PURPOSE:To improve easy drive property in auto cruise by providing on the speed change stage one stage upper than the present one a means for judging beforehand whether or not a drive force is sufficient in shift change. CONSTITUTION:CPU11 in a control section 10 of an electronic governor judges from the output of an auto cruise setter 20 whether or not it is in the auto cruise. If in the auto cru...

PURPOSE:To carry out securely gear parking operation and further prevent a vehicle from springing-out in the gear parking by supplying power source to an electronic control unit even after turning off the power source through a key switch. CONSTITUTION:A transistor 4 is provided in the electronic control circuit 2, and to the base of the transistor 4 are connected the ON contact of a key switch 5 ...

PURPOSE:To prevent a drive ring from abrupt change in drive force by providing a second change gear ratio controlling means for increasing the change gear ratio of a continuously variable transmission CVT by a predetermined amount to absorb engine torque in CVT even if it abruptly decreases. CONSTITUTION:CVT10 is provided with an input shaft 12 and an output shaft 14, the input shaft 12 being conn...

PURPOSE:To reduce substantially fuel cut shock and fuel return shock by providing a second means for increasing the change gear ratio of a continuously variable transmission by a predetermined amount for a predetermined time after fuel return. CONSTITUTION:An input side rotational angle sensor 42 and an output side rotational angle sensor 44 detect respectively the rotational speed Nin and Nout of...

PURPOSE:To prevent gears from noise, damage and breakage by providing a controller which can turn off a clutch when a power turning-on-and-off switch is turned off. CONSTITUTION:A power take-out pulley 24 is secured fixedly to a spline shaft 22 to take out power to the outside through a belt 23. And the output signals of an input shaft sensor 20 and a vehicle speed sensor 32 and the switch signals...

PURPOSE:To eliminate troubles accompanying differential lock and its release operation and realize smooth turning by enabling a differential lock mechanism to be automatically and reversibly changed over to a differential lock operational condition in linkage to change-over of a traveling speed change gear to a low speed stage. CONSTITUTION:Structure of a traveling driving system for a rice-planti...

This invention is based on the energy transformation princeples. To make use of the air resistance against forward running vehicle, a main passage and a side passage are designed to accumulate the resisting air and to direct it to a wind wheel for driving a dynamo which generates electricity. The electricity can be supplied to the starter, the motor, and the illuminators, while the surplus current...

A safety toe unit for a ski binding has two sole retaining jaws (11, 12) which can pivot laterally outwards in opposite directions. A respective projection (13, 14) of a pressure member (19) acts on each of the sole retaining jaws at the front between the pivot axes (15, 16) and shoe retaining rollers (17, 18). The pressure member (19) is arranged for displacement in the longitudinal direction of ...

A gas-sample collection device provides matrix isolation of individual gas bands from a gas chromatographic separation and for the spectroscopic analysis of the individual sample bands. The device includes a vacuum chamber containing a rotatably supported, specular carousel having at least one reflecting surface for holding a sample deposited thereon. A gas inlet is provided for depositing a mixtu...

Organic coatings adhere better to polyester film base if the film base is first subjected to electron-beam irradiation while passing through an inert atmosphere such as nitrogen.

A system for detecting and diagnosing noise caused by current switching in a computerized simulation model for analyzing composite logic circuits. The system includes a logic simulator for simulating logic experiments, a noise contributor information file generator for providing identification data corresponding to each current switching device that contributes noise and for performing post analys...

A high speed multiplier unit for multiplying both fixed point and floating point operands is disclosed and claimed. This multiplier unit is a system level functional unit which allows floating point and fixed point operations to be performed directly. In addition to multiplication, the multiplier unit performs exponent calculation, post-normalization, and error detection. The multiplier unit also ...

The invention provides apparatus and method to verify appropriate program execution. Hardware external to a processor includes a resettable timer and a shift register for storing and shifting a bit pattern. Internally of the processor a bit pattern is also manipulated by a routine which also outputs a clock signal. A selected bit from each of the patterns is compared on each clock signal. If the c...

A ski attachment device having a safty feature that allows disengagement of the boot from the ski in the case of lateral or front falls of the skier. The device comprises a rear unit adapted to be attached to the ski and including a spring for applying a longitudinal forward thrust to the rear of the boot. A front unit includes a plate having a "V" shaped seat to be engaged by a grooved rotatable ...

PURPOSE:To detect light absorption characteristics of a thin film by irradiating a thin film expanded on a liquid surface with exciting light and reflecting it totally, passing probe light nearby the irradiation point, and detecting the quantity of polarization. CONSTITUTION:The thin monolayer film 4 is expanded on the liquid surface 3 in a liquid tank 1. The exciting light 11 from an exciting lig...

PURPOSE:To detect light absorption characteristics of a thin film with high precision by making exciting light incident on the position where the thin film is expanded on a liquid surface and where the film is not expanded from a liquid side and reflecting it totally, passing probe light nearby those irradiated positions, and detecting the difference in the quantity of polarization. CONSTITUTION:T...

PURPOSE:To find light absorption characteristics of a thin film with high preci sion by providing the thin film expanded on a liquid surface and a mirror sur face below it, making exciting light incident on the thin film from the liquid side and reflecting its reflected light by the mirror surface, and passing probe light nearby the irradiated position and detecting the quantity of polarization. C...