An electric vehicle is controlled to conform its operation to that of a conventional internal-combustion-engine powered vehicle. In some embodiments, the charging of the batteries by the auxiliary source of electricity and from dynamic braking is ramped in magnitude when the batteries lie in a state of charge between partial charge and full charge, with the magnitude of the charging being related ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a crack from reaching the surface by splitting a laser beam into a plurality of sub-beams and focusing them to a microarea in a member to be machined. SOLUTION: A single laser beam 11 from a laser light source 1 enters into a beam splitting means 2 to produce two sub-beams 12A, 12B entering into a focus optical system 3. A member 10 to be machined is mounted on a h...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain regenerative power generation of high efficiency by providing a power transmission path between an output shaft of an internal combustion engine and a generator-motor, with a transmission means for accelerating/ decelerating the rotating speed of the output shaft of the internal combustion engine to transmit it. SOLUTION: A rotary shaft of a generator-motor 2 is con...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the belt slip of a continuously variable transmission at the time of restarting after rapid deceleration so as to heighten startability by fixing a gear ratio at the time of detecting rapid deceleration, to a rapid deceleration time target gear ratio, releasing this fixing at the time of a nearly stop state of a vehicle, and controlling in such a way as to lower en...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stably and surely stop a vehicle even when it is braked while moving backward on a very steep hill. SOLUTION: When a driver's braking operation is being effected (S20) and both of right and left front wheels are held locked (S40), are under ABS control and have the tendency to lock (S50) and the braking forces for rear wheels should be increased (S60) and the vehicle is go...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To change the way of traction control as the speed shift range of a transfer changes. SOLUTION: The shift position of a transfer is determined (S20), and when the shift position is in the H range, traction control for a first state is effected (S30-100); when the shift position is in the R range, traction control for a second state is effected (S110-130). In the first state i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent temperature in a sterile room from going up when a filling device is temporarily stopped and to improve the durability of a heater. SOLUTION: This filling device is provided with a sterile room 51 where sterilizing air is filled, a guide which is provided in the sterile room 51 for deforming a packaging material 11 carried in the sterile room 51, a heater 39 which ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily install a roll feed device on a desk top setting type printer. SOLUTION: A desk top setting type printer is slightly lifted from a desk on one end of the printer. A proper roll feed carrier 14 is made to slide into a specified position below the lifted end by putting a flap on the roll feed carrier in an opening on an end of a groove on an installation plate simply ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve environmental performance and maintenability of a multishaft compound generation plant which has one steam turbine in respect to a plurality of gas turbines, by compactly arranging equipment in a limited field, and substantially equalizing pressure loss in pipings from exhaust heat recovery boilers to the steam turbine. SOLUTION: This type of multishaft compound ge...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent malfunction of peripheral devices such as other control units by stopping the communications in rewriting of a control memory, in the case where other control units are connected to a control unit whose control memory is rewritten via communication devices. SOLUTION: An external tool 2 is connected to an engine control unit(ECM) 1 and rewrite data for the control m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To completely connect and fix a unit casing, in which power transmission units are stored, to a differential casing not to cause ill effect with a difference in thermal expansion. SOLUTION: This device has an aluminum alloy unit casing 21, in which power transmitting units including a differential limiting clutch mechanism 27, an electromagnet 29 and a servo operating mechani...

A method and apparatus for reducing the magnitude of a uniformity characteristic in a curedtire and the tire produced thereby. A signal is generated which is indicative of the magnitude of the unifo rmity characteristic. The signal is also indicative of the location on the tire to be corrected. At least a portion of one carcass rein forcing member of the tire is permanently deformed a predetermine...

A method for the production of frames from rigid plastic profiles for use on refrigerator cabinets and in particular on chest freezers, which comprises forming the plastic profiles, mitering and welding the edges of the plastic profiles to form a frame having sharp-edged corners, and rounding at least one of the sharp-edged corners by means of thermo-forming. The invention also comprises the finis...

A furniture foot assembly including a foot support block and an attachable furniture foot. The foot support block includes a substantially triangular-shaped body having rectangular outer walls joined together along at one of the end edges to form an intersection having an angle of about 90 DEG corresponding to the angle between adjoining rails of an item of furniture. An elongated boss is aligned...

A method and apparatus for ablation of body tissue. A catheter provided with a hollow needle is employed both for mapping the location to be ablated by injection of an excitability reducing agent and for ablating tissue, employing RF energy in conjunction with an injected, conductive fluid.

A surgical instrument assembly for use in snare cauterization operations includes a first tubular sheath member containing a metallic electrical snare cauterization loop. A second tubular sheath member is disposed inside of the first tubular sheath member. A flexible suture member is releasably connected to the cauterization loop, and is provided with a one-way slip knot at its distal end thereby ...

A system and method for managing access to a resource by at least one mobile machine including a queue manager adapted to generate a queue position request signal as a mobile machine approaches the resource and determine if access to the resource is unsuccessful. The queue manager also generates a access status signal after access the resource. The system and method also includes a resource manage...

A right inductive coil is coupled to a vehicle at a first location offset from the vehicle's centerline for generating a first signal in response to an electromagnetic signal in a guide wire beneath the vehicle. Similarly, a left inductive coil coupled to the vehicle opposite the right coil relative to the centerline for generating a second signal in response to an electromagnetic signal in the gu...

It has been found that non-chlorinated pentafluoropropane blowing agents may be used alone or in combination with water in flexible integral skin foams. For example, foams prepared using 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane (HFA-245fa) alone or in combination with water exhibit physical characteristics such as resistance to abrasion and cracking on flex comparable to conventional chlorinated fluorocarbon ...

The prepn. of a catalyst for structural isomerisation of a linear 4+c olefin to its corresp. methyl branched isoolefin involves: (a) mixing (i) zeolite powder comprising at least one zeolite with \- one-dimensional pore structure having a pore size sufficiently small to retard by-prod. dimerisation and coke formation and sufficiently large to allow entry of the linear olefin and formation of the i...