PURPOSE:To provide a wheel drive device which can reduce steering resistance even if a space between wheels becomes small, and thereby downsize a vehicle. CONSTITUTION:A drive motor 14 is provided at one side of an axle case 11 rotatably supporting two wheels 12 and 12, a sun gear 16 is fixedly provided at the center section of the axle case 11 for an output shaft 15a extended within the axle case...

PURPOSE:To enhance running performance at the time of cornering by preventing abrupt change in steering characteristics and the useless behavior of a car body caused by the abrupt change of engine load when a vehicle is cornering sharply in a state that the differential limiting device is limiting the differential operations of right and left driving wheels in the vehicle equipped with a different...

PURPOSE:To let acceleration responsiveness when a vehicle is turning at high speedy be compatible with smooth turning performance at low speed in a vehicle equipped with a differential gear including a differential limiting device. CONSTITUTION:In a constitution where a clutch producing differential limiting force is provided for a differential gear which divides input torque from a power unit 3 i...

PURPOSE:To control differential limiting force so as to prevent the occurrence of a braking phenomenon at the time of cornering, and concurrently let differential limiting force be momentarily produced when any driving wheel slips, and thereby secure running performance as specified. CONSTITUTION:When signals from the wheel speed sensors 11 and 12 of right and left driving wheels 8 and 9, and sign...

PURPOSE:To provide a device which can smoothen rotational unevenness, and can make an internal combustion engine light in weight only with solftwear added by controlling a directly connected squirrel cage induction machine to be a generator when the revolution speed of the internal. combustion engine is in excess of an average revolution speed, and also to be a motor when the aforesaid revolution ...

PURPOSE:To provide a vehicle control device which can sufficiently reduce shifting shock when speed change positions are shifted to a D range from a N range, and concurrently can reduce a burden to an automatic transmission. CONSTITUTION:A control means 107 detects the stroke of an accelerator 105 footing by an APS 106, makes an actuator 103 operate while the opening of a throttle is being monitor...

PURPOSE:To provide a vehicle running control device which prevents a vehicle from abnormally running with a brake pedal depressed even if the control system of a throttle valve fails in order to change the controlled variable of the throttle valve with the brake operated by a drive, and thereby can assure the safety of the vehicle. CONSTITUTION:The device is equipped with an accelerator opening se...

PURPOSE:To provide a slip prevention device for a vehicle, which avoids useless speed change during slip control, prevents slip control performance from being degraded, and concurrently prevents operating stability from being degraded. CONSTITUTION:The device is equipped with opening sensor means 8 and 11 detecting at least either one of an accelerator 10 opening and a throttle 13 opening as openi...

PURPOSE:To effectively increase generated electric power of a whole power plant, and reduce the minimum continuous operating load of the exhaust gas afterburning composite power plant to the most possible extend while the remodelled range of an existing steam power plant is kept as small as possible in remodelling the existing steam power plant into the exhaust gas afterburning power plant. CONSTI...

PURPOSE:To simply fit a belt-like spring to a retainer naturally without generating deformation, in a two-way differential clutch in which sprags are inclined by means of a fixed retainer and a rotatable retainer between an inner member and an outer member and the sprags are held in the standing condition by energization of a belt-like spring wound around the retainers. CONSTITUTION:A retainer 8 i...

PURPOSE:To provide a two-way differential clutch in which a sprag can be fitted in a decided direction so as to prevent erroneous assembly. CONSTITUTION:The width measure (t1) of the inside end part of a sprag 7 is formed to be larger than the width measure (t2) of the outside end part (t1>t2), and to be larger than the width measure (t4) of a pocket 9 of an outside retainer 6 (t1>t4). When the in...

PURPOSE:To prevent a crack on a gear and to enhance the durability of the gear by forming a tooth contact part at the inner side (in the direction of the face width) from the end-surface of both a helical side gear and a helical pinion gear. CONSTITUTION:Chamfers 59, 61, 63 are applied to an end part of a tooth 57 of a left side gear. The chamfers 59, 61 are applied onto the tooth contact side at ...

PURPOSE:To prevent malfunctioning because of hunting of a float and a solid of a heat medium by providing an expansion tank in the course of an outgoing pipe to a heat exchanger to store the heat medium and the float and a replenishing port of the heat medium on a second expansion tank which is connected to a first expansion tank through a small pipe. CONSTITUTION:A heat exchanger 22 and a solar h...

PURPOSE:To stably maintain the idle revolution speed by correction-controlling the output control factors for an engine, when the variation quantity DELTAQ/N of the inhaled air quantity for the engine revolution speed exceeds a prescribed value after a shift lever is shifted to a driving range. CONSTITUTION:In an electronic control circuit 44, when an engine 20 is in operation, it is judged from t...

PURPOSE:To minimize the variation in the life of a cathode plate for a lead storage battery by immersing a plate packed with an active material in a diluted sulfuric acid solution containing a tin salt or a tin compound. CONSTITUTION:After a substrate for a cathode electrode is made from a tin-free lead-calcium alloy, an active material such as lead powder is packed into the substrate and then the...

A belt-drive infinitely variable transmission is connected to a crankshaft of an engine through an electromagnetic powder clutch (1). The current to the clutch coil (8) is controlled by a control system (41) having an engine speed signal producing circuit (48, 49), a vehicle speed signal producing circuit (52, 53) and an arithmetic circuit (50) which controls the clutch current flowing through the...

PURPOSE:To prevent the generation of engine stall by controlling an actuator so that a clutch is provided with slip in accordance with the reduction of the number of revolution, when brake is not applied. CONSTITUTION:When the number of engine revolution reduces to the first standard value in the state where brake is not applied, the hydraulic pressure of an actuator for connecting and disconnecti...

PURPOSE:To conduct an exact transmission control by calculating a driving force at the time of throttle full-opening after a speed change, determining its ratio to the running resistance at the time of non-braking, foreseeing the adaption to the speed change intention of a driver to conduct a fuzzy reasoning followed by evaluation. CONSTITUTION:From the driving state of a vehicle detected by a det...

An apparatus for holding eyeglasses, with one or more temples, including a substantially planar member with means for removable attachment to a protruding clothing portion and means for removable reception of a temple to secure the eyeglasses when not in use. Preferred embodiments of the apparatus include a slit-like aperture for clothing attachment and a dimensionally self-adjusting member for gr...