PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for performing different processings such as melt joining, cutting or the like at once in a method for heating a resin material by an infrared beam.

SOLUTION: In a method for irradiating a resin material with infrared rays to heat the same, the resin material is irradiated with infrared rays through an infrared transmitting solid material. This heat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a steering control device which can ensure favorable running stability even when so-called μ crossover braking is performed.

SOLUTION: From the estimation result of a road surface frictional coefficient to each of a pair of right and left wheels, a braking power difference between the wheels is computed. From the estimation result of the road surface frictio...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a follow-up travel control system capable of performing smooth follow-up travel in consideration of a driver's operation carried out in response to a variation in traffic condition around a vehicle.

SOLUTION: This follow-up travel control system has a radar device 11 capable of detecting an item present in the advancing direction of an own vehicle, identifie...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving operation auxiliary device for a vehicle capable of performing the vehicle control that does not give an uncomfortable feeling to a driver in transfer from a state approaching an obstacle ahead to a following travel state.

SOLUTION: Two different virtual elastic bodies are disposed between one's own vehicle and the front obstacle, and a repulsive f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a behavior controller of a vehicle capable of stabilizing the vehicle behavior in a situation where the road surface state varies suddenly.

SOLUTION: The behavior controller 1 comprises a yaw rate sensor 24 for detecting an actual yaw rate Yr of the vehicle V, a yaw rate predicting section 20B for predicting a yaw rate Yf occurring after a predetermined time...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain control effects sufficient to prevent an automobile from departing from a lane by precluding an interference of a braking force for preventing the departure of the automobile from the lane and a driver-required driving force with each other.

SOLUTION: When the automobile is not in the trend of departing from a lane, an accelerator opening Acc is set to a mimi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular traveling control device capable of smoothly transferring the drive of a vehicle to a normal operation by a driver when both a vehicle-following distance control type constant-speed traveling system and a lane-keeping system are in operation, or when the vehicle-following distance control type constant-speed traveling system is in operation.

SOLU...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device to make a support such that a safety drive with pedestrians taken in priority is conducted at all times in a district where many pedestrians exist such as a house congested district.

SOLUTION: A safety drive supporting device for a vehicle is equipped with a memory means 10 to store the map road information including the safety drive district data 1...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new cross cutter apparatus for a flat web.

SOLUTION: This cross cutter apparatus (10) for making portions from a printed format endlessly continued in the conveying direction (18) of the printed flat web (16) is characterized by having two cutting units (12, 14) separated from each other in the conveying direction (18) and used for the flat web (16), havin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To speedily obtain predetermined output shaft torque in accordance with output demand while suppressing blowup of an engine, excessive thermal load of a friction engaging device of an automatic transmission, and worsening of gear shift shock by increase of engine torque when output demand is given when power is turned off and up-shift is performed.

SOLUTION: Degree (ra...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly clean exhaust in an exhaust emission control device without significant degradation in fuel economy, even in a light load region of a diesel engine.

SOLUTION: In a brake control device for a vehicle with catalyst, the exhaust emission control device 13 having a catalyst is disposed to an exhaust pipe 12 of the diesel engine 10, fuel to be injected to the di...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To compatibly establish suppression of drop of acceleration performance of a hybrid vehicle and suppression of enlargement of a charging device.

SOLUTION: This control device for a hybrid vehicle has an engine 1, a first motor/generator 5 and an output member 16 connected via a power distribution mechanism 11 and has a second motor/generator 6 connected to the output m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a twin-clutch type gear transmission allowing a transmission to be miniaturized without increasing the whole length of the transmission even if the number of bearing to be arranged on the same shaft is increased, in regard to a twin-clutch type gear transmission having two counter shafts arranged on the same shaft.

SOLUTION: A first gear member 8a of a secon...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a belt type continuously variable transmission, having no fear of lowering the strength of a transmission path of turning force between a secondary pulley and an output gear.

SOLUTION: A sleeve part 25 of the secondary pulley 6 is supported by a bearing 42, and both ends of a driven shaft 7 supporting the secondary pulley 6 are supported by bearings 40, 41. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain variation in the axial position of a rotating member within a range to make a device set in the rotating member normally function.

SOLUTION: In mounting a sun gear 31 and a rotor shaft 36, the outer peripheral surface of a projecting part 90 of the sun gear 31 and the inner peripheral surface of a skirt part 91 of the rotor shaft 36 are gear spline-coupled ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent fretting abrasion between outside surface of an input side disk 4b and one side surface of a first connecting plate 43a and to prevent a transmission efficiency of a planetary gear type transmission 2b from being deteriorated if required.

SOLUTION: The stepless transmission is configured to abuts one side surface of the first connecting plate 43a and outside...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle operation auxiliary device for performing operation reaction control and brake/drive force control in order to prevent the operation of an operator from being hindered according to the surrounding circumstances of a vehicle.

SOLUTION: This controller calculates a contact risk potential and a normal risk potential in respective regions where the pos...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle operation auxiliary device for intelligibly informing an operator of any transient risk and stationary risk in the surrounding of a vehicle.

SOLUTION: When a front obstacle is the target of control, this controller calculates a risk potential representing a stationary risk based on an inter-vehicle time and a risk potential representing a transient...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operation auxiliary device for a vehicle, for controlling it under the consideration of the degree of overlap of the predicted route of own vehicle and a front obstacle.

SOLUTION: A horizontal deviation between the predicted orbit of the own vehicle and the front obstacle is calculated, and a lap rate showing the degree of overlap between the predicted ro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead storage battery usable either as a closed type or an open type, of which, life property is improved by improving adhesive property between an anode current collector and an active material, and increase of discharging capacity is attained by increasing the specific surface area of the anode active substance.

SOLUTION: Of the lead storage battery, elec...