PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive force control device for vehicle which is compact in size, light in weight, and capable of transmitting a large drive force. SOLUTION: Drive force transmitting means 6, 7 which are interposed between an input shaft 8 in which the drive force from an engine of a vehicle is inputted and output shafts 2, 3 to drive right and left wheels, and permits only the t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately discriminate a friction coefficient even for a road surface having a very small friction coefficient. SOLUTION: The slippage of a wheel depends on a friction coefficient &mu with a road surface before anti-skid control, a slippage is small when the friction coefficient of the road surface is high and, conversely, when the friction coefficient is low, a slippage ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device capable of measuring a diameter (or radius) of a cross winding package during manufacture thereof, and in this case, with no assumption required for a condition without a slip between a friction drum and the cross winding package. SOLUTION: In a peripheral part of a cross winding package 11, two sensors are correspondingly arranged, which are mutually cont...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase a pressure ratio and a specific output to a limit, and improve thermal efficiency of a gas turbine cycle sharply by serving a gas turbine combustor also as a heat exchanger, and using a fuel heating value in the other use. SOLUTION: A water feed pipe 1 is arranged in a combustor for generating combustion gas for driving a gas turbine as a combustor heat exchanger ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent generation of drain in a gas turbine during stop by supplying cooling steam from an exhaust heat recovery boiler into the steam cooling part of the gas turbine, leading out gas delivered from the steam cooling part into a steam turbine and a condenser, and leading in air for converting steam into air into a steam cooling part. SOLUTION: Pressurized air from a compr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the energy-conversion efficiency of a piston cycle for converting the reciprocating motion of a piston into rotational power. SOLUTION: The reciprocating piston cycle of an energy-conserved cycle engine, which is composed of a compression stroke, a heating stroke, an expansion stroke and an exhaust stroke, includes in the heating stroke over a predetermined period ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To put a whole moving blade gas turbine and a whole moving blade steam turbine to practical use by properly selecting a double inversion magnetic bearing for journalling an outer shaft device and an inner shaft device, and respective rotational speed ratios, and arranging at least two pairs of magnetic power transmissions for property distributing rotational output of the tot...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for a lock-up clutch which eliminates difference of deceleration feeling in output direction. SOLUTION: A controller prohibits slippage control of a lock-up clutch upon being directed to output, and allows it upon being not directed to output. The controller has a downhill control determination means which determines engine brake controlling accompanie...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve operation characteristics during the change of load of a plant by discharging the air or gas of an air and gas system to other system during the change of load or bypassing the air or gas in the air and gas system. SOLUTION: A pipeline by which the discharge side of an air compressor 1 is connected to the exhaust part of a gas turbine 2 and an extracted air flow co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shield a displacement sensor from the external leaking magnetic field or the external metal part especially the iron part. SOLUTION: This sensor has a magnetism conducting case 1, a coil 2 and a plunger-shaped armature 3, which can be inserted into the coil 2. In this case, this sensor has a short-circuit ring 6 furthermore. This short-circuit ring 6 is provided immediatel...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a testing apparatus by which the operating performance of every motive power source can be tested safely and precisely in a hybrid vehicle which is provided with an engine and an electrically driven motor as motive power sources when the vehicle is running. SOLUTION: At Step SA4, a shift lever is operated to a range N or a range P. Only when the transmission of moti...

A material used to form a biasing element for a magnetomechanical EAS marker has a coercivity that is lower than the coercivity of biasing elements used in conventional magnetomechanical markers. The marker formed with the low coercivity material can be deactivated by applying an AC magnetic field at a level that is lower than is required for deactivation of conventional markers. The marker with t...

An inexpensive multibit magnetic tag is described which uses an array of amorphous wires in conjunction with a magnetic bias field. The tag is interrogated by the use of a ramped field or an ac field or a combination of the two. The magnetic bias is supplied either by coating each wire with a hard magnetic material which is magnetized or by using magnetized hard magnetic wires or foil strips in pr...

In order to increase a coded data buffer size and provide an OSD area within a 16 Mbit memory for picture signals of NTSC and PAL systems, a display data area of the memory is made 2(N+1)/4N times a frame when a picture size is large.

Method of operating a digital video tape recorder apparatus that receives encoded and packetized digital video data, depacketizes the received data and decodes the data to the extent necessary to select a subset of the data for use during trick play operation. In one embodiment, the digital video tape recorder includes a data prioritizer for prioritizing the video data according to a preselected p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate necessity to perform rephotographing even in case of an error in the automatic recognition of an irradiation field area and to reduce the load of processing for recognizing the irradiation field while maintaining the effect of duzzling prevention at the time of observing an image at a radiograph processor. SOLUTION: Image data are stored in an image data storage ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an OHP device which does not hinder visual field by restraining the height dimension of the device to be small and by which a bright image having no loss of light quantity is projected to a screen. SOLUTION: Light radiated from the light source 2 inside a main body 1 is reflected by a 1st reflection mirror 3, passes a transparent stage 5 on which a transparent orig...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the parasitic action of mutual inductance and to improve filter performance by providing a transducer and a reflector for surface sound waves at one end of the transducer and integrating the reflector with the area of a conductive material for forming the bus-bar of a filter. SOLUTION: The transducers 34 and 35 provided in parallel between an input area and the grou...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the parasitic action of mutual inductance and to improve filter performance by providing plural input bus-bars and output bus-bars and symmetrically arranging the bus-bars with respect to an axis passing through the transducer of a filter existing between the input and output of the filter. SOLUTION: The transducers 34 and 35 and 37 and 38 are respectively paired an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently multiplex information in accordance with the degree of importance by controlling information source encoding, medium multiplexing and program multiplexing according to the degree of importance for each medium and program based on content information. SOLUTION: An information source encoding part 31 respectively encodes the video images, audio signals and data o...