PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten the axial dimension of a forward/reverse switching device incorporated in an automatic transmission, without deteriorating durability and functionality. SOLUTION: The base part of a pulley input shaft 33a extending from a primary pulley 33 of a continuously variable transmission 22 is supported through a pulley bearing 38. A planetary carrier 31e for supporting a p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve turning operability. SOLUTION: A front wheel diff-lock device 15 is provided, capable of switching the state to the lock state where right and left driving traveling front wheels 5 are driven at constant speed by stopping the operation of a differential gear 14 interposed in a transmission system to right and left driving traveling front wheels 5 and the lock relea...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To support an axle by a ball bearing by making use of a conventional axle driving case. SOLUTION: In a structure for supporting left and right axles 19L (19R) on an axle case part 7a through bearings, axles are supported by bearings by filling needle bearings in recessed parts 7d (7b) formed on the outer end surfaces of the axle case part 7a, a bearing holder 38 is attached t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To estimate turbine torque at high precision not only at a steady operating state of an engine but also at a transient state. SOLUTION: Whether the operating state of an engine 1 is the steady state or the transient state is judged on the basis of the time displacement of pressure of intake manifolds 5. When the operating state is steady, turbine torque is estimated on the ba...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent hunting of the gear ratio even if torque down in traction control is applied in torque clown of an engine. SOLUTION: Input torque Tin of a toroidal-type continuously variable transmission is estimated on the basis of engine output torque Te by an estimating means 75, the correction amount TS1 for setting the gear ratio to the downshift side in torque down is calcul...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve the decrease of load of an oil pump and the improvement of starting response by control of brake engaging pressure for hill hold, in engine starting control in car stopping of a hybrid vehicle. SOLUTION: A controller 5 for starting a hybrid vehicle provided with an engine 1, a motor 2 and a transmission 4 for power of them from the stopping state by engine starting...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent restart from being made impossible after a vehicle is stopped at the gear ratio on the high speed side as it is when wheel spin is generated. SOLUTION: The set gear ratio ip* for limiting the high speed side gear ratio is determined from a moment tspin in which wheel spin is detected after the starting operation. Accordingly, naturally, the gear ratio ip is increas...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain the change of vehicle behavior in the curve end as well as to decrease unconfortableness in shifting to normal gear shift after curve passing, in a vehicular driving force controller for automatically setting the gear ratio on the low side suitable for curve traveling in curve traveling. SOLUTION: A vehicular driving force controller is provided with a gear ratio ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve measurement accuracy and reliability by judging whether or not rear face clearances of a side gear at rotational angles of the side gear when a gear friction is a maximum value and a minimum value are within a predetermined standard. SOLUTION: Side gears 9A, 9B are rotated after a differential gear apparatus is installed, and a gear friction is measured to detect w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform injection of an electrolyte solution at one time and prevent the electrolyte solution from leaking outside a storage battery even if a surface of the solution rises due to gushing and so on by performing injection and current carrying during chemical formation using an electrolyte solution storage container whose connecting part with an opening part of an upper par...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the running stability of a hybrid electric vehicle by selecting an optimum one out of a plurality of running drive conditions, in accordance with the running condition of the car. SOLUTION: A motor generator 13 is linked to an engine 11 via the medium of a first clutch 12, and arranging a two-speed transmission 14 between the engine 11 and the motor generator 13 a ...

The combination of a master vehicle which may be an agricultural tractor, transport or self-propelled implement, and one or more satellite vehicles which also may be tractors, agricultural transports or self-propelled agricultural implements. The satellite vehicle is controlled by a control system from the master vehicle, such control being exercised radiographically or by cable via a tramline sys...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely detect abnormality in an abnormality monitoring circuit during the operation of an arithmetic processing unit (APU). SOLUTION: An electronic control device is provided with a CPU for inverting the level of an operation signal and outputting the level-inverted signal in each execution of a base routine (S230, S280) and an abnormality monitoring circuit for counting t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable sufficient protection against illegal operation by operating a closing member while conveying a data card through a pressing member between an inserting/extracting position corresponding to a conveyer roller and a reading/writing position. SOLUTION: A data card 6 is inserted into a data card housing device 1, pressing members 31 and 32 are turned by a motor 12 when ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To mechanically simulate a feeling for click by controlling a driving force control means so that a movable operation portion imparts a click against the moving operation when the movable operation portion is operated by manual to arrive at a portion within a given range. SOLUTION: The range of torque generation (torque drive range) and the direction of torque generation in t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily control copyright violation by comparing a synthetic image having the suspect of fraudulent alteration with a source image registered in a managing device, extracting a watermark image from that difference and discriminating a fraudulently altered image in the case of unmatching in comparison with a registered watermark image. SOLUTION: A watermark image extracting ...

PCT No. PCT/EP93/01700 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 23, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 23, 1995 PCT Filed Jul. 1, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/01157 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 20, 1994The invention relates to a double-barrelled tube with a respiratory (11) and an inhaling (12) passage for the mechanically controllable respiration of a patient in which the inhaling passage connected to a respiratory gas source is fitted at th...

The present invention is directed to a polyester film comprising at least at its surface portion oriented sulfonic acid groups and/or salts thereof with an orientation degree of 5 - 100, which has an excellent adhesiveness, especially excellent anti-alkaline adhesiveness. The present invention also make it possible to provide a polyester film having, in addition to the excellent adhesiveness, exce...

A process for the removal of dissolved metals and/or metalloids from an aqueous medium having a high content of salt wherein the aqueous medium in the presence of manganese (II) ions and an oxidation agent is passed through a particulate carrier material having a specified density, initial average grain size and flow rate, so as to fluidize carrier material particles in the aqueous medium, and whe...

A process for the removal of dissolved metals and/or metalloids from an aqueous medium having a high content of salt wherein the aqueous medium in the presence of manganese (II) ions and an oxidation agent is passed through a particulate carrier material having a specified density, initial average grain size and flow rate, so as to fluidize carrier material particles in the aqueous medium, and whe...