A continuously variable transmission means for vehicles which enables the engine speed under a high torque to be as small as possible, while ameliorating undesirable noise in a passenger compartment. The transmission means includes a device for detecting a noise and a comparator device for comparing the actual booming noise with a predetermined allowable noise level.

PURPOSE:To improve the cost of fuel and the durability by reducing the closing area of a throttle valve when the stepping amount of an accelerator is below a fixed area, keeping the throttle valve near full opening constantly when in the fixed area, and increasing the engine torque when above the fixed area. CONSTITUTION:A supercharger 6, a speed-change ratio adjusting device 18, a throttle actuat...

PURPOSE:To improve a rate of fuel consumption so sharply, by making a range of closing a throttle valve smaller when an accelerator pedalling extent is less than the setting value, while keeping the throttle valve constant at an approximation to the full open when it goes up beyond the setting value. CONSTITUTION:In this control device, a transmission ratio adjuster 18, a throttle actuator 36 and ...

PURPOSE:To make a sharp improvement in a rate of fuel consumption as well as to secure reliability on an engine, by keeping a throttle valve constant at an approximation to the full open when an accelerator pedalling extent is within the specified range, while increasing the engine torque when it goes up beyond the specified range. CONSTITUTION:In this control device, a supercharger 6, a transmiss...

PURPOSE:To relieve the worsening of fuel consumption as well as to prevent the occurrence of knocking in an engine, by making a range of closing a throttle valve smaller when an accelerator pedalling extent is below the specified range and less than the setting value, while controlling a transmission gear ratio and the throttle valve in accordance with the said pedalling extent when it is less tha...

An automotive driving control system comprises a stepless transmission provided between the engine and the driving wheels, a transmission controller for controlling the transmission ratio of the stepless transmission, a throttle valve driver for driving the throttle valve of the engine, and a controller for controlling the transmission controller and the throttle valve driver. The controller contr...

PURPOSE:To perform plural kinds of control modes in accordance with conditions of both automatic transmission and engine by transmitting two kinds of signals from one of them, and by providing four kinds of control modes in accordance with the two kinds of signals on the other one of them, at least one of the control modes being divided into plural kinds of control modes in accordance with the con...

PURPOSE:To detect a lateral acceleration of a vehicle without using a G sensor, to detect a frictional coefficient of a road surface and to change the drive control characteristic of the vehicle by calculating the lateral acceleration in accordance with rotational speeds of inner and outer driven wheels, which are detected by wheel speed detecting means. CONSTITUTION:Rotational speeds of front whe...

PURPOSE:To prevent deterioration of acceleration after completion of speed change by forbidding torque-down control by a torque-down control means at the time of specified shiftup operation in which turbine rotational speed of a torque converter of vehicle speed is at a specified value or less. CONSTITUTION:An automatic transmission is provided with an oil pressure control circuit 60 for selective...

PURPOSE:To protect from a projectile, blast and/or iron pieces which pierce an armor plate by a method wherein a high-strength fabric, made by laminating several plies of fabrics woven by high-strength fibers such as carbon fibers and the like, is lined on the inner wall of the armor plate by rivets. CONSTITUTION:A high-strength fibrous net 2, made by laminating several plies of fabrics woven by h...

The present invention relates to improved hydrogel-forming polymer compositions which can be used as absorbents in absorbent structures and absorbent articles such as diapers, sanitary napkins and the like. Such hydrogel-forming polymer compositions are substantially water-insoluble, slightly cross-linked, partially neutralized polymers which are prepared from unsaturated polymerizable, acid group...

Disclosed herein is a heat-shrinkable composite laminate film comprising an intermediate layer of a copolymer of vinylidene chloride, an outer layer of a polyamide, another outer layer of an olefin resin and two adhesive layers disposed between the intermediate layer and each of the two outer layers, the adhesive layers being at least one resin selected from the group consisting of a modified copo...

1. A first sliding element (1), coated on one or more functional surfaces (4) with one or more ceramics material components, which is in frictional engagement with at least one further sliding element, characterised in that at least one of the sliding elements (1) has a ground and/or lapped support member (2) produced by shaping and sintering ceramics materials, which has at least on its functiona...

The present invention relates to a method of securing an elastic band (13) between two material layers (14) which consist at least partially of meltable material. According to the invention, the elastic band is provided with perforations in the form of holes and/or slots. The band is placed between the two material layers and the layers are bonded together through the perforations by melting or fu...

PURPOSE:To detect natural discharge and erroneous discharge in an early stage by providing a micro ammeter, connected to a suction electrode plate through a predetermined voltage source, for evaluating an ink discharging state by detecting value of a current at the time that ink drips collide against the attracting electrode plate. CONSTITUTION:When signals are applied by signal sources 16a, 16b,....

The invention relates to a process for the mutual adhesion of layers of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene at a temperature above the melting point of the polyethylene, each polyethylene layer having been obtained by clearing a layer of polyethylene gel of solvent. Possible application of the process according to the invention can be found, for instance, in the production of polyethylene pip...

PURPOSE:To prevent explosive combustion of non-burning fuel by open-operating a shutter valve inside a bypass passage for bypassing a catalyst converter when it is detected that an absorption amount of non-burning fuel on the catalyst converter is a prescribed value or more. CONSTITUTION:A detecting part 14a is formed on the wall part approximately in the center of a catalyst converter 4 in order ...

1. Plastic housing for receiving electrical, electronic, pneumatic or hydraulic components and subassemblies, with a pivotably articulated flap which is lockable in a position at least substantially flush with the outer face of the housing, characterized in that the flap can swing out by means of a spring (2) and is releasable for swinging out by means of a pushbutton (3), and in that the flap (1)...

PURPOSE:To lower the temp. of a hollow-fiber membrane, to reduce the roughening of the membrane surface and to obviate a decrease in an effect in peeling the fine particles captured by the membrane by lowering the temp. of water in a filtration tower prior to the scrubbing. CONSTITUTION:A hollow-fiber membrane module 1 obtained by bundling many hollow-fiber membranes 2 is suspended from a partitio...

A shaped sanitary napkin (210) has an absorbent core (212), and two flaps (224, 224') extending outwardly from the absorbent means. Each flap is associated with the absorbent means along a nonlinear line of juncture and each has at least two axes of flexibility (234, 256). In use, the absorbent means is secured in the crotch of a panty and the flaps are secured about the elastic edges of the panty...