PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a tire which is the tire for vehicle wheels of a type suitable for traveling on icy and/or snowy roads and is equipped with a tread band having an external surface containing a plurality of metal studs partially projecting from the external surface. SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing the tire for vehicle wheels is equipped with a step...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a mechanism for distributing torque of a motor to a rotating member in the radial direction of the rotating member as much as possible by disposing a first intermediate gear mechanism and a second intermediate gear mechanism constituting a gear mechanism substantially on the same circumference round the axis. SOLUTION: A differential gear 2 distributes and transmits...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress a shock by controlling an engine and a transmission to an optimum when a variable mechanism to be changed according to a plurality of changing standards is provided. SOLUTION: In this control device, a switching condition of a control valve estimated by a variable mechanism condition estimating means 72 and a switching condition of the control valve during the tra...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stop an engine after being standby until the start enable state by detecting that the speed reduction ratio of an automatic transmission reaches a start enable speed reduction ratio, and permitting the stop of the engine according to the detected result. SOLUTION: A motor device 4 and a driving force control device 5 control the rotation of a motor 2, whereby idling rotati...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To excellently operate a drum brake provided on a traveling transmission shaft passing below a lower part of a machine body, and surely stop the traveling while the machine body is steered when a driver is not at the steering wheel. SOLUTION: This working machine is provided with a forward/backward traveling transmission shaft 77 to interlockingly connect a front transmission...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid a feeling of incompatibility given to a driver by stopping while keeping a designated inter-vehicle distance by means of keeping the braking force of a braking device in the increasing state, in the event when an anti-lock brake control means becomes operating condition in the course of deceleration in the condition of running on a low friction coefficient road surfa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid unstable behavior of vehicles having regenerative braking means and frictional braking means, by ensuring gripping force. SOLUTION: Required braking force is set in accordance with the operation of a brake pedal. Maximal regenerative praking force Grm is computed from the current vehicle speed and corrected depending on the running states. A correction value K1 is se...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately, easily and quickly attach an adhesive tape to a surface of a vertical material of a door sash frame. SOLUTION: A positioning jig to be used in the case of attaching an adhesive tape to a surface of a vertical material of a door sash frame for automobile is provided with a vertical material abutting member and a lateral material abutting member for abutting on a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a pressing cloth in the pressing part of a papermaking machine by making a base cloth have a first layer and a first cloth belt have a first side edge and a second side edge to form a spiral continuous juncture, and by mutually joining the first and second side edges. SOLUTION: This multiple axes pressing cloth is provided by making a base cloth have a first layer, ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To depart a vehicle smartly when a mechanical pump driven by an engine and an electric pump driven by the electric power from a battery are provided. SOLUTION: In a vehicle, a controller 44 having such function 45 that an engine 41 is automatically stopped after a prescribed delay term when a prescribed running condition is realized and the engine 41 is restarted when another...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the unpleasant feeling at the restart time at the controlling time of the automatic stop and restart of an engine. SOLUTION: When a shift lever is located at D position, an engine is stopped by an ecconomical running control (automatic stop and restart control) and an acceleration pedal is not made ON, at the realizing time of an ecconomical running return condition...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the power generation efficiency when the power generation is carried out by the car-mounted generator driven by an engine and the electricity is supplied to the car exterior and remove the burden of a fluid joint when the engine speed is increased. SOLUTION: At the external electric supply time when a power generation mode is selected by the switch operation by an ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform a parking brake function by a braking means provided in a power transmission path upstream to a differential gear. SOLUTION: A differential lock device 71, provided on a differential gear 42 arranged between right and left accelerator shafts 58, 59, is dog-united with a lock gear 72 which is supported to either one of accelerator shafts 59 so as not to relatively r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To exhibit a parking brake function at all times at the time of an operation with a brake means disposed in a power transmitting passage by providing a control means for operating a differential lock device when traveling stop is detected, and for releasing an operation when traveling start is detected. SOLUTION: A differential lock device 71 restricts a differential function...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a vehicular starting property when controlling to stop and re-start an internal combustion engine in a vehicle having a belt driving type continuously variable transmission. SOLUTION: When eco-run condition, namely automatic-stopping condition is established (S104), a three-way valve provided in a hydraulic path operating a belt driving type continuously variable t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To melt snow accumulated on a third heat-exchanger to collect a solar heat. SOLUTION: This hot water supply device is switched into either one of a first connection state of atmosphere heat collecting operation, a second connection state of solar heat collecting operation, and a third connection state of snow melting operation by a switching means 61. In the first connection ...

PURPOSE:To eliminate the use of auxiliary heating by connecting, in addition to a duct from a solar heat collector part, a communication duct toward a room side switchable or complementary with respect to said duct to the upstream side of a control box fan, and changing over a circulation piping to a heat exchanger from a hot water storage tank to a boiler side. CONSTITUTION:In the case of no sola...

PURPOSE: To improve operability by suspending adjustment of an engine torque when lock-up release or transmission starting is detected, and thereby smoothening start-up of the engine torque. CONSTITUTION: An automatic transmission computer 15 is provided for controlling an automatic transmission 2 having a torque converter 3 provided with a lock-up mechanism. An engine computer 5 is provided for t...

PURPOSE:To enhance start feeling and concurrently secure specified power performance by intensifying the function of an objective clutch pressure correcting section in proportion to the starting and advancing condition of a vehicle, and thereby controlling clutch pressure to a hydraulic clutch. CONSTITUTION:The gear shifting control device 76 which operates and controls a continuously variable tra...

An ignition system for hydrocarbon based fuels employing two energy sources, one to create a spark, and the other to sustain an arc. The ignition circuit is based in part on the principle of a strobe light circuit. The circuit increases ignition efficiency by increasing the power dissipated at the spark gap, particularly when used in conjunction with a surface gap spark plug. Maximum power transfe...