PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a vehicle behavior more matched with the feeling of a driver so that no sensation of fear is given to the driver whose vehicle is traveling on a branch road from a main road, e.g. a guide road from a superhighway main road to a service area. SOLUTION: Whether this vehicle is traveling on a branch road provided for branching traveling vehicles from the main road of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure the proper operation of a vehicle regardless of the state of a digital automatic operation processing device (CPU). SOLUTION: Vehicle speed sensors 20a, 20b output wave-form signals corresponding to the vehicle speed. A CPU 7 automatically travels a vehicle by utilizing the vehicle speed information obtained from the wave-form signals via digital processing. The wav...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the fluctuation of driving feeling caused by switching of power sources used during a travel in a hybrid vehicle. SOLUTION: An engine 10, a motor 20, a torque converter 30, a transmission 100 and an axle 17 are connected in series to form the power system of a vehicle. A control unit switches power sources and gear ratios according to the state of the vehicle spee...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the longitudinal vibration of a vehicle body in shifting. SOLUTION: This vibration damper controls the torque of an engine 10 and the gear ratio of a continuously variable transmission(CVT) 16 from the time before the speed shift completion time by the half cycle of the longitudinal vibration of a vehicle to offset the longitudinal vibration of the vehicle. The na...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To finely control braking according to a gradually changing vehicle traveling state at decelerating operation time of a vehicle by an accelerator pedal by controlling braking force generated in a braking system on the basis of a vehicle traveling state when the accelerator pedal is returned in a prescribed range for cutting off combustion. SOLUTION: At vehicle traveling time,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a tire from applying an excessive load when tire air pressure goes down during car's traveling. SOLUTION: This motion control device is equipped with a tire air pressure detecting means PT detecting the tire air pressure of each wheel WL, a tire load detecting means LT detecting the load acting on each tire of these wheels WL, and an upper limit value setting means...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To transmit high torque and to avoid the excessive width dimension of a vehicle in transmitting driving force from a driving source to wheels through constant velocity universal joints by effectively relaxing impact force being given to the vehicle in running the vehicle. SOLUTION: A casing 71 for supporting a driving device 20 for driving wheels on a vehicle body 2 is provid...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent unnecessary engine restart and automatically restop by forming a shift groove capable of operating a shift lever in a direction different from an operating direction of the shift lever between two positions for allowing automatically stop, on a position corresponding to a shift position for inhibiting automatically stop. SOLUTION: When an engine is automatically st...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate power while sufficiently carrying out exhaust emission control in the case that power is generated by means of a motor generator due to an engine, and generated power is supplied to the outside from an external receptacle. SOLUTION: This control device has a manually operated generator switch 12 for changing over a mode to an exclusive generation mode. In the excl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the deterioration of a mass balance of the whole device by preventing dislocation of an inside rotary member from the shaft center by centering the inside rotary member to a rotary shaft on both end sides. SOLUTION: The tip side of an inner shaft 10b as an inside rotary member is supported by an inner race 16a of a ball bearing 16 for supporting an outer case 10a a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a driving power, corresponding to a driving power requested by a passenger and a driving power which corresponds to a requested power generation at an engine operating point of minimum fuel consumption or at a motor operating point of minimum power consumption, while taking into account the efficiency of engine, motor and power transmission mechanism. SOLUTION: Tar...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a driving force controller to change the number of revolutions of the engine of a vehicle according to the speed of the vehicle, when the engine is combined with a motor generator. SOLUTION: A continuously variable transmission 5, composed of a motor generator 2 connected to an engine 1 and another motor generator 4 connected to driving wheels 7, is provided. In add...

A centrifuge rotor including a sample carrier (1) enclosing within an outer housing (7,8) and being rotatable about a principal axis of rotation of the rotor, the sample carrier (1) having a peripheral zone for holding sample tubes (6) in an orientation parallel to the said axis when at rest and the sample carrier being capable of deflecting to enable sample tubes (6) to swing out under the effect...

The present invention provides a package, of a false twist yarn composed of polytrimethylene terephthalate fibers, characterized in that a hardness and a winding density of the package and the number of crimps of the false twist yarn thus taken up simultaneously satisfy the following conditions (1), (2) and (3): (1) 70 ...

A cutting tool insert includes a cutting tip mounted into a first recess of an injection molded hard refractory compound insert having a second recess of preselected size and shape for locating the insert to a cutting tool. A preferred cutting tip is a diamond and a preferred hard refractory compound is a tungsten carbide with a cobalt binder.

An actuator for a turbocharger includes a piston axially movable within a housing. The piston has a plurality of annular grooves thereon, and a plurality of O-rings are loosely restrained respectively in the annular grooves. Thus, the O-rings are axially movable within the grooves prior to moving with respect to the housing, so as to reduce the hysteresis which normally accompanies movement of the...

A connecting structure of an externally resin-coated small-diameter metallic pipe having an excellent corrosion-resistant property with respect to a mating member is provided. According to the present invention, a resin-uncovered portion of the metallic pipe provided for applying an end processing thereon is completely covered with a protective pipe made of a resin material so that the processed p...

The present invention provides a biodegradable expanded material having excellent expandability, moldability, impact resistance, heat resistance and storage stability. The present invention also provides a process for the preparation of the foregoing expanded material. The present invention further provides a laminate of a non-expanded material layer and an expanded material layer prepared from th...

The invention relates to a method for the recycling of trim components of vehicles. The method comprises the steps of shredding manufacturing scrap and post-consumer scrap from vehicle headliners into small particles to produce fluff. This fluff is then combined with water and a binder reagent composed of either polyisocyanates, or polyisocyanates combined with various polyols. The solution of flu...

PCT No. PCT/JP98/02259 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 18, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 18, 1999 PCT Filed May 22, 1998 PCT Pub. No. WO98/54244 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 3, 1998Foamed and expanded beads of a crosslinked aliphatic polyester resin having a gel fraction of at least 5% by weight. The expanded beads may be obtained by crosslinking beads of a non-crosslinked aliphatic polyester resin with a crosslinking agen...