PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a matter that a self-scanning light emitting element array substrate requires further improvement incident to reduction in size and enhancement of resolution but reduction in size becomes difficult as the number of interconnect lines increases, and to solve a matter that significant manhours and facility cost are required in fabrication because of such a problem a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pneumatic tire which is prevented from a bear generating in the block edge portion at the time of vulcanizing the pneumatic tire, and to provide a manufacturing process of the pneumatic tire and a die for vulcanization molding of the pneumatic tire.

SOLUTION: The pneumatic tire, which has a plurality of wear indicators protruded to a predetermined height o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable travel control in consideration of a case where the other vehicle interrupts between one's own vehicle and a followed preceding vehicle.

SOLUTION: The travel controller detects appearance of a two-wheeled vehicle on the same lane as the own vehicle lane (step S2 and step S3), and, when the relative speed between the two-wheeled vehicle and the preceding vehic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a four-wheel drive vehicle, capable of preventing shock at the time of re-engagement of a four-wheel drive clutch after a shift change in a vehicle having a manual transmission.

SOLUTION: In this control device 38 for a four-wheel drive vehicle, either the front wheels 10 or the rear wheels 20 are driven by an engine 12, while the other ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently calculate only a collision time with an object with which its own vehicle is likely to collide.

SOLUTION: An image pickup means 2 picks up the peripheral image of a vehicle, and a moving amount calculating means 3 extracts vertical and horizontal edge images from the image picked up by the image pickup means 2, and calculates moving amounts of the vertic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for estimating yaw rate capable of easily and appropriately obtaining the yaw rate necessary and sufficient to perform, e.g., trajectory tracking control, without using an expensive yaw rate sensor.

SOLUTION: To calculate the yaw rate during the turning movement of a four-wheeled vehicle that has pairs of right and left front and rear wheels and tha...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an acceleration/deceleration controller for realizing the dynamic range of acceleration/deceleration which is necessary and sufficient by the limited stroke of one operation member, and for increasing the operability of the operation member.

SOLUTION: This acceleration/deceleration controller is provided with a means for detecting the operation amount of one...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving device for a vehicle capable of being miniaturized by arranging a differential motion limiting device between a first electric motor and a second electric motor.

SOLUTION: The driving device for the vehicle includes a first planetary gear device (differential device) 24 to distribute the output of an engine to the first motor M1 and a transmitting ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize a driving device of by using a separation wall to separate a case into a plurality of spaces as a member to pinch a friction plate by pressure and thereby shortening the axial dimension of the driving device.

SOLUTION: The driving device for a vehicle equipped with a first planetary gear device (differential device) 24 to distribute the output of an engi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the controller for a vehicle capable of scrupulously controlling the behavior of a vehicle corresponding to the detecting precision of traveling path information.

SOLUTION: This controller, which is provided with: a traveling path information detecting device for detecting the traveling path information of a vehicle by comparing the traveling trail of the ve...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid sudden change of a control/driving behavior of an automobile when leaving a control domain by releasing inter-vehicle distance control, while mitigating gradually deceleration corresponding to vehicle speed or corresponding to elapse of time, when releasing the inter-vehicle distance control because of exceeding the control domain.

SOLUTION: The inter-vehicle ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nucleic acid external preparation for skin comprising a nucleic acid oligonucleotide in relation to a pharmaceutical preparation comprising the nucleic acid.

SOLUTION: This nucleic acid external preparation for skin having high skin permeability is provided by formulating the nucleic acid which is a polymer into the preparation by using sodium alginate or ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve quality of gear change by eliminating interruption of drive force at a time of gear change without relying on assist by a motor generator.

SOLUTION: When a drive force transmission condition is changed from a condition where a first and a third clutches 64, 22 are engaged and a second and a fourth clutches 61, 23 are disengaged and drive force of an engine 1...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an accessory drive device reducing sliding loss even in a case that an accessory arranged on a shaft separately from an input shaft is driven by a rotary member via a transmission mechanism including a sprocket member.

SOLUTION: A ball bearing 184 which is a first bearing member is provided in an inner circumference side of the sprocket member 182. The sproc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a manufacturing cost by simplifying a structure by dispensing with an idler shaft.

SOLUTION: A forward/backward travel switching device 6 is mounted on a propeller shaft 5 of a traveling system, a main gear shifter 7 is mounted at a power transmission rear side of the forward/backward travel switching device 6, and the forward/backward travel switching device...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and method for directly measuring torque.

SOLUTION: The system includes a torque converter and a contact arm, and the center points of the torque converter, the contact arm and a measured device are positioned along the rotating shaft of the center point of the device. The cartridge door of a tape cartridge can be measured.

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive assist device making a driver know an indication change of a traffic signal in front of a driver's own vehicle without imparting discomfort to the driver.

SOLUTION: This drive assist device making the driver know the indication change of the traffic signal in front of the own vehicle has: a traffic signal indication detection means detecting indicati...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To disclose a new compression and decompression (defrosting) architecture for performing fast matching during compression by advantageously using a plurality of parallel content addressable memories of different sizes.

SOLUTION: This compression architecture is provided with two or three more content addressable memories 114, 116, 118 which have the different sizes eac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-output cylindrical sealed lead-acid battery composed by suppressing a short circuit.

SOLUTION: This cylindrical sealed lead-acid battery includes an electrode group formed by rolling a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate by interlaying a separator. In the battery, each current-collecting tab 2 is connected to a current-collecting t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead-acid battery having an excellent low-temperature high-rate discharge characteristic by preventing softening loss of a positive electrode active material to improve a characteristic of life performance.

SOLUTION: This lead-acid battery is provided with: a positive electrode plate comprising an expand lattice body formed of a rolled body of a Pb-Ca-Sn a...