PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle-to-vehicle distance control system capable of starting traffic jam tracking processing by the same operation as in normal driving. Ž

SOLUTION: This system is adapted so that a tracking control part 10 starts tracking control to a leading vehicle subject to detection of a characteristic value which is generated in a vehicle in a case that a driver sta...

The invention is directed to a process for preparing porous polymer materials by a combination of gas forming and particulate leaching steps. The invention is also directed to porous polymer material prepared by the process, particularly having a characteristic interconnected pore structure, and to methods for using such porous polymer material, particularly for tissue engineering.

In an automobile having a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels, and a brake system for selectively braking each of the pairs of front and rear wheels, a brake control device comprises a device for detecting a backward movement of the automobile, a device for detecting a predetermined locking condition of at least one of the pair of front wheels, and a device for controlling braking force...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the number of part items needed for the reduction of backlash in engagement, to miniaturize worm supporting parts, and eliminate noise caused by movement in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the distance between the centers of rotation becomes short or long. Ž

SOLUTION: A bearing member 8 rotatably supporting the worm 3 on the side opposite to a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain the adjustment, accompanied with operation of an internal combustion engine from being interrupted, by enabling excessive power generated by execution of adjustment to be charged in a battery 50, and to quickly perform the adjustment by securing the opportunity of executing the adjustment. Ž

SOLUTION: When executing adjustment accompanying by operation of an ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of boxy sound resulting from the operation of an internal combustion engine and to improve the energy efficiency. Ž

SOLUTION: In a hybrid vehicle which runs by converting power from the engine to torque by means of a planetary gear and two motors MG1, MG2 so as to output the power to a drive shaft, an action line of the engine 22 for avoiding th...

In response to a coasting drive instruction for measurement of a driving resistance of a hybrid vehicle, the coasting control procedure of the invention prohibits a change of a gear position in a transmission and stops both an engine and a motor MG1. The coasting control procedure calculates a canceling torque, which cancels out a torque applied to a ring gear shaft or a drive shaft via a power di...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a control load resulting from such a fact that storage in a storage means cannot be performed by a catalyst deterioration suppressing control. Ž

SOLUTION: When an input limit value WIN exceeds a limit amount WIN1 (YES in S118) when an exhaust gas purification catalyst comes within a catalyst deteriorating hot area when the requirements for fuel cut are establis...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the energy efficiency of a whole vehicle by operating an internal combustion engine equipped with a power output device according to a state of a mounted power output device. Ž

SOLUTION: In a hybrid automobile for performing the torque conversion of a power from an engine by two motors connected to a planet gear mechanism and the rotary element of the planet g...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a formed bag filling and packing machine in which running and cylindrical formation of a packing film at a forming device are stabilized by a method wherein the packing film is run across the forming device by a feeding means driven by a common driving means. SOLUTION: A packing film feeding mechanism 21 of a formed bag filling packing machine is comprised of an up...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automobile collision prevention controlling system having only one kind of parameters to be put in, capable of certainly preventing a collision accident with a preceding vehicle, sufficiently pressing down on an accelerator, and sufficiently making full use of vehicular accelerating performance. Ž

SOLUTION: The automobile collision prevention controlling sy...

A portable spectrophotometer suitable for harsh environments is used to identify and quantify a substance in a sample. The spectrophotometer comprises a housing containing a light source, a probe such as an optical fibre for transmitting light from the light source to a sample to be analysed and a probe for receiving light from the sample to be analysed. Within the housing is located a moving mono...

A method for assembling at least two sheets by laser transparent welding, wherein at least one sheet is coated with a metal protection layer. The method produces punctual deformations on the side of at least one metal sheet, which is to be welded, along a predetermined trajectory thereby forming protuberances; superimposes the metal sheets so that the protuberances project towards the other metal ...

A tire belt machine comprises an extruder, a cooling drum, and a cutting station, such that the cooling drum draws a strip from the extruder. The cutting station is adapted to cut the strip into a plurality of plies that are laid adjacent one another to form a splice therebetween. A strip width sensor, a strip tracking system, and a strip temperature sensor are coupled to a central control unit to...

A method for producing unique and personalized pieces of mail, including integrating envelope production with the production of the documents for insertion within the envelopes. The machine for producing the pieces of mail includes a device for producing, from the same width of paper, both the documents and the envelopes designed to contain the documents. A longitudinal cutting device cuts the doc...

Supply device (1) for a cutting device (2) for a web of reinforced rubber material, comprising a first and a second web transporter provided with web engagers, wherein the first and second web transporters are spaced apart from each other in web direction and are attached to a first and a second carriage that are connected to each other for being reciprocally moved as one unity, o attached to a co...

The invention concerns a method for accessing a resource in a computer environment, the resource comprising a set of objects. The invention is characterized in that the computer environment is adapted to store in association with at least one object of said resource at least one modified object, in that said computer environment comprises means for storing in association with such an object inform...

The present invention relates to a process for producing a soy sauce koji having a reduced Busho-shu which is one of the unpleasant smells of soy sauce, and a soy sauce koji having a reduced Busho-shu obtained by this production process. Specifically, the process for producing a soy sauce koji is characterized by using a combination of a koji mold having a high isobutyric acid produc...

An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit (10) which stores the data of a plurality of images in an angiography sequence, and a computation unit (11) which generates a reference time density curve concerning a reference region set in a blood supply region to a blood supplied region and a plurality of time density curves concerning a plurality of local regions set in the blood supplied ...

A system and method are used in connection with processing of blood components. The processing of blood components may involve centrifugal separation and/or filtering of the blood components. In some examples, at least some blood components are centrifugally separated in a chamber and then filtered via a filter rotating along with a centrifuge rotor, wherein the filter is located closer than the c...