Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080230035 | Fluid pump control apparatus - A fuel supply system comprises an engine control unit (ECU), a fuel pump with a built-in pump motor which is PWM controlled based on a control signal from the ECU, a pump controller for controlling supply of electric power to the pump motor, and sensors for detecting an operating state of the engine. A control section of the pump controller controls to change a frequency to be lower as a duty ratio of a PWM control signal to operate a power transistor of an output circuit is higher and inversely to change the frequency to be higher as the duty ratio is lower. | 09-25-2008 |
20080295808 | Fuel supply apparatus - A fuel pump unit includes a fuel pump which is driven by a motor, a secondary filter case placed to surround the fuel pump and contains a filter, a reserve cup which houses the fuel pump and the secondary filter case, and a pump controller which drivingly controls the fuel pump. A shielding material is provided in the reserve cup to shield electrical noise generated by the fuel pump. The shielding material is grounded. The pump controller includes a pump drive circuit which is provided with an electric filter. | 12-04-2008 |
20080309527 | Resolver - A resolver includes an excitation signal generator which generates a sine wave and a cosine wave as an excitation signal, a rotor which receives the excitation signal, and a rotary transformer which detects an output signal of the rotor, the resolver being arranged to detect angle information of the rotor. The resolver further includes a controller which outputs angle information at a zero cross point of the output signal detected by the rotary transformer. The resolver can provide high detection accuracy and be low in cost. | 12-18-2008 |
20090024271 | Fault Diagnosis System in Load Driving Arrangement and Fuel Pump Control System - In a fault diagnosis system ( | 01-22-2009 |
20090090330 | Fuel pump control device - A fuel pump control device including an electric component for controlling a fuel pump is placed in a fuel tank. The electric component is hermetically enclosed in a housing. An adsorbent of a cartridge type for adsorbing fuel vapor is provided in the housing. The housing includes a housing body and a covering member closing an opening of the housing body. The electric component includes a control circuit unit and an external terminal extending from the control circuit unit. The external terminal is provided passing through the covering member to the outside. The adsorbent is charged between the covering member and the control circuit unit so that the external terminal is placed passing through the adsorbent. | 04-09-2009 |
20100181995 | Position sensor - An electromagnetic induction type rotary encoder includes an excitation board including an excitation coil, a detection board fixed to a movable element to face the excitation board and including a detection coil placed to face the excitation coil with a clearance therefrom, and a controller for outputting an excitation signal to the excitation coil and processing a detection signal output from the detection coil. The controller includes an excitation circuit for exciting the excitation coil at high frequency and a high-frequency generating circuit, a demodulation circuit for demodulating a signal from the detection coil in accordance with excitation to the excitation coil, a waveform shaping circuit for waveform shaping a signal from the demodulation circuit, and a pulse generating circuit for outputting a pulse signal based on the signal from the waveform shaping circuit. Each of the excitation coil and the detection coil is formed in a meandering coil pattern. | 07-22-2010 |
20100315075 | Resolver of phase difference type - A phase difference type resolver is adapted such that a calculator calculates an angle from a phase difference at a detection-signal zero cross point, determines a velocity at the angle based on an angle calculated from a phase difference at a previous detection-signal zero cross point, calculates an estimated angle at a next detection-signal zero cross point based on the velocity, divides a difference between the estimated angle and the angle into predetermined minimum detection angles, and outputs a real-time signal based on the minimum detection angles in a range after the angle but before the estimated angle. | 12-16-2010 |
20120007592 | ROTATION POSITION SENSOR - A rotational position sensor includes a rotor substrate and a stator substrate placed to face each other to detect rotational displacement of the rotor substrate. The rotor substrate is formed with an excitation coil in a meandering pattern on an outer circumferential side and a rotor-side rotary transformer on an inner circumferential side. The stator substrate is formed with four detection coils in a meandering pattern on an outer circumferential side and a stator-side rotary transformer on an inner circumferential side. The four detection coils are arranged in a circumferential direction without overlapping each other. The detection coils are displaced from each other by 360°/8. The rotational position sensor includes a high frequency excitation circuit for applying a high frequency signal to the excitation coil through the rotor-side rotary transformer and the rotor-side rotary transformer to excite the excitation coil. | 01-12-2012 |
20120176123 | POSITION SENSOR - A position sensor is configured such that a rotor pattern formed on a rotor in a position facing a stator includes non-magnetic conductive parts cyclically formed, a stator coil includes an excitation coil and a detection coil, which are wound in the same direction, and the width of each coil is equal to one cycle of the rotor pattern. | 07-12-2012 |
20130200884 | POSITION SENSOR - A position sensor includes: a stator including an excitation coil and a detection coil each formed in planar shape; and a mover placed to face the stator and provided with a plurality of regions having different magnetic permeability and being arranged periodically in a moving direction of the mover. The excitation coil includes a first excitation coil pattern and a second excitation coil pattern formed adjacent to the first excitation coil pattern. The detection coil includes a detection coil pattern placed between the first excitation coil pattern and the second excitation coil pattern in the moving direction of the mover. The second excitation coil pattern is wound to flow an excitation current in an opposite direction to the first excitation coil pattern. | 08-08-2013 |