PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To optimally press mamma with a simple means and to reduce pain when pressing it.

SOLUTION: The subject equipment is provided with a means (9) capable of vibrating a pressure plate (5).

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce vehicle speed sufficiently by generating braking force in an early stage without generating braking force wastefully when detecting an obstacle erroneously.

SOLUTION: If an obstacle noticed by infrastructure information exists on a curved road and the farthest detection distance Lc of a laser radar 1 on the curved road is smaller than the distance D2 from the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance startability and travelability by solving one side wheel slipping while keeping a four-wheel driving state when the one side wheel slipping such that one of the right and left wheels slips during traveling is generated.

SOLUTION: Torque distribution controller TRQCU is designed to execute idling inhibiting brake control, so that when one side wheel slipping ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the weight of an entire device, relatively easy to assemble, and relatively easy to make shim adjustment in a helical gear.

SOLUTION: A power transfer 21 is built in an inter-differential incorporating 20a. A transfer case 20b for housing the helical gear 23 and a counter gear 27 fixed on a drive pinion shaft 26a and meshed with the helical gear 23 is provide...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain or increase an exhaust emission control catalyst at or to a catalyst temperature enough to activate the exhaust emission control catalyst at a control period at which the load of an internal combustion engine is reduced by bringing a clutch into a release state and a slip state.

SOLUTION: In case a catalyst temperature etemave is reduced to a value lower th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a counter steering phenomenon by retaining an operation direction of a steering wheel and a turning direction of a vehicle body to the same direction even in the case where the vehicle body is changed from advancement to backing and to realize an appropriate operation at the time of advancement/backing with a simple constitution that a counter steering preventio...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To carry out automatic traveling for the vehicle to reach a destination at a target arrival time.

SOLUTION: A target car speed required for the vehicle to reach the destination at the target arrival time is operated based on a traveling distance from the present position to the destination and a traveling time from the present time to the target arrival time, and a tar...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a torque shock, which is apt to occur when a four wheel driving state is formed, from being generated when the state of a vehicle is under a special state, e.g., a sudden start from a state wherein the rotation of an engine is increased for a four wheel driving vehicle which is equipped with a driving force transmitting device 20 for transmitting the driving for...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a steering device with a variable transmission ratio enhancing durability and hardly generating a noise.

SOLUTION: In the steering device 1 for varying the transmission ratio of a steering angle and a steering angle, a motor 4 has a motor housing body 10a; a stator fixed to the motor housing body 10a; and a rotor 14 rotated/driven by the stator 12 and axiall...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure smooth automatic starting without delay of a vehicle even when a vehicle state (power storage amount) and vehicle load conditions (pay load and road surface inclination) are severe, in a hybrid vehicle based on an independent starting of a motor.

SOLUTION: The hybrid system of a vehicle is equipped with a means (S1 to S5) to confirm the vehicle state before s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform a reaction force control of an accelerator pedal according to a driver's driving behavior intention.

SOLUTION: The device is equipped with a state recognition means 10, 20, 40 detecting state of vehicle and a travel environment around the vehicle, a risk degree calculation means 50 calculating the risk degree of an own vehicle or surrounding of the own vehic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic oil applying device for a rail which stably performs self-actuated power generation of an electric power which can fully make up for an electric power consumption, by positively utilizing the feature of an installation place that is near a traveling train without depending on the sunlight which is not always obtained.

SOLUTION: In the automatic ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new hybrid automobile with high fuel consumption efficiency which has been improve in the point that the engine braking which is a fault can not be effectively used and can utilize both an advantage of a series system and the advantage of a parallel system without impairing an advantage by using a unidirectional rotation transmitting means which carries only o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To release an accelerator in cooperation with the effect of a brake applied by hand.

SOLUTION: The accelerator is released with an electric or mechanical means in cooperation with a brake lever or a brake board pushed by the finger or the palm.

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect deviation in the position of an edge of a seam part when sealing the seam part of a packaging material packaging an article to be packaged.

SOLUTION: In a packaging bag forming step, a packaging bag is formed by bending a seam part 17c of both side end parts 17a and 17b of a packaging material 17 so as to be protruded outwardly while drawing the packaging mat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide bearing structure of a pinion support shaft for a starter in a power unit that enables a crankcase to firmly support a pinion holder to assure stable supporting of the pinion support shaft.

SOLUTION: An end of the pinion support shaft 45 for axially movably supporting a pinion 46 manner is borne by a bearing boss 48 formed inside the crankcase 10 to face a t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a wind power using air system having high efficiency with small loss induced by energy conversion.

SOLUTION: The wind power using air system includes an air intake port 9 provided near a windmill 1, a compressor having a rotary force of the windmill as a drive source, an air intake port 9 in an inlet and an on-off valve 6 in an outlet, and an air tank 5 havin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To operate an engine with the approximately best fuel consumption characteristic while satisfying the requested power output of a vehicle, in a controller of a hybrid power train for the vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine for traveling, an electric/power generator and a stepped variable transmission.

SOLUTION: When the requested driving torque of the engi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the reliability of a product in an axle housing wherein an oil deflector engagement part is formed by flexibly deforming an inner wall, and a manufacturing process in a method of manufacturing the axile housing.

SOLUTION: A raised part 22 raised at its one side is formed on the inner wall 19 simultaneously with molding the axle housing 1, and a cutting tool ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent both bushes from being offset in the axial direction, in supporting a bearing boss part projected on a clutch hub of an output clutch fixed to a secondary output shaft and a shaft end part of a secondary output shaft to which the clutch hub is journaled on the inner wall surface of a transmission case through the bushes.

SOLUTION: The clutch hub 31 of the ou...