PURPOSE:To provide compact installation structure of a driving device for a vehicle avoiding interference with a suspension device and a rear differential device and to effectively reduce squat, roll, etc., of a car body. CONSTITUTION:A pair of trailing links 18a, 18b extending roughly in the longitudinal direction on both side parts of a car body on a suspension device and front end parts of whic...

PURPOSE:To secure fail safe at actuator abnormal time in a braking device for a vehicle to transmit brake operation by a driver to an actuation input part through an actuator. CONSTITUTION:A brake actuator 50-1 to impress external force according to lever operation of a driver is connected to a brake pedal 25 to transmit proper thrust to a master cylinder 26. The brake actuator 50-l has a spring 5...

PURPOSE:To enhance traveling stability, and secure braking force when both a brake pedal and an accelerator pedal are operated by continuing brake traction control even when the brake pedal is actuated. CONSTITUTION:In traction control containing engine traction control and brake traction control, on the assumption that an attached letter [E] shows an engine and an attached letter [B] shows a brak...

PURPOSE:To reduce a load of a service brake by using both the service brake and a retarder. CONSTITUTION:When a brake pedal 13 is slightly stepped down, if it exists in a first region (1), it is detected by a brake pedal actuation detector 35. A control part 30 outputs a driving signal to a retarder 20. Weak braking force is obtained by the retarder 20. When the fact that stepping-down of the brak...

PURPOSE:To reduce the diameter of the girth of a transmission case to miniaturize it by providing a hole for inserting a bolt onto a flange part to fix the outer race of a bearing to a surface facing the flange part of a partition wall by the bolt inserted through the hole for inserting the bolt. CONSTITUTION:Plural, e.g. 4 screw holes ld are boredly provided at regular intervals along a periphera...

PURPOSE:To provide a positive electrode for a lead-acid battery in which adhesion properties between a plate or coil of a collector and an active material layer can be improved effectively. CONSTITUTION:Minium solution comprising minium kneaded with water is printed on a collector for plural times by screen printing to form a lead oxide forming layer of a thickness of 10-30mum. On the lead oxide f...

PURPOSE:To improve adhesion of a positive electrode base and active material to each other at their interface and decrease self-discharge by washing an electrode plate after formation of the electrode plate with water quantity of a specified quantity or less, and keeping the pH value inside the electrode plate at 4 or less. CONSTITUTION:By setting small a washing water quantity for an electrode pl...

PURPOSE:To smooth assist driving by an engine through an electric motor by making a gradual switching from electric motor driving to engine driving when the residual capacity of power supply for the electric motor drops below a predetermined level during torque assist operation. CONSTITUTION:When the residual capacity of power supply for an electric motor drops below a predetermined level during t...

The present invention provides improved processes for forming anti-corrosion layers, particularly barium metaplumbate, on lead, lead alloy-, and lead oxide-containing substrates. The processes of the invention are used to form corrosion-resistant current collectors which are assembled into lead-acid batteries. The inventive methods used to form barium metaplumbate employ a salt solution which incl...

A perishable good integrity indicator includes a first oscillator for outputting a first clock signal which does not substantially vary in response to temperature. A second oscillator outputs a second clock temperature which varies as a function of temperature. A counter counts the pulses of the second clock signal during a time period determined by the first clock and outputs a count value. A dat...

A status monitor and diagnostic unit (SMDU) (12) is provided in every car (14,16) of a magnetic levitation (MAGLEV) train (18) or other vehicle, and includes sensors (38,40,42,44,48,52) for monitoring the operational status or condition of the car (14,16). Network status interface units (NSIU) (22) are provided at stations (24) and at other fixed locations (26) through which the train (18) passes....

A ring-like band with both ends in which beads are wrapped is formed in the following procedure: A forming drum 11 mounted with a band 1 is expanded up to an intermediate diameter, and right and left bead lock segments 65 are positioned with specified intervals. Then, right and left fingers 54 are positioned outside edge portions 1a in the expanding state. Thus, right and left beads 2 are located ...

There is disclosed a method for the production of aliphatic copolyester film. The method comprises the steps of: applying esterification or ester-interchange to a reaction mixture of at least one acid component selected from the group consisting of succinic acid, succinic anhydride and succinic acid ester, 1,4-butanediol as a main diol component, 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propanediol of 1 to 30% by mole ba...

The present invention provides a light-absorbing compound represented by the formula (I): Dye-(OR1)(OR2)(OR3) . . . (ORn)(I) wherein Dye is a light-absorbing compound residue having at least one aromatic ring; OR1 to ORn are substituents on the aromatic ring, and are independently (a) substituted or unsubstituted saturated hydrocarbonoxy groups having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or (b) substituted or un...

A frequency-responsive integrated circuit (IC) for determining when the frequency of a clock pulse input signal is below a predetermined threshold level, the IC including a capacitor charged up at a nearly constant rate by a current source. If the capacitor voltage reaches one-third of the DC power voltage, and input pulses are received, the capacitor is discharged to start another charge-up cycle...

Different components of television programs, such as the video and audio components or different time segments of the program, are assigned to different channels transmitted in the form of packetized digital information in at least one of the channels of a multi-channel cable television distribution system. A particular subscriber's converter is configured to receive a particular subset of program...

A method of moving and guiding the travel of a golf cart between a plurality of marker lines by steering the cart, when sensing one marker line, toward the other marker line. A plurality of parallel lines to be sensed is formed by linearly disposing magnetic elements between the marker lines such that the extended parts of the parallel lines traverse the marker lines. An angle of the golf cart goi...

PURPOSE: To obtain from skimmilk cheese the subject sauce, having storage stability, capable of being effectively utilized for dip, spread and sauce or the like and has suitable concentration by stabilizing lactic components with a polyphosphate complexing agent, starch and gum. CONSTITUTION: While stirring and homogenizing the mixture of skimmilk cheese (with moisture in about 40 to 60%) and lact...

PURPOSE:To provide the efficient green tire feed system of a tire vulcanizing machine possible in the conservation of labor due to automation, easy to follow the alteration of specifications, rich in flexibility and achieved in the omission of wastefulness to the utmost. CONSTITUTION:A green tire is fed by a palette 10 loaded with the green tire and a palette feed device 11 and keeping areas S31, ...

PURPOSE:To prevent a material from sticking to a tip of an injection screw by a method wherein a thermosetting resin in an injection cylinder is discharged by making the injection screw proceed, the injection screw is retracted the most in a state that measuring is not performed, and thereafter operation of a molding machine is stopped. CONSTITUTION:When operation of a molding machine 1 is to be c...