A comparison/determination part 7 recieves the input of a front wheel speed filtered value omega fF from a front wheel speed filtered value calculation part 5 and a rear wheel speed filtered value omega rF from a rear wheel speed filtered value calculation part 6. It is determined whether the front wheel speed filtered value omega fF has exceeded a preset first threshold C1. It is determined wh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive supporting device for a vehicle capable of preventing incorrect recognition and realizing adequate follow-up traveling to a preceding vehicle while effectively utilizing advantages of both an image pickup means and a radar means. Ž

SOLUTION: When a preceding vehicle is lost previously, it is checked whether or not the recognition kind included in infor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To change acceleration control in response to a situation in which a leading car cannot be detected. SOLUTION: This automatic cruise device comprises a leading car determining means for determining a leading car to be followed by an own car, a following running means for controlling car speed using a set car speed as an upper limit so as to obtain a set inter-vehicle distance...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make easier connection of a coupling member having an insertion port where a driving shaft is inserted and fixed and an input member attached with or formed by a pinion or a roller with their axes aligned. Ž

SOLUTION: The input member 26 attached with a coupling plate (coupling member) 22 in which the motor shaft (driving shaft) 10 is inserted and fixed and the pinion...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify position adjustment of a cutter by detecting a rotational angle position of a rotary blade of the cutter and also detecting a rotational angle position of a seal drive shaft and by synchronizing perforation and cutting by the rotary blade with sealing operation of longitudinal and lateral sealing means. SOLUTION: A seal drive shaft detection signal by a seal drive...

This invention discloses a copper-containing catalyst, a process for the preparation thereof and uses of said catalyst. Said catalyst comprises copper oxide of 30-70wt%, zinc oxide of 30-70wt%, alumina of 0-30wt% and no sodium, and has a specific surface area of 30-50m<2>/g, a pore volume of 0.10-0.25ml/g, and an average pore diameter of 10-25nm and has an uniform crystallite distribution wherein ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the number of component items by dispensing with a reversing shaft, and simplify a structure, in a transmission for combining the rectilinear power and the turning power through a planet gear mechanism. SOLUTION: This transmission 10 is provided with a rectilinear power transmission system 14 for synchronously transmitting the traveling power to left and right crawl...

A jig for applying adhesive tape 11 to an elongate work surface 17 comprises a main body 22 with a handle 23, a pressing portion 16 for pressing the tape against the work surface, and engaging means for guiding the jig along the work surface. The engaging means includes a first contact element such as roller 32 attached to a sliding block 20 that is movably mounted in a holding block 13, and a sec...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the handleability of a double-sided original reader by ejecting an original in normal order when time is enough, and reading and ejecting the original at high speed when the original is read for the present and arranged later. SOLUTION: This reader is provided with a normal order ejection mode in which the original is reversely fed to turn over a front surface to a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that parts, including a transmission shaft vertically movable in transmission cases consisting of an upper transmission case and a lower transmission case, can not be easily mounted in or removed from the transmission cases for maintenance and other purposes, the parts comprising a front axle for a farming machine such as a tractor and a car-type rice pla...

The present invention relates to a lead-acid battery Comprising a positive and a negative electrode, each having a current collector comprising an expanded grid, characterized in that at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode contains an organic binder in an active material layer at an edge portion thereof. This makes it possible to suppress an internal short circuit result...

A control system for a continuously variable transmission of a vehicle, in which a clamping pressure of rotary members to clamp a transmission member is learned and set in every operating state of a prime mover connected to an input side of the continuously variable transmission having those rotary members and transmission member. The control system comprises: an operating state changing mechanism...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle with a countermeasures device against the sound emitted by the operation of an operating device in the countermeasures against the sound of the operating device such as a pump device and a control valve. Ž

SOLUTION: In a hybrid vehicle to be selectively driven by an engine and front and rear motor generators, the initial check of a master cut valve a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a road curvature detecting device capable of improving control delay by eliminating the delay due to filtering processing, and to provide a steering support device using the device. Ž

SOLUTION: When a deviation dχ between a filtering curvature χf inputted from a filter 20 and a detection curvature χc inputted from an image processing part 9 tends to be increas...

A start control device for a hybrid vehicle and a hybrid vehicle having the start control device, where the engine of the vehicle at a standstill is automatically stopped and restarted to enable quick start of the vehicle. This reduces a burden on the driver by using a simple construction. In the vehicle (10) having the engine (6); a clutch (7); an electric motor (8); and a transmission (9), the v...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To handle when rough road traveling is judged in such a situation that a power shaft and an input shaft are released from the connection in a vehicle equipped with a connection releasing device such as a clutch to connect the power shaft of the power source and the input shaft of the transmission side and to release the connection. Ž

SOLUTION: In a rough road traveling w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress shock from occurring along with release of torsion torque when a parking gear is unlocked in restart of the operation by accumulating the torsion torque in a drive system due to power transmission at a reverse gear stage by making an automatic shift in a blocked state through the reverse gear stage when shift operation to a parking position "P" is performed. Ž<...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve suppression of an oversteer status or an understeer status under simple control operation by making the status of motion of a vehicle meet the intent of a driver as much as possible by making the best use of respective properties of change of driving force distribution between a front wheel and a rear wheel, correction of a steering angle, and selective braking ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery superior in liquid leakage resistance and cycle characteristics. Ž

SOLUTION: This is the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery equipped with a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, a separator arranged between the both electrodes, and an outer sheath member made of a laminate...

A sheet feeding device includes a stacking plate, a moving mechanism, a pick-up device, a detection plate, a detecting device, and a control section. The stacking plate is movably supported inside the sheet feeding device. The mechanism moves the stacking plate up and down. The pick-up device sends a top one of sheets stacked on the stacking plate, out in a direction from a sheet feeding position ...