The invention relates to an automatic balancing centrifugal apparatus by fluid compensation, which compensates a load imbalance among buckets holding samples by injecting a fluid into the buckets or sucking the fluid from the buckets, thereby simplifying the overall structure of the centrifugal apparatus, increasing the durability, and centrifuging a large quantity of samples under various high-sp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To output demand power to a drive shaft with satisfactory response property even when remaining capacity (SOC) of a secondary battery is small in a hybrid automobile in which an engine and a motor using electric power of the secondary battery are connected to the drive shaft through CVT. Ž

SOLUTION: Target power Pe* of the engine is set from demand power Po demanded for ...

A driving system of a motor vehicle includes a driving power source that generates power, and a belt-and-pulley type continuously variable transmission that transmits the power received from the driving power source to drive wheels while changing a first speed of rotation of an input shaft thereof to a second speed of rotation of an output shaft thereof. The driving system further includes a speed...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set a schedule of operation for an engine and a motor minimizing fuel consumption in accordance with the road condition of a route to the place of a destination. Ž

SOLUTION: Based on a vehicle speed pattern and the fuel consumption characteristic of an engine, a subsection wherein the operating efficiency of the engine is the lowest in the case of traveling by the eng...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gas turbine generating device to perform intermediate cooling of a large quantity of heat without increasing an amount of cooling water to a value higher than an amount of supply water and achieve thermal efficiency higher than a conventional thermal efficiency. SOLUTION: An intermediate cooler 14 consisting of a gas liquid heat- exchanger 12 and a steam generato...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow the correction to a proper backlash quantity in the increase or decrease of the distance between the rotating centers of a small gear and a large gear by the change in temperature or humidity of a reduction mechanism part. SOLUTION: This reduction gear mechanism comprises: a worm wheel 2 at least a teeth part 21 of which is made of a synthetic resin; a worm 1 meshed ...

The invention proposes a dental X-ray diagnostic device for producing tomosynthetic images of objects, in particular of the skull of a patient, using a pantomograph with an X-ray tube assembly (3) and a recording unit (4) arranged diametrically opposite the tube assembly. The device comprises means (D1) which permit the height of the X-ray tube assembly to be adjusted in a defined way and the tube...

A multi-signature fire detection method and apparatus, utilizing first and second detectors for detecting first and second fire signatures. The first detector outputs a first signal indicative of the first detected fire signature, and the second detector outputs a second signal indicative of the second detected fire signature. A signal processor is provided for combining the first and second signa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce size and to prevent a lowering of durability of a friction plate, in the structure of coupling a hub member, such as a clutch, to a sun gear. SOLUTION: A hub member 116 and a sun gear 121 are intercoupled through a connecting shell 160. The teeth of the outer peripheral part of the connecting shell 160 are engaged with the inner peripheral surface spline, and the co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid vehicle specialized in improving efficiency in fuel consumption in an internal combustion engine. Ž

SOLUTION: An area which uses the output of the internal combustion engine is limited to only an area in which the fuel efficiency is extremely good. As a result, an electric driving time is increased, so that a load of a battery increases. Therefore, a ...

A rotary shaft of a motor-generator of a hybrid-powered vehicle is connected to an output shaft of a torque converter (2) connected to an output shaft of an internal combustion engine (1). A control of acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle is assisted by controlling the motor-generator as a motor or a generator during a time period in which a slip occurs in the torque converter with a speed ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make, when runback is working, stabilized combustion in the furnace obtainable and the lowering in the draft for the furnace small. SOLUTION: The rotor-blade opening 26 of a forced-draft blower for a boiler is controlled by a command signal obtained by adding a rotor blade-opening command signal 14b of a forced-draft blower for boiler to a preceding rotor- blade-opening co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an assembling structure that is able to assemble a stator shaft into accurate dimensions and also to secure its sufficient strength. SOLUTION: In a stator shaft 6 to be press-fit toward one end side from the other end side in an inner circumference of an oil pump cover 5 wherein two rotational elements 4a and 4b of an oil pump 4 are set up in the one end side, a la...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an automatic transmission capable of corresponding to both cases of where traction control of an engine is carried out, and of where it is not carried out which are demanded different shift control. SOLUTION: In a control unit 40 arranged on a traction control device, a pulse signal A is outputted to a control unit 30 arranged on an engine- tra...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To keep the inter-vehicle distance from an interrupting vehicle safe by providing a target vehicle speed generating means detecting the interrupting vehicle, estimating the behavior of the interrupting vehicle based on the travel state of a preceding vehicle before it interrupts, generating the target inter-vehicle distance to be outputted to an inter-vehicle distance control...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To theoretically reduce noise of a gear disposed on a motive power- transmission route. SOLUTION: An annular member 21 is mounted to a side portion of a gear 2. A mounting method is constituted such that the annular member 21 is tightened and fixed to a plurality of circumferential portions 21a,..., 21a by bolts 22, 22 and portions 21b,..., 21b between the respective fixed po...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly perform a turning about either of right and left driven wheels while assuring a drive force on a road surface by suppressing the slip of a drive steering wheel. SOLUTION: A front wheel speed VLF (VRF) is provided from the front wheel speed NLF (NRF) of a front wheel 11L (11R) positioned on the outer side in turning, and a rear wheel speed VD is provided from the r...

An appropriate speed of a vehicle for an approaching road curve is calculated on the basis of the curvature of and distance to the road curve, and subsequently an arrival time interval for the vehicle at a current speed to arrive at the road curve and a deceleration time interval for the current vehicle speed to be reduced to the appropriate speed are calculated if the current vehicle speed is hig...

The invention relates to an apparatus for crushing items such as glass bottles. An apparatus for crushing bottles and storing the crushed remnant includes a hopper for receiving a bottle; and a crusher connected to the hopper that passes crushed remnant into a storage bin. Previously, when overloaded or improperly fed with bottles to be crushed, there was an occasional risk that the crusher jammed...