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20150102623 | JOINT STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE BODY MEMBER, AND VEHICLE BODY STRUCTURE - A joint structure for a vehicle body member, the vehicle body member including at least two panel members, the at least two panel members constituting part of a vehicle body and being formed of a steel plate, the joint structure includes: spot-welds formed by spot-welding the at least two panel members to each other at a predetermined spot interval such that a predetermined clearance is formed between the at least two panel members; a laser-weld formed by laser-welding the at least two panel members to each other between the spot-welds; and an electrodeposition coating film portion that covers a surface of each of the at least two panel members, at least part of the electrodeposition coating film portion filling the clearance. | 04-16-2015 |
20150102639 | VEHICLE-BODY MEMBER JOINING STRUCTURE AND VEHICLE-BODY STRUCTURE - A vehicle-body member joining structure includes: laser welded portions at which at least two panel members each constituting part of a vehicle body and made of a steel sheet are joined to each other by laser welding in a state where a predetermined gap is formed therebetween; and an electrodeposition coating film portion covering surfaces of the panel members and filling at least part of the gap. | 04-16-2015 |
20150104244 | LASER JOINT STRUCTURE AND LASER JOINING METHOD - A laser joint structure includes a metal outer cylinder, a metal inner member that is provided inside of the outer cylinder, in which a joining portion is arranged following an inner shape of the outer cylinder, the joining portion being arranged contacting or close to the outer cylinder; and a laser weld that is provided on a mating portion of the outer cylinder and a corresponding mating portion of the joining portion, and in which a circular cylindrical nugget is formed by melting the outer cylinder and the joining portion, which is accomplished by emitting a laser light from outside the outer cylinder. | 04-16-2015 |
20150175218 | VEHICLE FRAME STRUCTURE - A vehicle frame structure includes a pair of hat-shaped panels that form a portion of a vehicle, each hat-shaped panel having a hat-shaped cross-section, the pair of hat-shaped panels facing each other and forming a closed sectional portion; a partition panel that is sandwiched by the pair of hat-shaped panels, and divides an inside of the closed sectional portion; and a laser welded portion where all of four or more plates including the pair of hat-shaped panels and the partition panel are overlapped and welded together at an identical position by laser welding. | 06-25-2015 |
20150209909 | LASER JOINING STRUCTURE AND LASER JOINING METHOD - Provided are: a laser-bonded structure wherein deterioration of strength or rigidity of a third plate is suppressed, said third plate being disposed by being spaced apart from at least two metal plates; and a laser bonding method. The laser-bonded structure is provided with: at least two metal plates, which have two or more overlapping portions where the metal plates are disposed in a state wherein the metal plates are overlapping each other, and which are bonded by means of laser welding sections; and a third plate that is disposed by being spaced apart from the overlapping portions. The third plate has formed therein penetrating sections of a number smaller than the number of the laser welding sections, said penetrating sections penetrating the third plate, and having laser light radiated to the overlapping portions. | 07-30-2015 |
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20130273397 | POWER STORAGE DEVICE - A power storage device includes a plurality of power storage elements ( | 10-17-2013 |
20140196964 | VEHICLE - A vehicle has a motor and an engine each serving as a driving source for running the vehicle, and assembled batteries each capable of supplying an electric power to the motor. The assembled batteries include a high-power assembled battery and a high-capacity assembled battery. The high-power assembled battery is capable of charge and discharge with current relatively larger than that in the high-capacity assembled battery, and the high-capacity assembled battery has energy capacity relatively larger than that of the high-power assembled battery. In running of the vehicle using output from the motor with the engine stopped, the high-capacity assembled battery supplies more electric power to the motor than that in the high-power assembled battery. The high-power assembled battery is placed in a vehicle-inside space accommodating a passenger or baggage, and the high-capacity assembled battery is placed in a vehicle-outside space located on an outer face of a vehicle body. | 07-17-2014 |
20140210209 | VEHICLE - A vehicle has a motor serving as a driving source for running the vehicle, a high-power assembled battery and a high-capacity assembled battery each capable of supplying an electric power to the motor, and a temperature adjusting mechanism adjusting the temperature of each of the high-power assembled battery and the high-capacity assembled battery. The temperature adjusting mechanism supplies a heat exchange medium for use in the temperature adjustment of the high-power assembled battery and the high-capacity assembled battery to each of the assembled batteries. The high-power assembled battery is capable of charge and discharge with a current relatively larger than that in the high-capacity assembled battery. The high-capacity assembled battery has an energy capacity relatively larger than that of the high-power assembled battery, has a higher dependence of battery characteristic on temperature than that of the high-power assembled battery, and is placed on a flow path of the heat exchange medium upstream of the high-power assembled battery. | 07-31-2014 |
20140216842 | VEHICLE - A vehicle includes a motor serving as a driving source for running the vehicle, and a high-power assembled battery and a high-capacity assembled battery each capable of supplying an electric power to the motor and placed in a luggage space. The high-power assembled battery is capable of charge and discharge with a current relatively larger than that in the high-capacity assembled battery. The high-capacity assembled battery has an energy capacity relatively larger than that of the high-power assembled battery and has a higher dependence of battery characteristic on temperature than that of the high-power assembled battery. The high-capacity assembled battery is placed over the high-power assembled battery in the vehicle. | 08-07-2014 |
20150064521 | BATTERY, ASSEMBLED BATTERY, AND VEHICLE - A battery includes a battery module provided by covering a group of batteries including arranged cells with an insulating external material, the battery module folded at an area where a conductive member connecting adjacent ones of the cells is located, a case having a hermetically sealing structure to house the battery module, and a coolant passage in which a coolant is passed along a face of the case closest to the conductive member, wherein the case has an internal pressure higher than an external pressure. | 03-05-2015 |
20150179991 | POWER STORAGE MODULE AND POWER STORAGE DEVICE - A battery module has a first power generating element ( | 06-25-2015 |
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20100001687 | BATTERY CHARGE MONITORING DEVICE - A battery charge monitoring device for monitoring feed of electric power from a power source installation to a battery, the power source installation being disposed separately from a vehicle on which the battery is mounted, and the vehicle using the electric power fed from the battery as a drive source for traveling, includes a vehicle storage portion which stores therein vehicle identification information allotted to the vehicle, a vehicle side communication portion which performs a power line communication with a power source side communication portion of the power source installation through a power line for feeding the electric power from the power source installation to the battery, and a vehicle side control portion which controls the vehicle side communication portion so as to transmit the vehicle identification information stored in the vehicle storage portion, to the power source side communication portion, when a communication channel is established between the power source side communication portion and the vehicle side communication portion. | 01-07-2010 |
20100144189 | Crimping terminal - A crimping terminal joined with an aluminum electric wire, in which when the crimping terminal is crimped to the wire, a conduct-purpose crimping portion and a wire-hold crimping portion are formed at a crimping portion of a wire barrel of the crimping terminal. The crimping portion of the wire barrel is formed so as a curvature thereof is projected upwardly in a direction of moving a crimping die and so as a crimp height increases and a compression ratio decreases towards an insulation barrel of the crimping terminal. The curvature is shaped to have a constant degree of curvature, and is shaped to form a quadratic curve as a result of strictly adjusting a crimping force. | 06-10-2010 |
20100145568 | CHARGE MONITORING APPARATUS - A charge monitoring apparatus is mountable on or connectable to a vehicle which uses electrical power supplied from a battery on the vehicle for traveling. The charge monitoring apparatus includes a vehicle ID holding portion that holds vehicle-side identification information which is uniquely allocated to each specific vehicle, a power-line communicating portion that performs a power line communication with an extravehicular apparatus through a power supply line which supplies the electric power from the external power supply equipment to the battery, a vehicle-side information storing portion that stores information produced in the vehicle, and a communication controlling portion that, in the power line communication, transmits the vehicle-side identification information held in the vehicle ID holding portion to the extravehicular apparatus, and if predetermined condition is satisfied, the communication controlling portion transmits the information stored in the vehicle-side information storing portion to the extravehicular apparatus. | 06-10-2010 |
20130118799 | WIRE HARNESS PROTECTING STRUCTURE - The wire harness protecting structure serves to protect predetermined parts of the wire harness | 05-16-2013 |
20140325790 | STRUCTURE OF MOUNTING GROMMET - A structure of mounting a grommet according to one embodiment includes: the grommet with: a cylindrical portion for covering a wire harness inserted into a panel hole formed at a panel; and a cylindrical portion provided at an end portion of the cylindrical portion and adhered tightly to the panel in such a manner as to cover an edge portion of the panel hole. When the grommet is mounted to the panel, the cylindrical portion is disposed on a room inside, and the wire harness and the cylindrical portion are upwardly inclined. | 11-06-2014 |
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20140163800 | VEHICLE AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - A vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, a first rotating electric machine starting the internal combustion engine, a power control unit for operating the first rotating electric machine, a power storage device for supplying electric power to the power control unit, and a control device controlling the power control unit such that a voltage of the power storage device does not fall below a lower limit. When a change condition including a condition that the internal combustion engine is being operated is met, the control device sets the lower limit at a value lower than while the internal combustion engine is at a stop. Preferably, the change condition further includes a condition that a magnitude of voltage change of the power storage device is less than or equal to a first threshold value in addition to the condition that the internal combustion engine is being operated. | 06-12-2014 |
20140358351 | ENGINE OPERATION START CONTROL DEVICE OF HYBRID VEHICLE - The invention relates to an engine operation start control device of a hybrid vehicle comprising a power output device having an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. In this hybrid vehicle, an intermittent control for intermittently operating the engine can be performed and when the operation of the engine is started during the intermittent control being performed, a cranking of the engine is performed until the engine speed reaches a target engine speed. According to the invention, in case that the operation of the engine is started when the speed of the hybrid vehicle is higher than or equal to a predetermined speed and a power required for the power output device is larger than or equal to a predetermined power, the engine speed, which increases as the speed of the hybrid vehicle increases, is set as the target engine speed. | 12-04-2014 |
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20090121918 | RADAR APPARATUS ENABLING SIMPLIFIED SUPPRESSION OF INTERFERENCE SIGNAL COMPONENTS WHICH RESULT FROM RECEPTION OF DIRECTLY TRANSMITTED RADAR WAVES FROM ANOTHER RADAR APPARATUS - In a FM-CW or CW radar apparatus, when interference components are Contained in channel signals obtained as beat signals from array antenna elements of respective channels, and the interference components result from directly receiving transmitted CW radar waves from an external source, phase shifting is applied to each of the channel signals to shift respective phases of the interference components of the respective channels to a condition corresponding to reception of interference waves from a predetermined direction. The interference components are then eliminated, and reverse phase shifting is applied to restore remaining components of the channel signals to their original phase condition. | 05-14-2009 |
20100073216 | Radar device - A FMCW-type radar device generates snapshot data from a beat signal that represents a received condition of the radar device every modulation period. Auto-correlation matrices generated by the snapshot data every modulation period are averaged every set of plural periods. The radar device calculates the target azimuth of a target object such as a preceding vehicle based on the averaged auto-correlation matrix based on MUSIC (MUltiple SIgnal Classification) method. This averaging is performed by weighting average based on an amount of mixed noise (or an interference amount) contained in the snapshot data in each modulation period. A weighting coefficient to be applied to the auto-correlation matrix in each modulation period is set to a value corresponding to the amount of mixed noise, namely, the interference amount of this modulation period. The weighting coefficient becomes large when the interference amount is small, and on the other hand, becomes small when it is large. | 03-25-2010 |
20100238067 | Array antenna and radar apparatus - The array antenna includes a feed line, and a plurality of radiating element sections arranged at a predetermined arranging interval in a first direction, each of the radiating element sections including at least one radiating element fed a traveling wave through the feed line. The inter-element line length as a length of the feed line between each succeeding two of the radiating element sections is longer than the arranging interval in the first direction. | 09-23-2010 |
20120127016 | RADAR DEVICE - A signal processing unit in a radar device calculates a change amount Y (=log(P)−log(Pb)) between a power P of a current arrival echo and a power of a previous arrival echo arrived before an observation period T | 05-24-2012 |
20150145714 | RADAR APPARATUS - In a dual-frequency CW radar apparatus, first/second beat signals that include reflection components of radar waves conforming to transmission signals of first/second frequencies are generated for each antenna element and the generated signals are Fourier transformed. A power spectrum average of the beat signals is used as a basis for the detection of a peak frequency f | 05-28-2015 |
20150192666 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS AND VEHICLE - In a vehicle control apparatus, a rear side detecting unit, mounted to an own vehicle, detects another vehicle that is present in a first area behind and to a side of the own vehicle. A time acquiring unit, mounted to the own vehicle, acquires a first time that is an estimated time at which a front approaching vehicle will arrive at the first area. The front approaching vehicle is another vehicle that is relatively nearing the own vehicle from ahead of the own vehicle. A sensitivity setting unit, mounted to the own vehicle, sets a detection sensitivity of the rear side detecting unit to the other vehicle in at least a part of the first area in such a manner that the detection sensitivity during a predetermined period set based on the first time is higher than the detection sensitivity during a remaining period other than the predetermined period. | 07-09-2015 |