PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an internal combustion engine excellent in fuel economy and exhaust emission purification performance by expanding operation range where compression self-ignition and combustion is enabled. SOLUTION: A fractionating apparatus 9 separates fuel in a main gasoline tank 8 into high octane fuel and low octane fuel to be reserved in sub-tanks 10, 11, respectively. The hi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily adjust a side clearance produced between a cam ring and a rotor and a side plate on a vane pump. SOLUTION: Rotors 32L, 32R supported on rotor shafts 14L, 14R, cam rings 29L, 29R to surround their outer periphery and side plates 30, 28L, 28R to clamp both side surfaces of the rotors 32L, 32R and the cam rings 29L, 29R are arranged in the insides of left and right cas...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve on-vehicle property by preventing loss of driving force, decrease of fuel efficiency, heat generation, and wear, improving durability, reducing loss of magnetic force, and attaining compactness. SOLUTION: This device is provided with torque transmission members 7, 9, a main clutch 13 placed therebetween, a pilot clutch 21, a cam 17 placed in series with the clutch ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device being small in the number of parts, easy to assemble, with low cost, excellent on-vehicle property, easy lubrication, high durability, and fast operation response. SOLUTION: This device is provided with torque transmission members 3, 5, a main clutch 9 connecting therebetween, a pilot clutch 19 operated for connection by an electromagnet 7, and a cam 11 op...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shift feeling intended by a driver even if an automatic transmission mode is switched to a manual transmission mode by selectively switching the automatic transmission mode for controlling a gear ratio on the basis of a preset speed change characteristic and the manual transmission mode for performing a gear change on the basis of a shift instruction by manual op...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of an unexpected speed change toward a rotation synchronizing point due to trouble during running except during shifting of an operation mode. SOLUTION: A power circulation mode clutch 9 and a direct coupling mode clutch 10 cut off a pilot pressure Pp to one of solenoids 91 and 92 during the time in which the other is in a coupled state, except an op...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control stop of operation properly in accordance with the amount of hot water supply during the operation. SOLUTION: Hot water in a hot water storage tank 11 is prepared by a heat-pump heat collecting operation and a solar heat collecting operation. In the case when the amount of hot water supply from the hot water storage tank 11 during the operation is a prescribed one o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a curve entry controller which reduces the feeling of physical order than a driver has due to a warning and speed reduction when a vehicle travels into or from a toll road or wide trunk road. SOLUTION: A forward road property arithmetic storage part 24 decides whether a node is a node representing a road merging into and branching off from a trunk road. A control ex...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a continuously cast battery positive electrode grid significantly improved in corrosion resistance and extremely small in growth in use by forming it by continuous casting of molten lead as part of a web, by imparting a generally uniform thickness to it, by providing it with mutually connected plural wires having voids among them and by reducing its thickness to a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sealed type lead-acid battery requiring no maintenance and having highly efficient discharge characteristics and cycle life characteristics. SOLUTION: A core bar 4 having an almost elliptical cross section and a cross section area of 5.0 mm2 or more is produced by using a lead-calcium-tin alloy. A cladding positive electrode is produced by using a tube 6 having a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stably supply a braking force for braking. SOLUTION: A vehicle braking force controller receives information concerning a downhill road, calculates a regeneratable energy value on the downhill road, determines an energy value recoverd on the downhill road according to the storage value of an energy storing means 15 and the information concerning the downhill road, so as to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To transfer the operation state of a prime mover in a power output device which converts the torque power outputted by the prime mover into a required torque power which is outputted to a drive shaft to a target operation state smoothly, when a target power to be outputted to the drive shaft is changed. SOLUTION: A torque Td* to be outputted to a drive shaft is obtained, base...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle driving device which has superior control responsiveness and enables optimum control following the running state of the vehicle. SOLUTION: In a hybrid vehicle which is running with a running motor, before or immediately after the combustion operation of an engine is started, it is necessary to have an engine revolution Ne closer to a target value Neb of t...

Provided herein is a method for the quantitative detection of nucleic acids based on the use of a calibrator, suitable primers and probes, and a nucleic acid polymerase with 5'-3' nuclease activity.

The invention relates to expandable butyl rubber bladders for use in curing presses for hydrocarbon rubbers such as pneumatic tires. The bladders are a crosslinked elastomer comprising isobutylene repeat units and the bladder composition contains lecithin, particularly a modified lecithin, preferably in liquid form, dispersed within the bladder composition. The bladder composition may also contain...

Myocardial revascularization is performed by an apparatus and method which forms channels in the myocardium from inside the ventricular cavity without penetrating the full thickness of the ventricular wall. A catheter has a fiber optic connected at its handling end to a laser, and terminates at the insertable end of the catheter. A servomotor controls the advancing of the fiber to stop positions r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the separation of a adhesive portion of a clip adhered to one parts and engaged with the other parts in a cantilever manner when outer force is applied to the other parts in the direction of pull-up. SOLUTION: This clip 30 has an adhesive portion 31 having an adhesive surface 31a to be adhered to a clip mounting surface 12a provided on one parts 10 and a molding en...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate separating a can body from a burner case and increase recyclability by providing a lower flange of the can body with an upwardly inclined piece, upwardly inclined toward the can body in a combustion system in which a burner case flange and a lower flange of the can body are connected to each other by caulking with a packing sandwiched therebetween. SOLUTION: A b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable software development which is not limited to the progress state, etc., of hardware development by generating GUI component information for specifying a specific GUI component as an object to be compiled and generating a program to be compiled according to the specific GUI component and an event process description that a user sets. SOLUTION: A compiled object specif...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To define an existent operation to be executed by an object later or a way of reacting to an event in a run time. SOLUTION: A code specifying an operation that an object desires to show later can be added to the object (step 153). A code which defines the feature of a new or additional operation is interpreted by application software and a system is enabled to recognize that ...