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Power roller-side concave grooves are opposed to disk-side concave grooves 19, 19 so as to have angles therebetween in a rolling contact area between a peripheral surface of the power roller and a one-side surface 17 of a disk 16 in an axial direction regardless of a transmission gear ratio of a toroidal continuously variable transmission. Accordingly, the disk-side concave grooves 19, 19 are formed so as to have angles with respect to a circumferential direction of the disk 16 when viewed from a normal direction relative to the one-side surface 17 in the axial direction. Meanwhile, the power roller-side concave grooves are formed into a concentric shape (or a spiral shape) about a central shaft of the power roller. As a result, it is possible to prevent a decrease of a contact area in the rolling contact area regardless of the transmission gear ratio.

The present invention discloses a thermal module with heat reservoir, which is arranged with respect to a chip, and the thermal module comprises: a housing, disposed at a appropriate position corresponding to the chip and made of a material of high heat conductivity; a phase change material, disposed within the housing, capable of changing from a first state to a second state by absorbing heat and changing from the second state to the first state by releasing the heat stored therein; wherein the thermal module can be either mounted on the chip at an appropriate location or disposed at a location separated from the chip by an appropriate distance, in addition, the phase change process of the phase change material changing between the first state and the second state can be either a physical process or a chemical process.

An electrolytic cathode consists of a solid copper hanger bar and a stainless-steel mother plate attached to a receiving groove in the underside of the hanger bar. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the entire length of connection is welded, thereby establishing a large boundary surface for good electrical conductance. The solid hanger bar further includes a cladding of stainless steel wrapped over the copper bar and the upper portion of the mother plate, leaving only the ends of the copper bar exposed for electrical connection with conventional bus-bars. The lower edges of the cover are attached to the mother plate by a steel-to-steel weld that produces a strong and durable connection. The lateral edges of the cover are also connected to the copper bar by a conventional copper weld that completely seals the cover over the copper bar, thereby preventing contamination from the electrolytic solution. The cover is then welded to the mother plate and sealed around the copper bar. The heat produced by the welding process, which causes the steel cladding material to expand during welding, is used to improve the tightness of the fit between the cover and the copper bar as a result of the cover's shrinkage occurring during cooling.

In a printing apparatus of an off-carriage type, when a pump motor is rotated regularly for delivering pressurizing air to an ink cartridge, rotation thereof is converted into a linear reciprocating movement of a pressing member by a cam mechanism and a pressurizing operation is executed by repeating to operate to expand and contract a diaphragm. On the other hand, the pump motor is started to rotate inversely, a driven part is rotated by a friction clutch mechanism, and a pressing portion of the driven part is brought into contact with a valve opening lever of an atmospheric release valve. At this occasion, the valve opening lever is pivoted to bring a valve hole into an opened state and pressurizing air is discharged to outside by bringing the atmospheric release valve into an opened state.

An engine control apparatus for a work vehicle having a cooling fan or an auxiliary device driven by an engine. The engine control apparatus is capable of operating the work vehicle with the importance placed either on amount of work or fuel economy depending on the situation, and preventing the input of excessive traveling horsepower (or working horsepower), regardless of a selected work mode, to ensure durability of the traveling power train (or work machine drive equipment). Upon selection of a work mode by the work mode selection switch, a controller controls the engine to obtain a power curve selected from those selectable for the selected work mode can be obtained, based on the coolant temperature range and the selected work mode, so that the input torque transmitted to the traveling power train does not surpass the upper limit for the input torque (rated output).

A fluid filled type vibration damping device including an elastic rubber body elastically connecting an inner shaft member and an outer tube member. The elastic rubber body has a solid rubber wall that includes inside face recesses and outside face recesses respectively formed to either side of the inner shaft member in an axis-perpendicular direction so that a pair of thin portions and a pair of thick portions respectively situated in opposition along mutually orthogonal axes lying in axis-perpendicular directions are formed in the solid rubber wall. A deepest part of the inside face recesses is situated towards an axial small diameter side of the solid rubber wall with respect to an deepest part of the outside face recesses, with the inside face recesses and the outside face recesses overlapping one another in the axis-perpendicular direction of the solid rubber wall.

A cycle wheel and methods of manufacture of such a wheel. The cycle wheel has tensioned spokes between a hub and a rim and is equipped with a wheel fairing attached to the rim. The rim is provided with two grooves for receiving two radially outer edges of the wheel fairing, and the rim exerts, in the area of the two grooves, a centripetal force that blocks the radially outer edges of the wheel fairing in the grooves.

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for removing methane from a gas which contains the methane at such a low concentration as not to be rendered into a combustible range with whatever ratio of air mixed therewith. In order to ensure satisfactory methane removal performance even in the coexistence of sulfur compound and in order also to provide stable methane removal performance for an extended period of time without performance deterioration even when the methane concentration varies significantly, the gas is fed to a heat exchanger for preheating and methane is exposed to an oxidation catalyst which oxidizes the methane through contact therewith. Then, the resultant gas is fed again to the heat exchanger for heat recovery through heat exchange with un-reacted gas. Further, the flow rate of gas to be treated is varied, according to a concentration of the methane contained in this treated gas.

Disclosed is a method of controlling an operation mode of a fuel cell in a fuel cell vehicle wherein, (a) when a driver-demanded torque is lower than a first torque, and a current state of charge (SOC) in a battery is higher than a first SOC, the operation mode of the fuel cell is converted to a stop mode, and (b) when the driver-demanded torque is higher than a second torque, or the current SOC in the battery is lower than a second SOC, the operation mode is converted to a start mode, wherein the second torque is higher than the first torque and the second SOC is lower than the first SOC.

The invention concerns new lubricants comprising a combination of a polyethylene oxide and an oligomer amide and an improved metallurgical powder composition comprising a major amount of an iron-based powder and a minor amount of this new lubricant. Furthermore, the invention concerns a method requiring low ejection force and low ejection energy for producing green products having high green strength. The method comprises the steps of mixing an iron-based powder and optional additives with the new lubricant and compacting the obtained powder composition.

A vehicle drive shaft includes: a first shaft portion, having a core shaft portion and a sleeve shaft portion coaxially arranged at one end, and a second shaft portion, having a spline hole portion and a second engagement protrusion at one end. A spline shaft portion and a first engagement protrusion are provided at distal ends of the core shaft portion and sleeve shaft portion. The spline hole portion is nonrotatably fixed to the spline shaft portion. The second engagement portion contacts the first engagement portion when a relative torsion allowable angle therebetween is larger than or equal to a gap. When the relative torsion allowable angle is smaller than the gap, torque is transmitted via the core shaft portion. When the relative torsion allowable angle is larger than or equal to the gap, torque is transmitted via not only the core shaft portion but also the sleeve shaft portion.

The present invention provides an image processing method which includes recording an image by irradiating a recording medium with laser beams which are arrayed in parallel at predetermined intervals to heat the recording medium, so that the image is composed of a plurality of lines written with the laser beams on the recording medium, and wherein in the image recording, the plurality of lines written with the laser beams include a line written first and an overwritten line, a part of which is overlapped with the line written first; and the irradiation energy for the overwritten line is smaller than the irradiation energy for the line written first.

A vibration damping device capable of reducing a change in an order frequency of a reciprocating motion of a pendulum resulting from eccentricity of rotational members therein. The vibration damping comprises a pendulum damping mechanism having a mass to dampen the torsional vibrations by an oscillating motion thereof resulting from the torsional vibrations. An inertial body is arranged in the prime mover side of the rotary shaft, an elastic damping mechanism is connected with a transmission side of the inertial body in a power transmittable manner, a pendulum damping mechanism is connected with the transmission side of the elastic damping mechanism in a power transmittable manner, and a torque limiter mechanism is connected with the transmission side of the pendulum damping mechanism in a power transmittable manner.

A driving apparatus having a shaft structure that reduces a load on shaft supports and enhances durability of the motor. The driving apparatus includes an electric motor, an electric motor shaft, first and second shaft supports, a counter drive gear on the electric motor shaft, and a counter driven gear to be meshed with the counter drive gear. Output of the electric motor is transmitted to wheels through both of the gears. The counter drive gear is disposed at a position closer to one of the shaft supports, a helix angle is set in a direction in which a thrust force S acts toward the second shaft support, which is farther from the gear. With this arrangement, a load caused by a radial force applied to the first shaft support, which is closer to the counter drive gear, is reduced.

A first base material having a number of male engaging elements (112) formed of synthetic resin on a surface thereof and a second base material (121) are jointed and secured each other through a column-like joint portion (131). There is provided a male fixing member for sheets, which facilitates attachment operation to clothes or suspension cloths, has a durability, never loses appearance when it is mounted on clothes and allows even an infant to engage or disengage the male fixing members easily by an engagement / disengagement function of a surface fastener.

A flow control device is provided comprising:a housing (19) including a first chamber (21) communicated with an inlet port (11) and a second chamber (22) communicated with an outlet port (12); a cylindrical portion (25), which extends in the second chamber, for communicating the first chamber with the second chamber; a valve seat (61) provided at a forward end portion (25a) of the cylindrical portion; and a valve body (32) for opening and closing the valve seat, wherein at least one of the valve seat and the valve body is made of a material, the heat deformation of which is smaller than that of material composing the cylindrical portion. Due to the foregoing, it is possible to stably adjust the flow rate of a fluid of a high temperature and pressure. A pressure chamber (29), which is communicated with the second chamber and provided with a pressure port (18), may be arranged in the housing. A first and second flexible separation means (41, 51), which are connected to each other, for separating the second chamber and the pressure chamber from each other may be provided and a bed (75) arranged between the first and the second flexible separation means may be also provided. A reinforcement member (90) may be embedded in the cylindrical portion (25).

A hose coupling using at least one reinforcing ring to reinforce a hose coupling during a crimping process, the hose coupling having an inner sleeve, an outer sleeve coaxial with the inner sleeve, and a hose coaxially interposed therebetween. During the crimping process a crimping force is applied directly to the outer sleeve to form at least one depression that results in an area of peak crimp force on the inner sleeve, the depression helping to seal and lock the hose between the inner and outer sleeves. The reinforcing ring is positioned within the inner sleeve and concentric with the area of peak crimp force on the inner sleeve. Consequently, the reinforcing ring prevents the inner sleeve from deforming under the crimping force, thereby ensuring the integrity and long-term durability of the hose coupling. The reinforcing ring preferably has an inside diameter equal to or greater than an inside diameter of the inner sleeve and is disposed within at least one groove located within the inner sleeve to permit unrestricted fluid flow through the hose coupling.

Provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition may be applied as a light diffusing or scattering material to various display devices or lighting apparatuses.

A battery unit mounting apparatus for an electric vehicle includes four or more fixing portions configured to be provided at the bottom of an electric vehicle and four or more corresponding portions-to-be-fixed on a battery unit. When the battery unit is raised toward the vehicle, the battery unit mounting apparatus causes each fixing portion to be engaged with the corresponding one of the portions-to-be-fixed. There is a first group, formed by three of the fixing portions and corresponding three of the portions-to-be-fixed, and a second group, formed by the remaining one or more of the fixing portions and the remaining one or more of the portions-to-be-fixed. The fixing portion and the portion-to-be-fixed in the second group are configured to be engaged with each other after the fixing portions and the portions-to-be-fixed in the first group are engaged.

A position shift control apparatus is provided which includes an electrical motor joined to an object through an output shaft and a torque transmission mechanism, a detent mechanism producing elastic pressure to hold the object at a target position, and a motor controller. When torque, which is created by the elastic pressure produced by the detent mechanism and acts on the output shaft during rotation of the motor, is opposite in orientation to that outputted by the motor, the motor controller determines the angular position of the motor, as sampled upon a change in an output from an output shaft position sensor, as a reference angular position of the motor for use in controlling the position of the motor, thereby resulting in a decrease in mechanical load on the detent mechanism and the torque transmission mechanism to ensure the durability and operation accuracy of the apparatus.

A suspension system for motor vehicles includes level regulation for adjusting a predetermined height of the vehicle body. At least one piston-cylinder unit of the suspension system includes a work cylinder, a piston rod and a damping piston having damping valves. A pump is arranged between an oil reservoir and the piston-cylinder unit via corresponding inlet and outlet lines. The pump comprises a pump piston and a drive unit arranged so that a pressure of the piston-cylinder unit acts on a delivery side and on a driving side of the pump piston

A roller bearing apparatus provided with a roller bearing having an outer ring with a cylindrical opening that opens at one end and a cover fitted in the opening against the inner periphery thereof to close it. The cover is provided with an inscribing surface that inscribes the. inner periphery of the opening and a stepped surface that protrudes radially outward from the inscribing surface to abut the axial end face of the opening. The axial end face of the opening is provided with a beveled part on the inner rim. An annular space formed by the beveled part, inscribing surface, and stepped surface is filled with sealant.

A gas-turbine engine combustor having a plurality of venturi mixers, each connected to an air supply path that passes air compressed by a compressor and to a supply source of gaseous fuel, which mix the air and the gaseous fuel to produce an air-fuel mixture and supply the air-fuel mixture to a combustion chamber for generating premixed combustion or diffusive combustion such that produced combustion gas is supplied to a turbine through a turbine nozzle to rotates the turbine that outputs its rotation through an output shaft, while driving the compressor by the rotation. The combustor includes a casing which defines the combustion chamber, and a liner disposed at an outer side of the casing to be communicated with the turbine nozzle, wherein the liner is formed with a plurality of holes through which a part of air passing through the air supply path enters the outer side of the casing, thereby enabling to cool the combustion chamber casing effectively, without introducing a flesh air or a diluted air into the combustion section of the combustion chamber, while ensuring the strength and durability of the combustion chamber casing.