Prepare a multimodal thermoplastic polymer foam having a distribution of large and small cells in a substantial absence of water by using a blowing agent stabilizer. Multimodal foams of the present invention have blowing agent stabilizer predominantly located proximate to large cells. The resulting multimodal foams have particular utility as thermal insulating materials.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the leakage of lubricating oil filled in an inner space of a differential gear case of a differential gear toward the inner space of a clutch device when the differential gear and the clutch device are mutually closely positioned for disposing them in a compact space. SOLUTION: The clutch device 12 is provided with a solenoid 40 which is stored in the inner space 2...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic cruise control device capable of changing an approach alarm distance according to the extent of a driver's concentration into the front of the vehicle. SOLUTION: This automatic cruise control device is provided with a driver's state detecting device 200 monitoring a change in the driver's state before and after deceleration control when an own vehicle ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a traveling control device capable of securing safety even in case of an arousal extent of a driver is held lowered. SOLUTION: When a cruise ECU 6 determines that the arousal extent of the driver is held lowered, it transfers processing to a stop control. The cruise ECU 6 determines whether or not a line type of a left-side traveling section line of the traveling l...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the usability of a vehicle traveling control device. SOLUTION: When the traveling speed of a vehicle is at a set value or less and an accelerator pedal is in a non-operated state, a brake is operated to prevent creep movement of the vehicle. A driver can surely recognize not to operate an accelerator. When the manipulated variable of the accelerator pedal is the se...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress free-running feeling by shortening the time required for obtaining a driving torque after the transmission when upshifting by cutting off an automatic clutch and stopping an engine. SOLUTION: The engagement torque (approximately same as STC) of an automatic clutch is built up according to an engagement torque command value STC before rising an engine torque TE aft...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an exhaust brake device sufficiently securing a brake force of the exhaust brake device even in a low vehicle speed. SOLUTION: This control device for the exhaust brake device 73 is assembled with a power transmission having a fluid joint 2 connected to an output shaft 1a of an engine E, a clutch 3 interposed between the fluid joint 2 and a tra...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for discriminating a road surface state capable of identifying a presently mounted tire and setting a threshold for accurately discriminating slipperiness. SOLUTION: This method comprises processes of regularly detecting rotation information on tires of four wheels of a vehicle, storing the rotation information on each tire, calculating a vehicle speed bas...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To compute an accurate car body slip angle without being affected by disturbance such as the change of the road surface. SOLUTION: This car body slip angle estimating device is provided with a steering angle sensor 1, a wheel speed sensors 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, a longitudinal acceleration sensor 4, a lateral acceleration sensor 3, a tire model setting part TM, a tire slip rate comp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a yarn splicing device having a splicing passage that can be loaded with compressed air for aerodynamically coupling two yarn ends together and to make the device compact and easy to operate. SOLUTION: The yarn splicing device 10 has two rotatably supported prism parts 27 and 28, both of which can pivot between a yarn receiving position I and splicing position II. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sintered alloy material for a valve seat superior in abrasion resistance in order to cope with a trend of engine development toward high power, high revolution, and increase of gas mileage, and provide a manufacturing method therefor. SOLUTION: The sintered alloy material is manufactured with powder metallurgy from a mixed raw powder containing a vanadium carbide...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for twisting and piecing yarns by which a spun yarn having a problem, especially even a fine spun yarn and an ultrafine spun yarn can be precisely joined. SOLUTION: A twisting and piecing passage (20) has at least two additional sucking openings (33) capable of providing a negative pressure, and the sucking openings (33) are arranged at both sides of a com...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: 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. SOLUTION: 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 compare...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable easy movement of the axial position of an idle gear even if a gear case rotatably supporting the idle gear is commonly used in transmitting power from a drive gear to a driven gear through the idle gear. SOLUTION: In a device transmitting power from the drive gear 4 to the driven gear 9 through the idle gear 8, the idle gear 8 is rotatably supported by a baring 12 i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate electric power by an effect of fluid energy of compressive gas fluid and of thermal energy of a microwave as a clean energy. SOLUTION: In this invention, electric power is generated by circulating overall energy generated by rotating energy generated by rotating buoyancy of a floating body in liquid, energy of gas or liquid expansion in the floating body by heatin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for feeding operating fluid or the like to a rotary shaft provided with at least one hydraulic device which is actuated by changeover of hydraulic pressure on the rotary shaft in which oil of different pressure can be fed from one end of the rotary shaft, so that need of processing a skew hole as a feed hole for operating fluid or lubricating oil is elimin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve prescribed acceleration driving performance without causing an engine stall even in partial cylinder operation. SOLUTION: This power transmission device is composed of a continuously variable transmission to transmit rotation driving force from an engine E, a starting clutch to variably set transmission capacity in the continuously variable transmission CVT, and a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrode for a crushing device and a crushing device capable of efficiently using inputted power for the crushing of a crushing object. SOLUTION: This electrode 1 for the crushing device is provided with a central conductor, an insulator, and an outer circumferential conductor 15. The central conductor includes a tip electrode 13 and a central electrode part co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a radiographic image photographing device of commercially actualizable size when radiation images are obtained at a plurality of photography positions to generate a phase-contrast image. SOLUTION: While a detection panel 31 is moved, the detection panel 31 is irradiated with X-rays 12 which are transmitted through a subject 21 to obtain image data Sn representing X...

An electromagnetic actuator comprises permanent magnet means 12, 14, an armature 10 and at least one electromagnet 36, 38. The actuator is arranged to operate in a bistable manner. The magnetic field produced by the permanent magnet means 12, 14 may be arranged to traverse gaps at either end of the actuator. The permanent magnetic field in respective gaps is in opposite directions such that when t...