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20090319174 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS - A navigation apparatus includes an unregistered road detecting means for setting up a detection start point and a detection end point for an unregistered road on registered roads which are respectively located before and behind sections in which matching result data indicates a free state, respectively, the matching result data indicating a matching state when the vehicle is traveling each of the registered roads, for performing a coordinate transformation on a traveling path which is created from positioning data and which is extending between the two points so that the traveling path has coordinates which match with the coordinates of a registered road between them, and for detecting the coordinates of the unregistered road from a portion of the coordinate-transformed traveling path which does not overlap any registered road, and a road data generating means for creating road data about the unregistered road from the coordinates of the unregistered road. | 12-24-2009 |
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 |
20150043662 | CHARGING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND CHARGING EQUIPMENT - In a charging communication system in which a charging control device performs communication between an electric vehicle and a charging equipment, the electric vehicle is equipped with a first communication device and a second communication device both configured to communicate with the charging equipment by using the same signal line in the charging cable; and a signal line connection device configured to switch connection/disconnection between the second communication device and the signal line. The charging control device, which controls a battery on the electric vehicle, calculates an amount of change in a signal line voltage between before and after the signal line connection device connects the second communication device to the signal line, and the charging control device causes, when the amount of change does not fall within a predetermined allowable range, the signal line connection device to disconnect the second communication device from the signal line. | 02-12-2015 |
20150188739 | ON-BOARD POWER LINE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An on-board power line communication system that performs power line communication during charging and discharging of a battery prevents electromagnetic wave leakage from a power line from interfering with other on-board devices. A vehicle includes a PLC communication device that performs PLC communication using a charging cable that is connected to a battery, and an interference suppressor that prevents electromagnetic wave leakage from the charging cable, which accompanies PLC communication, from interfering with the operations of an on-board electronic device. The interference suppressor reduces electromagnetic wave leakage from the charging cable by reducing the output frequency of the PLC communication device or the value of current flowing through the charging cable while the on-board electronic device is performing a specific operation that will be affected by interference from PLC communication. | 07-02-2015 |
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20130002897 | ACCESSORY, CAMERA, ACCESSORY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CAMERA CONTROL PROGRAM - An accessory is supplied with power from a camera, and includes an accessory control section that controls a process executed in the accessory in accordance with an image capture mode of the camera. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002943 | ACCESSORY, CAMERA, ACCESSORY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CAMERA CONTROL PROGRAM - An accessory is an accessary controlled by a camera. The accessory includes an information holding section that holds predetermined information by which the camera determines whether or not the accessary requests a supply of power consumed in the accessory to the camera. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002944 | ACCESSORY, CAMERA, ACCESSORY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CAMERA CONTROL PROGRAM - An accessory is an accessory supplied with power from a camera. The accessory includes an accumulation section that accumulates power, a receiving section that receives a control command, for instructing a charging operation on the accumulation section, from the camera, a charging section that charges the accumulation section with the power supplied from the camera in accordance with the control command, and an accessory control section that outputs, to the camera, a charging request that requests to output the control command from the camera. | 01-03-2013 |
20130004152 | ACCESSORY, CAMERA, ACCESSORY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CAMERA CONTROL PROGRAM - An accessory controlled by a camera, includes: a storage section that stores information regarding an accessory function of the accessory; and an accessory control section that transmits the information stored in the storage section to the camera, wherein the storage section stores first information by which the camera determines whether the accessory has an extended function and second information indicating characteristics of the accessory function, and the accessory control section transmits the first information, and then transmits the second information. | 01-03-2013 |
20140009671 | ACCESSORY, CAMERA, ACCESSORY CONTROL METHOD, ACCESSORY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CAMERA CONTROL PROGRAM - Provided is an accessory which is capable of communicating with a camera, including an illumination light emitting section that emits illumination light, a nonvolatile memory that stores light-emittable time information indicating the longest time for which the illumination light emitting section is capable of continuously emitting the illumination light, and an accessory control section that transmits the light-emittable time information stored in the nonvolatile memory to the camera. | 01-09-2014 |
20140064718 | ACCESSORY, CAMERA, ACCESSORY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CAMERA CONTROL PROGRAM - An accessory controlled by a camera, includes: a storage section that stores information regarding an accessory function of the accessory; and an accessory control section that transmits the information stored in the storage section to the camera, wherein the storage section stores first information by which the camera determines whether the accessory has an extended function and second information indicating characteristics of the accessory function, and the accessory control section transmits the first information, and then transmits the second information. | 03-06-2014 |
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20090106388 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - This storage system includes one or more household appliances, a home server storing contents data and management information of the contents data received from the one or more household appliances and pre-set with an unused capacity limit, and an online storage center. When the actual unused capacity in the home server falls below the capacity limit, the home server sends to and stores in the online storage center prescribed contents data and management information of the prescribed contents data among the contents data and management information of the contents data stored in the home server, and deletes the prescribed contents data from the home server while leaving the management information of the prescribed contents data stored in the home server. | 04-23-2009 |
20090125522 | File sharing system and file sharing method - Privacy information of a user is protected without hampering convenience when such user is to process a file in an online file storage. Provided is a file sharing system including at least one or more information processing units and a storage apparatus connected to the at least one or more information processing units via the Internet, and for storing files from the at least one or more information processing units in the storage apparatus and sharing the stored files with the at least one or more information processing units. The information processing unit includes a file creation unit for separating, when creating a file in the storage apparatus, privacy information that identifies a user creating the file from information required for creating the file in the storage apparatus, and creating the file in the storage apparatus by using information obtained by converting the separated privacy information. | 05-14-2009 |
20090125577 | Backup executability judging system - A problem of prior art is that normal backup data is lost as a result of taking a backup by overwriting the normal backup data with data that has been changed greatly from a virus infection or the like. This invention provides a computer system having a storage system. The storage system contains a first storage area and a second storage area for storing a copy of data that is stored in the first storage area at one point in time. Only when the differential amount indicating the difference between data stored in the first storage area and data stored in the second storage area is smaller than a predetermined threshold, the storage system deletes the data which is stored in the second storage area and newly stores a copy of the data stored in the first storage area in the second storage area. | 05-14-2009 |
20090172141 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD IN STORAGE SYSTEM - Provided is a storage center including a storage subsystem for storing content data to be used by the user's home server, and a center server for controlling the storage subsystem. The center server aggregates the content recording reservation requests sent from several home servers, obtains content data from a content server and stores the content data in the storage subsystem at a designated recording start time, and notifies the user's home server that the recording reservation is complete. | 07-02-2009 |
20100241656 | DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A file system transfer designation section for transferring the file system matching with file system transfer rules from the first volume of the first storage apparatus to the second volume of the second storage apparatus based on the first file system transfer rules, a file system storage information manager for updating storage information of the file system in accordance with transfer of the file system by the file system transfer designation section, and transmitting the updated file system storage information, and a search information manager for updating search information for searching the files based on a file search request from the client apparatus using the file system storage information sent by the file system storage information manager are provided. | 09-23-2010 |
20120271934 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD IN STORAGE SYSTEM - Provided is a storage center including a storage subsystem for storing content data to be used by the user's home server, and a center server for controlling the storage subsystem. The center server aggregates the content recording reservation requests sent from several home servers, obtains content data from a content server and stores the content data in the storage subsystem at a designated recording start time, and notifies the user's home server that the recording reservation is complete. | 10-25-2012 |
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20100302696 | RELAY FAILURE DETECTING DEVICE - A relay failure detecting device able to detect reliably a fault in a relay circuit that provides alternating current power to a load through a relay that is a double-pole switch. Individual common terminals of first and second relays are connected individually to a pair of outputs terminals of an alternating current power supply, individual normally-open terminals of the first and second relays are connected to a pair of power supply input terminals, and a dummy load that is driven by the alternating current power supply through a diode between the individual normally-closed terminals of the first and second relays is provided. A fault in the first and second relays is evaluated from the state of operation of the dummy load when the first and second relays are not driven. | 12-02-2010 |
20100306630 | SYSTEM FOR SENDING SIGNALS BETWEEN MODULES - A system for transmission of signals between modules wherein, for example, it is possible to transmit reliably, between modules, information relating to, for example, the actuation of safety devices. A transmission module for transmitting a pulse signal of a specific period, which indicates the existence of information, generates, in time division, pulse signals by a plurality of signal generating units that are provided in parallel, and then combines these pulse signals into a single time series pulse signal. Then an attempt is made to output this pulse signal towards a receiving-side module through a relay for controlling the output, and the signals appearing at a normally-open terminal and at a normally-closed terminal of the relay are monitored to determine whether or not there is a failure, where the generation of the pulse signal is stopped when a failure is detected. | 12-02-2010 |
20100307387 | COMBUSTION FURNACE CONTROL APPARATUS - A combustion furnace control apparatus for which an operation control system that ensures the combustion safety of the combustion furnace can be constructed easily. Interlocks pertaining to the safe operation of a combustion furnace are classified as a 1 | 12-09-2010 |
20110239914 | COMBUSTION CONTROLLING DEVICE - Two temperature controllers, a first temperature controller and a second temperature controller are provided, and combustion in the furnace is controlled based on a first signal and a second signal outputted therefrom. Doing so enables safe control of the furnace even when a failure occurs in one of the temperature controllers. | 10-06-2011 |
20110241692 | RELAY END-OF-SERVICE-LIFE FORECASTING DEVICE - Forecasting the end of the service life of a relay more accurately due to the effects of the load conditions and the environmental conditions can occur through diagnosing the end of service life of the relay based on the time, until the point in time that the actual opening or closing of the relay is detected, from the point in time of the application of the power to the relay or the point in time of the end of application of power to the relay coil by the controlling portion. Forecasting the end of the service life of the relay based on time, increases accuracy because time is a value that is not affected by the external environment. Additionally, because the end of the service life is forecasted based on the actual opening/closing of the relay, not only is it possible to detect immediately a fault in the relay, but it is also possible to eliminate the effects due to individual differences. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242722 | CONTROL SYSTEM - First through third relays are connected in series, and a load | 10-06-2011 |
20110242723 | RELAY DRIVER CIRCUIT - Power that is supplied to a primary coil of a transformer from a DC power supply that is connected to the primary coil is modulated based on continuous pulses supplied from a microcontroller, and power that is induced between terminals of a secondary coil of the transformer is supplied to a relay. A large driving current can be supplied to the relay thereby, thus making it possible to reduce the ripple component, and, as a result, to achieve stabilized operation. | 10-06-2011 |
20110244407 | COMBUSTION CONTROLLING DEVICE - Two controlling devices, namely a combustion controlling device controlling the combustion of a combustion furnace, and a safety controlling device checking the operation of the devices wherein the operations are controlled by the combustion controlling device. This enables safer control of combustion because if there is a fault in either the combustion controlling device or the safety controlling device, a process can be performed by the other device to stop the combustion. Additionally, because the controlling device for controlling the structural elements that control the combustion in the boiler system and the controlling device for operational checks of the outputs from those structural elements are separate, if there is a failure in any of the structural elements or controlling devices, that failure can be detected reliably, enabling safer control of the combustion. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246839 | CONTROL DEVICE - An RTC, having a crystal oscillator of different characteristics from those of a crystal oscillator, is provided, and the pulse period of the pulse signal from the RTC and the pulse signal based on the crystal oscillator are compared to detect a fault in the crystal oscillator. As a result, even if, for example, located in a high temperature environment, the degrees to the decrease in frequency will be different, thus making it possible to detect reliably a fault in the crystal oscillator. | 10-06-2011 |
20140150532 | VALVE LEAK DETECTING METHOD AND COMBUSTION EQUIPMENT - A valve leak detecting method includes a pressure setting step before closing valves individually to set a pressure in a pipe, a first threshold value evaluating step for closing the valves after the pressure has been set to no less than the threshold value, and evaluating whether the pressure, after a specific time interval has elapsed, is at least threshold value, a second valve normalcy evaluating step for evaluating that one of the valves is operating properly or faultily if the pressure is at least or less than the threshold value, respectively, a second threshold value evaluating step for closing the valves and evaluating whether the pressure is less than the threshold value after a specific time interval has elapsed, and a first valve normalcy evaluating step for evaluating whether the valve is operating properly or faultily depending on the pressure being less or no less than the threshold value. | 06-05-2014 |
20140170570 | VALVE LEAK DETECTING METHOD AND COMBUSTION EQUIPMENT - A valve leak detecting method includes a started pressure setting step for opening and closing valves individually to set a pressure in a pipe, a first threshold value evaluating step for closing the valves, after the pressure being set to no less than the threshold value, and evaluating whether the pressure, after a specific time interval has elapsed, is at least threshold value, a second valve normalcy evaluating step for evaluating that one of the valves is operating properly or faultily if the pressure is at least or less than the threshold value, respectively, a second threshold value evaluating step for closing the valves and evaluating whether the pressure is less than the threshold value after a specific time interval has elapsed, and a first valve normalcy evaluating step for evaluating whether the valve is operating properly depending on the pressure being less or no less than the threshold value. | 06-19-2014 |