Abstract: A target thermal sensation setter sets target thermal sensations for a finite number of parts into which the occupant is virtually divided. A cabin temperature controller individually controls a cabin air-conditioning unit and an auxiliary heater so that the thermal sensations of the respective parts of the occupant estimated by an occupant thermal sensation estimator fall within a range of the target thermal sensations.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a connecting/disconnecting clutch disposed between an engine and an electric motor, an automatic transmission including an input clutch, a starting clutch disposed between the electric motor and the automatic transmission, and a control apparatus for executing an engine-start control operation for starting the engine, by igniting the engine after increasing a rotational speed of the engine by a torque of the electric motor while placing the connecting/disconnecting clutch into an engaged state. In process of the engine-start control operation that is executed when the hybrid vehicle is in a stopped state with the starting clutch being in a released state, the control apparatus places the input clutch in an engaged state until the rotational speed of the engine exceeds a predetermined speed value, and switches the input clutch to a released state after the rotational speed of the engine has exceeded the predetermined speed value.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a connecting/disconnecting clutch disposed between an engine and an electric motor, an automatic transmission including an input clutch, a starting clutch disposed between the electric motor and the automatic transmission, and a control apparatus for executing an engine-start control operation for starting the engine, by igniting the engine after increasing a rotational speed of the engine by a torque of the electric motor while placing the connecting/disconnecting clutch into an engaged state. In process of the engine-start control operation that is executed when the hybrid vehicle is in a stopped state with the starting clutch being in a released state, the control apparatus places the input clutch in an engaged state until the rotational speed of the engine exceeds a predetermined speed value, and switches the input clutch to a released state after the rotational speed of the engine has exceeded the predetermined speed value.

Abstract: A control device of a vehicle includes between an engine and an automatic transmission a fluid transmission device transmitting power from a pump impeller coupled to the engine via a fluid to a turbine impeller coupled to the automatic transmission. The control device determines occurrence of a lost-drive state of the fluid transmission device based on an increase amount of a rotation speed of the engine after a predetermined time during start of the engine.

Abstract: A control device of a vehicle includes between an engine and an automatic transmission a fluid transmission device transmitting power from a pump impeller coupled to the engine via a fluid to a turbine impeller coupled to the automatic transmission. The control device determines occurrence of a lost-drive state of the fluid transmission device based on an increase amount of a rotation speed of the engine after a predetermined time during start of the engine.

Abstract: A sterilization method is provided which acquires microbicidal activity equivalent to plasma-treated solution or more powerful than the same without the use of a plasma generation device. The sterilization method includes applying liquid containing peroxynitric acid (HOONO2) produced by chemical reaction to an object to be sterilized under acidic conditions of a pH value of 4.8 or lower. The liquid containing the peroxynitric acid is produced by mixing nitrous acid and peroxide together, for example, mixing nitrite and peroxide together.

Abstract: A vehicular fluid power transmitting device includes a pump impeller, a turbine runner, a damper device, a set member, and a centering member. The pump impeller has a pump shell to which torque from a drive source is input. The damper device has a damper input member and a damper output member. The damper input member is connected to an output shaft of the drive source. The damper output member is connected to the pump shell. The set member is fixed to the pump shell, and is connected to the damper output member. Also, the centering member is provided protruding toward the pump shell from the output shaft of the drive source, and is fitted together with the damper input member.

Abstract: A sterilization method is provided which acquires microbicidal activity equivalent to plasma-treated solution or more powerful than the same without the use of a plasma generation device. The sterilization method includes applying liquid containing peroxynitric acid (HOONO2) produced by chemical reaction to an object to be sterilized under acidic conditions of a pH value of 4.8 or lower. The liquid containing the peroxynitric acid is produced by mixing nitrous acid and peroxide together, for example, mixing nitrite and peroxide together.

Abstract: A vehicular fluid power transmitting device has a pump impeller, a turbine runner, damper device, an annular set member and a bearing assembly. The pump impeller has a pump shell. The damper device is provided between a drive source and the pump shell in an axial direction of an output shaft, and has a damper input member that is connected to the drive source, and a damper output member that is connected to the pump shell. The damper output member is connected to the annular set member that is fixed to the pump shell. The damper input member is relatively rotatably supported via the bearing assembly by the annular set member.

Abstract: A vehicular fluid power transmitting device includes a pump impeller, a turbine runner, a damper device, and a ring-shaped annular set member. The pump shell has a rear shell and a front shell that is connected to the rear shell. Also, the ring-shaped annular set member connects the damper output member to the front shell and is fixed to the front shell. An intermediate position between a position of an outer radius of the front shell and a position of a radius of the cylindrical shaft is included in a width (W) of the annular set member in a radial direction of the annular set member.

Abstract: A control device of a power transmission device includes a damper absorbing torsional vibration between a fluid transmission device with a lockup clutch and an engine, the power transmission device is disposed with a connecting/disconnecting device capable of connecting and interrupting power transmission on the downstream side of the fluid transmission device, the control device has a lockup engagement control means engaging the lockup clutch while the power transmission is interrupted by the connecting/disconnecting device in a predetermined engine rotation speed range lower than an idle rotation speed when the engine is started, the lockup engagement control means includes: a resonance due to frequency entrainment determination means determining whether a resonance due to frequency entrainment occurs that blocks an increase in an engine rotation speed NE depending on whether a predefined resonance determination time is exceeded by a required start time of the engine or an elapsed time until the engine rota

Abstract: An apparatus includes a pipe line, water supplying devices, gas supplying devices, a plasma generation device, a cooling device for cooling water flowing in the pipe line, and a vessel. The plasma generation device has a high-voltage electrode and a ground electrode which are provided outside the pipe line to face each other with the pipe line interposed therebetween and applies a plasma treatment continuously to the water flowing in the pipe line by generating dielectric barrier discharge between the high-voltage electrode and the ground electrode. The cooling device cools the water to have a low temperature of 10° C. or lower. The plasma treatment is applied to generate a plasma-treated solution in which superoxide anion radicals (O2?.) or a precursor thereof is diffused in the water and a microbicidal activity is sustained.

Abstract: A map is provided that has an unlimited region where a take-off slip-engagement the next time is repeatedly executed indefinitely, a limited region where the take-off slip-engagement the next time is repeatedly executed only once, and a prohibited region where the take-off slip-engagement the next time is prohibited, and has a generated heat amount during the take-off slip-engagement and an elapsed time after the lock-up slip-engagement ends as variables. Therefore, a region in which the take-off slip-engagement the next time had been prohibited because the take-off slip-engagement the next time is unable to be repeatedly executed indefinitely even though it is able to be repeatedly executed only once is made the limited region, so the take-off slip-engagement the next time is allowed to be repeatedly executed only once.

Abstract: A control device of a power transmission device includes a damper absorbing torsional vibration between a fluid transmission device with a lockup clutch and an engine, the power transmission device is disposed with a connecting/disconnecting device capable of connecting and interrupting power transmission on the downstream side of the fluid transmission device, the control device has a lockup engagement control means engaging the lockup clutch while the power transmission is interrupted by the connecting/disconnecting device in a predetermined engine rotation speed range lower than an idle rotation speed when the engine is started, the lockup engagement control means includes: a resonance due to frequency entrainment determination means determining whether a resonance due to frequency entrainment occurs that blocks an increase in an engine rotation speed NE depending on whether a predefined resonance determination time is exceeded by a required start time of the engine or an elapsed time until the engine rota

Abstract: A vehicular fluid power transmitting device has a pump impeller, a turbine runner, damper device, an annular set member and a bearing assembly. The pump impeller has a pump shell. The damper device is provided between a drive source and the pump shell in an axial direction of an output shaft, and has a damper input member that is connected to the drive source, and a damper output member that is connected to the pump shell. The damper output member is connected to the annular set member that is fixed to the pump shell. The damper input member is relatively rotatably supported via the bearing assembly by the annular set member.

Abstract: A vehicular fluid power transmitting device includes a pump impeller, a turbine runner, a damper device, and a ring-shaped annular set member. The pump shell has a rear shell and a front shell that is connected to the rear shell. Also, the ring-shaped annular set member connects the damper output member to the front shell and is fixed to the front shell. An intermediate position between a position of an outer radius of the front shell and a position of a radius of the cylindrical shaft is included in a width (W) of the annular set member in a radial direction of the annular set member.

Abstract: A vehicular fluid power transmitting device includes a pump impeller, a turbine runner, a damper device, a set member, and a centering member. The pump impeller has a pump shell to which torque from a drive source is input. The damper device has a damper input member and a damper output member. The damper input member is connected to an output shaft of the drive source. The damper output member is connected to the pump shell. The set member is fixed to the pump shell, and is connected to the damper output member. Also, the centering member is provided protruding toward the pump shell from the output shaft of the drive source, and is fitted together with the damper input member.

Abstract: A map is provided that has an unlimited region where a take-off slip-engagement the next time is repeatedly executed indefinitely, a limited region where the take-off slip-engagement the next time is repeatedly executed only once, and a prohibited region where the take-off slip-engagement the next time is prohibited, and has a generated heat amount during the take-off slip-engagement and an elapsed time after the lock-up slip-engagement ends as variables. Therefore, a region in which the take-off slip-engagement the next time had been prohibited because the take-off slip-engagement the next time is unable to be repeatedly executed indefinitely even though it is able to be repeatedly executed only once is made the limited region, so the take-off slip-engagement the next time is allowed to be repeatedly executed only once.

Abstract: A semiconductor rectifying device, suitable for installation in vehicles, comprises a cup-shaped metallic container, a semiconductor chip having a pn junction, one of whose main surfaces is bonded to the bottom surface of the container, a lead bonded to the other main surface of the semiconductor chip, and a silicone resin layer containing silica powder, with which layer an exposed portion of the semiconductor chip is covered.

Abstract: A high-speed diode with a PNN.sup.+ structure has a breakdown voltage of about 200 V, a forward voltage drop of 0.9 V or less, a reverse recovery time of 50 nsec or less, and a soft recovery characteristic, by making the impurity concentration in the surface of a P-layer equal to or less than 8.times.10.sup.18 atoms/cc, putting the thickness of the P-layer in a range from 2 to 6 .mu.m, putting the resistivity of an N-layer in a range from 5 to 12.OMEGA.-cm, putting the thickness of the N-layer in a range from 19 to 25 .mu.m, and putting the carrier lifetime in the N-layer in a range from 20 to 40 nsec.