Nissan Motor Company Limited

Dana Canada Corporation

Takayoshi Nabeta

Hiroshi Tanaka

Nobusuke Toukura

Yoshinori Nakano

Junichi Hasegawa

Satoshi Okano

Kazuhiro Kageyama

Ken Nakayama

Hisashi Niioka

Kotaro Akashi

Shojiro Sato

Akihiro Sakakida

Manaf Hasan

Craig Hogg

Tadayuki Akiyama

Mark Britton

Douglas Vanderwees

Nobuo Sakatsume

A gas/liquid separator is provided in which separation performance for fluid into gas and liquid is enhanced. A gas/liquid separator includes a body which separates a circulation gas into water and hydrogen gas in a separating space, a supply port from which the circulation gas flows into the inner space, the supply port being provided on the side wall surface forming the separating space, and a discharge port through which the separated hydrogen gas flows out of the separating space, the discharge port being provided on the side wall surface. In this case, the discharge port is provided above the supply port.

Gas/liquid separator

An apparatus for controlling a continuously variable transmission for use with an automotive vehicle. The transmission is operable at a variable speed ratio for transmitting a drive from its input shaft to its output shaft. A target value for the speed of rotation of the input shaft of the transmission is calculated based on the sensed vehicle operating conditions including vehicle acceleration. A correction factor per predetermined unit time is calculated based on the sensed vehicle acceleration when the sensed vehicle acceleration exceeds a threshold value with the accelerator pedal released. The correction factor is added to the target input shaft speed value to correct the target input shaft speed value in an increasing direction at intervals of the predetermined unit time. The threshold value is decreased as the vehicle speed increases. The speed ratio is controlled to bring the input shaft speed into coincidence with the corrected target value.

Continuously variable transmission control apparatus

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Yokosuka, Japan

Takayoshi Nabeta