PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To guarantee the maximum safety even in the case of unexpected fault. SOLUTION: This device is provided with an independent 2nd spring member 8 arranged parallelly to a 1st spring member 7 and a 2nd cable coupled with weight, namely, load while being guided inside another groove 4 on the side surface of a drum. Further, the respective spring members 7 and 8 and respective cab...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simple structure which can prevent impact force produced upon head-on collision of a vehicle body during advancing of the vehicle, from being transmitted from the front to rear part of the vehicle body. SOLUTION: First bearing brackets 6a and the like are integrally projected outward form the upper part 26 of a transfer casing 25, a second bearing bracket 25a, an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a free-running differential gear device which can prevent the lubricating function of a differential gear part from lowering so as to ensure a sufficient large force in a drive force cut-off part, and which can prevent occurrence of a risk such that a control device is exposed to an obstacle. SOLUTION: In a free-running differential gear device for transmitting an ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely compensate an oversteer generated on a rear wheel drive vehicle in the middle of turning by increasing torque distribution quantity less than a value in proportion to lateral acceleration at the time of distributing torque in accordance with an increase in the lateral acceleration of the vehicle between left and right wheels of the rear wheel drive vehicle. SOLUT...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten the axial length of a differential gear device even though a pair of friction clutches for controlling the yaw moment of a vehicle body, and actuators for the friction clutches. SOLUTION: A differential gear device comprises a differential gear mechanism 43 for allocating a drive force of an engine which is transmitted to a differential gear casing 5, between wheel...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suitably eliminate inconvenience between an operation of stabilizing a turning maneuver by a turning maneuver control means and an operation of speed-shift through manual speed change. SOLUTION: If a determining means 204 detemaines that a vehicle is under control of turning maneuver by a turning maneuver control means 200 during operation of turning maneuver control, a sp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate inconvenience caused by inconsistency between an instruction for engaging a lock-up clutch from a turning maneuver control means and an instruction for engaging lock-up clutch in order for another purpose. SOLUTION: When a determining means 204 determines that a turning maneuver control means 200 is controlling turning maneuver of a vehicle during operation of tu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suitably prevent occurrence of a shock caused by a speed shift fixing output from a VSC control device. SOLUTION: When a speed shift fixing instruction determining means 166 determines that a turning maneuver control means 158 delivers an instruction for fixing a speed shift stage of an automatic transmission 14, when a speed shift stopping means 168 stops a speed shift of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reciprocally lock and unlock and to reduce a burden on a foot of a driver by passing left and right shafts through both feet of a forked handle free to rotate and providing a block/ release mechanism of an accelerator pedal on the right shaft and a block/release mechanism of a brake pedal on the left shaft. SOLUTION: An accelerator pedal lock/release mechanism is formed of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable easy insertion of tread ply into between rollers for center alignment by moving guide members in the direction to cross an axis, and simultaneously maintain the members at symmetrical positions to the axis. SOLUTION: A center alignment device 9 is provided with a frame 12 positioned below a roller 11 in a station 7 and two guide members 13, 14 positioned symmetrical...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the reverse flow of air from a forced draft fan to the gas turbine side of an air duct on the turbine side when the air duct on the turbine side is purged to start a gas turbine after a boiler is started in advance. SOLUTION: Exhaust recombustion type combined cycle equipment is constituted such that the exhaust port 18 of a gas turbine 17 and the air inlet 21 for ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To feed exhaust gas in an amount necessary enough to allow ignition of a boiler from a gas turbine when a boiler is started after the gas turbine is started in advance. SOLUTION: The exhaust port 18 of a gas turbine 17 and the combustion air inlet port 21 of a boiler 20 are interconnected through an air duct 19 on the turbine side having an air duct inlet damper 23, and the e...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrict the release of lubricant mist into the air by forming breather rooms communicated with a transmission room for a transmission in the peripheral direction of crank shafts adjacent to a lead valve mount to using the outward extensions of lead valve bodies in common for the covers of the breather rooms. SOLUTION: Breather rooms 20 (20L, 20R) are formed adjacent to th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To dissolve an under-mentioned problem because of limitations of a starting time or a load change speed (a load transfer speed) since it takes a time to generate steam during variation of an electrothermal ratio by an electrothermal ratio varying system and during transfer of a load, in a conventional gas turbine generating system to increase a turbine output in a way that th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To dissolve an under-mentioned problem because of limitations of a starting time and a load change speed (a load transfer speed) since it takes a time to generate steam during variation of an electrothermal ratio by an electrothermal ratio varying system and during transfer of a load, in a conventional gas turbine to increase a turbine output in a way to generate steam throug...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrict the throttle of an engine at the time of starting to the lowest degree of opening, and to limit the input torque to a continuously variable transmission in response to the amplification ratio of torque by the circulation of torque, and while to match the stole characteristic with the characteristic of a conventional torque converter. SOLUTION: A target throttle op...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a traction control device for vehicle, which can detect the generation of slip of a driving wheel with an engine speed sensor and which can maintain the drive in a high-speed area in a half-clutch condition and which can accelerate with the clutch operation, by providing a dedicated sensor in each front wheel and each rear wheel. SOLUTION: In a vehicle, in which th...

A turbocharger wastegate control system is responsive to electrical control signals to control the position of a wastegate valve positioned within an exhaust bypass conduit of the turbocharger. In one embodiment, the control system includes an air pressure control device having an inlet port receiving boost air pressure from an intake manifold connected to the turbocharger, an outlet port providin...

A waterproof wallet and pouch combination can be securely worn around the wrist, with the wallet (1) secured in the pouch (9) in a substantially waterproof manner. The pouch (9) is secured to the limb (30) by means of a sleeve (27) and is secured in position by hook and loop type fasteners (24 & 29, 23 & 21, and 19 & 21). When the back (11) of the pouch (9) seals over the opening (12) in the pouch...