All drivers between the age of 16 and 25 would be required to supply data to a central registration body. Data would include name, address, date of birth, driving status, car ownership details, etc. The data could be accessed by authorized organization to determine driver's age, competence, title to vehicle, insurance status, etc. The system would avoid need to carry licenses, policy documents, et...

PURPOSE: To provide a controller for a hybrid automobile capable of suppressing the reduction of torque at the time of gear shift by releasing a start clutch to improve an acceleration performance of the automobile and suppressing the occurrence of inertia torque when drive torque of a motor is increased to avoid the occurrence of a sense of deceleration at the time of gear shift so as to improve ...

PURPOSE:To improve fuel consumption by cutting fuel as long as possible to a extent of not causing abnormality in engine operation. CONSTITUTION:This is a fuel supply controlling device in which an automatic transmission 1, carrying out speed change based on a plurality of parameters including a parameter corresponding to car speed, is connected to an engine 2 and which cuts the fuel supply to the...

PURPOSE: To prevent release of automatic cruise control under a stable releasing condition by continuing automatic cruise control if an auxiliary brake is operated and a present vehicle speed exceeds a preset vehicle speed complying with a target vehicle speed, when a foot brake is operated. CONSTITUTION: It is assumed that a driver actuates a foot brake during traveling downhill, and a present ve...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simultaneously correct the dispersion of control command value- system output characteristic caused by a measurable parameter and the dispersion of the characteristic caused by an unmeasurable parameter such as the difference in individual machine and to easily correct the dispersion with high accuracy without increasing the amount of data even in the case of precise corre...

To provide an automatic winding machine wherein even if a yarn splicing operation is carried out during the reduction of pressurizing tension at the time of winding yarn splicing, the subsequent winding tension can be maintained at an appropriate value depending on the amount of remaining yarn. In an automatic winding machine including a tension apparatus 2 that can adjust pressurizing tension by ...

PURPOSE:To enhance the reliability in learning control by renewing learning data only when a vehicle is under a general operating condition with exception of particular operating conditions. CONSTITUTION:In learning data change judging process control, when the vehicle speed V is out of a specified vehicle speed range (40km/h<=V<=80km/h), or at the time of traveling at night (S41 : Yes) even when ...

PURPOSE: To simply constitute the pressure detection device, and concurrently make it operate excellently by letting a detection sensor detecting hydraulic pressure be formed into a pulse damper. CONSTITUTION: This invention is concerned with the hydraulic work machine which has a work section operated by means of hydraulic pressure, is equipped with a hydraulic pump 5a driven by an engine, detect...

PURPOSE:To increase the rigidity of a grid body and reduce its thickness and weight by performing expanding work after fusing a drawable hot-melt material onto the surface of a lead alloy sheet material. CONSTITUTION:A hot-melt material 8b fused in the fusing tank 8a of a fusing device 8 is fused on one or both surfaces of a lead alloy sheet material 1 carried in a determine quantity by a pump 8c,...

PURPOSE:To stabilize input torque at the time of gear change to an automatic transmission which is connected to an engine of variable number of operating cylinder. CONSTITUTION:In a general control device consisting of an engine Eg in which the number of operating combustion cylinder can be varied and an automatic transmission At provided with a plurality of abrasion engaging device Fd, a cylinder...

A decanter type centrifugal separator capable of discharging sludge directly from a portion of the sludge with least moisture content in a bowl so as to lower a moisture content and increase a separation efficiency, wherein a screw conveyor rotated with a difference in speed provided relative to the bowl is stored in the bowl rotated at a high speed, a dewatering cake discharge route (20) is provi...

The present invention relates to ionic electrodes, particularly microelectrodes and electrode arrays, and also relates to fabrication methods for such electrodes. In particular, the present invention relates to planar polymer electrodes for making patch clamp measurements of ionic currents through biological membranes, such as the plasma membranes of living cells. The electrodes of the present inv...

PURPOSE: A heat shrinkable polyester film suitable for a label application is provided, which has an excellent shrinking property in a wide temperature range from a low temperature to a high temperature, particularly in the low temperature range, generates very little amount of shrinkage spot, wrinkle, distortion and longitudinal sink mark and shows excellent breakage resistance. CONSTITUTION: A h...

PURPOSE: Oscillating arm apparatus for manufacturing a tire reinforcement from a single cord is provided. CONSTITUTION: The system of oscillating arms(3) is mounted on a plate(30) and causes the eyelet(6) to describe a movement flying over the core, and even passing round it in many embodiments. In all scenarios, the system of oscillating arms(3) causes the eyelet(6) to perform a movement in a pla...

An improved closed cell polymer foam and foaming agent involving the use of a hydrogen-containing halocarbon blowing agent (e.g., HCFC-22) in combination with an effective amount of a hydrogen bond forming blocking agent (e.g., organic ether, ester or ketone). The presence of the blocking agent is shown to significantly reduce the escape of blowing agent from and entry of air into the foam resulti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device in which light is well scattered by a reflecting layer and an easily visible display can be obtd. with a large visual field by forming an org. film on a substrate having a rough surface and then forming a reflecting layer on the org. film. SOLUTION: A transparent electrode 5 such as ITO is formed on the inner surface of an upper substrate 2 facing a liquid...

The present invention relates to an endotracheal tube used for mechanical ventilation of a hospital patient, the endotracheal tube is useful in evacuating contaminated secretions that pool within the trachea above an inflatable cuff associated with the endotracheal tube. The endotrocheal tube of the present invention comprises a double lumen through which air may be circulated, thus creating an in...

PURPOSE:To improve the reliability and productivity of a product by providing mounting holes which regulate either or both of the mounting base points of a member and the mounting directions of the member and regulate a mounting position at two points. CONSTITUTION:The mounting position of the member 7 is unequivocally determined by regulating the requirements of a two-dimensional coordinate syste...

In a dual component catalytic cracking system for the catalytic cracking of metal-containing hydrocarbonaceous feedstock using a crystalline aluminosilicate zeolite as a first component, there is used as the second component an admixture of a calcium/magnesium-containing material and a magnesium-containing material as a separate and distinct entity for the purpose of enhancing the vanadium passiva...

In order to detect foreign fibres, a thread or yarn (3) is passed through a measurement area which is constructed as a flat slot (2) in an optically transparent body (1). The body (1) has inwardly reflecting and/or diffusely reflecting outer surfaces (5). Light is injected into this body by means of a plurality of light sources (D1 to D3), so that the thread (3) in the measurement area is acted on...