PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the shift hunting of automatic transmission in acceleration when performing travel control for conforming car speed to target car speed.

SOLUTION: A target acceleration α* to conform the current car speed Vs to a target car speed V* and an engine torque command value Teg are calculated. Based on the current car speed Vs, the engine speed at each gear positio...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an easily handled speed reduction control device for vehicles, which can grasp the set speed reduction rate sensually with ease.

SOLUTION: Since changing of the set speed reduction rate is permitted by operating a travel position selection operation device (speed reduction setting operation device) 86 providing that the vehicle is travelling while reducing i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent engine stall due to braking action when a vehicle is braked due to the control of an inter-vehicle distance radar device independent of drive operation, and also to make engine brake work effectively when the vehicle is controlled to be braked.

SOLUTION: When engine speed is reduced enough to approach idling speed, where engine braking becomes ineffective, d...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an auxiliary vehicle speed reducing device to mitigate any approaching condition to an obstacle, and assist the speed reducing operation of a driver.

SOLUTION: This auxiliary vehicle speed reducing device comprises obstacle detecting means 10 and 30 to detect the distance from a self-vehicle to an obstacle before the self-vehicle, an obstacle approaching con...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To permit powdered or granular objects to be packaged to adhere as small an amount as possible to the inner wall of each filling cylinder constituting a packaging device.

SOLUTION: A filling means 6 includes a plurality of support arms 8, 8, etc., coupled to an arm base 7 in a vertically movable manner, a funneled filling cylinder 9 coupled to the free end side of each...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the size of a packaging bag to be formed freely and safely changeable.

SOLUTION: A filling means 6 includes a plurality of support arms 8, 8, etc., coupled to an arm base 7 in a vertically movable manner, a funneled filling cylinder 9 coupled to the free end side of each support arm 8, and a lifting means 10 for the filling cylinders 9. The lifting means 10 is ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform double-sided printing on paper with tab.

SOLUTION: A plurality of paper sensors A-F are mounted along the direction orthogonal to the paper conveying direction, at an ejection port side of a paper tray 20. A position of a tab 12 and a length of the tab in the conveying direction can be determined on the basis of the difference of a rise or fall timing of an ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for jointing two core yarns at a joining point so that inner layer fibers and outer layer fibers are substantially continuous to each other, a joint jointed by this method, and an automatic winder having a core yarn jointing device.

SOLUTION: The outer layer fibers 11a and 11b are untwisted by applying compressed air to two core yarns 1A and 1B, and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a weaving system for producing various kinds of woven fabrics in small lots, so contrived that the fabrics are produced by avoiding waste as much as possible and the system is applied to conventional weaving machines so as to continuously operate them.

SOLUTION: This weaving system for producing the various kinds of the woven fabrics in the small lots compri...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely maintain a vehicle speed at a set speed in the operation of a cruise control system.

SOLUTION: A relation between a throttle opening (equivalent to accelerator opening), the vehicle speed, and the target toque of a drive shaft is set so that a braking torque larger than a braking torque outputted to the drive shaft when the accelerator is fully closed with th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a casing for an engine wherein reducing the weight of a crank case side cover for downsizing, and decreasing the joining area for enhancing the sealing performance at the joining surfaces of the crank case and the crank case side cover in between are embodied.

SOLUTION: The casing of the engine is composed of the crank case 4, the crank case side cover 6 wit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify the shape of a differential case, to discontinue surface hardening, and to attain a low cost.

SOLUTION: This differential device is provided with a differential case 3 rotated by driving force of an engine, a pair of pinion gears meshing with side gears 15, 17 mutually by a second gear part and individually meshing with the side gears 15, 17 by a first gear...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To arbitrarily set the magnitude of the differential limiting torque of a pair of differential side gears without changing characteristics of viscous coupling.

SOLUTION: A differential pinion 35 of a bevel gear type differential gear device D is integrally provided with a differential motion limiting pinion 35', and the differential motion limiting pinion 35' is engage...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the credibility of an electric actuator by suppressing the vibration of a board case housing a control board, and to cut the costs of the actuator by reducing the number of components.

SOLUTION: A gear case 23 housing a worm gear mechanism 30 and the board case 24 housing the control board 51 are separately formed, and the gear case 23 is fixed to an electri...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a twin clutch type gear transmission capable of reducing shift time by adopting preshift control.

SOLUTION: The twin clutch type gear transmission has a first clutch C1 for selecting a group of odd-numbered speeds from two groups of speeds and a second clutch C2 for selecting a group of even-numbered speeds. The gear transmission is provided with a preshift ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an engine from being stopped by braking action when a vehicle is being braked not by a driving operation under the control of an inter-vehicle distance radar or the like and to make an engine brake work effectively when the vehicle is controlled to a braked condition.

SOLUTION: The engine speed is monitored and a transmission is automatically controlled to a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a cooling structure from becoming large-scale by shifting to such control that the power generated by motors/generators decreases if, during optimum fuel consumption control, a high temperature is reached because of copper losses at the motors/generators.

SOLUTION: An estimated value of auxiliary power, a differential gear loss, and a motor loss calculated b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent fuel consumption rate from becoming poor with time, using a control device for a power train having an engine 1 and a transmission 2.

SOLUTION: The fuel consumption of the engine 1 is detected and the efficiency characteristic (fuel consumption map) of the engine 1 is changed based on the fuel consumption detected. The speed map of the transmission 2 is set ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize a battery by providing speed control which enables a motor to be driven only with generated power without the need to take out battery power, even if a desired driving force becomes great.

SOLUTION: When Po* is determined to be greater than Poγ in S6, the maximum loaded drive torque Toδ and the maximum loaded driving force Poδ, both of which should be ob...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gear ratio control device for a hybrid vehicle enabling the vehicle to start with a good driving feel while avoiding excessive rotation of its engine upon start to prevent poor fuel consumption.

SOLUTION: The hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine 2; an automatic transmission 11 which changes the output of the engine 2 and transmits it to dr...