PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly perform shift of a transmission for shifting and transmitting power from an electric motor to a driving shaft even when negative driving force is outputted from the electric motor. Ž

SOLUTION: When the number of rotations Nm1 of a power generation motor usually driven as a generator becomes less than 0 and negative torque is outputted from a driving motor usu...

A tractor whose PTO speed change mechanism can be easily assembled and maintained. A PTO case having a built-in PTO speed change mechanism is removably mounted in a transmission case such that at least a front section of the PTO case is received in the transmission case. The PTO case is partitioned into three sections that are a front case forming body, an intermediate case forming body, and a rea...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize operating burden on a driver for prohibiting the unnecessary stop of follow-up travel and resetting follow-up travel during follow-up travel with an ACC system. SOLUTION: ACC control is temporarily suspended when braking operation by the driver is detected. The ACC control which is temporarily suspended is resumed if a braking operating time is less than five seco...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for manufacturing a battery electrode plate capable of accurately bending a flexible separator at high speed and clamping a positive electrode plate. SOLUTION: This apparatus slides a flexible separator 2 to abut against a stopper 4 in the horizontal condition, disposes a positive electrode plate 1 approximately at the center above the flexible separat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a braking device for a motor-driven two-wheeled vehicle allowing compact arrangement of a drum type brake by adopting the brake for the motor-driven two-wheeled vehicle constituted by incorporating an electric power unit into a rear arm and mounting a rear wheel at an end part of a rear axle projecting outward from a rear part of the rear arm. Ž

SOLUTION: This...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize start acceleration of follow-up travel that does not give a sense of incongruity to a driver. Ž

SOLUTION: The initial target value and change rate proportional to the relative speed of a command throttle opening of one's own vehicle 1 based on the detection of the relative speed of a preceding vehicle are calculated by starting of the follow-up travel of the o...

A control apparatus for a vehicle includes an engine (11), first and second electric motors (16, 25), an output shaft (14) connected to a drive wheel (41), a differential gear device (13), the gear elements of which are connected to the engine (11), the first and second electric motors (16, 25), and the output shaft (14), respectively, target output torque setting means (91) for setting target out...

If a torque reduction request is outputted during a speed shift, the amount of motor torque reduction achieved by a motor-generator, of a requested amount of torque reduction, is set to a greatest-possible amount, and the amount of engine torque reduction achieved by an engine is set to a smallest-possible amount. The amount of motor torque reduction is set based on the amount of charges stored (S...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize clamping force at a continuously variable transmission to improve fuel consumption and durability by setting a clutch engaging pressure which reflects the actual state of a driving system including the continuously variable transmission and a clutch. Ž

SOLUTION: This control device for the continuously variable transmission, wherein the clutch variable in tra...

A ceramic green sheet is irradiated with a laser beam of a high-peak short-pulse type to form a hole in the sheet. With the laser beam, a minimum oscillation output is more than 60% of a maximum oscillation output. This prevents material of the ceramic green sheet from melting partially and remaining around the hole. Therefore, a multi-layer assembly of ceramic green sheets built by joining the sh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress a scatter of the torque bias ratio in respective planetary gear apparatuses, and further to prevent a seizure of gears. Ž

SOLUTION: An internal gear 4 and a sun gear 7 are arranged in a housing 1 so as to rotate about their rotation axis L, and a planetary gear 8 is provided so as to rotate and integrally revolve around the rotation axis L integrally with the...

A vehicle integrated control system includes an external disturbance load compensator. The external disturbance load compensator executes a program including: a step of sensing a vehicle state; a step of sensing environmental information on the surroundings of the vehicle; a step of performing an external disturbance load calculation; a step of determining whether or not to permit an external dist...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress generation of yawing when detecting a road surface friction coefficient. Ž

SOLUTION: This device is in a vehicle in which driving force is independently imparted to each of four wheels, and the four wheels are steered. The device has a means (block B3) for finding yaw moment generated in the vehicle from the size of the imparted driving force, for determining...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately set the starting timing of engine output increase control when shifting down on the basis of deceleration will of a driver. Ž

SOLUTION: The engine output increase control is started at times t6 and t7 when reduced up to " starting hydraulic pressure " without causing an acceleration feeling even if engine output increases, when transmission torque capacity ...

A control apparatus for a vehicular drive system including a differential mechanism operable to distribute an output of an engine to a first electric motor and a power transmitting member, and a second electric motor connected to the power transmitting member. The control apparatus, which permits size reduction of the vehicular drive system, or improvements of fuel economy and vehicle drivability,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller capable of miniaturizing a drive unit, or improving fuel consumption in regard to a vehicular drive unit provided with a differential mechanism, an electric motor provided in the differential mechanism, and a stepped type automatic transmission. Ž

SOLUTION: By providing a change-over brake BO, a transmission mechanism 10 is changed between a varia...

A control apparatus for a vehicular drive system including a continuously-variable transmission portion, and a step-variable transmission portion, the continuously variable transmission portion having a differential mechanism operable to distribute an output of an engine to a first electric motor and a power transmitting member, and a second electric motor disposed in a power transmitting path bet...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent that required oil pressure becomes excessive accompanied by a gear change, when a gear is changed in a belt type gearless drive mechanism so that the rotation drive of a generator may be performed at a predetermined operation point, in a regenerative braking apparatus which performs the regenerative control of the generator in which rotation drive is performed b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress unexpected fluctuation of drive force and suppress overrotation of a motor when shift inhibition is removed. Ž

SOLUTION: When a temperature of lubricant oil Toil is lower than a predetermined temperature Tref immediately after a system starts up, a value 1 is set in a shift inhibition flag F. When the temperature of the lubricant oil Toil becomes higher than ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rodlike article packaging system which can operate a packaging machine with high availability without requiring the packaging machine to suspend or the need of replacement and adjustment irrespective of the number of grouped rodlike articles to reduce a manufacturing cost in packaging the rodlike articles. Ž

SOLUTION: The packaging system 1 is designed to pa...