A sliding contact for providing an electrical connection between a side contact of a PC card and a terminal accessible to a host device is disclosed. The disclosed sliding contact is disposed in a side rail of an ejection mechanism for receiving and ejecting the PC card and comprises a channel (16-5) in the side rail; a sliding member disposed in the channel and comprising a first part (16-2) and ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the number of detection elements smaller than an array made up of detection elements of equal length by designing a spatially coded detector so as to make it permit a more efficient detection area for the group of slices of a variety of thickness and the group of a set of a plurality of slices produced simultaneously. SOLUTION: A CT scanner 10 has a disk 12 supported ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a rotor from coming off from a rotor valve even on rotation in a non-vacuum state by fitting a finely movable weight to the rotary valve and pressing the weight to a taper part installed in a rotor fitting hole by centrifugal force on rotation. SOLUTION: A weigh 4 is finely movably fitted to a rotor valve 5. When a rotor 8 is mounted on the rotor valve 5 and a cent...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential gear such that the durability of a control clutch can be enhanced during distribution control corresponding to the speed ratio of both output shafts. SOLUTION: A differential gear 1, in which an engine driving force inputted to a differential case 5 is differentially distributed to a pair of output shafts 15, 17 via a differential gear mechanism 8, i...

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 enhance a driving feel by achieving vehicle behavior that more closely matches the sense of the driver during inter-vehicular control that under normal control, the inter-vehicular control being executed under a situation in which the vehicle driver approaches the preceding vehicle through his own operation. SOLUTION: A situation in which a vehicle equipped with this devic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve vehicle behavior that more closely matches the sense of the driver during inter-vehicular distance control than under normal control, the inter-vehicular distance control being executed under a situation in which a preceding vehicle leaves behind the vehicle equipped with this device, even if an actual physical quantity between the vehicles is shorter than the desi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily avoid a sudden increase in the output shaft torque of an automatic transmission in a vehicle during the kickdown shifting of the automatic transmission. SOLUTION: During the kickdown shift of an automatic transmission in a vehicle, the turbine revolving speed of the automatic transmission increases gradually from initial shift stage to next shift stage, and at A poi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the amount of control of an accelerator or brake coincide with the actually obtainable acceleration or deceleration of a vehicle. SOLUTION: The amount of stroke of an accelerator pedal is detected by an accelerator pedal sensor 10 and supplied to an ECU 12. Based on the amount of stroke of the accelerator pedal, the ECU 12 calculates the target acceleration that is in...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance energy recovering efficiency while preventing a slip of a wheel by actuating an energy recovering means when a slip rate of the wheel exceeds a prescribed value at braking time. SOLUTION: A judgment is made on whether or not a slip rate is not less than a prescribed value (S2). When the slip rate is not less than the prescribed value, an ABS control condition is re...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily restrain sudden increase of output shaft torque of an automatic transmission at the time of power-on-up-shift of the automatic transmission on a vehicle. SOLUTION: Turbine rotational speed of an automatic transmission is gradually lowered from initial speed change stage equivalent rotational speed to following speed change stage equivalent rotational speed at the ti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the opportunity of generating soot upon change-over be tween low temperature combustion and second combustion by enlarging an engine operating range in which the low temperature combustion can be carried out, while inhibiting emission of soot and NOx simultaneously. SOLUTION: If the changeover can be made between low temperature combustion feeding exhaust gas recirc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a negative pressure control device for an internal combustion engine, which can prevent feeling of braking from being deteriorated, without deteriorating the fuel consumption of the internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: When actuation of a brake pedal is expected after the degree of actuation of an accelerator is decreased from a predetermined value to zero, the cl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a negative pressure control device or a vehicular internal combustion engine which can ensure brake negative pressure required for driving a brake booster even when braking is repeated. SOLUTION: Upon pumping braking with repetitions of actuation of a brake pedal 50, since brake negative pressure for actuating a brake booster 50 is changed toward the atmospheric pr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attenuate a shock caused by variation in torque upon shifting gears of an automatic transmission while simultaneously inhibiting emission of soot and NOx. SOLUTION: When gears in an automatic transmission 60 are changed during operation under low temperature combustion such that the volume of exhaust gas recirculation(EGR) gas fed into a combustion chamber 5 is larger than...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wind-force utilizing apparatus which does not require an external power supply for light emission and heat generation, and therefore, can obtain light emission noticeable to human eyes or a heating effect even when the apparatus is installed at a place having no power supply. SOLUTION: This wind-force utilizing apparatus includes a rotator 1 rotating with the win...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce size and to prevent a lowering of durability of a friction plate, in the structure of coupling a hub member, such as a clutch, to a sun gear. SOLUTION: A hub member 116 and a sun gear 121 are intercoupled through a connecting shell 160. The teeth of the outer peripheral part of the connecting shell 160 are engaged with the inner peripheral surface spline, and the co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically control a creep force apt to be dispersed according to each product by a simple constitution by effectively utilizing the results of an idle rotation speed control by an idle control means as a sensor indirectly expressing the creep force. SOLUTION: A creep force acting in stopping a brake is not used for traveling a vehicle but reactionally acts as a force l...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve creep feeling and improve the driving performance in starting and a very low speed traveling by feeding a prescribed electric force to a clutch in setting a creep force judgment driving mode and judging the appropriateness/inappropriateness of the creep force of the clutch from the changes in the driving states of the engine. SOLUTION: When a creep force judgment d...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily provide a jamming resisting function through a simple design. SOLUTION: A pair of differential gear mechanisms 5 and 6 having the same gear trains 5A and 6A (5B, 6B) are intercoupled through two systems of power transmission systems A and B. A rotation power inputted to a shaft 3 is divided once and thereafter, the division powers are united together and outputted t...