A process to add carbon dioxide under low shear conditions to an already formed food to produce a semi-solid or solid carbonated food. The carbonated semi-solid or solid spoonable food has the following properties: (a) a viscosity of between about 2000 and 200,000 centipoise at between about 1.5 DEG and 25 DEG C., and (b) a carbonation level of between about 0.5 and 4.0 volumes of carbon dioxide...

A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion comprising tread elements each provided with a sipe (4), the sipe (4) having an open top end and a bottom, and in a range from the open top to a certain depth, a configuration of the sipe in a plane parallel with the tread face comprising a zigzag part oscillating in the longitudinal direction of the sipe in the course from the open top to said certain de...

PURPOSE: To carry out cranking running irrespective of the condition of an exhaust heat recovering boiler by bypassing an actuation permitting requirement at the exhaust heat recovering boiler side in the selection of the cranking running, and blocking the output of a protection stopping signal even if the protection stopping requirement of the exhaust heat recovering boiler side is established. C...

The shift quality of an automated mechanical transmission (10) is improved and transmission wear is reduced by controlling the armature current of the motor driving the transmission shifting mechanism (22). The current is monitored by a microcontroller (16) to determine if the shifting mechanism has encountered a snag or has stalled during a shift operation. The microcontroller (16) is programmed ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To use two motors of relatively low output, attain ensuring of drive power and improving of recovery of power energy, also attain optimization of engine/motor control relating to required drive power from a drive wheel. SOLUTION: A sun gear 3a of a planetary gear unit 3 is connected to an output shaft 1a of an engine 1 through a motor 2, also a motor 4 is connected to a ring ...

The apparatus (20) has a controller to drive and control a power output unit to make a power according to an accelerator opening output to a drive shaft. The controller sets a power output range in response to setting of a revolution speed. The controller drives and controls the output unit to keep a revolving speed of a drive shaft at preset revolving speed by the output of a power in the preset ...

PURPOSE: To restrict the separation of active material and provide a battery excellent in cycle life performance by integrally providing protrusions at plural places on the surface of a sheet or film shaped current collector main body to form a collector. CONSTITUTION: A current collector 7 for a sealed lead acid battery is formed by integrally providing protrusions 9 made of lead or lead alloy at...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce blow-up of an engine generated in changing it from a lock-up state to a converter state by synchronizing the start of an engine output reduction with the start of the release of the lock-up, in releasing the lock-up in changing the speed by pushing down an accelerator pedal. SOLUTION: When a driver pushes down an accelerator so as to perform manual upshift in travel...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To not only simplify the work for manufacturing a calked structural body but to reduce the cost of the calked structural body by having a 1st member and the 2nd member which is joined by calking and executing knurling to the joined part of the 2nd member. SOLUTION: An outer race 55 is set on a jig 74, the inner peripheral edge of a planar part is set to the stepped part P14 o...

In a multiple speed-change operation for switching between an up-shift operation and a down-shift operation, engine torque control is adapted to an actual change in speed-change state, whereby an abrupt change in rotational speed of the input shaft is prevented. One embodiment relates to a speed-change operation from the second speed to the third speed, wherein the engagement-side hydraulic pressu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a travelling control device for a vehicle capable of eliminating a sense of anxiety held by a driver because of his not being able to correctly recognizing a vehicle state concerning an automatic stopping mode by making the driver recognize automatic stopping mode related information not accompanied by driver operation. SOLUTION: A display judgement means is made t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the approach of one's vehicle in a very low speed to a proceeding vehicle upon stopping of the proceeding vehicle, when an abrupt acceleration or deceleration of the one's vehicle is avoided by controlling the speed of the one's vehicle upon changing of the proceeding vehicle so that the actual vehicle-to-vehicle distance between one's vehicle and the proceeding vehi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gear ratio control device for a hybrid vehicle enabling the vehicle to start with a good driving feel while avoiding excessive rotation of its engine upon start to prevent poor fuel consumption. Ž

SOLUTION: The hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine 2; an automatic transmission 11 which changes the output of the engine 2 and transmits it to dr...

The present invention provides a weaving system for woven fabrics of various kinds in small lots, capable of weaving woven fabrics of various kinds in small lots in a continuous operation by an existing weaving machine while preventing generation of waste to the minimum degree. A weaving system for woven fabrics of various kinds in small lots, comprises the steps of successively selecting a plural...

Sluuries and binder precursor dispersions suitable for use in producing abrasive articles are presented. Slurries comprise a polymerizable resin which is preferably addition polymerizable, abrasive particles, and modifying particles, wherein the modifying particles are present in an amount sufficient to reduce the viscosity of the slurry. Abrasive articles incorporating cured versions of the slurr...

An output of an internal combustion engine is transmitted to an output shaft by controlling a control motor to change a speed without speed steps, in a power distribution planetary gear. An output of a drive motor is input to the output shaft by changing the speed into two-step decelerated rotation by means of an automatic transmission. The transmission produces a desired torque by decelerating th...

PURPOSE: To prevent out of lubrication with oil by chamfering the tooth tips of a pinion without causing production of burrs. CONSTITUTION: A differential device is composed of an input side differential case 21 to be rotated by the driving force of an engine, output side side-gears 39, 41 borne rotatably inside the case 21, pinions 61, 63 meshing with each other to couple the gears 39, 41 togethe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential gear capable of obtaining stable friction torque, that is, differential limiting force by restraining inclination of a pinion gear stored to freely slide and rotate in a storing hole. SOLUTION: In this differential gear 7, at least one pinion gear 55 of a pair of pinion gears 55, 56 has a small-diameter shaft part 56 between a part meshing with one o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent falling of a pinion gear of a center differential gear, to provide a large torque distribution ratio and differential limit force and to compactly constitute a power system of a four-wheel drive vehicle. SOLUTION: This power system is provided with an engine 1, a transmission 3, a ring gear 43 engaged with an output gear 47 of the transmission 3, a center different...

multi-spectral source is disclosed herein transmitting 200 nm to 3000 nm luminar power regulated by optical adaptor. After regulation, the light enters a spectrum analyzer converting the multi-spectral luminar power into monochromaticconducted to the entry of the optical fibres and therethrough to the target under study. At the exit of the described-herein arrangement there is a power intensity me...