PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a following driving device and a control method therefor, capable of following deceleration of a leading car with high responsibility and accuracy, and keeping a prescribed distance between cars. Ž

SOLUTION: An ECU estimates acceleration/deceleration speed of the leading car using a Kalman filter, obtains an estimated acceleration/deceleration speed a (S1), an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To definitely sense the position of an interior fitting which is of a simple and cheap construction and is housed in a wrapper. Ž

SOLUTION: The sensing device 10 is inserted into a pillow material 16 and is provided with a sensing mechanism 50 which directly senses whether or not there is a cartridge F in the upstream of a welding / cutting section 28 and a controller 52...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten time to create a control map for computation of a control command value, in engine torque control in an inertia phase. Ž

SOLUTION: An inertia phase time command setting block 122 sets an inertia phase time target value tir, and an input shaft rotating speed target value computing block 102 computes an input shaft rotating speed target value Nr according to the...

A paper feed cassette incorporates a storage portion for standard-sized paper and a storage portion for small-sized paper that has an area smaller than the standard-sized paper, further includes paper conveyance paths for guiding the standard-sized paper and small-sized paper from the respective storage portions to an image forming portion, and these paper conveyance paths share a common vertical ...

The sheet-stacking apparatus stacks sheets arriving in a stream of successive sheets. A stop face configuration is pivotable, about a geometric pivot axis located at a predetermined level and oriented crosswise to the stream, between a working position wherein it stops the sheets and a position that is pivoted away from it. The system enables accurate, straight-edged stacks, both in the successive...

An anchoring element with a screw (12) comprising a threaded section (13) and a head (15) designed as a spherical segment-shaped section, and with a receiving portion (1) for connecting the screw (12) to a rod (19), is provided. The receiving portion (1) comprises a first end (2) and a second end (3) opposite the latter and a longitudinal axis (4) passing through the two ends (2, 3). The receiving...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable non-skilled workers to stick an adhesive tape easily, quickly and accurately to the surfaces of the vertical window frames of door panels different in width along the longitudinal direction. SOLUTION: A device includes an upper unit having an upper locked portion 25 adapted to be detachably locked to a preset position on a work 13 and a leader mounting portion 27 to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To constitute a travel speed release device to be compact by providing swing links on respective arms of brake pedals, pivotally connecting the other ends of the links with a rod, and connecting the rod to a lock release arm. SOLUTION: In the link mechanism of this travel speed release device, on the lower parts of the base cylinders of both brake pedals, arms 47L, 47R of dif...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a snap ring fitting structure of an automatic transmission that reduces the entire length of the automatic transmission and prevents deterioration of durability by motion of a support member. SOLUTION: The automatic transmission has a snap ring fitting support groove for engaging and locking a plate of a second multi plate brake B4 to a spline between a support mem...

Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling navigation guidance in a vehicle. The method includes: a) determining a re-route instruction based on a non-executed guidance instruction; b) presenting the re-route instruction; c) determining a non-execution of a re-route instruction; d) repeating steps a) through c) for a pre-determined number of re-route attempts; e) prompting for cancellation...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reliably attach an accessory to a proper position inside a package by supplying the accessory of an object to be packaged onto a packaging film while it is overlaid on the object. SOLUTION: An object 7 to be packaged and an accessory 17 are mounted manually for example on a flat portion 33a of a packaging film 33 which is formed like a gutter by a former 34 and guided to t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent failure from causing wrong behavior control, by performing vehicle behavior control with a position control means, based on an estimating value of turning state amount estimated by an estimating means until the failure judgment of the turning state amount detecting means by a failure judging means. SOLUTION: Until failure judgment of all sensors by a failure judgin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a hybrid vehicle capable of effectively reducing the influence of output degradation of an electric motor in the hybrid vehicle provided with a heat engine and the electric motor as drive sources. SOLUTION: A hybrid vehicle is provided with an engine 10 for generating power by fuel combustion, as a drive source for generating power transmitted ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent fuel consumption rate from becoming poor with time, using a control device for a power train having an engine 1 and a transmission 2. Ž

SOLUTION: The fuel consumption of the engine 1 is detected and the efficiency characteristic (fuel consumption map) of the engine 1 is changed based on the fuel consumption detected. The speed map of the transmission 2 is set ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a variable speed control device suitably controlling a transmission so that a driver can obtain a satisfactory feeling when releasing downshift control in the variable speed control device provided with means to control the downshift of the transmission when an exhaust brake device is operated. Ž

SOLUTION: This device is provided with an exhaust brake device s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To output motive power derived from an internal combustion engine to a drive shaft with high efficiency. Ž

SOLUTION: While an output shaft of an engine 22 is coupled with a carrier 34 of a power input/output mechanism 30, a rotating shaft of a motor MG1 is coupled with a sun gear 31. While an rotating shaft of a motor MG2 is coupled with a ring gear 32, the rotating shaf...

An improved web-fed or reel-fed printing press S' comprises printing means 3 having a printing motor, cutting means 7 having a cutting means motor. Means for controlling the printing means motor and the cutting means motor may be provided, comprising software and/or firmware and/or electronic circuitry, but does not include hardware common to the motors, such as a common shaft drive. The apparatus...

Composite constructions comprise a plurality of granules that are arranged together in a randomly-oriented manner. The granules each comprise an ordered arrangement of a first material phase and a second material phase, wherein the first and second material phases are each continuous, and each occupy different and distinct regions of the granule. At least a portion of the first and second material...

An acceleration detection device for detecting acceleration of a vehicle is provided with a calculation unit and a correcting unit. The calculation unit calculates an averaged acceleration sensor output value every time the vehicle travels a prescribed distance based on detected acceleration sensor output values. The correcting unit corrects a current acceleration sensor output value based on of t...