PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize the arrangement space of a generator and a motor in the direction orthogonal to a rotary shaft of the generator and an output shaft of the motor. SOLUTION: In a power transmission comprising a power synthesizing mechanism 7 connected to the motor 9 and the generator 6 in a power transmitting manner and a transmission mechanism 8 for changing the rotational speed o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle-to-vehicle distance control device capable of controlling one's own vehicle so as not to get past vehicles adjacent thereto when the adjacent vehicles are present on right and left lanes of the lane of one's own vehicle. SOLUTION: This vehicle-to-vehicle distance control device comprises a vehicle-to- vehicle distance detection unit 1 for detecting the ve...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic stop/start device of an engine capable of preventing any co-rotation of the engine when stopped, and preventing acceleration delay. SOLUTION: When a stop condition is established, and the engine is automatically stopped, a transmission is shifted to the first speed of a D range. In this state, a clutch C1, a brake B3 and two one-way clutches F1 and F2 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an obstacle detector precisely determining whether or not a material contacting with an automobile is an obstacle from a relative speed vector of an obstacle candidate. SOLUTION: This obstacle detector is so constituted that past contact possibilities p1 -p50 are stored from the history of a present contact possibility f0 , the motion of an own vehicle and the posi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular behavior control device properly operating throughout all of evasive traveling and properly carrying out evasive traveling to an obstacle by precedently discriminating an obstacle to a vehicle and considering various kinds of travel information. SOLUTION: The obstacle to an own vehicle 1 is determined beforehand, and in an evasive traveling control part...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular braking/driving force control device providing an easy operation for parking irrespective of a parking place. SOLUTION: The vehicular braking/driving force control device is provided with a parking mode selecting switch 10 distinguishing a parking state of carrying out a parking operation and a non-parking state of a state other than the parking state, ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a road surface condition discriminating device identifying presently attached tires and capable of accurately setting a threshold for discriminating slipperiness. SOLUTION: The road surface condition discriminating device is provided with a rotational speed detecting means periodically detecting rotational speeds of the tires of four wheels of a vehicle, a first ca...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly operate a vehicle behavior controller over the avoidance traveling by judging an obstacle to a vehicle in advance and referring various traveling information and properly execute the obstacle avoidance traveling. SOLUTION: The obstacle to a self-vehicle 1 is judged, the avoidance travel control part 80 determines whether the self-vehicle 1 can avoid the obstacle o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely and effectively control the behavior of a vehicle regardless of conditions of the vehicle. SOLUTION: The feedback controlled variable Mfb is operated on the basis of the behavior of the vehicle (S20, 30), the feed forward controlled variable Mff is operated on the basis of the deviation &Delta M between the yaw moment M0 of the vehicle and the actual yaw moment M of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the number of component items by dispensing with a reversing shaft, and simplify a structure, in a transmission for combining the rectilinear power and the turning power through a planet gear mechanism. SOLUTION: This transmission 10 is provided with a rectilinear power transmission system 14 for synchronously transmitting the traveling power to left and right crawl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To determine the turning operation pattern similar to a side clutch method, in a transmission for combining the rectilinear power and the turning power through a planetary gear mechanism. SOLUTION: A rectilinear power transmission system 14 transmits the power to left and right crawler driving shafts 16L, 16R respectively through planetary gear mechanisms 35L, 35R, and a turn...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a feeder for sending a thin tape with toughness, particularly a cord tape through a cutting mechanism to a conveyor belt for a one-way delivery of the cord tape. SOLUTION: A pulling mechanism 14 existing below a raised upper side cutter 3 of the cutting mechanism 4 and having a gripper 15 gripping a preceding cord tape edge 21 is provided for pulling out only a sec...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an orally ingestible lipid metabolism ameliorant having effects with a relatively small amount without any problem in flavor or preservation stability. SOLUTION: This lipid metabolism ameliorant or food and drink for ameliorating the lipid metabolism comprises a neutral sphingoglycolipid such as lactosylceramide or glucosylceramide as an active ingredient.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an inhibitor of elevation of glycemia and a healthy food having synergistic inhibitory actions on glycemia unobtainable with a simple material by mutually affecting ingredients contained in each food material by combining a plurality of food materials. SOLUTION: This inhibitor of the elevation of glycemia comprises an extract from pine tree bark and dietary fibers. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chiral nematic liquid crystal composition bright in a wide temperature range, and having a high contrast, and further to provide a liquid crystal optical element using the composition. SOLUTION: This liquid crystal composition contains an optically active compound represented by the formula: R<1> -X<1> -A<1> -C*HY<1> -(CH2 )m -X<2> -A<2> -(X<3> -A<3> )n -(X<4> - ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential gear capable of obtaining sufficient differential limiting effect even in high load, and of properly switching between a differential sate and a differential limiting state. SOLUTION: This differential device comprises one pair of right and left pressure rings 12 provided to be freely movable in an axle direction in a differential case 11 and incapab...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential device capable of obtaining a sufficient differential limiting action even during high load by increasing a friction pressure-contact area of a clutch plate, and of properly switching between a differential stage and a differential limiting stage. SOLUTION: This differential gear comprises one pair of right and left pressure rings 12L, 12R placed in ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gear device that has high machining accuracy and high durability and can be manufactured at low cost, a power transmitting device having the gear device, and equipment having the power transmitting device. SOLUTION: This gear device comprises a main gear 10 made of silicon and a rotating shaft 30 made of carbon steel mounted while penetrating through a rotation c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a snap ring fitting structure of an automatic transmission that reduces the entire length of the automatic transmission and prevents deterioration of durability by motion of a support member. SOLUTION: The automatic transmission has a snap ring fitting support groove for engaging and locking a plate of a second multi plate brake B4 to a spline between a support mem...

Apparatus and methods for controlling the amount of data used to transmit still images during the transmission of a video sequence from a first to a second location are disclosed. The apparatus of one embodiment comprises encoding means (105) arrange for intraframe encoding still images for transmission and intraframe encoding part or all of selected video sequence frames, calculating means (106) ...