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20150262006 | MONITORING SYSTEM AND MONITORING METHOD - A monitoring system includes a number-of-people counting unit that is provided inside a railway vehicle and counts the number of deboarding passengers who deboard the railway vehicle, a first camera that is provided in a stop of the railway vehicle and captures images of deboarding passengers who deboard the railway vehicle which has arrived in a home of the stop or has arrived at the stop, and a server that stores information regarding the number of deboarding passengers counted by the number-of-people counting unit and video data regarding the deboarding passengers captured by the first camera in correlation with each other. | 09-17-2015 |
20160080651 | CAMERA - A contact terminal is provided with a charging port to which a charging voltage is applied and a CON.DET port which detects a voltage change. In a case where a plug of a charging cable is connected to the contact terminal, the charging port and the CON.DET port are electrically connected to each other via the charging cable so that a signal level in the CON.DET port reaches an “H” level. In a case where the plug of the charging cable is removed from the contact terminal, the charging voltage is not applied to the CON.DET port so that a signal level in the CON.DET port changes from an “H” level to an “L” level, and thus recording of image information output from an imaging unit of the camera is started. | 03-17-2016 |
20160112636 | WEARABLE CAMERA - A wearable camera includes a body, a lens, a video recording button, a snap shot button, a mode changeover switch, and a confirmation changeover switch. The mode changeover switch includes an operating section and a linear slot in which the operating section moves. A first mode which is a most-frequently-used mode having a high frequency of use in case of emergency is disposed on an upper end side of the slot, and a fourth mode which is an off mode cutting off connection with the outside is disposed on a lower end side thereof. | 04-21-2016 |
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20130297134 | REGENERATIVE CONTROL DEVICE AND REGENERATIVE CONTROL METHOD AND HYBRID MOTOR VEHICLE - A regenerative control capable of realizing a comfortable operation, along with an efficient collection of a regenerative energy of a motor generator and an effective regenerative braking control. A regenerative control device for a motor generator generates a regenerative braking power for decelerating a motor vehicle at a time of collecting regenerative energy generated by driving of the motor vehicle. The arrangement includes a driving state detection unit for detecting a driving state and a deceleration level acquisition unit for acquiring a deceleration level. A braking force setting unit sets the regenerative braking force of the motor generator at a time of detection of a deceleration operation by the driving state detection unit. A braking force adjustment unit adjusts and suppresses the regenerative braking force set by the braking force setting unit, according to acquired deceleration level. | 11-07-2013 |
20130304294 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR HYBRID VEHICLES AND HYBRID VEHICLE - A drive control apparatus for hybrid vehicles adapted to facilitate controlling a rotation speed of an internal combustion engine, preventing excess speeds of a motor generator. The drive control apparatus for hybrid vehicles is adapted for a drive control of a vehicle using outputs from an engine and motor generators, and includes a target engine operating point setter for setting up a target engine operating point to determine target engine torque and a target engine rotation speed of the engine from target engine power and an efficiency of system. A motor torque command value calculator sets up respective torque command values of the motor generators, and an engine torque corrector corrects the target engine torque by a target engine torque correction value set up based on the torque command values of the motor generators and permissible output torque of the motor generators. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304295 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS AND DRIVE CONTROL METHOD FOR HYBRID VEHICLES AND HYBRID VEHICLE - A hybrid vehicle, a drive control apparatus, and a drive control method to prevent overcharging a battery, and providing an output drive force depending on a driver's request. The drive control apparatus for hybrid vehicles outputs generated power at an internal combustion engine and a motor generator through a power transmission mechanism to drive axles, and includes an output shaft fixing mechanism which fixes an internal combustion engine output shaft to disable rotation. A request drive force setter sets a request drive force depending on a driver's request. A controller executes a control based on a detected battery stored energy level to operate irrespective of a magnitude of the request drive force to stop the internal combustion engine, uses the shaft fixing mechanism to fix the output shaft, and provides travel using generated power from the motor generator. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304297 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DRIVE CONTROL TO A HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE, AND HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE - An apparatus that both prevents excessive engine speed and satisfies a driver's requested drive torque. A control apparatus provides torque control to a hybrid electric vehicle and uses a calculated engine speed final target, and engine speed temporary target, which may not exceed an upper limit. In addition the control recalculates an engine operating point target based on the calculated engine speed final target and calculates an engine power final target based on the recalculated engine operating point target. An electrical power target is calculated based on the calculated engine power final target. Engine torque is controlled based on the calculated engine operating point target (especially the engine torque final target). In addition, motor generators are controlled to operate in power running mode or regenerating mode, based on the calculated engine operating point target and electrical power target. | 11-14-2013 |
20130307329 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DRIVE CONTROL TO A HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE, AND HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE - An arrangement which prevents excessive engine speed, satisfies a driver's requested torque and protects a battery from overvoltage. A control apparatus provides a torque control to a hybrid electric vehicle, and calculates an engine speed final target so that an engine speed temporary target does not exceed an upper limit. In addition, the control recalculates an engine operating point target based on the calculated engine speed final target, and calculates an engine power final target based on the recalculated engine operating point target. An electrical power target is calculated and may not exceed an upper limit for battery charging and an upper limit for battery discharging. Engine torque is controlled based on the calculated engine operating point target (especially the engine torque final target). Motor generators are controlled to operate based on the calculated engine operating point target and electrical power target. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311024 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DRIVE CONTROL TO A HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE, AND HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE - An engine, a first motor generator and a second motor generator are controlled by calculating an engine power target from a driving power target required for a vehicle, and finding a target engine operating point expressed by a set of an engine speed target and an engine torque target on a target operating line determined in response to the engine power target. When the found target engine operating point is different from the previously found one, a change in engine speed target is limited to a predetermined amount of change and the engine torque target of the set is reset versus an engine speed target involving the limited change based on the determined target operating line. Consequently, the engine power target and thus the driving power target are ensured so as to restrain or prevent sudden or frequent changes in engine speed with the efficiency kept high. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311025 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DRIVE CONTROL TO A HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE, AND HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE - A torque applied to a one-way clutch when a first motor generator and second motor generator are operated in a motor generator drive mode is restrained or prevented from becoming excessively high by setting a first motor generator sharing ratio in response to a driving torque target for the vehicle, by controlling operation of the first motor generator in response to a first motor generator first sharing ratio when vehicle vibrations due to cogging torque are likely to take place, and by reducing the torque from the first motor generator when the driving torque target is large. Torque applied to the one-way clutch which otherwise would become excessively high immediately after engine shutdown, is restrained or prevented by reducing the torque from the first motor generator in response to a second motor generator second sharing ratio when engine downtime is short. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311028 | DRIVING SOURCE CONTROL DEVICE FOR HYBRID MOTOR VEHICLE AND DRIVING SOURCE CONTROL METHOD FOR HYBRID MOTOR VEHICLE AND HYBRID MOTOR VEHICLE - To provide a driving source control for a hybrid motor vehicle capable of comfortably driving a motor generator by activating an internal combustion engine only at minimum necessary timings at a time of moving backward. It is a driving source control device | 11-21-2013 |
20130311029 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DRIVE CONTROL TO A HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE, AND HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE - An upper rotational speed limit NengUL and a lower rotational speed limit NengLL of an engine operation prohibition area are set from an upper rotational speed limit Nmg2UL and a lower rotational speed limit Nmg2LL of a motor operation predetermined prohibition area of a second motor generator. When an engine speed target Nengt, calculated from a preset target operating line, lies in the engine operation prohibition area, the engine operating point target is corrected so that the second motor generator rotational speed target Nmg2t lies outside the motor operation prohibition area. When the engine speed target Nengt is greater than or equal to a change-direction engine speed NengCD at which direction of shift to/from an allowable range of engine operation is changed, the engine speed Neng is increased. When the engine speed target Nengt is less than the change-direction engine speed NengCD, the engine speed Neng is decreased. | 11-21-2013 |
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20140025243 | HYBRID VEHICLE - To protect an electricity storing means and improve engine startability at the same time by starting an engine while suppressing degradation of the electricity storing means as small as possible. Provided is a hybrid vehicle including: a charge state calculation means which calculates a charge state of the electricity storing means; a standard opening and closing means which turns off a contactor when the charge state calculated by the charge state calculation means is lower than a standard lower-limit value; and an engine startup opening and closing means which maintains the contactor in an on state when an engine startup signal is input even when the charge state calculated by the charge state calculation means is a value for turning off the contactor, wherein the contactor turning-on operation executed by the engine startup opening and closing means is executed when the charge state calculated by the charge state calculation means is higher than an engine startup lower-limit value set lower than the standard lower-limit value by a predetermined value. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032025 | HYBRID VEHICLE - Provided is a hybrid vehicle, wherein a control means ( | 01-30-2014 |
20140046527 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - An object of the present invention is to improve drivability and traveling feeling without influence of torque variation of an internal combustion engine on a drive torque while ensuring the compatibility with a driving force and charge/discharge by control. | 02-13-2014 |
20140058601 | HYBRID VEHICLE - It is an object of the invention to suppress a vibration of an engine in a manner such that the engine is not restarted while an engine state changes to an engine stop state and a time in which an engine rotation speed stays at a resonance band is kept short. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058602 | HYBRID VEHICLE - It is an object of the invention to suppress a vibration generated by an abrupt change in motor torque when starting an engine. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058603 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS OF HYBRID VEHICLE - In a drive control apparatus ( | 02-27-2014 |
20140058604 | DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE OF HYBRID VEHICLE - Objects are to set up control of a plurality of motor generators in a case where a battery is charged or discharged, to secure both a target driving force and target charging/discharging, and to have the breath of control of using electric power of the battery under a more specific condition. A target driving power setting means sets driving power corresponding to a state in which power assistance depending on the electric power of the battery is received as a maximal value of a target driving power in advance, a target engine power calculating means sets a maximal value of target engine power corresponding to a maximal output that can be output by an internal combustion engine in advance, compares the target engine power and the maximal value of the target engine power with each other, and updates the target engine power with a smaller value thereof, a target electric power calculating means calculating target electric power is arranged, and a motor torque instruction value calculating means calculates torque instruction values of the plurality of motor generators by using a torque balance equation including target engine torque and an electric power balance equation including the target electric power. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058605 | HYBRID VEHICLE - Provided is a hybrid vehicle, wherein a control means ( | 02-27-2014 |
20140058640 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS - A control unit ( | 02-27-2014 |
20140067180 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS OF HYBRID VEHICLE - Ina drive control apparatus ( | 03-06-2014 |
20140074333 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - An object of the present invention is to perform control such that a crankshaft is stopped at a target crank angle at the time of stopping an engine of a hybrid vehicle. According to the present invention, a process is periodically performed in which a crank angle predicted stop position is calculated based on a target engine rotation speed reduction rate that is calculated in advance, a crank angle integration target value is calculated based on the crank angle predicted stop position, the target engine rotation speed reduction rate is recalculated based on the crank angle integration target value and an actual crank angle, a target crank angle is calculated based on the crank angle integration target value and the target engine rotation speed reduction rate, a crank deviation angle is calculated based on the target crank angle and the actual crank angle, crank angle feedback torque of the motor is calculated based on the crank angle deviation angle, and a torque instruction value of the motor is calculated by adding basic torque of the motor and the crank angle feedback torque when the engine is stopped. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074334 | ENGINE START CONTROL DEVICE FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - An object of the present invention is to start an engine while outputting a driving force requested from a driver. According to the present invention, there is provided an engine start control device of a hybrid vehicle including: a start-time target engine rotation speed calculating means; a start-time target engine torque calculating means; a target engine power calculating means that calculates target engine power based on the target engine rotation speed and the target engine torque; an accelerator operation amount detecting means; a vehicle speed detecting means; a target driving power calculating means that calculates target driving power based on the amount of the operation of the accelerator and the vehicle speed; a target electric power calculating means that sets a difference between the target driving power and the target engine power as target electric power; and a motor torque instruction value calculating means that calculates instruction torque values of a plurality of motor generators using a torque balance equation including the target engine torque and an electric power balance equation including the target electric power. | 03-13-2014 |
20140081499 | DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE OF HYBRID VEHICLE - Objects of the present invention is to improve the control accuracy of the SOC of the battery in consideration of the electric power losses of a plurality of motor generators and, in accordance therewith, to secure the protection performance of the battery and to increase the energy recovery efficiency according to the regeneration. In a drive control device of a hybrid vehicle including a motor torque instruction value calculating means, an electric power loss predicting means, an electric power upper limit/lower limit value calculating means, and a target electric power calculating means are arranged, and the motor torque instruction value calculating means calculates torque instruction values of a plurality of motor generators using a torque balance equation including target engine torque required at a target engine operating point and an electric power balance equation including target electric power. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081500 | DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE OF HYBRID VEHICLE - Objects of the present invention is to improve the control accuracy of the charge state of a battery in consideration of the electric power losses of a plurality of motor generators and, in accordance therewith, to secure the protection performance of the battery, and to increase the energy recovery efficiency according to the regeneration. According to the present invention, there is provided a drive control device of a hybrid vehicle in which an electric power loss predicting means and a target electric power calculating means are arranged, a target engine power calculating means calculates target engine power based on target driving power, target charge/discharge power, and estimated power that is an electric power loss, and a motor torque instruction value calculating means calculates torque instruction values of a plurality of motor generators using a torque balance equation including target engine torque and an electric power balance equation including the target electric power. In the electric power balance equation, electric power generated or consumed by the plurality of motor generators, the estimated power that is the electric power loss, and input/output electric power of the battery are included. | 03-20-2014 |
20140088807 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS OF HYBRID VEHICLE - Ina drive control apparatus ( | 03-27-2014 |
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20150143996 | FUEL VAPOR PROCESSING APPARATUS - A fuel vapor processing apparatus may include a canister, a closing valve provided in a vapor passage connecting the canister and the fuel tank, an actuator coupled to the movable valve member, and a control device coupled to the actuator. The control device may perform a learning control, in which a valve opening start position is learned based on a stroke distance of the movable valve member, which is given at the time when an internal pressure of the fuel tank is reduced by a predetermined pressure value while the moving distance of the movable valve member is changed such that (a) the movable valve member moves from the reference position to a learning start position at a first speed in a valve opening direction and (b) the movable valve member moves further from the learning start position at a second speed in the valve opening direction. | 05-28-2015 |
20150144111 | FUEL VAPOR PROCESSING APPARATUS - A fuel vapor processing apparatus may include a canister capable of adsorbing fuel vapor produced in a fuel tank, a closing valve provided in a vapor passage connecting the canister and the fuel tank, a purge passage connecting the canister and an intake passage of an engine, and a control device. The closing valve may include a movable valve member movable along a linear path and an actuator coupled to the movable valve member. The control device may be coupled to the actuator and may be configured to control the actuator such that the position of the movable valve member along the linear path changes according to a deviation of an actual tank internal pressure of the fuel tank from a target tank internal pressure. | 05-28-2015 |
20150159566 | VAPORIZED FUEL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A vaporized fuel processing apparatus has a closing valve provided in a vapor path connecting an adsorbent canister to the fuel tank, a pressure sensor configured to detect the inner pressure of the fuel tank, and an electric control unit configured to determine whether the amount of increase in the inner pressure of the fuel tank is within an acceptable range or not, to learn a valve opening start position of the closing valve when the inner pressure of the fuel tank is reduced by an amount not less than a predetermined value, and to stop or prohibit the learning of the valve opening start position of the closing valve when the amount of increase in the inner pressure of the fuel tank is not within the acceptable range during or before the learning of the valve opening start position of the closing valve. | 06-11-2015 |
20150159567 | VAPORIZED FUEL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A vaporized fuel processing apparatus has a canister loaded with an adsorbent capable of adsorbing vaporized fuel generated in a fuel tank, a closing valve provided a vapor path connecting the canister and the fuel tank and having a valve seat and a valve movable portion such that a distance between the valve seat and the valve movable portion is stroke amount, a pressure sensor configured to detect inner pressure of the fuel tank, and an electric control unit. The electric control unit is configured to perform abnormal state depressurization control of the fuel tank, in a state that the pressure sensor cannot detect the inner pressure of the fuel tank, by setting the stroke amount of the closing valve at a fail-safe value in which the closing valve is closed, and then changing the stroke amount in a valve opening direction of the closing valve from the fail-safe value. | 06-11-2015 |
20150159568 | VAPORIZED FUEL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A vaporized fuel processing apparatus has a canister capable of adsorbing vaporized fuel generated in a fuel tank, a closing valve provided in the vapor path connecting the canister and the fuel tank and having a valve seat and a valve movable portion, a pressure sensor configured to detect inner pressure of the fuel tank, and an electric control unit. The electric control unit is configured to set a learning value that is an axial distance between the valve seat and the valve movable portion at a valve opening start position at a fail-safe value such that the closing valve is in the valve closing state when the inner pressure of the fuel tank decreases by less than a predetermined value after repeating a stroke control process more than predetermined times. | 06-11-2015 |
20150159577 | FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine has a fuel pump capable of pumping fuel from a fuel tank to the internal combustion engine, a motor driving the fuel pump, a pressure sensor configured to detect pressure of the fuel pumped from the fuel pump, and a control unit configured to output control signals to the motor. The control unit is configured to perform feedback control of duty ratio of the control signals for the motor, and to control the duty lower limit guard value in order to limit an amount of decreases of the duty lower limit guard value in the step-like manner when a duty lower limit guard value decreases. | 06-11-2015 |
20150159598 | VAPORIZED FUEL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A vaporized fuel processing apparatus has a canister capable of adsorbing vaporized fuel generated in a fuel tank, a vapor path connecting the canister to the fuel tank, a closing valve provided in the vapor path, a purge path connecting the canister to an intake path of an engine, a pressure sensor for detecting the inner pressure of the fuel tank, and an electric control unit controlling the vaporized fuel processing apparatus. When the inner pressure of the fuel tank is in excess of the measurement range of the pressure sensor, the learning of the valve opening start position is prohibited, and pre-learning depressurization control is performed through change of the stroke amount of the closing valve in the valve opening direction until the inner pressure of the fuel tank is within the measurement range of the pressure sensor. | 06-11-2015 |
20150292447 | VAPORIZED FUEL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A vaporized fuel processing apparatus has a fuel tank, a canister configured to adsorb vaporized fuel, a vapor path connecting the canister to the fuel tank, a closing valve provided in the vapor path, a pressure sensor measuring inner pressure of the fuel tank, and an electric control unit connected with the closing valve and the pressure sensor. The electric control unit is configured to close or open the closing valve in order to initialize the closing valve or open the closing valve in order to release the vaporized fuel from the fuel tank. Further, the electric control unit is configured to detect failure of the closing valve depending on change in the inner pressure of the fuel tank within a predetermined time from when the closing valve is opened or is closed for initialization of the closing valve or release of the vaporized fuel from the fuel tank. | 10-15-2015 |
20150322902 | VAPORIZED FUEL TREATING DEVICE - A vaporized fuel treating device having a canister that is configured to adsorb vaporized fuel in a fuel tank and to feed the adsorbed vaporized fuel to an engine may include a pressure sensor that is configured to periodically detect an inner pressure of the fuel tank, and a pressure sensor failure determination device that is configured to determine that the pressure sensor has failed when a change of the inner pressure detected by the pressure sensor in a unit of time is not less than a predetermined pressure value that is greater than a maximum value of possible pressure changes within the fuel tank. | 11-12-2015 |
20150330337 | FUEL VAPOR PROCESSING APPARATUS - A fuel vapor processing apparatus may include a vapor passage connecting a canister and a fuel tank of an engine system. An opening and closing valve may be disposed in the vapor passage. A valve opening device may be coupled to the opening and closing valve and may forcibly open the valve when the internal pressure of the fuel tank detected by a pressure has reached to a set pressure value. | 11-19-2015 |
20150330346 | FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A fuel supply system may include a fuel pump configured to supply fuel from a fuel tank to a target, a motor for driving the fuel pump, and a controller coupled to the motor. The controller may determine a duty ratio of a control signal through a feedback control and to output the control signal to the motor, so that a fuel pressure of the fuel supplied from the fuel tank approaches a target fuel pressure. The controller may estimate the duty ratio based on the target fuel pressure and information regarding a fuel pressure of the fuel supplied from the fuel tank, and may guard an upper limit of the duty ratio by an upper limit guard value. The upper limit guard value may be determined based on a rotational speed of the motor. | 11-19-2015 |
20160076495 | SYSTEM FOR SUPPLYING FUEL TO AN ENGINE - A fuel-supply system has a fuel pump, a pressure controller, a signal output device and a power switch. The pressure controller adjusts the observed fuel pressure of the fuel and may electronically communicate with a motor driving the fuel pump to regulate the supply of fuel from a fuel tank of the fuel-supply system to an engine. In detail, the pressure controller performs feedback control of a voltage applied to the motor such that the pressure of a fuel pumped from the fuel pump approaches to have a first target and/or ideal fuel pressure value. Further, the signal output device outputs the first target fuel pressure value to the pressure controller. Activation of the power switch supplies power, from a power source, to the pressure controller, the motor and the signal output device. Further, the pressure controller may perform feedback control based on a second target fuel pressure value. | 03-17-2016 |
20160108865 | FUEL VAPOR PROCESSING APPARATUS - A fuel vapor processing apparatus may include a canister, a purge passage connecting the canister and an engine, a vapor passage connecting the canister and a fuel tank, a closing valve disposed in the vapor passage, a pressure detection device for detecting a pressure within the fuel tank, and a controller coupled to the closing valve and the pressure detection device. The controller may output a control signal to the closing valve for opening the closing valve or for closing the closing valve. The controller may include an abnormality determination device that may determine whether or not the pressure detection device is operating properly based a detection value of the pressure detection device detected at a time when the engine is inactive and after the controller outputs the control signal to the closing valve for opening the closing valve or for closing the closing valve. | 04-21-2016 |