PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a road surface state determination device and a method and a road surface state determination program capable of determining the road surface state without using a vehicle absolute speed and applicable for a four-wheel drive vehicle. Ž

SOLUTION: The road surface state determination device comprises (a) a wheel rotation speed detection means for determining a w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To certainly position a gear case 8, a roller bearing 5, and a rotation shaft 4 at a motor output side by simple positioning work. Ž

SOLUTION: The rotation shaft 4 at the motor output side and a rotation axis at a reduction side are rotatably supported via the roller bearing 5 for the gear case 8, while an axis 4a of the rotation shaft 4 at the motor output side are misf...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress, without increasing the electric resistance and cost-up of a material, a dendrite short-circuiting prone to be generated in a separator in electrolytic solution injection and over-discharging because the space between electrode plates accompanied by a down-sizing of a battery is narrowed in a valve-control led lead battery. Ž

SOLUTION: This is the valve-contr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an estimating device for the degree of tire grip capable of enhancing the presumptive accuracy of the degree of tire grip when a load shift occurs to a vehicle wheel. Ž

SOLUTION: The presuming device for the degree of tire grip is equipped with a SAT estimator 16 to estimate the SAT of each front wheel, a slip angle computer 18 to presume the front wheel slip ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular control device improving drivability by making a driving force change smooth to acceleration operation, and obtaining a driving force in accordance with a will of a driver when the driving force needs to be increased. Ž

SOLUTION: A target driving force setting means 106 sets a target driving force F* for making the change of a driving force F in re...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle control device suitable for controlling, for example, an automatic cruise, by performing proper control taking into consideration a vehicle state such as a change in vehicle weight and a secular change in an engine. Ž

SOLUTION: This vehicle control device has a neural network for determining a vehicle model by learning a motional characteristic of a ...

A roll-over suppressing control apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed which can carry out roll-over suppressing control appropriately in response to the type of turning. Upon turning of the vehicle, if a parameter corresponding to the rolling behavior of the vehicle becomes higher than a control start criterion value set in advance, then roll-over suppressing control of suppressing rolling of the v...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for suppressing the shifting shock of a vehicular drive mechanism which consists of an automatic transmission for clutch-to-clutch shifting operation and an input clutch for mechanically connecting an engine to the automatic transmission. Ž

SOLUTION: In a shifting transient process for the automatic transmission 10, a shifting transient contro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform highly accurate vehicle control considering tire characteristic or vehicle speed. Ž

SOLUTION: The vehicle control system (electronic control device 40) comprises a roll inertia moment computing means computing a roll inertia moment I generated in a vehicle AM based on the roll arm length H, mass M, lateral acceleration Gy, roll rate ψd, roll angular accelerati...

An ECT_ECU performs a program including: a step of determining whether the gears are being changed or the gears are not being changed; a step of setting the virtual gear to the current gear, if the gears are not being changed; a step of setting the virtual gear to the gear before the gears are changed, if the gears are being changed but the inertia phase has not been started; a step of setting the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toroidal type continuously variable transmission capable of preventing a needle bearing for an output side disc from falling without causing lowering of proof stress of an output side disc, etc., and cost reduction by easily forming an oil path for supplying lubricating oil to a ball spline part for an input side disc. SOLUTION: A locking recessed groove 1b is fo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a control valve from malfunctioning due to chips entering an oil passage when serration is press fitted in a rotator support structure constructed as a support of a rotator by press fitting a sleeve member 60 on a shaft-like part 51. Ž

SOLUTION: The structure forms a through hole 67 in a position opposed to an opening of an axial oil passage 52 of the shaft-li...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily determine a road surface state without requiringa high cost on road side facilities. Ž

SOLUTION: A reference value circuit 86 matches the road surface states from a vehicle state detecting circuit 81 with estimated values from a road surface state estimating circuit 85. For example, a measured road surface μ is matched with a μ gradient as an estimated value to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transmission controller of a hybrid vehicle capable of increasing the fuel economy by suppressing unnecessary increase of engine speed. Ž

SOLUTION: The hybrid vehicle has an engine E capable of cutting-off some of the cylinders and a motor M capable of supplying and receiving electric power from a battery 3 as a driving source, and transmits at least one of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To temporarily switch a preceding car by a simple operation while an ACC system is operated. SOLUTION: A vehicle comprises a car interval control means M6 for performing a constant car interval running when a preceding car is present and a vehicle speed control means M7 for performing a constant car speed running when the preceding car is not present. The preceding car judged...

The invention can be used in the oil-producing industry for controlling a well flow rate. The inventive system comprises three coaxially mounted high-frequency resonators, each of which is provided with two mutually orthogonal inputs-outputs, short-circuited limiting and short-circuited limiting-dividing coils, a pressure gauge, a temperature sensor, a computing-control unit, a controllable high-f...

A method for determining a drilling event includes measuring a signal from a sensor over a time interval, and transforming the signal into a frequency domain, preferably by using a spectral analysis such as a Fast Fourier Transform. The method further includes determining if a mud pump is operating based on a power signal 300 at an operating frequency of the mud pump f0. In the case that it is det...

A self-cleaning system for use with a filter having a fluid inlet station, including (a) a manifold mountable at least for reciprocation along an axis with respect to said filter and comprising at least one suction opening adapted to be in proximity to said station and connectable to a suitable suction source for enabling foreign material to be removed from said filter when said system is installe...

A composition and method for use as a preventive therapy to mitigate the effects of environmental toxins, and particularly aflatoxins in a subject. The subject may be at risk for hepatocellular carcinoma and aflatoxicosis. The composition comprising: an effective amount of an isolated low sodium, calcium aluminosilicate clay in a powder form, wherein the isolated low sodium, calcium aluminosilicat...

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) compositions and EPA-rich polar lipids for prophylactic or therapeutic applications are described. Production from certain cultured micro-organisms (like Nitzschia laevis) promotes synthesis of EPA, including polar lipids including EPA. The EPA-rich polar lipids themselves may be used as polar compounds. EPA can be selectively hydrolysed from particular positions in iso...