For each quote entered into a computerized anonymous trading system, the system determines if it is waiting to be "hit" (would be matched with the first hit of a predetermined size) at a substantial number of trading floors, and if so, notifies the trader originating the quote. The substantial number of floors is preferably expressed as greater than a predetermined percentage of the available trad...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically start an engine quietly in starting the engine after the engine is stopped when the engine speed is lower than the prescribed value by providing a first motor capable of driving an input shaft. SOLUTION: When an automobile is started from a stopped condition, and a driver steps in a throttle pedal, a controller immediately supplies the power according to the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form in a small diameter a gear in a differential device side and an output gear, while transmitting large torque, reduce the number of part items, weight and size by a simple structure, enhance reliability, reduce play and noise, and reduce cost. SOLUTION: This device, having output gears 21, 25 meshed with a differential device side gear 55, torque transmitting routes 5,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain compactness also attain simplification of a control system, in a running assist device for a vehicle driving a right/left wheel by an electric motor. SOLUTION: This device has a differential device 20 constituted by a double pinion type planet gear, a drive motor 7 connecting an output shaft 7s to a ring gear 21 of the differential device 20, and a generator/motor 8...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate wrong running due to abnormality of a solenoid valve in a transmission for an industrial vehicle. SOLUTION: In an industrial vehicle provided with a transmission comprising clutches 2, 3 performing opening/closing action to transmit power of an engine 1 to a drive wheel at necessary time, a solenoid valve 4 controlling opening/ closing action of the clutch by sup...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To safely recover the distance reduced by the cut-in to a target value by stating the deceleration from a vehicle at the end of the vehicle group while exchanging the traveling information through the communication between vehicles when the cut-in of a vehicle is judged, and controlling the driving force of the vehicle so that vehicles in front successively follow the deceler...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a device to perform a good shift with a small shift shock. SOLUTION: During shift control by an ATCU13 (judge in S2), air/fuel ratio switching control by an ECU20 is prohibited (process in S3), after completing the shift control, so as to permit execution of the air/fuel ratio switching control (combustion condition switching control) (S2, S4, S5). During the air/fu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent failure from causing wrong behavior control, by performing vehicle behavior control with a position control means, based on an estimating value of turning state amount estimated by an estimating means until the failure judgment of the turning state amount detecting means by a failure judging means. SOLUTION: Until failure judgment of all sensors by a failure judgin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reliably and correctly attach an accessory of a package to a packaging film by running the packaging film formed into a shape comprising a wide flat part and low standing parts at both ends thereof by a former in an inverse pillow package. SOLUTION: A strip-shaped packaging film 3 is formed into a wide flat part 3a and standing parts 3b at both ends thereof by a former 26....

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To correctly and automatically adjust thickness of an object to be packaged. SOLUTION: A space between deaerating plates 8, 8 provided on a pair of lateral sealing jaws 3, 3 is controlled based on thickness (d) of an object W to be packaged, wherein the plates 8, 8 are brought into pressure contact with both faces of a cylindrical packaging material S fed to a lateral sealing...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mold which can form a flat semi-package excellently. SOLUTION: The mold provided in a packaging apparatus for forming a semi-package 31 by applying a lower lateral seal on a cylindrical packaging material 1, filling liquid-like contents inside the packaging material from above the lower lateral seal and applying an upper lateral seal above the lower lateral seal ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for supplying a film in a packaging apparatus wherein respective overlapped packing films can be fed to the packaging apparatus without shifting in widthwise and lengthwise directions from each other. SOLUTION: The method for supplying a film in a packaging apparatus for automatically making bags, filling and packaging comprises steps of overlapping a plur...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the consumption of air required for driving a horizontal sealing device, and to simplify a support structure of an air cylinder. SOLUTION: A horizontal sealing device 10 to heat-seal and cut a cylindrical film 40 in which a filler 45 is charged in the width direction feed the cylindrical film 40 downward while holding it, and is arranged below an ironing roller 6 to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To feed attachments at the position along a side of a container with simple constitution, and to package an article without affecting the appearance of the packaged article even when the attachments of half-split chopsticks or the like are inserted in a bag, etc. SOLUTION: A half-split chopsticks carrying conveyor 16 where a half-split chopsticks body 15 placed in a roll-over...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a package filled with jelly-like medicine, food or the like to be taken out of a bag with a one-touch operation of a single hand after unsealing, by forming a cross section of a core to be approximately circular, forming a longitudinal seal along at least one of its lengthwise directions and filling and sealing contents. SOLUTION: Upper and lower openings of a cylin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermal power plant which can utilize a hat energy generated in the operation of a plant and increase the thermal efficiency of the plant. SOLUTION: This thermal power plant is provided with a high pressure air heat utilization part 19 which can heat at least side out of a feed water and steam branched from at least one side of the economizer 16 and superheater 1...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To contrive a sharp improvement in turbine output in the summertime by removing a part of dust passed through a filter simultaneously with the cooling of intake air, spraying the purified intake air with a mist and lowering the temperature, and evaporating a part of the mists in a compressor, thereby enhancing an intake air cooling effect. SOLUTION: This gas turbine system dr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the generation of a wheel hitting sound in a gear mechanism in the prime mover stopping time, without reducing the efficiency as a power output device. SOLUTION: When an ignition switch 179 is turned off and an engine 150 is stopped, in a hybrid vehicle with an engine being operated in the stopping condition, the throttle valve 166 of the engine 150 is fully closed...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To further reduce fuel consumption and exhaust gas by allowing the starting by a motor generator in an engine stopping condition. SOLUTION: When the battery residual capacity (SOC) is at a specific value or more, the starting is controlled by a control means 85b making a motor generator as the main body, and when the SOC is less than the specific value, the starting is contro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve vehicular driving operability by setting up a turning travel state being desired on the basis of a vehicular state quantity, and relatively changing the magnitude of braking force to be imparted to each wheel in accordance with the target turning travel state, while lowering the driving output. SOLUTION: An attitude control (SCS) controller 5 performs a judgment of...