Abstract: Methods and systems for flexographic printing are described and include curing of material to be printed while the material is in contact with both a feature of a flexographic printing plate and a recipient substrate. The systems and method are useful in preventing slippage between the feature and the recipient substrate, and are particularly useful when printing at high resolution.

Abstract: A method for producing a patterned insulation board used for exterior wall of building by using screen printing, and the patterned insulation board comprising a metal veneer, a substrate an insulation layer between the metal veneer and the substrate, and the method comprising a step of screen printing the metal veneer, wherein, a flattening device is arranged at a bottom of the printing table, and used to flatten a surface of metal veneer, prior to the screen printing. The flattening device makes the scraper transfer ink by uniform force, which reduces printing difficulties overcome the printing difficulty.

Abstract: Printing with a single colorant a security feature imperceptible to the naked eye. For a digital security image having a first region formed by a first pattern of binary pixels and a second region formed by a different second pattern of binary pixels, the first and second patterns are printed with the single colorant. A darker one of the first and second printed patterns is determined. The security image is printed with the single colorant, the region corresponding to the darker printed pattern printed at a reduced gray level such that the printed first and second regions appear substantially indistinguishable to the naked eye.

Abstract: An apparatus for decorating includes a kiln provided with a heating chamber for receiving the objects and a carriage for transferring the objects from a more distant position from the chamber to a position nearer to the chamber. The carriage includes a resting arrangement for restingly receiving the objects and configured to serve as a bottom of the heating chamber in the nearer position.

Abstract: The present invention is to eliminate loosening of a transfer film on a rear end side of a card caused due to collision of a front end of the card against a conveying roller pair provided downstream of a transfer roller to prevent wrinkles from occurring in a transferred image, by increasing a card conveying speed or reducing a feed speed of a transfer film 46 during a time from when transfer processing for a card K to immediately before or after the card front end rushes into a conveying roller pair 37, excessive loosening of the transfer film 46 occurring on the card rear end side is eliminated. After the card rear end passes through the transfer roller 33, the feed speed of the transfer film 46 is further reduced to eliminate the loosening of the transfer film 46 on the card rear end side.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a blanket for offset printing and a manufacturing method thereof. The blanket for offset printing according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises a cushion layer, a support layer, and at least two surface printing layers, wherein the at least two surface printing layers comprise a silicon-based resin in which at least one of a hardness value, a fluorine group content value, and a silicon oil content value is different. The blanket for offset printing according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises the surface printing layer formed in at least two layers to prevent the surface printing layer from being swollen due to ink, thereby reducing a process waiting time and improving a process margin.

Abstract: Laser engravable films are disclosed. In one aspect, the laser engravable film of the present invention includes a monolayer film, preferably comprising polycarbonate, having a laser engraving additive and an antistatic composition mixed within the layer of polycarbonate. In another aspect, the laser engravable film of the present invention includes a first layer, preferably comprising polycarbonate, having an antistatic composition mixed within the first layer, and a second layer, preferably comprising polycarbonate, with laser engraving additives mixed within the second layer.

Abstract: A slide type writing tool includes: a pen housing (10); an ink holder (30); a sealing member (40) having a cover (41); a spring (50) elastically supporting the sealing member (40) and the ink holder (30); and a guide member (60) positioned between the sealing member (40) and the pen housing (10) and having an operation hole (65) for the coming in and out of the pen tip (31) in response to the forward or backward movement of the ink holder (30), wherein the opening and closing operations of the cover (41) of the sealing member (40) are guided when the sealing member (40) moves, the ink holder (30) has cam protrusions (70) for enabling the guide member (60) to move and moving along the operation slits (62), and the sealing member (40) has a sealing portion (42) coming into contact with the ink holder (30) and protrusions (44).

Abstract: A mechanical pencil having a tubular body extending along a longitudinal axis between a rear-end which has a first opening and a front-end which has a second opening, a lead that can move out through the second opening and a mechanism for advancing the lead arranged within the tubular body. The advancing mechanism includes a pushing device adapted to slide parallel to the longitudinal axis, a chuck located at the front end side of the tubular body and which could be tightened onto the lead in a tightened position; a reservoir which extends along the longitudinal axis for housing at least one lead, wherein the tubular body has an annular wall for pushing device retention at the rear end thereof.

Abstract: A mosaic concrete product, methods of creating the same, and methods of fabricating a module for use in creating the mosaic are provided. The methods of installing the mosaic upon an uncured concrete surface utilize the module. The module may be fabricated by mapping out tile in a design corresponding to the mosaic; adhering the tile to a template utilizing an adhesive, the tile being positioned thereon corresponding to the design; and allowing the adhesive to set. The module may define upper and lower surfaces, the upper surface including the tile adhered thereto. The methods of installing the mosaic comprises: positioning the module upon the uncured concrete surface; embedding the tile into the concrete surface; massaging the tile into the concrete surface to interpose a quantity of cement/fines paste between the adjacent tiles; and finishing the concrete surface.

Abstract: A Handheld All-Terrain Chalker of the present invention is designed to create straight chalk lines on all types of surfaces. The Handheld All-Terrain Chalker works independent of the surface in which the chalk lines are to be drawn and are unaffected by the variations of the surface. The Handheld All-Terrain Chalker includes a chalk hopper and a removable ergonomic handle. The chalk hopper is a semi-circular bucket having a storage container integrally formed with a dispenser. The storage container has an opening to allow the insertion of chalk. The dispenser is formed with a bottom having circular perforations or slotted openings to allow chalk to be dispensed to draw the chalk lines. To control the amount of chalk being dispensed and the width of the chalk line, a gasket or an adjustable chalk line plate is used to regulate the opening of the dispenser.

Abstract: Artificial marble having a transparent amorphous pattern includes a base or matrix material portion and a transparent pattern portion. The pattern portion has a specific gravity or about 1.60 or more and is formed by hardening or curing a resin composition comprising a binder selected from halogenated urethane acrylates, halogenated epoxy acrylates and combinations thereof and an acrylic polymerizable monomer.

Abstract: A turn limited wheel lug nut and nut cap combination is provided. The combination includes a lug nut for retaining a wheel on a vehicle. The lug nut has an external lobe. The combination also includes a nut cap, which is turnable with respect to the lug nut. The nut cap has an internal cam, which cooperates with the external lobe to locate the nut cap with respect to the lug nut with not more than a partial turn. The nut cap also has a stop, which cooperates with the external lobe to limit the partial turn of the nut cap with respect to the lug nut. And, the nut cap has a retention feature, which cooperates with the external lobe to retain the nut cap on the lug nut.

Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel (1), particularly a partially light-metal wheel and/or a light-metal wheel for motor vehicles, essentially comprising a rim (2) and a wheel spider (3), wherein the wheel spider (3) is made of a carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic. According to the invention, the wheel (1) has a clamping ring (4). The wheel spider (3) can be fastened to the rim (2) by means of the clamping ring (4).

Abstract: A tire handling tool used to assist a worker in positioning a tire from the horizontal or lying position to a vertical position. The tire handling tool generally including a first member connected to a second member, the second member defines a spacing, and further includes at least one stop. The second member includes a first end attached to the first member and a second end having a first bracket with wheels. The first member defines a second end that includes a second bracket having a roller member. A tubular member is attached to the first member and passes through the spacing of the second member. Urging the tool in a forward direction causes the tubular member to travel along the spacing towards the first bracket for receiving a tire that is in the lying position, and then urging the first member in a backward direction lifts the tire to a vertical position.

Abstract: A wheel, containing a rim of a plastics material and an adapter for fastening the rim to a wheel mounting, the adapter having a protuberance which engages in a recess in the rim, or the adapter being received in a receptacle of the rime, or, if multiple adapters are used, at least one adapter engaging in a recess of the rim or being enclosed by the material of the rim, where after assembly of the rim, the adapter lies with a surface area against the wheel mounting, or the rim is positioned between the wheel mounting and the adapter, where the fastening means for assembling the rim on the wheel mounting are passed through a lead-through in the adapter and the rim made of the plastics material is connected to the adapter such that no plastics material of the rim lies in the flux of force of the fastening means.

Abstract: The wheel device contains a base, an axle rotatably running through the base, two sleeves each having an axial through channel for the axle to run through; and two wheel members each having an axial first socket open to an inner side of the wheel member for joining with an end of the axle. The axle has a first neck section adjacent to each end of the axle with a small diameter than the axle's other sections. Along the axial through channel of each sleeve, there is a narrower first collar section. Inside the first socket of each wheel member, there is a narrower second collar section. After the axle runs through a sleeve and joins to a wheel member, the more extensive first and second collar sections are jointly embedded in the sleeve's more reduced first neck section, thereby enhancing the wheel device's operational life and reliability.

Abstract: A motorcycle tire includes a tread portion having a first region and a second region divided by the tire equator, with the tread portion being provided with first inner inclined grooves provided in the first region and second inner inclined grooves provided in the second region, first and second inner inclined grooves alternately arranged in a tire circumferential direction, the inner inclined groove extending from an axially inner end Ai toward an anti-designated rolling direction to an axially outer end Ao at an angle ? of 0-20 to the tire circumferential direction, and first outer inclined grooves provided in the first region and second outer inclined grooves provided in the second region, and first and second outer inclined grooves alternately arranged in the tire circumferential direction, the outer inclined groove extending from an axially inner end Bi toward a designated rolling direction to an axially outer end Bo.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire with a designated installing direction to a vehicle, includes a tread portion with an inboard and an outboard tread edges, the tread portion provided with a pair of inboard and outboard center main grooves and a pair of inboard and outboard shoulder main grooves to form a center portion, a pair of middle portions, and a pair of shoulder portions, each of the inboard center main groove, the outboard center main groove and the inboard shoulder main groove having a groove width of from 10 to 20 mm, the outboard shoulder main groove having a groove width of from 2 to 5 mm, the outboard shoulder portion provided with outboard shoulder lateral grooves each extending from the outboard tread edge without reaching the outboard shoulder main groove, and the outboard middle portion provided with outboard middle lateral grooves.

Abstract: A motorcycle tire comprises a tread portion provided with first T-grooves and second T-grooves arranged and oriented alternately along the tire equator. The angles of the main portion and branch portion of the T-groove, with respect to the tire circumferential direction, are gradually increased toward the tread edges. The axial distances of the branching point and an inside end of the main portion are not more than 25% of the axial distance of the tread edge, each measured from the tire equator along the tread surface. The circumferential distance from the inside end of the main portion to the circumferentially adjacent T-groove is 5 to 15% of the circumferential pitch length of the first T-grooves.

Abstract: A pneumatic run flat tire includes an inner side reinforcing rubber layer having a falcated cross-section and an outer side reinforcing rubber layer having a center of gravity position in a meridian cross-section that is positioned inward in a tire radial direction of a tire maximum width position disposed in a side wall portion. Volumes of the inner side reinforcing rubber layer and the outer side reinforcing rubber layer are each different on a vehicle inner side and a vehicle outer side when mounted on a vehicle.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a bead filler, a carcass ply, a side wall rubber and a rim strip rubber. The rim strip rubber has a main portion arranged in an outer side in a tire width direction of the bead filler, and a thin portion arranged between the carcass ply and the side wall rubber. The main portion forms an outer surface of a bead portion. The thin portion extends in the tire diametrical direction at a substantially fixed thickness. An upper end of the thin portion is positioned in an outer side in the tire diametrical direction than an upper end of the bead filler and in an inner side in the tire diametrical direction than a roll-up end of the carcass ply.

Abstract: A TPMS auto localization system for on-demand tire parameter acquisition and an associated method includes a central unit configured to receive and transmit radio-frequency (RF) signals, and a tire module associated with a tire. The tire module is configured to measure one or more tire parameters based on a received low frequency (LF) command and transmit the one or more tire parameters to the central unit. A repeater module is associated with the tire module, and is configured to receive the RF signal from the central unit and translate the RF signal into a LF command to be transmitted to the tire module.

Abstract: A tire assembly and method includes one or more elongate air passageway formed within a tire component, such as a tire sidewall. The air passageway is configured as a series or string of elongate cavities, adjacent cavities connected end to end by an elongate connecting channel. The connecting channel is dimensioned having a channel diametric size smaller than a cavity diametric size. Positioned within the tire component, the air passageway sequentially collapses segment by segment as each of the cavities pass sequentially over a rolling tire footprint. Air is pumped by the sequential air passageway collapse with the smaller dimensioned connecting channel(s) acting as valve components to directionally keep the pumped air moving between an air passageway air inlet and an air passageway air outlet and from there into the tire cavity.

Abstract: An air compressor mountable to a sidewall of an annular tire cavity, wherein the compressor comprises an air inlet for receiving air to be pumped into the tire cavity and an air outlet for releasing air into the tire cavity. Further, the compressor comprises a double membrane assembly having a first membrane and a second membrane arranged in parallel to the first membrane. A pressure compensation chamber is provided between the first membrane and the second membrane, the pressure compensation chamber being in fluid communication with the tire cavity. Further, an air compression chamber is arranged on a side of the second membrane opposite to the pressure compensation chamber, wherein the compression chamber is in fluid communication with the air inlet and the air outlet. Moreover, a tire comprises the aforementioned compressor.

Abstract: A spreader bar includes a frame having a leading end and a trailing end. A pivot member is pivotally mounted to the trailing end of the frame and adapted to be removably connected to a spreader bogie. Spread links adapted to be removably connected to a trailer are pivotally and removably attached to the leading end of the frame. The length of the spreader bar may be changed by substituting spread links having different lengths.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for a brake actuator hitch. The brake actuator hitch is configured to be connected to a tow vehicle receiver and a towed vehicle and includes mechanical linkage to actuate a brake pedal of the towed vehicle when there is a difference between relative motions of the brake actuator hitch and the tow vehicle receiver.

Abstract: A kingpin stabilizer having a kingpin-retaining bracket having a base plate and upwardly extending walls along at least two sides of the base plate. The upwardly extending walls and the base plate forming a receiving cavity with the upwardly extending walls spaced apart to fit said kingpin therebetween. At least one upwardly extending wall has a pin retainer. The stabilizer includes three telescoping legs extending from the pin-retaining bracket forming a tripod.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a vehicle (1) capable of being converted between a flying condition and an automotive riding condition. The vehicle has a telescopically extendable tail (10) comprising a first tubular tail segment (11) and a second tail segment (12) disposed axially slideable within the first tubular tail segment. The tail is provided with at least two form-closing coupling members (21, 35; 31, 36) located at an axial distance (LI) from each other for providing a force-transferring coupling between the second tail segment (12) and the first tubular tail segment (11) in the extended state of the second tail segment (12), each of said form-closing coupling members (21, 35; 31, 36) capable of transferring torque and transverse forces, and each of said form-closing coupling members (21, 35; 31, 36) coming into engagement by axial displacement of the second tail segment (12) in the outward direction.

Abstract: A wheel suspension for a vehicle may include a wheel carrier and a torsionally stiff transverse control arm. The control arm may include a first front joint element and a first rear joint element pivotably mounted to the wheel carrier. The first front joint element may include a moveable bearing configured to transmit forces only in a direction that is parallel to a vertical axis of the vehicle.

Abstract: A passenger service vehicle includes one or more suspension mounts. Each suspension mount attaches a front axle to a chassis. In some cases, the axle is a drop beam axle. The or each suspension mount is further mounted with one or more suspension components of the following: suspension arm links, suspension air springs, suspension dampeners, anti-roll bars and Panhard rods.

Abstract: A drive axle for industrial trucks is, by fastening mechanisms, on the one hand able to be connected to the vehicle frame and, on the other hand, connected to the axle housing. Flexible elements that take effect in the main directions of force in such a manner that they are mainly subject to pressure are arranged between the fastening mechanisms and the axle housing.

Abstract: A wheel suspension system of the type including a wheel support. A resilient connecting element connects the wheel support to a vehicle frame element. The resilient connecting element having a wheel support side and a frame element side. At least one joint element connects the wheel support side of the resilient element to the wheel support and at least two rotary joints connect the frame element side of the resilient element to the frame element.

Abstract: The suspension thrust bearing device for a motor vehicle comprises a rolling bearing forming an axial thrust bearing and provided with an upper ring, with a lower ring and with at least one row of rolling elements arranged between the rings, a bearing cap in contact with the upper ring, and a support cap in contact with the lower ring and forming a bearing means for a suspension spring. The support cap comprises a body of rigid material and seals of flexible material fixed to the body and comprising dynamic sealing lips in contact with the bearing cap or one of the rings of the rolling bearing and delimiting radially a sealed space containing at least the rolling elements of the rolling bearing. The support cap further comprises an annular ring to which the lower ends of the seals are connected and forming a bearing surface for the suspension spring.

Abstract: A trailer is disclosed. The trailer may be pulled behind a vehicle such as, but not limited to, a jeep, dune buggy, or ATV. Embodiments of the trailer may include a frame and an adjustable suspension. The adjustable suspension may be used to vary the height of the trailer in order to accommodate different types of terrain and loading. By changing the height, the clearance and/or approach angle of the trailer may be varied. Additional embodiments may include a tongue connected to the frame, which tongue may have an adjustable length and/or height. Where the trailer includes a cover and a tailgate, an optional locking system may be used. In one embodiment, the locking system includes a handle that may release both the tailgate and cover. In some embodiments, the handle may be partially pulled to release the cover while fully pulling the handle may release the tailgate.

Abstract: A suspension device includes damper interposed between vehicle body and wheel in vehicle and exerted damping force for suppressing vertical movements of vehicle body and wheel, damping force adjustment mechanism adjusts damping force, control device controls damping force adjustment mechanism, lateral acceleration detection unit detects an lateral acceleration acting on vehicle body, roll angular velocity detection unit detects roll angular velocity of vehicle body, and steering angular velocity detection unit detects steering angular velocity of steering wheel.

Abstract: A cooling unit includes an evaporator with a cool storage function, and a drain case disposed below the evaporator. Cool storage material containers and outer fins of the evaporator have respective outward projecting portions which project from the refrigerant flow tubes toward the leeward side. The drain case includes a condensed water drain portion which drains condensed water generated on the evaporator from at least one of the lower end of the outward projecting portion of each cool storage material container and the lower end of the outward projecting portion of each outer fin. The cooling unit is preferably used in a refrigeration cycle which constitutes an air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle in which an engine serving as a drive source for a compressor is temporarily stopped when the vehicle is stopped.

Abstract: An air conditioning control apparatus mounted on an electric vehicle having a travel battery that supplies an electric power to a travel driving source, a battery charger that charges the travel battery with a power supply, and an air conditioner that conducts air conditioning in a vehicle interior, controls the air conditioner. When pre-air conditioning is implemented in a state where the battery charger is connected to the power supply, an inrush current generated in a short time when an operation of the air conditioner starts is absorbed by both of power feeding from the power supply and power feeding from the travel battery, and after the inrush current has been absorbed, the air conditioner operates by only the power feeding from the power supply.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a blow-molded foam which has homogeneous foamed cells in size, is light in weight, and is excellent in surface smoothness, and a process for producing the same. The invention is directed to a blow-molded foam 1 having a wall portion formed in such a manner that a thermoplastic resin containing a foaming agent mixed therewith is subjected to blow molding. Herein, the wall portion has a closed cell structure in which a plurality of foamed cells are contained. The wall portion has an expansion ratio of not less than 2.0 times. The wall portion has an outer face having a center-line average surface roughness Ra of less than 9.0 ?m. The foamed cell has a cell diameter having a standard deviation of less than 40 ?m in a thickness direction of the wall portion.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an HVAC device for a vehicle includes a sensor unit mounted on the vehicle and configured to sense a bodily response of the user, an HVAC device control unit configured to control temperature and humidity inside the vehicle, and a control unit configured to control the HVAC device control unit based on the bodily response sensed by the sensor unit and to control temperature, direction, air volume, and speed of wind supplied inside the vehicle. The bodily response includes any one selected from the group consisting of body temperature, respiration volume, carbon dioxide amount in breath, voice, used words, facial expression of the user, and combinations thereof. The control unit is configured to calculate the discomfort index of the user based on the bodily response and to dynamically control the HVAC device control unit based on the discomfort index.

Abstract: An engine and an electronic control unit perform cooling capacity increase control for compensating for a insufficiency of the cooling capacity of a cooling device. The electronic control unit performs a variety of control for a vehicle, including control of the cooling device. At that time, the electronic control unit calculates the target value of the cooling capacity of the cooling device, calculates the estimate value of the cooling capacity that will be able to be exerted in the future under the current control, compares the target value and the estimate value, and when it is determined from the result of the comparison that the cooling capacity will be insufficient, performs the cooling capacity increase control. The electronic control unit changes the contents of the cooling capacity increase control according to the degree of insufficiency of the estimate value with respect to the target value.

Abstract: A sun screen for a vehicle having a windshield, an A-pillar and a dashboard includes a spool rotatably coupled with the dashboard and a guide moveably coupled with the A-pillar. The sun screen further includes a unitary, flexible substrate spanning a width of the windshield and having a trailing end coupled with the spool and a leading end coupled with the guide such that the substrate is selectively extendable over the windshield and retractable on the spool.

Abstract: A vehicle and a method of attaching a sunroof assembly to the vehicle are disclosed. A structural frame is provided having a roof portion. The structural frame defines a passenger compartment adjacent to the roof portion. The structural frame includes a flange extending along at least a segment of the roof portion. The flange includes a first side facing inwardly toward the passenger compartment and a second side facing outwardly away from the passenger compartment. A sunroof frame is attached to the first side of the flange from inside the passenger compartment. Furthermore, a glass apparatus is operatively connected to the sunroof frame from the second side of the flange outside of the passenger compartment. Attaching the sunroof frame to the first side of the flange occurs before operatively connecting the glass apparatus to the sunroof frame. The sunroof frame and the glass apparatus define the sunroof assembly.

Abstract: An assembly is provided for operatively connecting a first object which is capable of a to and fro movement, with a second object, in such a manner that the second object, when connected to the first object, will move in correspondence with the first object. The first and second objects are provided with first and second facing ends, respectively, provided with cooperating first and second coupling provisions, respectively, wherein at least one of said objects is housed in a guide. The coupling provision of at least one of said facing ends is capable of cooperation with said guide for moving said coupling provision from a first position disengaging the other coupling provision to a second position engaging the other coupling provision in which both objects are connected.

Abstract: A transmission system of a hybrid electric vehicle may include an input shaft arranged to receive torque of an engine, a first motor/generator operable as a motor or a generator, a second motor/generator operable as a motor or a generator and directly connected to an output gear, and a planetary gear set having a first rotation element directly connected to the first motor/generator and selectively connected to the input shaft, a second rotation element directly connected to the input shaft, and a third rotation element selectively connected to the output gear.

Abstract: A hybrid power transmission integrated system includes a first planetary gear train, a second planetary gear train, a first transmission-connecting set and a second transmission-connecting set. A control method includes: arranging the first transmission-connecting set to provide a first power input end; arranging the second transmission-connecting set to provide a second power input end, a first power output end and a free transmission end; connecting the first and second transmission-connecting sets to the first and second planetary gear trains; controlling the free transmission end performed as a second power output end or a third power input end such that powers are converted via the second power output end and are stored; supplying the stored power to the hybrid power transmission integrated system via the second or third power input end.

Abstract: A power transmission system of a hybrid electric vehicle may include, a generating device adapted to generate electricity by torque of an engine or to start the engine. an input device adapted to receive the torque of the engine. a speed output device changing the torque transmitted from the input device into two speed steps and outputting the changed torque. an auxiliary power source disposed between the input device and the speed output device and adapted to supply torque to the speed output device or to generate electricity by the torque of the speed output device. a final reduction device outputting the torque transmitted from the speed output device.

Abstract: A transmission arrangement for a hybrid vehicle includes an electric machine having a stator and a rotor. An electric-motor input shaft is connected to the rotor. A Ravigneaux gear set has a carrier, a set of long planets, a set of short planets, a ring gear, a first sun, and a second sun. The short planets mesh with the long planets. The ring gear meshes with the short planets and is connected to an output shaft. The first sun meshes with the short planets and is connected to the electric-motor input shaft. The second sun meshes with the long planets. The carrier is fixable on a transmission housing by a brake. The carrier, the second sun and an internal-combustion-engine input shaft are selectively couplable to one another in a torque-transmitting manner by a shiftable clutch arrangement. A hybrid vehicle and a drive train for a hybrid vehicle are also provided.

Abstract: A hybrid drive configuration for a motor vehicle includes a first planetary set whose internal gear is coupled via a first brake to a transmission housing. A second planetary set is embodied as a Ravigneaux set. The first sun of the Ravigneaux gear set, which meshes with the long planets thereof, is connected to the rotor of a first electrical machine and is coupled via a first clutch to the internal gear of the first planetary set. The second sun of the Ravigneaux set, which meshes with the short planets thereof, is coupled via a second brake to the transmission housing. The carrier of the Ravigneaux set is coupled via a second clutch to the carrier of the first planetary set and the ring gear of the Ravigneaux set is connected to the input shaft.

Abstract: An in-wheel motor driving device includes a wheel braking device. A back plate of a drum brake or a mounting member for calipers of a disc brake constituting the wheel braking device is formed integrally with an outboard-side end member which is fastened to a outboard-side end surface of a housing of a speed reducer section.