Abstract: A substrate for heat-sensitive recording material is disclosed, comprising a film-like substrate made mainly of a synthetic resin and a sheet-like substrate made mainly of a fibrous materials laminated each other with an electron beam-curable adhesive. A heat-sensitive recording material using the above substrate provides an image having excellent quality.

Abstract: A method of shift control in an automatic transmission, wherein a shift map has a shift-up line and a shift-down line between each gear change which is used to conduct the shift control with a hysteresis zone being established between each shift-up line and shift-down line. The method includes the steps of shifting down a speed range when a point representing a traveling state on the shift map moves in the lower vehicle speed direction and crosses the shift-down line, shifting up a speed range when the point moves in the higher vehicle speed direction and crosses the shift-up line, and shifting down the speed range when the point is in the hysteresis zone after a shift and also the increasing rate of the engine power is greater than a specified value.

Abstract: A method of shift control in an automatic transmission having a torque converter and a shift-gear mechanism, wherein a shift map has a shift-up line and a shift-down line between each gear ratio change which is used to conduct the shift control, with a hysteresis zone being established between each shift-up line and the shift-down line. The method includes the steps of shifting down a speed range when a point representing a traveling state on the shift map moves in the lower vehicle speed direction and crosses the shift-down line, shifting up a speed range when the point moves in the higher vehicle speed direction and crosses the shift-up line, and shifting down the speed range when the point is in the hysteresis zone after a ratio of the torque converter has been shift and also the speed below a threshold level for more than a predetermined time.

Abstract: A controller for an automatic transmission hydraulic clutch includes a hydraulic clutch engaged by hydraulic pressure, a hydraulic pressure control valve for regulating the hydraulic pressure, and a detector for detecting a condition immediately before engagement of the hydraulic clutch based upon a change in the hydraulic pressure. A timing controller adjusts timing to change a control force in the hydraulic pressure control valve in response to detection of a condition immediately before engagement of the clutch.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling gear shifting in an automatic transmission on a motor vehicle has maximum speed range cut-off switch which can manually be turned on and off selectively, the arrangement being such that the setting of a maximum speed range in each of the shift ranges is prohibited by turning on the maximum speed range cut-off switch.When the maximum-speed range cut-off switch is turned off, speed range shifting is automatically performed dependent on the traveling states of the motor vehicle in one of the shift ranges which is selected by the shift lever shifted to a corresponding shift position. When the maximum speed range cut-off switch is turned on, the setting of the maximum speed range is prohibited in each of the shift ranges. In each shift range, speed range shifting is carried out automatically between the lowest-speed range and a speed range which is one range lower than the maximum speed range dependent on the traveling states of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: A control system for a throttle valve in automotive internal combustion engines in which the throttle valve is both mechanically linked with an accelerator pedal and also connected with an actuator such as a pulse motor for fine-adjusting the opening of the throttle valve in the closing direction in accordance with the operating state of the engine after it has been opened through the mechanical linkage. A spring is inserted in the mechanical linkage system between the accelerator pedal and the throttle valve. The provision of the spring substantially isolates the accelerator pedal from forces acting in other parts of the system so that the operator does not feel an unnatural change in the amount of pressure needed to depress the accelerator pedal when the actuator goes into operation.

Abstract: A control system (100) for an engine-driven auxiliary equipment (51) for a vehicle equipped with an automatic transmission (10) including a fluid coupling type torque converter (2) receiving power from an engine (1) to drive a driven wheel. The control system (100) is adapted to interrupt power from the engine (1) to the auxiliary equipment (51) under a condition that an instantaneous value (e.sub.d) of a gear ratio (e) as the quotient of a rotation speed (No) of an output shaft (3) of the torque converter (2) to a rotation speed (Ni) of an input shaft (2a ) of the torque converter (2) is lying in a region (e.sub.d <e.sub.c, e.sub.1, e.sub.2) corresponding to a state of torque amplification of the torque converter (2) where a predetermined value is exceeded.

Abstract: A method of controlling a direct-coupling mechanism of hydraulic power transmission device of an automatic transmission for an automotive vehicle, wherein the transmission capacity of the direct-coupling mechanism is controlled such that the valve of a predetermined parameter indicative of an amount of relative slip between input and output members of the hydraulic power transmission device which are mechanically engaged with each other by the direct-coupling mechanism lies within a predetermined reference range. The predetermined parameter value is detected and the detected value is compared with the predetermined reference range. A desired value of the predetermined reference range and a predetermined period of time are determined on the basis of the comparison result. The transmission capacity is controlled to the determined desired value for the determined predetermined period of time.

Abstract: A method of controlling a direct-coupling mechanism of a hydraulic torque converter of an automatic transmission for an automotive vehicle, wherein the transmission capacity of the direct-coupling mechanism is controlled such that the value of a first predetermined parameter indicative of an amount of relative slip between input and output members of the hydraulic torque converter which are mechanically engaged with each other by the direct-coupling mechanism lies within a predetermined reference range. The value of a second predetermined parameter indicative of one of said plurality operating modes for the automotive vehicle is detected. Determined in dependence on the detected value of the second predetermined parameter is either the predetermined reference range of the value of the first predetermined parameter or a rate at which the transmission capacity is controlled such that the value of said predetermined parameter changes toward the predetermined reference range of the first predetermined parameter.

Abstract: A control system (100) for an engine-driven auxiliary equipment (51) for vehicles including a central control circuit (31) for controlling the shifting of gear ratios (low, 2nd) of an automatic transmission (10), which drives a driven wheel with power from an engine (1), in conformity with a shift may (Mt) having as variables thereof the vehicle speed (V) of the vehicle and the output (Th) of the engine (1), depending on an instantaneous vehicle speed (Vd) and an instantaneous engine output (Thd), is to control the auxiliary equipment (51), which is driven with power from the engine (1) and provided with a mechanism (52, 53) for transmitting and interrupting the power from the engine (1) to the auxiliary equipment (51).

Abstract: A creep prevention control device for an automatic transmission apparatus for a motor vehicle. The creep prevention control device has a mechanism for preventing creep caused by the automatic transmission apparatus and a mechanism for increasing the idling speed of an engine of the motor vehicle. These mechanisms are controlled on the basis of signals generated by sensors for detecting operating conditions of the motor vehicles and indicative of the detected operating conditions. The mechanism for increasing the engine idling speed is actuated when rendering the creep preventing mechanism inoperative so that the creep prevention can timely be controlled and the engine can idle in an optimum condition at all times.

Abstract: In a transmission for an automotive vehicle, a control system for a direct-coupling mechanism for mechanically engaging input and output members of a hydraulic power transmission. An operating fluid pressure regulator controls operating fluid pressure applied to a hydraulically operating portion of the direct-coupling mechanism, and the direct-coupling mechanism applies an engaging force corresponding to the operating fluid pressure thus controlled to the input and output members. A vehicle speed sensor detects the speed of the vehicle, and a slip sensor detects the value of a predetermined parameter indicative of an amount of relative slip between the input and output members.

Abstract: A method and device for controlling a plurality of magnet valves in an automatic transmission having a fluid torque converter, an anxiliary transmission equipped with a plurality of gear trains for transmitting the output torque of said torque converter to drive wheels through one of the selected gear trains, a plurality of shift valves to select said gear trains, and a plurality of magnet valves to drive said shift valves, wherein at least one of the magnet valves, which is subsequently driven to take an open-state at a time the gear train shifts up from the lowest speed to the second lowest speed, is closed at about the time of stalling of said torque converter and those magnet valves other than said closed magnet valve are opened after a short time delay after said magnet valve is opened when the vehicle velocity reaches the second lowest speed.

Abstract: An operational condition control device for an internal combustion engine is provided which operates an alarm device when the engine temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature. The operational condition control device comprises a vehicle stop sensor for detecting a stopped condition of the vehicle, a temperature sensor for detecting the engine temperature, and a drive circuit for receiving signals from the sensors and operating the alarm device when the vehicle is in the stopped condition, and the engine temperature exceeds the predetermined temperature. In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an operational condition control device for an internal combustion engine which operates a fuel cut device when the engine temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature and the vehicle is stopped to thereby stop the engine.

Abstract: Disclosed is a control device for a direct clutch in a vehicular automatic transmission comprising: a fluid torque converter; an auxiliary transmission having plural stages of gear trains selectively connected to the output side of said torque converter, said gear trains having different gear-to-gear speed ratios, and a plurality of hydraulically operated frictional engagement means for actuating the gear trains; and a hydraulically operated direct clutch capable of directly coupling pump and turbine vane wheels of the torque converter together. The control device includes first and second branch passages extended from working fluid passages of one and another of the frictional engagement means, respectively, a first directional control valve interposed between the first branch passage as well as an oil tank and an intermediate passage, and a second directional control valve interposed between the second branch passage as well as the intermediate passage and a working fluid passage of the direct clutch.

Abstract: Automatic transmission having a direct coupler in the torque convertor which is operated by at least two solenoid operated pilot valves which are energized by a controller sensing running conditions of the vehicle.

Abstract: An automatic transmission control system for a vehicle, including a throttle valve-opening detector and an electronic controller. The throttle valve-opening detector includes a detection arm mounted either on the accelerator pedal arm or the like rotary member of the accelerator operating system for controlling the opening of the throttle valve, or on the body of the vehicle pivotally supporting the rotary member. A position detector is mounted on the other of the rotary member and the vehicle body and equipped with a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element which face each other across both side surfaces of a shutter portion formed at an end portion of the detection arm. The light-receiving element is sensitive to an optical beam emitted from the light-emitting element and generates an electric signal.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation control system which is adapted to control the valve opening of the exhaust gas recirculation valve so as to minimize the difference between a detected value of the valve opening of the above value and a command value determined as a function of operating conditions of the engine. The valve opening is corrected at a higher speed when the above difference has a larger absolute value, and at a lower speed when the difference has a smaller absolute value, to ensure prompt and accurate control of the exhaust gas recirculation quantity.