PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle traveling control device which can evaluate the reaction of a driver to a lost alarm when a vehicle is lost, and achieve the guide so as to take an appropriate reaction while reducing the sense of incongruity or troubles if the reaction of the driver is not appropriate to the lost alarm. SOLUTION: This vehicle traveling control device for automatically co...

A vehicle control apparatus performs regenerative braking by regeneratively operating first and second motor-generators to apply first and second braking torques in response to a deceleration request. The vehicle control apparatus is improves the efficiency in regeneratively generating electric power without greatly disturbing the balance between the. The control apparatus calculates an ideal fron...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently fill and package a liquid material containing a granular- matter with less power consumption by means of a simple-structured, small and inexpensive device while preventing granular matter from entering a heat- sealed portion. SOLUTION: When a liquid material containing granular-matter is packaged in a package bag formed of packaging films, the liquid is separat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle driving device which has superior control responsiveness and enables optimum control following the running state of the vehicle. SOLUTION: In a hybrid vehicle which is running with a running motor, before or immediately after the combustion operation of an engine is started, it is necessary to have an engine revolution Ne closer to a target value Neb of t...

Removable digital X-ray imaging device intended for mammography, comprising X-ray detectors placed on one edge of the device upon imaging. The device contains box for protecting the X-ray detectors by separating the X-ray detectors from the edge of the device, the device being in rest position.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a solar heat hot water supply unit producing hot water of appropriate temperature having no possibility of scald by determining the quantity of hot water of a solar heat hot water supply unit and the quantity of water to be injected required for supplying a set quantity of hot water at a set temperature to a bathtub. SOLUTION: Simultaneously with starting mixing of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable appropriate regulation of hot water of a solar water heater to be the hot water of an adequate temperature causing no danger of a scald and discharge a prescribed quantity thereof by mixing water from a water supply pipeline with the hot water from a hot water supply pipeline of the solar water heater by a mixing valve. SOLUTION: When an automatic operation switch 1...

A vehicle traveling control system (100) includes a control mode for controlling a vehicle speed (V) by applying braking force (Pt) so as to maintain the vehicle speed (V) at a predetermined upper threshold vehicle speed (Vref) or smaller than that while a predetermined driving force beyond a creeping torque has been applied. The applied driving force is reduced when a target braking force require...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gas turbine steam cooling system retaining outlet steam temperature of high temperature parts to a predetermined value without lowering cooling steam pressure than the interior pressure of a gas turbine. SOLUTION: The high temperature parts 8 of a gas turbine 1 are steam- cooled by introducing steam from the intermediate pressure supercharger 10 of an exhaust hea...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a sudden decline in the flow rate of combustion air into a furnace of a boiler main body, and to avoid unstable combustion, even in the case of the sudden increase in the among of oxygen in the exhaust gas, which is accompanied with the change in the combustion mode of a gas turbine, or the increase in the detected amount of oxygen due to the abnormality of an oxym...

A target output shaft torque tTo is computed based on an accelerator pedal depression amount APS and a vehicle speed VSP, a torque ratio T is computed based on an input shaft rotation speed and a speed ratio factor E of a IVT (100), a target torque tTe of an engine (101) is computed from the target out shaft torque tTo and torque ratio T, and control is performed so that the torque generated by th...

A vehicle drive power control apparatus and method control the speed ratio of a transmission based on a speed shift line that is set so that, within a practical region, the speed shift line is in a low revolution speed side of an optimal fuel consumption line determined based on the efficiency of the engine and the efficiency of the transmission. Therefore, the width of increase in revolution spee...

A sensor for installation in an underground well having a casing or tubing installed therein, the sensor comprising: a sensor body that can be installed in a hole formed in the casing or tubing so as to extend between the inside and outside of the casing or tubing; sensor elements located within the body and capable of sensing properties of an underground formation surrounding the well; and commun...

Multiple embodiments of ferromagnetic shape memory alloy (FSMA) based torque actuators are described. These torque actuators include a magnetic trigger and an FSMA member, which when actuated by the magnetic trigger, produces a torque for rotating a member. Examples of magnetic triggers include hybrid magnetic triggers having at least one electromagnet and at least one permanent magnet. The FSMA m...

A stent having at least one strut comprising at least one pad or bulge is disclosed. The pads or bulges are of a height that are preferably slightly greater than the thickness of a coating that can be disposed on the strut. The coating is not disposed on the pads. When the stent is placed within a delivery member such as a sheath or a catheter, the pads or bulges contact the inner surface of the d...

A system and method for automatically applying a de-jamming action in response to a jammed rotating member includes applying a pulsed torque in response to a detected jam, and additionally a reversal in the direction of rotation may be applied.

A filling wire having SAF DUAL ZN is used as filler rod (12). The metal sheets (3) are placed one above the other and pressed by a tightener (6). A metal inert/active gas welding process is formed by metal transfer process with the welding rod, which is used in inert gas welding process. The laser process is stopped, in which the focus (47) of the laser (13) lies at the surface (41) of metal sheet...

The invention relates to a device and a corresponding method for detecting scratches on the surface ( 2 ) of a material, in particular glass. Said device comprises an illumination unit ( 3 ) and a recording unit ( 4 ), which register a scanning line ( 6 ) on the surface ( 2 ) of the material and can be displaced in relation to said surface ( 2 ). In order to more accurately identify scratches, the...

A vehicular control system (CON) comprises a starting clutch (5), which is provided between an engine (ENG) and driving wheels (DRW) for engagement and disengagement, a clutch control unit (70), which adjusts the engaging force of the starting clutch (5) in correspondence to the conditions of the vehicle for adjusting the ratio of the power transmission from the engine (ENG) to the driving wheels ...

An electromagnetically driven valve (1) includes a valve stem (12), a valve element (14) that reciprocates in the directions of extension of the valve stem (12), and an upper disc (30) and a lower disc (1030) that extend from driving ends (32, 1032) to pivoting ends (33, 1033), and that pivot about central axes (35, 1035) extending at the pivoting ends (33, 1033). The driving ends (32, 1032) are o...