Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic bearing system comprising an axial bearing rotating flywheel arranged so as to magnetically interact with at least one fixed axial stop. The system includes a cooling fluid path configured so as to send the flow to the flywheel in a direction of flow being in a substantially radial plane relative to the axis of rotation of the flywheel.

Abstract: A quick-release device for a tractor PTO shaft includes a first plate with a first body with a first outer surface and a second outer surface and a first thickness disposed therebetween; a plurality of openings extending through the first thickness of the first body; and at least one locking hole extending through the first thickness of the first body. The device also includes a second plate with a second body having a third outer surface and a fourth outer surface and a second thickness disposed therebetween; a plurality of connectors extending from the third outer surface of the second body, the plurality of connectors are configured to removably engage with the plurality of openings.

Abstract: Oldham couplings are disclosed, for example, for use in electric camshaft adjusters. The Oldham coupling may include a first outer connecting disk and a second outer connecting disk having axes of rotation extending parallel to each other and a central connecting disk including one or more through-bores. One or more connecting elements may couple the first outer connecting disk to the central connecting disk via the through-bore(s). A sleeve may be arranged in the through-bore(s) such that the connecting element(s) contacts the sleeve and wear of the central connecting disk is reduced. For example, the sleeve may prevent direct contact of the connecting element(s) with the central connecting disk, such as by a spacer or flange. The sleeve may be made of metal, while the central connecting disk may be plastic or metal.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gear shift device for a motor vehicle transmission, comprising a first and a second gearbox component which are rotatable relative to each other around a gearbox axis, a friction ring which is connected to the first gearbox component comprising a conical frictional surface, a plurality of first disks and a plurality of second disks. The first and second disks form a multi-disk clutch, the first disks being coupled to a synchronization element in a rotationally fixed manner, and the synchronization element comprising, axially adjoining the conical frictional surface of the friction ring, a conical mating surface for speed synchronization between the first gearbox component and the first disks. Further, the first disks are designed as a synchronization disk where the synchronization element is integrally formed thereon and/or one of the first disks is designed as a disk support coupling all first disks in the circumferential direction in a form-locking manner.

Abstract: A basic pulse time setting section determines a basic pulse time for initial invalid stroke elimination by applying current values of oil temperature and throttle opening to the basic pulse time map. A subtraction time setting section determines a subtraction time by applying current values of oil temperature and clutch oil pressure to the subtraction time map. A pulse time determining section determines a predetermined initial invalid stroke elimination pulse time by subtracting the subtraction time from the basic pulse time. An initial invalid stroke elimination permission/inhibition determination section, at a starting timing of initial invalid stroke elimination, inhibits this-time initial invalid stroke elimination if the elapsed time from the execution timing of the preceding initial invalid stroke elimination is within the predetermined inhibition period.

Abstract: A clutch, including: inner and outer races; a wedge plate; an electromagnetic actuator including a coil and an attenuating circuit. The coil is arranged to be energized by a power source to switch the wedge clutch between: a locked mode in which the inner and races are locked in a circumferential direction and a free-wheel mode in which the inner race is rotatable with respect to the outer race in the circumferential direction. The attenuating circuit includes a capacitor parallel with the coil and a switch wired to the capacitor. During the free-wheel mode: the switch is arranged to connect the capacitor to an electrical ground; and the electrical power source is arranged to energize the coil and charge the capacitor with a voltage. Following initiation of the locked mode: the switch isolates the capacitor from the electrical ground; and the capacitor discharges the voltage through the coil.

Abstract: An improved rear pulley for a rear wheel vehicle having a flexible drive belt. The improved rear pulley has a pulley ring that includes pulley teeth for gripping the flexible drive belt, and a pulley ring wall that extends inwardly from the pulley ring. The pulley ring contains sides for maintain the flexible drive belt on the pulley teeth. The improved rear pulley has an outer hub that has an exterior and an interior outer hub surface. The interior outer hub surface has a first, a second and a third interior outer hub face. The exterior outer hub surface has an outer hub wall that extends outwardly. The improved rear pulley has an inner hub that includes an exterior and an interior inner hub surface. The improved rear pulley has bearings and a sprag clutch for allowing rotation and directional rotation, respectively, of the outer hub about the inner hub.

Abstract: A method for controlling an engine clutch includes steps of controlling the hydraulic pressure transmitted from a master cylinder, driven by a motor, to a concentric slave cylinder using a controller outputting a motor control command for controlling an engine clutch so as to switch the engine clutch to a target state, driving the engine clutch using the concentric slave cylinder, after the step of controlling hydraulic pressure, detecting a position of a piston of the master cylinder using a first travel sensor and detecting a position of a piston of the concentric slave cylinder using a second travel sensor, and performing compensation control with respect to the motor based on the positions of the pistons detected by the first travel sensor and the second travel sensor using the controller so that the engine clutch is switched to the target state.

Abstract: Abnormality detection device for automatic transmission of invention has automatic transmission 5A connected to vehicle driving source 1, 3 through clutch 4a; range detector detecting selection range of selector lever 9 and outputting detection signal; manual valve 90 configured to, when selector lever is positioned at drive range position, engage clutch and bring automatic transmission into power transmission state, and when selector lever is positioned at range position except drive range position, disengage clutch and bring automatic transmission into power non-transmission state.

Abstract: A caliper brake featuring a hydraulic piston assembly includes a housing, a movable piston within a chamber of the housing, a first port providing a first fluid pathway into the chamber, and a redundant seal assembly. The redundant seal assembly may include a first pressure seal disposed about a first interior circumference of the chamber disposed above the first port, a second pressure seal disposed about a second interior circumference of the chamber disposed above the first pressure seal, and a second port disposed between the first pressure seal and the second pressure seal, the second port providing a second fluid pathway from inside of the chamber to outside of the chamber, and the second port establishing a bleed-off for fluid traversing above the first pressure seal such that the second pressure seal experiences a lower fluid pressure than the first pressure seal during normal operation of the caliper brake.

Abstract: An arrangement for a brake lining, method for actuating the brake lining and the brake lining itself are a partially lined disc brake of a rail vehicle that has a lining support and multiple group elements arranged on the lining support. Each of the group elements consists of a support plate and multiple lining elements arranged on the support plate, and lining elements with at least two friction surfaces of differing sizes are arranged on each support plate. The lining elements are arranged such that their total surface area at least approximates a ring sector, and at least two different first and second group elements are arranged on the lining support.

Abstract: A spring of a caliper of a brake disc is capable of avoiding knocking of the pad against the rests of the caliper body and suitable to be arranged astride a disc of a brake disc. The spring includes a sheared and bent laminar body and is mounted on a caliper between an edge of a support plate of a pad, and at least one wall of a caliper body. The laminar body includes a tab portion bent as a spring, a first hooking portion having at least one C-shaped portion to be arranged astride the plate edge, and a second hooking portion resting on a radially outer portion of the plate edge.

Abstract: A disk brake for a utility vehicle is provided. A brake caliper of the disk brake includes a receiving chamber configured to receive a brake application device with a pivotable brake lever. The brake lever is supported at one end on a bridge supporting at least one brake piston and at the other end on a wall of the brake caliper forming a caliper head. A pivot bearing is provided for supporting the brake lever on the caliper head or the bridge. The pivot bearing includes a receptacle having a circular-arc-shaped cross-section and has a pivoting body configured to be located in the receptacle. The brake lever is retained in such a way that the brake lever is secured against displacement transversely to the pivoting direction of the brake lever by at least one securing element arranged in the region of the pivoting body extending axially on both sides of the securing element.

Abstract: A bearing bushing, for example, for a motor vehicle. The bearing bushing is switchable between a first and a second stiffness stage. The bearing bushing has a first elastomer ring, which is arranged rotationally fixedly on an outer circumferential surface of an inner ring, and a second elastomer ring, which is arranged rotationally fixedly on an inner circumferential surface of an outer ring. Radially between the two elastomer rings, an intermediate ring makes contact in a rotationally fixed manner with the two elastomer rings. To change in stiffness of the bearing bushing, the first elastomer ring can be bridged by the intermediate ring and at least one blocking ring which is arranged on the bearing bushing at an end side.

Abstract: A suspension limiter includes a diaphragm element configured to be placed in operable communication with a suspension such that a rate of increase in load per unit travel of compression of the suspension is reduced near a full travel of the suspension than would exist for the suspension if the diaphragm element were not present, the diaphragm element arranged to deform only elastically through the full travel of the suspension. Suspension arrangements and methods of loading suspension arrangements are also described.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for cooling damping fluid in a vehicle suspension damper unit. A damping unit includes a piston mounted in a fluid cylinder. A bypass fluid circuit having an integrated cooling assembly disposed therein is fluidly coupled to the fluid cylinder at axial locations that, at least at one point in the piston stroke, are located on opposite sides of the piston. The cooling assembly may include a cylinder having cooling fins thermally coupled to an exterior surface of the cylinder and made of a thermally conductive material. The bypass channel may include a check valve that permits fluid flow in only one direction through the bypass channel. The check valve may be remotely operated, either manually or automatically by an electronic controller. A vehicle suspension system may implement one or more damper units throughout the vehicle, controlled separately or collectively, automatically or manually.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for identifying an action. In some embodiments, a method for identifying an action includes: recording vibration trajectory information, wherein the vibration trajectory information corresponds to vibration of at least a portion of an intelligent device from a start of a vibration event to stabilization of the vibration event; determining whether the vibration is a damping vibration based on the vibration trajectory information; and in response to determining that the vibration is a damping vibration, determining that the vibration is caused by a user's trigger action, or in response to determining that the vibration is not a damping vibration, determining that the vibration is not caused by the user's trigger action.

Abstract: Anti-vibration support system; applicable in the protection of various apparatuses (E) against seismic movements and vibrations of any kind, comprising: —a lower base consisting of a floating mount (1), forming a resting surface for the apparatus (E) to be protected, and of a fixed mount (2), —an upper base (3) intended to rest on the apparatus (E) to be protected and —side structures (4a, 4b) comprising at least one tilted bar (41) connected by damping elements (42) to the upper base (3) and the fixed mount (2) of the lower base; said side structures (4a, 4b) limiting the movement of the upper base (3) and the apparatus (E) to be protected, at least, in the vertical direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-vibration support, comprising first, second and third frames, which are metallic, accessible from the outside and separate from one another, at least one part made of elastomer.

Abstract: An intermediate member is configured to include first and second intermediate members. Connecting portions that respectively extend outward from the first or the second intermediate plates are coupled with each other at two positions on the same circumference as pinion gears by two rivets (total six rivets at three connecting portions) as viewed in a central axis of the damper device. Such an arrangement enables spaces between the pinion gears to be used effectively, increases spaces for the first spring, the second spring and the inner spring and improves a vibration damping performance of a damper device.

Abstract: A self-adaptive torsional vibration reducer is provided, which includes an inner casing, an outer casing and resonance bodies provided between the inner casing and the outer casing. Each of the resonance bodies includes a mass-block and constraining springs supporting the mass-block between the inner casing and the outer casing. The resonance bodies are provided in pairs and are symmetrically distributed around a center of the rotating shaft. In a case that a frequency of an excitation force on the rotating shaft is coincided with the resonance frequency, the resonance bodies absorb torsional vibration energy at the frequency to reduce vibration. A diesel engine including the self-adaptive torsional vibration reducer is also provided.

Abstract: A rotary device includes a first rotor, a centrifugal element, a first urging member, and a second urging member. The first rotor includes a guide surface and is disposed to be rotatable. The centrifugal element is attached to the first rotor. The centrifugal element is radially movable along the guide surface by a centrifugal force acting thereon in rotation of the first rotor. The first urging member is configured to urge the centrifugal element. The second urging member is configured to urge the centrifugal element in a direction opposite to a direction of urging by the first urging member. The first and second urging members are further configured to rotate the centrifugal element toward the guide surface.

Abstract: A cord lock includes a female member having a first opening, a second opening, and an insertion passage for a string; and a male member entering one portion into the insertion passage from the first opening, and having, at the one portion, a male-side fastening portion to be fastened to the string inserted to pass through the insertion passage in cooperation with a female-side fastening portion formed inside the insertion passage. Fastening relative to the string is released by a pulling operation of reducing an entering amount of one portion of the male member into the insertion passage relative to the female member by gripping the string pulled out of the first opening, and by a pulling operation of reducing an entering amount of one portion of the male member into the insertion passage relative to the male member by gripping the string pulled out of the second opening.

Abstract: Devices and methods for loading a cable in order to create a desired distribution of the load among the cable's constituent strands. Strand terminations are applied to many—and possibly all of—the cable's strands. The ultimate goal is to connect the strand terminations to a collector in order to create an overall cable termination. The relationship between each strand termination and the collector is allowed to “float” using the inventive process while the cable is tensioned and an appropriate spatial relationship between each strand tensioner and the collector is determined. Once the appropriate relationship is found, it is configured to be repeatable (such as by recording its position for later application to the same or similar collector).

Abstract: A ratcheting strap adjuster comprising a bracket, a webbing plate, and one or more captive members. The webbing plate is rotatably coupled to the bracket. Each of the one or more captive members is moveable between an engaged position and a disengaged position, wherein the one or more captive members restrict rotation of the webbing plate in one direction when the one or more captive members are in the engaged position and allow rotation of the webbing plate in the one direction and in an opposite second direction when the one or more captive members are in the disengaged position.

Abstract: A chain bending limiting attachment includes first bending limiting members and second bending limiting members. The first and second bending limiting members are detachably attached to a chain to be arranged in a series arrangement direction. Each first bending limiting member includes a first engaging portion. When the chain bends in a first direction, the first engaging portion engages with another first bending limiting member adjacent to the first bending limiting member in the series arrangement direction to limit bending of the chain in the first direction. Each second bending limiting member includes a second engaging portion. When the chain bends in a second direction, the second engaging portion engages with another second bending limiting member adjacent to the second bending limiting member in the series direction to limit bending of the chain in the second direction.

Abstract: A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle, may include an input shaft receiving power; an output shaft outputting power; a first planetary gear set having first, second, and third rotation elements; a second planetary gear set having fourth, fifth, and sixth rotation elements; a third planetary gear set having seventh, eighth, and ninth rotation elements; a fourth planetary gear set having tenth, eleventh, and twelfth rotation elements; a fifth planetary gear set having thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth rotation elements; and first to ninth shafts connecting the rotation elements of the first planetary gear set to the fifth planetary gear set.

Abstract: A planetary gear train may include first planetary gear set including first to third rotation elements, second planetary gear set including fourth to sixth rotation elements, third planetary gear set including seventh to ninth rotation elements, fourth planetary gear set including tenth to twelfth rotation elements, fifth planetary gear set including thirteenth to fifteenth rotation elements, first shaft fixed to the first and fifth rotation elements and fixed to the input shaft, second shaft fixed to the fourteenth rotation element and the output shaft, third shaft fixed to the third and seventh rotation elements, fourth shaft fixed to the sixth and tenth rotation elements, fifth shaft fixed to the eighth, eleventh, and fifteenth rotation elements, sixth shaft fixed to the ninth rotation element, and shafts formed by combining remaining rotation elements among the first to fifteenth rotation elements not connected to the first shaft to the sixth shaft.

Abstract: A belt tensioner for a belt drive of a motor vehicle engine, comprising: a fixed part configured to be fixed with respect to the engine and provided with a pivot defining a rotation axis; an arm having a connection portion hinged to the pivot and rotatable about the rotation axis and an opposite portion rotatably supporting a pulley configured to cooperate with a belt of the drive; a main spring interposed between the fixed part and the arm to exert thrust on the arm such as to rotate said arm towards the belt; and at least one rolling bearing interposed between the arm and the pivot to support the arm and ensure the alignment thereof.

Abstract: A power transmission apparatus in one aspect of the present disclosure comprises at least one gear that transmits an inputted driving force to at least one output part; at least one shaft that supports the at least one gear; a displacement portion configured to be mechanically interlocked with a displacement gear among the at least one gear and displaced in association with the displacement gear; a housing that houses the at least one gear and the at least one shaft; and an abutting portion that is disposed in the housing and configured to restrict a possible displacement range of the displacement portion by abutting the displacement portion. The abutting portion is configured so as not to be displaced along with a rotation of the at least one gear and is disposed in the housing at a location spaced apart from the at least one shaft.

Abstract: A sensor target of the present invention is mounted to a movable part (24), which is arranged in parallel with an output shaft (10a) of a motor (10), and is configured to perform a linear motion in a direction parallel to the output shaft (10a). The sensor target includes a magnet (73) and a magnet holder (74) configured to hold the magnet (73). One pair or a plurality of pairs of fitting claws (741) capable of being fitted to an outer peripheral surface of the movable part (24) are formed on the magnet holder (74).

Abstract: An assembly of a robot includes a first member, a second member rotatably connected to the first member to construct a robot joint structure, a driving assembly arranged within the first member, a speed reducer assembly to rotatably connect the first member to the second member, and a belt drive assembly connected to the driving assembly and the speed reducer assembly. The belt drive assembly is used to transmit rotary motion from the driving assembly to the speed reducer assembly, thereby rotating the first member with respect to the second member.

Abstract: A hybrid transmission for a front-wheel drive vehicle includes a multi-speed transmission, a differential, an electric motor, and a planetary gear set. The multi-speed transmission includes an input shaft with a first axis. The differential includes a housing with a second axis, radially offset from the first axis. The electric motor is concentric with the second axis. The planetary gear set connects the multi-speed transmission, the differential, and the electric motor. In some example embodiments, the planetary gear set includes a sun gear drivingly engaged with the multi-speed transmission, a planet carrier drivingly engaged with the differential, and a ring gear drivingly engaged with the electric motor.

Abstract: A dual clutch transmission which can reduce the overall length of a transmission and improve mountability in the vehicle by simplifying the constituent elements of the transmission, is configured by reducing the number of synchronizers and external gears and shafts, and a drive motor is not disposed on the same axle as other constituent elements to reduce the overall length of the transmission, reducing cost and weight of the transmission to improve mountability of the transmission in the vehicle.

Abstract: A front cover assembly is disclosed. The front cover assembly includes a front cover body having a disc shape and a hub having a tubular shape. The front cover body includes a tubular portion in a center part thereof. The tubular portion is closed at one end thereof. The hub includes an engaging portion integrated with at least part of an outer peripheral surface thereof. The hub includes a coupling portion configured to extract power on an inner peripheral surface thereof. The engaging portion is press-fitted to the tubular portion of the front cover body.

Abstract: A torque converter for a vehicle includes an impeller, a turbine, a stator positioned between the impeller and the turbine, a one-way clutch coupled to the stator and configured to couple to a fixed member, and a controllable clutch assembly. The controllable clutch assembly is configured to selectively engage the stator and the turbine such that the stator is able to rotate with the turbine to facilitate preventing the stator from reacting against the one-way clutch and applying a load to the fixed member and thereby facilitating reducing an output of the torque converter and reducing engine vibration during idle, and disengage the stator from the turbine to enable relative rotation between the stator and turbine.

Abstract: A method of driving an integrated drive generator is provided. The method includes driving a carrier shaft of an epicyclic differential and a variable component of a hydraulic trimming device that is operably coupled to a sun gear of the epicyclic differential. The method also includes driving a generator with an output ring gear that is maintained at a constant output frequency. The method further includes maintaining the constant output frequency by controllably manipulating the speed of the sun gear that is in operable communication with the output ring gear.

Abstract: A strain wave gearing has contact parts which are the portions to be lubricated other than the teeth of an externally toothed gear and an internally toothed gear, the contact parts being respectively lubricated with an inorganic lubricating powder having a lamellar crystal structure. The lubricating powder, during the operation of the strain wave gearing, is crushed between the contact surfaces of each of the contact parts to move and adhere to the contact surfaces, thereby forming thin surface films thereon. Additionally, the powder is thinly spread by pressure and reduced into finer particles to change into a shape which facilitates intrusion into the space between the contact surfaces. By both the fine particles having changed in shape and the surface films, the lubrication of the contact parts is maintained. Neither the fine particles nor the surface films are viscous.

Abstract: A strain wave gearing has a wave generator provided with a plug and a roller bearing. The roller bearing is provided with flange plates fixed to both sides of the plug, and outer circumferential edge portions of the flange plates protrude outwardly from a plug outer circumferential surface so as to locate on both sides, in an axial line direction, of the raceway of rollers. The movements of the rollers in the axial line direction are constrained by the outer circumferential edge portions. The movement of retainer in the axial line direction is constrained by engaging with the rollers. The movement of each component part of the roller bearing in the axial line direction can be constrained without using additional components.

Abstract: A gearing having a shaft that projects from the gear interior into the environment, the shaft being sealed with the aid of at least one contactless seal, and the opening of the contactless seal, which is oriented toward the interior of the gearing, i.e., the spatial region of the gearing that contains the lubricating oil, being disposed above the lubricating oil level that comes about when the gearing is not in operation, a tin piece being disposed between the opening and the gear-tooth piece situated closest to this opening and generating lubricating oil waves and/or lubricating oil foam from the lubricating oil bath.

Abstract: A threaded fastener actuator that includes a worm-gear used to transfer rotational power to an impeller gear. The impeller gear includes a polygonal channel for receiving an actuator feature included in a threaded fastener. As the worm-gear is rotated, the impeller gear rotates about a vertical movement axis, which causes the threaded fastener contained in polygonal channel to also rotate and engage with a corresponding threaded coupler.

Abstract: A wheel hub transmission includes an outer surface configured as an end face. The end face has a plurality of radially oriented cooling fins at regular spaced-apart relationship. A cover is provided to cover the cooling fins at the end face. The cover has a central opening and forms with pairs of adjacent ones of the cooling fins a plurality of radially oriented cooling ducts.

Abstract: There is provided a motorcycle. A crankshaft extends in a width direction of the motorcycle. An engine case pivotally supports the crankshaft. A counter shaft is arranged in parallel with the crankshaft. A clutch mechanism is arranged at one end of the counter shaft and configured to transmit and disconnect rotation of the crankshaft to and from the counter shaft. A clutch actuator performs a disconnection/connection operation of the clutch mechanism. A shift mechanism is arranged below the counter shaft and configured to shift and transmit the rotation of the crankshaft to a driving wheel. A shift actuator performs a shift operation of the shift mechanism. A generator is arranged at one end of the crankshaft. The clutch actuator and the shift actuator are arranged around a cover member mounted to the engine case and accommodating therein the clutch mechanism or the generator.

Abstract: In a brake device of a transmission, rotation side friction plates are engaged with a cylindrical part of a rotation side holding member, and fixed side friction plates are engaged with a spline part that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of an inner cylindrical part of a fixed side holding member opposed to a cylindrical part of the rotation side holding member. The fixed side holding member includes an inflow oil passage that supplies lubricating oil from the outside to the inside of the radial direction thereof. An annular space communicating with an inflow oil passage is provided on the inside of the cylindrical part of the fixed side holding member. Oil discharge holes supplying lubricating oil, which was flowed into the annular space, to the rotation side and fixed side friction plates are provided on the cylindrical part of the fixed side holding member.

Abstract: An electro-hydraulic control system for a multispeed transmission having a plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms includes a controller for operably controlling the transmission, a fluid source for supplying hydraulic fluid, and a plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms being operably selected between an applied and an unapplied state to achieve a plurality of ranges including at least one reverse, a neutral, and a plurality of forward ranges. The system includes a plurality of trim systems having pressure control solenoids and trim valves. The system may also include one or more shift valves disposed in fluid communication with the fluid source and being capable of moving between stroked and de-stroked positions. In any given range, only two of the plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms may be applied. Moreover, three of the plurality of pressure control solenoids are normally high solenoids, and the remaining solenoids are normally low solenoids.

Abstract: A hydraulic pressure supply system includes a mechanical oil pump, an electric oil pump, a first flow path, a second flow path, and a cut-off mechanism. The mechanical oil pump is configured to operate by power from an engine. The electric oil pump is configured to operate by power from a motor. In the first flow path, oil supplied from the mechanical oil pump and the electric oil pump flows, the first flow path being coupled to the mechanical oil pump and the electric oil pump. The second flow path branches off from the first flow path and is configured to cause an oil to return to an oil pan via a torque converter. The cut-off mechanism is configured to close off the second flow path by oil delivered from the electric oil pump.

Abstract: A controller for a vehicle transmission includes a storage part that stores data and a control part that executes processing by using the data stored in the storage part. The storage part stores a plurality of control processes of the vehicle transmission. The storage part further comprises a table including a start address and an end address of each of a first software program and a second software program as duplicated software programs, and the control unit executes the second software program instead of the first software program if the abnormal address is located between the first address and the end address of the first software program, and no abnormal address is located between the first address and the end address of the second software program.

Abstract: A slip lock-up control device for a vehicle includes a torque converter having a lock-up clutch, and a slip lock-up controller. The slip lock-up controller performs slip lock-up control using a lock-up pressure difference command to match an actual slip rotational speed to a target slip rotational speed based on engine torque information indicative of input torque, when a lock-up engagement condition is fulfilled when the lock-up clutch is in a released state. During the slip lock-up control, when in an engine torque unstable range for which an engine torque has a rise gradient with respect to a rise change of an engine speed, the slip lock-up controller sets the lock-up pressure difference command to a second lock-up pressure difference command for which a pressure difference fluctuation is averaged more than a first lock-up pressure difference command used in a range other than the engine torque unstable range.

Abstract: Provided herein are a transmission apparatus and a transmission system. The transmission apparatus includes a gear shift lever configured to receive a user command for shifting gear stages, a detent groove configured to be in contact with the gear shift lever and generate detent when the gear stages are shifted by the gear shift lever, a driver configured to generate a driving force when the ignition is turned off in a state in which the gear shift lever is positioned at a non-parking gear stage, and a driving force transmitter configured to separate the detent groove from the gear shift lever by the driving force.

Abstract: An earth working machine (10), encompassing a drive motor (42) and a working apparatus (22) drivable by the drive motor (42) so as to move rotationally, the drive motor (42) being connected to the working apparatus (22), for transfer of a torque, with interposition of a shiftable transmission (50; 150) comprising at least two gearing stages having different torque transfer ratios, is characterized in that by means of a first gearing stage of the shiftable transmission (50), an input shaft (48), coupled on the input side to the drive motor (42), of the shiftable transmission (50) is connectable in torque-transferring fashion directly to an output shaft (52), coupled on the output side to the working apparatus (22), of the shiftable transmission (50) so as to rotate together at the same rotation speed; and by means of a second gearing stage of the shiftable transmission (50), the input shaft (48) is connectable in torque-transferring fashion, with interposition of a transmission assemblage (64), to the output s