Sony Corporation

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited

Hitachi, Ltd.

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

Kayaba Industry Company, Ltd.

Hideki Sekiguchi

Hiroyuki Sakamoto

Yasuaki Sato

Takahisa Kato

Satoru Watanabe

Yasuhiro Tanaka

Kyugo Hamai

Junji Harada

Takao Senga

Jun Urasaki

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Seigo Ebato

Ryosuke Ishida

Tomoyuki Murakami

Manabu Yoshida

Motohiro Higuma

Suguru Yabe

Kenji Yabuta

Akihiro Sato

Shogo Miyamoto

Kenichi Hoshino

Tetsuya Uto

Yuji Noto

Yuta Tanaka

Toshiya Oosawa

Noriaki Furukawa

Fumihiro Ohsawa

The present invention is to make it possible to effectively recover regenerative energy and improve a fuel efficiency. Thus, there is provided an HCMof a hybrid vehicle, in which the hybrid vehicle includes: an engine; a drive wheel to which a driving force of the engine is transmittable; a motor to which the driving force from the engine is transmittable and which is capable of transmitting a driving force to the drive wheel; and a battery which supplies power for driving the motor and stores power generated by the motor. The HCMis configured to include: a high efficiency range information storage unitthat stores information specifying a high efficiency range in which an engine efficiency of the engine is high in an engine characteristic of the engine; a power generation amount measurement unitthat measures a low efficiency range power generation amount, which is an amount of power generated by the motor and stored in the battery when the engine operates in a low efficiency range being out of the high efficiency range; and an integrated control unitthat controls power of the low efficiency range power generation amount to be supplied from the battery to the motor when it is necessary to supply power for driving the motor.

Hybrid vehicle control apparatus and hybrid vehicle

Provided is a transmission control device which can improve drivability in an acceleration section even while taking a reduction of fuel consumption in a deceleration section into consideration. The transmission control device (transmission controller) which controls a transmission in a running control of a vehicle includes a shift timing calculation unit which determines an acceleration position at which the vehicle accelerates on the basis of a target speed pattern generated from external information, a target gear ratio calculation unit which determines a required gear ratio which is required at the acceleration position, and a gear ratio overwriting command unit which outputs a command of overwriting the gear ratio such that the gear ratio at the acceleration position approaches the required gear ratio. In the control of the transmission of the transmission controller, the gear ratio is set to the required gear ratio (target gear ratio) at a predetermined point after the vehicle exits the deceleration section and reaches the acceleration position.

Transmission control device

The present invention relates to a range switching device for performing range switching of an automatic transmission by using an actuator that is electrically controlled to be driven, and to a switching method thereof. A range switching device of an automatic transmission that can reduce collision noise occurring from a detent mechanism and a switching method thereof are provided. The automatic transmission includes a detent mechanism that presses a roller against a groove by using a spring, moves the roller between grooves, and determines a range position of the transmission, and a range of the transmission is changed by driving the detent mechanism by the actuator. In changing a range position of the transmission, the actuator is braked in accordance with a drawing force of the spring into a groove so that energy of the velocity when the roller reaches a target stop position can be controlled to approach zero.

Range switching device for automatic transmission and switching method therefor

A method for forming an image and a protective layer on a transfer receiving material, by thermal transfer, including supplying a thermal transfer sheet between a thermal head of a thermal printer and a platen roller, wherein the thermal transfer sheet includes color material layers and a transferable protective layer arranged in a face serial manner, and wherein the thermal head includes heat generating portions arranged substantially in parallel with each other; thermally transferring the color material layers to form an image on the transfer receiving material; thermally transferring the transferable protective layer to form a protective layer on the transfer receiving material; and shifting the relative positions of the thermal head and the transfer receiving material with respect to each other, in a direction substantially in parallel with a main scanning direction, after transferring the color material layers at least once.

Method for forming image and protective layer and apparatus therefor

Provided is a transmission control system that enables more precise control of the transmission ratio. This transmission control system is provided with a motor, an actuator, a transmission, a position sensor, a current sensor, and a control unit. The control unit includes: a drive unit that drives the motor while the vehicle is stopped; and a first estimation unit that estimates the initial transmission ratio, which indicates the transmission ratio when the ignition switch is turned on, on the basis of a rotation position detected by the position sensor, a load current detected by the current sensor, and a characteristic curve over a period during which the drive unit is operating.

Transmission control system

The present invention addresses the problem of obtaining an electronic control device for a vehicular automatic transmission that suppresses sudden acceleration, sudden deceleration, and gear shift shock that occur when the transmission moves into a fail-safe mode due to the electronic control device stopping during a main CPU abnormality. An electronic control devicefor a vehicular automatic transmission has: a main CPUthat performs gear shift control for the vehicular automatic transmission; and a sub-CPUthat detects abnormalities in the main CPU. When the sub-CPUdetects an abnormality in the main CPUwhile the vehicle is traveling, the sub-CPUstops the gear shift control executed by the main CPU

Electronic control device for vehicular automatic transmission

A brake system provided with a brake booster using intake negative pressure of an engine for boosting a brake operating force for a vehicle. A requested braking force is detected base on an operating amount of a brake pedal, and when the requested braking force is less than a threshold value, a master cylinder pressure prevailing in the master cylinder using an operating force boosted by the brake booster is supplied to the wheel cylinder. On the other hand, when the requested braking force is greater than or equal to the threshold value, brake fluid pressure having been boosted by a pump is supplied to the wheel cylinder. The threshold value is set to a value that becomes greater the larger the negative pressure inside the brake booster.

Brake system for engine-operated vehicle and controlling method thereof

A resin composition used to form a dye-receiving layer of a thermal transfer-receiving sheet in which the dye-receiving layer is formed on at least one surface of a substrate contains a core/shell-type latex including a core containing (A) and a shell containing (B) and a cross-linking agent that reacts with a carboxyl group contained in the shell. (A) is an acrylic resin at least containing, as one of its monomers, a substituted or unsubstituted phenoxyalkyl (meth)acrylate and/or a substituted or unsubstituted phenoxy polyalkylene glycol (meth)acrylate. (B) is a urethane resin containing a carboxyl group.

Resin composition, thermal transfer-receiving sheet, and method for making thermal transfer-receiving sheet

A receptor layer forming composition of a thermal transfer receiving sheet includes a core/shell-type latex which includes a core portion made from an acrylic resin (A) and a shell portion made from a urethane resin (B); and a hydrophilic acrylic resin containing hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate as at least one polymerizable component. The acrylic resin (A) contains substituted or unsubstituted phenoxyalkyl (meth)acrylate and/or substituted or unsubstituted phenoxy polyalkylene glycol (meth)acrylate as at least one polymerizable component thereof. The urethane resin (B) contains a carboxyl group.

Receptor layer forming composition and thermal transfer receiving sheet

A recording liquid to be attached in a droplet state to an object for the purpose of recording on the object is disclosed, which contains a coloring matter, a solvent for dissolving or dispersing the coloring matter therein, and at least one cyclic aliphatic compound represented by the following chemical formula (1): wherein Ra and Rb each represents an alkyl group of from 1 to 3 carbon atoms and are satisfied with the relation of [2&#x2266;(Ra+Rb)&#x2266;4].

Recording liquid, liquid cartridge, liquid discharge device, and liquid discharge method

A recording liquid to be attached in a droplet state to an object for the purpose of recording on the object is disclosed, which contains at least one alkylene glycol selected from 1,2-pentanediol, 1,2-hexanediol and 1,3-hexanediol, thereby adjusting a zero second dynamic surface tension thereof at 35 mN/m or more and not more than 40 mN/m and contains a surfactant, thereby adjusting a static surface tension thereof which is satisfied with the following numerical expression (1):(&#x3b3;&#x2212;3)&#x2266;&#x3b3;&#x2266;(&#x3b3;&#x2212;1)&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)wherein &#x3b3;[mN/m] represents a zero second dynamic surface tension; and &#x3b3;[mN/m] represents a static surface tension.

An ink containing an ethylene oxide adduct of a dihydric alcohol, having a hydrocarbon group with 9 or less carbon atoms and having an I/O ratio ranging between 1 and 1.37, is supplied via nozzles in the form of liquid droplets onto a recording paper sheet, so that fine bubble may be suppressed from being generated in the ink to prevent emission defects such as non-emission or warped emission, and hence a high quality image free of blurring or white spots may be produced.

Recording liquid, liquid cartridge, liquid discharge apparatus and method of liquid discharge

The invention provides a power transmission apparatus for vehicle which can realize a high torque transmission efficiency and a high reduction gear ratio of a reduction gear unit with a more compact structure, and a vehicle-driving electric machinery system using the power transmission apparatus for vehicle. The power transmission apparatus for vehicle comprises a motor, a reduction gear unit for decelerating power outputted from the motor, and a differential gear unit for distributing the power decelerated by the reduction gear unit to left and right wheels. The reduction gear unit is a reduction gear mechanism including a plurality of gears mounted over a shaft which is rotatably held by a housing in a fixed position. The reduction gear unit and the differential gear unit are arranged within an area in oppositely facing relation to an axial end surface of the motor.

Power transmission apparatus for vehicle and vehicle-driving electric machinery system using the same

A hydraulic motor is equipped with an output shaft (), a cylinder () arranged around the output shaft and receiving a plurality of pistons () expanding with the fluid pressure, a diagonal plate () that contacts the plurality of the expanding pistons (), thereby to exert rotational force to the cylinder (), a brake disc () disposed outside the cylinder () to rotate together therewith, a motor casing () receiving the cylinder () and the brake disc (), a brake driving device () that presses an outer periphery of the brake disc () on an inner peripheral surface of the motor casing () to brake the brake disc. A first chamber () and a second chamber () are defined in the motor casing () by the brake disc () and a communicating passage () formed bypassing the brake disc () communicates the first chamber) with the second chamber (). Since the pressure difference between the first chamber () and the second chamber () is prevented due to the communicating passage (), the friction resistance does not occur at the brake disc () when the braking is released.

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Hideki Sekiguchi