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20130054037 | PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - A photovoltaic power generation system includes a photovoltaic array including photovoltaic modules, the photovoltaic power generation system further includes a control apparatus configured to display output characteristics of the photovoltaic array and power generating conditions of the photovoltaic array in synchronization. | 02-28-2013 |
20130063992 | CONNECTION APPARATUS FOR POWER CONVERTER - A power converter apparatus is provided with a lead-in board in which alternating-current power received from power converting units is connected in parallel, and a connection base including frames for installing the power converting units therein. The frames are provided with connection sections for connecting the main, circuits of the power converting units. The lead-in board is provided with breakers for cut off alternating-current power from the power converting units. | 03-14-2013 |
20130163133 | GROUNDING APPARATUS - A grounding apparatus includes a current detector configured to detect a current flowing in the ground line, a fuse inserted in series in a part of the around line and configured to melt when the current flowing in the ground line exceeds the first protection setting value, not destroying the current detector, and then exceeds the first protection setting value, causing a complete grounding fault, and a determination device configured to give an open command to the circuit breaker when the current detected by the current detector exceeds the first protection setting value of the circuit breaker. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163301 | POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS - A power conversion apparatus includes a comparison circuit which compares a determination element related to a loss in the power converter with a switching reference value and outputs a determination instruction when a difference has occurred between them, a determination circuit which outputs a two-level operation switching instruction when the determination element is greater than or equal to the switching reference value, and a switching circuit which, when having received a two-level operation switching instruction, turns off the alternating-current switch and turns on the valve devices in the arm sequentially, thereby bringing the power converter into a two-level operation state. | 06-27-2013 |
20130200713 | Fault Detection Apparatus - There is provided a fault detection apparatus including an open/close unit configured to open/close an electric path to pass a direct current forward, a reverse-current detector configured to detect a reverse current running through the electric path backward, and an opening unit configured to open the open/close unit when the reverse current is detected by the reverse-current detector. | 08-08-2013 |
20130336025 | POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS - A power conversion apparatus includes an inverter circuit, a system voltage measurement unit measuring a system voltage, a voltage drop detector detecting a voltage drop of a power system, based on the system voltage, a direct current power measurement unit measuring a direct current power to be input into the inverter circuit, an alternating current command value calculator calculating an alternating current command value to control an alternating current output from the inverter circuit, based on the direct current power and the system voltage, and a current limiter that decrease a current limit value to limit the alternating current command value, when the voltage drop is detected. | 12-19-2013 |
20130336026 | POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS - A power conversion apparatus includes an inverter circuit including a switching element, a system voltage measurement unit measuring a system voltage of a power system, a voltage drop detector detecting a voltage drop of the power system, a carrier wave generator generating a carrier wave, a carrier wave frequency modulator increasing a frequency of the carrier wave, when the voltage drop is detected, a signal wave generator generating a signal wave to control the inverter circuit, a gate signal generator comparing the carrier wave with the signal wave, and generating a gate signal, and a power conversion controller controlling the inverter circuit, based on the gate signal. | 12-19-2013 |
20130336030 | SOLAR POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - There is provided a solar power generation system including a solar cell, an inverter converting a direct current power generated by the solar cell into an alternating current power, a system voltage measurement unit measuring a system voltage, a voltage drop detector detecting a voltage drop of a power system, based on the system voltage, a first direct current voltage controller controlling a direct current voltage of the inverter to enhance a power generation efficiency of the solar cell, when the voltage drop is not detected, and a second direct current voltage controller controlling the direct current voltage of the inverter to suppress a current output from the inverter, when the voltage drop is detected. | 12-19-2013 |
20140306713 | FAULT DETECTING APPARATUS AND DETECTING METHOD OF THE SAME - There is provided a fault detecting apparatus for detecting a fault in an electric circuit including connecting circuits and an aggregating circuit. The fault detecting apparatus includes a fault detector that detects a fault when at least one of connecting circuit current detectors detects that a current flows and an aggregating current detector detects that a current does not flow. | 10-16-2014 |
20140346872 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS FOR POWER CONVERTERS - There is provided a power supply apparatus for power converters which convert power generated by power generators into power to be supplied to a power system. The power supply apparatus includes a photovoltaic power cell for the power converters, the photovoltaic power cells generating power for supplying power of the power converters. | 11-27-2014 |
20150200607 | POWER CONVERTER - A power converter includes a power conversion circuit including a switching element, a device including an inductance and provided on an AC side of the power conversion circuit, an output-amount measuring module configured to measure an output amount of an output from the power conversion circuit, and a switching frequency determining module configured to determine a switching frequency at which the switching element is switched to reduce a loss including a loss due to the device, based on the output amount measured by the output-amount measuring module. | 07-16-2015 |
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20090243946 | HIGH FREQUENCY WAVE GLASS ANTENNA FOR AN AUTOMOBILE AND WINDOW GLASS SHEET FOR AN AUTOMOBILE WITH THE SAME - A high frequency wave glass antenna for an automobile includes an antenna conductor formed in a loop shape and disposed in or an automobile window glass sheet, the antenna conductor having a discontinuity and feeding portions at both ends of the discontinuity or in the vicinity of said both ends, the discontinuity being formed of a portion of the loop shape cut by a length. The antenna conductor includes a detour in a portion of the loop shape, the detour being formed of a single or a plurality of detour elements, the detour being disposed in a position, which satisfies that a rate of a distance from a center of the discontinuity of the original loop shape to a center of the detour of the original loop shape with respect to a length of an inner peripheral edge or an outer peripheral edge of the original loop shape ranges from 0.18 to 0.4. | 10-01-2009 |
20110016973 | ACCELERATION SENSOR DEVICE AND SENSOR NETWORK SYSTEM - To provide an acceleration sensor and a sensor network system having a construction in which the consumption of power to be consumed can be reduced and the sensor itself can be miniaturized without using any piezoelectric sensor or piezoelectric bimorph. | 01-27-2011 |
20110102297 | Artificial medium - An artificial medium includes: a dielectric layer having a front surface and a back surface; a plurality of first grid lines respectively formed on the front surface and the back surface and extending in a first direction and a plurality of second grid lines extending in a second direction different from the first direction; and electrically conductive elements respectively formed on the front surface and the back surface of the dielectric layer and located in areas where the first grid lines intersect the second grid lines, wherein when an electromagnetic wave propagated in the direction of the thickness of the dielectric layer is incident, a current excited by the electromagnetic wave is increased in a prescribed operating frequency and a current loop is formed in a plane parallel to the direction of the thickness. | 05-05-2011 |
20110168788 | RFID TAG AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, IMPEDANCE-ADJUSTING METHOD AND RESIN SHEET AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - An RFID tag has an antenna element including an antenna substrate equipped with an IC chip and a conductor pattern, an artificial medium, and a first insulation layer sandwiched between the antenna element and the artificial medium. The artificial medium has a single first conductive element placed on an upper surface of a dielectric layer and a single second conductive element placed on a lower surface of the dielectric layer. | 07-14-2011 |
20120154229 | WINDOWPANE FOR VEHICLE AND ANTENNA - A vehicle window glass has a glass plate, a conductive film laminated on the glass plate and an antenna structured with a feeding structure placed on the conductive film, and is characterized in that the feeding structure has a dielectric and a pair of electrodes, that the conductive film has a slot one end of which makes an upper edge of the conductive film an open end, and is disposed between the glass plate and the dielectric, and that the pair of electrodes are disposed on the opposite side of the side of the conductive film with the dielectric in between so that the slot is sandwiched between the pair of electrodes when the pair of electrodes are projected onto the conductive film, and are capacitively coupled to the conductive film. | 06-21-2012 |
20120261478 | RFID TAG - An RFID tag is characterized by including a loop feeding element formed on a base material; an IC chip that is electrically connected to the loop feeding element and that is laid on the base material; and an artificial medium that includes a dielectric layer having a first surface and a second surface, a first conductive layer laid over the first surface, and a second conductive layer laid over the second surface and on which the base material is stacked, wherein the first surface is placed closer to the loop feeding element than the second surface; and, when viewed from a stack direction in which the loop feeding element is stacked on the artificial medium, the loop feeding element is placed so as to enclose a part of an edge portion of the first conductive layer of the artificial medium. | 10-18-2012 |
20130257664 | WINDOW GLASS FOR VEHICLE AND ANTENNA - Window glass for vehicle may include an antenna conductor having electrodes provided on a surface of a dielectric on a side opposite from a conductive film. The conductive film may include a slot with a first end part that opens at a peripheral edge part of the conductive film. The antenna conductor may include a loop-shaped antenna element which electrodes serve as a feeding point, and projections of the electrodes onto a glass plate are located at positions not overlapping the conductive film, and a projection of the loop-shaped antenna element onto the glass plate forms a crossover part that crosses the slot. | 10-03-2013 |
20150288066 | MULTIBAND ANTENNA AND WIRELESS DEVICE - A multiband antenna includes a feeding element connected to a feeding point, a radiating element functioning as a radiating conductor, the radiating element being positioned apart from the feeding element and fed with electric power by electromagnetically coupling to the feeding element, a ground plane, and a non-feeding element being positioned close to the radiating element and connected to the ground plane via a reactance element. The reactance element has a reactance that causes the multiband antenna to match with a frequency other than a resonance frequency of a resonance mode of the radiating element. | 10-08-2015 |
20150303577 | MIMO ANTENNA AND WIRELESS DEVICE - A MIMO antenna is provided that includes a ground plane, and a plurality of dipole antenna elements that are arranged in the vicinity of the ground plane. Each of the plurality of dipole antenna elements includes a radiating element including a conductor portion extending along an outer edge portion of the ground plane, and a feeding portion that feeds the radiating element. | 10-22-2015 |
20150357700 | VEHICLE WINDOW GLASS AND ANTENNA - Vehicle window glass include a glass plate, a dielectric, a conductive film, placed between the glass plate and the dielectric, and an antenna including a pair of electrodes. The conductive film, includes a pair of facing parts that faces the electrodes across the dielectric, a main slot, and a pair of sub slots. The main slot has, at one end, an open end open at an outer edge of the conductive film, and is formed between the facing parts. Each sub slot has, at one end, an open end open at the outer edge of the conductive film. One of the sub slots connects, at the other end, to the main slot so as to surround one of the facing parts. The other of the sub slots connects, at the other end, to the main slot so as to surround the other of the facing parts. | 12-10-2015 |
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20100049819 | VEHICLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A vehicle communication device for using a plurality of applications in an inter-vehicle communication, and performing a control to avoid congestion of its own vehicle and other vehicles. The vehicle communication device includes a plurality of application units performing the inter-vehicle communication, a lower protocol unit transmitting and receiving data between vehicles, and a middleware unit intervening between the application units and the lower protocol unit. The middleware unit includes a transfer service processing unit, a communication control service unit, and a transmission/reception control processing unit. The communication control service unit controls a congestion avoiding process of its own vehicle and other vehicles based on application priority received for each of the application units, priority for each vehicle, and channel usage rate obtained from the lower protocol unit. | 02-25-2010 |
20110021149 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION STATION, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND DEDICATED-SHORT-RANGE-COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A mobile communication station is provided with a type information registration unit ( | 01-27-2011 |
20110302466 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR ELEVATOR - Each of a control panel node | 12-08-2011 |
20120109510 | TRAVEL PATTERN GENERATION DEVICE - A travel interval division part and a low fuel consumption travel pattern generation part are included, the travel interval division part dividing, based on a reference travel pattern indicating a speed and a travel time period in a case where a vehicle travels without consideration of energy consumption and based on travel route information indicating a travel route that the vehicle travels, the travel route into a plurality of travel intervals at a plurality of reference points, the low fuel consumption travel pattern generation part determining a low fuel consumption travel pattern in which a travel time period of each travel interval falls within a predetermined range of a travel time period of each travel interval of the reference travel pattern and a cumulative speed increase amount in each travel interval is smaller than that of the reference travel pattern. | 05-03-2012 |
20120209510 | IN-VEHICLE IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND TRAVEL AID DEVICE - An in-vehicle information processing device capable of efficiently processing information by extracting an event that exists outside of a travel route but can possibly reach the travel route. The in-vehicle information processing device includes a map database, a traffic information database, a vehicle position determination mechanism, a driving assist information extraction mechanism for extracting driving assist information, and a driving assist information database for storing the driving assist information. An aid information extraction mechanism includes a travel route determination mechanism for determining a vehicle travel route based on a vehicle position. The driving assist information extraction mechanism extracts the driving assist information from map information and traffic information on the travel route. | 08-16-2012 |
20120275334 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A communication control apparatus in which, when requested to transmit (transmission) terminal information from information processing means, a transmission timing controller obtains past own terminal communication band information from an information storage, and determines whether or not to control a transmission timing. Moreover, the transmission timing controller calculates a back-off parameter for the control based on a past reception power information history that is obtained from the information storage, and sets a back-off parameter to a transmission device. | 11-01-2012 |
20130006530 | ROUTE SEARCH DEVICE - A route search device capable of searching for a route with the lowest energy cost at a high speed even if the distance between start and end points is long. The route search device includes: a long distance search attribute calculation section for calculating, as an attribute of one long distance search link, the sum of upslope elevation differences of a plurality of short distance search links and the sum of downslope elevation differences of the short distance search links corresponding to the one long distance search link; and a link cost calculation section for calculating, based on the attribute of the long distance search link and vehicle characteristics, a link cost that is an energy consumption at a time when a vehicle travels in the long distance search link. | 01-03-2013 |
20140046581 | DRIVE ASSISTANCE DEVICE - A stopping vehicle estimating unit estimates one of a number of stopping vehicles and a length of a stopping vehicle line of different vehicles that are stopping at a traffic light along an estimated driving route ahead of the own vehicle closer to the traffic light than the own vehicle, based on a position information of a site at which a traffic light is provided, an own vehicle position, an own vehicle speed, and traffic information. A passable time zone estimating unit estimates a passable time zone during which the own vehicle is able to pass by the traffic light, based on the one of the number of stopping vehicles and the length of the stopping vehicle line that have been estimated by the stopping vehicle estimating unit, and on schedule information. | 02-13-2014 |
20150149069 | DRIVE-PATTERN EVALUATION DEVICE AND DRIVE-PATTERN EVALUATION METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a drive-pattern evaluation device for appropriately evaluating energy-saving performance of a drive pattern. A drive-pattern evaluation device of the present invention is a drive-pattern evaluation device which evaluates a past actual drive pattern of a moving body based on energy consumption, the device including: an energy-saving drive pattern generating unit that generates an energy-saving drive pattern in consideration of energy consumption with respect to an evaluation section of the actual drive pattern; an energy consumption estimating unit that estimates energy consumption by the energy-saving drive pattern as an estimated energy-saving consumption; and an eco-score calculator that compares energy consumption by the actual drive pattern in the evaluation section and the estimated energy-saving consumption, to evaluate the actual drive pattern based on the comparison result. | 05-28-2015 |
20150185028 | RECOMMENDED-DRIVE-PATTERN GENERATION DEVICE AND RECOMMENDED-DRIVE-PATTERN GENERATION METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a recommended-drive-pattern generation device that generates a recommended drive pattern with low energy consumption in consideration of actual drive of the user. A recommended-drive-pattern generation device of the present invention includes: a reference drive pattern generating unit that generates as a reference drive pattern a drive pattern in a past drive route from a drive history of a moving body; a speed limit point setting unit that sets a speed limit point within the drive route based on at least one of the reference drive pattern and road information of the drive route; and a recommended-drive-pattern generating unit that generates a recommended drive pattern for the drive route in which the speed limit point is passed at a speed not higher than a speed limit defined by the speed limit point. | 07-02-2015 |
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20150072129 | GLASS SHEET CAPABLE OF BEING INHIBITED FROM WARPING THROUGH CHEMICAL STRENGTHENING - A glass sheet includes 4 mol % or more of Al | 03-12-2015 |
20150079347 | GLASS SHEET CAPABLE OF BEING INHIBITED FROM WARPING THROUGH CHEMICAL STRENGTHENING - A glass sheet has one surface and the other surface facing the one surface in a thickness direction, wherein a fluorine concentration (average fluorine concentration by SIMS at a depth of 1 to 24 μm) in the one surface is higher than that in the other surface. The following expression is satisfied: 0.07≦ΔF/ΔH | 03-19-2015 |
20150267892 | TRANSPARENT MEMBER AND LIGHT EMITTING MODULE - A transparent member includes a plate having a first surface, and a second surface provided on an opposite side from the first surface. The first surface includes one or a plurality of troughs formed on the first surface, and the first surface contains fluorine atoms. | 09-24-2015 |
20150291467 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GLASS PLATE WITH WHICH WARPING DURING CHEMICAL STRENGTHENING IS REDUCED AND GLASS PLATE - The present invention relates to a method for producing a float glass sheet, containing a step of melting a glass source material, a step of forming the glass melted in the previous step into a glass ribbon while allowing it to float on a molten metal, and a step of annealing the glass ribbon, in which the float glass sheet is a soda lime silicate glass, and in the forming step, a top surface of the glass ribbon that is opposite to a bottom surface thereof to be in contact with the molten metal is subjected to a dealkalization treatment in the float bath for 1 to 30 seconds and a surface temperature of the glass ribbon during the dealkalization treatment is 600° C. or higher. | 10-15-2015 |
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20120174653 | PM EMISSION AMOUNT ESTIMATION DEVICE FOR DIESEL ENGINE - Providing a PM emission amount estimation device for the diesel engine wherein the accuracy of the correction in correcting the basic level of the PM emission amount by use of the PM emission amount estimation map can be enhanced; and, the PM emission amount particularly during the transient state of the engine operation condition can be accurately computed so as to estimate, with high precision, the PM emission amount and the PM emission accumulated-amount (integrated amount) during the whole engine operation conditions including the transient state as well as the steady state. A PM emission amount estimation device for estimating the amount of the PM for estimating the amount of the PM that is emitted from a diesel engine and collected by a DPF provided in the exhaust gas passage of the engine, the device including, but not limited to: a PM emission amount estimation base-map | 07-12-2012 |
20130108511 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION SYSTEM FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | 05-02-2013 |
20130177482 | EXHAUST EMISSION CONTROL DEVICE OF DIESEL ENGINE - A DPF target temperature setting unit has a temperature increase rate setting portion which sets a temperature increase change rate such that, until a target set temperature at which PM is burnt is reached after the start of late post injection, the temperature increase change rate is reduced in accordance with an increase in temperature or a period of time elapsed since the start of the late post injection, a stepwise temperature increase change rate in the temperature increase rate setting portion includes two stages of a first-stage change rate A and a second-stage change rate B lower than the first-stage change rate, and a target temperature of the DPF temperature is calculated by using the temperature increase rate of the temperature increase rate setting portion. | 07-11-2013 |
20130187385 | WIND-TURBINE-GENERATOR CONTROL SYSTEM, WIND TURBINE GENERATOR, WIND FARM, AND WIND-TURBINE-GENERATOR CONTROL METHOD - A turbine controller of a wind turbine generator includes a generated-output-power command value creating section that creates a generated-output-power command value and an optimum-upper-and-lower-limit limiting section that limits the generated-output-power command value by means of an upper limit value and a lower limit value of the generated output power that are determined based on a power curve indicating the relationship between the generated output power and the rotational speed of the generator. Furthermore, the turbine controller includes a limit-value creating section that creates, when the grid frequency is increased above a predetermined reference frequency, a frequency-dependent limit value serving as an upper limit value of the generated-output-power command value, according to the increase in grid frequency; and a first upper-limit limiting section that limits the upper limit value of the generated-output-power command value limited by the optimum-upper-and-lower-limit limiting section, by means of the frequency-dependent limit value. | 07-25-2013 |