

PURPOSE:To enhance the durability of a frictionally engaging device by sequentially changing the recovery value of an engine torque which has been changed, in order to return the changed torque to its original value on a real-time base in accordance with a degree of progress of speed change. CONSTITUTION:There are provided a means for obtaining a degree of progress of speed change from a rotating ...

In a downshifting of an automatic transmission with an engine being generally maintained in a substantial power generating condition in a vehicle, the output torque of the engine is decreased by an amount prior to a substantial establishment of a torque transmitting route in the automatic transmission for a shifted down speed stage, and then the output torque of the automatic transmission is repet...

The invention relates to a method for adjusting the foam surface height in a flotation cell. The invention is particularly well suited to flotation cells provided with a rotor-stator system, and especially to systems with several successive flotation cells and lines. The foam surface height (2) is regulated by adjusting the height of the chutes (5) or of the edge plates (9) of the chutes.

Apparatus for deheading and cleansing shrimp in a continuous-flow product transport system for more efficient storage or peeling. The apparatus transports food product having weakly attached appendages, such as crustaceans and especially shrimp, along conduits in a fluid medium at a flow rate as controlled by a food pump. Upstream conduit defines a flow channel having a certain cross-sectional are...

PCT No. PCT/KR96/00249 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 25, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 25, 1997 PCT Filed Dec. 26, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/23655 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 3, 1997The 2-stage fluidized bed furnace for pre-reducing a fine iron ore comprises a first stage fluidized bed furnace for receiving the fine iron ore from a storage hopper, discharging medium/small particle size iron ore to the upper part thereof, a...

The present invention provides lubricant compositions for the powder metallurgical field. The lubricant compositions contain a solid phase lubricant such as graphite, molybdenum disulfide, and polytetrafluoroethylene in combination with a liquid phase lubricant that is a binder for the solid phase lubricant. The binder can be chosen from various classes of compounds including polyethylene glycols,...

An electrical connector (10) comprises an insulating housing having at least one row of terminal pins (15) secured in the housing and extending outwardly from one side of the housing, spaced latch members (16, 17) at the ends of the housing and extending in the same direction as the terminal pins, and protuberances (16a, 17a) at the outer ends of at least one of the latch members to keep the conta...

A description is given of a method and a device for controlling the internal temperature of a tooth (D) subjected to a treatment by laser beam. According to said method, an estimated internal temperature (T) of the tooth is determined as a function of, at least, an operating parameter of the laser and the treatment time (t); the estimated temperature (T) is compared with a threshold temperature (T...

A containment means (1) suitable for containing a pressurised fluid, comprising a body of elastomeric material (2) defining a sealing surface (7), said body being in an elastically compressed state parallel to said sealing surface (7), such as to prevent fluid from exiting also in case of physical interruption (6) of said material.

According to the present invention there is provided a method of making a cutting insert with a hole for clamping to a tool holder wherein a super-hard abrasive material is sintered and simultaneously bonded to a sintered cemented carbide body with a hole inside a container under elevated pressure and temperature conditions. During sintering the hole is filled with a plug which after sintering is ...

A laminar package material for packaging of volatile compositions containing solvents with a vapor pressure of from about 90 hPa to about 300 hPa at 20 DEG C, includes a combination of a polyolefin (A), a second polymer (B) serving as a barrier material incompatible with the polyolefin and an alkylcarboxyl-substituted polyolefin serving as a compatibilizer (C).