Abstract: A roller hemming apparatus includes a receiving body including a receiving member coming into contact with an edge of a panel workpiece, a roller body including a roller member bending a panel flange at the edge of the workpiece toward the receiving member, and a movement unit moving the roller body along the edge and tilts up or down the roller body toward the flange. The roller member hems the flange through the tilting-up operation of the roller body. One of the receiving and roller bodies includes a guide recess and the other includes a convex curved surface coming into sliding contact with the recess. The recess and the surface have a same curvature. The roller body is tilted up to bend the flange or tilted down to move away from the flange around a center of curvature common to the surface and the recess that come into sliding contact.

Abstract: A roller hemming apparatus includes a receiving body including a receiving member coming into contact with an edge of a panel workpiece, a roller body including a roller member bending a panel flange at the edge of the workpiece toward the receiving member, and a movement unit moving the roller body along the edge and tilts up or down the roller body toward the flange. The roller member hems the flange through the tilting-up operation of the roller body. One of the receiving and roller bodies includes a guide recess and the other includes a convex curved surface coming into sliding contact with the recess. The recess and the surface have a same curvature. The roller body is tilted up to bend the flange or tilted down to move away from the flange around a center of curvature common to the surface and the recess that come into sliding contact.

Abstract: A window-glass heating device for providing each adequate heat amount in accordance with each parts of the glass and for securing the good visibility to a driver, comprises: a first heater having a transparent heating film attached on the whole surface of the vehicle window glass; a second heater having a transparent heating film attached on a part of the surface of the vehicle window glass and being arranged at least overlapped with the first heater; a heating-requirement detector for detecting at least one of heating requirements such as the outside temperature, the inside temperature and any input through the operational equipments of vehicle inside; and a heating controller for controlling heat amount of the first and second heaters depending on the heating requirement.

Abstract: A capacitor device includes a normally open internal relay provided on an electric wire of a capacitor. The internal relay can be closed by supplying the power from a battery.

Abstract: A vehicular power supply apparatus includes a capacitor, an idling stop means for stopping an engine at a halt of the vehicle and restarting the engine at driver's preset driving operation by supplying current to an engine starter with the capacitor, a current detecting means for detecting the current, a cumulative value calculating means for calculating cumulative value of the current on the basis of the detected current after starting of the engine starter until a set time elapses, and an abnormality determining means for determining, when engine revolution speed at the time the set time has elapsed is outside a preset range and the cumulative value is equal to or less than a preset value, that the capacitor is abnormal.

Abstract: A window-glass heating device for providing each adequate heat amount in accordance with each parts of the glass and for securing the good visibility to a driver, comprises: a first heater having a transparent heating film attached on the whole surface of the vehicle window glass; a second heater having a transparent heating film attached on a part of the surface of the vehicle window glass and being arranged at least overlapped with the first heater; a heating-requirement detector for detecting at least one of heating requirements such as the outside temperature, the inside temperature and any input through the operational equipments of vehicle inside; and a heating controller for controlling heat amount of the first and second heaters depending on the heating requirement.

Abstract: A capacitor device includes a normally open internal relay provided on an electric wire of a capacitor. The internal relay can be closed by supplying the power from a battery.

Abstract: A vehicular power supply apparatus includes a capacitor, an idling stop means for stopping an engine at a halt of the vehicle and restarting the engine at driver's preset driving operation by supplying current to an engine starter with the capacitor, a current detecting means for detecting the current, a cumulative value calculating means for calculating cumulative value of the current on the basis of the detected current after starting of the engine starter until a set time elapses, and an abnormality determining means for determining, when engine revolution speed at the time the set time has elapsed is outside a preset range and the cumulative value is equal to or less than a preset value, that the capacitor is abnormal.

Abstract: A method of testing the performance of an anti-lock brake control system of the type wherein an electronic control circuit signals each modulator to increase, decrease, or hold the hydraulic fluid pressure on the corresponding wheel brake as required by the varying wheel speed. The method dictates the sequential delivery of quasi brake control signals from the control circuit to the respective modulators, each signal being capable of causing an increase, a decrease and a holding of the fluid pressure on one brake. The resulting braking forces being exerted on the respective vehicle wheels are measured as by a dynamometer connected to motored rollers under the vehicle wheels.

Abstract: A clutch is provided for transmitting power of an engine to either of the front or rear wheels of a motor vehicle. A brake switch is provided to be closed by depressing a brake pedal of the vehicle to produce a brake pedal, and a detector is provided for detecting operation of an anti-skid brake system and for producing an anti-skid signal. In response to the brake signal and to the anti-skid signal, the clutch is disengaged, thereby reducing engine braking effect.

Abstract: For checking the operation of an anti-skid system of a motor vehicle, each wheel of the vehicle is placed on rollers of a brake tester. When a brake pedal is depressed to deliver via a brake pedal switch a signal having a predetermiend signal pattern to a control unit, a pseudo signal generating circuit provided in the control unit generates and sends to an actuator for a brake device a pressure reducing signal and a pressure-holding-and-increasing signal combined in a predetermined sequence whereby the brake device is actuated. Whether or not a normal anti-skid control is carried out is confirmed by measuring with the brake tester the braking force actually applied to each wheel in response to the signals delivered from the pseudo signal generating circuit.

Abstract: A set of wheel speed sensors forming parts of an anti-lock brake control system are tested for proper connection and operation when mounted on a motor vehicle. A check signal is first input to a sensor check terminal connected to a control circuit included in the brake control system, thereby causing the control circuit to light a warning lamp. Then the wheels of the vehicle are successively rotated in a predefined sequence and at a speed corresponding to the lowest vehicle speed at which the brake control system must be active. If all the wheel speed sensors deliver their outputs to the control circuit in the predetermined sequence, the warning lamp goes out to indicate proper functioning and proper connection of the sensors. The warning lamp remains illuminated if one or more of the wheel speed signals are not input to the control circuit or if the wheel speed signals are received by the control circuit in other than the predetermined sequence.

Abstract: An antilock brake control for motor vehicles, wherein the actual wheel speed of each wheel of the vehicle is detected, and in dependency on the detected wheel speed, a reference vehicle speed is computed from which a reference wheel speed lower than the vehicle speed is determined, and wherein when the actual wheel speed decreases below the reference wheel speed as a result of braking operation, the braking hydraulic pressure acting on the wheel is decreased to allow the actual wheel speed to increase, and then the braking hydraulic pressure is reincreased when the actual wheel speed has recovered sufficiently. When a J-turn state of the vehicle is detected by lateral acceleration, the reference vehicle speed is changed to a lower value and a second reference wheel speed is determined on the basis of that lower value.

Abstract: A set of wheel speed sensors forming parts of an anti-lock brake control system are tested for proper connection and operation when mounted on a motor vehicle. A check signal is first input to a sensor check terminal connected to a control circuit included in the brake control system, thereby causing the control circuit to light a warning lamp. Then the wheels of the vehicle are successively rotated in a predefined sequence and at a speed corresponding to the lowest vehicle speed at which the brake control system must be active. If all the wheel speed sensors deliver there outputs to the control circuit in the predetermined sequence, the warning lamp goes out to indicate proper functioning and proper connection of the sensors. The warning lamp remains illuminated if one or more of the wheel speed signals are not into to the control circuit or if the wheel speed signals are received by the control circuit in other than the predetermined sequence.

Abstract: In an antilock brake control for motor vehicles wherein a condition of locking of the wheels during braking is detected from the wheel speeds, and a control pattern of decreasing and reincreasing of the braking hydraulic pressure is repeated for carrying out effective braking operation, at least a phenomenon occurring in the vehicle in J-turn state is detected, and when the phenomenon exceeds a predetermined value, the antilock brake control is shifted from the normal mode to a J-turn mode in which different conditions are used. To detect the J-turn state, the difference in wheel speed between the right and left wheels is detected. Alternatively, lateral acceleration of the vehicle is also detected. Another alternative is a combination of the steering angle, the coefficient of friction between the wheels and the road surface, and the vehicle speed.

Abstract: A vehicle acceleration sensor forming a part of an anti-lock brake control system is tested mounted on a motor vehicle to see if the sensor will be activated at a predetermined degree of vehicle deceleration. A check signal is first impressed to a sensor check terminal of a control circuit included in the anti-lock brake control system, thereby causing the control circuit to light up a warning lamp. The motor vehicle is then moved onto a ramp having an angle with respect to the plane of the horizon corresponding to the predetermined degree of vehicle deceleration. If the sensor is activated on the ramp, the warning lamp is extinguished to indicate the proper functioning of the sensor. The warning lamp remains glowing if the sensor is not activated on the ramp for some inherent trouble or because of errors in mounting the sensor of the vehicle.

Abstract: A system for displaying trouble in an electronic control system such as an anti-skid brake system of a motor vehicle. The system has a detector for detecting failure in a wheel speed sensor, and a warning lamp for displaying a detected failure. When a failure in the sensor is displayed on the lamp, an inspector depresses a brake pedal of the vehicle in accordance with a predetermined pattern to intermittently turn on a brake pedal switch to produce a failure signal representing the nature of the detected failure. In response to the failure signal, the warning lamp intermittently lights up in accordance with a predetermined pattern representing the nature of the failure.

Abstract: In anti-lock brake control of motor vehicles wherein the control of braking hydraulic pressure for braking the wheels is accomplished by repeating a control pattern in which during braking the braking hydraulic pressure is reduced and then increased in response to variations of a control speed selected from a wheel, detection means for detecting a lateral acceleration of the vehicle body is provided.