PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent idling rotation of a steam turbine at the starting time of a plant and house the total plant in one floor by arranging a generator, a gas turbine and the steam turbine, connecting a shaft of the gas turbine to one end of a shaft of the generator, and a shaft of the steam turbine to the other end. SOLUTION: A shaft of a gas turbine 12 is directly connected to a shaf...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the extent of heat load and a shock in the initial stage of engagement by making a pressure regulating means pertaining to a hydraulic servo generate a hydraulic pressure rising command before a rotational change at the input side of a shift mechanism occurs at gear shifting, and letting it start its torque-down by engine control in synchronizing with this hydraulic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a sense of incompatibility from occurring when a creep torque is varied by shift at the stoppage of a vehicle, by altering the output of a power source according to the gear ratio of a power transmission device, in a device generating the specified creep torque in a driving wheel even in a state that an accelerator is turned off at the vehicle stoppage. SOLUTION: A...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate an adverse influence from being exercised on an antilock brake system(ABS) by a torque-sensitive differential limit mechanism and perform rapid control of a vehicle after completion of operation of the ABS. SOLUTION: When operation is started, an ABS 11 outputs a signal Ss , indicating the starting of operation, to a fuel injection amount control means 9. The fue...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten a time required for charging, reduce the number of charging times while elongating running distance per one charging in order to generate during running or compensate charging or used power in arranging a wind power generation device on an electric vehicle. SOLUTION: An inlet for wind is widely formed, while a blade portion 2 of a fan of a generator 3 is formed to ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential device, by which differential limiting force can be increased/reduced in a constitution limiting a differential motion on the basis of torque response. SOLUTION: When driving force inputted to a gear case 10 is transmitted to respective disc plates 12, repulsion force on a contact face with respective balls 14 is applied to grooves 12b in the respect...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential gear device in which differential limiting torque proportional to input torque can be generated without any increase in the number of parts. SOLUTION: A differential gear device 100 is provided with a differential limiting mechanism 30 limiting a differential between a pair of left and right output shafts 10L, 10R, and a cone clutch 40 formed of the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and surely assemble a differential limitting-device of an automobile, and improve the working efficiency, by loading the balls in a condition that a differential case, each ball disc, and each groove of the ball of a ball holder are matched to each other. SOLUTION: In the assembling of the differential limitting-device for permitting the difference in rotation, of t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide stable torque response type differential restricting force and initial torque. SOLUTION: The differential device is provided with a differential case 3 rotationally driven by means of an engine, output side helical side gears 15, 17, at least one pair of helical pinion gears 51, 53 connecting the gears 15, 17, housing holes 47, 49 housing the respective gears 51, 5...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shaft drive device in which dimension management man-hours for a gear case is reduced and assembly performance is improved. SOLUTION: In a shaft drive device, a driving bevel gear 32 arranged integrally in the end part of a drive shaft 21 and a driven bevel gear 38 integrally arranged in the driven side shaft 18 are geared to each other so as to transmit power. I...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speed reduction gear in which no leakage of lubrication oil is caused. SOLUTION: A speed reduction gear is constructed of a wear plate 26 arranged on the end face of an output shaft carrier 6, a pair of stoppers 27 which are brought into contact with the wear plate 26 so as to suppress rotation of the output shaft carrier 6. The wear plate 26, in which one side f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate generation of a casting burr so as to improve productivity by forming an inner circumference spline part in an automatic transmission case into an easily stamping shape. SOLUTION: An automatic transmission case 10 is provided with a spline groove 13, which is formed by means of casting by inserting an inner die DS deciding the inner circumference face shape from ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the exceeding of the tolerance by the vehavior of a vehicle, and improve the safety, by predicting whether the behavior of the vehicle exceeds the tolerance or not, and changing the control at the gear change on the basis of the result of the prediction. SOLUTION: In ECU for change gear 78 during the vehicle running, whether the power-OFF down shift is executed or ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent generation of a shift shock when a downshift shifting is carried out on the basis of road information. SOLUTION: A vehicle controller is provided with optimum shift step deciding means 101 deciding an optimum shift step complying with a road condition, action detecting means detecting an action of a driver coping with the road condition, upper limit shift step sett...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the giving of a sense of incompatibility to a driver by forbidding the switching of a change gear map when the down shift is to be generated by the swithcing of the change gear control map, when a driving power control means is switched from an operating condition to a non-operating condition. SOLUTION: Whether a driving power control signal SS is logical value '1'...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To utilize a sunroom positively for warming while protecting a human body against trouble due to UV-rays and eliminating an insufficiently warmed state due to insufficient collection of sunshine heat automatically. SOLUTION: A sunroom 1 and a room 2 to be warmed are provided with thermostats 3-1, 3-2 respectively and the room 2 to be warmed is provided with a supply air duct ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the driving of a circulation pump, which reduces a hot-water temperature in a hot-water storage tank, and heat the hot-water in the hot-water storage tank efficiently by a method wherein the circulation pump is driven only when the intensity of light is higher than a reference value and a heating medium temperature in a heat collector is higher than the hot-water...

In an automatic transmission control system provided for an internal combustion engine having an automatic transmission system equipped with a traction control system in which a throttle valve is adjusted towards a closed state from a throttle position corresponding to an operation of an accelerator pedal when wheel slippage occurs, a detection unit detects a degree of operation of the accelerator...

A method and apparatus are provided for obtaining measurements from a wellbore during tripping operations. A drilling sub is attached to the drillstring adjacent to or as near as possible to the drillbit before commencing normal drilling operations. Prior to commencing tripping operations, a logging tool is engaged within the drilling sub. The engagement of the logging tool within the drilling sub...

A centrifuge apparatus is used for collecting white blood cells (WBC), primarily mononuclear cells, from whole blood stratified into layers. A thin mononuclear (MNC) layer is formed at the interface of red blood cells and plasma. A barrier is positioned in the separation vessel of the centrifuge at a location to intercept the thin layer. MNC fluid is allowed to pool behind the barrier before colle...