| Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. Patent applications |
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| 20220001845 | BRAKE CONTROL DEVICE AND BRAKE SYSTEM - An object of the present invention is to provide a brake control device and a brake system capable of braking with a shortened braking response when shifting from non-braking to braking. A brake control device | 01-06-2022 |
| 20210409012 | SENSOR OUTPUT CIRCUIT - A sensor output circuit is limited with high accuracy, and reduces radio wave radiation by signal transmission using a single-line signal. The sensor output includes a pulse signal Vin that changes according to a physical quantity to be measured, MOS transistors that perform on/off operations according to the pulse signal Vin, a constant current source that generates a constant current, a MOS transistor which generates a gate voltage of a MOS transistor, MOS transistors which form a current mirror circuit, and the MOS transistor which works to maintain a drain voltage of the MOS transistor at a constant voltage, and the output terminal which is driven by the MOS transistors connected in series. In addition, an output signal from the sensor output circuit is transmitted to a control circuit via an output signal line. The control circuit includes a pull-up resistor, a capacitor, and an input gate circuit. | 12-30-2021 |
| 20210396165 | BALANCER APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH OIL PUMP - A balancer apparatus equipped with an oil pump includes a pump housing including a pump containing chamber provided therein, a pump forming member contained in the pump containing chamber and configured to discharge oil introduced from an intake portion from a discharge portion to an oil passage of the internal combustion engine when a rotational force is transmitted thereto, a control oil chamber provided between the pump containing chamber and the pump forming member in a radial direction with respect to a rotational axis of the pump forming member and configured to change a hydraulic pressure of the oil to be discharged from the pump forming member with the aid of the oil introduced therein after being discharged from the discharge portion, passing through an oil passage of the internal combustion engine, and being subjected to a pressure adjustment, and a balancer housing including a bearing retainer portion configured to transmit the rotational force from the internal combustion engine to the pump forming member. The bearing retainer portion supports a balancer shaft disposed along the rotational axis of the pump forming member. The balancer housing is attached to the pump housing in a direction of the rotational axis of the pump forming member. The balancer apparatus equipped with the oil pump further includes a plurality of oil passage opening portions formed together on one side surface of the balancer housing and each connected to an oil passage connected to a main oil gallery of the internal combustion engine. The plurality of oil passage opening portions includes a discharge oil passage opening portion of a discharge oil passage connecting the discharge portion and the main oil gallery of the internal combustion engine to each other, a feedback oil passage opening portion of a feedback oil passage connecting the main oil gallery of the internal combustion engine and the control oil chamber to each other, and a bearing oil passage opening portion of a bearing oil passage connecting the main oil gallery of the internal combustion engine and the bearing retainer portion to each other. | 12-23-2021 |
| 20210384805 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING STATOR - An object of the invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a stator of a rotating electric machine that can reduce the size of a coil end. According to the invention, a method for manufacturing a stator, which includes a stator core and a stator coil to which ends of a plurality of substantially U-shaped segment coils inserted into slots of the stator core are connected, includes twisting the end of the segment coil using a twisting jig | 12-09-2021 |
| 20210381444 | ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED THROTTLE DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide an electronically controlled throttle device having a structure in which a resin cover is separated into a cover body portion and a connector portion, and has improved watertightness without increasing the size of the device. The electronically controlled throttle device of the present invention includes a motor | 12-09-2021 |
| 20210372964 | SENSOR CONTROL DEVICE - To provide a sensor control device capable of identifying a short circuit terminal with a simple configuration and whose identification operation is not easily affected by environmental conditions around the sensor. The sensor control device includes a short circuit detection unit that detects a short circuit of a sensor having a plurality of terminals, a resistance value control unit that increases a resistance value of an element between the terminals when the short circuit of the sensor is detected by the short circuit detection unit, and a short circuit terminal identification unit that identifies at which of the plurality of terminals a short circuit occurs when the resistance value control unit increases the resistance value of the element between the terminals to a set value or greater. | 12-02-2021 |
| 20210366810 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE USING THE SAME - An object is to suppress a decrease in reliability due to peeling of an insulating layer and another member of a power semiconductor device. A power semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a power semiconductor element; a conductor portion that transmits a current to the power semiconductor element; an insulating layer in contact with a surface of the conductor portion on a side opposite to a side on which the power semiconductor element is arranged; a metallic heat dissipating portion that opposes the conductor portion while sandwiching the insulating layer; and an output terminal that is connected to the conductor layer and outputs a different signal depending on a contact state of the insulating portion, the insulating layer having an insulating portion and a conductor layer sandwiched between the conductor portion and the metallic heat dissipating portion via the insulating portion. | 11-25-2021 |
| 20210366285 | PARKING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - A parking support device is provided which, when calculating a parking route followed by a host vehicle, calculates the parking route based on the reliability of obstacle information acquired by a sensor mounted on the host vehicle, thereby improving the convenience of a driver of the host vehicle. | 11-25-2021 |
| 20210364638 | OBJECT RECOGNIZING DEVICE - Noise in measurement results of a laser distance measurement sensor is smoothed, and erroneous recognition of a position and a size of an object based on the measurement result is suppressed. An object recognition device according to the present invention recognizes the object by grouping the measurement results of the laser distance measurement sensor, calculates reliability of the recognition result thereof, and changes a time for continuously retaining the measurement result according to the reliability. | 11-25-2021 |
| 20210363937 | INJECTOR CONTROL DEVICE - In an internal combustion engine, combustion stability is improved while exhaust gas emission is suppressed. For this purpose, a control device ( | 11-25-2021 |
| 20210362782 | STEERING CONTROL DEVICE AND STEERING CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a steering control device and a steering control method that can suppress the deterioration of the turning responsiveness at the initial stage of steering that may occur in a four-wheel steering vehicle and improve the steering stability when the front and rear wheels of the four-wheel steering vehicle are controlled in the same phase. A steering control device | 11-25-2021 |
| 20210354688 | PARKING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - In the invention, in automatic parking, a route from a parking start position to a target parking position is calculated prior to the start of parking. However, there are cases where an external environment recognition device cannot detect an obstacle at a distant or blind spot. In such a case, smooth parking is hindered when the vehicle is actually automatically parked. In the invention, in Step S | 11-18-2021 |
| 20210333764 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE AND NEURAL NETWORK UPDATE SYSTEM - An electronic control device is an electronic control device that stores a neural network including plural neurons and a connection information group including plural pieces of connection information that associate the neurons with each other. The neural network is a neural network including a third connection information group created through deletion, by a pruning section, of at least one piece of connection information from a first connection information group for deciding an output value when an input value is given on the basis of the first connection information group and a second connection information group that is plural pieces of connection information having the degree of influence on predetermined data given as the input value, the degree of influence exceeding a predetermined value. | 10-28-2021 |
| 20210323600 | ELECTRIC DRIVE DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING DEVICE - On the opposite side to an output of a rotation shaft of an electric motor, a ventilation hole communicating between an electronic control unit (ECU) housing space and an electric motor housing space is formed to an end surface wall of a motor housing separating the respective housing spaces. The ventilation hole has a waterproof ventilation part that suppresses water passing but permits the passage of air and water vapor. This structure eliminated the influence of flying rocks and muddy water from the external environment, and suppresses for a long period of time the internal pressure fluctuation of the ECU housing space and the penetration of water into the housing space. Therefore, the internal pressure fluctuation of the housing space for the ECU and the penetration of water into the housing space for the ECU can be suppressed over a long period of time. | 10-21-2021 |
| 20210323553 | IN-VEHICLE SYSTEM - Provided is an in-vehicle system in which an own vehicle does not decelerate according to a preceding vehicle even if the preceding vehicle changes lanes to the right turn lane or the left turn lane and decelerates after own vehicle entering an intersection area. A CPU | 10-21-2021 |
| 20210323538 | PARKING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - In a method of detecting a parkable space using only a sonar installed on a side of a vehicle, automatic parking assistance cannot be implemented at an early stage, and an environment in which automatic parking assistance is possible is limited. In a parking assistance device including a parkable space setting unit that sets a parkable space existing ahead of the vehicle based on information from a front detector, the parkable space setting unit corrects the parkable space based on information on the parkable space acquired by a side detector when the vehicle passes by the parkable space. | 10-21-2021 |
| 20210317811 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT - Provided is an electronic control unit capable of performing a high-accurate failure diagnosis in a short time as an electronic control unit having a failure diagnosis function. A load drive circuit that drives a load, a control circuit that controls the load drive circuit, and a diagnosis circuit that diagnoses an output state of the load drive circuit and outputs a diagnostic result to the control circuit are provided. The diagnosis circuit outputs a diagnosis completion flag indicating whether or not there is a diagnosis opportunity to the control circuit. | 10-14-2021 |
| 20210317773 | CONTROL VALVE, FLOW RATE CONTROL VALVE, AND TWO-MEMBER CONNECTING STRUCTURE - A control valve for use in a heat exchange circuit of an engine of an automobile includes a housing and a connection pipe. The housing includes a communication port structured for introduction or discharge of fluid. The connection pipe is fastened to the communication port of the housing with a fastening member. The housing is made of resin. Each of the connection pipe and the fastening member is made of material, such as metal, less in linear expansion coefficient than the housing. | 10-14-2021 |
| 20210203204 | ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE - Since the shape of the insulating paper is complicated, a forming and bending step of the insulating paper is required, and further there is a step of inserting the insulating paper in the middle of coil forming, which causes a problem of damaging the insulating paper. | 07-01-2021 |
| 20210197777 | BRAKE SYSTEM - An object of the present invention is to appropriately control a clearance amount by correcting an estimation error of a contact position caused by a delay time difference between output signals of sensors, and to establish both improvement of fuel efficiency due to prevention of drag of a brake pad during non-braking and reduction in response time during braking. | 07-01-2021 |
| 20210185795 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE - An electronic control device includes a housing that stores a substrate on which an electronic component is mounted, a first capacitance unit formed between the housing and the electronic component, and a second capacitance unit formed between the housing and the substrate, in which a noise transmission path is formed between the housing and the substrate via the first capacitance unit and the second capacitance unit. | 06-17-2021 |
| 20210180578 | LINEAR COMPRESSOR AND DEVICE MOUNTED WITH THE SAME - Provided is a compressor in which vibration resistance against an excitation force due to drive of a linear motor is improved. A linear compressor | 06-17-2021 |
| 20210180534 | FUEL INJECTION CONTROL DEVICE AND FUEL INJECTION CONTROL METHOD - The present invention provides a high-efficiency and highly-reliable fuel injection control device that controls a fuel injection valve of an internal combustion engine and can perform injection amount control in accordance with a deterioration degree of the fuel injection valve. A fuel injection control device controlling a fuel injection valve of an internal combustion engine includes a deterioration determination unit that determines a deterioration state of the fuel injection valve, an injection amount learning unit that learns the injection amount of the fuel injection valve, and a learning frequency change unit that changes the learning frequency of the injection amount learning unit in accordance with the deterioration state of the fuel injection valve. | 06-17-2021 |
| 20210037651 | ELECTRIC CIRCUIT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CIRCUIT BOARD | 02-04-2021 |
| 20210036814 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a vehicle control device and a control method thereof capable of improving safety and reliability with a simple configuration. A vehicle control device | 02-04-2021 |
| 20210036675 | FILTER CIRCUIT DEVICE, AND POWER CONVERTER INCLUDING FILTER CIRCUIT DEVICE - A filter circuit device includes: first and second core members forming first and second through holes, respectively; a first conductor passing through the first and second through holes; a second conductor passing through the first and second through holes; a capacitor; a first terminal configured to electrically connect the first conductor with the capacitor; and a second terminal configured to electrically connect the second conductor with the capacitor. The first conductor from the first through hole to the second through hole and the second conductor from the first through hole to the second through hole have an opposing part between the first conductor and the second conductor. The first terminal presses an opposite surface of the first conductor, so as to be in contact with the first conductor. The second terminal presses an opposite surface of the second conductor, so as to be in contact with the second conductor. | 02-04-2021 |
| 20210036574 | ELECTRIC DRIVE DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING DEVICE - An electric drive device includes a housing with a motor-housing-side annular groove portion formed on an outer peripheral surface of an end surface portion of the housing, on an opposite side to an output portion of a rotation shaft of an electric motor section. The groove portion is formed by an annular groove retreating inward in the radial direction orthogonal to the axial line of the housing. A metal-cover-side distal end portion is formed at the opening end of a metal cover covering an electronic control unit that controls the electric motor section, and faces the groove from the outer side. A space between the groove portion and the distal end portion is filled with a liquid sealant, and an annular inclined surface is inclined so it is widened outward in the radial direction of the metal cover is formed on the inner peripheral surface of the groove portion. | 02-04-2021 |
| 20210033491 | ANGLE DETECTION DEVICE AND ANGLE DETECTION METHOD - A manufacturing error and a mounting error of a position sensor used for detection of a rotation angle of a rotary shaft are appropriately calibrated to improve detection accuracy of the rotation angle. Therefore, an angle detection device | 02-04-2021 |
| 20210033058 | IGNITION DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - It is made possible to control ignition appropriately. | 02-04-2021 |
| 20210031829 | STEERING DEVICE - A steering device of the present invention has a steered shaft rotation stopper ( | 02-04-2021 |
| 20210015008 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE - To provide an electronic control device capable of suppressing leakage of radio-frequency radiation noise, radiated from a noise source, to the outside. | 01-14-2021 |
| 20210013783 | COIL FORMING DEVICE AND COIL OF A ROTATING ELECTRIC DEVICE - An object of the invention is to increase productivity of a coil. | 01-14-2021 |
| 20210010815 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - The present invention provides a technique to accurately recognize a position of a vehicle even in a vicinity of a branch road or a junction road, neither of which is included in map data. The present invention provides a vehicle control device. When a vehicle is traveling on a road that is not described in map data, the vehicle control device is configured to determine whether or not the vehicle is traveling on a junction road or a branch road, based on a positional relationship between a position of the vehicle and a starting point of the junction road or a starting point of the branch road. | 01-14-2021 |
| 20210010604 | ROTARY CONTROL VALVE - A rotary control valve includes: a rotor including a tubular part and an opening in the tubular part; a seal member including a contact face, an internal passage, a noncontact part, and a ridge; a biasing member structured to cause the contact face of the seal member to be pressed on the tubular part; and a drive mechanism structured to rotate the rotor. The contact face is structured to be in sliding contact with the tubular part, and has an arc-curved surface shaped to fit with an outer periphery of the tubular part. The internal passage is structured to communicate with the opening of the tubular part. The noncontact part is formed at least one of ends of the arc-curved surface in a rotational direction of the tubular part, and is structured to be out of contact with the tubular part so as to define the ridge. | 01-14-2021 |
| 20210010560 | DAMPER DEVICE - A damper device that suppresses arc discharge between electrodes generated by bubbles in an electro-rheological fluid, includes an inner tube housed in an outer tube forming an outer shell of a damper device. An electrode tube is arranged between the outer tube and the inner tube. An electro-rheological fluid is sealed in the outer tube. The inner tube and the electrode tube constitute a cathode and an anode, respectively, and apply a voltage to the electro-rheological fluid located between the inner tube and the electrode tube. An insulating layer is provided on a surface of the electrode tube on a side facing the inner tube or on a surface of the inner tube on a side facing the electrode tube. When a maximum voltage applied to the electro-rheological fluid is Vmax (V), a thickness t (m) of the insulating layer is set to satisfy Formula ( | 01-14-2021 |
| 20200406963 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ON-BOARD DEVICE - A control device for an on-board device including an actuator is configured to: supply power to a first microprocessor and a first driver circuit from a first power source through a first power supply path; supply power to a second microprocessor and a second driver circuit from a second power source through a second power supply path; and use the first and second driver circuits to drive the actuator. In this control device, the negative electrodes of the first and second power sources are electrically connected to a common ground portion. Specifically, the first negative electrode of the first power source and the second negative electrode of the second power source are connected to the common ground portion respectively through independent first and second connector portions. | 12-31-2020 |
| 20200406962 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ON-BOARD DEVICE - A control device for an on-board device including an actuator is configured to: supply power to a first microprocessor and a first driver circuit from a first power source through a first power supply path; supply power to a second microprocessor and a second driver circuit from a second power source through a second power supply path; and use the first and second driver circuits to drive the actuator. In this control device, the negative electrodes of the first and second power sources are electrically connected to a common ground portion. Furthermore, the control device includes a first and second sensor for measuring current or voltage between the vehicle body ground and the negative electrodes of the first and second power source, respectively. When detecting an abnormal current or voltage, the first and second microprocessors control the first and second driver circuits so as to place a limit on power supply to the actuator. | 12-31-2020 |
| 20200406959 | ELECTRICAL DRIVE DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL POWER STEERING DEVICE - A connector terminal ( | 12-31-2020 |
| 20200406890 | PARKING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS - When one sensors fails and thus malfunctions during automatic parking of a vehicle, only the other sensor functions. Accordingly, depending on the behavior of the vehicle, the detection characteristics of the other sensor cause degradation in recognition of the vehicle, hindering the automatic parking from being continued. In processing S | 12-31-2020 |
| 20200294888 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An object of the invention is to improve the reliability of a power semiconductor device. The power semiconductor device according to the invention includes a semiconductor element, a first terminal and a second terminal that transmit current to the semiconductor element, a first base and a second base that are disposed to face each other while interposing a part of the first terminal, a part of the second terminal, and the semiconductor element between the first base and the second base, and a sealing material that is provided in a space between the first base and the second base. The second terminal includes an intermediate portion formed in such a way that a distance from the first terminal increases along a direction away from the semiconductor element. The intermediate portion is provided between the first base and the second base and in the sealing material. | 09-17-2020 |
| 20200291938 | VARIABLE DISPLACEMENT VANE PUMP - Provided is a variable displacement vane pump which is capable of reducing fluctuation in discharge rate. In the variable displacement vane pump, a first straightening vane | 09-17-2020 |
| 20200291910 | FUEL INJECTION VALVE - Provided is a fuel injection valve capable of quickly stopping a position of a movable element at a predetermined position after closing a valve while reducing an impact force of a valve body. Therefore, a valve body | 09-17-2020 |
| 20200266724 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE - The inductance of a noise filter circuit is reduced, and an output is increased, whereby positive and negative electrode power supply side conductors each include a first and second conductor portions having a side surface and a main surface having an area larger than an area of the side surface. The first conductor portions are arranged on one surface of a base portion with an insulating member interposed therebetween. The second conductor portions penetrate through a core member in a state in which the main surfaces face each other. A width of a portion of the first conductor portion which is in contact with the insulating member in a direction perpendicular to current flow direction is larger than a width of a portion of the second conductor portion which is disposed within the core member in the direction perpendicular to current flow direction. | 08-20-2020 |
| 20200263629 | PISTON FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A piston for an internal combustion engine includes a piston head portion, a pair of piston skirt portions, and a pair of side-wall portions. Each of the side-wall portions includes a pin boss portion having a piston pin hole, and is located between the pair of piston skirt portions. There are set a first axis corresponding to a center longitudinal axis of the piston, a second axis corresponding to an axis of the piston pin holes, and a reference plane corresponding to a plane that passes through the first axis and is orthogonal to the second axis. In a cross section of the side-wall portion being parallel to both of the first axis and the second axis, a distance between the reference plane and an outer peripheral surface of the side-wall portion in the second axis direction gradually increases from a side of the piston head portion toward an intermediate portion of the side-wall portion in the direction of the first axis and gradually decreases from the intermediate portion toward a side opposite to the piston head portion. | 08-20-2020 |
| 20200262469 | POWER STEERING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a power steering apparatus capable of improving a noise/vibration characteristic derived from a pitch difference. Assuming that a belt pitch refers to a pitch between a plurality of belt tooth portions, the belt pitch in a first state refers to the belt pitch when the power steering apparatus is in an unloaded state that no electric power is supplied to an electric motor, the belt pitch in a second state refers to the belt pitch on one side pulled by a motor pulley when electric power is supplied to the electric motor, and a first pulley pitch refers to a pitch between a plurality of tooth portions of a first pulley, which is one of the motor pulley and a nut pulley that is a pulley on a smaller diameter side, a power steering apparatus satisfies | 08-20-2020 |
| 20200119678 | INVERTER CONTROL DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to effectively reduce vibration or noise caused by a motor. An inverter circuit | 04-16-2020 |
| 20200118442 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - Provided is a vehicle control device capable of reducing unease experienced by a driver and assisting a lane change of a vehicle. A vehicle control device | 04-16-2020 |
| 20200116229 | POWER TRANSMISSION SHAFT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A propeller shaft ( | 04-16-2020 |
| 20200114911 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - When an own vehicle in an autonomous-driving mode obstructs travel of another vehicle or is traveling not with the flow of traffic, the own vehicle is brought into a travel state in which the driver does not feel discomfort. When a determiner | 04-16-2020 |
| 20200089486 | IMAGING DEVICE - The purpose of the present invention is to provide an imaging device capable of quickly providing functionality which contributes to improved safety. The present invention is characterized: by comprising an imaging unit that performs imaging, a software program storage unit that stores a plurality of software programs, and a start unit that starts each of the plurality of software programs stored in the software program storage unit; and in that at least one of the plurality of software programs is a software program that contributes to improvement of safety, and the start unit prioritizes the start of the software program contributing to improvement of safety over the other programs. | 03-19-2020 |
| 20200088808 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The number of ports of a microcomputer is increased to detect an abnormality of the power supply line in a case where a power supply line to a load circuit is increased in number by two or more systems. A first resistor R | 03-19-2020 |
| 20200088553 | HOUSING STRUCTURE FOR STEERING APPARATUS - In a housing structure for a steering apparatus, a first seal holding portion | 03-19-2020 |
| 20200088123 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR FUEL INJECTION VALVE - In a fuel injection valve including a variable lift mechanism of two or more stages, when fuel is injected with a lift different from a command, exhaust emission deterioration and torque fluctuations may occur. | 03-19-2020 |
| 20200088122 | DRIVE DEVICE FOR FUEL INJECTION DEVICE - Provided is a control device of a fuel injection device which can stabilize a behavior of a valve even when a voltage of a voltage source varies, and can reduce a deviation of an injection amount. | 03-19-2020 |
| 20200088071 | VALVE TIMING CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve timing control device for an internal combustion engine, the valve timing control device includes: a housing; a vane rotor; a lock hole; a lock member; an urging member; a connection passage provided to the vane rotor, and connected to the bolt insertion hole and the back pressure chamber; and an annular passage which is formed between an inner circumference surface of the bolt insertion hole, and an outer circumference surface of a shaft portion of the cam bolt, and which includes one end portion connected to the connection passage, and the other end portion connected to a drain hole formed in the cam shaft. | 03-19-2020 |
| 20200086910 | STEERING DEVICE - A steering device includes: an offset correction value storing section to store an offset correction value including a first offset correction value and a second offset correction value, the first offset value being a current value for correcting the first sensed current signal so that a value of a vibration of the electric motor is equal to or smaller than a first predetermined value when the motor rotation speed signal is a first rotation speed, and the second offset value being a current value for correcting the first sensed current signal so that the value of the vibration of the electric motor is equal to or smaller than a second predetermined value when the motor rotation speed signal is a second rotation speed. | 03-19-2020 |
| 20200086812 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE - Provided is a highly reliable electronic control device which has not only an effect of reducing costs but also an effect of facilitating a manufacturing process. To include a control board; a connector including a terminal connected to the control board; and a housing case to which the control board and the connector are fixed. The control board has a part sealed with a sealing resin. The connector is disposed at a position facing another part of the control board, being isolated from the sealing resin by the control board and the housing case. | 03-19-2020 |
| 20200086749 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - In a constant-speed traveling mode or a follow-up traveling mode, reduction of fuel consumption and improvement of drivability are both achieved. | 03-19-2020 |
| 20190320159 | STEREO CAMERA | 10-17-2019 |
| 20190319834 | ELECTRONIC CONTROLLER AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS | 10-17-2019 |
| 20190316540 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | 10-17-2019 |
| 20190278702 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT AND DATA PROTECTION METHOD THEREFOR | 09-12-2019 |
| 20190278280 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | 09-12-2019 |
| 20190277397 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | 09-12-2019 |
| 20190276077 | STEERING CONTROL DEVICE | 09-12-2019 |
| 20190271724 | CURRENT DETECTION DEVICE - In an object of the present invention, an object is to provide a technique for achieving higher accuracy in current detection of a radio frequency current, in a current detection device. | 09-05-2019 |
| 20190270482 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR POWER STEERING DEVICE - There is provided a control device for a power steering device that provides stable steering feeling in the vicinity of a stroke end. The control device for the power steering device is configured to calculate a stopper torque that is a steering force in a direction opposite to a direction causing a turning angle to approach a stopper angle, based on a steering torque signal, when the turning angle approaches the stopper angle accompanied with a steering operation of a steering wheel, and configured to calculate a motor command signal that is used to drive a power-driven motor, based on a driving condition of a vehicle and the stopper torque. | 09-05-2019 |
| 20190270479 | SENSOR DEVICE - The present invention includes: first to fourth Hall elements for detecting steering torque; a first power supply circuit for supplying power to the first and second Hall elements; a second power supply circuit for supplying power to the second and third Hall elements; and a control device including a first abnormality determining unit for determining whether first and fourth torque signals are abnormal by preparing the first torque signal output from the first Hall element with the fourth torque signal output from the fourth Hall element and a second abnormality determining unit for determining whether second and third torque signals are abnormal by comparing the second torque signal output from the second Hall element with the third torque signal output from the third Hall element. With this, even when abnormality occurs in one of the first and second power supply circuits, the abnormality determination of an output signal can be continued. | 09-05-2019 |
| 20190006255 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - At the time of clamping, excessive stress is applied to bonding parts between substrates and input/output terminals, which may cause the bonding parts to be detached and cause the substrates to be cracked. | 01-03-2019 |
| 20190004115 | BATTERY STATE ESTIMATION DEVICE, BATTERY CONTROL DEVICE, BATTERY SYSTEM, BATTERY STATE ESTIMATION METHOD - A battery management device includes: an SOCv calculation unit that calculates a state of charge using voltage across both ends of a battery; an SOCi calculation unit calculates a state of charge by integrating currents flowing in the battery; an SOCw calculation unit performs weighted addition of the battery's state of charges calculated by the SOCv and the SOCi calculation unit. An SOCi biased time calculation unit calculates an SOCi biased time based on one or a plurality of elapsed time from the end of a previous system operation or the end of charging or discharging during the previous system operation to the start of the current system, temperature, degree of degradation, and polarization voltage of the battery. The SOCw increases a weight of the state of charge of the battery calculated by the SOCi calculation while the elapsed time from the activation is within the SOCi biased time. | 01-03-2019 |
| 20190003436 | FUEL INJECTION DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel injection device in which variations in an injection flow rate for each injection is suppressed and an injection amount is stabilized. | 01-03-2019 |
| 20190003349 | INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINE VALVE TIMING CONTROL DEVICE - A valve timing control device includes: a gear part whose proximal end portion is formed integrally with an outer peripheral surface of a housing body, and around which a timing chain is wound for crankshaft torque transmission; and a vane member fixed to one end portion of a camshaft and is configured to rotate relatively inside the housing body, and including vanes on an outer periphery of a rotor, wherein the vanes define a retard oil chamber and an advance oil chamber. A raised portion is formed in which an outer surface between the outer peripheral surface of the housing body and one side surface of the proximal end portion of the gear part facing a front plate is inclined downward toward the front plate. | 01-03-2019 |
| 20180375454 | CONTROL DEVICE OF MOTOR AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE USING THE SAME - It is an object of the present invention to reduce detection error of zero-phase current. | 12-27-2018 |
| 20180375176 | CELL CONTROL DEVICE, POWER SYSTEM - To sufficiently exert charging and discharging performance of a cell while reliably protecting the cell, a battery controller determines ΔVlimit which is a limit value for a difference between a CCV and an OCV of a cell module, which is a secondary cell, and determines at least one of an upper limit voltage and a lower limit voltage of the cell module. An allowable current of the cell module is calculated based on the ΔVlimit and at least one of the upper limit voltage and the lower limit voltage determined in this manner. | 12-27-2018 |
| 20180369954 | PISTON FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PISTON FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A piston for an internal combustion engine has a surface treatment portion on a piston base material at a piston crown surface, the surface treatment portion including, along the direction of depth from the surface side, a first layer that is comprised of a layer of a first metal or a layer containing the first metal, a second layer that contains both a second metal containing oxygen or an oxide of the second metal and a low-thermal-conductivity material, and a third layer that is comprised of a mixture of a third metal and the low-thermal-conductivity material. | 12-27-2018 |
| 20180156615 | Inertial Sensor - In an inertial sensor that includes an angular rate detection circuit having a structure synchronized with a resonant frequency of an angular rate detection element, an object thereof is to realize an angle output having high accuracy with less integration error in an integration circuit for detecting an angle. The inertial sensor includes an angular rate detection element chip C | 06-07-2018 |
| 20180106232 | CONTROL DEVICE - The invention, while reducing noise, suppresses a load increase in a processor and a delay in drive control. An engine control unit includes a processor, a driving circuit including a switching element to drive a load such as a fuel injector and an ignition device, and a communication circuit that transmits control signals from the processor to the driving circuit via serial communication. The control signals each include a command frame for controlling the driving circuit and a data frame for driving the load. If a predetermined bits in each of the data frames received from the processor at predetermined time intervals are determined to be the same twice in succession, the engine control unit changes a state of a driving signal ‘Drive’ for driving the load and thereby changes an operating state of the switching element. | 04-19-2018 |
| 20180106199 | COMPRESSION RATIO ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An object of the present invention is to provide a variable mechanism apparatus for an internal combustion engine capable of preventing a crown surface of a piston and intake and exhaust valves from interfering with each other or sufficiently acquiring an internal EGR effect during an exhaust stroke when a piston position at a compression top dead center is raised to achieve a high mechanical compression ratio. The variable mechanism apparatus is configured to set a piston position at an intake (exhaust) top dead center to a lower position than the piston position at the compression top dead center by a variable compression ratio mechanism. According thereto, the variable mechanism apparatus can prevent the crown surface of the piston and the intake and exhaust valves from interfering with each other or sufficiently acquiring the internal EGR effect during the exhaust stroke by setting the piston position at the exhaust top dead center to the low position when the piston position at the compression top dead center is raised to achieve the high mechanical compression ratio. | 04-19-2018 |
| 20180105156 | BRAKE CONTROL APPARATUS - Even when downstream stiffness in a brake hydraulic circuit changes due to variation in a caliper forming a part of a wheel cylinder, temperature, wear degree, and deterioration of a frictional pad, and/or the like, a brake control apparatus performs calculation processing for calculating a switching reference operation amount, switching operation amount deviation calculation processing for calculating a deviation from the switching reference operation amount, operation amount offset processing for offsetting a pedal operation amount detected by an operation amount detection unit, target hydraulic pressure calculation processing for calculating the target hydraulic pressure with use of the offset operation amount and a reference hydraulic characteristic, and control of the electric motor ( | 04-19-2018 |
| 20170261113 | ELECTROMAGNETIC VALVE - There is provided an electromagnetic valve capable of ensuring a sufficient press-fit holding power when the electromagnetic valve is constructed by securing together a plurality of members by press-fitting. The electromagnetic valve of the present invention has a coil generating a magnetic field when energized, a cylinder comprising a cylindrical member of a non-magnetic material disposed at the inner periphery of the coil, a core provided at one end of the cylinder, a valve element disposed in the cylinder movably in the axial direction of the cylinder so that one end of the valve element faces the core, the valve element having a valve part at the other end thereof, a female press-fitting member having a cylindrical portion fluid-tightly connected to the cylinder, and a male press-fitting member having a seat part separable from the valve element, the male press-fitting member being press-fitted to the inside of the cylindrical portion of the female press-fitting member. The male press-fitting member has a rigidity lower than that of the female press-fitting member. | 09-14-2017 |
| 20170260952 | FUEL INJECTION VALVE - A fuel injection valve includes: a valve member; an anchor configured to be relatively displaceable in a valve opening-and-closing direction with respect to the valve member; a fixed core; a first spring biasing the valve member in a valve closing direction; a second spring biasing the anchor in the valve opening direction from an opposite side of the fixed core; and a third spring biasing the anchor in the valve closing direction from the fixed core side and has a biasing force smaller than a biasing force of the first spring and larger than a biasing force of the second spring where engagement portions are provided in both the anchor and the valve member to be engaged with each other when the anchor is displaced in the valve opening direction with respect to the valve member, thereby regulating the displacement of the anchor in the valve opening direction. | 09-14-2017 |
| 20170199096 | Dynamic Quantity Measuring Device and Pressure Sensor Using Same - Provided are a dynamic quantity measuring device having higher accuracy and longer-term reliability than in the prior art, and a pressure sensor using the same. A dynamic quantity measuring device is provided with a first Wheatstone bridge configured by an impurity diffused resistor on a principal surface of one semiconductor substrate, and detects a difference between strain quantities respectively generated in an x-axis direction and a y-axis direction that are orthogonal to each other on the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate by the first Wheatstone bridge, the dynamic quantity measuring device being provided with, on the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second Wheatstone bridge for detecting the strain quantity in the x-axis direction, and a third Wheatstone bridge for detecting the strain quantity in the y-axis direction. | 07-13-2017 |
| 20170197600 | BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEM - a brake control system adapted to prevent or reduce noise is provided. | 07-13-2017 |
| 20170180701 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - To process sensor information positively in an information processor to which plural sensors are connected. An information processing system including plural sensors, plural buses respectively connected to the plural sensors, an arbitration unit performing arbitration of the plural buses and a priority determination unit determining the priority of each of the plural sensors, in which the arbitration unit performs arbitration of the plural buses in accordance with the determination result of the priority determination unit. | 06-22-2017 |
| 20170175836 | PISTON MANUFACTURING DEVICE, PISTON MANUFACTURING METHOD, PISTON AND DISC BRAKE - A piston manufacturing device includes a first forming device ( | 06-22-2017 |
| 20170174253 | POWER STEERING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POWER STEERING APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to provide a power steering apparatus and a method of manufacturing a power steering apparatus that allow balls to smoothly travel in a connection member for circulating the balls. To achieve this object, a first curved portion of a first connection passage of a nut that faces a first bent portion of the connection member is formed into a curved shape in such a manner that a space between the first curved portion and the first bent portion is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value. Further, a second curved portion of a second connection passage of the nut that faces a second bent portion of the connection member is formed into a curved shape in such a manner that a space between the second curved portion and the second bent portion is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value. | 06-22-2017 |
| 20170167317 | VALVE TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve timing control apparatus of an internal combustion engine may include a driving rotational body to which torque is transmitted from a crankshaft, a driven rotational body fixed to a camshaft to which torque is transmitted from the driving rotational body, an electric motor disposed between the driving rotational body and the driven rotational body and relatively rotating the driving rotational body and the driven rotational body when electric power is applied thereto, and a deceleration mechanism that decelerates a rotational speed of the electrical motor and transmit the decelerated rotational speed to the driven rotational body. | 06-15-2017 |
| 20170162472 | Power Semiconductor Module and Manufacturing Method of Power Semiconductor Module - An object of the present invention is to provide a power semiconductor module that can secure a satisfactory cooling without expanding the size of a case component. In the power semiconductor module according to the present invention, a frame case includes a front surface, a back surface, and a pair of side surfaces and formed with an opening part in at least one of the front surface and the back surface. A metal base is inserted into the opening part of the frame case. A frame case is provided with a joining part FW to which the peripheral part of the metal base and the peripheral part of the opening part of the frame case are joined. A first concaved part and a second concaved part are formed respectively in each of a pair of side surfaces of the frame case. Each of the concaved parts is prolonged toward an inner side of the frame case from the side surfaces, and includes a bottom surface formed facing the joining part FW side in an intermediate position of the thickness direction of each of the side surfaces. | 06-08-2017 |
| 20170162051 | Device for Controlling Vehicle Travel - To provide a device for controlling vehicle travel with which it is possible, when a host vehicle has malfunctioned, to prevent accidents and secondary disasters caused by the vehicle malfunction. The device for controlling travel is provided with: a malfunction detector for detecting the presence/absence of malfunctions in a variety of devices for assisting the driving of the host vehicle; a malfunction degree determining unit for specifying, when the malfunction detector detects a malfunction in any of the devices, the malfunction state of the device and determining whether or not the device can be driven; and an action instruction unit for generating, on the basis of determination information from the malfunction degree determining unit, an instruction signal for communicating an action instruction for another vehicle, and outputting the instruction signal out of the host vehicle. | 06-08-2017 |
| 20170152803 | DRIVE UNIT OF FUEL INJECTION DEVICE - In a drive unit of a fuel injection device, an electric current is supplied to the fuel injection device by applying a high voltage to the fuel injection device from a high voltage source whose voltage is boosted to a voltage higher than a battery voltage at the time of opening a valve of the fuel injection device. Thereafter, the electric current supplied to the fuel injection device is lowered to a current value at which a valve element cannot be held in a valve open state by stopping the applying of the high voltage from the high voltage source. Thereafter, in a stage where a supply current is switched to a hold current, another high voltage is applied to the fuel injection device from the high voltage source. | 06-01-2017 |
| 20170047809 | DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINE | 02-16-2017 |
| 20170046252 | TEST CASE GENERATION SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM WHEREIN TEST CASE IS RECORDED | 02-16-2017 |
| 20170045360 | ANGULAR SPEED DETECTION DEVICE | 02-16-2017 |
| 20170025973 | POWER STEERING DEVICE AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR POWER STEERING DEVICE - Provided are a power steering device and a control device for a power steering device, which are capable of reducing power consumption. The power steering device includes a current detection number setting circuit configured to set the number of times of detection of a DC bus current value by a current detecting circuit to a first predetermined number over a first predetermined cycle of a PWM period when the steering-state signal indicative of a steering operation state is received, and to set the number of times of detection so that the number of times of detection becomes smaller than the first predetermined number over the first predetermined cycle of the PWM period when a steering-state signal indicative of a non-steered state is received. | 01-26-2017 |
| 20170022854 | CONTROL VALVE FOR VALVE TIMING CONTROL DEVICE AND VALVE TIMING CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Provided is a control valve capable of reducing the axial length of a device as much as possible, thereby improving its mountability. An electromagnetic selector valve is equipped with a valve body functioning as a cam bolt for connecting a vane rotor to one end of a camshaft, a sleeve fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the valve body, and a spool valve element axially slidably housed in the sleeve for switching between supply and discharge of working fluid to and from each of a phase-retard working chamber and a phase-advance working chamber. The valve body has a male screw part formed on an outer peripheral surface and screwed into a female screw part formed in a cam bolt hole. The position of formation of the male screw part and the position of the spool valve element are arranged to axially overlap with each other. | 01-26-2017 |
| 20170021731 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle control apparatus capable of stabilizing a behavior of a vehicle when a regenerative braking force is generated. To achieve this object, a vehicle control apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes an electric motor configured to provide a regenerative braking force to left and right drive wheels that are one of front wheels and rear wheels, a friction braking device configured to provide a friction braking force to left and right trailer wheels that are the other of the front wheels and the rear wheels, and a behavior estimation unit configured to estimate a behavior of a vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus reduces the regenerative braking force and increases the friction braking force provided by the friction braking device, if the behavior estimation unit estimates a preset behavior when the regenerative braking force is generated. | 01-26-2017 |
| 20160376946 | VALVE TIMING CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND CONTROLLER FOR VALVE TIMING CONTROL DEVICE - Provided is an electric-motor-driven valve timing control device for an internal combustion engine with which the valve timing control device can be operated even when a portion of coils of an electric motor has broken. The electric motor has two systems of switching brushes, each system being constructed by a set of positive-electrode and negative-electrode switching brushes. When an electricity-feeding line used for electricity-feeding to one system of the two systems has broken, the valve timing control device is configured to stop energization to the other system or reduce an energization amount to the other system, after having energized the other system of switching brushes until such time that a predetermined time has expired from a start of the engine, thus enabling the relative rotational phase of a camshaft to be converted to a phase suitable for starting. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160375775 | Drive Control Device of Moving Body - To provide a drive control device of a moving body capable of increasing a regeneration amount without hindering a driver's brake operation and causing too much deceleration. A drive control device of a moving body that updates a regenerative pattern of a driving motor of the moving body including a brake that generates a braking force by being linked to an operation amount of a brake pedal, the drive control device including an external world information acquisition unit that acquires external world information and a brake detector that detects ON/OFF of the brake, wherein when the brake detector detects ON, the regenerative pattern is changed based on the external world information acquired by the external world information acquisition unit such that a braking distance only decreases. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160336837 | MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS AND POWER STEERING APPARATUS - The prevent invention provides a motor control apparatus and a power steering apparatus capable of preventing or reducing deterioration of a detection accuracy of a magnetic sensor. A magnet holder configured to rotate integrally with a magnet and made from a magnetic material is provided on an outer peripheral side of the magnet provided so as to face a magnetic sensor. | 11-17-2016 |
| 20160332660 | IN-VEHICLE DEVICE CONTROLLER AND POWER STEERING DEVICE - An in-vehicle device controller has at least two redundant operating condition detection units. Under normal circumstances, the controller performs actuator drive control based on an operating condition detection signal of one of the operating condition detection units. Upon detection of an abnormality in the signal transmission state, data state or operating status of one of the at least two operating condition detection units, the controller performs actuator drive control based on an operating condition detection signal of another one of the at least two operating condition detection units in which no abnormality is present. By this control, the actuator function is preserved even in the event of the abnormality in the operating condition detection unit or operating condition detection signal. | 11-17-2016 |
| 20160301923 | In-Vehicle-Camera Image Processing Device | 10-13-2016 |
| 20160301271 | Rotary Electric Machine and Electric Vehicle Provided with Same | 10-13-2016 |
| 20160301112 | BATTERY SYSTEM | 10-13-2016 |
| 20160301061 | RECTANGULAR SECONDARY BATTERY | 10-13-2016 |
| 20160301051 | ASSEMBLED BATTERY | 10-13-2016 |
| 20160190542 | ELECTRICITY STORAGE MODULE - An electricity storage module in which a plurality of battery cells are electrically connected via conductive members, wherein: each of the conductive members has a pair of electrode connecting parts that are welded to respective electrode terminals of a pair of adjacent battery cells, a base part that is connected to the pair of electrode connecting parts via a pair of elastically deformable parts, and a voltage detecting terminal that is connected to the base part and detects a terminal voltage of a battery cell. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160185248 | BATTERY CONTROL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - A battery control system connected to a battery, which controls charge/discharge at the battery, includes: a current detection unit that measures a current value by detecting a charge/discharge current flowing through the battery; a voltage detection unit that detects a voltage at the battery; a temperature detection unit that detects a temperature at the battery; an effective current value calculation unit that calculates, based upon the current value measured by the current detection unit, an effective current value in a predetermined time window; and a charge/discharge restriction unit that imposes a first charge/discharge restriction so as to restrict the charge/discharge current based upon the effective current value calculated by the effective current value calculation unit. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160185238 | BATTERY CONTROL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - A battery control system connected to a battery, which controls charge/discharge at the battery, includes: a current detection unit that measures a current value by detecting a charge/discharge current flowing through the battery; a voltage detection unit that detects a voltage at the battery; a temperature detection unit that detects a temperature at the battery; an effective current value calculation unit that calculates, based upon the current value measured by the current detection unit, an effective current value in a predetermined time window; a time ratio calculation unit that determines a time ratio indicating a ratio of a length of time over which the effective current value has been in excess of a predetermined allowable value during a predetermined specified time period; and a charge/discharge restriction unit that restricts the charge/discharge current based upon the time ratio determined by the time ratio calculation unit. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160163128 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - Provided is a vehicle control device improved in possibility of misdetection of a sensor failure. It is determined that output offset abnormality detection with respect to a steering angle sensor, a yaw rate sensor, and a lateral acceleration sensor can be performed when a tire slip amount is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, and when it is determined that the output offset abnormality detection of each sensor can be performed, the output offset abnormality detection with respect to each sensor is performed. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160161312 | THERMAL-TYPE AIR FLOW METER - An object of the present invention is to provide a thermal-type air flow meter with a high measurement accuracy by reducing influence of a thermal stress generated in a resistor in an LSI while securing a high positioning accuracy flow rate detection unit. Thus, a thermal-type air flow meter is provided with: a sensor assembly | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160160826 | HIGH PRESSURE FUEL SUPPLY PUMP WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC SUCTION VALVE - To reduce collision noise created by the operation of an electromagnetic suction valve provided on a high pressure fuel supply pump. In the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, the mass of a member which collides by magnetic attractive force is reduced to reduce the noise to be generated. The thus configured present invention provides the following advantageous effects. The noise generated when a core and an anchor collide with each other by magnetic attractive force depends on the magnitude of the kinetic energy of a moving element. The kinetic energy to be consumed in the collision is only the kinetic energy of the anchor. The kinetic energy of a rod, being absorbed by a spring, does not contribute to the noise; thus, the energy when the anchor and the core collide with each other can be reduced, whereby the noise to be created can be reduced. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160149420 | SECONDARY BATTERY SYSTEM - Provided is a secondary battery system capable of suppressing degradation of a battery capacity. When it is determined that a battery pack is brought into a non-use state, a battery state detection unit in a battery controller compares an SOC of the battery pack calculated by a battery state operation unit and a standard SOC. When the SOC of the battery pack is higher than the standard SOC, the battery state detection unit in the battery controller calculates a capacity value in which the SOC of the battery pack becomes lower than the standard SOC, from a difference of the SOC of the battery pack and the standard SOC, and transmits the calculated capacity value to a cell controller. The cell controller discharges the battery pack, on the basis of the capacity value transmitted from the battery state detection unit. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149180 | BATTERY MODULE - The present invention proposes a structure of a battery module in which a spacer can slide by means of a guide member constituting the battery module and can be positioned. A battery module according to the present invention is a battery module | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160146849 | Resin-Sealed Sensor Device - To provide a resin-sealed sensor device in which a sensor element that detects an inertial force such as acceleration or angular velocity is mounted on a pad, and the entire thereof is molded by resin, the resin-sealed sensor device with a high reliability by suppressing or resolving a sensor output error by reducing or resolving inclination or deformation of the sensor element or the pad at the time of resin injection, in a resin-sealed sensor device | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160146652 | Method of Manufacturing Thermal Flow Meter - An objective of the present invention is, in a thermal flowmeter having a structure including a resin portion formed in the vicinity of a diaphragm structural portion using a mold, to prevent destruction of the diaphragm structural portion at the time of pressing the mold, in a method of manufacturing the thermal flow meter, including: supporting a gas flow measurement element | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160144896 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided is a vehicle control system capable of securing stability even in the event of a collision with a travel-path defining line such as a guardrail. The invention recognizes the travel-path defining line of a travel path from information about an area in a traveling direction of an ego vehicle, recognizes a traveling-direction virtual line extending from the ego vehicle in the traveling direction, and imparts a yaw moment control amount so that a formed angle between the traveling-direction virtual line and the travel-path defining line decreases after the ego vehicle collides with the travel-path defining line. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160141737 | ELECTRICITY STORAGE BLOCK AND ELECTRICITY STORAGE MODULE - An electricity storage block includes: an element stacked body in which a plurality of square electricity storage elements is stacked and arranged such that wide surfaces of the adjacent square electricity storage elements are opposed to each other; and a pressing device that presses the element stacked body toward the thermally-conductive sheet arranged on the heat transfer plate. The element stacked body includes holders having wide surface abutment parts in abutment with one of the wide surfaces in a pair in at least the predetermined square electricity storage element. The outer surfaces of the bottom plates of the square electricity storage elements are set as heat transfer surfaces thermally connected to the heat transfer plate via the thermally-conductive sheet. The heat-transfer surfaces protrude toward the heat transfer plate more than the end surfaces of the wide surface abutment parts at the heat transfer plate side. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160138511 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine which can suppress a relative variation in the fuel injection amount for each cylinder. A drive pulse width to drive the fuel injection valve for injecting the fuel is calculated according to a driving state of the internal combustion engine, any one or both of a valve-opening response delay time and a valve-closing response delay time with respect to a drive pulse signal of the fuel injection valve for each fuel injection value are calculated, and the drive pulse width is corrected to make an injection amount of each fuel injection valve matched to a predetermined injection amount based on any one or both of the valve-opening response delay time and the valve-closing response delay time calculated for each fuel injection valve. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160137195 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - There is provided a vehicle control system capable of ensuring stability even if an ego vehicle spins slowly. The invention computes a relative slip angle between a leading vehicle and the ego vehicle on the basis of distance between the ego vehicle and the leading vehicle and distance between a traveling-direction virtual line extending from the ego vehicle in a traveling direction and the leading vehicle, sets a spin judgment threshold value according to the relative slip angle, and controls yaw moment to reduce the relative slip angle when the relative slip angle exceeds the spin judgment threshold value. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160131221 | BALANCER DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A balancer device includes a housing fixed to an internal combustion engine, a roller bearing disposed in the housing, a balancer shaft rotatably supported in the housing by the roller bearing, a balancer weight integrally mounted on the balancer shaft and rotatably accommodated in an weight accommodation room of the housing, an introduction part that introduces a lubricating oil from the outside to the inside of the weight accommodation room, and a discharge part that provides communication between the inside and the outside of the weight accommodation room and discharges the lubricating oil from the inside of the weight accommodation room, wherein herein the roller bearing is arranged to face the weight accommodation room. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160126514 | BATTERY MODULE - The present invention aims to provide a battery module in which adjacent battery cells can be kept in an insulating state while restricting movement of relative positional displacement of the battery cells with a simple configuration. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160123194 | VALVE TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a driving rotation member to which rotation of a crankshaft is transmitted, a driven rotation member coupled to a camshaft so as to be rotatable relative to the driving rotation member, an electric motor having a motor output shaft to cause rotation of the driven rotation member relative to the driving rotation member, a cover member arranged axially facing a front end portion of the motor output shaft and an electromagnetic induction type rotational angle detection mechanism disposed between the motor output shaft and the cover member so as to detect a rotational angle of the motor output shaft. The rotational angle detection mechanism has a detected part provided to the front end portion of the motor output shaft and a detecting part provided to a portion of the cover member axially facing the detected part. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160121864 | BRAKE APPARATUS AND BRAKE SYSTEM - An object of the present invention is to provide a brake apparatus capable of improving applicability to a wide range of vehicles. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160121791 | Vehicle Danger Notification Control Apparatus - A pedestrian and a driver of a running vehicle that are in the vicinity of a stopped vehicle are notified of a danger of collision with a vehicle, without requiring the pedestrian to carry a communication terminal. A vehicle danger notification control apparatus includes an outside recognition arrangement for recognizing a running vehicle and/or a pedestrian as a moving object(s), a danger determination arrangement for determining whether there is a danger of collision(s) between the running vehicle and the pedestrian and/or between the running vehicles, and a danger notification arrangement for notifying, in a case in which the danger determination means determines that there is a collision danger, a driver of the running vehicle and/or the pedestrian of the collision danger. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160118682 | FLAT-WINDING TYPE SECONDARY BATTERY - An object of the present invention is to provide a flat-winding type secondary battery having a simple structure and thus capable of being manufactured in a simplified manufacturing process. A flat-winding type secondary battery according to the present invention is a flat-winding type secondary battery having a flat-shaped winding group obtained by winding positive and negative electrodes with separators interposed therebetween. The winding group has a shaft core having a configuration in which leading end portions of a sheet member at both sides in a winding direction are folded in an a mutually approaching direction and disposed at positions separated from each other, the sheet member having a higher bending rigidity than that of any of the positive and negative electrodes and separators. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160114800 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS - When own vehicle starts and accelerates involving course-change, the own vehicle is started with appropriate timing, and changes a course safely and swiftly. The vehicle control apparatus ( | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160108778 | VALVE-TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve-timing control apparatus includes an electric motor; a speed-reduction mechanism configured to reduce a rotational speed of the output shaft of the electric motor; a slip ring provided on a surface of a tip portion of the electric motor; a cover member provided to cover at least a part of the surface of the tip portion of the electric motor; a power-feeding brush disposed in the cover member and being in contact with the slip ring; and an angle sensing mechanism configured to sense a rotational angle of the output shaft of the electric motor. The angle sensing mechanism includes a detected portion attached to the output shaft of the electric motor, and a detecting portion attached to the cover member and opposed to the detected portion. The power-feeding brush is located so as not to overlap with the detected portion in a vertically-upper direction from the detected portion. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160107640 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - To provide a vehicle control system capable of promptly achieving a travel motion along a travel path. A yaw moment control amount is imparted according to a traveling-direction virtual line extending from an ego vehicle in a traveling direction and a formed angle between the traveling-direction virtual line and a travel-path defining line. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160106010 | BOX-TYPE VEHICLE-MOUNTED CONTROL DEVICE - Provided is a box-type vehicle-mounted control device that effectively increases the amount of heat transfer from electronic components and a circuit board to a casing (base and cover) and that accordingly has achieved excellent heat dissipation property. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160104919 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - A lithium ion secondary battery is provided that suppresses an increase of an internal pressure of a battery caused by gases generated therein so as to suppress battery swelling which is linked to a variation of a thickness of the battery and an increase of a binding force of the battery, and is trouble-free in manufacturing as an on-vehicle battery module, so that a high reliability is provided. The lithium ion secondary battery includes a clathrate compound in a battery container, and the clathrate compound is one or more types of compounds selected from a group consisting of cyclodextrins, calixarenes, and crown ethers. With this configuration, CO gas, CO | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160084120 | VALVE TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - In a hydraulically-operated multi-vane equipped valve timing control apparatus of an internal combustion engine, at least one of a plurality of vanes is equipped with a fluid-communication control mechanism FCCM, whereas the other vanes are configured as non-FCCM equipped vanes. At least one of the non-FCCM equipped vanes is configured such that a summed pressure-receiving surface area of the non-FCCM equipped at least one vane, facing a phase-retard chamber, and a summed pressure-receiving surface area of the non-FCCM equipped at least one vane, facing a phase-advance chamber, are set to differ from each other, thereby permitting a vane rotor to be biased in a specified rotation direction by the unbalanced pressure-receiving surface area configuration as well as establishment of fluid-communication between the two adjacent chambers through the fluid-communication control mechanism, when starting the engine from its stopped state where there is no hydraulic-pressure supply from an oil pump. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160082908 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL APPARATUS - An electronic control apparatus includes an electric motor including a rotor and a stator; a circuit board configured to drivingly control the electric motor; and a housing unit accommodating the electric motor and the circuit board. A vehicle-body attaching portion of the housing unit is attached and fixed to a vehicle body. The vehicle-body attaching portion is located on one side of the rotor with respect to an extending direction of the rotor. At least one of both surfaces of the circuit board is a component-mounting surface. The circuit board is fixed to the housing unit in a state where the both surface of the circuit board extend along the rotor of the electric motor. A large-size electronic component is mounted on a vehicle-body-attaching-portion-side portion of a peripheral portion of the component-mounting surface which is close to the vehicle-body attaching portion. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160076539 | Electric Oil Pump - A drive rotation shaft is rotatably supported by a first slide bearing between a rotor part and a pump rotor, and is rotatably supported by a second slide bearing on its distal end side of a pump rotor fixing part of the drive rotation shaft. Working oil is supplied to the first slide bearing and the second slide bearing. According to this configuration, since the distal end side of the drive rotation part is rotatably supported by the second slide bearing, inclination of the drive rotation shaft is restricted by an inner peripheral surface of the second slide bearing, thereby suppressing occurrence of noise. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160076436 | VARIABLE COMBUSTION SYSTEM FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A variable combustion system for an internal combustion engine, which suppresses mechanical compression ratio change control by a variable mechanical compression ratio control mechanism and carries out internal EGR amount change control by a variable valve actuating control mechanism on a preferential basis in a first operating region in which a compression self-ignition combustion is carried out, and which suppresses the internal EGR amount change control by the variable valve actuating control mechanism and carries out the mechanical compression ratio change control by the variable mechanical compression ratio control mechanism on a preferential basis in a second operating region in which a spark ignition combustion is carried out. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160076410 | VALVE TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: a power feeding brush including a tip end portion arranged to be slidably abutted on the slip ring; and a rotation angle sensing mechanism provided between one end portion of the motor output shaft, and the cover member confronting the one end portion of the motor output shaft, and arranged to sense a rotation angle of the motor output shaft, the power feeding brush being disposed in a range in which the power feeding brush is slid on the slip ring, in a range from a position which is deviated a predetermined angle in a rotation direction of the motor housing from an uppermost position of the other of the electric motor and the cover member in a vertical direction, to a lowermost position. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160072228 | Control Apparatus, Connector, and Laminated Capacitor for Connector - Provide are a control apparatus, a connector, and a laminated capacitor for connector which are small and light and in which the capacitor capacitances on the terminals can be easily adjusted. A laminated capacitor | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160069962 | BATTERY SYSTEM - A battery system includes a battery module having a plurality of assembled batteries. Battery monitoring circuits are provided to correspond to each of the assembled batteries of the battery module. A control circuit controls operation of the battery monitoring circuits. A first signal transmission path transmits signals that are input and output between the battery monitoring circuits and the control circuit. A first isolation element is connected to the control circuit, and a second isolation element is connected to the battery monitoring circuit. The first signal transmission path is isolated from the control circuit by the first isolation element and is isolated from the battery monitoring circuit by the second isolation element. The electrical potential of the first signal transmission path is a floating potential in relation to the electrical potentials of the control circuit and battery monitoring circuits. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160069223 | VARIABLE VALVE TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A variable valve timing control apparatus has drive rotary member having therein working chambers; vane rotor relatively rotatably housed in the drive rotary member and defining the working chambers as retard and advance working chambers; and spiral spring forcing the vane rotor all the time in one rotation direction with respect to the drive rotary member. The vane rotor has tubular portion formed integrally with the vane rotor and protruding from a middle position of one end side of the vane rotor and recessed portion formed on an outer peripheral surface of the tubular portion. Engaging end of outermost circumferential portion of the spiral spring is engaged with the drive rotary member, and engaging end of innermost circumferential portion of the spiral spring is engaged with the tubular portion, and a part of the innermost circumferential portion of the spiral spring is inserted in the recessed portion. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160065030 | ELECTRIC DRIVE DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING DEVICE - In construction of an electric drive device such as an electric power steering device or the like, there is employed a cylindrical metal housing that has therein in order first, second, third and fourth spaces coaxially arranged to respectively house therein a power circuit part, a power conversion circuit part, a control circuit part and an electric motor, a circular heat transfer metal substrate is arranged in the cylindrical metal housing between the first and second spaces and the circular heat transfer metal substrate has a cylindrical outer wall that is in contact with a cylindrical inner surface of the cylindrical metal housing, one flat surface to which a basal metal plate of the power circuit part is intimately connected and another flat surface to which a basal metal plate of the power conversion circuit part is intimately connected. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160061172 | RUNNING CONTROL APPARATUS AND RUNNING CONTROL SYSTEM - A running control apparatus for improving fuel efficiency by enabling automatic engine stop includes: a moving object detection unit for detecting a moving object moving in a direction crossing a direction of travel of own vehicle on the basis of an acquired image acquired from an image pickup apparatus; an acceleration calculation unit for calculating acceleration of the moving object; a moving object crossing intention determination unit for determining, on the basis of the acceleration of the moving object, whether or not the moving object intends to cross an intersection ahead of the own vehicle in the direction crossing the direction of the travel of the own vehicle before the own vehicle crosses the intersection; and automatic engine stop decision unit for deciding whether the own vehicle automatically stops an engine during running on the basis of a result of determination of the moving object crossing intention determination unit. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160061066 | VALVE TIMING CONTROL DEVICE OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve timing control device of internal combustion engine comprises a chain case | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160057403 | Stereo Camera Device - The present invention prevents adverse effects on an external device due to radiation noise from a signal line, stereo camera device is provided with: a case; a first image-capturing unit provided at one end in a longitudinal direction of the case; a second image-capturing unit provided at the other end; a circuit board provided inside the case, a processing circuit connected to each of the first image-capturing unit and the second image-capturing unit by a signal line being mounted on the circuit board, and a connector for outputting a signal processed by the processing circuit to an external apparatus being disposed on the circuit board; and a partition member for partitioning the inside of the case into a plurality of spaces along the longitudinal direction at a first interval that corresponds to a frequency bandwidth in which radiation noise from the signal line is suppressed. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160054152 | DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - A diagnostic device capable of accurately diagnosing the soundness of a resolver circuit is provided. A shifter receives excitation signal and excitation signal; shifts the level of excitation signal, excitation signal, or both; and performs level shifting such that a period of time that starts with one of two times in which, in the vicinity of the peak value of excitation signal, excitation signal and excitation signal are at the same value and ends with the other of the two times is less than a prescribed threshold. A trigger generation circuit generates a trigger during said period of time. A control unit determines whether there is an abnormality in the resolver circuit on the basis of the trigger. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160053885 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING RANGE OF AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - The position of a detent lever, which is detected when the detent lever is driven by a predetermined angle of θ1 from a state in which the detent lever is in contact with a stopper so as to move away from a stopper, and the detent lever moves toward the valley of a concave portion corresponding to a P range from the one wall of concave portion away from the stopper, and naturally stops, is set as a first learning value, subsequently, the position of the detent lever, which is detected when the detent lever is driven by a predetermined angle of θ2 so as to move away from the stopper, and the detent lever moves toward the valley of the concave portion from the one wall of concave portion close to the stopper, and naturally stops, is set as a second learning value, and a value acquired by averaging the first and the second learning values, is set as a target value for a position corresponding to a transmission range. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160052496 | BRAKE SYSTEM - An object of the present invention is to obtain a brake system that can generate appropriate braking force without influence of temperature. A brake system includes: a piston that presses pressing members; a motor that moves the piston; a current detection unit that detects current flowing in the motor; a storage unit that stores a correspondence relation between idle running current and motor stopping current; a motor stopping current setting unit that sets the motor stopping current using the storage unit and the idle running current; and a control unit that stops to supply the current to the motor when the current flowing in the motor reaches the motor stopping current. The correspondence relation is set so that the rate of change of the motor stopping current relative to the idle running current becomes smaller when the idle running current is small than that when it is large. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160043373 | LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A lithium ion secondary battery includes a flat-shaped electrode group in which separators are interposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode has a positive electrode collector, a positive electrode mixture layer formed on a top surface of the positive electrode collector, and an insulating layer formed on the top surface of the positive electrode collector along an end portion of the positive electrode mixture layer. Further, a mixed layer, formed by mixing of a positive electrode mixture configuring the positive electrode mixture layer, and an insulator configuring the insulating layer, is interposed between the positive electrode mixture layer and the insulating layer. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160033559 | OVERCURRENT DETECTING DEVICE AND OVERCURRENT DETECTING METHOD - The present invention relates to an overcurrent detecting device and an overcurrent detecting method each of which detects an overcurrent upstream of an inverter circuit in a drive control device for an electric motor. The overcurrent is detected without providing a shunt resistor in the upstream of the inverter circuit, and miniaturization of a circuit substrate is achieved. The overcurrent detecting device calculates a current value of a power supply line from each phase current supplied to the electric motor and a power supply voltage of the inverter circuit, and detects an overcurrent, based on a current value determined from a drop voltage value by an electronic part connected to the power supply line and the current value of the power supply line. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160033433 | Gas Sensor - In order to prevent deterioration and a breakdown of a sensor element when the sensor element is activated in a state where liquid is attached thereto, and to remove the liquid in a short period of time with lower power consumption, there is provided a gas sensor including a first heating element and a second heating element that is formed around the periphery of the first heating element and has a wider forming area than the first heating element, and measuring a gas amount by heating the first heating element to a predetermined temperature, in which the second heating element is heated when the gas sensor is activated, and the first heating element is heated to the predetermined temperature after a heat value of the first heating element is restricted for a predetermined period of time. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160031425 | BRAKE APPARATUS AND BRAKE SYSTEM - A brake apparatus improved in mountability on a vehicle is provided. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160028342 | ELECTRIC MOTOR DRIVE DEVICE - An electric motor drive device which drives an electric motor includes switching elements which are respectively connected to output lines and correspond to upper and lower arms of respective phases, a control unit which controls the operations of the switching elements, a smoothing capacitor connected in parallel with series circuits of the upper and lower arms of the phases, and an abnormality detection unit. The abnormality detection unit detects a voltage value of a virtual neutral point as a value related to the state of insulation of each of the output lines and detects a ground fault of the output line, based on a tilt of a temporary change in the detected value. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028336 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR ELECTRIC MOTOR AND CONTROL METHOD FOR ELECTRIC MOTOR - A control apparatus for an electric motor has a drive circuit that drives the electric motor in which a plurality of phase coils are star-connected, a neutral point drive circuit connected to a neutral point of the star connection, semiconductor relays that cut off an electric path connecting the neutral point and the neutral point drive circuit, and a microcomputer. Furthermore, the microcomputer cuts off the electric path by the semiconductor relays when it is possible to normally drive the electric motor by the drive circuit. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160025581 | PRESSURE SENSOR - An object of the present invention is to realize a pressure sensor with a small variation in sensor characteristics. The pressure sensor includes a diaphragm having longitudinal and lateral sides, and four strain gauges disposed on the diaphragm. The four strain gauges are arranged at a center of the diaphragm. Two of the four strain gauges are arranged along a lateral direction, and other two strain gauges are arranged along a longitudinal direction. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160025207 | Oil Supply Device - The present invention relates to an oil supply device for use in an automatic transmission mounted on a vehicle, and is applied to a vehicle in which an idle reduction control or the like is performed. The oil supply device includes an oil pump which is driven by a driving motor of a vehicle and a motor separate from the driving motor, and an engagement and disengagement element which transmits a driving force of the driving motor to the oil pump, and the oil pump is driven by the motor without using a drive system of the driving motor. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160021789 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING SUBSTRATE OF ELECTRONIC CONTROL APPARATUS - In a configuration that a thermal grease is applied between a circuit board having an electronic component mounted thereon and a case body containing the board to thermally connect both by the thermal grease, the application has not been easy since the thermal grease is high in initial viscosity. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160016572 | Brake Control Device - Provided is a brake control device capable of preventing increases in device size and cost. A brake control device according to the present invention is arranged between a tandem master cylinder and wheel cylinders and equipped with primary and secondary brake circuit systems, only one of the brake circuit systems has not only a gate-out valve and a pump but also a brake circuit with a control valve. A master cylinder pressure in each fluid pressure chamber of the tandem master cylinder is adjusted by control of the gate-out valve, the pump and the control valve in accordance with driver's brake pedal operation. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160006343 | POWER SUPPLY STARTUP SYSTEM - A power supply startup system activates a power supply of a device provided with a battery or the like at high speed by a wireless signal while suppressing current consumption on standby. The power supply startup system includes a battery, a device supplied with a power from the battery, and a controller which performs wireless communication with the device. The device includes a power supply section which generates a power supply from the battery, a startup section which receives a wireless startup signal transmitted by the controller and outputs a startup signal to the power supply section, a control section which controls the power supply section and the startup section, and a wireless communication section which performs wireless communication with the controller. The wireless startup signal includes at least two signal regions of a first stage and a second stage. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160003686 | INTAKE AIR TEMPERATURE SENSOR AND FLOW MEASUREMENT DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a compact and highly accurate intake air temperature sensor by integrating a fixed resistor, connected in series to a temperature sensing element, into an integrated circuit and dispensing with a reference resistor or a changeover switch for connecting the fixed resistor to this reference resistor. The intake air temperature sensor has a temperature sensing element whose resistance value varies with the intake temperature; an integrated circuit electrically connected to the temperature sensing element; a resistive element connected in series to the temperature sensing element; a writable memory that stores correction information corresponding to the resistance value of the resistive element; and a correction processing unit that corrects errors based on the resistance value of the resistive element, which are included in output signals of the temperature sensing element, on the basis of the correction information stored in the writable memory. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160001716 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - In a vehicle control device in which a driver circuit which does not have a computing function and a computing device communicate with each other, there is provided a technology which can efficiently diagnose that both the driver circuit and the computing device normally communicate with each other by a simple technique. The vehicle control device according to the present invention transmits diagnosis data as a control command from a computing portion to the driver circuit, and the driver circuit sends inverted diagnosis data in which the diagnosis data is bit-inverted back to the computing portion. The computing portion diagnoses whether or not the communication between the computing portion and the driver circuit is normally performed, by using the diagnosis data and the inverted diagnosis data. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160001661 | IN-VEHICLE STEP-DOWN SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY, IN-VEHICLE ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE, AND IDLE STOP SYSTEM - Provided is an in-vehicle step-down switching power supply capable of obtaining a stable output while suppressing nose in a harmful frequency band even when an input voltage decreases. The in-vehicle step-down switching power supply includes a switching frequency control unit and the switching frequency control unit includes a switching frequency range setting unit that changes a switching frequency between fa and fb and a switching frequency path setting unit that skips a frequency band from fd to fe between fa and fb, via an intermediate frequency fc between fa and fb. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20150382501 | POWER CONVERTER - A power converter includes a power semiconductor module, a first flow path forming body and a second flow path forming body that forms a housing space for storing the power semiconductor module and the first flow path forming body, in which the first flow path forming body is configured of a first side wall section, a second side wall section, and a bottom surface section, the first side wall section forms a first flow path space between one surface of the power semiconductor module and the first side wall section, the second side wall section forms a second flow path space between the other surface of the power semiconductor module and the second side wall section, and cooling refrigerant flows through the housing space, the first flow path space, and the second flow path space. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381159 | Load Drive Control Device - Provided is a load drive slope control device that can reduce EMI noise, and power loss and heat generation when a drive transistor is turned on and off, and can prevent excessive high temperature-induced damage to the drive transistor at an excessive high temperature. Disclosed is a load drive control device including: a drive transistor that drives a load; a pre-driver that drives the drive transistor via an ON/OFF control terminal of the drive transistor; a capacitor that is connected to an input side of the pre-driver, a first current source that is ON/OFF controlled by a first signal, and generates current which is charged to the capacitor; and a second current source that is ON/OFF controlled by a second signal, and generates current for discharging the capacitor, in which an output voltage from the pre-driver is changed by charging or discharging the capacitor, the drive transistor is turned on and off by the output voltage from the pre-driver, and a linear ascending gradient and a linear descending gradient of the waveform of a voltage driving the load are obtained by turning on and off the drive transistor. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150377729 | PRESSURE DETECTING DEVICE - A pressure detecting device is mounted in a measurement target and instrument includes a strain inducer to which pressure of a pressure medium is applied and which generates strain in accordance with the pressure and a strain detecting element that is bonded onto a surface opposite to a pressure receiving surface of the strain inducer, in which the strain detecting element includes one or multiple central strain resistant bridges which are arranged at a central portion of the strain detecting element in a bonded surface direction, and one or multiple outer peripheral strain resistant bridges which are arranged at an outer periphery, and in which, for example, deformation of the strain detecting element caused by an external force when being screw-fixed to the measurement target instrument is obtained through the multiple strain resistant bridges. An error of detection pressure caused by the deformation in a pressure value detected through the central strain resistant bridge is corrected. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150377676 | Fluid Measurement Device - There is provided a fluid measurement device that is high in measurement precision. The fluid measurement device has a circuit unit into which a first signal S | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150377670 | Flow Sensor - Provided is a low-cost flow sensor which improves productivity while maintaining high quality and high reliability. This flow sensor is provided with a housing, a cover, a circuit chamber sealed between these and housing electronic components or wiring, and a subpassage through which the fluid flows that is to be detected, and is characterized in that the welding width of a first welded portion forming the circuit chamber is greater than the welding width of a part of the second welded portion forming the subpassage unit. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150377091 | VALVE TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS AND VARIABLE VALVE ACTUATING APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: a power feeding brush including a tip end portion slidably abutted on the slip ring to feed electric power to the slip ring; and a rotation angle sensing mechanism including; a sensed portion provided to the one end portion of the motor output shaft, and a sensing portion provided to the cover member, and arranged to sense a rotation position of the sensed portion; the cover member including a recessed portion formed in an inner surface of the cover member, and recessed in an axially outward direction relative to the position of the opening end of the brush holding hole; and the sensed portion including a tip end portion inserted and disposed within the recessed portion to confront the sensing portion. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150375783 | Drive Device for Electric Vehicle - A motor power unit ( | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150369873 | BATTERY CONTROLLER - Provided is a battery control device which can verify a probability of a state of charge or a state of health of a battery. A battery controller according to the invention calculates a measurement parameter of the battery using the state of charge or the state of health of the battery, and the probability of the state of charge or the state of health is diagnosed by comparing the measurement results (see FIGS. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150369603 | INERTIAL FORCE DETECTION DEVICE - In order to provide an inertial force detection device with improved reliability, an inertial force detection device that has a vibrating body displaceable in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to each other and detects, as angular velocity, the amount of displacement when the vibrating body is displaced in the second direction due to the occurrence of angular velocity in a state where the vibrating body is made to vibrate in the first direction includes, for example, digital signal processing means, means for detecting a failure in a register unit and a calculation unit of the digital signal processing means, and means for outputting a failure detection result to the outside. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150369248 | ROTOR STRUCTURE AND ELECTRIC FLUID PUMP - Provided are a rotor structure capable of suppressing an increase in the number of process steps and an electric structure using the rotor structure. A rotor assembly | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150369199 | AUTOMATIC STOP/RESTART CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND VARIABLE VALVE ACTUATING APPARATUS - An automatic stop/restart control system for an internal combustion engine comprising: an engine stop device configured to stop fuel injection from a fuel injection valve in response to generation of an engine stop request during an operation of an internal combustion engine; and a restart device configured to restart the fuel injection from the fuel injection valve and opening an exhaust valve in a vicinity of a bottom dead center on an expansion stroke end side in response to generation of a restart request by a driver in a course of a decrease in number of revolutions of the internal combustion engine during stop of the fuel injection by the engine stop device. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150369152 | Control Device and Control Method of Engine - It is possible to prevent the stability of an engine from deteriorating even when degrees of changes over time of injection characteristics are different in each fuel injection valve. An inter-cylinder air-fuel ratio variation detection unit | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150367852 | VEHICLE MOTION CONTROL SYSTEM - Disclosed is a vehicle motion control system that can control a vehicle without making a driver feel uncomfortable. The vehicle motion control system includes a control command value calculation unit configured to calculate a control command value for controlling the longitudinal acceleration of a vehicle; a longitudinal acceleration estimating unit configured to estimate the longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle induced by a driver's brake operation; a longitudinal jark estimating unit configured to estimate the longitudinal jark of the vehicle by differentiating the longitudinal acceleration with respect to time; a deviation determination unit configured to determine a deviation between vehicle's motion induced by the driver's brake operation and vehicle's motion induced by a control command using the longitudinal jark and the control command value; and a control command value correction unit configured to correct the control command in accordance with a deviation determination result of the deviation determination unit. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150367828 | BRAKE APPARATUS - There is provided a brake apparatus configured to identify a fluid leak spot while generating a braking force. The brake apparatus is configured to drive pump | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150358351 | NETWORK DEVICE, AND DATA SENDING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM - In order to detect and prevent attacks in which the network is infested with unauthorized data to cause malfunction, the invention aims, on the basis of network cycle information, to detect errors and to prevent unauthorized data forwarding in a network system such as a vehicle-mounted network. This network device is provided with a communication unit which receives data, a time management unit which manages the reception time at which data is received, and a control unit which processes data. If, for received data used as a reference, first data is received having the same identifier and a reception interval shorter than a prescribed cycle, the control unit waits to receive data having the same identifier as the first data from the reception time of the received data used as a reference up until the prescribed cycle has elapsed, and if during this interval second data is received having the same identifier as the first data, the control unit determines that an error has occurred and performs cycle abnormality detection processing (see FIG. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150357923 | DC-DC Converter Apparatus - Objects of the invention are not to receive influence of an electromagnetic noise from a transformer and to reduce a possibility of breakage caused by shock or vibration. In a DC-DC converter apparatus of the invention, a shielding metal frame | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150357852 | BATTERY CONTROL DEVICE - Provided is a battery control device that can accurately detect a state of charge even if characteristics relating to the state of charge change as a result of battery degradation. This battery control device is provided with map data describing the correspondence relationship between an open-circuit voltage and a state of charge of the battery and outputs different state-of-charge values for the same open-circuit voltage according to the amount of elapsed time. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150357685 | BATTERY SYSTEM - A battery system that is capable of transmitting the voltage value of each cell by means of wireless communication while suppressing costs and suppressing the number of components includes: a plurality of cells, each having a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal; voltage detection circuits that detect the voltages of the plurality cells; voltage detection lines that connect each of the positive electrode and negative electrode terminals of the cells to each voltage detection circuit; and an upper controller that performs wireless communication with the voltage detection circuits so as to receive, from each of the voltage detection circuits, the corresponding voltage of each cells. The voltage detection lines function as an antenna used to provide wireless communication between the voltage detection circuit and the upper controller. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150352957 | Secondary Battery and Secondary Battery Module - Provided are a secondary battery and a secondary battery module that can decrease energy of a power generating element of the secondary battery without fail even if, for example, impact of a collision damages a controller controlling charge/discharge of a secondary battery cell or disconnects a wiring connecting the controller and the secondary battery cell. The secondary battery includes a secondary battery cell and a cell controller controlling charge/discharge of the secondary battery cell. The cell controller causes discharge of the secondary battery cell when a collision or a collision probability of a movable object mounting the secondary battery is detected. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150346334 | Millimeter-Wave Dielectric Lens Antenna and Speed Sensor Using Same - A speed sensor which aligns a normal direction of one patch antenna which is disposed on a mounted board, and an optical axis of a dielectric lens uses a frame for inclining a sensor module, in order to obtain a component cos θ in a traveling direction when the speed sensor is installed on a horizontally vertical surface of an automobile or a railway car. When beams are condensed by using the one patch antenna and the cannonball-shaped dielectric lens, the dielectric lens is inclined and a bottom surface portion of the lens is cut with a plane parallel with a surface of the antenna-mounted board. The one patch antenna is configured by one patch and a GND electrode and the gain center of radiation characteristics is a normal direction of the antenna board. However, the radiation characteristics have a substantially hemisphere surface wave shape. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150345346 | VALVE-TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve-timing control apparatus varies a relative phase between a cam shaft and a crankshaft by energizing an electric motor through a power-feeding brush provided to be in contact with a slip ring. The valve-timing control apparatus includes a retaining member slidably retaining the power-feeding brush; a connector provided in the retaining member and connected to a power source; a pigtail harness including one end portion connected with the power-feeding brush, and another end portion connected with a terminal of the connector through a fixing portion; and a guide portion provided in the retaining member and including an outer circumferential surface formed in an arc-shape. The pigtail harness bends along the outer circumferential surface of the guide portion. The another end portion extends substantially in a linear arrangement from the fixing portion to a bending portion at which the pigtail harness bends along the outer circumferential surface. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150344039 | VEHICUAR CONTROL DEVICE AND FAIL-SAFE METHOD - The present invention relates to a vehicular control device and to a fail-safe method. The control device includes: a circuit that monitors an operation of a processor | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150337782 | FUEL INJECTION VALVE - Fuel injection valve with conical valve seat surface that abuts a valve body to seal fuel, fuel injection orifices having an inlet opening formed on the valve seat surface, wherein fuel sprays injected from the plurality of fuel injection orifices include a first fuel spray constituted by a fuel spray injected from at least one fuel injection orifice and a second fuel spray constituted by a plurality of fuel sprays injected at an outer periphery of the first fuel spray, and a fuel injection orifice that injects the first fuel spray constituted with a plane that includes an orifice axis connecting a center of an inlet with a center of an outlet of the fuel injection orifice, parallel to a center axis of the fuel injection valve intersecting a plane, a conical apex that forms the valve seat surface to form an inclination angle that is larger than 0°. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150333312 | ASSEMBLED BATTERY - An assembled battery is configured by connecting a plurality of battery cells arranged in a laminated structure via a bus bar. The battery cell includes a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal; and the bus bar includes a first electrode connection portion connected to the first electrode terminal of one battery cell and a second electrode connection portion connected to the second electrode terminal of another battery cell adjacent to the one battery cell. A connecting device, configured with the bus bar, the first electrode terminal of the one battery cell and the second electrode terminal of the other battery cell, includes a space-forming portion that forms a space where relative displacement of the second electrode connection portion and the second electrode terminal, occurring when the other battery cell is disposed with an offset from a reference position thereof along a laminating direction in which the battery cells are laminated and/or a direction running perpendicular to the laminating direction relative to the one battery cell, is absorbed; and the second electrode terminal and the second electrode connection portion are butt-welded or lap-welded. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150333304 | Assembled Battery - The purpose of the present invention is to provide an assembled battery including a battery holder capable of holding single battery cells while automatically aligning the cells during assembly. In the assembled battery ( | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150326529 | GATEWAY DEVICE, AND SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM - Provided are a control device, system, and method capable of controlling an accessible range of information on an individual external device basis even in the case of a valid access for the information from an external device. An ACL management server is installed to introduce an ACL associating a service provider ID identifying a service provider accessing an ECU mounted on an automobile with an attribute of an ECU that the service provider can access or with an ASIL determined for the ECU, and to manage the ACL safely and in the latest state. Also, a service providing server is installed for providing services for reading and rewriting ECU control information in accordance with a request from a user. A gateway is installed for determining, using the ACL, whether access to the ECU should be granted with respect to access instruction execution information received from the service providing server. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150323609 | BATTERY MONITORING DEVICE AND BATTERY SYSTEM MONITORING DEVICE - A battery monitoring device for monitoring a cell group made by connecting a plurality of single battery cells in series includes a reference voltage generation circuit configured to generate a variable reference voltage, a switching circuit configured to select, as a measurement target voltage, any one of a plurality of types of voltages including the cell voltages of the single battery cells in the cell group and the reference voltage, and an AD converter configured to measure the measurement target voltage which is selected by the switching circuit, and output a digital signal according to the measurement result. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150322826 | VARIABLE VALVE DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A device includes a timing sprocket configured to receive a rotational force from a crankshaft and includes an annular internal-teeth constituting portion having an inner circumferential portion formed with internal teeth; an eccentric shaft portion provided on a motor output shaft of an electric motor and formed in a cylindrical shape such that an outer circumferential surface of the eccentric shaft portion is eccentric relative to a rotational center of the eccentric shaft portion; and a plurality of rollers provided between the internal teeth and the eccentric shaft portion and having total number smaller than total number of the internal teeth. A laser hardening is performed from a tooth top and both tooth surfaces of each internal tooth to attain a high degree of hardness. On the other hand, a tooth bottom surface of each internal tooth is not treated with the laser hardening. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150314765 | Brake Device - The present invention provides a brake device that can improve the pressure-increasing response of wheel cylinder hydraulic pressure. The invention is provided with: a master cylinder ( | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150311835 | MOTOR DRIVING SYSTEM - The disclosed invention provides a synchronous motor driving system that reduces vibration attributed to a temporal second-order component of radial electromagnetic force in a three-phase synchronous motor and controls a d-axis current and a q-axis current to reduce noise that is produced as a result of vibration resonating with a structure. A motor driving system of the present invention causes a predefined negative d-axis current to flow into a motor in which a q-axis current is less than or equal to a predefined current value and d-axis inductance and q-axis inductance match substantially. The motor driving system causes a predefined negative d-axis current to flow into a motor in which d-axis inductance and q-axis inductance differ and causes the negative d-axis current to increase with an increase in the q-axis current. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150310621 | Image Processing Device - For reduced processing time involved in an image recognition process, correctors | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150307100 | Vehicle Controller - The present invention provides a vehicle controller that predicts the behavior of the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle in accordance with the input road shape by use of the mass models of the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle before determining the acceleration of the host vehicle based on the result of the driver model and behavioral prediction. The unintended acceleration of the driver and the two-step deceleration can be thereby less frequent. And the algorithm the vehicle controller possesses alleviates the sense of discomfort felt by the driver. The vehicle controller further enables the cruise control in keeping with the intended driving operation of the driver while the security is ensured even when both the adaptive cruise control (ACC) and the deceleration control ahead of curve are to be performed simultaneously. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150305169 | Electronic Control Device - The invention provides an electronic control device having a high-grade heat sink that: does not require tight control at the time of manufacturing; does not restrict the range of electronic components that can be used; is structurally simple; can be produced at a higher production rate; and is cost-effective. In this device, when a circuit board | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150303844 | INVERTER DEVICE - An inverter device includes a source current calculator and an inverter circuit, wherein: the source current calculator calculates an average value of the DC bus current Ical during a PWM cycle through arithmetic operation executed based upon instantaneous values of the DC bus current Idc of the inverter circuit; and the source current calculator provides an estimated value by designating the average current value Ical during the PWM cycle as an input source current Isrc during the PWM cycle. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150303728 | ASSEMBLED BATTERY MONITORING DEVICE - A battery monitoring device monitors a battery having a plurality of cell groups in which a plurality of cells is connected in series. The battery monitoring device comprises at one or more integrated circuit units, each of which corresponds to each cell group, that respectively measure the voltages of the cells of the cell group and performs cell balancing in order to adjust the capacities of the cells of the cell group; a control unit that controls the integrated circuit unit; and a power supply unit that supplies power to the control unit. The control unit causes the integrated circuit unit to start or to stop cell balancing, and sets a timer period for starting or stopping supply of the power. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150301115 | BATTERY CONTROL DEVICE, BATTERY SYSTEM - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a battery control device that can appropriately verify the results of the estimation of the state of charge of a battery. This battery control device is provided with a charged state calculation unit that calculates the state of charge of the battery and a charged state verification unit that verifies the results of the calculation. The charged state verification unit calculates the charged state using a calculation procedure that is not being used by the charged state calculation unit. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150300858 | THERMAL FLOW METER - In configurations in which a circuit element is connected in parallel with a resistor, it is difficult to detect a break in the two wires. A thermal flow meter includes a heating element and a temperature controlling bridge circuit that is formed of a plurality of resistors and controls the temperature of the heating element. The thermal flow meter includes: a circuit element connected in parallel with at least one resistor configuring the temperature controlling bridge circuit through two wires drawn from both ends of the resistor; a voltage detection circuit that detects that the magnitude of voltage produced between the two wires has become smaller than a first predetermined value; and a fault signal output circuit that, when it is detected at the voltage detection circuit that the. magnitude of the voltage has become smaller than the first predetermined value, outputs a signal indicating a fault. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150298696 | Vehicle Travel Control System - A vehicle travel control system includes a first unit configured to calculate a target longitudinal acceleration/deceleration control command of the own vehicle based on a distance or a relative speed between the own vehicle and a forward obstacle, traveling route information from a vehicle navigation system or a Global Positioning System, and input information such as a vehicle speed set by a driver; a second unit configured to calculate a target longitudinal acceleration/deceleration control command according to a lateral jerk that acts on the own vehicle; and an arbitration unit configured to perform, based on the target longitudinal acceleration/deceleration control command calculated by the second unit, arbitration of the target longitudinal acceleration/deceleration control command calculated by the first unit, wherein output from the arbitration unit is set as a command to control the target longitudinal acceleration/deceleration control command of the own vehicle. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150295455 | Rotating Electric Machine and Electrically Driven Vehicle - Provided is a rotating electric machine including a rotor and stator fitted with various numbers of poles and slots and adapted to reduce vibration/noise of the machine. The rotating electric machine in accordance with an aspect of the present invention includes a stator having an S number of teeth, and a rotor disposed in the stator with a gap intervening between the stator and the rotor. The plurality of teeth in the stator are grouped in units of the number of teeth that is equal to a value “m” or a value “d”, the value “m” being obtained by dividing the number of stator slots, S, by the greatest common divisor N of the number of poles, P, and the number of stator slots, S, the value “d” being an aliquot of “m”. At least one tooth in each of the tooth groups has a distal end different in shape from distal ends of other teeth belonging to the same tooth group, and the plurality of tooth groups have the same configuration. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295221 | RECTANGULAR SECONDARY BATTERY - Provided is a rectangular secondary battery with improved rigidity against vibrations and impacts. A rectangular secondary battery of the present invention includes: a flat-shaped electrode group; a current-collecting plate electrically connected to the electrode group; a battery case accommodating the current-collecting plate and the electrode group; a battery cover that closes an opening of the battery case; an electrode terminal penetrating through the battery cover, the electrode terminal being connected to the current-collecting plate via a connecting member; and a gasket that is inserted between the electrode terminal and the battery cover for insulating and sealing. An insulator is disposed between the current-collecting plate and the battery cover, the battery cover includes a battery cover side fixing part that fixes the insulator, and the insulator includes a current-collecting plate side fixing part that fixes the current-collecting plate. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150294927 | Semiconductor Device and Production Method for Same - The present invention relates to a power module obtained by connecting the opposite sides of a chip with solder, and prevents the side surfaces of a base portion from becoming wet with solder, which would otherwise cause connection failures of the solder or chip displacement, and also prevents peeling of molding resin, which would otherwise break the chip or shorten the life of the solder. The base portion is integrally formed with one of lead frames, and the side surfaces of the base portion and the surface of the main body of the lead frame are roughened so as to have reduced solder wettability. Meanwhile, the solder connection surface of the base portion is not roughened so as to ensure the solder wettability. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce failures that may occur during solder connection and obtain a highly reliable power module. | 10-15-2015 |
