PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential device with a differential limiting mechanism to carry out differential limiting by connecting a pair of differential side gears not through a differential case in simple structure. Ž

SOLUTION: A pinion 35' for differential limiting is integrally provided on a differential pinion 35 of a bevel gear type differential mechanism D, and this pinion ...

A scraper assembly for removing the collected solids component of a feed material from an interior wall surface of a centrifugal separator bowl comprises a supporting shaft positioned within the bowl along a vertically disposed longitudinal axis. The supporting shaft is pivotal between a stowed position and an operational position. At least two longitudinally spaced scraper blades are attached to ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent execution of erroneous inter-vehicular distance control if, when inter-vehicular distance control is performed by means of an actual inter-vehicular physical quantity detected on the basis of reflected waves of transmit waves irradiated, the actual inter-vehicular physical quantity does not properly reflect behavior relative to the object of control such as a prece...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress power loss of an oil pump by supplying pressure oil to other oil circuit when a frictional engaging device is not in line-pressure operation. SOLUTION: In hydraulic circuitry comprising mutual connection of an engine, a generator and an output shaft through a planetary gear unit, a brake 28 for fixing a rotor of the generator and supply of pressure oil for driving...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform more precise vehicle control in consideration of a road kind, road with, a turning angle in a curve, etc., in addition to a road shape by correcting extracted curvature information by using predetermined road attributes as correction information. SOLUTION: A correction information extracting means consists of a data storage part 12 and a navigation process part 11 ...

A running control portion (10) of a parking assist ECU (1) determines an inclination of a road surface based on information such as outputs of a wheel speed sensor (32) and an acceleration sensor (33), and a brake hydraulic pressure which an actuator (34) applies to a wheel cylinder (38). The running control portion (10) execute a vehicle speed control by controlling a braking force applied by the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control the waste of films and materials to be packaged to the minimum by continuously transferring films, monitoring the pressure for pressing fed to a roll pressing pressure means when the films are heat sealed by a pair of heat sealing rolls and outputting an alarm signal in the case the monitoring pressure is judged to be abnormal. SOLUTION: At least one of vertical an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a rear-end collision accident while generating an accident preventive alarm by checking the reaction of a driver to the fact that distance between cars becomes short and deciding whether or not the driver has done a series of due operations. SOLUTION: When an operation starts, a distance between cars measuring instrument 1 measures the distance to a precedent trave...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential device to improve responsiveness of a differential lock and excellently support a helical pinion gear. SOLUTION: A differential gear comprises long and short helical pinion gears 29 and 31 contained in the containing holes 25 and 27 of a differential case 1, helical side gears 11 and 13 to intercouple the helical pinion gears, a lock gear member 47 c...

A sheet handling apparatus such as a sheet feeder includes a platform 50 for carrying a vertical stack of sheets such that sheets can be fed from the top of the stack, e.g. by a feeder and separator mechanism 10, 20, the platform having dimensions allowing the sheets to droop below the platform in at least one overhanging region (H1, H2 figure 6). The overhanging regions may be at either side of a...

Placing device comprises an outlet (11) for delivering a flat object (6) onto a substrate (3, 4) and a smoothing unit (12) which is guided in a moving direction (B) over the flat object. An Independent claim is also included for a stack of flat objects using the placing device.

A silicon body W is machined with a UV or green laser beam 6 in a refrigerated halocarbon environment. Local heating with the laser beam of the halocarbon in the vicinity of a machining location is sufficient to cause a chemical reaction between the silicon body and the halocarbon which accelerates machining, enhances machining quality and reduces laser machining generated debris.

The invention relates to an apparatus for crushing items such as glass bottles. An apparatus for crushing bottles and storing the crushed remnant includes a hopper for receiving a bottle; and a crusher connected to the hopper that passes crushed remnant into a storage bin. Previously, when overloaded or improperly fed with bottles to be crushed, there was an occasional risk that the crusher jammed...

An improved non-invasive respiration monitor combines signals from a spirometer and laser chest displacement sensor to reduce signal error. The improved respirations signal can be used for position correction in radiation therapy and imaging applications and can be displayed to a user in breath control techniques.

In CSCT, by using a fan-shaped primary beam, combined with a 2D detector, single-slice transmission tomography and scatter tomography can be measured simultaneously. In such a System blurred scatter functions are measured unless a monochromatic source of radiation is used. According to the present invention, an energy resolving 1D or 2D detector System is proposed, which, in combination with a tom...

Methods and devices for cutting or coagulating. A device comprises a) an elongate member having a distal end, b) at least one foot member extending from the distal end of the elongate member, said foot member having a upper surface and a lower surface, c) an electrically and thermally insulating covering formed on at least the lower surface of the foot member and d) at least one electrode on the u...

Radiation treatment of the lung or surrounding tissue during continuous breathing is made possible by preparing a treatment plan linked to motion phase and then synchronizing the plan to motion phase as the patient follows a regular breathing schedule.

The shredder consists of at least one driven rotary shaft (11) with teeth (8), located inside a container holding non-metallic articles to be shredded. The teeth are designed to interact with others (15) on one or more fixed combs (4, 4a, 4b) between upper and lower compartments of the container, and each comb has an electrically-conducting base (41, 42) that is raised to a given potential, and a ...

A bit for removing a broken fastener comprises a tip from which extend two or more notches separated by scraping surfaces formed from two-sided frusto-conically-shaped regions. The scraping surfaces are bounded on one side by a cutting edge and on the other side by a non-cutting edge and are configured to cut into the fastener when the bit is rotated in a direction opposite to the fastener's direc...

A cooperative control system for a prime mover and a continuously variable transmission of a vehicle, in which the continuously variable transmission is connected to an output side of the prime mover for generating a driving force for running, and in which a clamping pressure to set a torque capacity of the continuously variable transmission is raised and an input torque to the continuously variab...