The security payment and change-giving system for electronic transactions involves a client-server architecture for online interactive business transactions entailing a server and several client end stations. Via each client end station, the user orders the required service and/or article with payment by cash via an automatic change-giving machine at the client end station. As an alternative, the...

The sympathetic manner is for dealing with suppliers electronically and involves a real time business online software program enabling users to deal rapidly and anonymously. It entails no factor for driving up prices, is resistant to any virus introduction, and limits the possibility that users be exposed to undesired publicity via E-mail. This software is clearly different in relation to a web ap...

PURPOSE: A complex power generating equipment of a building using wind force and sunbeams is provided to charge a battery with electricity generated by a wind power generating equipment and a sunbeam power generating equipment, and utilize the charged electricity as occasion demands. CONSTITUTION: A complex power generating equipment(1) of a building(2) is formed of a wind power generating equipme...

PURPOSE: A jelly-roll type electrode assembly and a second battery employing the electrode assembly are provided, to improve the heat protection efficiency at the central part of an electrode assembly. CONSTITUTION: The jelly-roll type electrode assembly comprises a negative electrode plate(23) which comprises a thin film negative electrode current collector(23a), a negative electrode coating part...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a radio-controlled automobile toy that can be easily converted to an off-road or a flat road type by removing a differential locking plate as a differential locking member.

SOLUTION: In the radio-controlled automobile toy having a differential locking mechanism, the running of which is controlled by radio waves from a controller, an engagement protrusion 49b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical imaging system using a complex CT-PET system.

SOLUTION: A combined emission and transmission imaging apparatus comprises a first and a second photon detector segments disposed face to face on opposite sides of an imaging area (12) for defining the imaging area there between and a radiation source (50) disposed adjacent to and outside of the imaging...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flap vent piece installation assembly that can simplify the installation of a flap vent piece, on a tire molding mold and can maintain the initial properties and the appearance of the tire in a good state by preventing the occurrence of spew and a flash as a burr on the surface of a tire .

SOLUTION: This flap vent piece installation assembly includes a fla...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric steering system effectively reducing gear noise of a worm gear speed reduction gear used in a transmission system transmitting rotation of a motor driven in response to steering to a steering mechanism by a simple composition.

SOLUTION: In the electric steering system, rubber made support rings 4, 4 and etc. in diametrally preloaded states are in...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reduction gear mechanism for an electric power steering device not requiring replacement of a gear case even when failure of a bearing is found after the bearing is built in the gear case or when a gear ratio of the reduction gear mechanism is changed.

SOLUTION: This mechanism is provided with an inner case 14 rotatably supporting a worm shaft 19, an assem...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem that conventional phosphor bronze or high strength brass which does not contain lead is inadequate to a sliding part where high load is applied in an instant, and a bearing which uses Cu-plated solid lubricant does not has a sufficient mechanical strength as the bearing is made by mixing Cu powder, Sn powder and solid lubricant powder, and then compressi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control a hybrid vehicle so as not to give a torque shock to a driver even if the regenerating state of the motor is fluctuated in the regeneration (deceleration/braking, etc.) of the motor.

SOLUTION: The engine load by the regeneration of the motor 13 is calculated during the regenerating power generation of the motor 13, and a required pumping loss is calculated s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the support strength of the input shaft of a transmission to the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine in a vehicle and to prevent the increase in weight of the vehicle in such a case.

SOLUTION: The vehicle has a drive means 4 placed on a traveling surface 3 while being supported on a vehicle body 2 to enable the traveling of the vehicle body 2 by its ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sudden start preventing device for an automatic transmission vehicle capable of applying braking even with an accelerator pedal if the accelerator pedal is strongly depressed, confused with a brake pedal in applying sudden braking.

SOLUTION: The pedal effort of the accelerator pedal is set in two stages. Engine speed is raised by the first-stage pedal effo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly transmit torque of a transmission when starting the engine during idling stop.

SOLUTION: A hydraulic pressure control device of a hybrid vehicle is equipped with an engine 2 and a motor/generator 3 as a driving force source of the vehicle, a transmission 6 with a torque converter, an engine automatic stopping/starting means which automatically stops and sta...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent occurrence of early separation at a rolling contact part of an inner ring race 5 and an outer ring race 7 from a rolling surface of each ball 9 even when a rolling bearing is installed in an aluminum alloy housing of low rigidity.

SOLUTION: Each dimension is regulated so that the value K calculated by the formula ä(h1.5x W)/(Da1.1x 0.4D...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hydraulic pressure feeding device of an automatic transmission for preventing occurrence of insufficient hydraulic pressure which may cause tightening shocks by ensuring the hydraulic pressure rise responsiveness when an electric oil pump 6 is operated by the first idle-stop after an engine is started.

SOLUTION: The hydraulic pressure feeding device of the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent any slip of the torque between a belt and a pulley when changing the cylinder number in a vehicle power train to transmit the output of a variable cylinder engine to drive wheels via a belt type continuously variable transmission.

SOLUTION: When the cylinder number change is determined (Yes in Step 31), the clamping force PB is set to be a predetermined valu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an engine for vehicle and a controller for automatic transmission capable of optimally controlling gear-shift even if a gap is generated between a requirements output torque and the real engine output torque in the period of gear shift.

SOLUTION: An output torque difference computing means 110 computes a torque difference ΔT between the requirements torque f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an internal combustion engine driving vehicle having the function for determining whether or not a motive power transmission device is in a state of cutting off the transmission of motive power without relying on a gear position sensor.

SOLUTION: After an engine speed of an engine reaches a motive power transmission starting engine speed by gradually increas...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operation auxiliary device for realizing smooth control.

SOLUTION: The operation auxiliary device is provided with a peripheral situation detection means 10 of a self-vehicle A, a self-vehicle state detection means 11, an evaluation function constitution means 6a constituting an evaluation function for calculating desirability of an operation, a controlle...