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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140248536 | ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL , PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAID ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, ELECTRODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - An electrode active material has, as a main component, a mixture of an organic compound containing a rubeanic acid and oxamide. The rubeanic acid is represented by the following general formula: | 09-04-2014 |
20140248535 | ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL , ELECTRODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - An electrode active material has, as a main component, a mixture of an organic compound containing a rubeanic acid and cyanomethanesulfonylamide. The rubeanic acid is represented by the following general formula: | 09-04-2014 |
20130344385 | ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, ELECTRODE, AND SECONDARY CELL - An electrode active material has the general formula (I) or (II) in a constituent unit. In the formulas, X is C or Si; and Y | 12-26-2013 |
20130082496 | VEHICLE SEAT - A vehicle seat is provided comprising a seat back frame having right and left side frames, a headrest for supporting a head of a seat occupant, and a back-and-forth movable plate member provided inside a backrest that is positioned at a rear of the seat occupant, wherein a backward movement of the plate reduces a distance between the head of the seat occupant and the headrest. The plate is attached to each side frame through a link member and a link support shaft swingably supports the link member. A bracket member that supports the link support shaft and is attached to the side frame. | 04-04-2013 |
20130076087 | VEHICLE SEAT - A backrest frame is provided with a cushion plate of one substantially square plate form positioned behind the waist from the upper part of the back of a vehicle seat occupant, movably back and forth by way of a plurality of upper and lower parallel seat springs, one end of either one of a pair of right and left seat springs of the plurality of upper and lower parallel seat springs is connected to a pair of lower link mechanisms provided rotatably on the backrest frame, and a rear end collision sensor is formed by the cushion plate between the seat springs for moving a headrest forward, and a coupling part of the other end of the seat spring is directly attached to the lower link mechanism. | 03-28-2013 |
20120126594 | COUPLING MECHANISM FOR HEADREST OF VEHICLE SEAT - A vehicle seat is provided comprising a seat back frame having right and left side frames, a headrest for supporting a head of a seat occupant, and a back-and-forth movable body provided inside a backrest that is positioned at a rear of the seat occupant, wherein a backward movement of the back-and-forth movable body forwardly moves the headrest to support the head of the seat occupant. The back-and-forth movable body is attached to each side frame through a link member and is provided with a backward protrusion protruding backward, and the backward protrusion extends laterally. | 05-24-2012 |
20120126593 | COUPLING MECHANISM FOR HEADREST OF VEHICLE SEAT - A vehicle seat is provided comprising a seat back frame having right and left side frames, a headrest for supporting a head of a seat occupant, and a back-and-forth movable body provided inside a backrest that is positioned at a rear of the seat occupant, wherein a backward movement of the back-and-forth movable body forwardly moves the headrest to support the head of the seat occupant. The back-and-forth movable body is attached to each side frame through a link member and is provided with a backward protrusion protruding backward, and the backward protrusion extends laterally. | 05-24-2012 |
20110253091 | ENGINE BALANCER SYSTEM - An engine balancer system is provided in which a balancer housing ( | 10-20-2011 |
20110203646 | COMPOUND THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A method of fabricating a thin-film compound solar cell having an n-type buffer layer formed therein for providing a heterojunction with a p-type compound semiconductor light absorbing layer formed on a back electrode by applying a chemical bath deposition (CBD) process using an aqueous solution for dipping the light absorbing layer to deposit particles on the surface thereof. In this process, the temperature of the solution is controlled from low to high to increase sizes of the particles to be deposited on the light absorbing layer so as to form the buffer layer which possesses a high optical transmittance, tight adherence to the light absorbing layer and conformity with the transparent electrode formed thereon even if it would be made of InS material generally possessing a small bandgap and hard to pass light of short wavelengths. | 08-25-2011 |
20110193377 | Coupling Mechanism for Headrest of Vehicle Seat - A vehicle seat is provided comprising a seat back frame having right and left side frames, a headrest for supporting a head of a seat occupant, and a back-and-forth movable body provided inside a backrest that is positioned at a rear of the seat occupant, wherein a backward movement of the back-and-forth movable body forwardly moves the headrest to support the head of the seat occupant. The back-and-forth movable body is attached to each side frame through a link member and is provided with a backward protrusion protruding backward, and the backward protrusion extends laterally. | 08-11-2011 |
20110175410 | Coupling Mechanism for Headrest of Vehicle Seat - A vehicle seat is provided comprising a seat back frame having right and left side frames, a headrest for supporting a head of a seat occupant, and a back-and-forth movable body provided inside a backrest that is positioned at a rear of the seat occupant, wherein a backward movement of the back-and-forth movable body forwardly moves the headrest to support the head of the seat occupant. The back-and-forth movable body is attached to each side frame through a link member and is provided with a backward protrusion protruding backward, and the backward protrusion extends laterally. | 07-21-2011 |
20110175409 | Coupling Mechanism for Headrest of Vehicle Seat - A vehicle seat is provided comprising a seat back frame having right and left side frames, a headrest for supporting a head of a seat occupant, and a back-and-forth movable body provided inside a backrest that is positioned at a rear of the seat occupant, wherein a backward movement of the back-and-forth movable body forwardly moves the headrest to support the head of the seat occupant. The back-and-forth movable body is attached to each side frame through a link member and is provided with a backward protrusion protruding backward, and the backward protrusion extends laterally. | 07-21-2011 |
20110067666 | ENGINE BALANCER SYSTEM - An engine balancer system is provided in which a balancer housing ( | 03-24-2011 |
20110033783 | METAL SEPARATOR FOR FUEL CELL AND ITS PRODUCTION METHOD - The present invention provides a metallic separator for fuel cells capable of suppressing dropping out of conductive inclusions due to gaps formed at the interface of a base material and the conductive inclusions due to press-forming, thereby decreasing the contact resistance and enhancing the power generation performance, and also provides a method for producing the same. | 02-10-2011 |
20110020642 | ADHESIVE COMPOSITION, ADHESIVE SHEET AND ADHESIVE FORMED PRODUCT - The present invention provides an adhesive composition, which comprises a mixture of a hot-melt adhesive with a ferromagnetic material and has a shear force of not less than 20 N after heating (at 150° C. for 10 minutes) bonding, and a adhesive sheet obtained from the adhesive composition. Also, present invention provides a adhesive formed product, which comprises a mixture of a hot-melt adhesive and a ferromagnetic material and has a shear force of not less than 20 N after heating (at 150° C. for 10 minutes) bonding, wherein the adhesive formed product is used for bonding between components composed of a material exhibiting ferromagnetism. The adhesive composition, the adhesive sheet and the adhesive formed product of the present invention can also be applied to fields where solvent resistance and chemical resistance are required. | 01-27-2011 |
20110014463 | REMOVABLE ADHESIVE SHEET - The present invention provides a removable adhesive sheet, which comprises a mixture of a hot-melt removable adhesive and a ferromagnetic material. The removable adhesive sheet of the present invention can be held to the prescribed location by means of magnetic force in initial stage of the adhesion at room temperature to an article composed of a metal or the like, and further, can move easily and position easily to a correct location, and can be peeled off easily after sticking by heating. | 01-20-2011 |
20100291450 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR STARTING FUEL CELL VEHICLE - A control device for starting a fuel cell is provided which is capable of preventing an excessive reduction of the terminal voltage of the fuel cell. A primary precharge portion, provided with a high voltage switch and a current limiter, is disposed at the output portion of a power storage unit, and a secondary precharge portion, provided with a DC-DC chopper and a control portion, is disposed at the output side of a fuel cell. The primary precharge portion controls the output current to flow in a path via a resistor having a predetermined resistance. The secondary precharge portion controls an output current of the fuel cell based on a current command value IFCCMD for the fuel cell. | 11-18-2010 |
20100239894 | TEMPERATURE CONTROLLING APPARATUS FOR BATTERY, VEHICLE APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREFOR - In an ECU, a coolant fan performs cooling operation such that a control DUTY value is limited by a control DUTY value according to tolerable noise level of the cooling fan based on a vehicle speed in a case in which the temperature in the high-voltage battery is lower than a predetermined limitation for highest temperature. In a case in which the temperature in the high-voltage battery is higher than the predetermined limitation for highest temperature, the cooling fan performs the cooling operation by using an energy storage device cooling operation requirement value and an IPU cooling operation requirement value such that performance in the high-voltage battery is not affected. By doing this, a temperature controlling apparatus for batteries in which it is possible to cool the battery and solve temperature difference among a plurality of batteries can be provided. | 09-23-2010 |
20100021334 | Method of manufacturing composite copper material - An element such as Cr is caused to dissolve sufficiently in a base-material metal (Cu) in a solid solution state at a high temperature and a material in a supersaturated condition is obtained by performing quenching. After that, a strain is applied to this material and this material is subjected to aging treatment at a low temperature simultaneously with or after the application of this strain. As a result of this, it is possible to obtain a copper alloy having properties desirable as an electrode material, for example, a hardness of not less than 30 HRB, an electrical conductivity of not less than 85 IACS %, and a thermal conductivity of not less than 350 W/(m·K). | 01-28-2010 |
20090309398 | COUPLING MECHANISM FOR HEADREST OF VEHICLE SEAT - A vehicle seat of the invention has an upper movable member ( | 12-17-2009 |
20090251080 | DC MOTOR WITH DIRECTIONALLY DETERMINED TORQUE - A device and method for matching the rates of speed at which an electric motor that is drivingly connected to a worm gear raises and lowers a window in an automobile power window assembly. By axially displacing the motor's armature, and/or by varying the thread and tooth profiles of the worm and the gear, the amount of torque produced by the motor and transmitted through the worm gear can be altered. In order to compensate for the effect of gravity on the motor load and on the window's speed of ascent and descent, more torque is provided when the window is being raised and less torque is provided when the window is being lowered. | 10-08-2009 |
20090243350 | VEHICLE SEAT WITH A TEMPERATURE CONTROL UNIT - A vehicle seat with a temperature control unit is composed of a plurality of ditches installed on a surface of a seat pad covered with the second plate having a vent and a divergence department on a surface of a seat pad covered with the first plate, wherein the presence of a plurality of ditches on a surface of a seat pad and a divergence department to diverge a heated or cooled air sent from a blower to each ditch give good ventilation of a heated or cooled air. | 10-01-2009 |
20090206146 | Welding method, welding system, and welding jig for robotically welding a motorcycle fuel tank - A welding jig for holding a motorcycle fuel tank when the fuel tank is welded includes a plurality of attachments for holding said fuel tank through resilient bodies. The plurality of attachments have springs hold the outer plate of a fuel tank, and an inner jig positions an inner plate. The attachments are attached to clamp arms which are opened/closed by cylinders. When the overlap portion between the outer and inner plates is welded, the thermal deformation caused by welding is accommodated by the springs. The attachments are spaced from the fuel tank in the order in which the welding point is approached. | 08-20-2009 |
20090179460 | VEHICLE ENGINE COVER - A one-piece automobile engine cover for protecting vital engine components from external elements such as water and debris. The cover is positioned between the engine and the hood of an automobile and is pivotably attached to the automobile, preferably by the same hinges that attach the hood to the automobile, or by separate, but collinear, hinges. The cover can be latched to the hood to keep it raised for servicing. | 07-16-2009 |
20090046151 | Vehicle zone monitoring apparatus - A vehicle zone monitoring apparatus that detects physical bodies present in the vicinity of the vehicle from infrared images photographed by infrared cameras provided on the vehicle includes an object extracting device that extracts object images that emit infrared radiation from the infrared image and an artificial structure identifying device that identifies whether or not an object is an artificial structure by comparing an image of a search zone in proximity to the object extracted by the object extraction device, to a reference image of a pre-registered artificial structure which serves as an element that defines an artificial structure, and that identifies the object as an artificial structure if: within the search zone in proximity to the object, a section having a high correlation with the reference image exists; and a distance between the vehicle and the object is equal to a distance between the vehicle and the section having the high correlation with said reference image. | 02-19-2009 |
20090042069 | SOLID POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL ASSEMBLY, FUEL CELL STACK, AND METHOD OF OPERATING CELL ASSEMBLY - A cell assembly is formed by stacking a first unit cell and a second unit cell to each other. The first unit cell includes a first unified body, and the second unit cell includes a second unified body. In the cell assembly, the first and second unit cells have structures different from each other. | 02-12-2009 |
20090029213 | METHOD FOR DETECTING ABNORMALITY IN FUEL CELL - The invention detects quickly and with high precision abnormalities in fuel cells. In a method of detecting abnormalities in a fuel cell | 01-29-2009 |
20090021035 | CARGO BED EXTENDER - The invention is an apparatus for use with a vehicle having a tailgate. The apparatus has a frame hingedly mounted to an exterior of the tailgate with at least about 270° of rotation relative to the tailgate. The apparatus has first and second arms pivotably mounted on opposite sides of the frame with at least about 90° of rotation relative to the frame from a resting position, in which the arms are substantially parallel to the frame, to an extended position. First and second panels mount between the arms when the arms are extended, wherein the first panel is mounted to ends of the arms that are opposite the frame and the second panel is mounted to an underside of each of the arms. | 01-22-2009 |
20090002108 | Actuator - An actuator has a resilient shape memory member | 01-01-2009 |
20080292937 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FUEL CELL METALLIC SEPARATOR - A metallic separator according to a first embodiment is formed by obtaining a blank by rolling a metallic material having conductive inclusions, and removing a surface of the blank by 2% or more of the thickness of the blank. A metallic separator according to a second embodiment is formed by pressing a metallic plate so as to have a cross section including ridges and grooves alternatively, and removing parts of the ridged portions so as to make flattened surfaces. A metallic separator having conductive inclusions in its metal texture according to a third embodiment is formed by blasting a liquid containing two or more kinds of abrasives having different particle diameters to a blank after it has been rolled. A metallic separator having conductive inclusion in its metal texture according to a fourth embodiment is formed by blasting a passivation treatment liquid mixed with abrasives to the separator. | 11-27-2008 |
20080255969 | Parts list system used for part number management and method for preparing the same - A method of preparing parts list system used for part numbers management, composed of a parts table database and a parts list controller. The parts table database includes a parts list which stores a state data and a part number data. The state data indicates a progress state of a part. The part number data includes a number of the part as an identifier. The method comprises preparing a part list storing the state data and part number data, setting the state data to indicate permission to change a part number, assigning a tentative part number, setting the state data after changing design of the part, defining the tentative part number as a normal part number, and checking validation of the tentative part number versus used part numbers and whether the tentative part number complies with predetermined rules for each part number data. | 10-16-2008 |
20080239671 | Semiconductor Element Mounting Substrate, Semiconductor Module, And Electric Vehicle - A semiconductor element mounting substrate excellent in cooling performance and simple in structure is provided. The semiconductor element mounting substrate is a substrate | 10-02-2008 |
20080229879 | Starter - A starter that includes a motor portion that includes a motor shaft; a deceleration mechanism portion that is integrated with the motor portion, the deceleration mechanism portion includes a planetary gear that revolves around the motor shaft; and an output shaft that rotates integrally with a revolution of the planetary gear, wherein a bracket of the deceleration mechanism portion, in which a ring-shaped gear is formed at an inner circumferential surface so as to mesh with the planetary gear, is integrated with a casing of the motor portion by an intermediate bracket. | 09-25-2008 |
20080216789 | Engine balancer system - An engine balancer system is provided in which a balancer housing ( | 09-11-2008 |
20080212076 | Apparatus and method for testing infrared camera - An apparatus for testing infrared cameras includes: a cover plate which has a plurality of holes formed therethrough and arranged in line in a horizontal direction at a regular interval, the cover plate being adapted to emit an amount of infrared light; and an emission source which is disposed in parallel to and behind the cover plate as viewed from infrared cameras to be tested, the emission source being adapted to emit a different amount of infrared light when compared with the cover plate. | 09-04-2008 |
20080203955 | Legged Mobile Robot - In a legged mobile robot ( | 08-28-2008 |
20080202647 | ALLUMINUM ALLOY PIPE AND ALUMINUM ALLOY STRUCTURAL MEMBER FOR AUTOMOBILE USING THE SAME - An Al—Mg-based aluminum alloy pipe for hot working, having an alloy composition having from 2.5% by mass to 2.8% by mass of Mg, 0.25% by mass or less of Si, 0.35% by mass or less of Fe, and from 0.25% by mass to 0.35% by mass of Cr, with the balance being inevitable impurities and Al, wherein an area ratio of cavities after hot working is 2.3% or less; and an aluminum alloy structural member for automobile using the same. | 08-28-2008 |