Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a wire harness that flexibly follows the swinging of the swing arm, surely avoids any contact with other components, and has excellent durability. The electric vehicle includes a battery mounted to a frame, an inverter and an electric motor accommodated in a swing arm, and a wire harness wired between the frame and the swing arm. The swing arm includes a hollow pivot section, and a partition wall partitioning the pivot section and an arm section. The wire harness suspends from the frame side, enters inside the pivot section from the top face side of the pivot section, and is bent inside the pivot section reaching the inverter through the partition-wall through port.

Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a wire harness that flexibly follows the swinging of the swing arm, surely avoids any contact with other components, and has excellent durability. The electric vehicle includes a battery mounted to a frame, an inverter and an electric motor accommodated in a swing arm, and a wire harness wired between the frame and the swing arm. The swing arm includes a hollow pivot section, and a partition wall partitioning the pivot section and an arm section. The wire harness suspends from the frame side, enters inside the pivot section from the top face side of the pivot section, and is bent inside the pivot section reaching the inverter through the partition-wall through port.

Abstract: In a hybrid vehicle including an engine; a generator for generating electrical power from the engine; a battery charged with electrical power generated by the generator; and a motor driven by electrical power generated by the generator or by electrical power output by the battery, and with a view to reducing energy consumption from the battery without using complicated control operations while preventing overcharging of the battery, the hybrid vehicle further includes a motoring control unit for starting motoring, i.e., mechanical driving of the engine, in addition to regenerative power generation when a state of charge of the battery reaches a first set value and stopping the motoring of the engine when the state of charge of the battery reaches a second set value.

Abstract: A defect detection method and system which can provide a precise determination of whether an object is acceptable without being affected by the position of placement and the rotational orientation of the object. An arc circumscribing the tip of modules of a sprocket is determined. Then, each overlapping region is extracted which is formed by an overlapping portion between an inner portion of a region defined by the arc and the cut-away portion of the sprocket. The area of each overlapping region is determined and compared with each other. In accordance with a determination of whether each area difference falls within the predetermined range of criteria &egr;, it is determined whether a chipped portion exists on the tip of module. If there is a chipped portion on the tip of module, two or more overlapping regions are integrated with each other to form a larger overlapping region, thereby making it possible to determine easily and positively the presence of a chipped portion on the tip of module.

Abstract: A defect inspection method for three-dimensional shapes employs a difference is between a distance code obtained by scanning, a perfect work (a value indicating a rocking angle of a mirror), and a distance code obtained by scanning an inspected work, at each measurement position. Differences are stored for a matrix in which a linear direction of the irradiation and a direction of a moving locus of the irradiation are two orthogonal axes. The most frequent difference value among matrix elements in the linear direction of the irradiation is found at each rocking angle of the mirror. A matrix element having a difference that deviates from the most frequent difference value by more than a set value is found at each rocking position of the mirror. Thus, sections having distance codes that do not match distance codes of the perfect work even by relatively shifting the distance code data are detected and identified as defect candidates.

Abstract: A defect inspection method for three-dimensional shapes employs a difference is between a distance code obtained by scanning, a perfect work (a value indicating a rocking angle of a mirror), and a distance code obtained by scanning an inspected work, at each measurement position. Differences are stored for a matrix in which a linear direction of the irradiation and a direction of a moving locus of the irradiation are two orthogonal axes. The most frequent difference value among matrix elements in the linear direction of the irradiation is found at each rocking angle of the mirror. A matrix element having a difference that deviates from the most frequent difference value by more than a set value is found at each rocking position of the mirror. Thus, sections having distance codes that do not match distance codes of the perfect work even by relatively shifting the distance code data are detected and identified as defect candidates.

Abstract: A defect detection method and system which can provide a precise determination of whether an object is acceptable without being affected by the position of placement and the rotational orientation of the object. An arc circumscribing the tip of modules of a sprocket is determined. Then, each overlapping region is extracted which is formed by an overlapping portion between an inner portion of a region defined by the arc and the cut-away portion of the sprocket. The area of each overlapping region is determined and compared with each other. In accordance with a determination of whether each area difference falls within the predetermined range of criteria &egr;, it is determined whether a chipped portion exists on the tip of module. If there is a chipped portion on the tip of module, two or more overlapping regions are integrated with each other to form a larger overlapping region, thereby making it possible to determine easily and positively the presence of a chipped portion on the tip of module.