A gear shift control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle can achieve enhancement of the transmission efficiency and enhancement of the fuel cost without damaging the drivability to the utmost. The gear shift control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes an engine, a transmission for changing the speed of rotation of the engine, and a motor for assisting the driving force of the engine. The assist tor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an outside view recognition device for a vehicle for quickly and accurately recognizing and discriminating whether the other vehicle becomes an obstacle to an own vehicle or not and establishing proper braking operation. SOLUTION: A degree of obstacle recognition as a rate at which an object (an obstacle candidate) such as the other vehicle detected as an obstacle ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the feeling of a physical disorder given to a driver when a desired inter-vehicle distance set value is changed from a small value to a large value when making an inter-vehicle distance accord with the desired inter-vehicle distance in controlling the vehicle of the driver to follow a preceding vehicle. Ž

SOLUTION: A desired car speed V* is calculated by an ...

A sealing apparatus applied to a vertical type flexible package forming, filling and closing machine includes a heater block (66) arranged near a filling tube (2) and having a heating ridge (112), and a web guide (118) attached to the outer surface of the filling tube (2) and having a pair of guide rails (126), and the heating ridge (112) cooperates with the pair of guide rails (126) to hold the j...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the load at a parking gear operation from applying to a welding part of a connecting member connecting a ring gear and an output gear in an automatic transmission for a vehicle equipped with the ring gear, the output gear and the parking gear of a planetary gear mechanism performing gear shift operation. Ž

SOLUTION: Driving force from an engine is shifted to a...

A centrifuge has a drive unit 5, on which sits a rotor unit 4 and a lid 2, a rotary shaft 9 extends from the drive unit 5, though the centre of the rotor unit 4, and through the centre of the lid 2. The shaft 9 also extends though an engaging means 7 with which engages the shaft 9 and causes the lid 2 and rotor 4 to be sealed together. The shaft 9 is demountable from the drive unit 5, so that the ...

The sensor plug 400, for positioning in a perforation extending into a wall 404 of a wellbore, comprises a plug sleeve 410 disposable in a perforation extending through the wellbore wall and a pin 412 which is positionable in the plug sleeve and adapted to expand the plug sleeve as the pin is advanced so that the plug sleeve seals the perforation, with the plug also comprising a sensor 422 for mea...

A method of evaluating a fluid from a subterranean formation drawn into a downhole tool positioned in a wellbore penetrating the subterranean formation is provided. The method involves drawing fluid from a formation into an evaluation flowline, drawing fluid from a formation into a cleanup flowline, measuring a property of the fluid in the evaluation flowline and detecting stabilization of the pro...

A separation apparatus and method are employed using a spearation channel (210) for rotation abut an axis. Such channel includes radially spaced apart inner (206) and outer (208) side wall portions and an end wall portion (224). An inlet (226) conveys fluid into the channel. A barrier (232) is located in the channel intermediate of the inner and outer side wall portions. A first flow path communic...

A composite fabric is provided that contains staple fibers hydraulically entangled with a nonwoven web formed from continuous filaments. A portion of the staple fibers is entangled with the web, while another portion protrudes through the web. The resulting surface topography has one surface with a preponderance of the smooth, staple fibers, and another surface with a preponderance of the continuo...

A cholesteric liquid crystal driving device according to the present invention includes a first driving circuit for displaying one part of the image data to be displayed by a cholesteric liquid crystal on a first scanning line by driving the cholesteric liquid crystal on the first scanning line in accordance with first and second cycles; and a second driving circuit for displaying the other part o...

A device for displaying information, comprising at least one display stand ( 10 ) and a transfer unit ( 17 ) wirelessly connected to associated display stands. The display stand supports a plurality of displays ( 11 ) positioned adjacent to one another, and comprises a control unit ( 16 ). The control unit ( 16 ) comprises communication means ( 34 ) for communication with the transfer unit, memory...

Unit (1) for treatment of organic waste having a waste sorting means comprising a sieve (21) movable between a first position, where it allows the passage of only a waste liquid fraction, and A second position, where it allows the passage also of a waste solid fraction. The sieve (21) is operatively connected by a rod (20) to a control valve (30), arranged downstream of a grinding chamber (10), in...

A microhole-formed stretched porous polytetrafluoroethylene material, in which a microhole having a hole diameter greater than an average pore diameter of a stretched porous polytetrafluoroethylene material is formed in the stretched porous polytetrafluoroethylene material by irradiation of a pulse laser beam having a pulse length of at most 10 picoseconds, and the microporous structure of the wal...

A main body (1) to be moved and operated along a workpiece (W) includes a joining roller (4) which elastically presses the supplied adhesive tape (T) against a tape joining face of the workpiece (W), guide members which determine the position of the main body and maintain the posture of the main body with respect to the workpiece (W) being engaged with the outer face of the workpiece at the opposi...

The invention relates to a pedal system (1), wherein for a pedal travel, a pedal reaction force, a driving force of a vehicle, and a braking force of a vehicle, different characteristics conformed to a stepping motion, a releasing motion, and a holding motion are determined on the basis of a pedal effort and predetermined characteristics of a pedal reaction force, and characteristics in a holding ...

A jig main body is engaged with and guided to an edge side of a workpiece to be moved along a longitudinal direction of the workpiece. Herein, a tape portion protruded from the workpiece is folded back while being pressed by a first pressing part provided to the jig main body prior to a top of the edge side. Then, the folded tape portion is pressed by a second pressing part provided to the jig mai...

A circumferential groove 36 is formed in an outer peripheral surface of a secondary shaft 23 at a position close to an end portion where the plunger 35 is disposed. A cotter 37 is fitted in this circumferential groove 36. The cotter 37 restricts the plunger 35 from moving toward the end portion side of the secondary shaft 23 by abutting against the plunger 35. An elevated portion 38 having a flat ...

Proposed method designed for data acquisition from burglar and fire alarm sensors, electricity, heat, and gas meters, and from fiscal memory of cash registers involves use of unique random or pseudo random plurality of differences in initial phases of closest harmonic pairs, mentioned plurality being chosen so as to minimize peak factor of total signal. In case of operation of fire alarm sensor it...

Systems and methods for providing an image on an organic product to provide a communication to the recipient or otherwise individualize the organic product. The image is photo-etched into a photosensitive material of a printing plane or cliché by the use of a film positive. Ink is applied to the cliché and a transfer medium is placed in contact with the cliché. The transfer medium lifts ink from t...