Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130074638 | STEERING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A steering apparatus for a vehicle provided with a steering wheel includes a main housing, a movable column member, a fixing bracket fixing the main housing to the vehicle body, a link mechanism and a drive mechanism connected to the link mechanism, wherein the drive mechanism includes a motor, a threaded shaft rotated by the motor, and a nut member moving in an axial direction of the threaded shaft and threadedly engaged with the threaded shaft, the nut member includes a female threaded portion including two flat surface portions facing each other and parallel to the threaded shaft, the nut member includes a pivot shaft portion including a rotational axis orthogonal to an axis of the female threaded portion, the link mechanism includes a bearing portion rotatably supporting the pivot shaft portion, a spring member arranged between the bearing portion and at least one of the two flat surface portions. | 03-28-2013 |
20130075172 | GRILLE SHUTTER DEVICE - A grille shutter device adapted to be arranged at a front portion of a vehicle body, the grille shutter device including a main air inlet taking air to flow the air to a specific heat exchanger arranged in the vehicle body, a shutter mechanism arranged at the main air inlet, the shutter mechanism opening and closing to control a flow rate of the air flowing from the main air inlet to the specific heat exchanger, and a bypass air inlet allowing the air to bypass the shutter mechanism to guide the air to the specific heat exchanger. | 03-28-2013 |
20130079192 | GEAR SHIFT CONTROL DEVICE FOR HYBRID VEHICLE DRIVE SYSTEM - A gear shift control device for controlling a hybrid vehicle drive system including an engine, an automated transmission, a clutch, and a motor generator, includes a torque indication device for indicating a driver request torque determined in accordance with an operation amount of an accelerator operated by a driver, a power generation interruption device changing a vehicle state to an engine driven state using all of the engine torque when a preliminary gear shift condition is satisfied in a state where the engine drives a driving wheel and the motor generator is actuated to generate an electric power, and a gear shift control device reducing the engine torque and generating an assist torque by actuating the motor generator, disconnecting the clutch, and returning the clutch to a connected state after changing gear sets of the gear train when a gear shift condition of the automated transmission is satisfied. | 03-28-2013 |
20130079966 | CONTROL APPARATUS OF HYBRID VEHICLE - A control apparatus of a hybrid vehicle includes an automatic transmission, a clutch, a motor, a battery, a driving assist control device performing a driving assist control by driving the motor to generate an assist torque, a gear shift assist control device performing a gear shift assist control by driving the motor in response to a decrease of the engine torque caused by the disengagement state of the clutch, an SOC value detection device detecting an SOC value, and a first mode switch device switching an operation mode of the hybrid vehicle from a normal mode in which the driving assist control and the gear shift assist control are performed to a battery power preserving mode in which the driving assist control is prohibited and the gear shift assist control is permitted in a case where the SOC value is equal to or smaller than a first predetermined value. | 03-28-2013 |
20130079967 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - A control device for a hybrid vehicle includes a portion determining whether an engine torque is necessary, a portion controlling a motor to make a motor torque be a target torque, an engine rotation speed control portion controlling an engine output shaft to rotate at a target engine rotation speed for sudden start/reacceleration while the clutch being disengaged after starting the engine and before an actual rotation speed of the engine output shaft exceeds a reference target engine rotation speed in a case where the engine torque is necessary, a control portion engaging the clutch after the actual rotation speed exceeds the reference target engine rotation speed, and a portion controlling the engine so that the engine torque is assumed to be a target torque by canceling the control by the engine rotation speed control portion after the actual rotation speed exceeds the reference target engine rotation speed. | 03-28-2013 |
20130088181 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF ALTERNATING CURRENT MOTOR - A control device of an alternating current motor includes a voltage phase setting portion, an offset detecting portion, a switching controlling portion obtaining a timing at which a voltage waveform is switched between a pulse width modulation waveform and a square waveform per half cycle of an electric angle, and a waveform switching portion switching the voltage waveform to the pulse width modulation waveform on a positive side and the square waveform on a negative side in a case where the offset value is a positive value, switching the voltage waveform to the pulse width modulation waveform on the negative side and the square waveform on the positive side in a case where the offset value is a negative value, and switching the voltage waveform to the square waveform on the positive side and the square waveform on the negative side in a case where the offset value is zero. | 04-11-2013 |
20130092463 | GRILLE SHUTTER APPARATUS - A grille shutter apparatus arranged at a grille opening portion at a frontal portion of a vehicle body includes a frame shaping a flow path of air flowing into the vehicle body from the grille opening portion, a movable fin rotationally supported by the frame and configured to control a flow amount of the air by providing an opening movement and a closing movement, the movable fin including a fin portion and rotary shafts rotationally supported by the frame, the rotary shafts including exposure portions configured to be arranged on the flow path of the air, at least one first shielding wall extending radially outward of the rotary shaft and provided at the exposure portion and a second shielding wall arranged at an upstream side of the air that flows in relative to the exposure portion extending in a direction intersecting a direction of the air that flows in. | 04-18-2013 |
20130092860 | FLUID CONTROL VALVE - A fluid control valve includes: a valve housing having an inlet port and an outlet port; a drive source mounted on the valve housing; a valve shaft configured to be moved by the drive source; and a valve member mounted so as to extend radially with respect to an axial center of the valve shaft, wherein the valve member includes: a valve frame having a cylindrical portion configured to allow insertion of the valve shaft, and a seal member mounted on the extending portion and configured to be capable of coming into abutment with the valve seat, a portion of the valve shaft housed in the mounting portion is formed with a through hole in the direction orthogonal to the axial center, and a rotatable spherical body is arranged in the through hole, and the mounting portion is fixed to the spherical body by caulking. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093851 | IMAGE GENERATOR - An image generator is provided which generates a monitor display image that facilitates easy recognition of a three-dimensional object in an overhead view image. An image generator includes: an overhead view image generation section for generating an overhead view image by performing a projective transformation, with a virtual viewpoint above a vehicle, of an image captured by an on-board camera for capturing an image of a surrounding region of the vehicle; a three-dimensional object detection section for recognizing a three-dimensional object present in the surrounding region and outputting three-dimensional object attribute information showing an attribute of the three-dimensional object; and an image composition section for generating a monitor display image for vehicle driving assistance by performing image composition of a grounding plane mark showing a grounding location of the three-dimensional object with a portion at the grounding location in the overhead view image, based on the three-dimensional object attribute information. | 04-18-2013 |
20130095740 | GRILLE SHUTTER APPARATUS - A grille shutter apparatus configured to be arranged at a grille opening portion of a front portion of a vehicle body, includes a movable fin for controlling a flow rate of air flowing from the grille opening portion into an inside of the vehicle body by performing an opening/closing operation, wherein the movable fin is configured to form an intake passage extending in a direction intersecting with an inflow direction of the air flowing from the grille opening portion in a case where the movable fin is in a fully-closed state. | 04-18-2013 |
20130098193 | STEERING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A steering apparatus for a vehicle, includes: a steering column; a single electric motor being selectively connected to a telescopic mechanism or a tilt mechanism; a steering wheel; a drive mechanism transmitting an output torque of the electric motor to a telescopic threaded shaft and a tilt threaded shaft; and a connecting-disconnecting mechanism having a first clutch mechanism connecting and disconnecting the drive mechanism to and from the tilt threaded shaft and a second clutch mechanism connecting and disconnecting the drive mechanism to and from the telescopic threaded shaft, the connecting-disconnecting mechanism bringing one of the first clutch mechanism and the second clutch mechanism in a connected state to the drive mechanism and bringing the other of the first clutch mechanism and the second clutch mechanism in a disconnected state from the drive mechanism, wherein the drive mechanism and the connecting-disconnecting mechanism constitute a single power connecting-disconnecting unit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099514 | VEHICLE BUMPER APPARATUS AND CRUSH BOX THEREOF - A vehicle bumper apparatus includes a bumper reinforcement member formed to have a hollow cross section and including a vehicle interior portion formed to have an open cross section including an opening, and a crush box supporting the bumper reinforcement member to mount the bumper reinforcement member to a side member of a vehicle body, the crush box including a connecting portion arranged at a vehicle exterior portion, the connecting portion closing the opening of the bumper reinforcement member to restrict the opening from being expanded, and a retaining portion protruding from the connecting portion toward an exterior side of a vehicle to retain the bumper reinforcement member. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099522 | SUNSHADE STOPPER - A sunshade stopper is provided at a housing connecting a pair of guide rails that slidably supports a sunshade on a ceiling of a vehicle interior. The sunshade stopper includes a corresponding portion arranged at a position corresponding to an end portion of the sunshade during the sunshade is at the closed position, at least one contact portion provided on the corresponding portion that makes contact with at least a portion of the end portion of the sunshade during the sunshade is at the closed position, the contact portion formed with a form fitting the end portion of the sunshade that makes contact with the contact portion, and an attaching portion configured to be fixed to a vehicle, provided at a position in a direction opposite to where the ceiling is provided relative to the corresponding portion and extending in a direction in which the sunshade opens. | 04-25-2013 |
20130111932 | BATTERY WARM-UP APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A the battery warm-up apparatus includes an electric motor, a battery, an electric generator for charging the battery, an engine for driving the electric generator, a refrigeration circuit arranged to pass through inside the engine in a manner that a temperature medium flows through an inside thereof, a heat exchanger, a battery-heating channel branched from the refrigeration circuit, arranged to pass through the battery and connected to the refrigeration circuit again, a first switching valve arranged at a first portion of the refrigeration circuit, the battery-heating channel being branched from the refrigeration circuit at the first portion, the first switching valve connecting and disconnecting the battery-heating channel relative to the refrigeration circuit, a battery temperature sensor, and a controller for operating the first switching valve on the basis of temperature of the battery and for allowing the temperature medium to flow through the battery-heating channel. | 05-09-2013 |
20130112523 | ELECTROMAGNETIC CLUTCH - An electromagnetic clutch includes a wrap spring being wound around to be in a pressure bonding state relative to an outer peripheral surface of a tubular portion of a driving-side rotation member. A first end of the wrap spring connects to a driving arm of a driving member, which connects to a driven-side rotation member. A second end of the wrap spring connects to a rim portion of an operating member formed in a disc form. The operating member is rotatable relative to the driven-side rotation member about the rotation axis as the center and movable along the rotation axis. After a rotation of the operating member is restrained, the driving member is restrained from rotation, which operates the wrap spring to twist and cancels the pressure boding state of the wrap spring relative to the driving-side rotation member, which in turn provides a power cutoff state. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113224 | BUMPER REINFORCEMENT - A bumper reinforcement includes end portions and an intermediate portion, wherein the bumper reinforcement is made of a light alloy extruded material including a hollow cross-section and is configured to be arranged at a vehicle, the bumper reinforcement is configured to be assembled on and supported by a supporting member at each of the end portions bent toward a vehicle body side, the hollow cross-section includes a closed cross-section at the intermediate portion and includes an open cross-section provided with an opening at each of the end portions, each of the end portions is formed in a manner that a thickness of the hollow cross-section thereof in a vehicle front-rear direction is gradually reduced toward an end, and each of the openings is configured to be at least partially closed with a connecting portion of the supporting member and is restricted from being expanded. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113263 | SEAT ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A seat adjustment apparatus for a vehicle includes a first bracket, a second bracket defining an accommodating void with the first bracket, a pawl, and a pawl reverse spring, The pawl includes a ratchet portion, a pawl side reverse wall portion, and a pawl side return wall portion, the ratchet portion allowing a relative rotation of the first and second brackets in a first direction and prohibiting a relative rotation of the first and second brackets in a second direction in a case where the pawl is biased to rotate in a normal direction, the pawl side reverse wall portion allowing the relative rotation in the second direction so that the pawl is reversed by being biased to rotate in a reverse direction, the pawl side return wall portion bringing the pawl to be returned by being biased to rotate in the normal direction. | 05-09-2013 |
20130118428 | VALVE OPENING AND CLOSING CONTROL APPARATUS - A valve opening and closing time control apparatus includes;
| 05-16-2013 |
20130126253 | GRILLE SHUTTER APPARATUS - A grille shutter apparatus includes a shutter mechanism arranged in an grille opening portion positioned at a front portion of a vehicle body of a vehicle to control a flow rate of air flowing from the grille opening portion to an internal portion of the vehicle body, and a frame supporting the shutter mechanism in the grille opening portion, the frame including a fixing portion at one end to be fixed in the grille opening portion, the frame including a protruding portion making contact with a front grille and generating a rotational moment at the frame in a case where the front grille arranged at an opening end of the grille opening portion moves rearward due to an occurrence of a collision of the vehicle, the rotational moment acting about the fixing portion. | 05-23-2013 |
20130133267 | DOOR MOLDING - A door molding configured to attach to a window frame of a vehicle door includes a design member formed in a thin-film form provided on a surface of a core member, the design member made from a resin material containing metal particles. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135161 | ANTENNA DEVICE - An antenna device includes a first antenna including a first element formed in an annular form and having a length defined in accordance with a wavelength of a first frequency within a first frequency band, which is predetermined. The first antenna is configured to transmit and/or receive a signal of the first frequency. The first antenna also includes a retaining portion arranged at an outer peripheral portion of the first element and retains the first element in a state where a plane orthogonal to an axial direction of the first element conforms to a horizontal direction. The antenna device also includes a second antenna including a second element arranged at a radially inward position of the first element and configured to transmit and/or receive a signal of a second frequency within a second frequency band that is different from the first frequency band. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136586 | ELECTRIC PUMP - An electric pump includes a pump portion, a motor portion including a rotor formed in a cylinder form sharing an axis with a rotation shaft provided at the pump portion and a stator formed in an annular form arranged at an outer periphery of the rotor with a clearance between the stator and the rotor, and a driver portion arranged at a position between the pump portion and the motor portion when viewed in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the rotation shaft, the driver portion controlling the motor portion, the driver portion arranged in a state where a portion of the driver portion overlaps with at least a portion of the pump portion or with at least a portion of the motor portion when viewed in the axial direction. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136982 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE USING MAGNESIUM ELEMENT-CONTAINING NEGATIVE ELECTRODE - An electrochemical device includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, wherein the negative electrode contains a magnesium element, and wherein the nonaqueous electrolytic solution is one obtained after dipping metallic lithium for a predetermined time period. | 05-30-2013 |
20130142680 | ELECTRIC PUMP - An electric pump includes a motor, a bracket including a support surface arranged to be perpendicular to a rotation shaft of the motor and a bush attachment bore provided to be perpendicular to the support surface, and a bush fitted to the bush attachment bore. The bush attachment bore includes a base portion formed in a shape similar to a portion of the bush fitted to the bush attachment bore, the bush attachment bore including an expansion portion integrally formed with the base portion and extending in a circumferential direction of the motor. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145879 | POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A power transmission device includes a partition wall dividing an oil reservoir into a first oil reservoir in which a final gear is accommodated and a second oil reservoir in which the final gear is not accommodated, an oil passage passing a lubrication oil to a bearing of a rotor shaft, to a bearing of an input shaft and to a reduction mechanism, an oil pump connected to the oil passage via an outlet port, and communicated with the second oil reservoir via an inlet port, a third oil reservoir provided at a position lower than the rotor shaft and receiving the lubrication oil at a position upper than the second oil reservoir, and a gutter-shaped member tilted so as to communicate with the third oil reservoir at an upper end and the second oil reservoir at an lower end, and crossing through or over the partition wall. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147237 | VEHICLE SUNROOF DEVICE - A vehicle sunroof device includes a movable panel, guide rails, rear slide members, an electrical drive source, and check mechanisms. When the rear slide members are moved toward the front of the vehicle along the guide rails when the movable panel is in a totally closed state, the movable panel is changed to a tilt-up state. Check release mechanisms provided to the rear slide members are changed to an engaged state when the rear slide members are further moved toward the front of the vehicle with the movable panel in the tilt-up state and without involving operation of the movable panel. In the engaged state, when the rear slide members are moved toward the rear of the vehicle afterward, the check release mechanisms move the entire check mechanisms while switching the check mechanisms to a movable state. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147402 | DRIVING CONTROL DEVICE OF OPENING AND CLOSING BODY FOR VEHICLE - There is provided a driving control device of an opening and closing body, which drives the opening and closing body in a closed state by a motor through an idling section thereof. The device includes a calculation section for calculating a rotation speed difference between a rotation speed of the motor in the idling section and a current rotation speed of the motor; and an insertion detection section for detecting insertion of a foreign member based on the calculated rotation speed difference and a predetermined threshold value. The threshold value monotonously decreases according to an increase in the rotation amount of the motor to coincide with a fully-closed state threshold value at a predetermined rotation amount of the motor within an error range of the rotation amount corresponding to the fully-closed state, and to maintain the fully-closed state threshold value to a maximum rotation amount in the error range. | 06-13-2013 |
20130154427 | STATOR OF ROTARY ELECTRICAL MACHINE - A stator of a rotary electrical machine, includes a core unit configured by a plurality of core assemblies each including a laminated steel plate, an insulator, and a coil; a bus ring facing the core unit; and an accommodating box arranged at the insulator, accommodating an end portion of the coil, and including radially inward and outward engaged portions, the insulator including radially inward and outward extending portions, the radially inward extending portion including a radially inward engagement portion about which the accommodating box rotates in a radial direction of the core unit from an initial attachment position to an attached position and which engages with the radially inward engaged portion, the radially outward extending portion including a radially outward engagement portion which engages with the radially outward engaged portion in accordance with the rotation of the accommodating box to move the accommodating box in the radial direction. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154428 | WAVE WINDING COIL FOR ROTARY ELECTRICAL MACHINE - A wave winding coil for a rotary electrical machine includes a coil conductor including coil side portions and coil end portions, the coil conductor being wound to include a wave winding configuration, a relational expression expressing a total number of the coil side portions included in a phase coil is expressed by a mathematical expression 1 m×k=n×q×2p, and m refers to the number of the phase unit coils that are parallelly connected to each other, k refers to the number of the coil side portions that are serially connected to each other, q refers to the number of serially-connected-conductors per magnetic pole, the serially-connected-conductor belongs to one of the kinds of the coil side portions, 2p refers to the number of the magnetic pole, m refers to a common divisor between q×2p and n. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154534 | VEHICLE SEAT APPARATUS - Provided is a vehicle seat apparatus including drive mechanism for moving configuring elements of a vehicle seat using a motor drive, in order to adjust a posture; control mechanism for controlling the operation of the drive mechanism; a rotation sensor which outputs pulse signals synchronized with a motor rotation; position detection mechanism for detecting a movement position of the configuring elements by counting pulse edges of the pulse signals according to the motor rotation direction; and reverse rotation detection mechanism for estimating that a reverse rotation has occurred in the motor rotation, in a situation where the pulse edges are continuously detected after the motor drive is stopped, if the rotation direction is unchanged, in a case where a motor rotation speed indicated by the pulse edges after the stop becomes faster than the motor rotation speed before the motor drive is stopped. | 06-20-2013 |
20130157806 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR HYBRID VEHICLE DRIVE SYSTEM - A control device for hybrid vehicle drive system includes an engine rotation speed control device performing a rotation speed control of an engine so that a rotation speed of an output shaft of the engine is assumed to be equal to a next gear shift stage input shaft rotation speed when an operation amount of an accelerator pedal increases from an operation amount smaller than a first predetermined amount to an operation amount greater than a second predetermined amount, at which gear stages are switched from a current gear shift stage to a next gear shift stage whose gear ratio is greater than the current gear shift stage, within a priority determining time, a front clutch engagement commanding device, a front clutch engaging device, a release side frictional engagement element releasing device, a motor generator rotation speed control device, and an engagement side frictional engagement element engaging device. | 06-20-2013 |
20130160686 | BUTTONHOLE SWITCH MECHANISM - Provided is a buttonhole switch mechanism of a buttonhole sewing machine including a buttonhole presser mounted on a lower end of a presser bar of the sewing machine and having a presser frame, a buttonhole switch mechanism disposed on an arm section of the sewing machine, a feed dog disposed below the buttonhole presser to move cloth, a sewing needle forming stitches in the cloth with vertical movement, a controller performing control on the movement of the feed dog and the sewing needle, a fixing member fixed to a non-movable part of a sewing machine main body, a mount supported so as to be movable in the front-and-rear direction with respect to the fixing member, an adjustment mechanism adjusting and fixing the relative positions of the fixing member and the mount in the front-and-rear direction, a lever member supported by a rotary shaft provided at the mount, and the detection switch fixed to the mount. | 06-27-2013 |
20130161976 | DOOR FRAME FOR VEHICLE - A door frame for a vehicle includes a vertical portion fixed to an upper end portion of a door body, and a main frame portion connected to an upper end of the vertical portion and fixed to the upper end portion of the door body. The vertical portion includes an envelope portion and a fixing portion. The envelope portion includes a bottom wall, an outer wall extending in an outward direction of the vehicle from an end portion of the bottom wall at an outer side of the door frame, and an inner wall extending in the outward direction from an end portion of the bottom wall at an inner side of the door frame. The bottom wall of which a width in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle is greater in a vicinity of the door body than at an upper end side of the vertical portion. | 06-27-2013 |
20130161980 | DOOR FRAME FOR VEHICLE - A door frame for a vehicle includes a pillar portion, a main frame portion, an envelope portion provided at the main frame portion, serving as a framework of the main frame portion and opening to a vehicle outer side, a fixing portion, a bottom wall provided at the envelope portion and positioned at a vehicle inner side, an upper wall provided at the envelope portion and extending from an end portion of the bottom wall at a vehicle upper side towards the vehicle outer side, a lower wall provided at the envelope portion and extending from an end portion of the bottom wall at a vehicle lower side towards the vehicle outer side, and at least one reinforcement rib formed at the envelope portion, the reinforcement rib extending from the bottom wall towards the vehicle outer side and connecting the upper wall and the lower wall. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166124 | HYBRID VEHICLE DRIVING APPARATUS - A hybrid vehicle driving apparatus includes a clutch control device and an automatic transmission control device that are connected to mutually communicate. The clutch control device sends a request to wait gear shift to the automatic transmission control device while front clutch operation is in preparation. The automatic transmission control device that receives the request to wait gear shift determines whether priority is given to engaging or disengaging the front clutch or to shifting gears of the automatic transmission. The automatic transmission control device that is determined to give priority to the front clutch operation sends out a gear shift in stand-by state signal to the clutch control device while maintaining the automatic transmission in a gear shift prepared state. The clutch control device that receives the gear shift in progress signal restrains the front clutch from engaging or disengaging while maintaining the front clutch in an operation prepared state. | 06-27-2013 |
20130187426 | VEHICLE SEAT RECLINING APPARATUS - Provided is a vehicle seat reclining apparatus comprising: a first bracket, a second bracket, a pole, a cam, a locking urging member, a hinge pin, a fitting hole, a release lever, and a supporting urging member. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187633 | CURRENT SENSOR - Provided is a current sensor including at least three bus bars made of flat-plate-shaped conductors and an inverter, a plurality of cores in which a core is formed by stacking flat plates made of U-shaped magnetic bodies, and a detecting element arranged on the side of an opening portion of each of the cores for detecting the intensity of a magnetic field, that the interval between the core and another bus bar that is adjacent to the bus bar inserted into the U groove of the core becomes 1/2 of the length of the opening portion in the spacing direction, and the tolerance of the gap is set to a value obtained by subtracting the value of 3/2 of the length of the opening portion in the spacing direction from the value of the interval between the bus bars that are adjacent to each other, with the gap as a median value. | 07-25-2013 |
20130189432 | CARBON NANOTUBE PRODUCING APPARATUS AND CARBON NANOTUBE PRODUCING METHOD - Provided is a carbon nanotube producing apparatus comprising a reaction chamber that accommodates a substrate that forms carbon nanotubes and reactive gas supply mechanism for supplying a reactive gas to the substrate accommodated in the reaction chamber, in which the reactive gas supply mechanism has two or more shower plates having a plurality of gas ejection holes, the shower plates being overlappingly arranged so that the reactive gas passes therethrough in order and the reactive gas is supplied to a carbon nanotube forming face of the substrate and the shower plates are arranged so that the ejection holes of the shower plates that are adjacent to each other do not overlap each other in a gas ejection direction. | 07-25-2013 |
20130190974 | CONTROL APPARATUS - A control apparatus includes a first drive device driving a movable panel, a first detection device detecting a state of the movable panel, a second drive device driving a sunshade, a second detection device detecting a state of the sunshade, and a control device controlling one of the first and second drive devices to stop an operation of a succeeding member serving as one of the movable panel and the sunshade configured to be positioned behind a preceding member serving as the other of the movable panel and the sunshade relative to each of the opening position and the closing position, in a case where a distance between the movable panel and the sunshade becomes smaller than a predetermined distance on a basis of a position of the movable panel detected by the first drive device and a position of the sunshade detected by the second drive device. | 07-25-2013 |
20130192066 | METHOD OF ASSEMBLING VARIABLE VALVE TIMING APPARATUS - A method of assembling a variable valve timing apparatus includes steps of temporarily fixing a driven-side rotation body to a base member in a first rotation restricting state by a process of engaging a first projecting and retracting member with the base member of a driving-side rotation body and the driven-side rotation body followed by a process of rotating either the base member or the driven-side rotation body, providing a supplementary member of the driving-side rotation body to the driven-side rotation body to establish a second rotation restricting state by a process of installing the supplementary member to the base member in a state where the second projecting and retracting member engages with the supplementary member and the driven-side rotation body followed by a process of rotating either the supplementary member or the driven-side rotation body, and fastening the supplementary member and the base member by using a fastening member. | 08-01-2013 |