PURPOSE:To secure controllability of an automatic transmission side oil pressure control device without conversion of an oil pressure generation source to a large capacity one or additional installation thereto in a vehicular control device wherein an automatic transmission is connected to an oil pressure device of a motive power distributor and control oil is supplied from a common oil pressure g...

PURPOSE:To enable an occupant to exactly know traction control being in practice without giving him bewilderment. CONSTITUTION:An operation display device for a traction controller is provided with a control means 16 performing traction control for suppressing a slip of driving wheel on a road surface by controlling the driving force given to the driving wheel and a display means 17 indicating the...

PURPOSE:To enable an occupant to exactly know traction control being in practice without giving him bewilderment. CONSTITUTION:An operation display device for a traction controller is provided with a control means 16 performing traction control by controlling driving torque given to a driving wheel and a display part 17 for indicating the traction control being in practice. The device is also prov...

PURPOSE:To enable a vehicle having two sets of motor and transmission combined together to change speed without a shock and a feeling of physical disorder. CONSTITUTION:A first transmission 12 and a first motor 14 are provided on the front wheels 11 side of a vehicle 10, and a second transmission 16 and a second motor 18 are provided on the rear wheels 15 side, and respective units are controlled ...

PURPOSE:To prevent an erroneous shift action due to a lock of wheel by high precisely obtaining a vehicle speed used for shift control of an automatic transmission. CONSTITUTION:An automatic transmission controlling device 1 switches over and controls shift stages of an automatic transmission 11 on the basis of a vehicle speed detected by an opening of a throttle valve 5 and vehicle speed sensor 1...

PURPOSE:To improve the extent of calculating accuracy in a slip factor by detecting those of lateral acceleration, longitudinal acceleration and yaw, from which operating approximate wheel speed in all directions with the body and finding a slip factor in each wheel by means of the detected actual car speed en masse. CONSTITUTION:Each detecting signal is inputted into a controller 8 from each of w...

In a method of producing metallic lead from a material including lead dioxide and/or metallic lead, including a step for dissolving the lead contained in the material and an electrolysis step for the cathodic deposition of the dissolved lead, the dissolving step is carried out with the use of an acid electrolyte in the presence of a redox couple which has a potential between its oxidised and reduc...

PURPOSE:To obtain a comb shaped guide for dividing fibers not easily corroded by chemicals and comb teeth of which can be partly replaced in case of damages from corrosion, abrasion, etc. CONSTITUTION:In a fiber dividing comb guide 1 provided with a number of comb teeth 21 which divide plural base yarns of a synthetic fiber formed by injecting from plural spinning nozzles, the comb shaped guide 1 ...

PURPOSE:To suppress the turbine inlet pressure of each power plant to a fixed variation range when an LNG is fed to each power plant through a feeding gas conduit. CONSTITUTION:A control method of feeding gas pressure for a combined cycle power plant is provided, according to which, an LNG from LNG storage base 6 is fed to a plurality of power plants 8a, 8b through a regulating valve 1 via an feed...

PURPOSE:To provide a control device for a continuously variable transmission to keep a deceleration feeling in a constant state regardless of the presence of fuel cut and to improve a running feeling. CONSTITUTION:During deceleration (during engine brake deceleration) wherein a throttle opening is O, injection of fuel from a fuel injection valve 29 is stopped in principle by means of an engine con...

PURPOSE:To provide a control device where the busy shift of an automatic transmission is avoided in an engine of electronic throttle type to determine the speed change gear and the throttle opening so as to obtain the minimum fuel consumption by calculating the fuel consumption. CONSTITUTION:When the speed change gear Cmin to obtain the minimum fuel consumption condition through the processes up t...

PURPOSE:To obtain a water heater having a high usability even in winter of low atmospheric temperature, by incorporating a solar battery and an electric heater into the water heater utilizing the solar heat. CONSTITUTION:A solar battery 4 is arranged at the outside of the bottom surface of a transparent water heater 1. The water heater is provided with a structure wherein generated electricity is ...

A metal matrix composite is formed by contacting a molten matrix metal with a permeable mass of filler material or preform in the presence of an infiltrating atmosphere. Under these conditions, the molten matrix metal will spontaneously infiltrate the permeable mass of filler material or preform under normal atmospheric pressures. Once a desired amount of spontaneous infiltration has been achieved...

PCT No. PCT/FR90/00910 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 18, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 18, 1992 PCT Filed Dec. 13, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO91/08808 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 27, 1991.A safety binding for skis designed to hold the front end of a boot and to release the front end of the ski boot from the ski under a predeterminate force. The binding includes a quantity of shock-absorbing material positioned below and mounte...

A fluid connector comprises a pair of retainers, with a first retainer having a pair of resilient legs extending axially and radially inwardly from an axially outer portion of a housing bore. The first retainer abuts a first upset portion on the tube to secure the tube within the housing. A secondary retainer is positioned axially outwardly of the first retainer, and has legs which also abut a sec...

In a method for removing a myoma, a distal end portion of a tubular member is inserted through laparoscopic trocar sleeve disposed in the patient's abdomen. The distal end portion of the tubular member is inserted into the myoma tissues to form a core thereof inside the tubular member. The myoma core is fragmented via an energizable laparoscopic instrument and the fragments are aspirated from the ...

A method for determining the presence of an analyte in a fluid is described along with various components of an apparatus specifically designed to carry out the method. The method involves taking a reflectance reading from one surface of an inert porous matrix impregnated with a reagent that will interact with the analyte to produce a light-absorbing reaction product when the fluid being analyzed ...

Load driver system (10) preferably uses a microprocessor controller (20) to generate write/read signals and command signals received by a circuit at write/read and command/status input terminals (16, 17). The circuit (15) responds to the input signals and controls a semiconductor switch (11) that controls the operative state of a load (14). The circuit (15) includes a load shorted high detector (2...

A method for detecting defects in a film structure of a thin film formed on a substrate by projecting a light flux in a direction precisely parallel or nearly parallel to the face of the substrate, separating a reflected light from the thin film and the substrate from a scattered light in a direction precisely perpendicular or nearly perpendicular to the face of the substrate and reading informati...

Apparatus, and an accompanying method, for accurately detecting bit-error densities in a serial bit stream and particularly relatively low bit-error densities. Specifically, detected bit-errors are synchronized to a bit clock using a error retiming circuit (130). Subsequently, the bit-errors are counted using a first counter (165) during a pre-defined measurement interval, equivalent to a specifie...