PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a binding for snowboards for fastening the upper part of the toe and the tip of the toe at the same time and surely fixing the boots to the binding without play toward the tiptoe.

SOLUTION: This binding for a snowboard is formed of a base plate, one band, one end of which is fitted to one side of the base plate, the other band, one end of which is fitted to ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a problem wherein mud disperses and adheres in response to in-field work of a tractor and the adhering mud is pressed into steering cases at every front wheel steering, in the steering cases for supporting respective steering front wheels disposed at both ends of an axle housing of the tractor.

SOLUTION: The axle final case of the tractor comprises a fixed c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To protect a tire by preventing continuing of change of a car speed even when gradient change occurs during driving control to set acceleration at a target value and by preventing rapid acceleration at an air pressure decrease time.

SOLUTION: It is checked whether target acceleration tACC1 is acceleration of tACC1≥0 or deceleration of tACC1<0 in the step S41. If accele...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a deceleration control device to prevent a shock from occurring at the time of braking control in conjunction with deceleration control during changing deceleration of a vehicle.

SOLUTION: This vehicular deceleration control device includes a position switching deciding means 98 (S5) deciding if the deceleration of the vehicle is under change or not, and a b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a follow-up control device for automatically setting a state of an own vehicle in accordance with a driver load.

SOLUTION: In the vehicle-following control device 1 loaded on the own vehicle and provided with an ACC setting control part 10 setting the state of the own vehicle in accordance with the traveling state of a preceding vehicle, the ACC setting cont...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize drive operation that does not use a clutch pedal without impairment of excellent characteristics such as a small amount of fuel consumption and exhaust gas, in a hybrid automobile equipped with a unidirectional rotation transmitting means.

SOLUTION: The hybrid automobile connects an internal combustion engine, an electric generator, a clutch, and the transmi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve a total braking-torque command value even under control error of a low response system, in cooperative control of a compound brake provided with two brake devices.

SOLUTION: The total braking-torque command value Tdcom calculated by a means 31 is divided to a hydraulic braking-torque command value Tbcom and a regenerative braking-torque command value Tmcom l...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform following travel control ensuring an appropriate inter-vehicle distance from a low vehicle speed range to a high vehicle speed range without giving a driver uncomfortable feeling.

SOLUTION: With the following travel control device for vehicles capturing the preceding vehicle, when the preceding vehicle is traveling at high speed, a changeover weighing factor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rodlike article packaging system which can operate a packaging machine with high availability without requiring the packaging machine to suspend or the need of replacement and adjustment irrespective of the number of grouped rodlike articles to reduce a manufacturing cost in packaging the rodlike articles.

SOLUTION: The packaging system 1 is designed to pa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a knitting machine enabling continuous knit-in of yarns of various colors or kinds having a yarn length corresponding to the pattern of the knit fabric.

SOLUTION: The knitting machine is provided with a yarn-feeding apparatus having a selection device to select at least one yarn from a plurality of packages having different colors or packages of different ya...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a vehicular speed from being left under a changed condition even when a slope angle is changed during driving force control setting an acceleration as a target value, and to prevent a driver from feeling larger deceleration than his/her foresees on a downward slope.

SOLUTION: A target vehicular speed tVSP is calculated by integrating a stepping amount of an ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic clutch control device capable of properly changing a half-engagement state or a disengagement state of a clutch in accordance with various traveling states of a vehicle.

SOLUTION: This automatic clutch control device controls a clutch 24 into a half-clutch state or a completely disengaged state in accordance with the traveling states of the vehi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quietly and smoothly transmit power, to obtain high transmitting efficiency, to remarkably shorten the axial length to be compact, and to prevent an excessive temperature rise of a friction roller type transmission.

SOLUTION: A cylindrical rotor 72 is fitted on an outer diameter side of a low-speed side ring 54 through a key 91, and the low-speed side ring 54 is fit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To respond to a travelling request of a driver, and to improve energy efficiency over the whole of a vehicle.

SOLUTION: Condition of a transmission 60 of a vehicle, wherein power from an engine 22 is output to driving wheels 39a and 39b through a planetary gear 30 and which is provided with a motor MG2 for outputting the power to the driving wheels 39a and 39b through ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate oil pressure for shifting an automatic transmission during the stop of an engine without needing a special electric oil pump in a hybrid vehicle travelable by a motor generator while the engine is stopped.

SOLUTION: The engine E that can reduce pumping loss by cylinder cut-off is connected to a front wheel Wf through a first motor generator MG1, an oil pump...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical fiber Fabry-Perot interference sensor which is easily automatized and is inexpensively manufactured with alignment having no arbitrariness.

SOLUTION: The manufacture method of the optical fiber Fabry-Perot sensor comprises a process of fixing optical fibers on a substrate and a process of forming at least one gap in the optical fibers after fixing...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such a problem that fixing pivot mechanism of a carriage is hard from the point of view of mounting space in a magnetic disk device, further, when a case is made of resin, fixing by a conventional screw tightening system is hard from the point of view of stiffness and strength.

SOLUTION: A pivot pine 108 being able to deform plastically of a pivot mechanism 10...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a regenerative controller for a vehicle which can enhance the detectability of occurrence of parking brake operation failure for a driver while regenerating energy effectively if it runs with braking operation on.

SOLUTION: A regenerative controller for a vehicle has a motor generator 2 for a driving source, and performs energy regeneration according to the ...

Disclosed herein are multicomponent fibers wherein at least one component will permit bonding of the fibers to themselves and other types of fibers and wherein the same first component is also degradable in an aqueous medium. Such fibers can be used to form fibrous nonwoven webs which can be used as components in such end-use products as medical and health care related items, wipes and personal ca...

A method and device for use with helical scan data recording by implementing a Reed-Solomon product code, a unitary medium comprising such data, and a cassette comprising such medium. Error protective data encoding for use with rotary head helical scan tape-recording is done by providing a first word-wise Reed-Solomon code along each recording track defined in first code words, and a second Reed-S...