A single anode system used in multiple electrochemical treatments to control steel corrosion in concrete comprises a sacrificial metal that is capable of supporting high impressed anode current densities with an impressed current anode connection detail and a porous embedding material containing an electrolyte. Initially current is driven from the sacrificial metal [1] to the steel [10] using a po...

A method and system of generating an analytical tool for use in assessing a state of an entity is described. The method comprises retrieving source data relating to a state of a community of which the entity forms a part, the source data resulting from a data collecting and analysis mechanism and the source data relating to at least one variable and the, or each, variable comprising a plurality of...

A borehole seismic acquisition tool configured for release from a stuck position within a borehole having a tool body with at least one sensor package, an anchoring arm, and anchoring arm linkage adapted to connect the anchoring arm to the tool body. The anchoring arm linkage includes a weakpoint mechanism adapted to break in response to a minimum threshold amount of breaking force being applied u...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve sealing property of an engine setting site so as to easily simplifying an engine soundproof structure and to improve workability such as maintenance of a working hydraulic oil pump by providing the hydraulic oil pump on an input shaft from the engine of a counter case. SOLUTION: A working hydraulic oil pump 50 is attached to a counter case 41 serving also as a hydr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent battery power from lowered by controlling engine torque changes, even if the torque required to absorb the engine torque change cannot be outputted from a motor. SOLUTION: When a battery power VB is low at a step S22, a battery is refreshed at a step S34, an inverter is at a high temperature at a step S36, and the battery is at high temperature or low temperature a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a regenerative braking equipment which can eliminate shock when regenerative braking torque is applied and canceled. SOLUTION: When a drive condition changes from driving to driven or vice versa (YES in step 40), it is judged whether a sport mode is selected or not (step 80). When the sport mode is selected (YES in step 80), a method for regeneration at a sport mod...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly return a real acceleration and a reference acceleration to their stationary states and shift according to road conditions by changing the gain of moderating control in stopping the judgment of the road conditions in a vehicle moderating at least one of the reference acceleration or the real acceleration. SOLUTION: In traveling a vehicle, an electronic control part ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform smooth acceleration and deceleration, without the need for stepping on the accelerator or applying brake too frequently on mountain roads and the like, in a hybrid vehicle that performs acceleration assisting control and regenerative braking control. SOLUTION: A torque command is given to a motor generator 12 to perform acceleration assisting control, when a hybrid...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve smooth driving performance of a vehicle having an electronically controlled throttle device and an automatic transmission, by preventing too sensitive shift control while increasing the responsiveness of engine output control when the vehicle is controlled to travel at constant speed. SOLUTION: A throttle motor control part 20 or a transmission controller 15 contro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive device of a hybrid car capable of suppressing a drop in the starting characteristic of the first power source when starting is made by giving an external force to the first power supply. Ž

SOLUTION: The drive device of the hybrid car is structured so that the power of the first power source and the power of the second power source are transmitted to th...

In lane keep control apparatus and method for an automotive vehicle, a deviation tendency detecting section detects whether the vehicle has a tendency of a deviation from a traveling traffic lane and a deviation avoidance controlling section performs a control for the vehicle to travel on a road surface which is parallel to the traveling traffic lane when the deviation tendency detecting section d...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid an interference between a driving force by the operation of accelerator pedal and a braking force for avoiding deviation, and to avoid a sense of incongruity for a driver caused by the action of the yaw moment at the time of a lane change. Ž

SOLUTION: When a deviation from the lane is detected, a false accelerator opening As equivalent of a target driving force ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid transmission capable of obtaining a high retreating driving force capable of performing slope road retreating starting by a simple constitution only for adding a continuation mechanism without raising an output of a motor generator. Ž

SOLUTION: A motor generator clutch MGC is provided between a first motor generator MG1 and a first motor generator inp...

An adaptive control system for an automotive vehicle, which warns of a driver and/or reduces the vehicle speed in consideration of a future trajectory. Receiving from a navigation system node information about nodes within a preview section, a control unit calculates a path radius at each of the nodes within the preview section, and identifies curve sections in accordance with the path radius of t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a separator for a sealed lead-acid battery made of glass fibers used as a main component, having low density and high tensile strength and elongation coefficient, capable of manufacturing a sealed lead-acid battery of high capacity with good yield. Ž

SOLUTION: The separator for a sealed lead-acid battery is made of extremely thin glass fibers having an average...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a parking lock operating device which performs gear shifting and a parking lock using a single unit of operational lever, whereby the operator can acknowledge the locking operation certainly so as to avoid erroneous operation. SOLUTION: An operational lever 68 is supported slidably in the axial direction between the first and the second axial direction position. Th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To switch engine brake force even if automatic engine brake control is operated in downhill traveling, by controlling the gear ratio and the negative output so that the target driving resistance may be in such a range that vehicle driving resistance to be calculated according to the gear ratio of an automatic transmission can be generated. SOLUTION: Whether shift is corrected...

A system for determining and/or monitoring properties in a single particle, the system comprising an assembly comprising a front side structure, a rear side structure and a substrate, the substrate comprising: ```a first upper surface part and a first lower surface part for holding the single particle, a first site comprising a passage in the substrate, a first end of the passage being in contact ...

Hybrid electrical-optical telemetry systems and methods are disclosed. The methods and systems facilitate faster data transmission rates between the surface and downhole tools and sensors. The methods and systems may also include a downhole electrical bus for inter tool and intra-tool communication to facilitate limited changes to existing downhole equipment. Some embodiments of the hybrid electri...

Methods are disclosed for drilling a first well and a second well. The method includes measuring direction and inclination for at least one of the bottom hole assemblies (BHAs) in the wells, generating a magnetic field in at least one of the BHAs and measuring the magnetic field at the other BHA. The method includes determining the geometrical relationship of one BHA with respect to the other BHA....