168 results about "Shift change" patented technology

A transmission system which relates the relative movement of vehicle components to determine the onset of zero relative torque to permit a shift change to be effected at approximately zero relative torque. When a predetermined signature is identified which relates to the onset of zero relative torque the transmission shift controller initiates a shift.

A system and method for creating, confirming and managing employee schedules comprises creating a schedule having time slots comprising shifts having employees, publishing the schedule on a network to the employees, and receiving a response of a confirmation, a request for shift change, and a null response from each employee. For each employee, if a null response is received, a reminder is sent. If request for shift change is received, an alert is sent to eligible employees using a preferred communication mode, and if one of the eligible employees responds, the shift change may be confirmed automatically or with manager approval. If approved, the employee requesting the change and the eligible employee are notified of the change; if not approved, both employees are notified of the lack of change. The schedule can be published using an employee's preferred communication mode. All steps contain implications for the system's three-step color-coding schema.

An outboard motor includes a drive shaft including a pinion gear arranged at one end of the drive shaft, a first driven gear engaged with the pinion gear, a second driven gear engaged with the pinion gear, a first propeller shaft connected to a second propeller, a second propeller shaft connected to a first propeller, and a shift change mechanism arranged to selectively engage the first driven gear with the second propeller shaft, and to selectively engage the second driven gear with the first propeller shaft and with the second propeller shaft.

The invention relates to an onboard high-speed communication system based on an OFDM technique, which comprises a transmitting end consisting of an uplink data main control module, an uplink baseband processing module, an up-conversion module and a signal transmitting module, and a receiving end consisting of a down-conversion module, a downlink baseband processing module, a downlink data main control module and a signal receiving module. At the transmitting end, the uplink data main control module is connected with the uplink baseband processing module and an external onboard communication transmitting terminal respectively, the uplink baseband processing module is connected with the up-conversion module, and the up-conversion module is connected with the signal transmitting module. At the receiving end, the signal receiving module is connected with the down-conversion module, the down-conversion module is connected with the downlink baseband processing module, and the downlink baseband processing module is connected with the downlink data main control module. The onboard high-speed communication system can effectively improve the communication quality and the speed, and has the excellent effect of achieving long-distance high-speed aeronautical communication under the conditions of large Doppler frequency shift change rate and multi-diameter.

Automotive vehicles having a manual shift transmission, with driver feedback to indicate when a shift change is recommended or to provide other event notifications.

The present invention provides an engine sound generation apparatus and method. Change tendency data, indicative of a change tendency of a vehicle velocity, is obtained on the basis of acquired velocity information. Correction value of an accelerator opening degree is generated in accordance with the change tendency data and a current value of the accelerator opening degree is updated using the correction value, so that the accelerator opening degree is estimated. Then, engine sound data having a characteristic corresponding to the estimated accelerator opening degree are generated. When there has been a shift change, the current value of the accelerator opening degree, stored in the storage section, is updated to become a predetermined value, without the correction value being used.

A controller determines the state of the range detector on the basis of the detection signals detected by the range detector, then when the range detector is determined to be in an abnormal condition, the controller moves the shift-changing valve until the movement is inhibited by the restriction member, thereby establishes the position of one end, and controls the actuator with respect to the established one end position and on the basis of the amount of operation to move the shift-changing valve to the position corresponding to an instructed shift range. Even when the range detector is in an abnormal condition, it is possible to make a change to the shift range corresponding to a shift range changing command.

The invention discloses a micro-displacement measurement method in the field of precision measurement technology, which bases on Goos-Hanchen(GH) shifts enhancement effect stimulated by guide mode, high parallel degree laser is shined into metal film deposited on prism-air gap-double-coated metal waveguide structure which is made of metal films deposited on optical glass, the laser is coupled into waveguide in meeting phase-matching, which causes reflective phases to change drastically comparing incident phases, and reflected beam Goos-Hanchen (GH) shifts are enhanced greatly, shifts are very sensitive to thickness changes of guided wave air gap, using the character, through detecting reflected light Goos-Hanchen (GH) shifts change, the optical glass position change compared to the prism position is measured, thus achieving the measurement of the measuring object shifts. This invention can achieve high sensitivity, fast and accurate real-time measurement, and the method is simple, and has good anti-interference capability, and can be widely used in construction, geological monitoring, processing machinery, materials testing of micro-shifts measurement.

A passive proximity fuze. The inventive fuze (10) is adapted to be mounted on a munition (11) and includes a receiver (16) adapted to lock on to a signal transmitted by a target transmitter (12). The receiver (16) detects a Doppler shift in the signal as the munition approaches the target. When a closest point of approach is reached the Doppler shift changes from increasing to decreasing. The inventive fuze (10) includes a mechanism for detecting this change in the Doppler shift and provides a detonation signal in response thereto. In the illustrative embodiment, the receiver (16) is an FM receiver. The mechanism for detecting a change in the Doppler shift may be implemented with discrete analog circuitry or digital circuitry. In an illustrative analog implementation, first and second resistive / capacitive networks (R1C1 and R2C2) are employed to compute a second derivative of the Doppler shift signal output by the receiver (16). This signal is then amplified and thresholded to provide the output detonation signal. In an illustrative digital implementation, the output of the receiver (16) is converted to digital and processed by a digital signal processor (26). The DSP 26 computes the second derivative of the Doppler shift signal output by the receiver (16) in response to a stored program for computing same. The output of the DSP is the detonation signal. Hence, detonation is achieved at the closest point of approach of the munition (11) to the target (12) with an inexpensive passive solution (10).

In a nest MZI modulator in which each arm includes a child MZI, the power consumption is reduced. The hybrid integrated-type nest MZI modulator of the embodiment 1a is configured so that, instead of placing a relative phase adjusting section in a parent MZI, a bias electrode Bias 90° in which an electric field is applied in the same direction to the polarization direction in both of the upper and lower arms is placed in each child MZI (see FIG. 4B). The bias electrode Bias 90° provided in each child MZI constitute the entirety of a relative phase adjusting section. The optical signals are subjected to a phase change after the output from the child MZI (see FIG. 1A), because such relative phase adjusting section can subject the optical signals of the upper and lower arms of the child MZI to a shift change in the same direction, respectively.

Automotive vehicles having a manual shift transmission, with driver feedback to indicate when a shift change is recommended or to provide other event notifications.

The invention discloses a vehicle man-machine subjective evaluation universal platform comprising an indoor man-machine module, which comprises a cockpit stand, a foot control system, a shift changing system, an instrument panel system, and a seat device; a measuring device; a floor platform, which is used to simulate the floor of the cockpit, and is used to carry the indoor man-machine module and the measuring device. The position of the cockpit stand relative to the position of floor platform can be adjusted leftwards and rightwards, and the positions of various constituent parts of the indoor man-machine module relative to the position of the cockpit stand can be adjusted. The measuring device is used to record the position adjustment parameters of the constituent parts of the indoor man-machine module. The above mentioned platform is advantageous in that the indoor man-machine module is disposed on the floor platform by the cockpit stand, and the constituent parts of the indoor man-machine module can be detachably arranged, and the positions of the constituent parts of the indoor man-machine module can be adjusted; the position adjustment parameters can be measured, and then the experimental evaluation can be carried out again by replacing the corresponding constituent parts of the indoor man-machine module, and therefore the pre-development costs can be saved, and the development period can be reduced, and in addition, the universality is provided, and the platform can be used repeatedly.

Rotational driving force can be transferred to the follower side (clutch plate) of a friction clutch by adjusting the engagement condition of the clutch so that a first gear and a second gear of a dog-clutch-type transmission can rotate relative to each other. At the time of shift change during stop of the vehicle, the clutch can be further connected at a low speed after connection of the clutch until it reaches a reference clutch position.

A processor determines an engagement state of a clutch based on a clutch signal, which is output from a clutch switch connected to a clutch pedal. In a declutching state, the processor lowers weighting gain characteristics that serve as acoustic correcting characteristics used in a sound pressure adjuster. Therefore, even when a change of an engine rotational frequency per unit of time increases during a shift-change operation, the gain of the control signal is prevented from increasing. Accordingly, a gap between real acceleration of the vehicle and a sound effect output from a speaker can be decreased, thereby reducing the possibility that the driver and / or a passenger in the vehicle may feel a sense of strangeness relative to the sound effect.

The invention discloses a method for inertial information assisting a GNSS tracking loop. The method includes the steps that according to the carrier position, speed and accelerated speed information provided by an inertial navigation system, combined with the information such as local time and a satellite ephemeris, Doppler shifts and Doppler shift change rates of all channel satellites of a GNSS receiver are calculated in real time, the difference information of a tracking loop carrier frequency shift measurement value and a corresponding Doppler shift calculation value is taken as an observation quantity, frequency deviation caused by mechanical vibration of a carrier and crystal oscillator frequency drift of the receiver is calculated by the adoption of an alpha-beta filtering method, a carrier frequency shift predicted value is obtained to correct the tracking loop in a feedforward mode, and the step of inertial information assisting the GNSS tracking loop is finished. The dynamic stress action on the tracking loop by high dynamic is reduced, frequency deviation caused by mechanical vibration of the carrier and crystal oscillator frequency drift of the receiver is eliminated, dynamic adaptability and navigation stability of the GNSS receiver are improved, and the application prospects are wide.

The invention discloses a shift-change double-base forward-looking synthetic aperture radar distance migration correction method. Based on a shift-change double-base forward-looking synthetic aperture radar distance migration rule, variable substitution is introduced for realizing azimuth-variant distance migration correction; and combined with iteration assessment and comparison of the correction quality, the influences of motion errors are removed, the shift-change double-base forward-looking synthetic aperture radar distance migration correction is finally realized under the condition that the motion errors exist, and precise doppler fuzzy number estimation can be obtained. The method can be applied to other high-squint synthetic aperture radar modes and is wide in application value.

A riding type vehicle includes an automatic transmission capable of executing a shift change by a clutch actuator and a shift actuator. A clutch is controlled by the clutch actuator and is a multiplate clutch. The multiplate clutch is provided with bias member configured to enlarge a partial clutch engagement region of the clutch. The multiplate clutch is configured such that during shift change, both of the clutch actuator and the shift actuator are controlled to operate in overlapping manner.

A vehicle control unit and a vehicle equipped with the vehicle control unit are provided, the vehicle control unit being capable of preventing a shift change from being permitted in a direction opposite to a vehicle traveling direction caused by an erroneous operation of a shift lever during a traveling mode. In the vehicle control unit for controlling the vehicle on the basis of a shift range detecting unit configured to detect a shift range selected by a shift operation and a vehicle speed detecting unit configured to detect a vehicle speed, when the shift range detecting unit detects the shift range in a direction opposite to the vehicle traveling direction in a state where the vehicle speed detecting unit detects a vehicle speed not less than a first speed V1, the vehicle control is carried out so that a compulsory deceleration is carried out by means of a deceleration unit provided in the vehicle instead of permitting the shift change corresponding to the shift range, the shift change being desirably permitted when the vehicle speed detecting unit detects that the vehicle speed decreases down to a vehicle speed not more than the first speed V1.

In shift control apparatus and method for an automatic transmission in which an engine speed is inputted, and a shift change in a shift stage of the automatic transmission is performed to make a gear shift, a shift revolution synchronization control in synchronization with the engine speed is performed and, in a case where the gear shift is made under a driving state in which there is a possibility of an occurrence of a shift shock, an engagement section which performs a power transmission under a presently selected shift stage is gradually released and another engagement section which enables a power transmission through the next selection scheduled shift stage is gradually engaged without an execution of the shift revolution synchronization control.

A gear change control device for improving the stability of shift changes in a straddle-type vehicle. In response to an operation of a shift up switch or a shift down switch, the target angular position (θmax(up), θmax(down), θmeet(up), θmeet(down), θon(up), θon(down)) and the rotational speed (vmax(up), vmax(down), vo(up), vo(down), v12(up)-v34(up), v21(down)-v43(down)) of a shift shaft are set based on a gear change command input signal inputted from the shift up switch or the shift down switch to a CPU. The shift shaft is rotationally driven at the set rotational speed until the set target rotational position is reached.

An antenna system for sharing of operation employs contiguous transmit frequencies. Transmit frequencies are separated into non-contiguous sub-groups isolated from one another by filters 158(+) and 160(−) associated with positive and negative polarization. Received frequencies are filtered and split into five signals for input to base station receive ports. Non-contiguous transmit frequency sub-groups are combined by a quadrature hybrid 110 and pass with 90 degree relative phase shift to mutually orthogonal antenna stack ports P(+) and P(−) associated with orthogonally polarized sets of antenna elements AS(+) and AS(−): the ports P(+) and P(−) are isolated from one another by the hybrid 110. The 90 degree phase shift results in one transmit subgroup being radiated with left hand circular polarization and the other transmit subgroup being radiated with right hand circular polarization. Changing the relative phase shift changes the radiated polarization to linear or elliptical, and signal amplitude weighting provides control of antenna beam polarization direction.

The invention discloses a method for improving the zero-shift temperature sensibility of an optic-fiber gyro. A sampling channel converts the optic signals from the optic system of the optic-fiber gyro into electric signals, and sends them to the central processor, which after processing outputs rotation signals through a communication interface to outside; between the central processor and the communication interface, a compensator is placed. Based on a zero-shift temperature sensibility model got by measurements beforehand, the zero-shift change caused by temperature can be suppressed only by the compensator without using a huge and complicated temperature controlling equipment and additional power, this eliminates zero-shift change caused by temperature, improves the temperature sensibility of zero shift for the optic-fiber gyro, so that the optic-fiber gyro can be used in wider temperature range, and maintain static performance as like operating under a thermostatic environment. The invention expands the application field of optic-fiber gyros.

A driver operates a shift pedal to perform shift change of a transmission via a shift mechanism provided in a vehicle. An operation of the shift pedal is detected by a load sensor. When a sliding gear and a fixed gear of the transmission continue to be separated from each other for a predetermined period of time or longer after a shifting operation by the driver is detected by a load sensor, the rotational speed of the engine is maintained within a target range by an ECU.

A controller determines the state of the range detector on the basis of the detection signals detected by the range detector, then when the range detector is determined to be in an abnormal condition, the controller moves the shift-changing valve until the movement is inhibited by the restriction member, thereby establishes the position of one end, and controls the actuator with respect to the established one end position and on the basis of the amount of operation to move the shift-changing valve to the position corresponding to an instructed shift range. Even when the range detector is in an abnormal condition, it is possible to make a change to the shift range corresponding to a shift range changing command.

A control system controls an automatic transmission. The automatic transmission comprises a stepwise variable transmission section that includes a plurality of frictional elements and establishes a desired speed by a shift change disengaging one of the frictional elements and engaging the other of the frictional elements and a continuously variable transmission section that establishes a desired speed continuously. The control system makes a speed change control of the continuously variable transmission section cooperate with a change of an input rotation speed of the stepwise variable transmission section. The control system is configured to carry out during the shift change of the stepwise variable transmission section, judging whether a delivery of a torque from a disengaging side frictional element to an engaging side frictional element is completed or not; and starting the speed change control of the continuously variable transmission section upon judgment of the completion of the delivery of the torque regarding that an inertial phase has started.

An apparatus comprises a cruise control section to control an engine output according to an acceleration / deceleration demand set according to an acceleration / deceleration demand from a driver or a cruise control demand set to match an actual vehicle speed to a preset vehicle speed or to match a vehicle distance relative to a forward-going vehicle to a preset value, whichever demand is greater, a speed shift control section to shift gears and to control the engine output, and a switch control section to switch the cruise control section and speed shift control section according to their priority order. The speed shift control section, upon being switched by the switching control section to the cruise control section after the completion of the shift changing, returns the engine output back to that previous switching state based on the cruise control section.

Systems and methods for managing shift changes of a multi-speed automatic transmission of a vehicle are provided. The multi-speed automatic transmission being capable of establishing a plurality of forward speed ratios. The vehicle may include a transmission shift selector having at least one operator selectable shift request input to request a shift change of the multi-speed automatic transmission. A control circuit operatively coupled to the multi-speed automatic transmission is provided which shifts the multi-speed automatic transmission from a first forward speed ratio to a second forward speed ratio in response to shift criteria. The shift criteria may be based on a plurality of operational characteristics related to the vehicle.

In shift control apparatus and method for an automatic transmission in which an engine speed is inputted, and a shift change in a shift stage of the automatic transmission is performed to make a gear shift, a shift revolution synchronization control in synchronization with the engine speed is performed and, in a case where the gear shift is made under a driving state in which there is a possibility of an occurrence of a shift shock, an engagement section which performs a power transmission under a presently selected shift stage is gradually released and another engagement section which enables a power transmission through the next selection scheduled shift stage is gradually engaged without an execution of the shift revolution synchronization control.

The invention relates to a electric control device for beam translation based on Goos-Hanchen shift effect and a method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of laser control. A bottom surface of a prism and a lower surface of a lithium niobate wafer of an electro optic material are respectively plated with metal films, and the bottom surface of the prism and the surface of the lithium niobate wafer are adjusted to parallel and fixed by a metal bracket so as to form a wave guide double surfaces of which are clad by metal; and the wave guide is composed of an upper metal film, an air gap, the lithium niobate wafer and a lower metal film. When laser is emitted on the surface of the wave guide, the laser is coupled into a wave guiding layer to excite lateral shift of guided-mode resonance enhanced reflected light when a phase matching condition is satisfied. The upper metal film and the lower metal film are plated with electrodes and connected with an external DC voltage source, and the voltage is adjusted; parameters of the wave guiding layer are changed by electro optic effect and piezoelectric effect of the lithium niobate, which causes Goos-Hanchen shift change of the reflected light and further realizes control on the beam translation. The electric control device and the method thereof can achieve high stability and high precision of the beam translation control, and can be applied to general environments.