PURPOSE: To improve accuracy of determination failure by accurately detecting abnormality of a variable displacement supercharger and preventing false determination in a diagnosing system for the variable displacement super charger. CONSTITUTION: Regular boost pressure Pb is found based on engine speed Ne, fuel injection quantity q (engine load), and is stored in memory 49. ECU 47 compares boost p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simply structured packaging device which forms and surely pulls out a film wound in a roll, and wraps a product beautifully. SOLUTION: This packaging device is provided with a film forming device 12 for making it possible for a product to be inserted between a film 10 and a product carrying device 34 for carrying the product wrapped with the film 10. Furthermore,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a water-responsive thermoplastic composition and articles prepared therefrom and particularly provide a thermoplastic copolyester compositions useful for the manufacture of disposable articles such as disposable diapers and feminine napkins. SOLUTION: This thermoplastic copolyester composition is useful as a raw material in the manufacture of nonwovens, barrier fil...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the fuel economy of a vehicle, dispense with a clutch and a torque converter device, and facilitate a switchover of power between motor travel and engine travel of a hybrid vehicle. SOLUTION: A normal cam, a new cam slidably built therein, and a part for preventing dislodgment of the new cam are employed. The new cam is slid by a hydraulic pump or mechanically. A s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a shock caused by a change from a non-travel range to a travel range without lowering acceleration responsiveness in an integrated control system for an engine and an automatic transmission. SOLUTION: The integrated control system for an engine and an automatic transmission, which can engage a traveling frictional engagement element and execute torque suppression co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To apply a mechanical feedback control and to return a spool valve to a neutral position when a machine or the like is stopped, in a cylinder with an electric servo. SOLUTION: The spool valve 4 is provided at the bottom 14 of a hydraulic cylinder 11. A nut 6 of a ball screw is placed on a cylinder rod 7 of the hydraulic cylinder 11. A neutral spring is provided to feed back a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a long output shaft bearing span and to facilitate the installation in a reduction gear mounting a rotating body such as a cooling fan and a screw to an output shaft. SOLUTION: This reduction gear 100 is provided with the output shaft 130 mounted the rotating body such as the cooling fan and the screw in a gear box 134 so as to extend the shaft line in the perpendic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hypoid reduction gear enhancing flexibility and versatility of combination and connection between a hypoid gear set and a motor. SOLUTION: A hypoid pinion shaft 311 is supported by two bearings 318A, 318B in a bearing case part 319J of a gear case 319. A hypoid pinion 314 engages with a hypoid gear 315 having the axis perpendicular to the axis of the hypoid pinio...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reduction gear of allowable optimal thrust load at a low cost avoiding overspecification required by a user. SOLUTION: In the reduction gear comprising an output shaft 225 subject to the thrust load, a bearing for supporting the output shaft 225, and a casing 135 for engaging with the bearing, the output shaft 225 is supported only by two radial bearings apart fr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To render a fastening part apart from the motor and limit magnetic effects to the minimum. SOLUTION: In the connection part structure of the transmission case and the motor of the motor assist apparatus for vehicle provided with a motor housing with built-in motor between the transmission case of the transmission having a torque converter and a cylinder block of an engine mou...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact and lightweight reduction gear. SOLUTION: This reduction gear comprises an output shaft 25 subject to the thrust load, an input shaft 3 and a pinion shaft 17, both disposed in parallel with the output shaft 25, for transmitting rotation force to the output shaft 25 via gears 9, 19, 21, 23, two radial bearings 37, 39 for rotatably supporting both ends of t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such problems that, in an automatic transmission, when performing power-on shift by only a friction control of a clutch, downshifting is basically impossible, and an active speed-change by a motor is needed, however, it is disadvantageous to use the motor having the maximum engine torque from an economical view point, and to realize motor speed change by using a moto...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such problems that, when a automatic transmission perform power-on-shifting by a clutch-to-clutch operation, a friction control is unstable, and when down-shifting, to perform torque transition is in principle impossible, and a so-called skipping shift between changing shift gears on the same clutch shaft is impossible, to improve a driving performance by means of sk...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a control valve-type lead-acid battery in which a weight loss of an electrolytic solution is small even if a floating charge or a trickle charge is carried out for a long period and in which a characteristic deterioration is small even if it is used for a long period. SOLUTION: This is the control valve-type lead-acid battery in which electrode plate groups and the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve contrast of an organic electroluminescence display device. SOLUTION: The organic electroluminescence display device, which has a front face electrode component, a back face electrode component, an organic electroluminescence component arranged between the above front face electrode component and the above back face electrode component, and an optical filter compone...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure a proper acceleration capacity at restart by preventing the rotational speeds of a motor and an engine from dropping excessively, in a hybrid vehicle of such a constitution as to consume the surplus power regenerated in the motor at deceleration by power-running the motor. SOLUTION: At deceleration of a vehicle, the object value of the excess power of a generator 4 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a driver for a vehicle compact in size by simplifying its constitution, and also to reduce the cost when constituting it. SOLUTION: A rotor 21 of a generator-motor 13 is made of a disk-shaped permanent magnet and is set capable of rotating about a center shaft (rotary shaft) connected to a drive shaft 11A of an engine 11. The rotor 21 is magnetized in the direction of...

The accumulator (1) has horizontal sub-cells (9) with positive and negative electrodes (10,11) and intermediate separator (12). Bipolar conducting walls (8) retain electrolyte within each of the sub-cells and the sub-cell stack is housed within a cylindrical box (2). A single central nut and bolt (14,15) are used to keep the lid (3) and sub-cells in place and the output is taken from terminal plat...

Railway signalling system with sensors detecting the presence or passage of a train, such as shaft counters, of a remote computer within a relais house which is connected to the computer of the railway traffic control centre; wherein the computer in the relais house is provided with a malfunction forecast system; and/or wherein there are wire less communication means to be able to receive at a dis...

PURPOSE: A proper volume determining method of a sample for a biosensor device is provided to decide the volume of the biological sample properly to measure the properties of the sample accurately by compensating the volume of the biological sample. CONSTITUTION: A system(50) includes a biosensor(70), a power source(52), a voltage to current converter(54), an analog to digital converter(56), and a...