PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric wheel drive device capable of preventing leakage of lubricant sealed in between an internal space of a friction roller type transmission as well as degradation of durability of the transmission due to wrong lubrication.

SOLUTION: This electric wheel drive device is provided with an electric motor 5 and the friction roller type transmission 6 asse...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a travel controller for a vehicle that comprises a one-pedal drive system whose operability is greatly improved.

SOLUTION: The travel controller for the vehicle which is mounted to the vehicle and controls the acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle according to the manipulated variable of one operation pedal has a deceleration region, a stationary/fine...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle behavior controller capable of performing adequate vehicle behavior control by accurately calculating a yaw moment operating on a vehicle.

SOLUTION: In a turning travel, a lateral movement quantity of the center of gravity due to a roll of the vehicle is calculated (S12), a lateral movement quantity of the center of gravity due to deformation of ti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle steering control device capable of performing the steering control in automatic running and the steering control in order to stabilize the vehicle in a high degree of coordination.

SOLUTION: The vehicle steering control device is equipped with target running line setting means 1 and 2 to set the target running line, steering controlling means 2 and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid vehicle embodied on the trans-axle system equipped with a small-sized mechanism for distributing the driving force of an engine to the front wheels, capable of establishing a four-wheel driving even in operation other than starting and acceleration.

SOLUTION: An epicyclic gearing 20 as a differential mechanism having at least a first to a third shaf...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a traveling control device for a vehicle for reducing driving load of a driver.

SOLUTION: This control device controls the magnitude of operation reaction of an operation pedal (an accelerator pedal, for instance) in the vehicle. The control device is provided with an external force estimation/detection means for estimating or detecting external force acting...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a turning behavior controller for a vehicle that improves steering stability of the vehicle.

SOLUTION: The turning behavior controller has a right/left-wheel driving force adjusting mechanism 6 which gives a difference between driving forces of rear wheels 2c and 2d, a braking force adjusting mechanism 9 which gives braking force differences among respective...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a turning behavior controller for a vehicle that improves steering stability of the vehicle.

SOLUTION: The turning behavior controller has a right/left-wheel driving force adjusting mechanism 4 which gives a difference between driving forces of rear wheels 2c and 2d, a braking force adjusting mechanism 7 which gives braking force differences among respective...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for a vehicle capable of protecting controllers by suppressing an abrupt change of a motor operation state occurring owing to the coincidence of the connection or disconnection timing of a clutch or the switching timing of a transmission ratio with the switching timing of a control mode of a motor.

SOLUTION: The controller for the vehicle compri...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the following problems: because it is difficult to accurately direct an inter-vehicle distance measurement means 24 ahead of a road whose curve radius always varies, there are cases where measurement of an inter-vehicle distance becomes difficult, so that an alarm from an alarm generation means 28 is delayed, or there is risk of excessively approaching a front veh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical glass having a low glass transition temperature (Tg), a high refractive index and low dispersibility, excellent chemical durability, particularly detergent resistance and suitable for precision mold press forming.

SOLUTION: The optical glass has optical constants of a refractive index (nd) within a range from 1.74 to 1.80 and an Abbe numb...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid silica polymer capable of being suitably applied to an electrochemical element, having good heat stability, mechnical stability, and solvent resistance, excellent in proton conductivity even in low humidity, and capable of being obtained at an economically low cost, and to provide a method for producing the same.

SOLUTION: The mesoporous silica poly...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a grinding stone that can reduce a truing frequency by giving its abrasive grain having a very high hardness a function of self-generating a sharp-edge.

SOLUTION: The grinding stone 2 is formed by strong adhesion of a mixture, that is composed of a laser-irradiated abrasive grain 1 and a binder 4 comprised of a vitrified bond, to the grinding stone-forming s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sheet-like adherend suitable for sealing a semiconductor device having a plurality of consolidated semiconductor members.

SOLUTION: This sheet-like adherend has a three-dimensional structure in which a plurality of kinds of epoxy resin compositions having different quality characteristics are arranged parallel or/and laminated on a film. The epoxy resin co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress a sense of incongruity to occupants by abrupt change of acceleration.

SOLUTION: An ECT_ECU performs a program having a step determining a drive mode (S100), a step for discriminating whether an engine is in an idle state or not (S102), a step for detecting the gear stage of an automatic transmission (S104) in an idle state (YES in S102), a step for detectin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To determine the cause of combustion variation in an internal combustion engine recirculating reformed gas obtained by reforming the mixture of exhaust gas and fuel.

SOLUTION: This internal combustion engine 1 comprises a reformer 20 generating the reformed gas including hydrogen by reforming the mixture of the exhaust gas and the fuel with a reforming catalyst and ref...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a non-slip differential for eliminating the waste of driving force, improving controllability, fuel consumption, travelling stability and road ability and suppressing the wear of a tire by improving a current non-slip differential which cannot determine slip during turn or during straight run when there is a travel distance difference between right and left driv...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid vehicle with a motor generator having a reduced size and weight.

SOLUTION: The hybrid vehicle comprises an engine 1, a vehicle driving shaft 11 connected to driving wheels 13, a first transmission 71 and a second transmission 72, a first clutch 18b and a second clutch 19, and the motor generator 3 connected to an input shaft 14 of the first transmis...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate adjustment of a gear device and to reduce backlash.

SOLUTION: In the case of a conical gear device 100 with a parallel shaft type, a conical gear 7a is fixed on a first rotating shaft 3 and a second rotating shaft 10 is provided in parallel with the first rotating shaft. A conical large gear 7b to mesh with a conical small gear is fixed on the second rota...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular drive mechanism capable of miniaturizing a drive mechanism or improving fuel consumption, and to provide a controller capable of improving fuel consumption during vehicle deceleration.

SOLUTION: By providing a change-over clutch CO or a change-over brake BO, a transmission mechanism can be changed between a variable speed state and a stepped spee...