PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent damage of a bearing due to a foreign matter, such as wear powder and to perform stable operation of a rotary shaft or a reduction mechanism for a long period. SOLUTION: By setting the outside diameter D of a nut member 46 larger than the diameter (d) of an outer ring 16B, the upper side of the upper bearing 16 is covered with a nut member 46 and a taper surface 47 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To overcome a problem encountered in a mechanism which controls the engine rotation of a combine harvester at the rated level by using an electronic governor, the problem being that when the main gear lever is shifted from a neutral to a running position when running in the field, the engine is instantly accelerated to the rated rotation to thereby result in abrupt increase o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize the energy loss and improve the output and efficiency of a plant by feeding the cooling water from the cooler of the air compressor of a liquid air manufacturing plant to the exhaust heat recovering boiler of a composite power plant. SOLUTION: The liquid air fed from a liquid air plant is boosted and sent out by a pump to provide the air pressure required for the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To lower the loss of steam, and while to safely stop an exhaust heat recovery boiler. SOLUTION: In a combined cycle plant, steam is generated by heat exchange of the exhaust gas of a gas turbine and the water supply of an exhaust heat recovery boiler, and this steam is supplied to a steam turbine for drive, and on the other hand, the steam turbine is bypassed through a turbin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve bending strength of a transmission case without deteriorating loading performance. SOLUTION: A transmission 10 is provided with a housing 12 for housing a torque converter, a transmission case 14 for housing an oil pump and a transmission mechanism, and an oil pan 18. An attaching surface is formed on the side of the oil pan 18 facing the housing 12. The sizes of t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To use a retarder for trace control, if necessary, by actuating it irrespective of the driver's switching operation. SOLUTION: If finding the vehicle will not be able to follow a curve safely in the running state at this time or the vehicle will make a turn outside of a predetermined state on the basis of a computational side gravitation or the like calculated from the detect...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve reliability of stopping control in an extremely low vehicle speed area of inter-vehicle distance control. SOLUTION: This inter-vehicle distance control device arithmetically operates a target vehicle speed Vspr to make an inter-vehicle distance detecting value L coincide with a target inter-vehicle distance, arithmetically operates target braking driving force of a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly execute the shift-down on a downward slope and to prevent the shift hunting. SOLUTION: When following preceding car in running, an inter-vehicle distance is detected by an inter-vehicle distance sensor 12, a self-car speed is detected by a car speed sensor, a target car speed is calculated on the basis of the inter-vehicle distance detected by an inter-vehicle dis...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compacted lead acid storage battery which can guarantee the strength of connection portions despite of reducing the height of the connection portions with a strap and a support of a terminal surrounding with resin. SOLUTION: A pair of protrusion 11, 11 are expanded horizontally into side surface of a flat shape of a strap 5 horizontally arranged with the upper pa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle speed control device allowing the quick conversion to an intended speed or an intended inter-vehicle distance. SOLUTION: In this vehicle control device, a speed command value is set to the actual speed or a prescribed speed lower than it when the speed command value is larger than the actual vehicle speed, and the time change of the speed command value is...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accomplish the simplification of a system, the miniaturization of a main battery, the maximum utilization of the capability of a motor- generator, space saving, and reduction in weight and reduce the cost. SOLUTION: To attain the purpose, a hybrid vehicle is mounted with an engine and the motor-generator directly connected with the engine. The hybrid vehicle is also provid...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of measuring dimensions of a differential case assembly, whereby the dimension between outer race end faces of side bearings and the dimension from the side bearing to an engaged gear position of a ring gear are measured while maintaining accuracy. SOLUTION: According to the method of measuring dimensions, a work set block 11, having a pair of nearly V-sha...

A hybrid vehicle includes an engine controller which controls a running state of the engine, a motor controller which controls both driving and battery recharging power-generating states, and an indicator which is connected to the motor controller. The indicator is turned on when the recharging power generating control is executed during slowdown of the hybrid vehicle. The indicator is turned on a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain the degree of vacuum of the vacuum heat insulating layer of a heat collecting tube for a solar heat collecting device in a high degree. SOLUTION: A gap, formed between the outer tube 1a and the inner tube 1b of a solar heat collecting device, is evacuated to form a vacuum heat insulating layer 1c. The vacuum heat insulating layer 1c is connected to a vacuum tank 7...

A database of reversion cure constants is provided by measuring a physical property of a rubber formulation at two different temperatures as a function of time, calculating a set of cure constants for the rubber formulation which account for reversion, and storing the constants for later use either to optimize cure for a given process or of a given compound, or to assure quality of a raw compound....

A gear-mesh type automatic transmission system capable of controlling clutch coupling speed so as to mitigate shock likely to occur upon changeover of speed stage regardless of not only time-dependent deterioration of an electromagnetic clutch but also dispersion among individual clutches. The gear-mesh type automatic transmission system includes an electromagnetic clutch (2) for effectuating tran...

Comminuting machine comprises comminuting tools (3) having at least two cutting regions in a direction of rotation of a shaft (2). At least one inner cutting region with a relatively small lever arm traps and comminutes more material. At least one outer cutting region with a relatively large lever arm traps and comminutes less material. The contours of both cutting regions form a circle about the ...

A device for measuring, monitoring and/or controlling a temperature, in particular the temperature of the wall of an injection mold with the aid of a measuring element which passes a detector body through a corresponding orifice at least to the external walls thereof. The measuring element is blocked in the detector body and/or in a crimping bush which is disposed prior to said detector body.

A hydroformylation process comprising reacting a compound having at least one olefinic carbon-to-carbon bond with hydrogen and carbon monoxide in the presence of a cobalt catalyst, the hydroformylation process being carried out in one or more reactors, at least one of which comprises a gas cap region and a liquid-containing region while in use, characterized in that a sulphur-containing additive i...

A user is able to informatively control how contact information is provided to one or more applications through the use of a persona interface object, corresponding personas and contact information, and an information picker interface. The persona interface identifies available personas, each persona having different contact information. The user can select a persona to use in response to an appli...