Abstract: A power transmission device is disclosed. The power transmission device includes an input member, an output member, a dynamic vibration absorbing device, a rotation fluctuation detecting unit, and a control unit. The input member is rotatably disposed and configured to receive the torque inputted from a drive source. The output member is configured to output the torque, inputted to the input member, to a drive wheel. The dynamic vibration absorbing device is disposed in a power transmission path including the input member and the output member. The rotation fluctuation detecting unit is configured to detect information regarding a rotational fluctuation in at least one of the input member and the output member. The control unit is programmed to perform active control of the dynamic vibration absorbing device so as to reduce the rotational fluctuation based on the information regarding the rotational fluctuation detected by the rotational fluctuation detecting unit.

Abstract: A power transmission device for a vehicle is disclosed. The power transmission device includes a first rotating member, a second rotating member configured to rotate relative to the first rotating member, a torque transmission portion, and a hydraulic pressure applying portion. The torque transmission portion is configured to transmit torque from one of the first rotating member and the second rotating member to the other of the first rotating member and the second rotating member by pressure of hydraulic fluid. The torque transmission portion is disposed between the first rotating member and the second rotating member. The hydraulic pressure applying portion is configured to apply pressure to the hydraulic fluid of the torque transmission portion.

Abstract: A power transmission device is disclosed. The device includes a first rotating member, a second rotating member rotating relative to the first rotating member, and a torque transmission portion. The torque transmission portion is provided on the first rotating member and transmits torque from one of the first and second rotating members to the other via a hydraulic fluid. The torque transmission portion includes an oil chamber portion filled with the hydraulic fluid, a first piston pressing the second rotating member, a second piston retaining the hydraulic fluid in the oil chamber portion with the first piston, and an elastic portion elastically holding the second piston. The first piston receives pressure of the hydraulic fluid on a first pressure receiving area. The second piston receives pressure of the hydraulic fluid on a second pressure receiving area. The first pressure receiving area is smaller than the second pressure receiving area.

Abstract: A lock-up device transmits a torque and includes a clutch disc, a piston, a cover plate and a support boss. The clutch disc is disposed between a front cover and a turbine. The piston is disposed between the front cover and the turbine. The piston is movable in an axial direction. The cover plate is disposed between the piston and the turbine, and includes a torque transmission part in an outer peripheral part thereof so as to transmit the torque to the clutch disc. The support boss has an annular shape. The support boss is fixed to an inner peripheral part of the front cover and includes a piston support part and a coupling part. The piston support part supports an inner peripheral end surface of the piston such that the piston is slidable thereon. The coupling part receives an inner peripheral part of the cover plate coupled thereto.

Abstract: A power transmission device is disclosed. The power transmission device includes an input member, an output member, a dynamic vibration absorbing device, a rotation fluctuation detecting unit, and a control unit. The input member is rotatably disposed and configured to receive the torque inputted from a drive source. The output member is configured to output the torque, inputted to the input member, to a drive wheel. The dynamic vibration absorbing device is disposed in a power transmission path including the input member and the output member. The rotation fluctuation detecting unit is configured to detect information regarding a rotational fluctuation in at least one of the input member and the output member. The control unit is programmed to perform active control of the dynamic vibration absorbing device so as to reduce the rotational fluctuation based on the information regarding the rotational fluctuation detected by the rotational fluctuation detecting unit.

Abstract: A power transmission device for transmitting a torque from a drive source to a drive wheel includes a housing, an electric component, a power receiving unit, and a power transmitting unit. The housing is rotatable and receives a torque transmitted from the drive source. The electric component is attached to the housing. The power receiving unit is electrically connected to the electric component. Further, the power receiving unit is attached to an outer peripheral surface of the housing. The power transmitting unit is disposed outside of the housing at an interval from the power receiving unit. In addition, the power transmitting unit transmits power to the power receiving unit in a non-contact manner.

Abstract: A power transmission device is disclosed. The power transmission device includes a housing, a clutch unit, a heat conducting unit, and a heat conducting unit. The housing includes a wall portion. The housing is rotatably disposed, with the torque from the drive source being transmitted to the housing. The wall portion has a through hole formed therein. The clutch unit includes a friction surface engageable with the housing and disposed opposite to the through hole. The clutch unit is disposed in the housing so as to be rotatable relative to the housing. The heat conducting unit is disposed in the through hole and exposed in the housing. The temperature detecting unit is configured to detect a temperature of the heat conducting unit.

Abstract: A lock-up device includes a clutch disc, a piston, a temperature detection member and a gap adjustment mechanism. The clutch disc is disposed between a front cover and a turbine. The piston is disposed in opposition to the front cover through the clutch disc so as to be movable in an axial direction, and presses the clutch disc toward the front cover. The deformation amount of the temperature detection member is adjusted in accordance with surrounding temperatures. In accordance with the deformation amount, the gap adjustment mechanism adjusts a gap between the front cover and the piston to be a first gap at a first temperature. Further, in accordance the deformation amount, the gap adjustment mechanism adjusts the gap between the front cover and the piston to be a second gap narrower than the first gap at a second temperature higher than the first temperature.

Abstract: A lock-up device includes a clutch disc, a piston, a temperature detection member and a gap adjustment mechanism. The clutch disc is disposed between a front cover and a turbine. The piston is disposed in opposition to the front cover through the clutch disc so as to be movable in an axial direction, and presses the clutch disc toward the front cover. The deformation amount of the temperature detection member is adjusted in accordance with surrounding temperatures. In accordance with the deformation amount, the gap adjustment mechanism adjusts a gap between the front cover and the piston to be a first gap at a first temperature. Further, in accordance the deformation amount, the gap adjustment mechanism adjusts the gap between the front cover and the piston to be a second gap narrower than the first gap at a second temperature higher than the first temperature.

Abstract: A lock-up device transmits a torque through a turbine of a torque converter. The lock-up device includes a friction surface, a clutch disc, a piston and a pressure plate. The friction surface is provided on a lateral surface of a front cover. The clutch disc has an annular shape and is capable of being pressed in contact with the friction surface. The piston is disposed between the front cover and the turbine. The piston is movable in an axial direction. The pressure plate has an annular shape. The pressure plate is disposed between the piston and the clutch disc, and presses the clutch disc toward the front cover by a pressing force to be applied thereto from the piston. The pressure plate has a lower bending stiffness than the piston, and is deformable in accordance with deformation of the front cover when pressed toward the front cover by the piston.

Abstract: A lock-up device transmits a torque and includes a clutch disc, a piston, a cover plate and a support boss. The clutch disc is disposed between a front cover and a turbine. The piston is disposed between the front cover and the turbine. The piston is movable in an axial direction. The cover plate is disposed between the piston and the turbine, and includes a torque transmission part in an outer peripheral part thereof so as to transmit the torque to the clutch disc. The support boss has an annular shape. The support boss is fixed to an inner peripheral part of the front cover and includes a piston support part and a coupling part. The piston support part supports an inner peripheral end surface of the piston such that the piston is slidable thereon. The coupling part receives an inner peripheral part of the cover plate coupled thereto.

Abstract: A lock-up device for a torque converter includes a piston, an oil chamber plate, a support boss and a seal member. The oil chamber plate is disposed between the piston and a turbine, and forms a first oil chamber. The support boss is fixed to a front cover, and includes a piston support part, a welding part and an intermediate part. The piston support part supports an inner peripheral end surface of the piston. The welding part has a different diameter than the piston support part, and receives an inner peripheral part of the oil chamber plate welded thereto. The intermediate part has an intermediate diameter between the diameter of the piston support part and that of the welding part, and includes an opening for supplying hydraulic oil to the first oil chamber. The seal member is attached to the piston support part.

Abstract: A displacement sensor precisely detects displacement of a moving body in a rectilinear movement direction even if the moving body rotates. The sensor includes a detector and a magnet. The cross sectional area of the permanent magnet in a plane perpendicular to an axis, which extends in the rectilinear movement direction, varies in the direction of movement. The permanent magnet is magnetized in the rectilinear movement direction. The detector is located so that magnetic flux passes through a detection face of the detector substantially perpendicularly.

Abstract: A displacement sensor precisely detects displacement of a moving body in a rectilinear movement direction even if the moving body rotates. The sensor includes a detector and a magnet. The cross sectional area of the permanent magnet in a plane perpendicular to an axis, which extends in the rectilinear movement direction, varies in the direction of movement. The permanent magnet is magnetized in the rectilinear movement direction. The detector is located so that magnetic flux passes through a detection face of the detector substantially perpendicularly.

Abstract: In a file-accessing system for use in an information-processing apparatus, an original file name and its simplified file name constitute one piece of conversion data. One or a plurality pieces of such conversion data are prepared. A conversion rule is prepared from one or more pieces of conversion data. A single conversion rule may be prepared, or a plurality of conversion rules may be prepared. The conversion rule or rules are stored in a conversion rule storage, with each conversion rule in the form of one file. When specific conversion rules are designated, from among the conversion rules stored in the conversion rule storage, they are loaded into a RAM area. When a simplified file name entered by the operator is received by the system, it is converted into its corresponding original file name, with the RAM area examined. In this manner, the file-accessing system enables a file to be accessed with a simplified file name.

Abstract: A lens barrel includes a stationary tube secured to the inner side of a stationary lens barrel member with a given space kept between them, and a motor disposed within the space. A helicoidal surface is arranged along the inner circumference of the stationary tube to be in screwed engagement with the helicoidal surface of a lens-carrying frame arranged to carry lenses which are shiftable in the direction of their optic axis, and a connecting member extends to the inner circumference of the stationary tube to cause the rotation of a rotary tube which has a toothed part engaging the output gear of the motor to be transmitted to the lens-carrying frame.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring a lipid peroxide, in which a sample containing lipids is subjected to a liquid chromatography to separate the lipids into lipid classes. The lipid classes are brought into contact with a luminescent reagent which specifically reacts with a lipid hydroperoxide contained in the lipid classes to generate a light in an amount corresponding to a content of the hydroperoxide. The light is optically detected by a photodetector.

Abstract: A built-in motorized lens mounting includes a fixed tube, a zoom actuating ring axially movably supported relative to the fixed tube, a focusing lens holder movably supported at least in the axial direction relative to the zoom actuating ring, an electric motor fixedly secured to the zoom actuating ring, and a driving power transmitting system using the rotation of the motor as a drive source to move the lens holder axially relative to the zoom actuating ring.

Abstract: A nonaqueous resin dispersion in which particles of a low molecular weight polyolefin are finely and uniformly dispersed, which dispersion is obtained by the polymerization of a vinyl monomer (C) in the presence of 20 to 90% by weight of a substantially saturated polymer (A), based upon the total weight of the reactants (A), (B) and (C), and a low molecular weight polyolefin (B) dispersed finely therein. The resin dispersions of the present invention contain the low molecular weight polyolefin finely and uniformly dispersed such that it has an average particle diameter of not more than 10.mu. and preferably not more than 1.mu.. According to the Invention, the polyolefin is more finely and uniformly dispersed than previous dispersions produced by mechanical melt-dispersion of low molecular weight polyolefin and a resin.

Abstract: A lens barrel includes a stationary tube secured to the inner side of a stationary lens barrel member with a given space kept between them, and a motor disposed within the space. A helicoidal surface is arranged along the inner circumference of the stationary tube to be in screwed engagement with the helicoidal surface of a lens-carrying frame arranged to carry lenses which are shiftable in the direction of their optic axis, and a connecting member extends to the inner circumference of the stationary tube to cause the rotation of a rotary tube which has a toothed part engaging the output gear of the motor to be transmitted to the lens-carrying frame.