A piston for an automatic transmission, wherein a first piston member forming a cylindrical portion of the piston has a plurality of axial cutouts and a circumferential groove formed in one axial end portion thereof, and a second piston member forming a bottom portion of the piston has a plurality of radially extending engaging jaws fitted in the plurality of axial cutouts, while a retainer ring i...

A laser beam processing machine comprising a chuck table for holding a workpiece, a laser beam application means for applying a laser beam to the workpiece held on the chuck table, a processing-feed means for moving the chuck table and the laser beam application means relative to each other in a processing-feed direction (X), and an indexing-feed means for moving the chuck table and the laser beam...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a safety device acting in a noncontact state, for allowing further other processing of an output signal of an individual sensor.

SOLUTION: This safety device 2 acting in the noncontact state has an interface 4 for transmitting the output signal to a connectable signal processing system 1. Output signals of the individual sensors 6 of the safety device 2 acti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for inspecting unevenness in a periodic pattern having high detection precision.

SOLUTION: The inspection method comprises a process (a) for performing the convolution operation of a subtracted value obtained by subtracting a sum value, where each luminance value of peripheral pixels (X-α, Y-β) of a focused-on pixel is added, from the sum value, whe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a storage system with a cascaded copy targeting function and enhanced perfectibility.

SOLUTION: A storage controller cooperable with a host computer device and a plurality of controlled storage apparatuses comprises: a host write component operable to write a data object to a source data image at one of a plurality of the controlled storage apparatuses; a co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method, a system, and a product in a computer system for reporting error events which occur in the computer system.

SOLUTION: The computer system includes a plurality of logical partitions. Each of the logical partitions includes a different one of a plurality of different operating systems. A format is specified for reporting error events. An error event ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an erasing pattern information recoding method of an optical recording medium, and a data erasing method by which an optimum power level required for erasing data can be found easily even when it is inserted into any drive.

SOLUTION: The erase pattern information recording method by which erase pattern information is recorded in the optical recording medium ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chain saw in a type of enabling a guide bar to be regulated without using a tool.

SOLUTION: The guide bar 18 of the chain saw is adjustable relative to the chassis and the clutch cover, but stationary while in a secured position. An adjustment arrangement moves the guide bar to tension a chain 16, and includes a member operatively connected to the bar, int...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flexible material including small and separated foam blocks stuck to an elastic cloth with an adhesive and disposed at spaced intervals, and to provide a manufacturing method of the flexible material.

SOLUTION: This foam block includes a surface to be connected to the cloth, and the surface has an area not greater than one square inch (6.45 cm2). ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a convenient golf club head cover designed to be quickly covered on and uncovered from.

SOLUTION: This golf club head cover includes a head housing part mad of a flexible material to house the head of a golf club and a shaft housing part elongated from the head housing part to house a shaft part neighboring the head. The shaft housing part has a beak shape c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dental implant, accurately coping with the force derived from occlusion by paying much more attention to the horizontal force normally disregarded in other systems.

SOLUTION: This dental implant includes: a central part having a first section, a second section, a horizontal direction and a vertical direction; at least one proximal plate-like projecting par...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fouling prevention material, which enables a significant improvement in the fouling prevention efficiency of a separation membrane through surface treatment of the separation membrane such as a reverse osmosis membrane.

SOLUTION: The fouling prevention material contains a polymer that at least contains as a constitutional unit a monomer containing a phosph...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gravure printing machine which can promptly restore a printing misregister of each printing unit to a steady state and a method for controlling the gravure printing machine.

SOLUTION: This gravure printing machine is equipped with a first-stage printing unit 10a which initially prints a web W and second-stage printing units 10b, 10c and 10d installed downs...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gravure printing machine which can promptly restore a printing misregister of each printing unit to a steady state, and a method for controlling the gravure printing machine.

SOLUTION: This gravure printing machine is equipped with a first-stage printing unit 10a which initially prints a web W and second-stage printing units 10b, 10c and 10d installed down...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gravure printing machine which can promptly restore a printing misregister of each printing unit to a steady state and a method for controlling the gravure printing machine.

SOLUTION: This gravure printing machine is equipped with a first-stage printing unit 10a which initially prints a web W and second-stage printing units 10b, 10c and 10d which are insta...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller achieving driving/braking force and yaw moment which are as close to driving/braking force and yaw moment that a vehicle needs to have as possible and suitable to the state of driving operation of a driver.

SOLUTION: Target driving/braking force Fvn that the vehicle needs to have and the target yaw moment Mvn of the vehicle are calculated (S20)....

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller which achieves driving/braking force and yaw moment requested for a vehicle as much as possible within a range of driving/braking force that respective wheels can generate in a vehicle such that a driving means common to right and left wheels imparts driving force to the right and left wheels while distribution of driving force to the right and left...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve driving/braking force and yaw moment close to driving/braking force and yaw moment that a vehicle needs to have and to prevent the driving/braking force and yaw moment of the vehicle from abruptly varying even if target driving/braking force and target yaw moment that the vehicle needs to have abruptly vary.

SOLUTION: The target driving/braking force Fvn and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular control device capable of avoiding a risk on the own vehicle considering a possibility of deviation of the traveling lane of a preceding vehicle.

SOLUTION: A preceding vehicle lane deviation probability calculating means 6 calculates the possibility of the deviation of a preceding vehicle from a corner by comparing the speed and the acceleration ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control unit by which a deterioration of acceleration performance is suppressed in a driving gear for vehicles equipped with a differential mechanism which distributes output of an engine to a 1st electric motor and an output shaft, and electric motor prepared in the output shaft.

SOLUTION: When engine torque TEis restricted by an engine torque re...