PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the manual shift shock when a shift device is changed over from the non-drive position to the drive position. SOLUTION: A drive device is composed of an automatic transmission installed on the output side of an engine and having a frictional engagement device to generate engagement and releasing, an input clutch installed between the engine and the automatic trans...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic cruise control device capable of changing an approach alarm distance according to the extent of a driver's concentration into the front of the vehicle. SOLUTION: This automatic cruise control device is provided with a driver's state detecting device 200 monitoring a change in the driver's state before and after deceleration control when an own vehicle ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for a vehicle, which can suppress the decrease of the revolution of a driving force source even when the load of the driving force source increases upon controlling the torque capacity of a clutch. SOLUTION: The controller for the vehicle has a function for controlling the output of the driving force source via an output controller, and a function for ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a traveling control device for a vehicle capable of surely suppressing generation of a jerk phenomenon at the time of reacceleration from a deceleration traveling. Ž

SOLUTION: This traveling control device for the vehicle performs an output control of an engine 2 and a shift ratio control of a continuously variable transmission (CVT) by an ECU 20. When transfe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce vibrations by positively detecting an accelerating state including a resonance frequency of a driving system. SOLUTION: Resonance frequencies of the driving system corresponding to gear ratios are preset. When an incremental operation of an accelerator opening is detected, a resonance frequency component is extracted from a temporal change of charging efficiency det...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To let a driver have no sense of incompatibility by bringing the vehicle speed control close to the vehicle speed control at a curve carried out by a general driver. Ž

SOLUTION: Respective nodes existing at a front side of the vehicle are detected and stable traveling speed VT, i.e., the vehicle speed for stably traveling when the vehicle passes through the resp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce shock in recovering from neutral control. Ž

SOLUTION: A neutral control device for releasing an input clutch 310 when the vehicle is stopped while condition of the vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition, and a torque reduction control device for executing the torque reduction control of an engine 100 when the input clutch 310 is engaged at the time of reco...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly eliminate the danger of the collision of a following vehicle to its own vehicle without making it necessary to provide any roadside infrastructure facility. Ž

SOLUTION: In a collision preventing device 1, when the possibility of the collision of a following vehicle to its own vehicle is decided by a backward obstacle detecting device 4, a voice message showin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately predict a travel route of a vehicle as compared to before by taking an actual driving operation situation of a driver into account to estimate the travel route of the vehicle. Ž

SOLUTION: A first prediction travel route R1 is calculated as extension of a present travel state of the vehicle (S20), a prediction steering angle θaj in each prescribed time ΔT un...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently calculate only a collision time with an object with which its own vehicle is likely to collide. Ž

SOLUTION: An image pickup means 2 picks up the peripheral image of a vehicle, and a moving amount calculating means 3 extracts vertical and horizontal edge images from the image picked up by the image pickup means 2, and calculates moving amounts of the vertic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve fuel consumption efficiency by increasing the use frequency of lean burn running when a vehicle travels, in a hybrid car having an engine and an electric motor as a power source when a vehicle travels and an engine control means for achieving lean burn running with an air fuel ratio larger than a theoretical air fuel ratio. Ž

SOLUTION: When the decision of a s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively use engine braking and fuel cutting at the time of decelerating a vehicle as much as possible. SOLUTION: It is a control device of a vehicle furnished with a motor to generate braking force by rotating it by travelling inertial force and is furnished with a stopping presumption means (step 2) to presume stopping of the vehicle at the time of decelerating the mo...

Systems and methods rotate a chamber, in which whole blood is centrifugally separated into packed red blood cells, a plasma constituent, and an interface between the packed red blood cells and the plasma constituent. The interface carries platelets and mononuclear cells. The systems and methods include an interface control unit. The interface control unit is operative in a first state to enable re...

A blood separation system operates in a first mode to convey whole blood into the inlet region of a blood processing chamber for centrifugal separation into packed red blood cells, a plasma constituent, and an interface, which carries mononuclear cells, between the packed red blood cells and the plasma constituent. The system removes packed red blood cells and the plasma constituent from the chamb...

An apparatus for judging road surface gradients including a speed detecting means for periodically detecting wheel speeds of four wheels of a vehicle, a vehicle body speed calculating means for obtaining a vehicle body speed of the vehicle, a slip rate calculating means for obtaining a slip rate, a means for calculating acceleration of the vehicle body for obtaining an acceleration of the vehicle ...

A wheel balance adjustment device and wheel balance adjustment method which can improve directional stability and handling stability are provided. In a case in which one third of a rim peripheral direction length (W) of a correction weight 42 (W/3) is shorter than a rim peripheral direction length S corresponding to a ground contact length of a tire assembled to a rim 18, the directional stabi...

An electric vehicle drive control device that includes a first electric motor; a second electric motor; a differential device that includes first, second, and third rotational elements, wherein the first rotational element is connected to the first electric motor, the second rotational element is connected to the second electric motor via a transmission shaft, and the third rotational element is c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a continuously variable transmission which materializes a vehicle system having safety and high fuel economy by the optimum control of transmission gear ratio of a CVT when stopping an engine during travel. Ž

SOLUTION: In a shift from the engine stop to the neutral state, while changing transmission gear ratio of a CVT 4 to a target transm...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of a hybrid vehicle capable of reducing loads of a vehicle in an EV mode and a regeneration mode, and also reducing shocks of the vehicle at the time of releasing a clutch. Ž

SOLUTION: When an ENG mode is shifted to an EV mode or a regeneration mode, a CVT-ECU 14 releases a lock-up clutch of a torque converter 2. After the release of the lock-...

An apparatus for use in a well comprises a structure having at least a first portion formed of a first material, and a detector to detect a signal associated with a component located either within or beyond the structure. The first material has a property that reduces attenuation of the signal.