The present invention relates to a cemented carbide body containing from about 3 to less than about 15 wt-% binder phase and essentially WC as the remainder. By alloying the binder phase with from about 0.5 to about 15 wt-% Mn an increase in the strength of the WC/WC grain boundaries is obtained.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the effect of scattered rays without increasing an exposure dose in a high-speed photographing X-ray CT scanner.

SOLUTION: This X-ray CT scanner is constituted so as to successively perform the ON/OFF control of the irradiation with the X-rays from a plurality of X-ray tubes in order to perform the detection of X-rays due to an X-ray detector in one measuring...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the effects of noises without increasing the irradiation dose of X rays when a radiation image is composed for a biological state for a human body or the like by a phase contrast method.

SOLUTION: This phase information restoring method restores the phase information of radiation which has passed through a patient based on detection data acquired by detecting...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid danger in an emergency time even when an intra-vehicle communication network fails, in a system for performing the integrated control of functions of a vehicle through an intra-vehicle communication network by a manager.

SOLUTION: A vehicle integrated control system includes an intra-vehicle communication network, a plurality of ECUs coupled to the intra-vehic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress and prevent the uncomfortable feeling to a driver occurring in a relation between vehicle speed and road width by control for following a preceding vehicle.

SOLUTION: This control device for following the preceding vehicle has a road width detecting means for detecting the road width and a vehicle speed control means for controlling the vehicle speed based ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress and prevent the uncomfortable feeling to a driver occurring in a relation between inter-vehicle distance and road width by control for following a preceding vehicle.

SOLUTION: This control device for following the preceding vehicle has a road width detecting means for detecting the road width, an inter-vehicle distance setting means for setting a target int...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress an increase in vehicle speed by controlling a transmission, and maintain an excellent travel feeling during downward slope travel.

SOLUTION: The device has a constant speed travel means controlling a vehicle so that an actual vehicle speed is maintained to be a target vehicle speed. The constant speed travel means has a throttle actuator 7 controlling a thr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving device of a vehicle that achieves the driving of auxiliary machinery during the stop of an engine, start of the engine, and charging of a battery using a single motor and a simple structure, has high vehicle mountability, and can reduce manufacturing man-hour.

SOLUTION: The driving device comprises a pulley shaft 14, an auxiliary machinery driving ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving device of a vehicle which can drive auxiliaries during engine stop, start the engine, and charge a battery by a single motor and by a simple structure, has a good vehicle mounting property, and reduce noise.

SOLUTION: The driving device comprises a pulley shaft 14, an auxiliary drive shaft 19, a motor 12, a planetary mechanism 13 with which the pul...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive control device capable of performing system operations smoothly in start-up/stop of two pairs of power sources of a differential gear and in release/actuation of a break.

SOLUTION: Input bevel gears 21a, 21b are rotated by motors 17a, 17b via toothed gears 19a, 19b, 20a, 20b, and meshed planetary gears 22, 23 are planetary-rotated. Then, an output sh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pillow packaging apparatus, in which a packaging bag is sent effectively to the transfer side as part of respective transfer units arranged at the front and rear of an end seal unit and a cutter are moved back and forth relative to the installation position of the end seal unit and cutter.

SOLUTION: According to the lateral pillow packaging apparatus, when...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance production efficiency by avoiding a position gap of an inner packaged article housed in a packaging body and lightening a treating operation by an operator.

SOLUTION: A manufacturing means 20 is provided with a jointing table 50 jointing a pillow material 24 and a pillow material 24a supplied following the pillow material 24 and a pressing member 52 temporar...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-accuracy sintered cam lobe material which has a high wear resistance and pitching resistance, and has high dimensional accuracy and does not require grinding after assembly even in the case the cam lobes of intricate shapes are manufactured and a method for manufacturing the same.

SOLUTION: The high-accuracy sintered cam lobe material is obtained by r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transmission incorporating horizontal pump capable of reducing construction cost by reducing the protrusion amount of a pump attached apparatus in the outward horizontal direction of the pump and an installation floor area for the pump attached apparatus for scale reduction in a drainage pump station.

SOLUTION: A transmission 15 comprises an input large ge...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a throttle opening control device for an internal combustion engine capable of preventing drivability from worsening by suppressing to the utmost shock occurring upon reversing of the direction of torque transmitted between a vehicle drive system and the internal combustion engine.

SOLUTION: Upon changing a throttle opening TApos to a target opening set base...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly decelerate a vehicle.

SOLUTION: This travel control method includes a step (S106) for calculating the decelerating force acting before the start of fuel cut, when a condition to start the fuel cut is satisfied (YES in S104), a step (S108) for calculating the deceleration force acting after the start of the fuel cut, a step (S110) for starting the fuel cut a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the fuel consumption in a neutral state of an automatic transmission.

SOLUTION: This output control method comprises a step (S104) for calculating the load Tn reduced in changing from a D range to a N range, when a neutral control starting condition is satisfied (YES in S102), a step (S106) for calculating the load Tmin necessary in neutral control, a step (...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a constitution where a clutch piston of an auxiliary transmission for enabling the start control under the increase of torque, does not receive the returning force from lubricant pressure inside of the auxiliary transmission.

SOLUTION: In starting, the auxiliary transmission 20 is kept in a low-speed stage (decelerating stage) selecting state by releasing a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve power transmission efficiency of a transmission, and achieve compactness and cost reduction of the transmission by reducing an axial load applied to a bearing of the transmission.

SOLUTION: A final deceleration small gear 49 engaged with a final deceleration large gear 48 connected to a drive wheel is fixed to a front wheel drive shaft 16. A driven helical g...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To keep the inside of a reducer in a favorably lubricated state by feeding hydraulic fluid of lower pressure out of pressure oil fed to/from a hydraulic motor.

SOLUTION: A low pressure selecting valve 12 is provided between main conduits 4A and 4B to be positioned between the hydraulic motor 3 and a direction control valve 5. The low pressure selecting valve 12 has a p...