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20100181140 | ELECTRIC POWER STEERING APPARATUS - A rotational angle sensor used in an electric power steering apparatus detects a rotational angle of a motor shaft at a portion on a steering system side, as a motor rotational angle (θm). A MPU sets a base correction amount (Δθ′m) based on a q-axis actual current value (Iq). The MPU sets a rotational angle correction amount (Δθm) used to correct the motor rotational angle (θm) by decreasing the base correction amount (Δθ′m) as a rotational angular speed (ω) increases and by increasing the base correction amount (Δθ′m) as a torque differential value (dT/dt) increases. | 07-22-2010 |
20110080160 | ROTATIONAL ANGLE DETECTION DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING SYSTEM - An ECU detects a steering angle that is an absolute angle based on a sine signal and a cosine signal that are output from a steering sensor. The ECU includes a three-phase pulse generator that generates, based on the sine signal and the cosine signal, three-phase pulse signals that have edges corresponding to predetermined rotational angles and that are set in such a manner that the predetermined rotational angles corresponding to the respective edges do not overlap each other and are at regular intervals. A microcomputer has a function as a second rotational angle detector that calculates a steering angle based on the pulse signals. | 04-07-2011 |
20120274260 | MOTOR CONTROL UNIT AND VEHICLE STEERING SYSTEM - In a motor control unit, a current-carrying failure detection unit determines a first determination condition and a second determination condition. The current-carrying failure detection unit measures a duration of a state where the first determination condition is satisfied, and a duration of a state where the second determination condition is satisfied. When the first or second duration exceeds a predetermined reference period, the current-carrying failure detection unit determines that a current-carrying failure has occurred. | 11-01-2012 |
20140139158 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND STEERING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - In a state in which the energization in the first direction is possible between the motor and the drive circuit and the motor is not rotating at high speed, when the phase induced voltage value of the specific phase that is the target of determination is continuously equal to or smaller than the abnormality determination threshold, the abnormality detecting unit determines that an open malfunction has occurred in the relay FET of the specific phase. | 05-22-2014 |
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20090147661 | Optical Information Processing Apparatus, Optical Pick-Up Device And Optical Recording Disc System - An optical pick-up device includes a laser source enabling emission of at least two light beams with different wavelengths, an objective lens which focuses the light beams emitted from the laser source on an optical disc, an optical detector which receives a light reflected from the optical disc, a front monitor which receives a part of the light beams emitted from the laser source, a front monitor light-guiding plate which guides part of the light beams emitted from the laser source to the front monitor. The front monitor light-guiding plate is arranged between the laser source and the objective lens, at least a part of a region of the front monitor light-guiding plate illuminated by the light beams emitted from the laser source has a predetermined shape which causes the light beams to change traveling direction thereof by refraction and then be guided to the front monitor. | 06-11-2009 |
20110182166 | OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup that can be downsized is suggested. | 07-28-2011 |
20110216641 | OPTICAL PICK-UP - In an optical pick-up used in common with DVD/CD and BD, when the thickness is intended to be reduced by mounting a total reflection mirror, a cavity for passing through a laser light is necessary and, since this decreases the degree of freedom for arranging tracking coils and magnets and secondary resonance caused by a magnetic thrust in the tracking direction tends to be generated, an improvement therefor is necessary. In a lens coil holder of the optical pick-up having an objective lens and tracking coil mounted thereon each of the coils is arranged such that the thrust relative to the vertical center of the suspension wires that support the lens coil holder is well balanced. For example, most of the portion of the tracking coils is situated at one height relative to the suspension wire and the tilt coil is situated at the other remaining height. | 09-08-2011 |
20110299375 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - In a small-sized optical pickup device for enabling to obtain a stable servo-signal, as well as, a focus error signal and a tracking error signal, without receiving ill influences of stray lights from other layers, when recording/reproducing a multi-layer optical disc, a reflection light from the multi-layer optical disc is divided into plural numbers of regions by a diffraction grating. And, it is divided into at least four (4) regions, by a division line in the tangential direction of the optical disc and a division line in the radial direction thereof. Light receiving parts, for detecting either one of grating diffraction lights, i.e., a +1 | 12-08-2011 |
20130229898 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS FOR RECORDING AND REPRODUCING INFORMATION ON AND FROM OPTICAL DISC PLURALITY OF RECORDING LAYERS - Provided is an optical pickup device that suppresses a fluctuation of a tracking error signal caused by stray light when recording/reproducing information on/from an optical disc including a plurality of recording layers and attains size reduction. It includes a laser diode emitting laser light of about 405 nm in wavelength, an objective lens irradiating the optical disc with an optical beam emitted from the laser diode and having a numerical aperture of about 0.85, and a detector including a detection part receiving the optical beam reflected from the optical disc. An optical magnification from the optical disc to the detector is set within a range from about 10× to 15×. | 09-05-2013 |
20150034723 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIA, INFORMATION REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - A motion picture is captured while a focal position is changed in a predetermined reproduction layer of a recording medium, the resolutions of a plurality of still images acquired by the capturing of the motion picture are checked using check patterns, which are recorded at a predetermined frequency, of the medium, it is determined whether the still images are usable for the reproduction of data, and a plurality of the still images determined to be usable are composed. | 02-05-2015 |
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20100102460 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device and its manufacturing method are offered to increase the number of semiconductor devices obtained from a semiconductor wafer while simplifying a manufacturing process. After forming a plurality of pad electrodes in a predetermined region on a top surface of a semiconductor substrate, a supporter is bonded to the top surface of the semiconductor substrate through an adhesive layer. Next, an opening is formed in the semiconductor substrate in a region overlapping the predetermined region. A wiring layer electrically connected with each of the pad electrodes is formed in the opening. After that, a stacked layer structure including the semiconductor substrate and the supporter is cut by dicing along a dicing line that is outside the opening. | 04-29-2010 |
20100130000 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device - When a bump electrode is formed on an opening formed in a semiconductor substrate, the invention prevents a void that is caused by gas trapped in the opening. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device of the invention includes forming a first wiring on a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, forming an opening in the semiconductor substrate from the back surface to the main surface so as to expose the back surface of the first wiring, forming a second wiring connected to the back surface of the first wiring and extending from inside the opening onto the back surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a solder layer connected to part of the second wiring on the bottom of the opening and extending from inside the opening onto the back surface of the semiconductor substrate, and forming a bump electrode on the opening by reflowing the solder layer. | 05-27-2010 |
20120018849 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - In a CSP type semiconductor device, the invention prevents a second wiring from forming a protruding portion toward a dicing line at the time of forming the second wiring that is connected to the back surface of a first wiring formed near a side surface portion of a semiconductor die on the front surface and extends onto the back surface of the semiconductor die over a step portion in a window that is formed from the back surface side of the semiconductor die so as to expose the back surface of the first wiring. A glass substrate is bonded on a semiconductor substrate on which a first wiring is formed on the front surface near a dicing line with a resin as an adhesive being interposed therebetween. The semiconductor substrate is then etched from the back surface to form a window having inclined sidewalls with the dicing line as a center. A second wiring is then formed so as to be connected to the back surface of the first wiring exposed in the window and extend over one of the sidewalls of the window, that extends perpendicular to the dicing line, onto the back surface of the semiconductor substrate. | 01-26-2012 |
20120032307 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - In a CSP type semiconductor device, the invention prevents a second wiring from forming a narrowed portion on a lower surface of a step portion at the time of forming the second wiring that is connected to the back surface of a first wiring formed near a side surface portion of a semiconductor die on the front surface and extends onto the back surface of the semiconductor die over the step portion of a window that is formed from the back surface side of the semiconductor die so as to expose the back surface of the first wiring. A glass substrate is bonded on a semiconductor substrate on which a first wiring is formed on the front surface near a dicing line with an adhesive resin being interposed therebetween. The semiconductor substrate is then etched from the back surface to form a window having step portions with inclined sidewalls around the dicing line as a center. A second wiring is then formed so as to be connected to the first wiring exposed in the window and extend onto the back surface of the semiconductor substrate over the step portions of the window except part of the step portions on the dicing line and near the dicing line, which extend perpendicular to the dicing line. | 02-09-2012 |
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20110043834 | Color conversion system and color conversion processing method - For color conversion of image data in a L*a*b* color space, a color conversion system includes a color conversion processor to implement a first color conversion for color conversion of data positions of an image data in a reference-color representing first region covering a constant hue line at a prescribed hue angle on an a*b* plane, and a second color conversion for color conversion of data positions of the image data in a second region set outside the first region within an angular range smaller in hue angle than the prescribed hue angle on the a*b* plane, the prescribed hue angle being set up in an angular region of 0 degree or more and 90 degree or less relative to an a* axis, the color conversion processor being adapted to implement mutually different color conversion processes for the first color conversion and the second color conversion. | 02-24-2011 |
20120133696 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND DENSITY ADJUSTMENT METHOD THEREOF - An adjustment drop number setting section | 05-31-2012 |
20130077102 | IMAGE DATA CONVERSION UNIT - An image data conversion unit includes a halftone processor to generate drop data relating to the number of ink liquid drops from information about the density of each pixel in image data, a data replacer to divide image data into predetermined sized unit areas, calculate a pixel pattern in which the same gradation pixels appear continuously for each unit area in accordance with the density in each unit area, and replace the pixels included in each unit area with a pixel pattern calculated for the unit area, and a mode switcher to select one of standard mode in which drop data is generated by inputting image data to the halftone processor and first data compression mode in which after image data is input to the data replacer and compressed, drop data is generated in the halftone processor and switch the image data processing orders in accordance with the selected mode. | 03-28-2013 |
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20100151612 | Group III-V semiconductor device and method for producing the same - A method for producing a Group III-V semiconductor device, includes forming, on a base, a plurality of semiconductor devices isolated from one another, forming, through ion implantation, a high-resistance region in a surface layer of a side surface of each semiconductor device, after formation of the high-resistance region, forming a p-electrode and a low-melting-point metal diffusion prevention layer on the top surface of the semiconductor device, bonding the semiconductor device to a conductive support substrate via a low-melting-point metal layer, and removing the base through the laser lift-off process. | 06-17-2010 |
20150053996 | LAYERED SUBSTRATE WITH A MISCUT ANGLE COMPRISING A SILICON SINGLE CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE AND A GROUP-III NITRIDE SINGLE CRYSTAL LAYER - A step-flow growth of a group-III nitride single crystal on a silicon single crystal substrate is promoted. A layer of oxide oriented to a <111> axis of silicon single crystal is formed on a surface of a silicon single crystal substrate, and group-III nitride single crystal is crystallized on a surface of the layer of oxide. Thereupon, a <0001> axis of the group-III nitride single crystal undergoing crystal growth is oriented to a c-axis of the oxide. When the silicon single crystal substrate is provided with a miscut angle, step-flow growth of the group-III nitride single crystal occurs. By deoxidizing a silicon oxide layer formed at an interface of the silicon single crystal and the oxide, orientation of the oxide is improved. | 02-26-2015 |
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20080288879 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, USER-INTERFACE IMAGE CREATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus is connectable to a PC and has an operation panel disposed on or in the vicinity of the image forming apparatus. When a request for acquisition of a user-interface image is received from the operation panel, the image forming apparatus creates, by using an instance, a user-interface image to be displayed on the operation panel. When a request for acquisition of a user-interface image is received from the PC, the image forming apparatus creates, by using another instance, a user-interface image to be displayed on the PC. The two instances belong to the same class. | 11-20-2008 |
20090235363 | IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE AND LICENSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An image formation device enables an optional function that is invalid in an initial state with the entry of a license code. The image formation device includes a storage part for storing specific information unique to the image formation device, and authenticates a license code input thereto using the specific information stored in the storage part. When this license code is recognized as a proper license code as a result of authentication, the image formation device enables an optional function. The image formation device also includes a function disabling part for disabling an optional function that has been enabled. Disabling the optional function causes the function disabling part to change the specific information stored in the storage part to information different from previous information. As a result, an optional function of the image formation device is prevented from being enabled many times using a license once granted to the image formation device. Further, a license management server is allowed to precisely manage the usage of a license at all times. | 09-17-2009 |
20100199278 | JOB EXECUTION APPARATUS, JOB EXECUTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus is provided with the following functional portions: a printable/unprintable determination portion that determines whether or not a print job can be executed based on any of a plurality of conditions specified by a user; and a first printing process portion that executes, if it has been determined that the print job can be executed based on any of the plurality of conditions, the print job based on any of executable conditions among the plurality of conditions, the executable conditions being conditions based on which the print job can be executed. | 08-05-2010 |
20110222116 | PULL PRINTING SYSTEM, SERVER MACHINE, AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PRINT JOB - An image forming apparatus includes a request portion that requests, from a server machine, access information used for reading out a job, and an access information reception portion that receives the access information. The server machine includes a job reception portion that receives the job and stores the job into a first area, a second area into which the job is to be stored for the image forming apparatus, a storage portion that stores, therein, second read-out information used for reading out the job from the second area, and a response portion that receives a request, and if there is first read-out information used for reading out the job from the first area, then sends the first read-out information to the image forming apparatus as the access information, and otherwise, moves the job to the second area, and sends the second read-out information to the image forming apparatus. | 09-15-2011 |
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20090057218 | PROTECTOR AND FLUID FILTER USING SAME - The present invention provides a protector and a fluid filter using the protector in which the protector, which supports a cylindrical filter element so as to prevent the filter element from being crashed, can be assembled easily by a manual operation, the number of components of the protector can be reduced, and the protector can be assembled easily even with differing length. A fluid filter comprising a protector for supporting a filter element, the protector includes a support having a cylindrical portion and a first joint portion, a pedestal having a pedestal main body and a second joint portion joined to the first joint portion, a valve body provided in a valve body housing portion, and a spring that biases the valve body to a through hole side, wherein the first joint portion and the second joint portion are connected to each other by a snap fit structure. | 03-05-2009 |
20090084723 | FASTENING STRUCTURE HAVING TWO MEMBERS AND FLUID FILTER THAT USES THE SAME - The present invention provides a fastening structure having two members that can prevent an axial force from decreasing due to thread loosening even at a temperature that is higher than that during tightening, and that always maintains a firmly fastened state. The fastening structure having two members comprises a first member that has a high thermal expansion rate is provided with an abutting portion on the distal end side of a threaded portion thereof, and a second member that has a low thermal expansion rate is provided with an abutted portion that is abutted by the abutting portion on the proximal end side of a thread-receiving portion. In such a fastening structure, as the temperature becomes higher, the threaded portion is more tightly clasped and compressed by the thread-receiving portion and the abutted portion. As a result, the fastening force between two members increases, and the axial force becomes large. | 04-02-2009 |
20090206022 | DRAIN MECHANISM AND FLUID FILTER INCLUDING DRAIN MECHANISM - A drain mechanism includes: a cap that is attached detachably to a case of a fluid filter and formed with a drain hole, and includes an engaging projecting portion to which an engaging portion of a drain pipe inserted into the drain hole is engaged; and a valve member that is provided in the interior of the cap so as to close the drain hole and displaced in a direction for releasing closure of the drain hole upon contact with a tip end portion of the pipe inserted into the drain hole. The valve member is provided with a holding recess portion for holding the tip end portion of the pipe. A contact portion contacted by the tip end portion of the pipe is provided inside the holding recess portion of the valve member. When a tip end side of the engaging portion of the pipe inserted into the drain hole is in contact with a rear end side of the engaging projecting portion of the cap, an interval between a contact tip end of the engaging portion and the engaging projecting portion and an open end of the holding recess portion of the valve member closing the drain hole is longer than an interval between the contact tip end of the engaging portion and the engaging projecting portion and a tip end of the pipe. | 08-20-2009 |
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20110009644 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING FLUORINATED 1,3-DIOXOLAN 2-ONE - The present invention provides a process for preparing fluorinated 1,3-dioxolan-2-one by reacting a derivative of 1,3-dioxolan-2-one having halogen atom other than fluorine with an amine hydrofluoride in an organic solvent, and in this preparation process, fluorinated 1,3-dioxolane-2-on can be prepared in a short period of time by liquid-liquid reaction while maintaining high yield, by using a derivative of 1,3-dioxolan-2-one having halogen atom other than fluorine as a starting material and fluorinating the derivative with a fluorinating agent. | 01-13-2011 |
20130224606 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION - The present invention directs to a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, including (I) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of fluorinated linear sulfones and fluorinated linear sulfonic acid esters, and (II) an electrolyte salt. Such a non-aqueous electrolyte solution has high oxidation resistance, minimizes its decomposition even when hydrofluoric acid is produced. Also, the solution is less likely to cause, in the case of being used for a secondary cell, swelling of the cell and lowering of the battery performance. | 08-29-2013 |
20140017560 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - The present invention provides a lithium ion secondary cell excellent in high-temperature storage characteristics and high voltage cycle characteristics; and a nonaqueous electrolyte for the cell. | 01-16-2014 |
20140023938 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION FOR ELECTROCHEMCIAL DEVICE - The present invention aims to provide an electrochemical device excellent in high temperature storage characteristics and cycling characteristics at high voltages, and a nonaqueous electrolyte for the electrochemical device. The present invention relates to an electrochemical device including: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and a nonaqueous electrolyte containing a nonaqueous solvent and an electrolyte salt, wherein the nonaqueous solvent contains a fluorinated linear carbonate represented by the formula (1): | 01-23-2014 |
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20090274359 | SPECIMEN OBSERVATION METHOD - It is an object of the present invention to provide a specimen observation method, an image processing device, and a charged-particle beam device which are preferable for selecting, based on an image acquired by an optical microscope, an image area that should be acquired in a charged-particle beam device the representative of which is an electron microscope. In the present invention, in order to accomplish the above-described object, there are provided a method and a device for determining the position for detection of charged particles by making the comparison between a stained optical microscope image and an elemental mapping image formed based on X-rays detected by irradiation with the charged-particle beam. | 11-05-2009 |
20120138795 | SPECIMEN OBSERVATION METHOD - It is an object of the present invention to provide a specimen observation method, an image processing device, and a charged-particle beam device which are preferable for selecting, based on an image acquired by an optical microscope, an image area that should be acquired in a charged-particle beam device the representative of which is an electron microscope. In the present invention, in order to accomplish the above-described object, there are provided a method and a device for determining the position for detection of charged particles by making the comparison between a stained optical microscope image and an elemental mapping image formed based on X-rays detected by irradiation with the charged-particle beam. | 06-07-2012 |
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20090087213 | CHARGING DEVICE INCLUDING CHARGING ROLLER AND CLEANING ROLLER - A charging device, a process cartridge, and an image forming apparatus are provided. The charging device includes a charging roller configured to charge an image carrier and a cleaning roller configured to clean the charging roller while making contact with a surface of the charging roller. The charging device further includes a bearing member including a first portion configured to rotatably support a rotational shaft of the charging roller and a second portion configured to rotatably support a rotational shaft of the cleaning roller. The charging device also includes an elastic member provided outside of the second portion of the bearing member with respect to an axial direction of the rotational shaft of the cleaning roller such that the charging roller makes contact with the image carrier when the first portion of the bearing member is pressed by the elastic member. | 04-02-2009 |
20090123186 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, TONER KIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner is provided that comprises a colorant and a binder resin, wherein the binder resin comprises a polyester resin that is prepared by a polycondensation reaction in the presence of at least a titanium-containing catalyst expressed by General Formula (II) or (II), the toner has a volume average particle diameter of 2.0 μm to 10.0 μm and a ratio Dv/Dn within a range of 1.00 to 1.40, in which Dv represents a volume average particle diameter and Dn represents a number average particle diameter, | 05-14-2009 |
20110262179 | CHARGING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND TONER - A cleaning roller cleaning a surface of a cleaning component, wherein the cleaning roller is provided in a roller configuration having a cylindrical shape and has a portion in contact with the cleaning component, the portion being made of a melamine resin foam having a continuous foam structure, the melamine resin foam being provided by heating compression from an original configuration in a radial direction, and wherein the portion in contact with the cleaning component has a continuous foam structure and a tensile strength in a range of 1.7±0.5 kg/cm | 10-27-2011 |
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20090041398 | BEARING STRUCTURE FOR VARIABLE-COMPRESSION-RATIO INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An internal combustion engine varies a compression ratio according to a rotational displacement of a control shaft which is connected to a crankshaft via links. A crankshaft bearing cap supporting the crankshaft in association with a cylinder block is fixed to the cylinder block by a first pair of joint bolts. A control shaft bearing cap which supports the control shaft is fixed to the crankshaft bearing cap by a second pair of joint bolts. A first joint bolt of the first pair of joint bolts, which is nearer to the control shaft, is disposed between the axes of the second pair of joint bolts. The supporting structure of the crankshaft is thereby enhanced. | 02-12-2009 |
20090107452 | MULTI-LINK ENGINE - A multi-link engine has a piston coupled to a crankshaft to move inside an engine cylinder. A piston pin connects the piston to an upper link, which is connected to a lower link by an upper link pin. A crank pin of the crankshaft rotatably supports the lower link thereon. A control link pin connects the lower link to one end of a control link, which is connected at another end to the engine block body by a control shaft. The crank pin has a center arranged on a straight line joining centers of the upper link pin and the control link pin such that an angle formed between the straight line and a horizontal axis that is perpendicular to a center axis of the cylinder and that passes through an axial center of a crank journal is the same for at top dead center and at bottom dead center. | 04-30-2009 |
20090107453 | MULTI-LINK ENGINE - A multi-link engine has a piston coupled to a crankshaft to move inside an engine cylinder. A piston pin connects the piston to an upper link, which is connected to a lower link by an upper link pin. A crank pin of the crankshaft rotatably supports the lower link thereon. A control link pin connects the lower link to one end of a control link, which is connected at another end to the engine block body by a control shaft. The upper link has an upper link axis that forms an angle with the cylinder axis, as viewed along a crank axis direction of the crankshaft, such that the angle reaches a minimum when a crank angle of the engine is within a range where the bottom end of a piston skirt is positioned below a topmost part of the bottom end of the cylinder liner. | 04-30-2009 |
20090107468 | MULTI-LINK ENGINE - A multi-link engine has a piston that moves inside a cylinder. A piston pin connects the piston to an upper link, which is connected to a lower link. A crank pin of a crankshaft supports the lower link thereon. The lower link is pivotally connected to one end of a control link, which is connected at another end to the engine block body by a control shaft. The control shaft is lower than a crank journal of the crankshaft, and disposed on a first side of a plane that is parallel to a cylinder center axis and that contains a center rotational axis of the crank journal. The cylinder center axis is located on a second (i.e., opposite the first side) plane. The control link has a center axis that is parallel to the cylinder center axis when the piston is near top and bottom dead centers. | 04-30-2009 |
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20090079698 | INPUT DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An input device inputs information by a slide operation depending on an operation body. The device contains a housing having an operation surface, a detection unit that is provided in the housing and includes an electrostatic capacitance sheet member which detects a slide position of the operation body to output a position detection signal, and an operation unit that covers an entire surface of the detection unit and is slide-operated along the operation surface of the housing. The operation unit has a convex shape which becomes thicker along a sliding direction from one direction of the operation surface of the housing and also which becomes thinner toward the other direction of the operation surface thereof. The electrostatic capacitance sheet member includes a switch portion that is switched by a press-in operation of the operation body to the operation unit. | 03-26-2009 |
20090167109 | PIEZOELECTRIC PUMP, COOLING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed is a piezoelectric pump. The piezoelectric pump includes a pump body, a drive unit, a detection section, and a control unit. The pump body includes a hole for introducing a fluid from outside thereinto and jetting the fluid from inside, a wall portion disposed so as to face the hole, and a piezoelectric body provided on the wall portion to vibrate the wall portion. The drive unit drives the piezoelectric body. The detection section detects a signal corresponding to a discharge rate of the fluid from the hole. The control unit controls a drive voltage and a drive frequency of the drive unit on the basis of the signal. | 07-02-2009 |
20090219175 | INPUT DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An input device includes an input-sensing unit that contains a capacitive input sensor and a sensitivity-sensing unit that contains a capacitive sensitivity sensor. The input-sensing unit senses position information obtained by touch operation of an operation body to the capacitive input sensor. The sensitivity-sensing unit senses sensitivity information obtained by touch operation of the operation body to the capacitive sensitivity sensor. The input device includes a control unit determining whether or not the output level of the position information from the input-sensing unit is adjusted based on the sensitivity information sensed by the sensitivity-sensing unit and a sensitivity-adjusting unit that adjusts an output level of the position information from the input-sensing unit based on a result of the determination of the control unit. The control unit controls the sensitivity-adjusting unit to adjust the output level of the position information received from the input-sensing unit. | 09-03-2009 |
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20090230304 | SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE - In a VP-SEM that uses gas multiplication induced within a low-vacuum sample chamber and uses a method of detecting a positive displacement current, a secondary electron detector for the VP-SEM that responds at high speed, which can acquire a TV-Scan rate image at a low cost while saving a space is provided. A secondary electron detector is formed by forming the electron supplying electrode and the detection electrode on the flexible thin film type substrate such as a polyimide film, etc., by an etching method. Thereby, the space can be saved while realizing low cost due to mass production. Further, the ion horizontally moving with respect to the surface of the secondary electron detector is detected and the ion moving in a vertical direction returned to the sample holder is not detected, making it possible to realize a high-speed response. | 09-17-2009 |
20090322973 | CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM APPARATUS - A charged particle beam impinging on a specimen is set to have left and right tilt angles corresponding to a parallactic angle. A control unit is provided which scans the beam over the specimen while giving a left tilt and a right tilt corresponding to the parallactic angle alternately to the beam on each scanning line. In this way, images are acquired. A three-dimensional image in which deterioration of the resolution is suppressed is displayed in real time by combining aberration cancellation means with the control of the beam according to the parallactic angle. The aberration cancellation means uses an optical system having plural stages of lenses to provide overall cancellation of aberrations by making use of the action of a lens to deflect the beam back to the optical axis. | 12-31-2009 |
20100090109 | SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE - A scanning electron microscope includes an irradiation optical system for irradiating an electron beam to a sample; a sample holder for supporting the sample, arranged inside a sample chamber; at least one electric field supply electrode arranged around the sample holder; and an ion current detection electrode. | 04-15-2010 |
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20100294547 | ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTIVE JOINT PACKAGE - An anisotropic conductive joint package in which an anisotropic conductive film is joined to at least one conductive material selected from among the group consisting of gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), aluminum (Al), magnesium (Mg), nickel (Ni), a tin oxide doped with indium (ITO), molybdenum (Mo), iron (Fe), palladium (Pd), beryllium (Be), and rhenium (Re). The package is characterized in that: the anisotropic conductive film has an insulating base and conductive paths composed of conductive members, insulated from one another, and extending through the insulating base in the direction of the thickness of the insulating base, one ends of the conductive paths are exposed from one side of the insulating base, the other ends are exposed from the other side, the density of the conductive paths is 3,000,000 pieces/mm | 11-25-2010 |
20110043239 | PROBE CARD - An object of the present invention is to provide a probe card which has good stability of the connection between testing electrodes and test electrodes even after exposure to high temperatures in the burn-in test, and is less susceptible to displacements in the positions of contact between the testing electrodes and conductive portions or between the conductive portions and probe needles or the test electrodes even after repeated use of the probe card. The probe card of the present invention is a probe card which includes a testing circuit board having the testing electrodes formed so as to correspond to the test electrodes and an anisotropic conductive member electrically connecting the test electrodes with the testing electrodes. The testing electrodes are formed so that at least ends of the testing electrodes protrude from a surface of the testing circuit board, and the anisotropic conductive member is a member which has an insulating base made of an anodized aluminum film having micropores therein and a plurality of conductive paths made of a conductive material, insulated from one another, and extending through the insulating base in a thickness direction of the insulating base. | 02-24-2011 |
20110300400 | METAL MEMBER - High aspect-ratio metal members such as a nanopillar, a nanorod, and the like, and a method of producing the same. The present invention provides high aspect-ratio metal members such as a nanopillar or a nanorod, and a method of producing the same, such metal members being produced by filling the micropores of an anodized film having a degree of ordering of 70% or more with a metal having an aspect ratio of 5 or more, followed by baking in inert gas atmosphere or in a vacuum at 300° C. or more to 1000° C. or less to improve crystallinity. | 12-08-2011 |
20120168218 | ANISOTROPICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is an anisotropically conductive member that has a dramatically increased density of disposed conductive paths, can be used as an electrically connecting member or inspection connector for electronic components such as semiconductor devices even today when still higher levels of integration have been achieved, and has excellent flexibility. The anisotropically conductive member includes an insulating base and a plurality of conductive paths made of a conductive material, insulated from one another, and extending through the insulating base in the thickness direction of the insulating base, one end of each of the conductive paths protruded on one side of the insulating base, the other end of each of the conductive paths exposed or protruded on the other side thereof. The insulating base is made of a resin material and the conductive paths are formed at a density of at least 1,000,000 conductive paths/mm | 07-05-2012 |
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20100301677 | Photovoltaic Power Generation System and Photovoltaic Power Generation Device - It is an object to obtain a photovoltaic power generation system. A photovoltaic power generation system includes multiple solar cell modules each having a different band gap and step-up voltage transformers (boosters) that receive outputs from load resistors, the load resistors being controlled to maximize outputs of the respective solar cell modules. An output voltage of each step-up voltage transformer (booster) is controlled to be a predetermined output voltage (or output current), and the step-up voltage transformers (boosters) are connected in parallel (or in series) to obtain predetermined electric power. | 12-02-2010 |
20110243826 | Method and System for Manufacturing Silicon and Silicon Carbide - The present invention provides a method of manufacturing silicon and a manufacturing system for manufacturing and extracting silicon by grinding silicon carbide and silica, mixing each at predetermined ratio after cleaning them, housing them in a crucible, heating this by a heating unit to make them react, oxidizing the silicon carbide with the silica and further, reducing the silica with the silicon carbide. The present invention further provides a method of simultaneously manufacturing silicon and silicon carbide and a manufacturing system for producing silicon carbide by forming a silicon carbide film by vapor phase epitaxy using active gas generated in heating for reaction for material and recovering the silicon carbide film. | 10-06-2011 |
20120073658 | Solar Cell and Method for Fabricating the Same - In a heterojunction solar cell, a semiconductor A is bonded to a different conductivity type semiconductor B having an electron affinity a | 03-29-2012 |
20120171848 | Method and System for Manufacturing Silicon and Silicon Carbide - The present invention provides a method of manufacturing silicon and a manufacturing system for manufacturing and extracting silicon by grinding silicon carbide and silica, mixing each at predetermined ratio after cleaning them, housing them in a crucible, heating this by a heating unit to make them react, oxidizing the silicon carbide with the silica and further, reducing the silica with the silicon carbide. The present invention further provides a method of simultaneously manufacturing silicon and silicon carbide and a manufacturing system for producing silicon carbide by forming a silicon carbide film by vapor phase epitaxy using active gas generated in heating for reaction for material and recovering the silicon carbide film. | 07-05-2012 |
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20080279712 | Ferritic stainless steel sheet with excellent thermal fatigue properties, and automotive exhaust-gas path member - Disclosed is a ferritic stainless steel sheet with excellent thermal fatigue properties, including, by mass %, 0.03% or less of C, 1.0% or less of Si, 1.5% or less of Mn, 0.6% or less of Ni, 10˜20% of Cr, 0.05˜0.30% of Ti, 0.51˜0.65% of Nb, 0˜less than 0.10% of Mo, 0.8˜2.0% of Cu, 0˜0.10% of Al, 0.0005˜0.02% of B, 0˜0.20% of V, and 0.03% or less of N, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, having a composition satisfying the following equations (1) and (2) and having a structure in which ε-Cu phase grains each having a long diameter of 0.5 μm or more are present in a density of 10 or less per 25 μm | 11-13-2008 |
20090120536 | Ferritic Stainless steel material for automobile exhaust gas passage components - To provide a ferritic stainless steel material for automobile exhaust gas passage components usable in a high-temperature range over 900° C. and even over 950° C. The ferritic stainless steel material has excellent heat resistance and low-temperature toughness and has a composition comprising, in terms of % by mass, at most 0.03% of C, at most 1% of Si, from 0.6 to 2% of Mn, at most 3% of Ni, from 10 to 25% of Cr, from 0.3 to 0.7% of Nb, from more than 1 to 2% of Cu, from 1 to 2.5% of Mo, from 1 to 2.5% of W, at most 0.15% of Al, from 0.03 to 0.2% of V, and at most 0.03% of N, and optionally containing any of B, Co, W, Ti, Zr, REM and Ca with a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, and the composition satisfies restrictive formulae 1.2Nb+5Mo+6Cu≧11.5 and 15Nb+2Mo+0.5Cu≧10.5. The steel material has a texture where the total amount of Nb and Mo existing as a precipitation phase is at most 0.2% by mass. | 05-14-2009 |
20100223927 | FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL SHEET WITH EXCELLENT THERMAL FATIGUE PROPERTIES, AND AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST-GAS PATH MEMBER - Disclosed is a ferritic stainless steel sheet with excellent thermal fatigue properties, including, by mass %, 0.03% or less of C, 1.0% or less of Si, 1.5% or less of Mn, 0.6% or less of Ni, 10˜20% of Cr, 0.05˜0.30% of Ti, 0.51˜0.65% of Nb, 0˜less than 0.10% of Mo, 0.8˜2.0% of Cu, 0˜0.10% of Al, 0.0005˜0.02% of B, 0˜0.20% of V, and 0.03% or less of N, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, having a composition satisfying the following equations (1) and (2) and having a structure in which ε-Cu phase grains each having a long diameter of 0.5 μm or more are present in a density of 10 or less per 25 μm | 09-09-2010 |
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20100050617 | FERRITIC STAINLES STEEL FOR EXHAUST GAS PATH MEMBERS - Provided is a stainless steel for exhaust gas path members, which has a composition including, in terms of % by mass, at most 0.03% of C, at most 1% of Si, at most 1.5% of Mn, at most 0.6% of Ni, from 10 to 20% of Cr, from more than 0.5 to 0.7% of Nb, from 0.05 to 0.3% of Ti, from more than 1 to 2% of Cu, at most 0.2% of V, at most 0.03% of N, from 0.0005 to 0.02% of B, and optionally at most 0.1% of Al, and further optionally at least one of Mo, W, Zr and Co in an amount of at most 4% in total, with a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, and which has a texture where the Cu phase and the Nb compound phase having a major diameter of at least 0.5 μm are controlled to be in an amount of at most 10 grains/25 μm | 03-04-2010 |
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20100049934 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, A STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND A STORAGE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A purpose is to perform migration considering an I/O load that will be generated during the migration. To migrate data from one array group to another array group, a bandwidth that is available for use between the movement source array group and the movement destination array group is calculated, a volume whose write I/O amount is smaller than the calculated bandwidth is selected wherein the write I/O amount is the information transmission amount of information that is written, and data is migrated from the selected volume to the movement destination array group. | 02-25-2010 |
20120124198 | METHOD AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR DETECTING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS COUPLED TO COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A management apparatus stores attribute/protocol management information denoting each attribute/protocol relationship (the corresponding relationship between a communication apparatus attribute and a management protocol that is inferred to be optimum for the communication apparatus that has this communication apparatus attribute). The management apparatus, for each of multiple addresses prior to inputting the credential used to detect the communication apparatus, (A) issues a query that specifies an address, (B) upon receiving a response to this query from the communication apparatus at the address specified in this query, writes, to a storage resource, query result information denoting the corresponding relationship between the address specified in this query and the communication apparatus attribute acquired based on the response, (C) identifies the management protocol corresponding to the communication apparatus attribute denoted by the query result information from the attribute/protocol management information, and (D) decides the optimum management protocol for the address based on the identified management protocol. | 05-17-2012 |
20130080604 | SYSTEM MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD - The present invention is for efficiently managing large numbers of apparatuses using multiple management protocols. A management information acquisition part | 03-28-2013 |
20130311646 | MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The management system identifies a first event regarding a first node apparatus estimated to occur when a first maintenance work is performed on a first node apparatus based on maintenance work information that indicates a correspondence relationship between each maintenance work of one or more maintenance works for any of the plurality of node apparatuses and an event regarding a node apparatus to be the target of each maintenance work, which is estimated to occur when the maintenance work is performed. The management system identifies the range of effect and phenomenon of the case where the first maintenance work is performed on the first node apparatus, by performing simulation based on one or more rules indicating a correspondence relationship between one or more conditional events and a causal event and displays the identified range of effect and phenomenon. | 11-21-2013 |
20140025808 | MONITORING SYSTEM AND MONITORING PROGRAM - A monitoring system is configured to perform a cause analysis of an event which occurs in any of a plurality of node apparatuses. The monitoring system is configured to store a plurality of rules indicating a correspondence relationship between one or more condition events regarding any of the plurality of node apparatuses, and a conclusion. The monitoring system is configured to specify the first conclusion associated with the detected condition event based on the rule, and perform a detection possibility judgment on whether the monitoring system can detect the condition event or not, for each of one or more condition events out of a plurality of condition events, and calculate the first index value indicating the certainty of the first conclusion being the cause, based on the existence of detection of one or more condition events associated with the first conclusion and the result of the detection possibility judgment. | 01-23-2014 |
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20090115919 | Flat Panel Display - Space is decreased in the direction of thickness on a side of a substrates mounted on a back of a flat panel display to adapt requirement for increasing and thinning its size, and most flat panel displays forcibly radiate heat with a fan provided thereon. The present invention provides a flat panel display having fewer heat radiating fans to secure a channel for causing a heat radiating air to flow. Portions where electronic circuit device on a back of a display panel are mounted are divided into three: left; center; and right portions; with a main frame as a border, the electronic circuit device are constructed of four module substrates, the substrate which is the greatest in heating value in the four module substrates (hereinafter referred to as a substrate) is arranged in the center portion and the substrates which are the smallest and the second smallest in heating value therein are arranged in the same portion. | 05-07-2009 |
20120194499 | FLAT PANEL DISPLAY - A flat panel display apparatus includes a plasma display panel, a power supply substrate, a signal processing substrate, a Y sustaining substrate, and an X sustaining substrate. The power supply substrate, the signal processing substrate, the Y sustaining substrate and the X sustaining substrate are arranged at a back of the plasma display panel. When viewing the plasma display panel from the back, the power supply substrate is arranged at a center portion of the plasma display panel, the Y sustaining substrate is arranged at one of a left and right side of the plasma display panel, the X sustaining substrate is arranged at the other of the left and right side, and the signal processing substrate is arranged under the X sustaining substrate. A circuit substrate other than the power supply substrate, the Y sustaining substrate, and the X sustaining substrate is arranged under the power supply substrate. | 08-02-2012 |
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20090291619 | GRINDSTONE CONTACT SENSING METHOD AND ITS DEVICE, AND HONING METHOD AND HONING MACHINE - A grindstone contact sensing technology capable of sensing the contact position of the honing grindstone with the inner circumference of the work at high precision. A servo motor for driving the spindle rotation, and a servo motor for driving the depth of cut are provided and used respectively as spindle rotation drive source for rotating and driving the rotary spindle having the honing tool and depth-of-cut drive source for moving the honing grindstone at a specified depth of cut, and the contact position of the honing grindstone with the inner circumference of the work is sensed from various electrical information (rotating speed, torque, current value, stagnant pulses, etc.) obtained from the operations of both the servo motors. | 11-26-2009 |
20100062692 | HONING METHOD AND HONING MACHINE - A honing processing technology for making uniform the load applied to honing grindstones by cooperating the reciprocal motion of the honing grindstones with the feeding and expanding motion at high precision by a specified relation. Servo motors are used as drive sources respectively for spindle reciprocal drive part and grindstone depth cutting part, and these two servo motors are mutually cooperated, and the feeding and expanding motion of the honing grindstones is controlled to be synchronized and tuned with the ascending and descending (reciprocal) motion of the honing tool so that the processing load applied to the honing grindstones may be averaged. Hence, without modifying the basis existing mechanical elements, the load applied to the honing grindstones may be averaged, and the honing process may be stabilized in precision and enhanced in precision. | 03-11-2010 |
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20100076825 | CHARGE/DISCHARGE CONTROL APPARATUS - A charge/discharge control apparatus includes: a charge/discharge reward information receiving unit for receiving charge/discharge reward information representing a reward given to a charge/discharge action of a customer and a restriction in conducting a charging/discharging from a charge management central server; a computing unit for creating a charge/discharge plan including a total charging quantity in a time zone and an estimated use start time of an electric vehicle such that a reward is maximized, based on the charge/discharge reward information; a charge/discharge instruction transmitting unit for instructing the electric vehicle to start or finish a charging/discharging according to the charge/discharge plan; a charge/discharge quantity monitoring unit for monitoring the charging/discharging; and a charge/discharge results transmitting unit for transmitting results of monitored charging/discharging including contents of the conducted charging/discharging and individual identification information for identifying itself, to a charge management central server. | 03-25-2010 |
20110035075 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR CUSTOMERS - A customer-dedicated energy management apparatus includes an air-conditioner partial-road characteristics identification unit for creating air-conditioning partial-road characteristics by using air-conditioning operation achievement data in the past, an intra-room heat-capacity characteristics identification unit for creating intra-room heat-capacity characteristics by using the air-conditioning operation achievement data in the past, and intra-room state value data, an air-conditioning setting temperature calculation unit for determining an air-conditioning setting temperature by using the air-conditioning partial-road characteristics and the intra-room heat-capacity characteristics, the setting temperature being appropriate for implementing an air-conditioning power-consumption-amount suppression target value determined, and an air-conditioner control unit for controlling an air conditioner so that the setting temperature determined will be implemented. | 02-10-2011 |
20110153098 | RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY GENERATION SYSTEM, ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND METHOD - A solar power generation system comprising: plural customers each having a solar panel, a power convertor for converting DC output from the solar panel into AC output, an output controller for suppressing the power convertor output which becomes higher than a predetermined value, a measuring unit for measuring the amount of sold power, the amount of purchased power and the amount of generation-suppressed power; and an watt-hour meter measurement data adjusting unit linked with the plural customers via communication lines. The watt-hour meter measurement data adjusting unit calculates provisional generation-suppressed power amounts that make the burdens of the customers even, and calculates the power amounts to be sold by the customers on the basis of the provisional generation-suppressed power amounts. Thus, the generation-suppressed power of the solar power generation system can stabilize the power system and the chances for selling power can be fairly allocated to customers having solar panels. | 06-23-2011 |
20110238232 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ENERGY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT METHOD - An energy management system includes an equipment data management unit which manages charging/discharging loss of a battery and heat radiation loss of an electric water heater, and causes a control unit to perform control to give priority based on the comparison to the energy storage facility more reducing loss and store energy. The energy management system includes a system operation calculation unit which predicts voltage distribution of the next day of a distribution system or demand-and-supply balance amount of the entire system by state monitoring data of a power system, calculates a demand amount increasing target value necessary for avoiding a photovoltaic power generation amount suppression on a consumer end by the voltage distribution of the next day of the distribution system or the demand-and-supply balance amount, and controls the energy storage facilities so as to satisfy the demand amount increasing target value on the consumer end. | 09-29-2011 |
20110282505 | POWER DEMAND-SUPPLY MANAGEMENT SERVER AND POWER DEMAND-SUPPLY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A power demand/supply management server ( | 11-17-2011 |
20120303170 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AND SIMULATING ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM - A power system power flow simulator includes a power system power flow calculator using load power in local voltage transformers to calculate power flow in power system extending from a transformer substation to local power transformers, customer load imitators which calculate time change of load power used by customers, dispersed power source imitators which calculate time change of power generated by dispersed power sources and a system status manager which manages operation procedure. The system status manager advances processing while supplying a load power request message with time information attached thereto to the customer load imitators and the dispersed power source imitators, and decides time intervals of supply of the load power request message in accordance with the power load temporal change rate calculated by the customer load imitators and the dispersed power source imitators. | 11-29-2012 |
20130054040 | Load Leveling System of Power System - It is an object of the present invention to provide a load leveling system of a power system capable of attaining load leveling in a distribution substation unit and a method thereof. Disclosed is a load leveling system of a power system with a controller having a major customer and lower transforming apparatus, and with a customer connected to the lower transforming apparatus via a low-voltage line. The system also has a communication unit between the customer and its own system, and control use time zones of devices within the customer; an electric demand prediction unit, and a first load leveling processing unit. By employing such an arranged system, it becomes possible to provide a load leveling system of a power system capable of realizing load leveling of both a distribution substation unit and a pole transformer unit. | 02-28-2013 |
20130289785 | POWER DEMAND REGULATING APPARATUS, POWER REGULATING NETWORK SYSTEM, AND POWER REGULATING METHOD - A power demand regulating apparatus is provided which can efficiently achieve the purpose of peak shift in a power system and which can reduce the total incentive which an operator of a demand regulation server distributes to consumers having cooperated with a request for regulating an amount of energy to be used. A demand regulation server ( | 10-31-2013 |
20130311236 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ENERGY CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT - Energy demand in an entire community including multiple demanders is properly predicted and energy consumption thereof is properly controlled. Every day, some demanders are selected from the community and a request to adjust energy consumption for the following day is sent to the selected demanders. To decide a content of the request, energy demand for the following day is predicted. In this case, demanders which did not receive a request on past days are specified, and demand in the community for the following day is predicted based on the actual energy consumption by those demanders on the past days. | 11-21-2013 |
20130345998 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An energy management system has a configuration including: an air-conditioning schedule energy-saving rate calculating unit which, based on an air-conditioning schedule for the reference time and an air-conditioning schedule that has an energy-saving control content, calculates a relative amount of energy consumed for air-conditioning for each schedule and calculates an effect of energy-saving control; and an amount of consumption converting unit which calculates an amount of energy consumed for air-conditioning that is expected at the reference time, based on an energy-saving rate obtained by the air-conditioning schedule energy-saving rate calculating unit and an amount of energy consumed for air-conditioning when energy-saving control is implemented. | 12-26-2013 |
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20100214112 | CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD - A control device has a first sensor set with a first detection region, a second sensor set with a second detection region, and a control unit for controlling a predetermined operation based on a detection result by the first sensor and a detection result by the second sensor. | 08-26-2010 |
20130234827 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND PORTABLE MACHINE - A communication system includes a portable machine having an identification code registered in a controlled object, the portable machine being capable of conducting wireless communications with the controlled object, and a portable terminal being capable of conducting noncontact wireless communications with the portable machine, wherein after noncontact wireless communications start between the portable machine and the portable terminal, the noncontact wireless communications are inhibited when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and then do not resume unless a specified instruction is given. | 09-12-2013 |
20140114504 | IN-VEHICLE SYSTEM, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - An in-vehicle system has a control device that controls a vehicle, and a charging device provided in the vehicle, in which a portable terminal is chargeable. The charging device has a power supply part that supplies power to the portable terminal, and a communication part that communicates with the portable terminal when the portable terminal is installed on the charging device. The control device has an authentication part that authenticates first authentication information received by the communication part from the portable terminal, and a vehicle control part that controls whether to permit starting of the vehicle based on an authentication result of the first authentication information. | 04-24-2014 |
20140203907 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication system has a first communication device, and a second communication device that conducts wireless communication with the first communication device. The first communication device has a first transmitter that transmits a signal to the second communication device, and a first transmission controller that controls the first transmitter. The second communication device has a first receiver that receives the signal from the first communication device, a measurement part that measures a reception intensity of the signal received by the first receiver, and a determination part that determines whether the signal received by the first receiver is a normal signal. The first transmission controller divides a predetermined portion of a predetermined signal into a plurality of portions when transmitting the predetermined signal. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207313 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication system has a first communication device, and a second communication device that conducts wireless communication the first communication device. The first communication device has a first transmitter that transmits a signal to the second communication device while modulating the signal, and a first transmission controller that controls the first transmitter. The second communication device has a first receiver that receives the signal from the first communication device and demodulates the received signal. The first transmission controller performs control so as to change a modulation method in midstream when a predetermined first signal is modulated and transmitted. The first receiver changes a demodulation method according to the change of the modulation method of the first signal in midstream when the first signal is received and demodulated. | 07-24-2014 |
20140215567 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication system has a first communication device, and a second communication device conduct wireless communication with the first communication device. The first communication device has a first transmitter that transmits a signal to the second communication device, and a first transmission controller that controls the first transmitter. The second communication device has a first receiver that receives the signal from the first communication device, a first reception controller that controls the first receiver, a signal processor that processes the signal received by the first receiver, and a determination part that determines whether the signal received by the first receiver is a normal signal. When transmitting a predetermined first signal, the first transmission controller divides the first signal into a plurality of segments to change a transmission frequency of the first transmitter in units of segments. | 07-31-2014 |
20140316610 | VEHICLE PORTABLE KEY - A portable key switchable between a first mode and a second mode for operating a vehicle has a transmission antenna that transmits a signal to the vehicle, a reception antenna that receives a signal from the vehicle, a changeover switch that is operable by a user when the portable key is switched from the first mode to the second mode, a command switch that is operable by the user when an operation command signal is transmitted to the vehicle, and a controller that performs control so as to transmit the signal from the transmission antenna based on input from the changeover switch or the command switch. The controller transmits a first operation command signal valid in the first mode from the transmission antenna when the command switch is operated in the first mode, | 10-23-2014 |
20140324250 | VEHICLE PORTABLE KEY - A portable key switchable between a first mode and a second mode for operating a vehicle has a transmission antenna that transmits a signal to the vehicle, a reception antenna that receives a signal from the vehicle, a changeover switch that is operable by a user when the portable key is switched from a first mode to a second mode, a command switch that is operable by the user when an operation command signal is transmitted to the vehicle, a lighting display part that notifies the user of information, and a controller that performs control so as to transmit the signal from the transmission antenna based on input from the changeover switch or the command switch, and performs control so as to display information received from the vehicle by the reception antenna on the lighting display part. | 10-30-2014 |
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20150061851 | ONBOARD APPARATUS AND REPORT CONTROL METHOD - An automatic report to an appropriate destination can be sent in a short time when abnormality is detected with a vehicle. When the shock is determined to occur with the vehicle in step S | 03-05-2015 |
20150065079 | MOBILE TERMINAL, REPORT CONTROL METHOD, AND REPORT SYSTEM - The mobile terminal adequately reports when the mobile terminal receives an impact due to an accident of a vehicle. When it is determined in step S | 03-05-2015 |
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20090169141 | CONNECTING ROD BEARING FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES - Disclosed is a connecting rod bearing for internal combustion engines of a forced-feed lubrication type crank shaft. A connecting rod bearing as a preferred embodiment consists of a pair of semicircular bearings. An inner surface of at least one of the semicircular bearings is provided with at least one circumferential groove which is formed on the inner surface within a maximum circumferential angle range of 45 degrees, measured from one circumferential end facing the same direction as a rotational direction of the crankpin toward a circumferential center region of the semicircular bearing, each of the semicircular bearings having two circumferential ends which are of butt ends brought into contact with those of a mating semicircular bearing. In an assembled state of the semicircular bearings such that the butt ends thereof are brought into butt-contact with one another between the mating semicircular bearings, an axial groove is formed on an inner surface of at least one of the semicircular bearings so as to extend along the butt end throughout a full length between both axial ends of the semicircular bearing, whereby the axial groove, as a lubricant-oil flow channel, is connected with the circumferential groove. | 07-02-2009 |
20130156358 | MAIN BEARING FOR CRANKSHAFT OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A main bearing for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine comprises a pair of semi-cylindrical bearings. An oil groove extends on an inner circumferential surface of one semi-cylindrical bearing in a circumferential direction so that the center thereof in an axial direction aligns with that of an inlet opening of a lubricating oil path in a journal section of the crankshaft. The oil groove does not extend up to an axial direction groove formed at a joint portion of the semi-cylindrical bearings so that a separation inner circumferential surface extends between a circumferential direction end portion of the oil groove and the axial direction groove. The length of the separation inner circumferential surface is smaller than that of the inlet opening in the circumferential direction. | 06-20-2013 |
20130182981 | MAIN BEARING FOR CRANKSHAFT OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A main bearing for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine is composed of a pair of semi-cylindrical bearings. An oil groove extending in a circumferential direction is formed on an inner circumferential surface of one semi-cylindrical bearing. The oil groove has the depth gradually decreasing toward a circumferential end surface of the one semi-cylindrical bearing, and defines a circumferential end portion on the circumferential surface without extending to an axial groove formed in a joint portion of the pair of semi-cylindrical bearings. An extension portion of the inner circumferential surface extends between the circumferential end portion and the axial groove, and a plurality of circumferential grooves extending in the circumferential direction is formed on the extension portion from the oil groove to the axial groove over an entire width of the circumferential end portion of the oil groove. | 07-18-2013 |
20130251294 | BEARING APPARATUS FOR CRANKSHAFT OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A bearing apparatus for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine having a main bearing and a connecting rod bearing is provided. The main bearing comprises a pair of semi-cylindrical bearings, only one of which has an oil groove extending in a circumferential direction on an inner circumferential surface thereof. The oil groove is separated from an axial groove formed at a joint portion of the semi-cylindrical bearings by a separation inner circumferential surface of which a length L | 09-26-2013 |