Abstract: According to a drive control method and apparatus, an offset printing section and an intaglio printing section are connected together by a gear train. Separately from an offset printing section prime motor for driving an entire sheet-fed printing press, an intaglio printing section auxiliary motor is provided in the intaglio printing section where load is heaviest and load variations are great. By so doing, the entire sheet-fed printing press is driven by the offset printing section prime motor and the intaglio printing section auxiliary motor. Moreover, the electric current value (driving torque value) of the intaglio printing section auxiliary motor is controlled in accordance with an electric current value (torque value) for driving the offset printing section prime motor, the torque distribution rate of the intaglio printing section auxiliary motor, and the rated electric current value of the intaglio printing section auxiliary motor.

Abstract: According to a drive control method and apparatus, an offset printing section and an intaglio printing section are connected together by a gear train. Separately from an offset printing section prime motor for driving an entire sheet-fed printing press, an intaglio printing section auxiliary motor is provided in the intaglio printing section where load is heaviest and load variations are great. By so doing, the entire sheet-fed printing press is driven by the offset printing section prime motor and the intaglio printing section auxiliary motor. Moreover, the electric current value (driving torque value) of the intaglio printing section auxiliary motor is controlled in accordance with an electric current value (torque value) for driving the offset printing section prime motor, the torque distribution rate of the intaglio printing section auxiliary motor, and the rated electric current value of the intaglio printing section auxiliary motor.

Abstract: When a vehicle is decelerating a controller of a motor-generator (2) computes a target charging current according to a charge state of a high voltage battery by a target charging current computing unit (23), and limits this current by a first limiter (24) having a limiter value. An electrical load current supplied to vehicle-mounted electrical loads is computed by an electrical load current detecting unit (27). A target generation current produced by the motor-generator (2) is computed by adding the target charging current and electrical load current, by a target generation current detecting unit (28, 30). This computed value is limited by a second limiter (31) having a limiter value which varies according to an engine rotation speed, ON/OFF state of an air-conditioner and speed ratio.

Abstract: With an electronically controlled throttle type internal combustion engine, where a target opening of a throttle valve is set according to a required output of the engine, and the throttle valve is opened and closed with an actuator so as to obtain a target opening; air quantity learning for learning and correcting the target opening of the throttle valve so as to obtain a target intake air quantity is performed by comparing an intake air quantity estimated based on a detection value of the throttle valve opening and an actually detected intake air quantity, at the time of idling the engine. After completion of the air quantity learning, friction learning for learning and correcting the target opening of the throttle valve so as to obtain a target engine output is performed while feedback controlling the throttle valve opening so that the engine rotation speed approaches a target idle rotation speed, at the time of idling the engine.

Abstract: When a failure of a variable valve timing mechanism of an internal combustion engine is detected, both a cylinder which is associated with the mechanism in failure and another cylinder which has a symmetrical phase in operation to the above-mentioned cylinder with respect to the stroke cycle are brought into inoperative condition. At the same time, the amount of air/fuel mixture fed to the remaining cylinders is increased. With this measure, engine vibration and power drop are suppressed or at least minimized.

Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control system for an automotive internal combustion engine equipped with a fuel injector valve. The control system comprises a sensor for detecting a ratio between air and fuel which form air-fuel mixture in the engine. A controller is provided to control the ratio between air and fuel, and includes a section for calculating the ratio between air and fuel, in accordance with an engine operating condition. A section is provided for calculating a quantity of fuel to be supplied through the fuel injector valve, in accordance with the calculated ratio between air and fuel. A section is provided for calculating a coefficient relating to a feedback control for the ratio between air and fuel, in accordance with the calculated quantity of fuel to be supplied. The feedback control is made in accordance with the ratio between air and fuel detected by the sensor.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine of gasoline direct injection type, there is arranged a gasoline vapor purging system. The vapor purging system has a vapor purging section which temporarily traps gasoline vapor produced in a fuel supply section of the engine and feeds the gasoline vapor through a vapor purge conduit into an intake section of the engine upon operation of the engine. In the vapor purge conduit, there is installed an electrically actuated valve which controls the flow of the gasoline vapor toward the intake section. The vapor purging system has further a control unit which controls operation of the valve so that a target purging rate of the gasoline vapor toward the intake section is determined based on an amount of gasoline injected to each combustion chamber of the engine through an injector.

Abstract: In a, so-called, lean burn engine having a vaporized fuel processor, a concentration of a vaporized fuel purged into an intake air passage (so-called, a purge concentration) is estimated using a normal type oxygen concentration sensor. Whenever a predetermined interval of time has passed, the engine combustion condition is forcefully and temporarily transferred into a stoichiometric air-fuel mixture ratio combustion condition during which the purge concentration is estimated on the basis of an output signal from the oxygen concentration sensor during an air-fuel mixture ratio feedback control.

Abstract: Acceleration corresponding to individual cylinders can be measured by an apparatus. The apparatus comprises a crankshaft position sensor providing position signals, and a device including a programmed control unit. The device measures a first time period of rotation through a first rotation interval defined by first selected position signals separated by a first angle of rotation. It measures a second time period of rotation through a second rotation interval defined by second selected position signals separated by a second angle of rotation. It also measures a third time period of rotation between the first and second rotation intervals. Each of the first and second rotation intervals includes a selected power stroke. The first instantaneous speed is calculated as a function of the first measured time period and the second instantaneous speed is calculated as a function of the second measured time period.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a tablet reduced in apparatus thickness and enhanced in display visibility. The liquid crystal display device mainly composed of a liquid crystal display upper glass plate, a liquid crystal, and a liquid crystal display lower glass plate is connected with a tablet on the upper glass plate, the tablet being mainly composed of a film having a first transparent electrode. A second transparent electrode arranged on the upper glass plate is made function as both an electrostatic capacity detecting electrode and a display electrode. Namely, display is made by the second transparent electrode and a third transparent electrode and a coordinate on the tablet is detected by the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode.

Abstract: A coordinate input apparatus which performs an input operation with high precision by use of either an operator's finger or an input pen. The input apparatus includes a tablet having a plurality of X electrodes and Y electrodes arranged in the form of a matrix on the respective top and bottom surfaces of a glass substrate. The input apparatus also has a first oscillation circuit connected to the X electrodes through an analog switch. It is further provided with an input pen containing a second oscillation circuit. When the pen is used to perform the input operation through use of coordinates, the following method of determining the coordinates designated by the pen is employed. A voltage oscillating from the pen is applied to each electrode through capacitance, and the resulting output voltage varies depending on the distance from each electrode to the pen. Based on the varied output voltages, a predetermined computation process is executed to determine the coordinates designated by the pen.

Abstract: Improved small current detector circuit and locator device each comprise a first and a second element in both of which a small current output occurs, a first and a second constant current generator circuit each generating a specified constant current, a first current mirror circuit which is supplied at the input with said output current occurring in said first element and said specified constant current generated from said first constant current generator circuit, and a second current mirror circuit which is supplied at the input with said output current occurring in said second element and said specified constant current generated from said second constant current generator circuit, and wherein either one of said first and second elements is disposed in a detecting portion and a current equal to the current from the output of either one of said first and second current mirror circuits is flowed to the output of the other current mirror circuit such that a detection output corresponding to the difference betw

Abstract: Two catalytic converters are disposed in series midway in an engine exhaust passage, and a by-pass valve selectively introduces exhaust into the upstream converter and a by-pass passage which by-passes the converter. When the catalyst temperature of the upstream catalytic converter exceeds a threshold value A, exhaust is routed to the by-pass passage. The catalyst temperature in the state when exhaust is routed to the upstream catalytic converter under steady state engine running conditions is stored as a convergence temperature depending on the engine running conditions.When exhaust is routed to the by-pass passage, exhaust is re-introduced into the upstream converter only when both the catalyst temperature and the convergence temperature corresponding to the running conditions at that time are less than a threshold value B which is less than the threshold value A.In this way, hunting of the by-pass valve operation is prevented.

Abstract: In an engine provided with a catalytic converter in an exhaust passage, the degree of deterioration of the catalyst in the converter is determined. Sensors detecting whether the air-fuel mixture supplied to the engine is rich or lean, are installed upstream and downstream of the converter, and an air-fuel ratio is feedback controlled based on the signal output from the upstream sensor. The soundness of the catalyst is assessed based on a difference between a change-over time of the upstream sensor and a change-over time of the downstream sensor, and a distinction is made between full catalyst deterioration and medium catalyst deterioration by introducing a dispersion value in the assessment process.

Abstract: Fuel amounts injected by a fuel injection valve are summed from when an engine is started to when startup is complete. The temperature of a fuel-deposited part during engine startup is estimated, and an intake rate of a fuel injection amount to a combustion chamber is found from this temperature. A fuel deposition amount at completion of startup is estimated from the sum of fuel injection amounts and this intake rate. By increasing or decreasing the fuel injection amount after startup based on this fuel deposition amount, a post startup air-fuel ratio is rapidly stabilized unaffected by scatter of startup time.

Abstract: A learning or updating function which corrects the feedback control correction factor is included in a dual O.sub.2 sensor type control system. Correction related data which is used to modify in response to the output of an upstream sensor or sensor section, is recorded at memory addresses which corresponding to the sub-sections of an engine operation map. When the output of the upstream sensor changes, a sub-region in which the engine operation fell a time .tau. earlier or in which the engine operation has continuously fallen for the time .tau., is selected and the correction related data which is recorded at the corresponding address, read out, updated based in the output of the second sensor or sensor section and re-recorded at the same address.

Abstract: A learning or updating function which corrects the feedback control correction factor is included in a dual O.sub.2 sensor type control system. Correction related data which is used to modify in response to the output of an upstream sensor or sensor section, is recorded at memory addresses which corresponding to the sub-sections of an engine operation map. When the output of the upstream sensor changes, a sub-region in which the engine operation fell a time .tau. earlier or in which the engine operation has continuously fallen for the time .tau., is selected and the correction related data which is recorded at the corresponding address, read out, updated based in the output of the second sensor or sensor section and re-recorded at the same address.

Abstract: A naphthalene derivative of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen and R.sup.2 is lower alkyl or phenyl-lower alkyl; or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are combined together to form lower alkylene; X is halogen; and the absolute configuration at the asymmetric carbon atom shown by the asterisk is either (S)- or (R)-configuration, and a method of preparation thereof are disclosed. Said naphthalene derivative is useful as a chiral reagent for determining the optical purity of an optically active compound containing within its molecule at least one functional group selected from hydroxy, amino and imino groups.