PURPOSE: To provide a hypoid reduction gear enhancing flexibility and versatility of combination and connection between a hypoid gear set and a motor. CONSTITUTION: A hypoid pinion shaft 311 is supported by two bearings 318A, 318B in a bearing case part 319J of a gear case 319. A hypoid pinion 314 engages with a hypoid gear 315 having the axis perpendicular to the axis of the hypoid pinion 314. A ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a high efficiency discharge characteristic of a saled lead- acid battery, and improve a cycle service life characteristic. SOLUTION: When being inserted into a battery jar, the ratio C of a thickess of a separator in a drying condition pressurized under pressure of 20kg/dm<2> to a layering directional dimension of a plate which can be possessed by the separator and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an intervehicular distance from varying when a vehicle is stopped, according to the deceleration of another vehicle ahead of it, during the follow-up running control of the vehicle. SOLUTION: The speed of a vehicle 1 is measured from wheel speeds detected from wheel speed detecting devices 10R, 10L. An intervehicular distance detecting device 4 measures the actual ...

In a vehicle running control apparatus and method, the change of a difference in frequency between an electromagnetic wave signal transmitted from a vehicle (A) and an electromagnetic wave signal reflected from an object (B) is detected (301). Information inclusive of a distance (Dm) between the object and the vehicle and a relative speed (Vr) of one of the object and the vehicle to the other is g...

Use of a gallium compound for the manufacture of a medicament capable of providing gallium in a soluble form, for enhancing bone repair and augmentation.

PURPOSE:To prevent damage of a generator and a control system by stopping the generator when a difference between an indicated value of a generator output current indicated by a CPU and a present value exceeds designated allowable range when a field magnetic current of the generator is controlled so as to generate power generation braking force. CONSTITUTION:A difference between a present vehicle ...

The invention provides dual-skinned membrane useful as one way or rectifying membranes which reduce back filtration of solute molecules in dialysis and which improve nutrient supply and product recovery in membrane bioreactors. The membranes are dual-skinned polymeric materials preferably in the form of hollow fibers. The membranes have skins of polymer on the opposite sides with differing permeab...

The device has a turbine wheel revs. rate detector (14), an engine revs. rate detector (10), a memory unit (6) and a controller (6,20). The memory unit stores a characteristic relating the capacity of the torque converter (2a) to its revs. rate and a characteristic relating the engine (1) torque to its speed.The controller derives the converter speed from the detected engine speed and turbine whee...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance a driving feel by reducing shock caused by deceleration when driving is resumed. SOLUTION: This device includes a cruise switch 16 for setting the traveling speed of a vehicle to become constant, a resume switch 20 for setting the speed to a speed set before cruising is canceled, an actuator 6 for controlling the opening of the throttle valve 4 during constant spee...

The tape squeezing device has a grooved portion including a bottom wall portion and a pair of side wall portions, a pair of tilted surface portions arranged both end portions in longitudinal direction of a recessed portion and tilted in respect to the longitudinal direction of the recessed portion, a main body formed with the tilted surface portions and the recessed portion, an expandable elastic ...

PURPOSE:To obtain a garage guiding apparatus for a vehicle, which guides a vehicle along a specified guiding path without using a steering sensor. CONSTITUTION:A coordinate measuring sensor 12 is provided at the rear part of a vehicle 11. The coordinates and the attitude angle of the vehicle 11 for the entrance of a garage are measured based on the command from an ECU 13. In the ECU 13, the guidin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent drop in hydrogen overpotential of a negative electrode caused by the deposition of Sb dissolved from the surface where Sb is unevenly distributed, in charge by filling active material paste in the side where Sb is unevenly distributed of a grid, and making the filling thickness higher than the surface of the grid. SOLUTION: A grid 5 of a positive electrode has an a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the fore and aft directional vibration of a vehicle by estimating a time point before the speed change concluding time point by a half period of the fore and aft directional vibration of a vehicle to be generated at the time of changing the driving wheel torque, and maintaining the driving wheel torque from a start of the speed change to that time point, and contr...

Suppression engine control unit (60) suppresses vibration due to backlash, by mutually interchanging driving and driven condition between engine (12) and continuously variable transmission (14). Control period of control unit (60) and output of engine are determined by engine control units (56,58) based on gear change ratio and vehicle velocity which influences engine friction to prevent backlash.

PURPOSE:To obtain a thin film of a substrate layer which is a specific sol gel film having a surface layer of a water repellent oxide coating film of micropit shape, uneven shape of protruded shape and has extremely excellent durability of mechanical strength and weather resistance. etc., and to provide the whole coating film with excellent water repellency and durability. CONSTITUTION:In a water-...

A thermal field emission cathode comprising a tungsten single crystal having an axis direction of <100> and a coating layer of zirconium and oxygen formed thereon, wherein a source for supplying zirconium and oxygen contains an element capable of forming cubic or tetragonal zirconium oxide at an operation temperature of the thermal field emission cathode.

In a vehicle navigation system, an initial recommended travel path between a departure point and a destination is determined using the Dijikstra method. If an external memory stores path information regarding a short-cut path that has its start point and end point on the recommended travel path, a corresponding part of the recommended travel path is replaced with the short-cut path to guide the ve...

A sheet made of a polyester which includes monomer units of terephthaloyl moieties, ethylene glycol moieties and isosorbide moieties is described. The polyester has an inherent viscosity of at least about 0.35 dL/g when measured as a 1% (weight/volume) solution of said polyester in o-chlorophenol at a temperature of 25 DEG C. The present invention also relates to a method of making the polyester ...

A polyester film made from a polymer having ethylene glycol moieties, isosorbide moieties and terepthaloyl moieties, and the method of making the film is described. The polyester film is used to form articles such as films, lacquers, labels, capacitors, insulators, and the like, and has an inherent viscosity of at least 0.35 dL/g when measured as a 1% (weight/volume) solution of the polyester in o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display device with a stereoscopic image display function, which has a low power consumption and is thin and lightweight. SOLUTION: On a counter substrate 102, a light reflecting layer 124 is formed and on the inside surface of an active matrix substrate 101, polarizing layers 106 and 107 with a polarized light selecting function and a phase differ...