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20090065182 | COOLING DEVICE - There is provided a cooling device which includes a plurality of cooling modules | 03-12-2009 |
20090080155 | ELECTRIC POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS - In a conventional cooling device, a heat pipe or a circulation-type liquid cooler provided with a pump is used and therefore, a large space is needed for the cooling device. There is provided a cooling device which includes a plurality of cooling modules | 03-26-2009 |
20090080159 | HEAT SINK AND COOLING UNIT USING THE SAME - A heat sink including a compact cooling system, superior uniformity of heating, provides a compact cooling unit superior in uniformity of cooling. A heat sink includes a header for distribution connected to a cooling fluid inlet, a header for confluence connected to a cooling fluid outlet and parallel to and adjacent to the header for distribution and a heat transfer vessel including a heating element mounting surface as well as channels inside. The channels are connected to the header for distribution and the header for confluence. | 03-26-2009 |
20090114372 | HEAT SINK - A heat sink includes a heat-transfer container incorporating a flow path through which a cooling fluid flows, for cooling a heating element in contact with the heat-transfer container The flow path includes a first cross-sectional portion that becomes narrower as the distance between a given point in the flow path and a side of the heat-transfer container which makes contact with the heating element becomes longer in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the cooling fluid flows, and a second cross-sectional portion that is approximately constant in the direction perpendicular to the direction in which the cooling fluid flows. The first cross-sectional portion and the second cross-sectional portion alternately continue in the direction in which the cooling fluid flows causing a three-dimensional flow so the heat-transfer properties are enhanced with a simplified structure. | 05-07-2009 |
20090219696 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE AND FABRICATING METHOD FOR THE SAME - A power conversion device in which the inductance of a main circuit is reduced, a surge voltage is suppressed, elements are properly cooled, which is miniaturized and reduced in weight as a whole, and is excellent in handling performance in a manufacturing process and a maintenance work. A positive side arm unit includes IGBT modules, a coupling diode module, a cooling plate on which the modules are mounted, and a first laminated bus bar connected to the respective modules. A negative side arm unit includes IGBT modules, a coupling diode module, a cooling plate on which the modules are mounted, and a second laminated bus bar connected to the respective modules, and both the laminated bus bars and the capacitors are connected to one another by a third laminated bus bar. Both the cooling plates are parallel to each other so that the mount surfaces thereof are set in the same direction. | 09-03-2009 |
20130003429 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE - A power conversion device includes a main circuit unit (direct-current main circuit) that converts direct-current power into alternating-current power, and a control unit that controls the direct-current main circuit. The direct-current main circuit includes a voltage detector (detector) that detects a capacitor voltage and a discharge circuit that discharges energy accumulated in a capacitor. The control unit includes a detection circuit that estimates a capacitor voltage during a normal operation based on a voltage transmitted from the voltage detector in a state where the main circuit unit is disconnected from a power supply and that detects a sign that a short circuit fault occurs in the capacitor, and a control circuit that outputs a control signal for controlling the discharge circuit to operate when the control circuit receives a detection signal from the detection circuit. | 01-03-2013 |
20140240948 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE - A power conversion device includes an inverter that drives a motor; a fin that cools down the inverter; a first core including a through hole that allows passage of a positive side conductor that connects a power supply system and the inverter and a negative side conductor that grounds the inverter; a ground conductor that grounds the fin; a ground conductor that grounds a motor yoke via a capacitor; and a ground conductor including one end that is connected to the negative side conductor or the ground conductor and the other end that is grounded. | 08-28-2014 |
20150357988 | FILTER DEVICE AND ELECTRIC-VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROLLER - A filter device that removes a noise current generated by an inverter includes a first filter capacitor that is provided in parallel to a direct-current unit of the inverter, a first filter reactor that is provided between a high-potential side of the first filter capacitor and an overhead line that is a power supply source of direct-current power, and a series circuit unit in which a fuse serving as a circuit disconnecting unit that is disconnected when a current larger than a rated current flows therein, a second filter reactor serving as an inductance element, and a second filter capacitor serving as a capacitance element are connected in series, where one end of the series circuit unit is connected to a low-potential side of the first filter capacitor and one end of the first filter reactor is connected to the series circuit unit. | 12-10-2015 |
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20130055756 | CARBON DIOXIDE GAS RECOVERY DEVICE - A carbon dioxide gas recovery device is provided which includes an absorption tower causing an absorbent to absorb carbon dioxide gas to generate a rich absorbent and a regeneration tower regenerating a lean absorbent by heating the rich absorbent to separate carbon dioxide gas therefrom. The regeneration tower includes a reboiler system heating the absorbent led out from the regeneration tower and reintroducing the heated absorbent into the regeneration tower and a mixed gas cooling system cooling a mixed gas led out from the regeneration tower, condensing a vapor fraction of a solute and a solvent, reintroducing the condensed vapor fraction into the regeneration tower, and discharging carbon dioxide gas. The carbon dioxide gas recovery device further includes a heat pump as a heat source of an endothermic reaction in which carbon dioxide gas is separated from the rich absorbent in the regeneration tower. | 03-07-2013 |
20130327687 | MAGNETIC-SEPARATION FILTER DEVICE - According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a magnetic-separation filter device that removes contaminants of fine ferromagnetic particles from a fluid containing such contaminants, comprising: a substantially cylindrical housing; two partition plates that are disposed in an inside of the housing so as to extend in a vertical direction of the housing, dividing the inside of the housing by being disposed in parallel to each other; | 12-12-2013 |
20160046870 | HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS REACTION APPARATUS - The hydrocarbon synthesis reaction apparatus according to the present invention includes a reaction vessel that brings a synthesis gas having carbon monoxide gas and hydrogen gas as main components into contact with a slurry having a solid catalyst suspended in a liquid hydrocarbon compound to synthesize a liquid hydrocarbon compound using a Fischer-Tropsch reaction; a filter that is provided within the reaction vessel and is configured to separate the liquid hydrocarbon compound from the catalyst; and a powdered catalyst particles-discharging device configured to discharge powdered catalyst particles in the solid catalyst in the slurry to the outside of the reaction vessel. | 02-18-2016 |
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20150036846 | SOUND GENERATOR, SOUND GENERATION DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Provided are a sound generator including a frame body, a vibration body provided to the frame body in a state where a tensile force is applied to the vibration body, and a piezoelectric vibration element provided to the vibration body. In the sound generator, when a first direction and a second direction are directions along a main surface of the vibration body and intersect with each other, the tensile force in the first direction and the tensile force in the second direction are different from each other. A sound generation device and an electronic apparatus including the sound generator are also provided. | 02-05-2015 |
20150358738 | ACOUSTIC GENERATOR, ACOUSTIC GENERATING APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An acoustic generator according to an embodiment includes a film-shaped vibrating body, a flame, and an exciter. The frame is configured to fix at least both ends of the vibrating body in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction that is a thickness direction of the vibrating body. The exciter is disposed on the vibrating body, and is configured to vibrate itself to vibrate the vibrating body. The vibrating body has a value of an average coefficient of linear expansion during a temperature change from 90° C. to 40° C. set to be not less than a value of the average coefficient of linear expansion of the vibrating body during a temperature change from 40° C. to 90° C., and set to be not less than a value of an average coefficient of linear expansion of the flame during a temperature change from 90° C. to 40° C. | 12-10-2015 |
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20120165971 | THERMAL DISPLACEMENT CORRECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A MACHINE TOOL - A thermal displacement correcting apparatus includes a correction amount estimating device and a parameter automatic selecting device that, in a machine tool having two different sets of specifications that differ due to the presence/absence of a scale and different methods of measuring the lengths of a bed and a table, estimate a thermal displacement correction amount of the machine tool of each set of specifications. The two devices store a collection of parameters for an estimated thermal displacement calculation corresponding to each of the bed, the scale, the table, and a workpiece, as a database, and select the parameters belonging to the set of specifications from the database based on machine information according to each set of specifications, calculate estimated thermal displacements of the bed, the table, and the workpiece, or also the scale, according to the selected parameters, and combine the estimated thermal displacements. | 06-28-2012 |
20160124420 | THERMAL DISPLACEMENT CORRECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A MACHINE TOOL - A thermal displacement correcting apparatus includes a correction amount estimating device and a parameter automatic selecting device that, in a machine tool having two different sets of specifications that differ due to the presence/absence of a scale and different methods of measuring the lengths of a bed and a table, estimate a thermal displacement correction amount of the machine tool of each set of specifications. The two devices store a collection of parameters for an estimated thermal displacement calculation corresponding to each of the bed, the scale, the table, and a workpiece, as a database, and select the parameters belonging to the set of specifications from the database based on machine information according to each set of specifications, calculate estimated thermal displacements of the bed, the table, and the workpiece, or also the scale, according to the selected parameters, and combine the estimated thermal displacements. | 05-05-2016 |
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20100146902 | FRAME CONSTRUCTION FOR LOW-RISE BUILDING - A frame construction for a low rise building. In the construction, a wall frame panel is made of thin light-gauge section steel by bonding together a surface member, a lower frame member, vertical frame members and an upper frame member. Roof or floor support girders are made of heavyweight section steel having H-shape or channel shape. The girders are coupled to frame construction panels by bolts or hold-down fasteners. | 06-17-2010 |
20100236185 | Frame Construction for Low-Rise Building - A frame construction for a low rise building. In the construction, a wall frame panel is made of thin light-gauge section steel by bonding together a surface member, a lower frame member, vertical frame members and an upper frame member. Roof or floor support girders are made of heavyweight section steel having H-shape or channel shape. The girders are coupled to frame construction panels by bolts or hold-down fasteners. | 09-23-2010 |
20100281939 | EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCING LIGHT GAUGE SHAPE SHEET STEEL - An information processing system for producing a building material has a design drawing generator, a list generator and a member production controller. The design drawing generator generates design drawing information of an objective building. The list generator generates list information of the members used for the objective building. The member production controller controls the production of the members used for the objective building, based on the list information. | 11-11-2010 |
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20100315275 | DELTA SIGMA MODULATION DIGITAL-ANALOG CONVERTER, DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND AV DEVICE - A ΔΣ modulation digital-analogue converter of the present invention includes: a look-up table in which a correspondence relationship between each of a plurality of possible input values of an input signal externally supplied, and each of compensation values individually associated with the possible input values, are stored; and a nonlinear compensation circuit ( | 12-16-2010 |
20140037226 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a signal supplementing unit that generates a harmonic signal of a signal of a predetermined frequency band in an image signal, and supplements the image signal with the generated harmonic signal. | 02-06-2014 |
20140240602 | SCENE CHANGE DETECTION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, SCENE CHANGE DETECTION METHOD, AND SCENE CHANGE DETECTION PROGRAM - A scene change detection device includes an inter-frame difference calculation unit configured to calculate, based on an image signal, an inter-frame difference value corresponding to an inter-frame pixel value difference, and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a target frame is the first frame in a video scene that has changed, by referring to a first value and a comparative value, the first value being an inter-frame difference value between the target frame and a frame other than the target frame, the comparative value being derived from a second value that is an inter-frame difference value between frames other than the target frame. | 08-28-2014 |
20140307169 | NOISE REDUCTION APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, NOISE REDUCTION METHOD, AND NOISE REDUCTION PROGRAM - A noise reduction apparatus includes a scene change frame detection unit that detects at least one of frames immediately before and immediately after a scene change among frames included in a video signal and a time-difference signal having a time difference from the video signal based on the video signal and the time-difference signal and a noise reduction processing unit that weakens noise reduction of inter-frame noise superimposed between frames for at least one image signal of the at least one frame detected by the scene change frame detection unit. | 10-16-2014 |
20150187055 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A contour direction estimating unit estimates a contour direction in which signal values of pixels are constant values for each pixel, a low pass filter unit smooths a signal value of the pixel based on a signal value of each reference pixel that is a pixel of a reference region corresponding to the pixel and arranged in the contour direction of the pixel estimated by the contour direction estimating unit for each pixel, and a high frequency expanding unit generates a high frequency component of the signal value of the pixel and expands a frequency band for the signal value of the pixel. | 07-02-2015 |
20150228058 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image processing device according to one embodiment of the invention includes a contour direction estimating unit, a direction evaluating unit, a reference region weighting processing unit, and a composition operation unit. The contour direction estimating unit estimates a contour direction in which signal values of pixels are constant values for each pixel, the direction evaluating unit decides an evaluation value of each reference pixel of the pixel based on the contour direction of the pixel estimated by the contour direction estimating unit and the contour direction of each reference pixel serving as a pixel in a reference region corresponding to the pixel for each pixel, the reference region weighting processing unit decides a weighting coefficient of the reference pixel based on the contour direction of the pixel estimated by the contour direction estimating unit and the direction of each reference pixel of the pixel from the pixel, and the composition operation unit smoothes a signal value of the pixel based on the evaluation value decided by the direction evaluating unit and the weighting coefficient decided by the reference region weighting processing unit using a signal value of the reference pixel of the pixel. | 08-13-2015 |
20160005148 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is an image processing device capable of performing appropriate noise removal or reduction on input images of various resolution. The image processing device includes a contour direction estimating unit ( | 01-07-2016 |