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20080217888 | Knee airbag device, and method of fitting steering column provided with knee air bag device to vehicle - In a steering column provided with a knee airbag device to a vehicle, an airbag module, which is integrally provided on an airbag door formed separately from a column lower cover, is fitted to a column tube after a steering column body is assembled, and before a steering lock is fitted to the column tube. Then, after the airbag module is fitted to the column tube, a steering column sub-assembly, which is formed by fitting at least the steering lock to the column tube, is fitted to an instrument panel provided in a vehicle at a predetermined position. After the steering column sub-assembly is fitted to the instrument panel, the column lower cover and a column upper cover, which cover a rear end portion of the steering column, are fitted to the steering column. | 09-11-2008 |
20080217890 | Steering column device with knee airbag device - A steering column device with a knee airbag device includes a steering column provided with a telescopic mechanism; a column cover that covers the rear end portion of the steering column; an airbag module, provided inside the column cover, which includes a gas generation device that generates gas, and a knee airbag that is inflated and deployed by the gas; an airbag door that is provided in the column cover, and that is opened when the airbag door receives the inflation pressure of the knee airbag; a collision prediction device that predicts that a vehicle will have a collision with a collision object; and a control device that operates the telescopic mechanism so that each of the column cover and the airbag module is moved rearward to a predetermined position, when the collision prediction device predicts that the vehicle will have a collision with the collision object. | 09-11-2008 |
20100007120 | KNEE-PROTECTING AIRBAG APPARATUS - The knee-protecting airbag apparatus is mounted on a lower region of a column cover covering a steering column of vehicle projecting rearward from an instrument panel. The airbag ( | 01-14-2010 |
20100102539 | KNEE AIRBAG DEVICE - A knee airbag device includes an airbag module and an airbag door. The airbag module, which is provided inside a column cover that covers the rear end portion of a steering column, includes gas generation device that generates gas when a collision occurs, and a knee airbag that is inflated and deployed from a folded state when the knee airbag receives the gas from the gas generation device. The airbag door, which is provided in the lower portion of the column cover, is opened when the inflation pressure of the knee airbag is equal to or higher than a predetermined value. When the knee airbag is deployed, at least a portion of the airbag door is positioned between an interfering object that is positioned in an area on the side of the column cover, and at leaser a portion of the knee airbag. | 04-29-2010 |
20100244416 | STEERING COLUMN MOUNTED KNEE AIRBAG DEVICE - A knee airbag device mounted on a steering column has an inner case in which a folded knee airbag is housed, and an outer case that is placed over the inner case. The outer case is fixed to a lower side of a vehicle-rear-side portion of a steering column that moves relative to a vehicle-front-side portion when a load equal to or greater than a threshold load is applied to the steering column in a direction of the axis of the steering column, and has a rigidity with which the shape of the folded knee airbag is maintained under normal conditions. The outer case has an opening formed in a region where the outer case would interfere with the vehicle-front-side portion when the vehicle-rear-side portion moves relative to the vehicle-front-side portion. | 09-30-2010 |
20120326419 | KNEE AIRBAG DEVICE AND CONNECTING METHOD THEREOF - A knee airbag device includes a column cover that covers a rear end portion of a steering column from below; and an airbag module. The airbag module is disposed in a column lower cover and includes a gas generation portion that generates gas and a knee airbag that is housed in the airbag module in a folded state, and is inflated and deployed by the gas supplied by the gas generation portion. The airbag module is connected to the steering column by a snap-fit action. | 12-27-2012 |
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20120230618 | FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING DEVICE - A weld line formed by injection molding of a sealing member is formed at a circumferential position out of deepest portions of axial grooves, which form thinned portions of the sealing member (optimally, in a region of a cylindrical surface between the axial grooves in a circumferential direction). Thus, the sealing member is prevented from being provided with parts having locally markedly low strength, and hence damage to be caused by press-fitting is prevented. | 09-13-2012 |
20120315169 | FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING DEVICE AND ASSEMBLY METHOD FOR SAME - Providing a fluid dynamic bearing device, wherein the outer member comprises a member formed by a pressing process on a plate member, the radial bearing surface and at least the one of the thrust bearing surfaces of the outer member being formed by the pressing process, and wherein at least a part of the inner member, which forms the radial bearing surface and the thrust bearing surfaces of the inner member, is made of a sintered metal. | 12-13-2012 |
20130071054 | BEARING MEMBER AND FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING DEVICE USING SAME - When a bearing member (bearing sleeve ( | 03-21-2013 |
20130336604 | FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING DEVICE - An inner peripheral surface and a lower end surface of a bearing sleeve made of a sintered metal are each formed into a smooth cylindrical surface or a flat surface that does not have a dynamic pressure generating portion. Thus, a step of forming the dynamic pressure generating portion can be omitted from a manufacturing step of the bearing sleeve, and cost of dies can be markedly reduced. Further, the inner peripheral surface of the bearing sleeve is formed into the smooth cylindrical surface, and hence a radial dynamic pressure generating portion is formed on an outer peripheral surface of a shaft member. However, the outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion is accessible to tools, and hence the radial dynamic pressure generating portion can be formed easily with high accuracy. As a result, accuracy of a radial bearing gap is enhanced so that a bearing rigidity is enhanced. | 12-19-2013 |
20140145366 | FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING DEVICE - A weld line formed by injection molding of a sealing member is formed at a circumferential position out of deepest portions of axial grooves, which form thinned portions of the sealing member (optimally, in a region of a cylindrical surface between the axial grooves in a circumferential direction). Thus, the sealing member is prevented from being provided with parts having locally markedly low strength, and hence damage to be caused by press-fitting is prevented. | 05-29-2014 |
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20110031937 | MOTOR-DRIVEN VEHICLE - In a motor-driven vehicle using power stored in a secondary battery as a source of motive power in which part of vehicle braking is achieved by regenerative braking by generating electrical energy absorbed by charging the secondary battery, the state of charge of the secondary battery is adjusted during charging so that, when charging is completed, the state of charge of the battery will be such that it is still capable of receiving energy generated during regenerative braking. During charging, after the battery has been charged to a target charge level, and battery temperature has subsequently changed, a state where the battery is still capable of receiving energy generated during regenerative braking can be achieved by slightly discharging the battery depending on the temperature of the battery. Such slight discharge of the battery can be obtained by powering an electric heater ( | 02-10-2011 |
20130085657 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A control device for a vehicle including an engine stop and start device includes a battery and a vehicle speed detecting unit and includes a battery current detecting unit, a battery temperature detecting unit, a deceleration state detecting unit, a fuel supply stop unit, an average charging current calculating unit, and an SOC estimating unit. The control device calculates, with the average charging current calculating unit, an average of a battery current in a predetermined time from detection of a stop of fuel supply to an engine in a deceleration state of the vehicle. The control device permits a stop of the engine when an SOC calculated by the SOC estimating unit is larger than a predetermined value. | 04-04-2013 |
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20130140886 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR PARALLEL BATTERY CONNECTION CIRCUIT - A control system for a parallel battery connection circuit has a plurality of secondary battery packs connected in parallel to each other, in which small batteries are combined and provided substantially equivalently to each other. The control system performs abnormality detection by detecting and comparing states of the secondary battery packs. The control system has state detecting circuits and a control circuit. The state detecting circuits detect currents or temperatures and are provided respectively in the secondary battery packs. The control circuit performs current limitation based on a magnitude of deviation between a deviation in either of a comparison of currents detected corresponding to the secondary battery packs by the state detecting circuits or a comparison of temperatures detected corresponding to the secondary battery packs by the state detecting circuits, and a predetermined judgment value. | 06-06-2013 |
20130200845 | CHARGING/DISCHARGING CONTROL APPARATUS - A hybrid electric vehicle 1 has a battery state detecting unit for detecting a temperature and SOC of a battery pack, a storage unit for storing a first target SOC calculation map in which a battery temperature and a target SOC which enables regenerative power generation at that battery temperature are associated with each other, and a second target SOC calculation map in which a battery temperature and a target SOC which enables startup of an internal combustion engine at that battery temperature are associated with each other, and a charging/discharging control unit for acquiring a target SOC which corresponds to the detected battery temperature based on the first target SOC calculation map or the second target SOC calculation map to control charging/discharging so that the detected SOC matches the acquired target SOC. | 08-08-2013 |
20130332016 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - A control system for an electric vehicle equipped with a driving electric motor which is actuated by electric power, as supplied from a vehicle-driving battery, to drive a wheel of an electric vehicle, a power generating motor which is actuated by an engine to provide electric power to the vehicle-driving battery, and an air conditioner which works to regulate temperature in a cabin of the electric vehicle. The control system controls the engine so as to keep an output therefrom constant in response to an air condition request. The control system also keeps the output from the engine constant to actuate the power generating motor for charging the vehicle-driving battery when an amount of charge in the vehicle-driving battery is determined to be lower than or equal to a given threshold value, and the electric vehicle is determined to be at a stop. | 12-12-2013 |
20140184142 | BATTERY CHARGING DEVICE FOR MOTOR VEHICLE - A battery charging device for a motor vehicle capable of enabling the charging of a low voltage battery by a high voltage battery, without using a transformer such as a DC/DC converter, is disclosed. A battery pack | 07-03-2014 |
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20130060497 | BATTERY STATE MONITORING DEVICE - A battery state monitoring device includes a battery pack including at least one battery cell, and a measuring circuit that measures a state of the battery cell, the measuring circuit including temperature measuring means for measuring a temperature of the battery cell, current measuring means for measuring a current flowing through the battery cell, and voltage measuring means for measuring a voltage of the battery cell, and including a calculation circuit in parallel, wherein the battery state monitoring device calculates a predetermined voltage corresponding to a predetermined state of charge of the battery cell, based on the temperature and the current of the battery cell, using a predetermined operational expression including a temperature quadratic exponential function and a temperature linear function, and compares the voltage of the battery cell with the predetermined voltage calculated using the operational expression to determine the predetermined state of charge of the battery cell. | 03-07-2013 |
20130092348 | VEHICULAR BATTERY COOLING DEVICE - The present invention provides a vehicular battery cooling device in which a rear seat is disposed on the upper surface of a rear floor panel. A battery pack is disposed on the upper surface of the rear floor panel at the rear of the rear seat, and an air intake duct extending from the battery pack to the vehicle front is installed between the cushion part of the rear seat and the rear floor panel. A concave part extending in the vehicle longitudinal direction is formed in the lower surface of the cushion part in the central portion in the vehicle width direction, an opening is formed at the front end of the air intake duct, and the air intake duct is formed so as to have a strength capable of supporting the weight of a passenger and is brought into contact with the lower surface of the cushion part. | 04-18-2013 |
20130268151 | COOLING FAN CONTROL DEVICE - A cooling fan control device for use in a vehicle in which a drive battery and an engine, both serving as drive energy sources, and an air conditioner of the vehicle are mounted, and in which a cooling fan for cooling the drive battery is provided, is disclosed. Cooling fan control means, which includes first drive condition determination means, second drive condition determination means, third drive condition determination means, and fourth drive condition determination means, compares the largest drive amount among drive amounts of a cooling fan which are respectively obtained by the second drive condition determination means, the third drive condition determination means, and the fourth drive condition determination means, with a drive amount of the cooling fan which is obtained by the first drive condition determination means, and drives the cooling fan in correspondence with the smaller drive amount of the cooling fan. | 10-10-2013 |
20140309824 | BATTERY CHARGE/DISCHARGE CONTROL APPARATUS - A battery charge/discharge control apparatus for controlling charge/discharge of a battery in a vehicle as defined herein, includes: a battery control portion which is provided for controlling charge/discharge of the battery; a vehicle control portion which controls the inverter and the engine and controls the charge/discharge of the battery based on information from the battery control portion; a failure determination portion which determines whether there is a failure in the battery control portion or not; and an inverter driving state detection portion which detects a driving state of the inverter; wherein: the vehicle control portion controls the charge/discharge of the battery based on the driving state of the inverter detected by the inverter driving state detection portion when the failure determination portion determines that there is a failure in the battery control portion. | 10-16-2014 |
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20090307875 | Auxiliary handle - It is an object of the invention to provide a technique for a reduction of vibration of an auxiliary handle for a hand-held power tool. The object can be achieved by a representative auxiliary handle. The auxiliary handle includes a ring-like mounting part, a pair of bases, a rod-like grip, one or arms and an elastic region. The bases are formed on a free end of the mounting part. The bases of the mounting part and extending end portions of the arms are arranged parallel to the longitudinal direction of the grip. The bases of the mounting part and the extending end portions of the arms are clamped by a bolt and a nut such that the mounting part holds the power tool body. The elastic region is provided in at least one of the mounting part, the bases and the extending end portions of the arms. | 12-17-2009 |
20100132969 | Power tool - It is an object of the invention to reduce size of a dynamic vibration reducer in a power tool. A power tool according to the invention includes a dynamic vibration reducer | 06-03-2010 |
20110030983 | POWER TOOL - It is an object of the invention to provide a power tool that effectively prevents leakage of lubricant while regulating the internal pressure of a housing space for a driving mechanism. | 02-10-2011 |
20110226502 | ATTACHMENT DEVICE-EQUIPPED ELECTRIC TOOL - A hammer drill is provided with a connector equipped with a female terminal, movably between a connection position where the female terminal is located inside a plug-in port and a non-connection position where the female terminal is in retreat from inside the plug-in port. The hammer drill is also provided with a torsion spring that urges the connector toward the non-connection position. The connector is provided with a shutter portion that is located inside the plug-in port to close the plug-in port at the non-connection position and is in retreat from inside the plug-in port at the connection position. A dust collecting device is provided with a press rail that comes into abutment on the connector to move the connector to the connection position against the urging of the torsion spring as the dust collecting device is mounted. | 09-22-2011 |
20120326669 | POWER TOOL STORAGE CASE - A power tool storage case includes a main case that has a tool storage portion, a battery storage portion and a charger storage portion, and a lid that can open and close the main case. The charger storage portion is a dual-purpose storage portion that can hold one of a charger and a battery pack in accordance with selection of one of the charger and the battery pack. | 12-27-2012 |
20140183075 | Tool Housing Case and Subcase - A tool housing case includes a main body case, for holding a power tool, for example, and an accessory case, for holding a power tool accessory, for example, which accessory case is connectable to the main body case on a handle side of the main body case near a main body case handle. The accessory case has an opening that can be selectively closed by a cover element. A space is provided between the handle and the accessory case for receiving a user's hand when the handle is gripped, and when a user's hand is not gripping the handle, this space allows access to the accessory case. | 07-03-2014 |
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20130314090 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus - In order to improve image quality, a technique for obtaining information for eliminating distortions of the k-space in the readout direction and the phase encoding direction caused by the waveform distortion of the gradient magnetic field pulse is provided. A pulse sequence for the main scan is used to repeatedly measure echoes with changing the time integral value of the dephasing pulse for the readout gradient magnetic field. In the above measurement, the phase encoding pulse is not made zero, but two-dimensional data are measured in the same manner as that of the main scan. By using the measured two-dimensional data, correction information for eliminating distortions of the k-space in the readout direction and the phase encoding direction caused by the waveform distortion of the gradient magnetic field pulse is calculated in each of the readout direction and the phase encoding direction. | 11-28-2013 |
20130314091 | RF COIL AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DEVICE - To provide a technique for sufficiently eliminating magnetic coupling between RF coils and improving image quality when a multi-element multi-tuned RF coil is used as a receive RF coil for an MRI device. In the invention, each of RF coils which constitute a multi-element multi-tuned RF coil which is used as a receive RF coil for an MRI device is provided with an inter-coil magnetic coupling prevention circuit which resonates at each frequency to which each RF coil is tuned and provides a high impedance. The inter-coil magnetic coupling prevention circuit adjusts an inductor and a capacitor so that both of a circuit on the side of a pre-amplifier viewed from both ends of a signal reception circuit and a circuit on the side of the signal reception circuit viewed from both ends of a serial resonance circuit connected to the pre-amplifier resonate at a plurality of frequencies to which the respective RF coils are tuned. | 11-28-2013 |
20140103931 | HIGH FREQUENCY COIL UNIT AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS - The present invention is directed to an elliptical birdcage coil which reduces time and effort upon manufacturing and production cost, with less variations in performance. There is provided a high frequency coil unit made up of the elliptical birdcage coil having plural capacitors arranged at least on either of the ring conductors and the rung conductors, the capacitance of the plural capacitors being uniform with respect to each conductor type on which the capacitors are placed. In this elliptical birdcage coil, a value of inductance and arrangement of the ring conductors and the rung conductors are determined in such a manner that the capacitance of the capacitors becomes identical with respect to each conductor type on which the capacitors are arranged. | 04-17-2014 |
20140191756 | MEDICAL IMAGE IMAGING DEVICE - A technique in a medical imaging apparatus being capable of setting any plane in three-dimensional space as an imaging slice is provided, allowing an automatically-set imaging slice to be configured to suit user's preferences, and determine a position of the imaging slice being configured, with respect to an imaging target subject automatically with a high degree of accuracy. Reference information for specifying the imaging slice, set by the user for each imaging site, is associated with the anatomical feature of the imaging site, so as to generate an imaging slice parameter. Upon actual imaging, the imaging slice parameter and the anatomical feature of the imaging target subject obtained by scout imaging are used to determine the imaging slice position of the imaging target subject. | 07-10-2014 |
20140219533 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY ENHANCED IMAGE - There is provided a technique for obtaining a magnetic susceptibility-weighted image in which contrast difference of a tissue of interest and a surrounding tissue can be emphasized regardless of the positional relationship of the B | 08-07-2014 |
20140292334 | Magnetic resonance imaging equipment, high frequency magnetic field irradiation method and program - With minimizing extension of imaging time, the B | 10-02-2014 |
20140306703 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DEVICE, PHASE VALUE CORRECTION METHOD AND PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to suppress artifacts generated by correction of spectral distortion induced by eddy currents in MRI devices with a simple method, and thereby improve accuracy of the correction. In the eddy current correction processing for correcting spectral distortion caused by an eddy current using phase values of FID signals of a substance showing higher signal intensities compared with a metabolite as an object of measurement, phase jumps of the phase values used for the correction are corrected beforehand. In the correction of the phase jumps, small phase change amount points are identified by using primary time differential values of the phase values, and the other points are identified as a phase jump generation region. Then, the primary time differential values corresponding to the identified phase jump generation regions are excluded. The phase jump generation regions are identified as regions where the primary time differential value changes in an amount not smaller than a threshold value defined beforehand within a range defined beforehand. | 10-16-2014 |
20150022210 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention provides a technique for obtaining a high-quality image at high speed in DKI analysis. In the DKI analysis, upon estimating a parameter relating to diffusion in an application direction of an MPG pulse, a least square fitting is separated from a constraint processing, and only a value of the pixel that does not meet the constraint condition in the least square fitting is targeted for the correction. Then, with regard to this pixel, a diffusion-related parameter is re-estimated using the pixel value after the correction, and a parameter image is generated by using the diffusion-related parameter thus obtained. | 01-22-2015 |
20150084628 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND SUSCEPTIBILITY MAP CALCULATION METHOD - Disclosed is a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus that calculates a susceptibility map using a weighting image that reflects a phase variation with high accuracy. The weighting image is calculated from a phase image obtained from a complex image obtained by MRI. First, a region used in calculation of the phase variation is set as a calculation region, and then, a standard deviation or a variance of pixel values of the phase image in the calculation region is set as the phase variation. Further, the phase variation is converted into a weight that monotonically decreases in a broad sense as the phase variation increases to obtain the weighting image. | 03-26-2015 |
20150241539 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DEVICE, AND DETERMINATION METHOD FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELD CONDITIONS - With an MRI apparatus using a transmission coil having multiple channels, a region desired to be diagnosed is efficiently imaged with high image quality. The MRI apparatus comprises a region setting means for setting a region in an imaging region, of which high quality image is desired to be obtained, as a first region, and an optimization means for determining at least one of amplitude and phase of a radio frequency wave transmitted to each of the multiple channels as a radio frequency magnetic field condition, and the optimization means determines the radio frequency magnetic field condition so that at least one of specific absorption ratio and signal value of a region that generates artifacts is not higher than a predetermined value defined for each, under a uniformity constraint condition that uniformity of radio frequency magnetic field distribution in the first region is not lower than a predetermined value. | 08-27-2015 |
20150338492 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DEVICE AND QUANTITATIVE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING METHOD - The estimation accuracy of a magnetic susceptibility value of tissue is improved by computing an edge image which represents the edge of the tissue on a magnetic susceptibility distribution and to reduce background noise without lowering the magnetic susceptibility value of the tissue. The present invention computes an absolute value image and a phase image from a complex image obtained by MRI, from the phase image, computes a low frequency region magnetic susceptibility image in which background noise is greater than a desired value, computes an edge information magnetic susceptibility image and computes a high frequency region magnetic susceptibility image, computes an edge mask from the edge information magnetic susceptibility image, smooths a magic angle region from the edge mask and the low frequency region magnetic susceptibility image and finally smooths a high frequency region using the high frequency region magnetic susceptibility image. | 11-26-2015 |