PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that a binding for snowboard is usually fixed by screwing a bolt in a nut embedded in a snowboard, however, the bolt for fixing the binding is apt to become loosened due to various forces at the time of use, and maneuverbility decreases with loosening and when the loosening advances further, an injury of a user can be caused by failure or missing of th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for aerating and circulating a reservoir, and the like, by wind power energy which dispenses with conventionally required electricity expense for obtaining compressed air, and can uniformly distribute the compressed air to a plurality of distribution pipes to perform an efficient purification of a lake.

SOLUTION: The compressed air ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a water area environment improving material for improving a bottom material much in the content of organic matter of a closed water area and the water quality in its periphery, and a water area environment improving method.

SOLUTION: The water area environment improving material containing diatom bonded slag obtained by bonding a diatom to steel making slag,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely set start timing of engine output increase control when downshifted based on a speed reduction intention of a driver.

SOLUTION: Oil pressure of a releasing side clutch is judged to get below prescribed transmission torque capacity corresponding oil pressure not generating acceleration feeling and shock even when starting the engine output increase control,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a travel controller for a vehicle capable of avoiding collision with a vehicle, without operating the accelerator, brake, steering wheel or the like by the driver of own vehicle, even if the vehicle traveling on an adjacent lane suddenly cuts into own vehicle lane, when there is congestion in the adjacent lane, and when a vehicular speed control means controls a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a four-wheel drive vehicle forbidding accelerator sensing control when it is not in the power transmittable state in the vehicle having a manual transmission.

SOLUTION: The 4WD controller 38 has a four-wheel driving control means for driving/controlling a motor 22 according to opening of an acceleration pedal so that the four-wheel drivi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a traveling control device for a vehicle capable of performing suitable deceleration when it follows the appropriate motion state including the stopping state of a preceding vehicle.

SOLUTION: At a proper traveling control (ACC) area where a vehicle speed V is a predetermined vehicle speed #V3 or higher, a reduction amount of target inter-vehicle distance pe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operation assisting device for a vehicle capable of interrupting traveling control at suitable timing when capturing of a preceding vehicle gets unstable.

SOLUTION: When capturing and losing of the preceding vehicle by IPU5 is frequently repeated, PCU6 adds a counter value to a determination counter Ct2 by action of a lost counter Ct1. When the preceding ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle braking and driving adjustment mechanism capable of realizing a comfortable vehicle traveling by smoothly switching driving and braking of a vehicle.

SOLUTION: When a vehicle driver or the like operates an accelerator pedal 20, an accelerator wire 22 is pulled to operate a throttle valve unit 40, and a pulley 24 is also rotated to axially rotate a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize body attitude or vehicle characteristics by suppressing the influence of driver operation disturbance or road surface disturbance or the like.

SOLUTION: Various vibrations on a body spring are estimated by a body vibration model, and a required engine torque equivalent to a required driving force is corrected so that pitching vibration being one of the vib...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a deceleration control device for a vehicle capable of performing a deceleration control matched to a driver's feeling, even in when the view is poor and the surrounding of the vehicle is dark.

SOLUTION: This deceleration control device for vehicle which executes deceleration control, when a deceleration intention by the driver is detected, in a state where ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a parking auxiliary device for enabling a driver to operate a vehicle from a position where a circumferential obstacle or the like can be further easily determined, and further capable of suppressing that the driver gets into a state such that he/she cannot park the vehicle by idle continuation of operations in a state needing reverse turning of a steering devic...

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.

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 provide a supporting structure of an oil pump capable of preventing vibration and noise from occurring.

SOLUTION: A pump holding member 40 is disposed so as to be positioned roughly parallel with the tension force direction of a chain 8, and a partition wall member 27 is connected to the oil pump 2 through the pump holding member 40. Thus, the vibration in the tensi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To specify a prescribed engagement position by a simple structure without requiring the need of separately installing a dedicated positioning member in a selective engagement type gear mechanism installed in a transmission having a plurality of gear sets for shifting between an input shaft and a countershaft and drivingly engaging by sliding an idler gear to the prescribed...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the gear rattle reduction construction of the manual transmission for a four-wheel-drive vehicle that can improve the workability and the assembling performance without damaging the damper performance.

SOLUTION: The rattle reduction construction of the manual transmission for a four-wheel-drive vehicle is composed of a bolt, a screw hole to screw the bolt, a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To assemble a pair of bearings adjacently arranged in the axial direction without increasing the number of components with ease and without any interference.

SOLUTION: A first bearing 117A and a second bearing 152 are mounted in a state that the inner races 117A1 and 152A are mutually contacted. The axial direction both ends surfaces P1, P2 of the inner race 117A1 of t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic transmission capable of accurately measuring the number of revolutions by a rotation number sensor, discharging oil efficiently, and avoiding increase of size of a clutch drum.

SOLUTION: In a clutch mechanism provided with the rotation number sensor 3 for measuring the number of revolutions from recessed and projecting parts on an outer peripher...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system for matching digital information flow to the human perception system.

SOLUTION: In various embodiments, multi-monitor (multi-monitor) support is leveraged to take advantage of multiple windowing and window positioning to separate elements of different tasks into information planes (which are based on a concept of "triage and focus"). Tria...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide freedom for setting the focal distance of a collimator lens.

SOLUTION: A collimator lens system is provided with a first lens group moved in a laser optical axis direction to correct a spherical aberration and a fixed second lens group. Thus, even when the focal distance of the synthesis of the collimator lens system is set to a certain value, for example, t...