PURPOSE:To detect an attitude angle in a simple manner by operating the relative attitude angle of a vehicle running ahead against one's own vehicle based on the distance between the vehicles detected by a detecting means, the respective size of the right and left portions of a symmetrical section appearing in an image, and on the distance between the symmetrical portions. CONSTITUTION:An image ob...

Rough machining of a glass-ceramic material article such as a radome (20) is accomplished using a high-power Nd:YAG laser (60, 64). The radome (20) is rotated about its longitudinal axis (28), and the point of application of the laser beam (62) is translated generally parallel to the longitudinal axis (28) over either the inside (32) or outside (30) surface of the radome (20). The Nd:YAG laser (60...

PURPOSE:To make transmission of a high responsivenes possible by selecting a non- linear transmission time which is shorter at lower vehicle speeds and longer at medium and high speeds based on transmission control information and controlling the transmission speed of a continuously variable transmission based on the selected transmission time. CONSTITUTION:There are arranged a selection means B f...

A method is provided for correcting excessive lateral force variations in a pneumatic tire. The method includes the steps of indexing the tire tread into a series of circumferential increments; and obtaining a series of lateral force measurements corresponding to this series of circumferential increments. The maximum value max(1) of the lateral force measurements in a first direction and the maxim...

PURPOSE:To improve positioning accuracy relative to a control origin in the case transmission ratios of a continuously variable transmission is open-loop controlled by a control device by performing an origin reset action at a high speed at the time of a first origin reset while in the case the origin is not yet reset performing the reset action at a low speed. CONSTITUTION:There are arranged a se...

A hydrophobic substrate (eg a nutrient) which is solid at room temperature and pressure is supplied to a biological fluid (eg a microbe culture) 5 in the form of a solution which is supplied to the interior of a tubular elastomer membrane 2 immersed in the fluid. The apparatus may include a second zone, also containing the biological fluid, communicating with the first zone by an overflow 7. The f...

A traction control system and method of a four-wheel drive vehicle comprises an engine control apparatus, a brake drive apparatus for automatically and independently applying brake to each of four wheels, wheel speed detecting means, vehicle speed detecting means, steering angle detecting means, yaw rate detecting means, target yaw rate calculating means, yaw rate deviation calculating means, slip...

In the delivery of a printing press, a suction device 28 is arranged adjacent to the rear edge of a sheet delivery pile 8 and is vertically movable, upwards and downwards 12 in the rhythm of the press, and an air blowing device (13, Fig 1) is situated above the pile 8. The suction device 28 consists of a guide plate 31 with suction openings 10 extending over the maximum format width of a processab...

A vehicular automatic transmission (T) comprising: a transmission case (10); a speed change mechanism (M) arranged in the transmission case (10) and including two input elements (S1,C1) and one output element (3); an input shaft (14) extending from one end to the other of the transmission case through the speed change mechanism (M); first and second two input clutches (C1,C2) arranged at the two e...

A hybrid drive employing an engine (150) and two electric motors (MG1,MG2), has an oil pressure generator or pump (20) which includes a drive gear (30), a driven gear (32), and a crescent (34), which constitute a gear pump unit, as well as one-way clutches (36) and (38) that respectively interlock with two rotating shafts (42,156) and (46,126) when the rotating shafts (42,156) and (46,126) rotate ...

A pneumatic tire (22) has sipes (35) in each land portion (31) defined by wide-width grooves (30) in a tread portion (21), in which a sipe corresponding to at least a part of these sipes comprises a pair of main portions (36a, 36b) slightly shifted with respect to each other in the axial direction and a link portion (37) connecting opposed end portions of said main portions to each other, and the ...

A power output apparatus 110 includes a planetary gear 120 having a planetary carrier, a sun gear, and a ring gear, an engine 150 having a crankshaft 156 linked with the planetary carrier, a first motor MG1 attached to the sun gear, and a second motor MG2 attached to the ring gear. Part of the torque generated by the engine 150 is output to a power feed gear 128 via the ring gear, while the first ...

A method of forming a foamed slag on a stainless steel melt in an electric furnace involves introducing, into the slag, a powder containing metal oxide and carbon which react to form bubbles of the reduced metal vapour and carbon monoxide and thus create a stable foam. The metal oxide is an oxide of a volatile metal, especially zinc or lead, and at least part of the powder is dust from an electric...

Gas is compressed upstream or downstream of a gas separation apparatus using fewer, typically one fewer, compression stages (1,2) than the optimum needed for isothermal compression of the required gas flow to the required pressure. Also claimed are: gas separation apparatus having such a compressor; and corresponding method and apparatus for separation of gases from air, where the waste heat produ...

A sealed lead-acid cell includes a container, a plurality of positive and negative plates alternately interleaved with one another and disposed to opposite ends of the container, primary end cover in sealing engagement with the container which includes electrically conductive means for electrically coupling the lugs of like polarity plates and which is in electrical communication with a terminal p...

A weft supply system for a loom having a support frame with vertically extending support beams interconnected with substantially horizontal and vertically separated rods which form a plurality of vertically aligned creel support levels. Creel mounting means are provided on an upper surface of certain of the horizontal rods and a multi-bobbin creel is mounted by each of the creel mounting means. Th...

An electromagnetically actuator is disclosed having an electromagnet, a core element, the core element having a normally biased initial spaced apart first position distal from the electromagnet when the electromagnet is off and a second stop position proximal from the electromagnet when the electromagnet is on, a first resilient member adapted to bias said core element in the normally biased first...

A structure for mounting a rotary member (A# to U#) is provided including employing a pair of opposed spaced sheet members (101, 102). First and second supporting structures (101a, 101b, 101c; 102a, 102b, 102c) are respectively formed at opposed locations on the sheet members, the supporting structures each being one of a projecting part (101b, 102b) and a burring part (101a, 102a). The rotary mem...