An automatic transmission of an automotive vehicle is set into a neutral position in response to a command instructing gear shifting of the automatic transmission when release of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle is detected. The automatic transmission has a plurality of speed clutches. The opening of a throttle valve arranged in an intake passage of an internal combustion engine installed on th...

An upshift of an automatic transmission of an automotive vehicle is carried out when a sudden decrease in a stepping-on amount of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle is detected. The opening of a throttle valve arranged in an intake passage of an internal combustion engine installed on the vehicle is closed when the stepping-on amount of the accelerator has increased during the upshift after the s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a speed change shock at the time of speed change by precisely detecting actual speed change starting time on an automatic transmission. SOLUTION: Ignition time retard quantity from a speed change command to speed change starting is detected by an ignition time retard quantity detection means 11, and standard retard quantity is set by a standard retard quantity setti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize stability of a vehicle and decelerating degree desired by a driver by carrying out driving wheel control for regulating braking force of driving wheels under a condition in which the wheel speed of the driving wheel is reduced by an engine brake, and also carrying out driven wheel control for reducing wheel speed of driven wheels. SOLUTION: During running of a vehi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the reliability of a battery by avoiding the movement of an electrode group in a transversely or diagonally lying position relative to a battery jar, and thereby avoiding the deformation of separators or electrodes and the resulting short life. SOLUTION: This lead-acid battery has a pair of legs 6a, 6b provided at the lower part of a negative plate 2, and a plate g...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control a vehicle speed so as to suppress slips as much as possible even on a low &mu road. SOLUTION: A first target vehicle speed VSET1 is set according to a driving condition by a first target vehicle speed setting part 101 and responding to this, a braking/ driving force control parts 109, 110 controls a braking/driving force, thus controlling a vehicle speed so that t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving force controlling device for a four-wheel drive vehicle capable of accurately estimating a speed of a car body for solving both of problems of increase in an estimated car body speed on very low &mu road and of decrease in an estimated car body speed on a sharp descent, and improving driving force controlling performance. SOLUTION: This device includes a ...

The vehicle deceleration control apparatus controls deceleration given to a vehicle according to a distance from a vehicle ahead, which is directly measured or estimated based on an accelerator operating condition, so that the smaller the distance from a vehicle ahead, the greater is an assist deceleration. The vehicle deceleration control apparatus is capable of giving an appropriate deceleration...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce maximum load capacity of an assist motor, and also reduce maximum current value of an inverter circuit for driving the assist motor. Ž

SOLUTION: A control unit 90 sets a WOT line L2 as a boundary of an overdrive area and an underdrive area, when a coupling condition of an assist motor 40 is an overdrive linking condition (S104). The control unit 90 determines a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller which can prevent deterioration of transmission shocks caused by a transmission interposed between a motor and an output member. Ž

SOLUTION: The motor capable of electrically controlling torque is connected to the input side. And at the same time, a gear ratio is set corresponding to an engaging/releasing state of a frictional engagement device in...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve performance of a power transmission for a parallel type hybrid vehicle. SOLUTION: This transmission is provided with a first clutch 11 for connecting an output shaft of an engine 1, an output shaft of an electric rotary drive source (electric motor/generator) 2 and an output shaft of a transmission 4 to a ring gear R of a planetary gear mechanism, a sun gear S and ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve performance of a power transmission device for a parallel type hybrid vehicle. SOLUTION: An engine 1, an electrical rotary drive source 2 provided with both functions of a generator and an electric motor, a differential gear 3, and a transmission 4, are provided, a first shaft 31 of the differential gear 3 is connected to an output shaft of the electrical rotary dr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform main shift in a state where shift shocks hardly occurs in a traveling transmission where a traveling clutch, a main shift device and a sub-shift device are connected in series in this order. SOLUTION: During shift where the clutches 21 to 24 of a main transmission 20a are switched, clutches 11, 12, 25 and 26 are automatically switched such that a forward/backward s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lateral type bag making and filling system wherein a package with an article to be packaged wrapped inside can be obtained in an accumulated state of a unit of plural numbers, even if the article to be packaged transferred by a transfer conveyor becomes short. SOLUTION: The lateral type bag making and filling system 1 comprises the transfer conveyor 7 to transfer...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a designing and manufacturing property and a handling property, etc., by arranging a car speed controller 27 at a position of a governor controller 34 and changing a structure and a function of one of the car speed controller 27 and the governor controller 34 by commonly using the other of them. SOLUTION: The car speed controller 27 furnished with a grain threshing...

A valve device is disclosed for controlling the delivery of gas from a pressurised source suitable for use in a pneumatic ejector in particle sorting apparatus. It uses a diaphragm as a valve member disposed over an output port from a chamber which is in substantially continuous communication with a source of gas or air under pressure. Both sides of the diaphragm are exposed to pressurised gas or ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reflect the braking request of a driver accurately to the movement control of a vehicle while securing a good movement controllability. SOLUTION: An object longitudinal force Fxa, an object lateral force Fya, and an object moment Ma, are operated (S250), and minute coefficients DFx, dFy, and dM to the minute variation Si of a slip rate are operated (S300). Depending on the...

On selecting the drive position, provided there is no signal from the brake switch (17) and the gas pedal position sensor (13), the controller (4) permits the vehicle to creep. Vehicle speed is measured by a sensor (8). Clutch actuation current is compensated as a function of clutch torque transmission. The torque transmission is adjusted for a given speed, such that it reaches an identical value ...

Removal of one or more undissociated organic acids or bases dissolved in a fluid steam comprises separating the fluid stream into two fractions, a first fraction 2 and a second fraction 3. A base or acid 4 is then contacted with the first fraction 2 to provide a stripping solution 5, in sufficient quantity such that at least one of the organic acids or bases present in the first fraction 2 becomes...

Downhole tools, such as well logging instruments having sensitive electronics components, are cooled using a Stirling, or Sterling, cycle cooler downhole. The components 23 may be housed in an insulating chamber 24 in the tool from which heat is removed by a cold end of a Stirling cooler 22. Alternatively, a component 47 may be attached to a free-piston Stirling cooler 40 having a pair of pistons ...