Abstract: The invention provides an adhesive tape comprising a tape-like support base and a tape-like adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer is formed on the main side of the support base and the width of the support base is longer than the width of the adhesive layer. According to the invention, seepage of adhesive components in the adhesive layer of the adhesive tape in the widthwise direction from the sides of the support base can be reduced compared to the prior art.

Abstract: A fulcrum cam (24) for moving the fulcrum of a parking lock pole 22 is configured to move the fulcrum of a parking lock pole (22) such that the widthwise center of a protrusion (22a) of the parking lock pole (22) is moved along a radial line L extending from the axis of rotation P of the parking gear (21) through the circumferential center of a corresponding notch (21b) from point X1 through point X2 to point X3.

Abstract: A noise removing filter removes noise from an input image and an edge component extracting unit extracts edge components. The edge components are extracted by calculating a difference between the input image and a smoothed image, which is obtained by smoothing the input image in a smoothed image generating portion. An edge component comparing unit compares the extracted edge components with a threshold value and a sum calculating unit calculates the sum of the edge components greater than the threshold value. A control circuit determines, the enhancement degree of the edges based on the sum and averaged luminance of the input image calculated by an average luminance calculating unit. An enhancement degree adjustment unit adjusts the determined enhancement degree, and an edge component enhancement unit enhances the edge components based on this enhancement degree and adds it to the input image to perform edge enhancement processing.

Abstract: When a traveling state is in an engagement range of a lock-up clutch, an ECU executes a program including a step of executing slip control if preconditions are satisfied and learning start conditions are satisfied, a step of updating a learning value if an output value is not greater than an FF control value+? or not smaller than the FF control value+?, and a step of engaging the lock-up clutch.

Abstract: A control system of a vehicle including an engine and an automatic transmission operable to form one of a plurality of gear positions set according to running conditions of the vehicle, and a method of controlling the vehicle are provided. In the control, the rotational speed of an input-side rotary shaft of a shifting mechanism of the transmission is detected, and the vehicle is controlled so that, when an execution condition that one of the gear positions set according to the running conditions is maintained and the rotational speed of the input-side rotary shaft has increased to be higher than a rotational speed corresponding to the set gear position is satisfied, the vehicle is brought into running conditions that will eliminate a state in which air is present in the hydraulic fluid supplied from an oil supply device.

Abstract: A switch to be used mainly for controlling a variety of electronic devices in automobiles, and a method of manufacturing the same switch are disclosed for providing a switch free from positional deviation in its display section and easy to manufacture. Operating units having no display sections are mounted to a housing, then the shapes of each one of the operating units are recognized by a control circuit. An upper jig and a lower jig are moved for a laser beam device to remove a non-translucent section and expose parts of a translucent section, thereby forming the display sections. This structure allows eliminating positional deviation of the display sections and also requiring no visual checks done for confirming the display sections in manufacturing.

Abstract: The temperature of a friction engagement device of an automatic transmission is estimated, and the target speed ratio of a torque converter increases as the estimated temperature of the friction engagement device increases. The engagement load of the friction engagement device is then controlled so as to achieve the increased target speed ratio of the torque converter.

Abstract: An ECU executes a program including outputting, when the oil temperature THO of ATF<the threshold value THO (0), a control signal to the solenoid valve to control the solenoid valve to cause the lock-up relay valve to enter the state of resupplying the ATF discharged from the torque converter to the torque converter. In the state where the ATF discharged from the torque converter is being resupplied to the torque converter, the second oil path guiding the ATF discharged from the torque converter to the oil pan is disconnected from the torque converter.

Abstract: A voltage control device for vehicle alternator has an IC chip as an electric component for controlling electric circuits, terminals connected electrically to the IC chip for controlling electric circuits, a resin case in which the terminals are formed by insert molding, and a terminal exposure portion of a hole shape, formed in a part of the resin case, corresponding to a positioning pin for positioning the terminals. A projection part as a positioning member of a wall shape is formed in the surroundings of the terminal exposure portion and on the surface of the resin case.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing water-using household equipment of which hydrophilicity, surface hardness and appearances are good and the water-using household equipment. The water-using household equipment includes a coat including silicic acid, and a coat constituted by composition of 44 to 97% by mass of Si by SiO2 conversion, 0.2 to 17% by mass of Li by Li2O conversion and 2.4 to 49% by mass of Na by Na2O conversion on the coat including the silicic acid on a surface of a substrate. The method for manufacturing water-using household equipment includes: a surface treatment step of treating at least a surface of the substrate contacting water or contacting a water vapor atmosphere with a coating agent including silicic acid and forming a surface treatment layer; and an application step of forming an application layer on the surface treatment layer by applying an aqueous solution including 1 to 20 mass portions of Si by SiO2 conversion, 0.05 to 0.

Abstract: ECU executes a program including the step (S108) of setting a B2 brake to a engaging state when a first speed gear is effected (YES at S100) and when the difference between an output shaft rotation speed NOUT (1) estimated from an input shaft rotation speed NIN and the detected output shaft rotation speed NOUT (2) is larger than a threshold N (0) (YES at S106). When the B2 brake is in an engaged state, the relative rotation between the inner race and the outer race of one-way clutch is limited.

Abstract: An embodiment of a differential device of the present invention comprises a pair of side gears and a pair of pinion gears housed inside a differential case, with the pinion gears supported by a pinion shaft fixed to the differential case at axial end sections thereof so as to be capable of sliding freely thereabout. Lubricating oil channels are provided that pass through each of the end sections of the pinion shaft in the axial direction thereof. One end of each lubricating oil channel opens to the exterior of the differential case at a shaft-end corner section of the pinion shaft corresponding to an upstream side thereof in a direction of rotation of the differential case, and another end opens to a sliding surface of the pinion shaft with respect to one of the pinion gears. The differential device also comprises a mechanism for providing lubricating oil to the lubricating oil channels upon rotation of the differential case.

Abstract: A navigation apparatus and arrival detection method detect a current location of a vehicle and searches for a route to a set destination. The apparatus and method provide guidance to the destination along the searched route and determine whether the destination is set within a car-free area. If it is determined that the destination is set within the car-free area, the apparatus and method expand an arrival detection area for the destination, and terminate the guidance to the destination when it is determined that the vehicle is within the expanded arrival detection area. Alternatively, even if the destination is not within a car-free area, after an engine of a vehicle is shut off and restarts, the navigation apparatus and method expand an arrival detection area for the destination, and terminate the guidance to the destination when the vehicle is within the expanded arrival detection area.

Abstract: An oil suction device for an automatic transmission includes: an oil pan that receives oil supplied to various portions of the automatic transmission and returned to the oil pan and reserves the received oil therein; an oil strainer located over the oil pan; a suction port drawing in the oil reserved in the oil pan; and an elastic wall provided selectively between a portion of the oil pan that receives a relatively small amount of the oil returned to the oil pan and the suction port, the elastic wall extending from a bottom surface of the oil pan and reaching a lower surface of the oil strainer to interrupt a flow of oil.

Abstract: A switch to be used mainly for controlling a variety of electronic devices in automobiles, and a method of manufacturing the same switch are disclosed for providing a switch free from positional deviation in its display section and easy to manufacture. Operating units having no display sections are mounted to a housing, then the shapes of each one of the operating units are recognized by a control circuit. An upper jig and a lower jig are moved for a laser beam device to remove a non-translucent section and expose parts of a translucent section, thereby forming the display sections. This structure allows eliminating positional deviation of the display sections and also requiring no visual checks done for confirming the display sections in manufacturing.

Abstract: In a friction engagement device of an automatic transmission, a brake piston is actuated by an oil pressure and a friction disc is pressed by the brake piston. The friction engagement device of an automatic transmission includes an oil pressure chamber extending in an annular shape and a main oil pressure supply path and a secondary oil pressure supply path each extending separately to supply oil to the oil pressure chamber. Each of the main oil pressure supply path and secondary oil pressure supply path connects to the oil pressure chamber in a position different from each other in a circumferential direction of the oil pressure chamber. With a construction as such, a friction engagement device of an automatic transmission is provided which prevents a load to the friction disc from locally increasing and attains a smooth speed-changing operation.

Abstract: A wiring material is provided by electrically connecting a connecting terminal with two single line conductors arranged in parallel. The connecting terminal is provided with a tube-shaped section for storing two single line conductors, the two single line conductors are inserted into the tube-shaped section, resistance welding is performed by carrying electricity from the external of the tube-shaped section in a status where the tube-shaped section and the single line conductors are mutually brought into contact, and the connecting terminal is electrically connected with the two single line conductors.

Abstract: A fastening structure includes a bolt, a fastened member, and gasket material. The fastened member has a bolthole into which the bolt is screwed, and a communication hole that extends from the bolthole to a space other than the bolthole. At least a part of a gap between a thread of the bolt and a thread of the bolthole, and at least a part of the communication hole are filled with the gasket material.

Abstract: A hydraulic stroking device that performs stroking action by adjusting a pressure of hydraulic fluid in a fluid chamber is disclosed. The hydraulic device includes a hydraulic piston, a sealing member, and a variable sealing performance mechanism. The piston is provided in a fluid chamber, and receives the pressure of hydraulic fluid and is moved by the pressure. The sealing member seals between a circumferential surface of the piston and an inner surface of the fluid chamber. When the piston is not moving with the hydraulic fluid being pressurized, the variable sealing performance mechanism enhances the sealing performance of the sealing member compared to the sealing performance in a state when the piston is being moved.

Abstract: A power transmission system for a vehicle is provided, including: a housing that can reserve oil therein; and a rotational member rotatably supported within the housing, with a surface of the rotational member being partly contactable with a surface of the oil reserved in the housing, in which the surface of the rotational member partly contactable with the oil surface includes a non-contact surface that is not in contact with any power transmission members, the non-contact surface having an oil repellent section. When the surface of the rotational member contacts the oil surface, the oil repellent section repels the oil quickly. Therefore, the amount of oil, which adheres to and rotates with the rotational member agitating the oil, decreases. This reduces oil heat generation and rotational resistance to the rotational member.