An anti-slip system is provided for a wheeled vehicle having a drive wheel and a driven wheel. A drive wheel speed sensor senses a rotational speed of the drive wheel to produce a first sensing signal while a driven wheel speed sensor senses a rotational speed of the driven wheel to produce a second sensing signal. A control unit is responsive to the first and second sensing signals for outputting a control signal representative of a slip rate of the drive wheel. A drive control device is respon...

The present invention includes a main control system driving an exciting coil of a component to be driven. The invention also includes a sub-control system that backs up the main control system when the main control system fails. The sub-control system and the main control system both have a self-diagnostic capability and the sub-control system is diagnosed for failure prior to the main control system, so that the availability of the back up system is determined before the main control system is...

A semiconductor device includes at least three circuit substrates laid one upon another. The device further includes first circuit elements mounted, respectively, on at least two of the three circuit substrates. It also includes a second circuit element mounted on one of the three circuit substrates and configured to change connection between the first circuit elements.

A semiconductor layer, including a source region, a channel region, and a drain region, is formed on a substrate, and a gate insulation film, formed of a silicon oxide film, is formed on the semiconductor layer. Subsequently, nitrogen atoms are introduced in the gate insulation film so that the nitrogen atoms exist in at least one of the silicon oxide film and an interface between the silicon oxide film and the semiconductor layer. Thereafter, a gate electrode film is formed on the gate insulati...

A semiconductor package includes a first insulating substrate, a second insulating substrate, and a plurality of semiconductor chip units placed between the first and second insulating substrates. The first insulating substrate has wiring placed on one surface thereof and has first electrically conductive balls which are used as external connection terminals and second electrically conductive balls which radiate heat. The first and second electrically conductive balls are on the other surface th...

A tire puncture detecting device having a pressure chamber defined by a flexible diaphragm and held in communication with the interior of the tire, an atmospheric chamber communicating with the atmosphere, and a spring plate member disposed in the pressure chamber and supporting on the front face thereof a magnet and on the rear face thereof a central portion of the flexible diaphragm. The spring plate member is normally maintained in a retracted position under the air pressure in the pressure c...

In an infinitely variable transmission equipped with a V-shaped pulley having a stationary pulley element and a movable pulley element fitted on a shaft, and an endless belt engaged between the pulley elements, a movable pulley element pinch force control device includes a plurality of through bores formed through the peripheral wall of the shaft in axially spaced relation, and a slider axially slidably received within a hydraulic fluid introducing passage in the shaft and urged by the fluid pre...

A hydraulic servomechanism comprises a basic body having an axial hole formed therein, a stationary element provided on the outer peripheral surface of the basic body at a predetermined location, a sliding element fitted on the outer peripheral surface of the basic body and also fitted with the stationary element for axial sliding movement relative thereto. The sliding element cooperates with the basic body and the stationary element to define therebetween a hydraulic pressure chamber. A plurali...

An infinitely variable transmission in which the pitches of a driving pulley and a driven pulley are variable by means of hydraulic fluid pressure to vary the velocity ratio between the two pulleys. A lower pressure fluid and a higher pressure fluid are created from a hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic fluid supply source, with a constant pressure difference therebetween. The lower pressure fluid has its pressure value varied in response to the velocity ratio. The lower pressure fluid and the high...

A plurality of side-surface patterns 11 and 12 are disposed on the wall surfaces of a mount opening portion 2 for mounting electronic parts thereat. The mount opening portion includes projection portions 21 that project toward an interior thereof from the wall surfaces thereof. End portions of the respective side-surface patterns 11 and 12 extend to the side surfaces of the projection portions 21. Also, a plurality of side-surface patterns can be provided on the wall surfaces of the mount openin...