PURPOSE: To conduct control to enhance a fuel consumption of an engine using a continuously variable transmission, and to properly maintain idling. CONSTITUTION: In this controller, a target output of a power source for attaining target driving force is found based on the target driving force, the number of target output revolutions is found based on the target output, a gear ratio of the continuo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a transmission unit housing for a hybrid vehicle, capable of keeping the positional relationship of a motor and an output shaft of a driven pulley with high accuracy even in shrinkage- fitting a stator of the motor. SOLUTION: In this method of manufacturing a transmission unit housing, a pre-work location hole 71 is formed on a position ou...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transmission unit for a hybrid vehicle provided with a hydraulic circuit capable of supplying the hydraulic pressure to a belt-type continuously variable transmission while keeping the basic layout of a conventional transmission unit. SOLUTION: This transmission unit for a hybrid vehicle, comprising an electromagnetic clutch, a motor and a transmission mounted on...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the differential locking function with the light-weight and compact constitution. SOLUTION: This coupling and differential device comprises a differential mechanism 5 distributing the rotation of a differential easing 3 rotated and driven by an engine to the wheel side through a pair of output shafts, and an electromagnetic differential limiting-mechanism 7 limitin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide various traveling modes by connecting a plurality of prime movers to input and output elements in a torque distributing mechanism of a front and rear wheel drive vehicle. SOLUTION: In a front and rear wheel drive vehicle where a first prime mover 1 is mounted to transmit the torque to an input element 13 of a torque distributing mechanism 4, the torque is outputted...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for a selective clutch capable of preventing the squeal of a gear or the like produced when a clutch petal is stepped by the unexpected stepping by a driver in gear changing. SOLUTION: In this controller 56 for an automatic clutch device 1 having a controller 5 for controlling the connection and disconnection of a clutch in starting, gear changing, and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle control method such that the driving force of a vehicle is controlled while reflecting the running condition of the vehicle and the driver's intention, so that it is easy to drive the vehicle in a manner which matches the running condition and the driver's intention so as to allow the vehicle to exhibit sufficient power performance. SOLUTION: The vehicle ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and method for controlling the driving force of an automobile in such a way as to provide a sufficient feeling of conformity between the driveability which the driver requires and the actual driveability of the automobile added thereto. SOLUTION: The apparatus comprises (a) engine torque control means for controlling engine torque outputted from the en...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle accelerator pedal device allowing a driver to achieve desired speed reduction through the operation of an accelerator pedal alone. SOLUTION: A detector 3 for detecting the stroke of the accelerator pedal 1 is connected with the controller 10. The controller 10 outputs control signals IE and IB respectively to a throttle driving actuator 11 and a brake dri...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an engine stall and the slip of clutches at re-acceleration after vehicle speed has been reduced. SOLUTION: In this automatic transmission device for a vehicle, shifts are automatically made by a transmission according to shift direction signals from a manually-operated shift switch, and during the automatic shifts the clutches are automatically engaged and disenga...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a clutch-equipped electric vehicle. SOLUTION: A prime mover including an electric motor is equipped with a clutch, one end of which is connected to the input shaft of a mechanical transmission. The control device has a rotational speed sensor for sensing the rotational speed of the output shaft of the transmission, and a controlling computer un...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately estimate a hydraulic braking delay and hydraulic braking force. SOLUTION: Regenerative braking force BM is set at required braking force Bref from a time point P1 where the required braking force Bref exceeds a designated threshold Bref0 until a time point P2 where a hydraulic braking delay time TD elapses, and after the time TD elapses, the regenerative braking...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bag-making guide for an automatic packaging machine in which a packaging material is formed in a U-shaped section or into two portions, a guide to guide the traveling of the packaging material is internally brought into contact with a returned portion of the formed packaging material and not easily heated even when subjected to the radiation heat of a heat sealer...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make belt support frames 24, 28 displaceable forward and rear ward in a synchronous manner with the movement of a seal bar in a box motion in a bag-making filling and packaging machine. SOLUTION: A pair of leg frames are erected from right and left symmetric screw grooves of handle shafts 31, 39 which are rotatably stretched between both frames 30 via a female screw, frame...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic packaging machine having a printing function which can easily and reliably print the printing information on a packaging material to tightly seal various kinds of filling materials using a printer mounted on the automatic packaging machine. SOLUTION: The automatic packaging machine comprises a program input means to set the printing information printed...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set a cutoff in the optimal condition determined sensuously by an operator in the loading work and the scrape-up work while traveling. SOLUTION: In this transmission, the brake is operated by operating a brake pedal, and when this brake operating force exceeds the predetermined value, a traveling clutch is cut off. When the brake is operated, the cutoff operation is perfor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To conclude the connection of an electromagnetic clutch with the lump control before the large heat is generated when the electromagnetic clutch can not be connected due to the deterioration with the lapse of time, and to appropriately set the lump grade. SOLUTION: In the case where the connection is not concluded yet when the set time TM1s is passed after a moment t1 for sta...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a friction-free drive system which can eliminate the effect of the static friction and the dynamic friction. SOLUTION: The output shaft of a differential mechanism 10 is rotated at the rotational speed corresponding to the difference in the rotational speed between motors 1a, 1b rotated in the reverse direction. The sum of the rotational speeds of the motors 1a, 1b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of mounting a breather pipe, easily controlling the angle of the breather pipe in providing the breather pipe at a complicated part provided with various constitutions. SOLUTION: In this method of mounting the breather pipe, a cylindrical boss part 72a is formed by machining the whole periphery of a boss part, and a cylindrical jig 80 with at least the thi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive shaft support bearing preventing the service life and performance of the bearing from being influenced by the distortion of a housing fitted to an outer ring. SOLUTION: This drive shaft support bearing device is so constituted that an inner ring of a sealed rolling bearing is mounted to a drive shaft and that the housing formed with a radial flange fixed to...