PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent speed change shock and lowering of durability of a clutch by detecting the cooling water temperature of an internal combustion engine, computing the heating value of a fluid coupling and a friction connecting element, and estimating the temperature of the friction connecting element from the result. SOLUTION: Parameters of rotating speed of an engine E, cooling wat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To speedily perform a shift operation in an automatic transmission having a bypass clutch. SOLUTION: This power transmitting device for a vehicle has an input shaft 3 and an output shaft 4, the output shaft 4 has driven gears 21 to 25 engaged with a plurality of driving gears 11 to 15 disposed in the input shaft 3, and the gears form a shift gear row. The input shaft 3 has th...

PURPOSE: To prevent the occurrence of dew condensation in a case and also rust from gathering in equipment, in this motor-operated valve actuator unit. CONSTITUTION: This motor-operated valve actuator unit is provided with a valve opening indicator 3 equipped with a scale plate 7 and an indicating pointer 8 attached to a shaft 6 rotating in response to the axial travel of a spindle supported with ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a retarder control apparatus by which a driver is not perplexed with a speed change shock when the driver manually select a deceleration so as to start a shifted-down speed change suddenly after a short time after a changeover. SOLUTION: A driver operates a selection lever 19 at a vehicle speed which is higher than a two-speed prevention line so as to manually reduc...

PURPOSE:To properly carry out torque distribution control by preventing interference of the torque distribution control to left and right wheels with speed change control of an automatic transmission. CONSTITUTION:A torque distribution ratio between left and right rear wheels 1RL and 1RR is changed by adjusting engaging force of left and right clutches 14L, 14R. Torque distribution control is, for...

PURPOSE:To prevent the generation of a shock during engagement of the clutch of a hydraulic automatic transmission during the starting of an automatic stop starting type engine. CONSTITUTION:Even when an engine is stopped through automatic stop processing at a cross and the feed of an oil pressure by an oil pump 51 is brought into a stop, the oil pressure of an AT hydraulic unit 53 is maintained b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a desirable feeling of acceleration, irrespective of variation in gradient of a road surface in a transient zone between a flat surface road and a slope. SOLUTION: A computing means 3 computes a target drive force of a vehicle on a flat surface road, as a normal target drive force, from an accelerator manipulating degree and a vehicle speed which are detected, and a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable small power driving at the time of fastening, and miniaturization of size while ensuring holding power, in fastening equipment and a clutch which are used in a hybrid vehicle. SOLUTION: This hybrid vehicle is equipped with an engine 1 driven by combustion of fuel, a generator 5 driven by electric energy, a differential mechanism 4 which changes the rotating speed of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cylinder-making device which can feed an article to be packaged in a formed film while forming and moving the film in the lateral direction. SOLUTION: When a band-shaped film 20, being wound on a cylinder-making die 14 of which the cross section is an up-side down groove shape, being formed on a machine base by a member 16, is pulled in the direction shown by arr...

PURPOSE:To improve the cooling efficiency of intake air by a method wherein a suction cooling feed air flow passage for combustion air for a gas turbine is branched into two passages, a heat transfer pipe is installed in one division flow passage, low pressure refrigerant steam is vaporized in the heat transfer pipe, and ice is adhered and grows on the outer surface of a heat transfer pipe. CONSTI...

A control apparatus for an electric vehicle, particularly a forklift truck, whereby the regenerative braking operation of the motor is controlled according to the speed of the vehicle. Above a predetermined threshold speed, Vt, the regenerative braking force is constant, whereas below the threshold speed the braking force applied is proportional to the speed of the vehicle. The regenerati...

A device (40) is provided for directing an advancing web (16), such as a paper tail (18), into a nip region (28) formed between converging moving feed ropes (20, 22) of a paper manufacturing machine (2). The device comprises an elongate bar (42) having first (46) and second opposite ends and a surface (44) for contacting a major face of the advancing web. The elongate bar is pivotably supported at...

Methods of treating a BRCA associated disorder, particularly a BRCA1 associated cancer. The invention also provides a method of diagnosis or prognosis of the disorder, preferably a BRCA-1 associated cancer and methods of determining suitable treatment regimes for the disorder or cancer. The invention also provides a transgenic animal useful as a model for testing potential therapeutics for the dis...

A seating unit (110) comprises a support member (118); a seat member (112) pivotally mounted on the support member (118); an arm rest member (120) having an actuating button (230,334) positioned in the arm rest member (120), the button (230,334) being movable between a first position and a second position; a fluid pressure cylinder (172,282) having actuating means (200,310) and operatively connect...

The present invention relates to a method for writing an optical structure within a workpiece of a dielectric material using FLDM. In a first embodiment system parameters for the FLDM are determined in dependence upon the dielectric material, a predetermined volume element and a predetermined change of the refractive index of the dielectric material within the predetermined volume element. The sys...

In a cross-wound bobbin ( 1 ), the helical lines along which the yarn ( 4 ) is wound have a different inclination in adjacent layers. The winding ratios are selected such that the quantity drawn off is greater if the unwinding point is moving from the unwinding end to the bottom end, compared to the quantity drawn off if the unwinding point is moving from the bottom end to the unwinding end.

An accumulator including a housing with a gas chamber and a liquid chamber therein. A primary piston is moveable in the housing and connected to the housing by a primary bellows sealing the gas chamber with respect to the liquid chamber. A secondary piston is moveable with respect to the primary piston and connected to the primary piston by a secondary bellows sealing the secondary piston with res...

A device for measuring electrophysiological properties of a cell membrane of an individual cell comprises a plate provided with at least one opening. The opening is bounded by a surface and the surface is modified, such as via heat treatment, to facilitate formation of a gigaseal. A chamber is adjacent to the plate. The chamber is in fluid communication with at least one opening and is adapted to ...

The documents (16) are fed into the nip between first and second cutting rollers (12b,13b). The cutting knives on the two rollers overlap, and the second roller is of greater diameter than the first roller. The rollers rotate at different speeds in opposite directions (n1b,n2b). Coarsely chopped pieces of paper (19) emerge from the first pair of rollers and are drawn into the nip of the third rol...

A drive system for an automotive vehicle of the front-and-rear wheel drive type, comprising a primary drive mechanism (10a) for drive of a set of front road wheels (13e) and an ancillary drive mechanism (10b) for drive of a set of rear road wheels (19d), wherein the front road wheels are driven by operation of the primary drive mechanism at a two-wheel drive mode and wherein the front and rear roa...