PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a brake control device capable of performing proper brake control for drive wheels connected to each other through a differential gear. Ž

SOLUTION: This brake control device performs the brake control to a plurality of wheels to which a drive force is distributedly transmitted through the differential gear by decreasing, holding, or increasing brake fluid pres...

In a braking/driving force control apparatus according to the present invention, a vehicle target braking/driving force Fvn and a vehicle target yaw moment Mvn through the control of braking/driving forces of wheels are calculated (Step 20), and when the target braking/driving force Fvn and the target yaw moment Mvn cannot be achieved through the control of the braking/driving forces of the wheels...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive unit and a control method therefor, capable of obtaining satisfactory acceleration by rapidly transmitting large driving force to wheels at the time of a stall start requiring a sudden start. Ž

SOLUTION: The drive unit for the hybrid car includes a motor, a first clutch for transmitting or disconnecting the driving force between the motor and an engine...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the subject electrode which improves the service life of a lead-acid battery and ensures a high capacity by specifying the diameter of a narrow hole corresponding to a specified ratio of the whole narrow hole volume of positive electrode active material. SOLUTION: The hole diamer of 15-35% of the whole narrow hole volume of a positive electrode active material in a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air conditioning and hot-water supplying arrangement which can exhaust carbon dioxide of a suppressive amount. SOLUTION: Hot water contained in a hot water reservoir 30 is heated by waste heat, i.e., absorption heat and condensing heat stemmed from an absorber 20. Whereby, heat recovered from air of an interior or an exterior area is accumulated in the hot water...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive shaft torque control device to achieve the acceleration without any sense of incongruity for a driver in a vehicle to generate the engine brake by controlling the transmission ratio of a continuously variable transmission, and a recording medium. SOLUTION: In Step 720, the target acceleration is determined from the accelerator opening. In Step 730, the targ...

A control system for a vehicle in which an internal combustion engine whose output torque is controlled based on a required output power is coupled to a continuously variable transmission whose input rotation speed is controlled based on the required output power. A controller of the system determines a final target operating point (Po) of the engine which is defined by the output torque and the i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily connect a motor to a step-up gear while ensuring high concentricity. Ž

SOLUTION: In a power transmission structure which increases the output of a motor 13 as a drive source by a step-up gear 18 and transmits the output to a hydraulic pump 7, an output shaft 15 of the motor is also used for an input shaft of the step-up gear by fitting and connecting the output...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily adjust the surface shape of a grinding wheel in non-contact. Ž

SOLUTION: A laser beam is radiated in the tangential direction of the grinding wheel 3 mounted on a grinding wheel shaft 11, and the irradiation position of the laser beam on the grinding wheel 3 is positioned so that the condensing diameter of the laser beam condensed by a lens 35 becomes minimum (...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle travel controller controlling traveling in accordance with intention of a driver. Ž

SOLUTION: The vehicle travel controller has a traveling condition detecting means detecting the traveling condition of an own vehicle, a control execution judging means judging whether fixed speed travel control in which the own vehicle travels at a target vehicle spe...

A power distribution control device 42 calculates a low-µ information magnitude, associated with the friction coefficient of the road surface, based on the slip rate and the vehicle acceleration operation magnitude. If the low-µ information magnitude exceeds an addition evaluation threshold, the power distribution control device 42 adds the low-µ information magnitude. If the low-µ information mag...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the fuel consumption by continuing the fuel cut even when the load of an auxiliary machine is raised. Ž

SOLUTION: An ECT-ECU has a step (S200) for calculating the changed fuel cut recovery rotating frequency estimated value (raised value), when the load of the auxiliary machine such as a compressor and an AC dynamo of an air conditioner is raised during the fu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driver model constructing method for constructing a driver model including switching judgement conditions of sub-driver models. Ž

SOLUTION: This driver model constructing method relates to constructing of the driver model by connecting a plurality of sub-driver models. The method includes a step S1 for determining the structure of each polynomial constitutin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent reduction in driving force even when mode switching from a fixed transmission ratio mode to a continuously variable transmission ratio mode at the generation of the maximum driving force is finished within the allowance of rotational speed. Ž

SOLUTION: When switching from the fixed transmission ratio mode to the continuously variable transmission ratio mode at...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To compensate inertia torque even when driving force is changed and disturbance occurs at change gear ratio fixed mode of a hybrid transmission to prevent occurrence of shock. Ž

SOLUTION: A setting part 31 sets target driving force from opening APO of an accelerator and vehicle speed VSP, and a static torque distribution part 32 decides a combination of ideal engine torq...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wire mounting pin supporting structure for a control shaft, having more simplified construction than conventional one for improving productivity and serviceability and reducing the weight. Ž

SOLUTION: A wire mounting pin 92 for connecting a control lever 90 to a control wire 104 is mounted on the control lever 90, extending the axial direction of the control...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To draw automatically both ends of a sheet-like molding material wound on a molding drum by setting the pressure of the inside of the molding drum negative. SOLUTION: A suction means 26 for setting the inside of a molding drum 3 to be in the negative pressure state is connected with the hollow molding drum 3, and the areas of both end openings of the molding drum 3 are formed...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a vehicle in follow-up travel control using an adaptive cruise control device from being conducted unnecessary automatic acceleration control when losing sight of a preceding vehicle at a freeway tollgate or a junction. SOLUTION: When the vehicle in follow-up travel control of the preceding vehicle loses sight of the preceding vehicle and accelerates for shifting t...

A target yaw rate setting unit of a control characteristics changing unit computes a first target yaw rate based on the radius of curvature of a curve. A target yaw rate setting unit of a braking force control unit computes a second target yaw rate based on driving conditions. When a cornering decision unit decides a turning intention, if the absolute value of the first target yaw rate is larger t...

A centrifuge having a drum rotatable in a predetermined direction about a drum axis has a cleaning device with a cleaning shaft extending generally parallel to the drum axis into the drum along a shaft axis. A pair of elongated slat-shaped cutters have inner ends fixed on the shaft, outer ends, and project radially outward of the shaft axis from the shaft. The inner ends are separated by a relativ...