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A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle for generating an appropriate amount of regeneration energy during deceleration. A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle including an engine and electric motor for driving the hybrid vehicle wherein the engine comprises cylinders capable of deactivated operations and the motor executes regenerative braking when the vehicle is decelerating. The control apparatus of the present invention includes a cylinder deactivation determination device for determining whether or not the vehicle speed is appropriate for executing the cylinder deactivated operation, a regeneration amount calculating device for detecting whether the vehicle state is appropriate for regeneration and calculates the amount of regeneration; and further includes a compensation amount calculating device that compensates the amount of regeneration based on an all cylinder deactivated operation and the engine rotation speed.

A maintenance time notification device includes a storing unit storing a threshold value of a usage time or a traveling distance for each of a plurality of vehicle parts; a measuring unit measuring the usage time and the traveling distance of a vehicle since the vehicle began to be used for each of the vehicle parts; a maintenance period determination unit determining a maintenance period of eachof the vehicle parts by comparing the usage time and the traveling distance measured by the measuring unit, with the threshold value; and a reporting unit reporting to a passenger based on a determination result of the maintenance period determination unit.

The present invention provides a foot pedal for a drum that can clamp a hoop regardless of a board thickness of a hoop, improves an operability, handling and moreover, appearance, and increases a freedom of a setting the angle of a foot board. A pedal frame provides a hoop pushing apparatus that clamps a drum hoop. The hoop pushing apparatus includes: a hoop clamp with rotatability; a bolt that is provided at a front edge portion of the hoop clamp, piercing the hoop clamp, and can be adjusted in height; a hoop holding and binding lever that is provided at a bottom side of the hoop clamp with rotability; and a clamp holding mechanism that rotates and holds the hoop clamp at a certain height. The hoop pushing apparatus, upon clamping, holds and binds the hoop with a hoop receiving member and the hoop holding and binding lever.

An object of the present invention is to generate a stable damping force and enhance durability of a main valve in a hydraulic shock absorber in which valve opening of the main valve is controlled by an inner pressure of a backpressure chamber. A first piston 3 and a second piston 4 coupled to a piston rod 10 are fitted in a cylinder 2 such that a piston chamber 2 C is defined between the first and second pistons 3, 4 . An extension-side main valve 18 and a compression-side main valve 23 are provided in the piston chamber 2 C. Valve opening of the main valves is controlled by an extension-side backpressure chamber 19 and a compression-side backpressure chamber 24 . A compression-side check valve 13 and an extension-side check valve 16 are provided at the first piston 3 and the second piston 4 .; During an extension stroke of the piston rod 10 , the compression-side check valve 13 is closed, whereby action of a pressure of a cylinder upper chamber 2 A on the compression-side main valve 23 is prevented. During a compression stroke of the piston rod 10 , the extension-side check valve 16 is closed, whereby action of a pressure of a cylinder lower chamber 2 B on the extension-side main valve 18 is prevented. Accordingly, it is possible to generate a stable damping force, and enhance durability of the extension-side main valve 18 and the compression-side main valve 23.

The present invention provides a foot pedal for a drum that can clamp a hoop regardless of a board thickness of a hoop, improves an operability, handling and moreover, appearance, and increases a freedom of a setting the angle of a foot board. A pedal frame provides a hoop pushing apparatus that clamps a drum hoop. The hoop pushing apparatus includes: a hoop clamp with rotatability; a bolt that is provided at a front edge portion of the hoop clamp, piercing the hoop clamp, and can be adjusted in height; a hoop holding and binding lever that is provided at a bottom side of the hoop clamp with rotability; and a clamp holding mechanism that rotates and holds the hoop clamp at a certain height. The hoop pushing apparatus, upon clamping, holds and binds the hoop with a hoop receiving member and the hoop holding and binding lever.

A rotary electric shaver including a plurality of substantially disc-shaped outer cutters, which are provided in the upper part of a shaver main body housing therein a motor, and inner cutters, which engage the outer cutters from below and are rotationally driven by the motor so as to cut hair entering into the hair introduction openings formed in the outer cutters; and in addition, substantially cylindrical cutter frames 18 for respectively holding the outer cutters in a depressible manner are provided so that cutter frames 18 can pivot in the upper surface of the shaver main body.

The invention provides a banknote handling machine which can improve set degree of freedom and sort and stack banknotes according to various classification modes. The banknote handling machine includes a take-in unit configured to take in a plurality of banknotes, one by one, a recognition unit configured to recognize a kind of each banknote taken in a take-in unit, a plurality of stacking units, respectively configured to stack therein the banknotes, a transport unit configured to transport the banknotes, respectively recognized by the recognition unit, to any of the plurality of stacking units, an instruction accepting unit configured to accept an instruction concerning an automatic decision mode provided for deciding the kind of the banknotes to be stacked, by utilizing a recognition result obtained by the recognition unit, for each of the plurality of stacking units, and a control unit configured to control the transport unit to transport each banknote to a destination, which destination is decided based on the instruction accepted by the instruction accepting unit and on the recognition result obtained by the recognition unit.

The invention provides a power conversion device which comprises a plurality of power converters capable of converting alternating current power supply voltage to direct current voltage and converting the converted direct current voltage to alternating current voltage and can output a plurality of stages of alternating voltage through combination of alternating current outputs of the plurality of power converters, The power conversion device comprises a PWM modulator. The PWM modulator compares a carrier signal of triangular wave and a phase voltage instruction of sine wave and thus performs PWM control of the power converters which converting the direct current voltage to the alternating current voltage. The ratio between the frequency of the carrier signal of the triangular wave input in the PWM modulator and the frequency of the phase voltage instruction may be odd multiples of 3, even multiples of 3, and integral multiples of 3 except for the odd multiples and the even multiples. In the plurality of stages of the power conversion devices or tandem multiple power conversion devices characterized by synchronous PWM control, the stability of a system can be improved through increase of degree of freedom of setting of the frequency (fc) of the carrier wave of the triangular wave.

A shock absorber can improve set freedom of the damping force characteristics. A piston connected with a piston rod is slidably fitted in a cylinder having a hydraulic fluid sealed therein. An extension-side main disk valve generates a damping force in a high piston speed region against the flow of hydraulic fluid in an extension-side passage. A sub-passage bypasses the extension-side main disk valve, and an extension-side sub disk valve generates a damping force in an intermediate piston speed region. A compression-side main disk valve generates a damping force in the high piston speed region against the flow of hydraulic fluid in a compression-side passage. A sub-passage bypasses the compression-side main disk valve, and a compression-side sub disk valve generates a damping force in the intermediate piston speed region. Damping force characteristics in the intermediate and high piston speed regions can be set according to the valve-opening characteristics of these disk valves. Therefore, it is possible to increase the degree of freedom for setting damping force characteristics.

There is provided a cover panel including a lighting device which is attachable without a mounting seat. A cover panel 1 includes a panel main body 5 fixed on an instrument panel 3 in an interior of an automobile and a lighting device 6 provided inside the panel main body 5. The panel main body 5 comprises an opening 7 which forms a gap between itself and the instrument panel 3, and light emitted through the opening 7 from the lighting device 6 illuminates the interior of the automobile. The panel main body 5 and the lighting device 6 are integrated and are fixed on the instrument panel 3, so that the cover panel 1 including the lighting device 6 can be fixed on the instrument panel 3 without utilizing the mounting seat as was conventionally done.

Disclosed is an electric servo device capable of mechanically producing jumping and hysteresis characteristics without depending on control software. An electric servo device (3) comprises, at least, an electric motor (9); a power piston (14) whereupon impetus is applied by the rotation of the electric motor (9); a power piston support member (19) that supports the power piston (14); an input axle (22); an input intake member (21) whereupon input from the input axle (22) is applied, and which is disposed to be capable of movement relative to the power piston support member (19); an output axle (23); a reaction disk (24) that is formed from a visoelastic material, and whereupon recoil from the output axle (23) is applied; and an intersticial member (25) that is linked to the input intake member (21) and is positioned to leave a gap (a) between the intersticial member (25) and the reaction disk (24).

A distance measuring device comprises a polarization element arranged in a plane conjugate with a pupil of an objective lens, a rotator which rotates the polarization axis of light transmitted through the polarization element, a polarized light splitting element which splits the light transmitted through the rotator into a first light flux and a second light flux, a first image pickup element which captures a first image formed by the first light flux, a second image pickup element which captures a second image formed by the second light flux, and a focus detection means for detecting a focus state on the basis of a relative deviation between the first image and the second image, for the same area of an object.