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20080236537 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE FOR VEHICLE - An electric motor is cooled by an air flow without restricting the degree of freedom in the arrangement of an oil cooler and an oil filter by utilizing a front face of a front portion of an engine body to arrange the electric motor. The engine includes an oil cooler, an oil filter, and an starter motor for driving a crankshaft to rotate. The oil cooler and the starter motor are disposed on a front face, which is directed in an advancing direction of the vehicle, of a front portion of a lower block which forms an engine body. The oil filter is attached to an attachment seat provided on a side face of the front portion which is directed in the sideward direction. A communication oil path for communicating the oil cooler and the oil filter with each other is provided in the inside of the front portion. | 10-02-2008 |
20100242870 | VEHICLE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A vehicle internal combustion engine wherein the vertical length of a crankcase is made short in addition to making short the anteroposterior length of the crankcase. A vehicle internal combustion engine is configured such that a crankshaft, a main shaft, a counter shaft and an output shaft are arranged in parallel in a crankcase with the main shaft being disposed to the rear of the crankshaft and the counter shaft is disposed to the rear of the main shaft. The output shaft is disposed below and forward of the counter shaft. | 09-30-2010 |
20110061492 | LUBRICATING OIL FEEDING STRUCTURE - A lubricating oil feeding structure that permits an adequate amount of lubricating oil to be fed to those parts around the transmission while avoiding an excess supply of lubricating oil to the lubricating oil passage in the shaft of the transmission. The transmission has a space (as a recess to hold the shaft therein) in which is arranged the oil guide part. The oil guide part has the bottomed cylinder, with its one end opened, the flange that flares outward at the open end of the bottomed cylinder, and the oil holes that communicate between the inside and the outside of the bottomed cylinder. The oil guide part is arranged in the space in such a way that the flange comes into contact with the outer race of the bearing. | 03-17-2011 |
20110061624 | IGNITION DEVICE ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An ignition device attachment structure for an internal combustion engine includes an ignition plug tube inserted between a cylinder head cover and an ignition device insertion hole formed in a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine. The ignition plug tube bulges from an upper end of the ignition plug tube to an intermediate portion of the ignition plug tube on a lateral surface of the ignition plug tube. | 03-17-2011 |
20110061627 | MULTI-CYLINDER INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A multi-cylinder internal combustion engine includes a one-side crank chamber and an other-side crank chamber formed by partitioning a lower crankcase by a plurality of lower support walls which are provided integrally with the lower crankcase and support a crankshaft. A plurality of oil outflow holes respectively communicate with the one-side crank chamber and the other-side crank chamber through which oil is discharged from the one-side crank chamber and the other-side crank chamber. An oil discharge port is provided along a lower support wall of the one-side crank chamber and the other-side crank chamber. A suction port of a scavenging pump for discharging the oil present in the one-side crank chamber and the other-side crank chamber is provided in an outer wall in the manner of straddling the lower support wall. | 03-17-2011 |
20110065538 | CHAIN TENSIONER FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A chain tensioner includes a base frame secured to each of front and rear banks, a slider plate shiftable in the extending direction of the base frame, and a tensioner provided to straddle between the base frame and the slider plate. The slider plate is biased to elastically deform and arcuately bend the tensioner, which applies a tensile force to each of cam chains transmitting the rotation of a crankshaft. In the chain tensioner, upper securing portions are provided in an upper portion of the base frame so as to be secured to each of the front and rear banks in the bending direction of the tensioner. A lower end of the base frame extends to a position facing the inside of the crankcase to provide a lower securing portion which is secured to each of the front and rear banks perpendicularly to the bending direction of the tensioner. | 03-17-2011 |
20130255417 | POWER UNIT OF SHAFT DRIVE TYPE VEHICLE - A power unit includes a cam damper mechanism having a cam member reciprocally and unrotatably provided on one of a pair of bevel gears, and rotatably provided on an extended shaft; a lifter member slidably and unrotatably provided on the extended shaft in an axial direction; a damper spring configured such that one end portion thereof is supported on a first flange portion of the extended shaft, and the other end portion thereof biases the lifter member toward the cam member in an axial direction by abutting on the lifter member, and the biasing force is supported by the one bevel gear. The extended shaft has the one of the bevel gears and the cam damper mechanism between the first flange portion and a first bearing, and is accommodated in the bevel gear case so as to be fixed to a bevel gear holder along with the first bearing. | 10-03-2013 |
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20080285303 | OPTICAL MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An optical module according to the present invention comprises an electric wiring substrate, a first optical element mounted on the electric wiring substrate so that a heat generation section of the first optical element is positioned relatively close to a substrate surface of the electric wiring substrate and a heat sink mounted on the same plane as the mounting plane of the first optical element on the electric wiring substrate, the heat sink being mounted on the electric wiring substrate so that an area of electric wiring on the electric wiring substrate overlaps the heat sink. This improves the efficiency of heat radiation of the optical module. | 11-20-2008 |
20090245798 | OPTICAL CIRCUIT AND RECEIVER CIRCUIT - An optical circuit that converts a phase-modulated optical signal into intensity-modulated signal light in accordance with a phase, the optical circuit including a square mode distribution forming portion that forms a plurality of interfering signals each assuming a square mode shape, the interfering signals having respective phases shifted from each other by a certain angle, a light interference portion that creates a signal having a certain mode distribution, from the interfering signal, and that applies a Fourier transform to the signal having the certain mode distribution, and an output portion that has a plurality of waveguides each provided in correspondence with the phase and that outputs an optical signal that has been output from the light interference portion. | 10-01-2009 |
20090252505 | PHASE-MODULATED SIGNAL RECEIVING DEVICE - A monitor circuit detects the average light receiving current of a photoelectric conversion device for receiving a positive-phase intensity-modulated signal and outputs the detected current value to a control unit. The control unit adjusts the heater current of a phase adjustment heater in such a way as to maximize or minimize the output of the monitor circuit and controls the amount of delay of the phase reference light of a demodulator. | 10-08-2009 |
20100074570 | OPTICAL CIRCUIT - According to an aspect of an embodiment, an optical circuit comprising: at least two pairs of two input waveguides; a slab waveguide with one end coupled to two pairs or more of the two input waveguides; and four output waveguides coupled to another end of the slab waveguide; wherein a distance between two pairs of adjacent two input waveguides among two pairs or more of the two input waveguides is approximately four times as long as a distance between the two input waveguides. | 03-25-2010 |
20100085630 | DEMODULATOR - A demodulator and method are provided. The demodulator for demodulating an optical signal, includes a splitter that splits a differential phase modulation signal into a first split light component and a second split light component, couples the first split light component to a first optical path and the second split light component to a second optical path, a first medium disposed on the first optical path, a second medium disposed on the second optical path and having a refractive index different from that of the first medium, and a combiner that combines the first split light component that has passed through the first medium and the second split light component that has passed through the second medium, wherein one of the first split light component and the second split light component is delayed in relation to the other. | 04-08-2010 |
20100119230 | OPTICAL RECEIVING CIRCUIT - An optical receiving circuit receives and demodulates an optical signal subjected to phase modulation and wavelength division multiplexing. The optical receiving circuit includes an interfering unit that causes a reference signal to interfere with the optical signal to output resulting signals as positive-phase signals and negative-phase signals; and a wavelength separator having input ports receiving the positive-phase signals and the negative-phase signals, the positive-phase and negative-phase signals being adjacent to each other. The wavelength separator separates according to wavelength, the positive-phase signals and the negative-phase signals, and from output ports, outputs for each wavelength, a separated positive-phase signal and negative-phase signal in a state of being adjacent to each other. The optical receiving circuit further includes balanced receivers respectively provided for each wavelength, where a given balanced receiver for a given wavelength performs balanced reception and demodulation of the separated positive-phase signal and negative phase signal of the given wavelength. | 05-13-2010 |
20100129089 | DEMODULATOR AND RECEIVING DEVICE - A demodulator includes: a splitter that branches a differential phase shift keying optical signal into a first branched optical signal passing through a first optical path and a second branched optical signal passing through a second optical path; a multiplexer that multiplexes the first branched optical signal having passed through the first optical path and the second branched optical signal having passed through the second optical path and makes interference between the first branched optical signal and the second branched optical signal; and a double refraction medium that reduces difference between phase differences between each polarized wave between the first branched optical signal and the second branched optical signal multiplexed by the multiplexer. | 05-27-2010 |
20110262149 | LIGHT RECEPTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A light reception device includes: an interferometer that outputs a signal obtained by making an optical phase modulated signal interfere with a reference signal after shifting an optical phase of the optical phase modulated signal by a given amount; a light reception element that receives an output signal from the interferometer and converts the output signal into a light reception current; and a phase controller that controls a control amount in controlling the given amount so that a value of a function, which is calculated based on an amount relating to the light reception current and a change amount of an amount relating to the light reception current against the control amount, becomes an extreme value or 0. | 10-27-2011 |
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20130166059 | NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE - A numerical control device that controls a machine in which a main set including an X1 axis, a Z1 axis and a first turret axis and a sub-set including an X2 axis, a Z2 axis and a second turret axis are arranged to be point-symmetric with respect to a C axis, wherein each of the turret axis of the main set and the turret axis of the sub-set are selectively designated as a reference side and a synchronized side and a simultaneous D-cut control mode command for selecting a mode in which both turret axes are simultaneously actuated in synchronization using the output of the turret axis of one of the sets is set; wherein the numerical control device comprises, simultaneous D-cut command processing means, X1/Y1/C axis interpolation processing means, X2/Y2 axis interpolation processing means, and H axis command selecting means. | 06-27-2013 |
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20130257340 | NUMERICAL CONTROL APPARATUS - A numerical control apparatus includes an imaginary-Y-axis control unit configured to execute an imaginary Y-axis control mode which is a mode for converting an X-Y axes movement command in a machining program described in a program coordinate system into a command in a machine coordinate system including X-H-C axes and for driving the X axis, the H axis, and the C axis in association with one another according to the converted command, an acquiring unit configured to acquire, when an emergency stop occurs during the imaginary Y-axis control mode, present positions of the X axis, the C axis, and the H axis at the time when the emergency stop is released, and a restoring unit configured to restore a present X-axis coordinate position and a present Y-axis coordinate position in the program coordinate system from the acquired present positions of the X axis, the C axis, and the H axis. | 10-03-2013 |
20130317641 | NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE - A numerical control device that controls a machine tool that includes an X-axis for moving a turret, an H-axis for rotating the turret, and a C-axis for rotating a workpiece and that does not have a Y-axis orthogonal to the X-axis, including an analyzer that analyzes a virtual-Y-axis rapid-traverse command in a virtual-Y-axis interpolation mode in which an X-Y-axis movement command in a machining program is converted, and the X-axis, the H-axis, and the C-axis are cooperatively driven; a C-axis interpolation processor that interpolates a C-axis angle in response to the analyzed virtual-Y-axis rapid-traverse command; and an X-axis interpolation processor that interpolates an X-axis position based on the interpolated C-axis angle. The numerical control device controls an X-axis position so as to rotate the C-axis while keeping a C-axis velocity to a constant velocity and to enable a virtual Y-axis to move substantially linearly. | 11-28-2013 |
20140114465 | NUMERICAL CONTROL APPARATUS - A numerical control apparatus controls a machine tool including an X axis for moving a turret to which a plurality of tools are attached, a H axis for rotating the turret, and a C axis for rotating a work and not including a Y axis orthogonal to the X axis. The numerical control apparatus includes a unit configured to independently rotate the H axis according to an independent rotation command for the H axis and perform tool replacement during an imaginary Y-axis control mode, the imaginary Y-axis control mode being a mode for converting an X-Y axes movement command in a machining program into a command in an X-H-C coordinate system and for driving the X axis, the H axis, and the C axis in association with one another according to the converted command. | 04-24-2014 |
20150227130 | NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE - A numerical control device controls a machine tool having an X axis for moving a turret to which tools are attached, a Z axis for moving work, and a B axis for rotating the turret and having at least one of an H axis for rotating the turret around a center line perpendicular to the center line of rotation of the B axis and a C axis for rotating the work around a center line parallel to the Z axis. The numerical control device includes a unit that performs, during an virtual Y-axis inclined surface machining mode, virtual Y inclined surface machining for moving the tool along the Y axis relatively to the inclined surface in a state in which the tool is inclined such that a center axis is perpendicular to an inclined surface inclined from the X axis and the Z axis. | 08-13-2015 |