PURPOSE:To perform high-precise detection of the shift progressing state of an automatic transmission, to start reduction of an engine output during torque phase, and to further sharply reduce an engine output so as to prevent rush-out of torque at an initial stage during inertia phase. CONSTITUTION:A power train comprises an engine 1; a torque converter 2,; and an automatic transmission 3. A tran...

PURPOSE:To perform high-precise detection of a progressing state from a torque phase under a shift to an inertia phase and to execute control an engine output to reduce the generation of a shift shock at an optimum timing based on the detecting result, in an automatic transmission. CONSTITUTION:A power train comprises an engine 1, a torque converter 2, and an automatic transmission 3. A transmissi...

A traction control apparatus for use with an automotive vehicle having an internal combustion engine through which an output drive is transmitted to drive road wheels. A demand for first traction control is produced based on a slippage produced on the drive road wheels during acceleration. The first traction control demand includes a normal demand for first traction control continuing for a time s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely prevent the fall of a side bearing by screwing a stopper bolt to prevent the fall of the side bearing, making it abut on a side bearing cap, in the section opposed to the side bearing cap of an axle housing. SOLUTION: In the section opposed to a side bearing cap 48, a seat material 58 is fixed or made integrally on an axle housing 14 by welding or the like, and a st...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide hot water supply equipment with a solar hot water supply function capable of effective use of warm water from a solar hot water supplier by ensuring fine cooperating control between a main hot water supply device side and a solar hot water supply device side when warm water from the solar hot water supply device is utilized. SOLUTION: The present hot water supply e...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the generation of backlash strike shock, the increase of an engine brake feeling, and lowering of re-accelerating ability, and to perform a coast down shift. SOLUTION: When a coast down shift is performed by an ECU for A/T 25, 30 to reduce an engine output independently from operation of a driver, the number of revolutions of an engine is suppressed to a value lowe...

A lever member (51) is supported on a fixed shaft (52). (One end of the lever member (51) is movably connected to a point-of-force regulator (54), and the other end thereof is movably connected to a point-of-application regulator (56).

A lever device having a point-of-support regulator (12) movably connected to a first motor (14) and a point-of-force regulator (13) movably connected to a second motor (15), wherein the motor (15) is driven in a state in which the motor (14) is stopped, and wherein mold clamping by means of injection molds (20A, 20B) is effected when the motor (15) is driven after the injection mold (20A) has been...

PURPOSE:To enable diverting the forwarding path of a packing material to a lateral sealing part without using a filling cylinder. CONSTITUTION:On the outer side of each of the forwarding paths of packing material (s) a guide plate 1 having a part shaped as a skirt 2, that is, expanding outward in the shape of an arc in cutaway section, is provided and set one such guide plate 1 oppositely to anoth...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the generation of steam drain at the time of start/stop of a gasturbine so as to prevent the occurrence of corrosion in piping by using air generated by a compressor and steam generated by a waste heat recovery boiler as media for cooling a static blade and providing a system for switching these media for use. SOLUTION: As a steam medium for cooling the static bla...

PURPOSE:To prevent generation of transmission shock caused by switching of an electric throttle opening characteristic by providing an intake amount control regulating means which regulates control of an intake amount by means of an intake amount control means, during operation of an automatic transmission. CONSTITUTION:An output torque of an engine 1 of a power plant PT for a vehicle is converted...

An anti-balloon device (14) constituted by a continuous shield (15-24-115) which is rigidly coupled to the body (16) of the feeder and has at least one detachable portion (15b-26-126-126') which, once removed from its active position, allows access to a corresponding and underlying portion of the feeder and/or to the yarn (F) that unwinds from the feeder.

A method of treatment a metal powder to increase its surface area is presented. The metal powder to be treated is selected from a group consisting of tantalum, niobium and mixtures thereof. The method utilizes mechanical alloying applied to an initial selected metal powder and an auxiliary substance having relatively weak corrosion resistance as compared to that of the selected metal. The mechanic...

A method and centrifugal separator apparatus for separating more dense particles from less dense particles contained in a slurry. The separator apparatus receives slurry into a rotor assembly which includes a bowl open upwardly and a surrounding hutch chamber. The bowl has a lower impermeable portion coupled to a drive shaft for rotating the rotor assembly, an upper impermeable portion connected t...

A method and a device are used for carrying out measurements on cells located in a liquid environment. Each cell is positioned with an underside of its membrane on a surface having a channel running through it. A negative pressure is established to aspirate the cells. Each cell is electrically scanned via at least one electrode which is spaced apart from the cell. The negative pressure is preferab...

The present invention relates to an electrolyte composition for a lead storage battery, which can maintain the performance of a storage battery at low temperature by enhancing the performance and life of a storage battery. It can also be fully charged in a short period of time due to a greater current efficiency. The present invention can extend the life of a storage battery due to its effect of r...

An apparatus for charging fibers that contain a nonconductive polymer. A polar liquid 32, 34 is sprayed onto free-fibers 24, and the free-fibers 24 are then collected to form an entangled nonwoven fibrous web 25 that may contain a portion of the polar liquid. The nonwoven web 25 is then dried 38. By applying an effective amount of polar liquid 32, 34 onto the nonconductive free-fibers 24 before fo...

The present invention provides an improved method for determining a coarse direction in an orientation system of a an autonomous device (10), for instance a dust cleaning robot together with a system of active beacons or transponders. A transmitter (20) for transmitting sensing signals is displaced in relation to the rotational center (25) of the the device (10). When the device is rotated around ...

A monoclonal antibody which binds preferentially to a subset of the human CD8 lymphocyte population whereby to positively and precisely distinguish between cytotoxic effector and supressor effector cells in the CD8 cell population. The monoclonal antibody recognizes a novel epitope of LFA-1 antigen by means of which it can bind CD8 cells which express the eptope on a surface antigen thereof. The C...

The present invention relates to a container, system, and method for creating parenteral solutions at a site, remote from sterile environments. The system includes a flexible container that is empty except for a prepackaged amount of a solute that is housed in the interior of the container. The container includes at least one port and a sterilizing filter in communication with an interior of the p...