PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gazing point detecting device with which the work of an operator can be reduced when the absolute coordinates of the gazing point of visual observation of a landscape which changes continuously with the passage of time is detected, and the gazing point detecting method.

SOLUTION: The gazing point detecting device includes a point of intersection calculatin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate images by a scheduled time resolution in an X-ray computer tomography apparatus for reconstituting the images by an electrocardiographic synchronous reconstruction method.

SOLUTION: This X-ray computer tomography apparatus is provided with a rack 1 for scanning an examinee body by X-rays so as to gather data, a data gathering completion determining part 46 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control the body motion of a vehicle without determining whether the motion of the vehicle shows a tendency of understeer or oversteer, or not.

SOLUTION: A roll rigidity distribution computing controller 12 computes roll rigidity distribution to front right and left wheels in accordance with a yaw moment required for actualizing the behavior of the vehicle in respon...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid driving device with excellent on-vehicle property capable of setting a plurality of operation modes.

SOLUTION: In this driving device, electric power sources 2 and 3 for converting mechanical energy into power and an internal combustion engine 1 are provided as power sources, a plurality of pairs of planetary gear mechanisms 4 and 5 for increasing/d...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive assist system and to provide a display device optimum for the operation assist system.

SOLUTION: The drive assist system is provided, in which variation of the driver's mind and body condition is promptly recognized by utilizing chaos based on the obtained living body information of the operator and caution is urged by giving warning light emission d...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operation assisting device for a vehicle capable of determination of departure of a preceding vehicle captured on one's own vehicle traveling lane at a suitable timing.

SOLUTION: In the preceding vehicle capture/departure determination for determining departure of the preceding vehicle from one's own vehicle traveling lane after a predetermined hold time ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle steering control device for more efficiently transmitting rotation from an input shaft to an output shaft by improving the supporting rigidity of planetary gears.

SOLUTION: A planetary gear mechanism 14 has first and second planetary gears 22, 27 constituted by first and second planetary gear units arranged on the front and rear sides and supported...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suitably support the driving operation of a driver by using an estimated road surface μ not only for controlling vehicle behavior but also for effectively informing the driver thereof.

SOLUTION: S102 and S103 compute braking/driving force Fx and lateral force Fy, respectively. S104 selects a road surface μ estimation part (a first road surface μ estimation part 25 o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately and quickly determine the irregularity of a road surface without adding sensors and complicated processing, in particular, and never determining a low μ road as the irregularity of the road surface in error.

SOLUTION: This device comprises a comparison determining part 7 to which a front wheel speed filter processing value ωfF is input from a front wheel ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an auxiliary driving device and a vehicle capable of improving travel ability and being used in a wider vehicle speed range than the conventional one.

SOLUTION: In the auxiliary driving device 16, the drivable wheel speed range of a wheel 26 can be covered from a low speed range to a high speed range by changing a change gear ratio of a transmission 30. The ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve fuel consumption while restraining a torque fluctuating amount in switching of the cylinder number of a cylinder number control engine.

SOLUTION: An integrated controller controls so that the cylinder number control engine obtains output of engine allotment power and a continuously variable transmission and a motor generator are used together when the number...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive controller for a vehicle capable of suppressing slipping down of the vehicle and eliminating uncomfortable feeling at a stopping or finishing time of an application of a driving force.

SOLUTION: When a correction driving force applying means 356 performs drive control of the vehicle for applying the driving force to a driving wheel in response to an ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer hardly causing jamming capable of decreasing the number of component parts, and having excellent printing accuracy.

SOLUTION: The printer 1 is equipped with a chassis 10, a printing part 50 installed on the chassis 10 and printing on a recording sheet of paper, a press roller 20 installed rotatably on the chassis 10, holding approximately a constan...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an iron based sintered alloy excellent in shape precision, wear resistance and low hostility to a mating material, and further having sufficient hardness after tempering, and to provide its production method.

SOLUTION: Iron based alloy powder having a composition comprising, by mass, 1 to 3.5% Cr, 0.2 to 0.9% Mo and 0.1 to 0.5% V, and the balance Fe with imp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gallery type heating power generation facility improving power generation efficiency by reinforcing driving power of a generator by wind power accelerated by heating and difference of height, securing stable strength of the facility against typhoon, earthquake and the like and maintaining landscape, and a method for executing a work.

SOLUTION: The gallery ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize smooth torque connection in power-on up-shift operation.

SOLUTION: This control method of a vehicle controls the vehicle including an engine for driving the vehicle, a motor generator and an automatic transmission, in which the engine is assisted by the motor generator. The control method includes: a step (S200) of calculating torque step when a power-on up-...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the kind of parts to simplify parts management, by changing a centering direction of an output shaft of a motor actuator with one output gear.

SOLUTION: The center of tooth thickness of the output gear 2 is adjusted to correspond to the center of the thickness of a case, so that the projection length of the output shaft 5 from an upper casing 3 or a lower cas...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a drive unit capable of being controlled more easily than before.

SOLUTION: A tilt shaft 50 and a first tilt bearing 55 which holds the tilt shaft 50 for free rotation, and a second tilt bearing 56 and the tilt shaft 50 cross each other and a pan shaft 23 fixed for free rotation, on the tilt shaft and a tilt gear 51 fixed on the tilt shaft 50 and a first pan...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To move a shift position without starting a vehicle even if an accelerator pedal is depressed while D-position is being changed to P-position.

SOLUTION: V-ECU30 executes a program including: a step (YES at S100) for determining whether a P-switch is depressed by a driver; a step (S200) for taking a control shift position as an N-position; a step (S300) for transmitting...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize a cartridge type transmission and shorten length in the forward and backward directions of an engine.

SOLUTION: This cartridge type transmission is constituted to be freely attached to and detached from a crankcase 31. A main shaft 102 is arranged on a split face BF of the crankcase 31 to pivotally support a change spindle 124 and a shift fork shaft 113 ...