Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes front-wheel and rear-wheel driving systems, and a control system. The front-wheel driving system includes a first travel motor mechanically coupled to a front wheel of a vehicle and a first accumulator electrically coupled to the first travel motor. The rear-wheel driving system includes a second travel motor mechanically coupled to a rear wheel of the vehicle and a second accumulator electrically coupled to the second travel motor. The control system includes one or more processors and one or more memories communicably coupled to the one or more processors, and controls the first and second travel motors. When a difference between an SOC of the first accumulator and an SOC of the second accumulator is greater than a threshold value, the one or more processors change a torque distribution ratio between the first and second travel motors from a reference distribution ratio.

Abstract: A cigarette comprises a tobacco section including a columnar tobacco filler material and at least one cellulose-based wrapping paper sheet for wrapping the outer circumferential surface of the columnar tobacco filler material. The outermost wrapping paper sheet among the wrapping paper sheets has a thermal conductivity not lower than 0.5 W·K?1·m?1.

Abstract: A cigarette includes a tobacco filler material rod and a cigarette paper wrapping the rod. The cigarette paper has an inherent air permeability of more than 20 CORESTA units but 80 CORESTA units or less and contains a loading material in an amount of 1.0 to 5.0 g/m2.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a unit which forms burn control agent coated regions on a web of a wrapping paper transferred by a wrapping paper transfer unit at a plurality of positions separated from each other in the longitudinal or in the width direction of the web, a unit which supplies chopped tobacco leaves to the wrapping paper after formation of the coated regions, a roll-up unit which rolls up the wrapping paper on which the chopped tobacco leaves are supplied, and a cigarette cutting unit which cuts the rolled-up wrapping paper together with the chopped tobacco leaves in a predetermined length of the cigarette in the longitudinal direction thereof.

Abstract: A low fire-spreading cigarette has a tobacco section including a columnar tobacco filler material, an inside wrapper paper sheer wrapping the outer circumferential surface of the columnar tobacco filler material and an outside wrapper paper sheet wrapping the outer circumferential surface of the inside wrapper paper sheet. The heat conductivity of the inside wrapper is 0.5 W·K?1·m?1 or more and the heat conductivity of the outside wrapper paper sheet is less than 0.5 W·K?1·m?1.

Abstract: A smoking article is manufactured through supplying a tobacco filler material onto a tobacco wrapping paper sheet that is transferred, wrapping the tobacco filler material supplied onto the tobacco wrapping paper sheet with the tobacco wrapping paper sheet so as to prepare a rod body, and cutting the rod body into a plurality of tobacco rods each having a prescribed length. The tobacco filler material contains at least 20% by weight of expanded tobacco material. The tobacco wrapping paper sheet is coated with the burn adjusting agent during transfer of the tobacco wrapping paper sheet.

Abstract: A cigarette comprises a tobacco section including a columnar tobacco filler material and at least one cellulose-based wrapping paper sheet for wrapping the outer circumferential surface of the columnar tobacco filler material. The outermost wrapping paper sheet among the wrapping paper sheets has a thermal conductivity not lower than 0.5 W·K−1·m−1.

Abstract: A low fire-spreading cigarette has a tobacco section including a columnar tobacco filler material, an inside wrapper paper sheer wrapping the outer circumferential surface of the columnar tobacco filler material and an outside wrapper paper sheet wrapping the outer circumferential surface of the inside wrapper paper sheet. The heat conductivity of the inside wrapper is 0.5 W·K−1·m−1 or more and the heat conductivity of the outside wrapper paper sheet is less than 0.5 W·K−1·m−1.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a unit which forms burn control agent coated regions on a web of a wrapping paper transferred by a wrapping paper transfer unit at a plurality of positions separated from each other in the longitudinal or in the width direction of the web, a unit which supplies chopped tobacco leaves to the wrapping paper after formation of the coated regions, a roll-up unit which rolls up the wrapping paper on which the chopped tobacco leaves are supplied, and a cigarette cutting unit which cuts the rolled-up wrapping paper together with the chopped tobacco leaves in a predetermined length of the cigarette in the longitudinal direction thereof.

Abstract: A smoking article is manufactured through supplying a tobacco filler material onto a tobacco wrapping paper sheet that is transferred, wrapping the tobacco filler material supplied onto the tobacco wrapping paper sheet with the tobacco wrapping paper sheet so as to prepare a rod body, and cutting the rod body into a plurality of tobacco rods each having a prescribed length. The tobacco filler material contains at least 20% by weight of expanded tobacco material. The tobacco wrapping paper sheet is coated with the burn adjusting agent during transfer of the tobacco wrapping paper sheet.

Abstract: The cigarette filter wrapper paper has a paper layer which has a first surface and a second surface. The filter wrapper paper exhibits a first overlap air permeability, measured when a perforated tip paper is overlapped on the first surface, and a second overlap air permeability, measured when a perforated tip paper is overlapped on the second surface. The first overlap air permeability is higher than the second overlap air permeability.

Abstract: A filter-tipped cigarette includes a tobacco portion having a tobacco material wrapped by a cigarette paper, and a filter portion which is connected to the tobacco portion. The filter portion has a filter body composed of a plurality of individual filter plug sections, a plurality of individual filter plug wrappers individually wrapping the filter plug sections and an integral filter wrapper integrally wrapping the filter plug sections wrapped by the filter plug wrappers. The tobacco filter portions are integrally connected by a tip paper. The tip paper has a plurality of ventilation holes. The individual filter plug wrapper corresponding to the ventilation holes has an air permeability lower than the integral filter wrapper.