Abstract: Embodiments include a vehicle pillar member, which has a length and includes a plurality of steel sheets welded along at least one joint line transverse to the longitudinal direction, and for each joint line, the strengths of the steel sheets just above and below the joint line are different. The joint lines may include one or more first joint lines inclined with respect to a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle pillar member.

Abstract: A vehicle pillar member (12), which has a length and comprises a plurality of steel sheets (120A to 120E) welded along at least one joint line (110a to 110d) transverse to the longitudinal direction, and for each joint line, the strengths of the steel sheets just above and below the joint line are different. The joint lines includes one or more first joint lines (110a, 110c) inclined with respect to a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle pillar member (12).

Abstract: Embodiments include a bumper reinforcement having a length including a first section and a second section. The reinforcement includes a reinforcement body made of a steel sheet and having a cross section that is open on one side and uniform along the length of the bumper reinforcement, the cross section of the body in at least the first section of the reinforcement including a high-strength portion and a low-strength portion, the high-strength portion having a first tensile strength, and the low-strength portion having a second tensile strength that is less than the first tensile strength. In an embodiment, the reinforcement further includes a closure closing the open side of the body within the first section of the reinforcement and joined to the body at the low-strength portion in the first section.

Abstract: When a select lever is in a drive range, a microcomputer reads a value of an output voltage by a switch-operation-signal output circuit after detecting that both shift-up switch and shift-down switch are substantially simultaneously turned on, checks whether or not the output voltage by the switch-operation-signal output circuit is the output voltage indicating that the switch after a predetermined time has elapsed is in a normal condition, and only when the output voltage is such an output voltage, permits a manual mode of an automatic transmission and when the output voltage is not such an output voltage, cancels the manual mode.

Abstract: When a select lever is in a drive range, a microcomputer reads a value of an output voltage by a switch-operation-signal output circuit after detecting that both shift-up switch and shift-down switch are substantially simultaneously turned on, checks whether or not the output voltage by the switch-operation-signal output circuit is the output voltage indicating that the switch after a predetermined time has elapsed is in a normal condition, and only when the output voltage is such an output voltage, permits a manual mode of an automatic transmission and when the output voltage is not such an output voltage, cancels the manual mode.

Abstract: A control device for a hydraulic automatic transmission for a vehicle, including start control device for supplying a hydraulic pressure to a first hydraulic engaging element for a low-speed position and a second hydraulic engaging element for a high-speed position in performing in-gear control by a select operation from a nonforward range to a forward range, thereby first setting a shift position to the high-speed position and next switching the high-speed position to the low-speed position; temperature detecting device for detecting the temperature of a power train; and high-speed position setting operation inhibiting device for inhibiting a high-speed position setting operation by the start control device in the case that the temperature detected by the temperature detecting device is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.

Abstract: In a system for controlling an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders and connected to the automatic transmission and mounted on a vehicle and the operation of the engine is switched between full-cylinder operation during which all of the cylinders are operative and cutoff-cylinder operation during which some of the cylinders are non-operative, based on at least the load of the engine, a gradient of road on which the vehicle runs is estimated and the cutoff-cylinder operation is prohibited when the estimated gradient is equal to or greater than a threshold value. With this, it becomes possible to generate sufficient deceleration, when the vehicle runs a downhill during cutoff-cylinder operation, while ensuring to prevent the operator to feel excessive acceleration.

Abstract: A control device for a hydraulic automatic transmission for a vehicle, including start control means for supplying a hydraulic pressure to a first hydraulic engaging element for a low-speed position and a second hydraulic engaging element for a high-speed position in performing in-gear control by a select operation from a nonforward range to a forward range, thereby first setting a shift position to the high-speed position and next switching the high-speed position to the low-speed position; temperature detecting means for detecting the temperature of a power train; and high-speed position setting operation inhibiting means for inhibiting a high-speed position setting operation by the start control means in the case that the temperature detected by the temperature detecting means is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.

Abstract: In a system for controlling an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders and connected to the automatic transmission and mounted on a vehicle and the operation of the engine is switched between full-cylinder operation during which all of the cylinders are operative and cutoff-cylinder operation during which some of the cylinders are non-operative, based on at least the load of the engine, a gradient of road on which the vehicle runs is estimated and the cutoff-cylinder operation is prohibited when the estimated gradient is equal to or greater than a threshold value. With this, it becomes possible to generate sufficient deceleration, when the vehicle runs a downhill during cutoff-cylinder operation, while ensuring to prevent the operator to feel excessive acceleration.

Abstract: A yarn unwinding tension stabilizer capable of stably unwinding a yarn from various types of yarn suppliers in such shapes as cheese and cone so as to effectively cope with such drawbacks as slide of wound layers on a yarn supplier and slippage of yarn loops therefrom due to the ballooning of an unwound yarn and so forth and a yarn unwinding tension stabilizing apparatus for a warping creel capable of simultaneously setting said stabilizers on the multiple number of the suppliers suspended on the warping creel in an easy operation. The tension stabilizer (3) is arranged by disposing the plurality of elastic wiring materials (2) on the opening (10) of the supporting member (1) in such a manner that said materials convavely curve towards the center of said opening and overlap one another. The frame, in which the plurality of said stabilizers are aligned in rows, is arranged such that it is horizontally movable as a whole.