Motor vehicles inventions 05/08

20080121443 - Ac drive system for electrically operated vehicle: A drive system is provided for a utility vehicle and includes an alternating-current (AC) motor for providing a drive torque. An AC motor controller receives a battery voltage signal, throttle pedal position signal, brake pedal position signal, key switch signal, forward/neutral/reverse (FNR) signal, and run/tow signal indicative of the utility... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080121444 - Straddle carrier having a low-emission and low-maintenance turbine drive: A straddle carrier having an electric drive system, consisting of a lower and an upper frame, which are connected with one another by means of supports. A lifting mechanism with hoists is disposed on the upper frame, and the lower frame consists of chassis carriers having electrically driven wheels, and... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080121447 - Drive train for a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine and an electric drive unit: In a drive train for a motor vehicle provided with an internal combustion engine, an electric drive assembly and a transmission having a compact structural design and including at least six forward speeds, the transmission comprises an input-side planetary gear set and an output side Ravigneaux planetary gear, a sun... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20080121446 - Hybrid drive apparatus: A hybrid drive apparatus includes a drive apparatus input shaft that is connected to an engine; a rotary electric machine; a transmission that is capable of changing a speed of rotation from a transmission input shaft and outputting a resulting rotation to a transmission output shaft, an output mechanism that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080121445 - Vehicle electrification using a clutched vibration damper: A driving system of a motor vehicle for providing vehicle propulsion power and accessory power includes an engine having an accessory belt providing power to at least one accessory machine and a motor/generator operatively connected to the accessory belt for alternately driving and being driven by the accessory belt. A... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20080121448 - Energy storage and recovery for a tracked machine: A system for storing and recovering energy associated with a machine having ground engaging tracks is disclosed. The system includes a power source configured to supply mechanical energy for operation of the machine, and an electric generator operably coupled to the power source. The electric generator is configured to convert... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080121449 - Vehicle: A vehicle having moving funnels separated from stationary funnels that suppresses any decrease in intake efficiency. The moving funnels are arranged on an intake side of the stationary funnels to lead air to an engine. A funnel holding section holds the moving funnels and includes opened holes. The moving funnels... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080121450 - Vehicle: A motorcycle without increased size in a direction in which moving funnels move straight. The moving funnels and stationary funnels lead air to an engine. A funnel moving mechanism includes a turning member for movement of the moving funnels, and a motor for driving the turning member. The moving funnels... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080121451 - Engine hood assembly enclosure with exhaust aftertreatment device integrated therein, and machine using same: A hood assembly for a machine includes an enclosure within which at least one exhaust aftertreatment device is mounted. The engine hood assembly may be preassembled so that the exhaust aftertreatment system is integrated into the enclosure. This may allow the hood assembly to be assembled to the machine and... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell & Mcneil Attorneys PC

20080121452 - Propelled bicycle with automatic transmission: An automatic transmission bicycle including a bicycle frame, a chain ring, a pair of pedals, a wheel, and a plurality of gears coupled to the bicycle frame. The plurality of gears has a plurality of gear combinations defined by at least two gears cooperatively engaged. The automatic transmission bicycle includes... Agent: Kit M. Stetina, Esq. Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080121453 - Motorcycle: A motorcycle that securely prevents adhesion of fuel to an external surface of a fuel tank as it is bounced back in the course of refueling, and avoids interference with parts positioned below the fuel tank. The fuel tank has a filler opening formed in its transversal center with an... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080121454 - Motorcycle: A motorcycle having a belt type CVT and an engine unit in which an axial length of a cylinder is restricted. A body frame comprises a down frame extending vertically. The engine unit comprises a four-stroke engine, a belt type CVT, a clutch and a crank case. A cylinder is... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080121455 - Motorcycle: An off-road vehicle having a belt type continuously variable transmission and an air intake path. A four cycle type engine includes a crank case and a cylinder extending upward from the crank case. A belt type continuously variable transmission is provided on one end of the crank case in a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080121456 - Motorcycle exhaust assembly and method of using same: A configurable motorcycle exhaust assembly, including an elongated hollow body; an inlet end cap fixedly connected to an inlet end of the elongated hollow body; an exhaust end mount fixedly connected to an exit end of the elongated hollow body; and an exhaust end cap removably attached to the exhaust... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080121457 - Steering apparatus: A steering apparatus includes an attaching bracket connecting end portions of a pair of tie rods to a rack shaft. The attaching bracket includes a base which is fixed to the rack shaft and includes at least one fixing member inserting hole through which a fixing member fixing the attaching... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080115982 - Auxiliary power device for a wheelchair: An auxiliary power device for a wheelchair includes a coupling seat unit disposed on the chair frame, an adjustable unit, and a power supply unit. The adjustable unit includes a steering operation rod unit disposed rotatably on the coupling seat unit, an electrical wheel unit disposed on a bottom end... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080115983 - Lever connect pto module for three-point hitch quick coupler: A lever-operated PTO shaft connection mechanism for use with a three-point hitch quick coupler that aligns and engages the PTO driveline between a tractor and a powered implement.... Agent: Cnh America Llc

20080115984 - Control system and vehicle including the same: A motorcycle includes a transmission, a CPU, an engine, a load sensor and a notification lamp. The load sensor detects a shift operation by a driver. When the shift operation is performed by the driver, an output of the engine is adjusted by the CPU so that a torque (driving... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080115986 - Method for fast starting of a hybrid vehicle: The invention essentially concerns a method for fast starting of a hybrid vehicle. Said method uses a power transmission device (1.1) comprising a traction chain consisting of a heat engine (2), a clutch (3), an electrical machine (4), and wheels (6). The invention is characterized in that said method, in... Agent: Nicolas E. Seckel Patent Attorney

20080115985 - Vehicular control device: An ECU executes a program including the steps of: if an accelerator pedal position P is larger than a predetermined accelerator pedal position, calculating an output that an MG(2) is required to provide; calculating an output that a capacitor and a battery can supply; calculating an output that can be... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080115988 - Electric vehicle drive system: An electric powered vehicle includes a first drive unit and a second drive unit. The first drive unit and the second drive unit are coupled to one of the drive wheels. At its maximum power within the system, the second drive unit drives the vehicle at a higher speed than... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080115987 - Wheelchair comprising a remote control: A wheelchair having a remote controlled electric drive system so that the user is able to move the wheelchair away or retrieve it without the assistance of another person. The electric drive system includes multiple safety features for precluding hazardous situations that result from accidentally or unintentionally setting the drive... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080115989 - Diesel engine vehicle configurations for evacuation of engine and/or exhaust system heat: The diesel engine vehicle has a passenger area, and a substantially vertically oriented ventilated chamber separate from the passenger area. The ventilated chamber can be in air flow communication with an engine compartment to evacuate heat therefrom. A heat-emitting exhaust treatment unit can be housed in the ventilated chamber and... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080115990 - Battery storage device for vehicles and forklift with the same: A battery storage device for forklifts is used in storing a battery. The battery storage device includes a vehicle frame having a battery storage room, a front support plate provided on the vehicle frame for supporting a front surface of the battery received in the battery storage room, a rear... Agent: Heather M. Barnes Brouse Mcdowell, Lpa

20080115991 - Saddle ride vehicle: A saddle ride vehicle with a front and a rear wheel, a front fender covering from an upper side to a rear side of the front wheel, and a rear fender covering from a front side to an upper side of the rear wheel. A rider of the vehicle places... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080115992 - Surface effect sea train: A multiple unit surface effect vehicle movable through an aquatic environment is provided including connected units and lift fans. The multiple unit surface effect vehicle may further include a coupling system and/or a plurality of skirt portions connecting one of the connected units with another of the connected units. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080115993 - Method for multi-operating mode control of an automated transmission for a motor vehicle, in particular for idle speed runing with inactivated brake and corresponding device: A method for controlling automated transmission for a power train of a motor vehicle, including producing a first setpoint signal of a variable applicable to the vehicle wheels and including dynamic and static components formed taking into consideration input representative data of the motor vehicle characteristics, a drive's wish, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080115994 - Rolling vehicle with two front steering wheels and and at least a rear driving wheel: A rolling vehicle (10) with two front steering wheels (16, 18) comprising a frame (14), handlebars (20), at least a rear driving wheel (12) connected to a motor (22), and a steering kinematism of the two front wheels (16, 18), wherein the steering kinematism is longitudinal and comprises two parallel... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.c.

20080115995 - Anti-lock brake: A brake is provided on a vehicle. The vehicle includes two drive wheels on two independent drive axles, respectively. The drive wheels are attached to the outside ends of the drive axles. Both drive wheels and drive axles (e.g., left and right) rotate on about the same axis as one... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080115996 - Cooling fan for a motorcycle: A side cover assembly configured for use with a motorcycle. The side cover assembly includes a side cover, an inlet, an outlet vent, and a fan assembly. The side cover is adapted to be coupled to the motorcycle, and the side cover includes an interior surface facing an interior side... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080115997 - Driving mode switching apparatus for four-wheel-drive vehicle: A driving mode switching apparatus for a four-wheel-drive vehicle, which switches driving modes of the four-wheel drive vehicle, includes a motor, a reduction mechanism being transmitted with a rotational force of the motor, an output rod connected to the reduction mechanism and switching the driving modes by being displaced, a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080115998 - Gas fuel tank-equipped vehicle: Hydrogen leaking from a hydrogen cylinder has a lower specific gravity than air, thus rises in a cylinder housing space, and reaches a ventilating opening constituted by a group of slits formed in an upper surface of a roof cover. At this time, the ventilating opening is formed in a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080115999 - Propshaft assembly with anti-node damping insert: A propshaft assembly includes a shaft structure having a hollow cavity and an insert member being positioned within the hollow cavity and engaging the shaft structure. The shaft structure vibrates in response to receipt of an input of a predetermined frequency such that a shell mode anti-node is generated. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080116000 - Steering system having multiple strategies and variable deadzone: A steering system for a machine having at least one steerable traction device is disclosed. The steering system may have a steering actuator operatively connected to the at least one steerable traction device, and a travel speed sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of a travel speed of the... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080116001 - Steering system with variable flow rate amplification ratio and associated method: A steering system has a steering control unit and a ratio adjuster for varying a flow rate amplification ratio of the steering control unit.... Agent: Deere & Company

20080116002 - Superimposed steering system: Disclosed is a superimposition steering unit in which a steering angle set by the driver can have an additional angle superimposed thereon. The superimposition is caused by individually operable structural components.... Agent: Craig Hallacher Continental Teves

20080110682 - Travel control method for self-propelled carriage: A travel control method for a self-propelled carriage having a travel control section for controlling steering-driving wheels. In the method, the steering-driving wheels are steered by a predetermined angle based on a direction change command, and in this state, the carriage is moved forward and backward for a predetermined distance... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080110683 - Plug-in hybrid accessory drive system: A plug-in hybrid accessory belt drive system comprising a vehicle engine accessory belt drive, the accessory belt drive comprising engine accessories, a motor/generator engaged with the accessory belt drive, the motor/generator for driving the accessory drive, a rechargeable electrical energy source connected to the motor/generator for driving the motor/generator on... Agent: The Gates Corporation

20080110684 - Power output apparatus, motor vehicle equipped with power output apparatus, and control method of power output apparatus: In requirement of catalyst degradation control with setting of a catalyst degradation control flag Fc to 1, the braking control of the invention sets torque commands Tm1* and Tm2* of two motors and controls the operations of an engine and the two motors to shift a drive point of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080110685 - Turbocompressor shutdown mechanism: Turbocompressors 1 comprise a turbine 10, a compressor 30, a rotatable shaft 20 connecting the turbine 10 and compressor 30 at opposite ends of the shaft 20, and an electric motor 50 coupled to the compressor 30. The turbine 10 comprises an inlet port 14 configured to receive an air... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080110686 - Method and device for the operation of a motor vehicle: For operation of a motor vehicle with at least one first drive motor (ENG—1), at least one electrical consumer of the first drive motor (ENG—1) is operated in an energy-saving mode (STATE_EGY_LOW) after autonomous switching-off of said first drive motor (ENG 1). The autonomous switching-off of the first drive motor... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080110687 - Vehicle: A vehicle having a sufficient length of exhaust pipe and a member disposed above a rear suspension that is not too high. An exhaust pipe is connected to a rearward side of an engine. A rear suspension absorbs shocks generated when a rear wheel moves up and down. A coil-form... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080110688 - Body frame and vehicle: A body frame for a vehicle such as a motorcycle with a minimized number of parts. A main frame is connected to a head pipe and supports a rear arm to which a rear wheel is attached. A tank rail is connected to the head pipe at one end and... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080110689 - Linearly adjustable torque transmission systems and methods: Linearly adjustable torque transmission systems and methods for a power driven machine are provided. The system can include a first wheel adapted to be rotatably driven. The system can further include a second wheel positioned proximate the first wheel that can engage the first wheel such that rotational movement of... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080110690 - Vehicle's steering wheel rotation angle sensing device: n

20080105472 - Suspension system for track vehicle: A suspension system for a track vehicle, the suspension system comprising: a frame; a track surrounding the frame; a plurality of suspension modules resiliently interconnected between the frame and track to bias the track into engagement with a ground surface upon which the track vehicle sits; and at least one... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080105473 - Motorized monowheel: A motorized monowheel, comprising a wheel, an inner frame, a plurality of roller, a propelling device, and a deck. The wheel comprises a tire and an outer frame. An inner frame is set with proximity to said wheel, with a plurality of rollers located between the wheel and inner frame.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080105475 - Automotive vehicle employing kinetic energy storage/reuse capability: An automotive vehicle includes a vehicle body, a power transmission system, an energy storage device, a continuously variable transmission, and an electronic control device. The power transmission system includes a power source for driving the automotive vehicle. The energy storage device includes a flywheel. The continuously variable transmission interconnects the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080105477 - Hybrid vehicle and control method of hybrid vehicle: In a hybrid vehicle where an engine, a first motor, and a driveshaft are all connected to a planetary gear mechanism and the driveshaft is further linked to a second motor, when a battery is in an unchargeable state in the release of both an accelerator and a brake (step... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080105476 - Power inverter connector having integrated current sensors: A vehicular power inverter connector assembly is provided. The assembly includes a housing, a plurality of first engagement formations on the housing shaped to mate with a plurality of inverter engagement formations on a vehicular power inverter, a plurality of second engagement formations on the housing shaped to mate with... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080105478 - Hybrid vehicle drive: A hybrid drive system comprising: an internal combustion engine having a first output shaft; an electric motor having a second output shaft coupled to the first output shaft, the motor being capable of operating in a drive mode to drive the second output shaft and in a regeneration mode to... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080105471 - Personal mobility vehicles and methods: A toy vehicle is disclosed. The toy vehicle includes a chassis, a ground-contacting module and a motorized drive arrangement. The ground-contacting module is coupled to the chassis and has two clusters of wheels. The motorized drive arrangement is coupled to the ground-contacting module. The drive arrangement, ground-contacting module amid chassis... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080105474 - Cart and container cleaning system with heated fluid: The present invention relates to a mobile or stationary waste container cleaning system used for residential, commercial and industrial waste, garbage, trash, storage or operations containers or receptacles. Other applications include, but are not limited to cleaning of chemical drums, grease dumpsters (e.g. behind restaurants), rain barrels and non-uniform residential,... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20080105479 - Control system and vehicle including the same: A control system for a vehicle includes an ECU, a front wheel speed sensor, a rear wheel speed sensor, and an engine. The ECU detects an actual slip speed and an actual slip ratio of a rear wheel on the basis of respective detected values of a front wheel speed... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080105480 - Dynamically stable transporter controlled by lean: A transporter for transporting a subject over a surface that may be irregular. The transporter includes a support platform for supporting a load, the loaded support platform defining fore-aft and lateral planes and characterized by a load distribution. A plurality of ground contacting elements are coupled to the support platform... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080105481 - Reconfigurable balancing robot and method for dynamically transitioning between statically stable mode and dynamically balanced mode: An apparatus and a method for robotic control that allows an unbalanced pendulum robot to raise its Center of Mass and balance on two motorized wheels. The robot includes a pair of arms that are connected to the upper body of the robot through motorized joints. The method consists of... Agent: John Wiley Horton, Attorney Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20080105482 - Dialogue system: A dialogue system that provides a driver with driving advice includes driving performance evaluation means for evaluating a driving performance of the driver estimated based on driving performance information using a normative driving performance as a reference; response evaluation means for evaluating a driver's response to the provided driving advice... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080105483 - Vehicle propulsion system activation device: A vehicle propulsion system activation device having a plurality of sensors associable with user-manipulable portions of the vehicle, which switch the condition of the controller between conditions of pre-activation and activation. Interlock sensors detect the position of these portions and transmit signals to the controller confirming the sensed positions. Sequence... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080105484 - Electronic redundant steer by wire valve: A steering system for a vehicle that uses primary and secondary steering actuation devices in combination with primary and secondary valve elements to provide fluid flow within a valve body. The primary and secondary valve elements are both electrically actuated by a control unit such that if the primary steering... Agent: Zarley Law Firm P.L.C

20080105485 - Hydraulic steering arrangement: The invention concerns a hydraulic steering arrangement (1) with a supply connection arrangement (P, T), a working connection arrangement (A, B) connectable to a steering motor (5), a steering unit (6) located between the supply connection arrangement (P, T) and the working connection arrangement (A, B), and a steering valve... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080105486 - Progressive transmission mechanism: The invention relates to a transmission mechanism (20) of a progressive gear (1), especially a steering gear for a vehicle, comprising a seating for each of an input shaft (10) and an output shaft (30). The transmission mechanism (20) according to the invention consists of a movable coupler (21) which... Agent: Darby & Darby (formerly Sacco & Associates)

20080099255 - Device to significantly expand the range of an electric vehicle: The invention will allow a vehicle that uses electric power for its primary drive system to have a more useful range.... Agent: Richard Heisler

20080099256 - Accessory drive system for a hybrid vehicle: The present invention provides an accessory drive system for a hybrid vehicle. The accessory drive system includes an inverter operatively connected to a direct current battery. The inverter is configured to convert the direct current from the battery into three-phase alternating current. The accessory drive system also includes a transmission... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080099257 - Multi-purpose mobile power generating machine: A dual purpose mobile machine is disclosed. The mobile machine may have a power source configured to propel the mobile machine and generate electrical power for use offboard the mobile machine. The machine may also have a work tool driven by the power source.... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080099258 - Vented sealed housing assembly for vehicle powertrain: A system for venting a sealed, enclosed volume in the powertrain of an automotive vehicle includes a first housing, a second housing mechanically connected to the first housing, the first and second housings enclosing a volume, a seal located at an interface between the first and second housings for sealing... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20080099261 - Air management system for heavy duty truck under-hood heat control: A system for removing heat from the engine compartment (9) of a heavy duty truck. A first ventilating system removes heat from the radiator. It is isolated from a second ventilating system that removes heat from the engine compartment. The first system takes heat from the radiator through a plenum... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080099262 - Cooling enclosure for electronic motor control components: A cooling enclosure is mounted to the frame of a grass mowing machine adjacent the engine cooling fan of an internal combustion engine. The engine cooling fan draws ambient air across the controllers and batteries in the cooling enclosure. The cooling enclosure includes a one piece molded plastic structure that... Agent: Deere & Company

20080099264 - Tractor: The present invention can speedily and easily perform the maintenance or the like of hydraulic equipment and the like. Accordingly, in the present invention, in a tractor in which a prime mover portion is arranged on a front portion of a machine body, a driving portion is arranged behind the... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080099259 - Hybrid vehicle and control method of hybrid vehicle: When the driver heavily depresses an accelerator pedal to start a hybrid vehicle in an engine stop condition, the control of the invention waits until elapse of a preset wait time and then starts outputting a torque equivalent to a preset torque demand to a ring gear shaft or a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080099260 - Power plant with planetary gear train: [Solution] In a power plant 1, an output shaft 3a of an internal combustion engine 3 is connected to driven parts DW and DW, and a transmission 20 is connected between the output shaft 3a of the engine 3 and the driven parts DW and DW, while one of first... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080099263 - Saddle ride type vehicle: An air cleaner is disposed on an upper side of an engine. The air cleaner and an intake port of the engine can be easily connected without enlarging the interval between a left-right pair of frames. A saddle ride type vehicle includes a longitudinally laid crankshaft type engine having a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080099265 - Guided control of a transporter: A method for conducting the motion of a transporter under riderless conditions. The transporter has two laterally disposed primary wheels. In accordance with the method, an input is received via a user input disposed on the transporter and a control signal corresponding to the input received is generated. Then a... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080099266 - Shift control device and straddle type vehicle: A shift control device is provided for reducing a shock generated at a clutch engagement moment in a gearshift operation in a straddle type vehicle having a shift control device that makes the clutch operation and the gearshift operation using the power of an actuator. The actuator is controlled based... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080099267 - All-wheel drivetrain for a motor vehicle: An all-wheel drivetrain for a motor vehicle, which has at least two driven axles, comprising a characteristic torque converter transmission of longitudinal construction. To the input side of the transmission drive power is fed and the transmission serves for converting a characteristic of a drive engine. The output side of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080099268 - Straddle type vehicle: A straddle vehicle comprises a single actuator that controls clutch engagement as well as gear shifting. The actuator can be connected to the clutch and the shiftable transmission with a rotating shaft. When an engine speed reaches or exceeds a preset value during an up-shift operation, an ECU or other... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080099269 - Wheel motor device: There is provided a wheel motor device including a hydraulic motor unit. The hydraulic motor unit includes a hydraulic motor main body, a motor shaft, a motor case and a port block. The port block includes a motor surface to which the motor case is connected, a pump surface to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080099270 - Variable displacement pump: In a variable displacement pump, an outer peripheral surface approximately in an opposite side to a portion supported to an oscillation supporting point in a cam ring with respect, to a pump shaft is formed as a convex surface portion holding a seal member brought into slidable contact with an... Agent: Babcock Ip, PLLC

20080099271 - Variable displacement pump: In a variable displacement pump provided with a high pressure chamber formed at a position facing to a discharge region of a pump chamber between a back surface of a side plate and a pump casing and introducing a pump discharge side pressure oil, a low pressure chamber formed at... Agent: Babcock Ip, PLLC

20080099272 - Electric power steering system: Even in the even that, when a steering torque is applied to a steering wheel 11 of an electric power steering system, a pinion shaft 21 of a rack-and-pinion steering gear box 16 is curved by a bending moment generated by a reaction force which a pinion 20 receives from... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates