Abstract: A conveyer equipped with rotating discs rotatable around axes thereof relative to a mounting base. Each of the rotating discs has grooves in which rectangular wires are receivable. When an upstream and a downstream one of the rotating disc are arranged in a given angular relation to each other, one of the grooves of the upstream rotating disc is aligned with that of the downstream rotating disc to pass the rectangular wire from the upstream rotating disc to the downstream rotating disc. Upon such passing of the rectangular wire, the grooves of the upstream and downstream rotating discs hold or clamp all side surfaces of the rectangular wire, thereby ensuring the stability in retaining the rectangular wire when passed from one to another of the rotating discs, which enables the conveyer to carry the rectangular wires at high speeds.

Abstract: Provided is a control device performing upshifting engagement control where engagement pressure of a second engagement device is gradually increased, and disengagement control where a disengagement force to disengage a first engagement device acts on a meshing portion of the first engagement device. The control device gradually increases engagement pressure of the second engagement device toward target engagement pressure at which transmission torque capacity of the second engagement device reaches a magnitude determined based on input torque from a drive power source to an input member, and changes engagement pressure of the second engagement device set at or after a time when the engagement pressure of the second engagement device reaches set engagement pressure lower than the target engagement pressure, smaller than a change rate of the engagement pressure of the second engagement device set before reaching the set pressure, and thereafter starts the disengagement control.

Abstract: Liquid metals or plastic are deposited into a reservoir of powder that supports the liquid metal or plastic as it cools.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle of the disclosure includes an engine, a motor that outputs a torque to a driving system, a hydraulic clutch that connects the engine with the motor and disconnects the engine from the motor, and a control device that performs slip control of the hydraulic clutch in response to satisfaction of a start condition of the engine and controls the motor to output at least a cranking torque to the engine. The control device sets a target value of a rotation speed difference between the engine and the motor during execution of the slip control, and increases at least one of a hydraulic pressure to the hydraulic clutch, an output torque of the motor and an output torque of the engine when a difference between the rotation speed difference and the target value is out of an allowable range. This configuration ensures good startability of the engine.

Abstract: A power transmission control device acquires rotation speed information of an idle gear corresponding to a target engagement member and rotation speed information of a sleeve corresponding to an engagement member, sets one rotation speed changeable by a power source as a synchronization side rotation speed, sets the other rotation speed as a target synchronization side rotation speed, allows a differential rotation between the synchronization side rotation speed and the target synchronization side rotation speed to match a predetermined differential rotation by changing the synchronization side rotation speed using the power source after a power transmission releasing state is selected due to a gear changing request, performs an engagement operation, inverts a sign of the predetermined differential rotation, and switches to the power transmission state while allowing the differential rotation to match the predetermined differential rotation of which the sign is inverted.

Abstract: A control device of a hybrid vehicle of the disclosure includes a clutch controller configured to perform slip control of a hydraulic clutch in response to satisfaction of a start condition of an engine and to perform pressure increase control of increasing a hydraulic pressure to the hydraulic clutch with elapse of time after a rotation speed difference between the engine and a motor enters a predetermined range; and an engine controller configured to start fuel injection and ignition of the engine before the rotation speed difference enters the predetermined range, to control the engine such that the rotation speed of the engine becomes equal to a target rotation speed after the start of the fuel injection and the ignition, and to increase the target rotation speed of the engine as an angular acceleration of the motor becomes larger during execution of the pressure increase control.

Abstract: A vehicle electric motor including: a tubular-shaped stator core constituted by electromagnetic steel sheets that are laminated on each other; a rotor disposed inside the stator core so as to be rotated about an axis; and a housing storing therein the tubular-shaped stator core and the rotor, and including a circumferential wall and axially opposite end walls that are opposed to each other in a direction parallel with the axis. The stator core is fixed at one of its axially end portions to one of the axially opposite end walls of the housing. The housing includes a stator-core-inclination restraining portion that protrudes from an inner circumferential surface of the circumferential wall of the housing toward a part of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core, wherein the part is located on a side of the other of the axially end portions of the stator core.

Abstract: A cooling mechanism for a vehicle electric motor. The cooling mechanism includes: a coolant oil passage provided between a rotor core and a rotor shaft of the electric motor; an oil supply passage provided inside the rotor shaft and communicating with the coolant oil passage; and at least one first discharge port and at least one second discharge port provided in respective first and second end plates disposed on respective opposite sides of the rotor core. The coolant oil passage includes a first passage portion communicating with the at least one first discharge port, and a second passage portion communicating with the at least one second discharge port. Each of the at least one first discharge port is located in a position that is different from a position of any one of the at least one second discharge port as seen in an axial direction of the rotor shaft.

Abstract: A control device of a hybrid vehicle including an engine, motor that receives power from the engine via an engine connecting and disconnecting device, and automatic transmission, starts the engine in a first starting method in which the engine performs ignition and rotates by itself after the engine speed is increased to be equal to or higher than a predetermined rotational speed through slipping engagement of the engine connecting and disconnecting device, or a second starting method in which the engine performs ignition and rotates by itself from a stage before the engine speed reaches the predetermined rotational speed, and controls the automatic transmission to permit a lower gear position to be established according to shift conditions when the engine is started in the second starting method during a downshift of the automatic transmission, as compared with when the engine is started in the first starting method during the downshift.

Abstract: A torsional vibration damper that damps torsional vibration effectively in a low-speed range. In the torsional vibration damper, a spring holder is formed by apertures of an input element and an output element, and an elastic member is held in the spring holder. A first moveable range of a planetary element extending from an initial position in a drive direction is wider than a second movable range of the planetary element extending from the initial position in a counter direction.

Abstract: A vehicle electric motor including: a tubular-shaped stator core constituted by laminated steel sheets; a casing including an outer circumferential wall and a bottom wall, and storing therein an axial end portion of the stator core; a casing cover including an outer circumferential wall and a bottom wall, and storing therein another axial end portion of the stator core, and a rotor disposed inside the stator core. The stator core includes fastened portions protruding radially outwardly from respective portions of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core which are circumferentially spaced apart from each other. The stator core is fastened at the fastened portions to the bottom wall of one of the casing and the casing cover. The other of the casing and the casing cover includes protrusion portions protruding from its inner wall surface toward the stator core so as to restrain inclination of the stator core.

Abstract: In an information processing device, an acquisition unit acquires current position information of a vehicle. A route search unit searches for a route from a departure place via the current position of the vehicle to a destination based on the current position information of the vehicle acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: A torsional vibration damper that a torsional vibration damper having a planetary gear unit, and a manufacturing method of the torsional vibration damper for limiting damages on gears of the planetary gear unit due to dimension errors. In the planetary gear unit, at least one of a sun gear, a ring gear, and a set of planetary gears is/are formed by a press forming method. The gear formed by the press forming method is engaged with the remaining gears in such a manner that a thinner portion of each tooth is individually engaged with a thicker portion of the adjacent teeth of the remaining gears.

Abstract: A drive apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes: (a) a hybrid drive unit having (a-1) an automatic transmission, (a-2) a first rotating machine and (a-3) an engine connected to the first rotating machine through a hydraulically-operated connecting/disconnecting device; (b) an electric drive unit including a second rotating machine; and (c) a hybrid control device configured, in event of an anomaly that disables a shift control of the automatic transmission, to generate an electric power by causing the first rotating machine to be rotated by the engine and drive the hybrid vehicle to run by causing the second rotating machine of the electric drive unit to be operated with use of the generated electric power, in a state in which a power transmission through the automatic transmission is cut off and the connecting/disconnecting device is engaged.

Abstract: A differential device includes a differential case (10) that has a flange portion (11) and a differential ring gear (40) that has a tooth portion, a fixed and supported portion (45), and a coupling portion. The differential case (10) has a first abutting surface (10a) and a restricting portion (10b). The differential ring gear (40) has a second abutting surface (40a) and an abutting portion (40b). A welding portion that is formed by welding the flange portion (11) of the differential case (10) and the fixed and supported portion (45) of the differential ring gear (40) is disposed at a position that is different from an abutting part between the first abutting surface (10a) and the second abutting surface (40a) and an abutting part between the restricting portion (10b) and the abutting portion (40b).

Abstract: According to one aspect of embodiments, a driver circuit having an overcurrent protection function includes a control signal generating circuit that outputs a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) control signal for controlling turning ON and OFF of the output transistor that supplies output current to a load; and a control circuit that generates a signal indicating an overcurrent state when a count value of an overcurrent detecting signal exceeds a predetermined number, which indicates that a value of an output current of the output transistor within the predetermined time interval exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A vehicle driving apparatus including: a fluid pump; a rotary member; a bearing supporting the rotary member; a pump cover covering the fluid pump; a relief valve; and a casing storing the fluid pump, the rotary member, the bearing, the pump cover and the relief valve. The casing includes a casing body and a casing cover. The casing cover defines a fluid passage that is in communication with an outlet port of the fluid pump, and includes cylindrical-shaped first and second boss portions. The first boss portion includes a supporting portion supporting the rotary member through the bearing which is fitted in a space radially inside the first boss portion. The second boss portion defines a valve room that is in communication with the fluid passage, with the relief valve being stored in the valve room.

Abstract: Two inverters provided at both ends of each open-end winding, respectively, are appropriately controlled. A rotating electrical machine control device (1) that has at least two control schemes among pulse width modulation control, active short-circuit control, and rectangular-wave control, as control schemes for a first inverter (11) and a second inverter (12), and that can control the first inverter (11) and the second inverter (12) by control schemes which are independent of each other considers one of the plurality of control schemes as a first control scheme and one of the plurality of control schemes different than the first control scheme as a second control scheme, and has a control mode in which the first inverter (11) is controlled by the first control scheme and the second inverter (12) is controlled by the second control scheme.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle provided, with a step-variable transmission, includes: a feedback control portion; an input torque resetting control portion; a target input torque setting portion operated upon an increase of the accelerator pedal operation amount in the process of the shift-down action in a power-off state of the vehicle, to restrict an amount of increase of the input torque target value with respect to an amount of increase of an operator-required input torque value, so as to keep the target value not larger than an upper limit value until termination of the input torque resetting control; and an actual input torque increasing portion operated upon the increase of the accelerator pedal operation amount prior to initiation of the inertia phase, to implement an input torque increasing control to control the input torque so as to be larger than the target value, prior to the inertia phase initiation.

Abstract: To provide a technique for recognizing a tendency of a parking lot that was actually used by users visiting a target facility, a parking lot information management system includes: a parking information collecting unit that collects parking information indicating a parking point at which a vehicle is parked from the vehicle; and a history information accumulating unit that accumulates history information for every target facility that is set as a destination, the history information configured so that a tendency of a parking lot that the vehicle was actually parked in when the target facility was set as the destination is derived, based on the parking information.