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20100030421 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - A vehicle control system which can ensure high reliability, real-time processing, and expandability with a simplified ECU configuration and a low cost by backing up an error through coordination in the entire system without increasing a degree of redundancy of individual controllers beyond the least necessary level. The vehicle control system comprises a sensor controller for taking in sensor signals indicating a status variable of a vehicle and an operation amount applied from a driver, a command controller for generating a control target value based on the sensor signals taken in by the sensor controller, and an actuator controller for receiving the control target value from the command controller and operating an actuator to control the vehicle, those three controller being interconnected via a network. The actuator controller includes a control target value generating unit for generating a control target value based on the sensor signals taken in by the sensor controller and received by the actuator controller via the network when the control target value generated by the command controller is abnormal, and controls the actuator in accordance with the control target value generated by the control target value generating unit. | 02-04-2010 |
20100211258 | Vehicle Control System - In a vehicle control system in which a large number of ECUs operate in coordination via a network, each node has an intra-network node status determination section, other node's status decision transmitting/other nodes' status decision receiving section, and failed-node identification section. The nodes exchange decisions made by the intra-network node status evaluation section with other nodes and thereby identify failed node. | 08-19-2010 |
20110228796 | Real Time Control Network System - Provided is an on-vehicle network which can improve the network use efficiency and reduce the controller processor overhead even when the same communication cycle as the frame cannot be set in the filtering condition of a communication control device. A reference signal transmission controller is arranged in a network so as to generate and transmit a reference signal in accordance with the communication cycle. A reference signal reception controller receives the reference signal and compares the reference signals to a predetermined filtering condition table. If the signal is matched with the table, the controller executes a data reception process and a data transmission process. | 09-22-2011 |
20110320081 | Electric Automobile, Hybrid Automobile, Automobile, Automobile Brake Network System, In-Vehicle Network System, and Electronic Control Network System - In order to prevent an automobile from keeping running in an unsafe state when communication via an in-vehicle network becomes impossible, the present invention provides an in-vehicle network in which a synchronization execution node is selected from electronic control units which perform electronic control on the running or power of the automobile, among respective electronic control units. | 12-29-2011 |
20120224591 | Vehicle-Mounted Network Device - In order to correctly execute a control task in a FlexRay-based vehicle-mounted network system, data synchronization must be guaranteed by completing transmission/reception of all data within a communication cycle. The control task is called in synchronization with a communication cycle. Frames within a communication cycle are partitioned into a first-half slot group and a second-half slot group, each of which is a set of consecutive frames. During the slots of the first-half slot group, a data transmission/reception unit writes transmission frames of the second-half slot group and reads the reception frames of the second-half slot group. During the slots of the second-half slot group, the transmission/reception unit writes the transmission frames, and reads the reception frames, of the first-half slot group. | 09-06-2012 |
20140188343 | Vehicle Control System - A vehicle control system which can ensure high reliability, real-time processing, and expandability with a simplified ECU configuration and a low cost by backing up an error through coordination in the entire system without increasing a degree of redundancy of individual controllers beyond the least necessary level. The vehicle control system comprises a sensor controller for taking in sensor signals indicating a status variable of a vehicle and an operation amount applied from a driver, a command controller for generating a control target value based on the sensor signals taken in by the sensor controller, and an actuator controller for receiving the control target value from the command controller and operating an actuator to control the vehicle, those three controller being interconnected via a network. The actuator controller includes a control target value generating unit for generating a control target value based on the sensor signals taken in by the sensor controller and received by the actuator controller via the network when the control target value generated by the command controller is abnormal, and controls the actuator in accordance with the control target value generated by the control target value generating unit. | 07-03-2014 |
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20100089164 | UNDERWATER REMOTE SURFACE INSPECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REACTOR CONSTITUTING MEMBER - In an underwater remote surface inspection method for a reactor constituting member, in order to improve the precision of an operation of inspecting a surface shape of the reactor constituting member, an underwater remote surface inspection apparatus includes a replica picking head, an ultrasonic vibrator, and a replica agent cartridge. The replica picking head is pressed against a surface of core internal structure as an inspection target. A replica agent is supplied from the replica agent cartridge into the replica agent supply region formed inside the replica picking head and contacting with the surface of the core internal structure. After the operation of supplying the replica agent ends, an ultrasonic wave is transmitted from an ultrasonic vibrator to the replica agent inside the replica agent supply region. Accordingly, gas bubbles or liquid bubbles existing inside the replica agent supply region rise up so as to be discharged to the outside of the replica picking head through an air extracting hole. As a result, the gas bubbles or the liquid bubbles do not remain in the surface of the replica agent contacting with the surface of the core internal structure. | 04-15-2010 |
20110051878 | Method for Managing Internal Equipment in Reactor Pressure Vessel and Apparatus Thereof - A access apparatus is set on instrumentation nozzles penetrating a bottom portion of a reactor pressure vessel, in the reactor pressure vessel filling water. The access apparatus has an arm turned, and a mounting fixture that can move along the arm and having a holding member. A cover apparatus having a guide pipe covers the access apparatus, and is installed on the bottom portion in underwater environment in the reactor pressure vessel. The water below the cover apparatus is drained from the reactor pressure vessel to form an air space below the cover apparatus. A variety of device heads is suspended and lowered in the air space through the guide pipe, and mounted to the holding member of the mounting fixture. Repair or preventive maintenance operation against the instrumentation nozzles is performed by the variety of device heads. | 03-03-2011 |
20110091002 | UNDERWATER REMOTE INSPECTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UNDERWATER REMOTE INSPECTION - An underwater remote inspection device is provided with an etching device and a magnifying observation device mounted to a supporting member. A chamber of the etching device is provided with a negative electrode, a positive electrode and a sealing device, and is connected to an etchant supply pipe and an etchant exhaust pipe. A single pair of annular sealing members of the sealing device is provided to a distal end portion of the chamber. A suction passage formed in the side wall of the chamber communicates to a sealing region formed between the sealing members. The magnifying observation device is provided with a magnifying camera in a waterproof container and a plurality of LED lights are installed to the waterproof container. The underwater remote inspection apparatus can prevent leakage of an etchant and reduce execution time of etching. | 04-21-2011 |
20110114507 | ELECTROLYTICALLY ETCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SURFACE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR CORE INTERNALS - Even a site having a complicated curved surface shape, such as a welded spot on a bottom of a nuclear reactor core, is simply and electrolytically etched without discharging an etching liquid in a large amount, whereby grain boundary on the surface of the nuclear reactor core internals can be confirmed visually. | 05-19-2011 |
20120298884 | Ion Milling Device, Sample Processing Method, Processing Device, and Sample Drive Mechanism - In view of the above-mentioned problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a processing method that is not dependent on the material or the ion beam irradiation angle. In order to achieve the object above, the present invention provides a processing device that processes a sample by irradiating the sample with an ion beam, the processing device comprising a sample tilting/rotating mechanism that rotates/tilts the sample relative to the ion beam, wherein the sample rotating mechanism comprises a rotating shaft that rotates the sample relative to the ion beam, and a tilting shaft that is orthogonal to the rotating shaft and that tilts the sample relative to the ion beam, the sample rotating mechanism being adapted to simultaneously perform the rotating and tilting of the sample. | 11-29-2012 |
20140233689 | Water Jet Peening Apparatus and Water Jet Peening Method - In a water jet peening apparatus, a high-pressure under-water pump is installed on an upper end of a casing and an injection nozzle drive mechanism equipped with an injection nozzle is attached to the casing. A high-pressure hose whose one end is connected to the high-pressure under-water pump is disposed in the casing and the other end of the high-pressure hose is connected to the injection nozzle. The casing is seated at an upper end of a control rod drive mechanism housing and the high-pressure under-water pump is driven. The high-pressure water pressurized by the high-pressure under-water pump is supplied to the injection nozzle through the high-pressure hose in the casing and is jetted toward the weld portion between the control rod drive mechanism housing and a stub tube. The time required for a water jet peening operation can be shortened. | 08-21-2014 |
20150048059 | Laser Welding Apparatus, Preventive Maintenance Method for Reactor Internal of Nuclear Power Plant, and Laser Cutting Apparatus - The laser welding apparatus includes a welding head and a welding head scanning apparatus. A collimate lens installed on a head body of the welding head is arranged opposite to an end face of optical fibers. The welding head includes only the collimate lens as a lens and the length is shortened. A laser generated by a laser oscillator is introduced into the optical fiber, enters the collimate lens, and then is converted to a parallel beam by the collimate lens. The laser of a parallel beam is irradiated on a surface a welding portion of the welding object through a laser path and the surface of the welding portion is melted. Metallic powder is jetted from powder feed paths formed in a head body to the melted portion and build-up welding is performed on the surface of the welding portion. | 02-19-2015 |
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20090009203 | INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - There are provided an inspection apparatus and method that can locally perform sample temperature regulation, so that the sample drift can be suppressed. There are included a sample stage | 01-08-2009 |
20100123474 | INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - There are provided an inspection apparatus and method that can locally perform sample temperature regulation, so that the sample drift can be suppressed. There are included a sample stage | 05-20-2010 |
20110005288 | Water Jet Peening Method and Apparatus Thereof - A high-pressure water jet is injected from a nozzle scanned and a shock wave generated due to the collapse of bubbles included in the water jet is impacted on a WJP execution object. Tensile residual stress close to the surface of the WJP execution object is improved to compressive residual stress. The shock wave is detected by a pressure sensor and a shock wave generation frequency is obtained. Whether the obtained shock wave generation frequency is larger than a set value or not is decided. When the shock wave generation frequency is larger than the set value, a high-pressure pump is stopped and the injection of the water jet from the nozzle is stopped. When the shock wave generation frequency is equal to or smaller than the set value, the operation condition of the high-pressure pump is changed. The pressure of the water jet injected from the nozzle is increased and the WJP is executed for a part of the WJP execution object where the shock wave generation frequency is equal to or smaller than the set value. Improvement effect of the residual stress of the WJP execution object can be confirmed more accurately. | 01-13-2011 |
20110232348 | EVALUATION METHOD OF RESIDUAL STRESS IN WATER JET PEENING AND METHOD OF EXECUTING WATER JET PEENING - An evaluation method of residual stress in water jet peening includes a step of creating an analytical model including meshes according to a water jet peening (WJP) object, the shape of a nozzle, and an injection distance, a step of inputting WJP execution conditions, a step of calculating the internal pressure p | 09-29-2011 |
20140355378 | Ultrasonic Observation Equipment, Ultrasonic Observation System, and Ultrasonic Observation Method - A single-element ultrasonic sensor includes a single transducer element and transmits an ultrasonic wave on the basis of a pulse wave. An ultrasonic array sensor includes a plurality of transducer elements and receives an ultrasonic reflected wave. A pulsar supplies the pulse wave to the single element ultrasonic sensor. A receiver receives electric signals from the transducer elements included in the ultrasonic array sensor. An amplification and conversion unit amplifies the electric signals received from the transducer elements included in the ultrasonic array sensor, converts the electric signals into digital signals, and arranges the digital signals in a serial order so as to generate a serial digital signal. An image generator generates an image on the basis of the serial digital signal. | 12-04-2014 |