PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an intermediate film for sandwich glass which affords functionability, such as thermally insulating performance, UV shielding performance and radio wave transmittance, to an intermediate layer while maintaining the quality equivalent to the quality of the conventional sandwich glass and is applicable not only to buildings but to various departments for automobiles, ...

A flat-panel liquid crystal display. The display includes a flat sheet of bistable chiral nematic liquid crystal material activated by a drive circuit that individually controls the display state of multiple picture elements. The driver circuitry activates the liquid crystal domains with various drive schemes which have any number of different phases to attain various addressing sequence times. At...

In a process for the manufacture of dipped tire cord fabrics (11) made of organic fiber cords, two organic fiber cords (8A,8B) before treatment, each formed by subjecting two or more bundles of organic multifilaments to cable twisting and ply twisting, are connected to each other in a particular connection apparatus to form a continuous cord having a joint portion (8C), and a tire cord fabric is m...

Counterbalance device (1), in particular for a medical X-ray device, with a drum (2) which is at least partly encapsulated in a housing (12) and is mounted so that it can rotate in the housing on a stationary shaft (11). The drum has an integrated first spring element (7) which applies a bias to the drum, and a first cable (5) which supports a weight (40). The cable is guided in a groove (3) on th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress shift shock and increase in energy loss in shifting a transmission. Ž

SOLUTION: When a shifting request of a transmission 60 is given while a braking force is being outputted from a motor MG2, an output of the motor MG2 is limited irrespective of a charging request of a battery 50, so that the driving torque is kept not to be transmitted to a driving axis fro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle controller which can suppress shocks, even in a torque phase in which the change of an engine torque is expressed easily as a change in the output torque of a torque transmission mechanism or in the slipping state of a lockup latch. SOLUTION: In the controller of a vehicle which has an engine, a motor- generator and a speed changer, an engine torque discr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make an engine compact and to reduce the manufacturing cost by simplifying the oil passage. SOLUTION: To engine 45 has a crankshaft 68 in front of an engine case 67, a transmission mechanism 69 is disposed at the rear side of the shaft 68, an oil pump is provided on the front and lower side of the crankshaft 68, and a starter idle gear 125 is journaled ratatably on the cra...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle driving assist device for appropriately assisting driving by a driver in longitudinal and lateral directions. Ž

SOLUTION: This vehicle driving assist device 1 is provided with obstacle detecting means 10, 20, 21, 30 for detecting an obstacle around an own vehicle; an obstacle recognizing means 50 for respectively detecting an existing direction, a re...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gearbox casing for absorbing reaction from a final gear without increasing its thickness even when part of a case mating surface is formed apart from the final gear, while requiring no rib or cover for bubbling oil. Ž

SOLUTION: The gearbox casing TC has the case mating surface 11 part of which is formed apart from the final gear Gf for driving a differential...

A control system for a hybrid drive unit, in which an assist prime mover is connected through a transmission mechanism to an output member, to which a torque outputted by a main prime mover is transmitted, comprises gear shift controller for switching a shift control condition of said transmission in accordance with the action state of said main prime mover. A gear shift is inhibited in case a veh...

A scan type digital X-ray imaging apparatus comprising an X-ray generator for emitting X-ray slit beams, an X-ray detector for detecting X-ray transmitted through an object to be examined, and an object fixing means disposed between the X-ray generator and the X-ray detector, for holding the object in an appropriate position for X-ray photography, in which X-ray beam scanning is performed in a man...

A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus inputs signals indicative of images from a stereoscopic camera, a vehicle speed, a steering wheel angle and a yaw rate and estimates a traveling path of an own vehicle according to vehicle forward information and traveling conditions of the own vehicle. The apparatus establishes a traveling region A according to this traveling path and further establishe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the driving force controller of a hybrid vehicle for effectively carrying out the regeneration by a motor. Ž

SOLUTION: This driving force controller is provided with an engine 2, a front motor 3 installed at a front wheel 8 side of a vehicle and a rear motor 4 installed at a rear wheel 9 side of the vehicle. When carrying out the regeneration of deceleration e...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a steering device with a variable transmission ratio enhancing durability and hardly generating a noise. Ž

SOLUTION: In the steering device 1 for varying the transmission ratio of a steering angle and a steering angle, a motor 4 has a motor housing body 10a; a stator fixed to the motor housing body 10a; and a rotor 14 rotated/driven by the stator 12 and axiall...

Disclosed is a fuel pump drive system which can change revolution ratio of an engine to a fuel pump to one-to-one without vast increase in cost, allowing the fuel pump to be smaller-sized fuel pump. The system has a conventional flywheel housing with a gear through hole opened to a gear train accommodation space and adapted to receive a conventional input gear as an element of a gear train for tra...

An insert for a drill bit that includes diamond particles disposed in a matrix material, wherein the diamond particles have a contiguity of 15% or less is disclosed. A method of forming a diamond-impregnated cutting structure, that includes loading a plurality of substantially uniformly coated diamond particles into a mold cavity, pre-compacting the substantially uniformly coated diamond particles...

A differential diameter hole drilling method by which through-holes having improved major surface quality are formed in a target material involves drilling a pilot hole having a diameter that is less than the desired diameter of the through-hole and then drilling a through-hole having the desired diameter. The pilot hole forms a channel from which thermal energy produced during laser drilling can ...

An embodiment of a wireless telemetry system for providing signal communication across a wired-communication gap in a bottom-hole assembly (“BHA”), the BHA having an upper portion and a lower portion separated by the wired-communication gap, includes an upper transceiver positioned in the upper portion and in signal communication with a surface telemetry system and a lower transceiver positioned i...

This invention provides an apparatus, a system and a method for shredding building materials such as plasterboard, and then processing the shredded waste to recover the constituent materials. The apparatus (10) has at least one opening (13) into which waste plasterboard (16) may be placed and means for shredding the plasterboard placed in the opening (13). The system (48) comprises means for crush...

Luminescent polymers having sterically twisted arylene repeat units are provided, which are particularly suited as electroluminescent polymers. Monomers necessary for the synthesis of the sterically twisted polyarylene are provided, as are electroluminescent device utilizing these polymers.