PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To save the fuel consumption of an internal combustion engine, in a vehicle including the internal combustion engine and a Rankine cycle device, by maximizing the recovery efficiency of exhaust gas energy by the Rankine cycle device.

SOLUTION: The Rankine cycle device 9 for recovering thermal energy of exhaust gas is provided on a hybrid vehicle including the internal ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming device avoiding the switching of a paper storage portion due to shortage of remaining paper as far as possible.

SOLUTION: The image forming device comprises a paper storage portion 6 with a plurality of stages for stacking and storing paper sheets, a paper feeding checking means 32 determining whether a paper storage portion of each stage sa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a grain oriented ceramic constituted of a polycrystalline body comprising a first perovskite-type alkali-pentavalent metal oxide compound and having high degree of orientation and a production process thereof.

SOLUTION: The grain oriented ceramic is constituted of a polycrystalline body comprising the first perovskite-type alkali-pentavalent metal oxide comp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an acid pickling liquid which surely removes an oxide scale formed on a titanium surface, and also can inhibit the excessive dissolution of a titanium base material.

SOLUTION: This acid pickling liquid for pickling titanium or a titanium alloy is an aqueous solution which contains nitric acid and hydrofluoric acid, and further is added with a fluoroimide com...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mesh-like material made of a polyolefin-based resin for repairing or reinforcing concrete, which has an excellent handleability, workability and sufficient peeling prevention effect even in a low-temperature environment, and can control expansion of concrete due to an alkali aggregate reaction even after application, and to provide a method for repairing or re...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a suspended solid sampling method and a suspended solid sampling device for sucking and sampling a suspended solid floating on the surface of the water or in the vicinity of the surface of the water efficiently by a simple configuration to make the surface of the water clean and clear in a water area after the suspended solid sampling work.

SOLUTION: In this...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sleeper connection structure of a sleeper which is for use in a floor substrate of a detached house, an apartment house, a gymnasium, a multi-purpose auditorium, and the like, wherein the sleeper connection structure facilitates mounting of the sleeper, is excellent in workability, simple in form, and excellent in cost efficiency.

SOLUTION: According to th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an angle material for panel connection which has high airtightness and workability and a degree of freedom during execution and eliminates a gap between a panel and itself and eliminates the protrusion of a head of a screw member for fixing.

SOLUTION: Two abutting pieces 2, 3 which respectively abut along, for example, side faces for connection of panels 10A...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control system capable of comfortable traveling of a vehicle with high operability and a vehicle having the control system.

SOLUTION: A motorcycle comprises a transmission 5, an ECU 50, an engine, and a transmission operating mechanism 111. The engine has a crank 2. The transmission operating mechanism 111 has a shift pedal 11 and a load sensor SE6. The lo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control system capable of comfortable traveling of a vehicle with high operability and a vehicle having the control system.

SOLUTION: A motorcycle comprises a transmission 5, a CPU, an engine, a load sensor SE6, and an alarm lamp. The load sensor SE6 detects the shift operation by the driver. When the shift operation is performed by the driver, the output ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gear transmission which spreading a lubricant to all members to be lubricated by facilitating feeding-in of the lubricant to an axial oil passage and further activating the flow of the lubricant in a terminal end direction of the axial oil passage.

SOLUTION: The gear transmission is provided with: a casing filled with a lubricant; a plurality of shaft memb...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce operation force necessary for sliding a reverse idler gear in a reverse shift device for a transmission.

SOLUTION: A plurality of pairs of transmission gears 15a, 15b and 16a, 16b provided on a pair of shafts 11, 12 parallel to each other are switched by a sleeve 19 provided on an output shaft 12 and having synchromesh mechanisms 21, 22. A reverse input gear ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving force distribution device capable of avoiding damage to each gear by reverse input torque.

SOLUTION: A torque limiter 70 capable of transmitting torque within a predetermined torque range beforehand set is provided in the middle of a torque transmission system from a motor to first and second output shafts, more specifically, between a first sun ge...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving force distribution device capable of avoiding damage to each gear by reverse input torque.

SOLUTION: A friction clutch 80 capable of transmitting torque within a predetermined torque range beforehand set is provided in a connection between a transmission mechanism 61 and a housing 11 which is a non-rotation part.

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a seal ring and a seal structure without detriment to seal function, suppressing the fabricability from lowering.

SOLUTION: The seal ring 1 made of resin is mounted in an annular groove 40 formed in one member out of a housing 3 having a shaft hole and a shaft 4 inserted in the shaft hole, closely contacting the periphery of the other member, and slide-conta...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pulley with a damper capable of reducing vibration displacement in a twisting direction (relative displacement amount in circumferential direction) of a pulley unit in resonance.

SOLUTION: The pulley 1 with the damper is provided with a damper unit 2 having a damper part; and a pulley unit 3 arranged concentrically to the damper unit 2. A circular arc long...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a volume expansion/contraction absorber for an automatic transmission capable of automatically adjusting level difference of an oil level inside a case by temperature variation while adjusting pressure variation of air inside the case by a single method.

SOLUTION: The inside of the case 10 of the automatic transmission 1 is sealed in an air-tight state, and ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller capable of suitably suppressing generation of booming noise following driving of an engine in a vehicular drive device provided with the engine.

SOLUTION: When it is determined that avoidance of a booming noise generation area N is required based on the fact whether or not the booming noise is of a magnitude enough to raise a problem when it is ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure a large crushable zone in an engine room by dispensing with provision of any idler gear shaft.

SOLUTION: When a low clutch L/C is engaged, a gear 11 is coupled with a shaft 10, and the engine power flowing divergently from a carrier 4c to a ring gear 4r and a sun gear 4s follows two routes described below, and they are converged and emitted from the shaft. Th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a strut mount suppressing impact applied to a shock absorber even when a large moment acts on the shock absorber in a particular direction.

SOLUTION: Since a center of gravity of a ridge part 124B of a stopper part attached to an inner cylinder fitting 14 and arranged below a rubber body part is offset to an opposite side of a moment generating side (the arr...