Abstract: A transmission controller includes: a corner detector that detects a corner; a predictor to predict a rolling amount based upon road data when the corner is detected and an accelerator opening degree is fully closed; a device to determine a first necessary engine braking amount in accordance with the rolling amount; a device to determine a first required speed change stage corresponding to the first necessary engine braking amount; a calculator to calculate a second necessary engine braking amount when the corner is detected and the accelerator opening degree is fully closed based upon a minimum required inter-vehicle distance with the vehicle ahead; a device to determine a second required speed change stage corresponding to the second engine braking amount; and a transmission controller to select, as a target speed change stage, either smaller one of the first or second required speed change stage, and then perform downshift control.

Abstract: Provided is a shift control device for an automatic transmission provided with an automatic shift mode and a manual shift mode instructed by a manual operation of a driver. The shift control device includes a following distance measuring means for measuring a following distance between an own vehicle and a front vehicle; an accelerator opening measuring means for measuring an accelerator opening of an engine; a following distance judging means for judging whether the measured following distance is equal to or less than a predetermined set value if a downshift is instructed by the manual operation of the driver, and the measured accelerator opening is fully closed; and a target shift stage determining means for determining a target shift stage based on the following distance if the following distance is equal to or less than the set value. Accordingly, the shift control device downshifts to the target shift stage.

Abstract: A corner determinator detects a corner appearing in a traveling direction of a vehicle and determines whether a detected corner is a blind corner based upon a current position of the vehicle and road data. A blind distance calculator calculates a distance from the determined blind corner to the vehicle based upon the current position of the vehicle and the road data. A necessary engine braking amount calculator calculates, on the basis of a calculated distance, a necessary engine braking amount necessary for decelerating a current vehicle speed to a vehicle speed at which it is possible to stop around the blind corner when a braking operation is performed with a full braking amount. A required speed change stage determinator calculates a required speed change stage based upon the determined necessary engine braking amount. A transmission controller performs a downshift to a determined required speed change stage.

Abstract: A transmission controller includes: a corner detector that detects a corner; a predictor to predict a rolling amount based upon road data when the corner is detected and an accelerator opening degree is fully closed; a device to determine a first necessary engine braking amount in accordance with the rolling amount; a device to determine a first required speed change stage corresponding to the first necessary engine braking amount; a calculator to calculate a second necessary engine braking amount when the corner is detected and the accelerator opening degree is fully closed based upon a minimum required inter-vehicle distance with the vehicle ahead; a device to determine a second required speed change stage corresponding to the second engine braking amount; and a transmission controller to select, as a target speed change stage, either smaller one of the first or second required speed change stage, and then perform downshift control.

Abstract: Provided is an epitaxial wafer manufacturing device (1) that deposits and grows epitaxial layers on the surfaces of wafers W while supplying a raw material gas to a chamber, wherein a shield (12), arranged in close proximity to the lower surface of a top plate (3) so as to prevent deposits from being deposited on the lower surface of the top plate (3), is removably attached inside the chamber, has an opening (13) in the central portion thereof that forces a gas inlet (9) to face the inside of a reaction space K, and has a structure in which it is concentrically divided into a plurality of ring plates (16), (17) and (18) around the opening (13).

Abstract: In an EGR valve, a valve element is moved with respect to a valve seat to adjust a passage section width of a measuring section, thereby regulating an EGR gas flow rate in a passage. The valve seat includes a valve hole, a first end face facing to a downstream side of the passage and a second end face facing to an upstream side of the passage. The inner circumferential surface of the valve hole has a concave curved shape with an inner diameter gradually increasing toward the second end face. The valve element is placed inside the valve hole to be movable in between a fully closed position and a fully open position. While the valve element is placed in the fully open position, passage section widths of parts of the measuring section in an EGR gas flow direction are approximate to each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides a device and a method for producing a magnetic recording medium having a lubricant membrane with a uniform thickness on a surface. The device for producing the magnetic recording medium includes: a hanger device that is inserted into the central hole of the magnetic recording medium and supports the magnetic recording medium in a hanging state; and a raising and lowering device that raises and lowers one of the hanging device and an immersion tank with respect to the other thereof. The hanger device includes a support plate of which an upper end comes into contact with an inner circumference of the magnetic recording medium and a liquid-cutting plate which extends from a lower end of the support plate and is distant by a space along the inner circumference of the magnetic recording medium from the inner circumference of the magnetic recording medium.

Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus of the internal combustion engine capable of removing deposited foreign matters accumulated on an EGR valve without deteriorating a combustion state of the internal combustion engine. When the vehicle is under deceleration and under fuel cut operation, the ECU opens an EGR shutoff valve and obtains an intake pressure “Pclose” under the EGR valve in the fully closed state. Then, the ECU opens the EGR valve and obtains an intake pressure “Popen” under the EGR valve in the fully opened state. Then, the ECU calculates a difference ?P between “Popen” and “Pclose”, and closes the EGR shutoff valve on the condition that the difference ?P is equal to or smaller than a threshold value “Pth1”. Then, the ECU opens the EGR valve, and subsequently opens the EGR valve.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium manufacturing apparatus capable of forming a lubricant film with a uniform thickness on the surface of a magnetic recording medium. The magnetic recording medium manufacturing apparatus includes a hanger mechanism (2) that is inserted into a central hole (100a) of a magnetic recording medium (100) and supports the magnetic recording medium (100) in a suspended state and a lifting mechanism (3) that lifts and lowers one of the hanger mechanism (2) and the dip tank (1) relative to the other.

Abstract: Provided is an epitaxial wafer manufacturing device (1) that deposits and grows epitaxial layers on the surfaces of wafers W while supplying a raw material gas to a chamber, wherein a shield (12), arranged in close proximity to the lower surface of a top plate (3) so as to prevent deposits from being deposited on the lower surface of the top plate (3), is removably attached inside the chamber, has an opening (13) in the central portion thereof that forces a gas inlet (9) to face the inside of a reaction space K, and has a structure in which it is concentrically divided into a plurality of ring plates (16), (17) and (18) around the opening (13).

Abstract: In an EGR valve, a valve element is moved with respect to a valve seat to adjust a passage section width of a measuring section, thereby regulating an EGR gas flow rate in a passage. The valve seat includes a valve hole, a first end face facing to a downstream side of the passage and a second end face facing to an upstream side of the passage. The inner circumferential surface of the valve hole has a concave curved shape with an inner diameter gradually increasing toward the second end face. The valve element is placed inside the valve hole to be movable in between a fully closed position and a fully open position. While the valve element is placed in the fully open position, passage section widths of parts of the measuring section in an EGR gas flow direction are approximate to each other.

Abstract: Provided is an exhaust gas recirculation apparatus of an internal combustion engine which can effectively suppress condensed water from being generated in an EGR passage, compared with the conventional apparatus. The exhaust gas recirculation apparatus includes an EGR pipe formed therein with an EGR passage held in communication with the exhaust passage and the intake passage, an EGR cooler in the EGR passage to cool the EGR gas, a first valve provided in the EGR passage between the EGR cooler and the exhaust passage to selectively take an opened state or a closed state, the first valve being operative to shut off the EGR gas from flowing into the EGR passage when the first valve takes the closed state, a second valve provided in the EGR passage between the EGR cooler and the intake passage to adjust an amount of the EGR gas flowing into the intake passage.

Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus of the internal combustion engine capable of removing deposited foreign matters accumulated on an EGR valve without deteriorating a combustion state of the internal combustion engine. When the vehicle is under deceleration and under fuel cut operation, the ECU opens an EGR shutoff valve and obtains an intake pressure “Pclose” under the EGR valve in the fully closed state. Then, the ECU opens the EGR valve and obtains an intake pressure “Popen” under the EGR valve in the fully opened state. Then, the ECU calculates a difference ?P between “Popen” and “Pclose”, and closes the EGR shutoff valve on the condition that the difference ?P is equal to or smaller than a threshold value “Pth1”. Then, the ECU opens the EGR valve, and subsequently opens the EGR valve.

Abstract: The present invention switches to and from generation of a luminance signal based on a visible light pixel signal and generation of a luminance signal based on a near infrared light pixel signal depending on a result of comparison of signal levels of the visible light pixel signal and the near infrared light pixel signal.

Abstract: Provided is an exhaust gas recirculation apparatus of an internal combustion engine which can suppress condensed water from being generated in an EGR pipe at the upstream side of an EGR cooler, and thus can suppress the an EGR pipe from being corroded.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium manufacturing apparatus capable of forming a lubricant film with a uniform thickness on the surface of a magnetic recording medium. The magnetic recording medium manufacturing apparatus includes a hanger mechanism (2) that is inserted into a central hole (100a) of a magnetic recording medium (100) and supports the magnetic recording medium (100) in a suspended state and a lifting mechanism (3) that lifts and lowers one of the hanger mechanism (2) and the dip tank (1) relative to the other.

Abstract: The present invention provides a device and a method for producing a magnetic recording medium, the device and method capable of forming a lubricant membrane with a uniform thickness on a surface of the magnetic recording medium. Specifically, the device for producing the magnetic recording medium according to the invention is a device that forms a lubricant membrane on the surface of the magnetic recording medium by immersing the magnetic recording medium into an immersion tank that has a liquid lubricant and then raising the magnetic recording medium from the immersion tank. The device for producing the magnetic recording medium includes: a hanger device that is inserted into the central hole of the magnetic recording medium and supports the magnetic recording medium in a hanging state; and a raising and lowering device that raises and lowers one of the hanging device and the immersion tank with respect to the other thereof.

Abstract: The present invention switches to and from generation of a luminance signal based on a visible light pixel signal and generation of a luminance signal based on a near infrared light pixel signal depending on a result of comparison of signal levels of the visible light pixel signal and the near infrared light pixel signal.

Abstract: A fixing device for reducing, without fail, the heating output without using a control circuit if an excessive temperature rise of a rotary heating member is predicted, even if the control circuit fails or runs away. In the fixing device, heating of a fixing belt for heat-fixing an unfixed image on a recording medium is controlled by a body-side processor. When the fixing belt stops or rotates at a rotational speed equal to or below a threshold, an oscillation stop circuit stops the oscillation of an inverter circuit to stop the heating, independently of the processor. To check the operation of a rotation detection circuit for detecting the rotating state of the fixing belt (fixing roller) and the oscillation stop circuit, self-diagnosis is utilized to ascertain that the fixing belt is not heated by giving a heating instruction when the condition of not heating the fixing belt is satisfied is performed when the power is turned on or is performed regularly during standby.

Abstract: A heat generating roller, fixing equipment and an image forming apparatus in which warm-up time is shortened while preventing excessive temperature rise and good fixing performance is realized by preventing offset. The heat generating roller is formed principally by laying a high permeability conductive layer and a nonmagnetic conductive layer in layer. When a voltage is applied from a power supply to an exciting coil and an alternating current flow, magnetic flux is generated around the exciting coil and a magnetic field is formed. Magnetic coupling of a system including the heat generating roller and the exciting coil is advantageous at a low temperature and heat generation of the heat generating roller is accelerated. When the Curie point is exceeded, skin depth increases and skin resistance decreases, which suppresses generation of Joules heat and reduces heat generation of the heat generating roller.