PURPOSE: To prevent the sticking of oils to a pulley and a V-belt and improve the durability of the V-belt by fitting a sponge body on a case body inner wall face at least at the positions between the drive pulley and a crank section in a belt chamber, and absorbing the excess oils with the sponge body. CONSTITUTION: A sponge 20 serving as a sponge body is stuck on a case body inner wall face 8a a...

PURPOSE: To sufficiently lubricate the slide sections of the tips of pinion gears and storage holes and prevent a burn, a gall, abrasion, and noises by forming oil grooves on the tips of the pinion gears, and forming chamfer sections feeding a lubricant to the oil grooves between the tips of the pinion gears and the side face sections of teeth. CONSTITUTION: The differential case 21 of a rear diff...

PURPOSE: To reduce the number of part items and reduce the cost by equalizing the outer diameters and inner diameters of washers arranged on the side faces of a pair of output side gears separately meshed with a pinion gear. CONSTITUTION: The differential case 21 of a rear differential 7 in the power system of a vehicle is rotatably arranged in a differential carrier, and it is rotatively driven b...

PURPOSE: To prevent the early abrasion and seizure of the slide surface of a thrust washer and attain a desired torque bias ratio by forming the whole thrust washer arranged between a housing and the end face of a gear into a ring shape, and forming oil holding grooves on at least one end face. CONSTITUTION: The metal plate material of a thrust washer arranged between the housing of a torque-sensi...

PURPOSE: To provide a very inexpensive geared actuator by preventing noises and vibrations with a simple structure without improving the motor structure. CONSTITUTION: This geared actuator is provided with a motor 2 mounted on a housing 1, an output section 6 provided on the motor 2 to transmit the power of the motor 2, and a butt section 11 provided on the housing 1 and kept in contact with the t...

PURPOSE: To attain a sufficient soundproof effect by easily covering the whole reduction gear without forming the reduction gear box of the reduction gear into a complex shape in response to component parts such as pipes arranged around the reduction gear. CONSTITUTION: A soundproof cover 2 is constituted of multiple ribs 3 provided with tips at the same height as that of the reduction gear box 1b...

PURPOSE: To provide a structure for a shim capable of easily adjusting the tooth bearing of a drive gear set and capable of improving quality. CONSTITUTION: This shim is constituted of the right and left shim portions 3A, 3B, the upper bolt holes Q1, Q2 of the shim portions 3A, 3B have open passages U1, U2 opened downward, and the other bolt holes S1-S4 have circular arc-like open passages W1-W2 c...

PURPOSE: To conduct accurate torque control and fuel consumption control by calculating the transmission efficiency in the tight, semitight, and loose states of a lockup clutch from the target drive shaft torque, adding the transmission efficiency, and calculating the engine drive torque minimizing the fuel consumption quantity. CONSTITUTION: An ECU 5 calculates the target driving force based on t...

PURPOSE: To generate no shock on a vehicle when a shift lever is operated from the N range to the D range or the R range. CONSTITUTION: When the position of a shift lever is displaced from the N range to the D range or from the N range to the R range, a shift position signal generating means 10 generates the shift position signal. When the shift position signal generating means 10 detects that the...

PURPOSE: To commonly perform water heating functions by connecting a solar system to a bath water heater. CONSTITUTION: A bath water heater which has a water heater heat exchanger 5 for heating potable water to supply warm water through a hot water supply cock 1 and a bath heat exchanger 14 for reheating bathtub water to return it to a bathtub 17 is connected to a solar system 30 via a connecting ...

PURPOSE: To fill and supply a fixed quantity of cold insulating agent in a packing material by a method wherein the packing material is held on the outside by pressure welding rollers and pressure welding holding members and is squeezed by the pressure welding rollers positioned above the pressure welding holding members after the cold insulating agent 18 filled and supplied, and pressure welding ...

PURPOSE: To provide an electrode plate for lead-acid battery in which the strength of an active material layer can be enhanced and the porosity of the active material layer surface part can be also increased. CONSTITUTION: To an active material layer, 5-10% by volume of a water-soluble binder (polyvinyl alcohol) 1 consisting of a water-soluble organic synthetic resin is dispersed. The polyvinyl al...

PURPOSE: To manufacture a light-weighted lead-acid battery with high performance and long life by coating the positive electrode surface of a lead acid- battery with a porous carbon material. CONSTITUTION: In this lead-acid battery, a porous carbon material is filled into the clearance between a positive electrode and a separator to coat the positive electrode surface. As the porous carbon materia...

PURPOSE: To provide a positive electrode plate for lead-acid battery capable of holding a high active material utilizing ratio over the life period and excellent in life performance, and also provide a lead-acid battery in which the hydrogen overvoltage of a negative electrode is never reduced. CONSTITUTION: A tin dioxide hydrate or tin dioxide hydrate doped with trivalent or penta-valent metal io...

PURPOSE: To provide a sealed secondary battery in which an electrode plate group can be pressurized even when the thickness of the electrode plate group is reduced or a battery jar is swollen. CONSTITUTION: A box-like or bag-like elastic synthetic resin spacer 3 which is swollen by the pressure rise of a gas generated at charging of a battery to pressurize an electrode plate group 1 is arranged on...

PURPOSE: To obtain a torque assist system provided with a motor/generator on the output shaft of an internal-combustion engine in which torque supply is prohibited at the time of stall start or engine racing. CONSTITUTION: An induction motor 4 having double winding structure is interposed between the crankshaft and transmission 13 of an engine 1. At the time of acceleration, an ECU 12 functions as...

PURPOSE: To generate a desired hydraulic pressure required for automatic transmission optimally irrespective of the fact that a drive motor for electric vehicle is stopped through a constitution for manufacturing the power unit for electric vehicle easily and inexpensively by effectively using the automatic transmission for an engine automobile or the manufacturing facility thereof. CONSTITUTION: ...

A conveyor assembly (4) for strip material, wherein a conveyor (6) feeds a strip (5) of material axially through a centering device (9) presenting two guide elements (13, 14), which are movable into respective positions contacting the strip (5) and symmetrical in relation to a reference axis (10) parallel to the traveling direction (8) of the strip (5).

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the parallel displacement of a material web (1) in that the material web (1) is, between two driven bending rollers (6, 8), caused to form a freely depending bight or loop (11) whose lower end is read-off by a sensing device (12). The sensing device (12) controls the speed of the first bending roller (6), while the secondbending roller (8) is ...

A method of inhibiting Ras function and therefore inhibiting the abnormal growth of cells is disclosed. The method comprises the administration of a compound of formula (1.0) to a biological system. In particular, the method inhibits the abnormal growth of cells in a mammal such as a human being. Novel compounds of formulae (5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.3A and 5.3B) are disclosed. Also ...