| KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI Patent applications |
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| 20120134854 | Differential pressure control valve and variable displacement compressor having the differential pressure control valve - A differential pressure control valve has a valve seat made of magnetic material, a valve body having a lid made of magnetic material, and a guiding member. Fluid passes through a valve hole formed in the seat. The body on the downstream side of the seat separates from or is seated on the seat in accordance with the pressure difference between the upstream and downstream sides to selectively open and close the hole. The guiding member fixed to the seat guides the body. The lid is seated on the seat to close the hole. A guided member is made of nonmagnetic material. One of the seat and the lid has a permanent magnet. The body is urged in the direction approaching the seat by the force of the magnet located at a position outside the area where the body is seated on the seat. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120133171 | PACKAGE TRAY ASSEMBLY FOR TRUNK OF VEHICLE - A package tray assembly for a trunk of a vehicle includes a package tray and a support for supporting the package tray. The support is to be mounted to a body of the vehicle. The support includes a guide portion having a convex top surface. The package tray is to be attached to the support so as to be rotatable round a point located immediately below the guide portion as a center of rotation. The package tray includes a front end portion supported by the support when attached thereto. The front end portion includes a contact portion configured to move back and forth on the convex top surface while tilting at different angles relative to a moving direction. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120126390 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device is provided that may include an insulating substrate having a ceramic substrate and metal coating layers on opposite surfaces of the ceramic substrate, a semiconductor chip mounted on one surface of the insulating substrate, and a heat sink directly or indirectly fixed to the other surface of the insulating substrate and thermally connected to the semiconductor chip through the insulating substrate. The heat sink may include a housing that is made of a metal sheet and radiating fins that are fixed in the housing and made of aluminum. The metal sheet may have a coefficient of thermal expansion between those of the insulating substrate and the radiating fin. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120125013 | AIR CONDITIONER - The air conditioner includes an air-conditioning core, a first air-conditioning passage, a liquid passage and a second air-conditioning passage. The core includes a Peltier device having first and second surfaces, a first surface-side passage and a second surface-side passage. The second surface-side passage has a first passage and a second passage that transfer heat therebetween. The first air-conditioning passage is connected to the first surface-side passage for allowing first air-conditioning air in the first air-conditioning passage to flow through the first surface-side passage. The liquid passage is connected to the first passage for allowing liquid that serves as a heat transfer medium to flow through the first passage. The second air-conditioning passage is connected to the second passage for allowing second air-conditioning air in the second air-conditioning passage to flow through the second passage. The first air-conditioning air and the second air-conditioning air are usable for air conditioning a room. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120119868 | WIRING SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR WIRING SUBSTRATE - Disclosed is a wiring substrate that is provided with a wiring pattern formed from a metal plate, and an insulation layer as a base material to which the wiring pattern is to be fixed. The wiring pattern has a mounting pad for having electronic parts ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120117983 | AIR-CONDITIONING HEAT EXCHANGER AND AIR CONDITIONER HAVING THE SAME - The air-conditioning heat exchanger includes a plurality of Peltier devices, a plurality of first heat transfer members, a plurality of second heat transfer members, an air-conditioning passage and a heat exchange medium passage. The air-conditioning passage has therein the Peltier devices and the first heat transfer members. The air-conditioning passage allows air to be air-conditioned to flow therethrough. The air-conditioning passage has a plurality of divided passages at least at positions that are downstream of upstream ends of the first heat transfer members with respect to an air flowing direction in which the air flows through the air-conditioning passage. The Peltier device in each divided passage is controlled separately from the Peltier device in other divided passage. The heat exchange medium passage has therein the second heat transfer members and allows fluid to flow through the heat exchange medium passage. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120113598 | BASE FOR POWER MODULE - A power module base includes a heat radiation substrate formed of a high-thermal-conduction material, an insulating substrate joined to an upper surface of the heat radiation substrate, a wiring layer provided on an upper surface of the insulating substrate, and a heat radiation fin joined to a lower surface of the heat radiation substrate. A component attachment plate thicker than the heat radiation substrate and including a through hole for accommodating the insulating substrate is joined to the upper surface of the heat radiation substrate such that the insulating substrate is located within the through hole. This power module base can maintain the upper surface of the component attachment plate flat, and various components for a power module, such as a casing, can be attached onto the component attachment plate. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120109437 | INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE - An industrial vehicle having a vehicle body includes a battery, an electric motor, an electrolyte level sensor, a vehicle operating with lowered electrolyte level, a vehicle operating time calculator, a data-storing device storing data of the vehicle operating time, an electric motor limiting condition and a motor controller. The electric motor is driven to generate torque. The electrolyte level sensor detects whether or not electrolyte level of the battery is lower than a predetermined level. The vehicle operating time is a time elapsing while the electrolyte level is lower than the predetermined level. The vehicle operating time calculator counts the vehicle operating time in accordance with the detection of the electrolyte level. The electric motor limiting condition limits operation of the electric motor gradually in accordance with the vehicle operating time. The motor controller controls operation of the electric motor based on the electric motor limiting condition. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120107141 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR AND CONTROLLER THEREFOR - A motor controller for a motor-driven compressor includes a compressing body for compressing and discharging a refrigerant and a motor including a rotary shaft, the motor for driving the compressing body through the rotary shaft. A coil of the motor is arranged in a refrigerant containing area in the motor-driven compressor. The motor controller includes a determining section for determining whether liquid refrigerant is present in the refrigerant containing area and a modulation control section for driving the motor in accordance with three phase modulation control or two phase modulation control based on a determination result of the determining section. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104998 | NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A non-contact power transmission device includes an alternating current power supply, a resonant system, a load, an impedance measuring section and an analyzing section. The resonant system has a primary coil connected to the alternating current power supply, a primary-side resonant coil, a secondary-side resonant coil and a secondary coil. The load is connected to the secondary coil. The impedance measuring section can measure the input impedance of the resonant system. The analyzing section analyzes the measurement results obtained from the impedance measuring section. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120098631 | INDUCTION DEVICE - An induction device includes a first core, a coil wound around the first core, and a second core cooperating with the first core to form a closed magnetic circuit. The first core and the coil are molded by a mold resin to form a molding, and the second core is assembled to the molding. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120091791 | POWER-SUPPLY UNIT AND POWER SUPPLY - A power-supply unit has an electric connection box operable to supply an electric power of a battery to loads and a power supply operable to control first voltage supplied from the battery and outputted through the electric connection box and supply second voltage into which the first voltage is controlled in the power supply to the loads through the electric connection box. The electric connection box includes an electric connection box side input terminal connectable to the battery and an electric connection box side output terminal connectable to the loads. The power supply includes a power supply side input terminal that is directly connected to the electric connection box side input terminal and a power supply side output terminal that is directly connected to the electric connection box side output terminal. The power supply is directly supported by and fixed to the electric connection box. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120087811 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - A motor-driven compressor includes a shell, an electric motor, a first conductor electrically connected to an external power source, a second conductor electrically connected to the electric motor, a connector connecting the first conductor and the second conductor and a connector case. The connector case has a first case member, a second case member, a first and a second seal members interposed between the first and the second case members, a hole through which the first conductor is inserted and a third seal member sealing between the first conductor and the connector case. A first main seal of the first seal member and a second main seal of the second seal member cooperate to form a cylindrical seal portion for sealing the second conductor that is inserted through the cylindrical seal portion when the first and the second seal members are joined. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120081045 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VOLTAGE CONVERSION DEVICE, VEHICLE INCORPORATING THE SAME, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VOLTAGE CONVERSION DEVICE - In a voltage conversion device of a motor drive control device, switching-control is performed so as to enlarge an output allowable voltage range of the voltage conversion device restricted by a dead time in a switching operation for an upper arm and a lower arm performing power conversion by a switching operation. Accordingly, restriction in the output voltage from the voltage conversion device, caused by the dead time, can be suppressed. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120074903 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE - An electric vehicle suppresses the discharge of an auxiliary battery for supplying electric power to a control circuit for controlling a charging process while performing timer-charging. When the charging start timing set by a user comes after specified elapsed time, the power supply from an internal power supply circuit | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120073295 | RANKINE CYCLE SYSTEM - A Rankine cycle system mounted on a vehicle has a Rankine cycle circuit through which working fluid circulates, a power generator, a power storage and a controller. The Rankine cycle circuit includes a fluid expansion device, a fluid transferring device, first and second passages, a heater, a cooling device, a bypass passage and a flow regulating valve. The bypass passage connects the first passage to the second passage. The flow regulating valve is provided in the bypass passage for opening and closing the bypass passage. The power generator converts the work generated by the fluid expansion device into electric power. The controller monitors charge rate of the electric power charged in the power storage and controls an operation of the flow regulating valve based on the monitored charge rate. The controller causes the flow regulating valve to be opened when the monitored charge rate is greater than a predetermined value. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120073294 | RANKINE CYCLE SYSTEM - A Rankine cycle system mounted on a vehicle includes a Rankine cycle circuit, a pressure detector, a temperature detector and a controller. The Rankine cycle circuit includes a fluid expansion device, a fluid transferring device, first and second passages, a heater, a cooling device, a bypass passage and a flow regulating valve. The bypass passage connects the first passage and the second passage, and in which the flow regulating valve is provided for opening and closing the bypass passage. The controller is connected to the flow regulating valve for controlling an operation of the flow regulating valve and to the pressure and temperature detectors and for receiving signals of pressure and temperature from the pressure and temperature detectors, respectively. The controller controls the operation of the flow regulating valve based on a superheat degree of the working fluid calculated from the signals of the pressure and temperature. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120068663 | POWER SOURCE DEVICE - A power control device for a vehicle includes a first battery, a second battery, the voltage of which is lower than the voltage of the first battery, and a transformer. The transformer includes a primary coil, to which an alternating-current power source is connected, a first secondary coil, to which the first battery is connected, and at least one second secondary coil, to which the second battery is connected. A rectification circuit is located between the second secondary coil and the second battery. A voltage adjustment circuit is located between the rectification circuit and the second battery. A control section charges the first battery using the alternating current power source, and, simultaneously supplies electrical power to the second battery. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120062172 | RESONANCE TYPE NON-CONTACT CHARGING DEVICE - A resonance type non-contact charging device includes a high frequency power source, a primary side resonant coil, a secondary side resonant coil, a charger, a secondary battery, and a stop control unit, The primary side resonant coil receives supply of high frequency electric power from the high frequency power source. The secondary side resonant coil is arranged apart from the primary side resonant coil in a non-contact manner. The secondary side resonant coil receives electric power from the primary side resonant coil through magnetic field resonance between the primary side resonant coil and the secondary side resonant coil. The charger receives supply of high frequency electric power from the secondary side resonant coil. The secondary battery is connected to the charger. The stop control unit stops the high frequency power source before stopping the charger when charging is to be stopped. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120058347 | PLASTIC ARTICLE FOR AUTOMOTIVE GLAZING - A plastic article is provided wherein a plastic substrate is coated with multiple resin layers including a primer layer comprising a polymer having a UV-absorptive functional group incorporated therein and a weather resistant hardcoat layer comprising a reaction product of alkoxysilyl-containing benzophenone and/or a hydrolyzate thereof. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057999 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - The motor-driven compressor includes a housing, a compression mechanism, a rotary shaft and an electric motor all disposed in the housing, a protective film and a fixing resin. The electric motor is adapted to rotate the rotary shaft thereby to drive the compression mechanism. The electric motor has a rotor fixed on the rotary shaft and a stator supported by the housing. The rotor has a permanent magnet and a magnet hole in which the permanent magnet is inserted. The magnet hole extends in an axial direction of the rotor. The protective film is formed on a surface of the permanent magnet for improving corrosion resistance of the permanent magnet. The fixing resin is filled in at least part of a gap between the permanent magnet and a wall of the magnet hole for fixing the permanent magnet to the wall of the magnet hole. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057305 | SEMICONDUCTOR UNIT - The semiconductor unit includes a wiring board, a conductor layer and a fin. The wiring board has across a thickness thereof a first surface and a second surface. The conductor layer is formed on the first surface of the wiring board. The conductor layer has a length and a width as viewed in the direction of the thickness of the wiring board. The fin is joined to the second surface of the wiring board. The fin has a bent edge that extends in the direction of the length of the conductor layer. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120056582 | SHARING CHARGING SYSTEM - When it is determined that a charge controllable vehicle and a charge uncontrollable vehicle coexist are connected to a plurality of charging stations, available power X is distributed and supplied to the charge controllable vehicle or the charge uncontrollable vehicle so that total power derived from the charge controllable vehicle and the charge uncontrollable vehicle does not exceed the available power X of a power supply unit, and the available power X is distributed as time division and supplied to the charge controllable vehicle and the charge uncontrollable vehicle. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120055193 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - The motor-driven compressor includes a housing, a compression mechanism, a rotary shaft and an electric motor all disposed in the housing, and a resin film. The housing has a suction port and a discharge port. The compression mechanism is adapted to compress refrigerant drawn into the housing through the suction port and to discharge the compressed refrigerant out of the housing through the discharge port. The electric motor is adapted to rotate the rotary shaft to drive the compression mechanism. The electric motor has a rotor fixed on the rotary shaft and a stator supported by the housing. The rotor has a rotor body, a permanent magnet and an end plate. The rotor body has a magnet hole in which the permanent magnet is inserted. The end plate closes an opening of the magnet hole. The resin film coats an outer surface of the rotor. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120033873 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A SHAPE MATCH IN THREE DIMENSIONS - Provided are a method and a device for determining a shape match in three dimensions, which can utilize information relating to three-dimensional shapes effectively. Camera control means ( | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033456 | ACTIVE CLAMP DC-DC CONVERTER - An active clamp DC-DC converter includes a transformer having a primary coil and a secondary coil, a main switching device connected in series to the primary coil of the transformer so that the main switching device and the primary coil are connected in parallel to a DC power source, a reset capacitor, a reset switching device connected in series to the reset capacitor so that the reset switching device and the reset capacitor are connected in parallel to the primary coil of the transformer, a rectifying circuit connected to the secondary coil of the transformer, a smoothing circuit connected to the rectifying circuit, and a control circuit adjusting a dead time that elapses from the time when the reset switching device is turned off until the time when the main switching device is turned on, based on a voltage across the main switching device. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120029728 | CHARGING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE AND VEHICLE - A charging device for a vehicle includes a device-side power line communication (PLC) modem, a device-side control pilot (CPLT) signal generating circuit, a device-side CPLT signal detecting circuit and a device-side low-pass filter (LPF). The device-side PLC modem is used for PLC between the vehicle and the charging device. The device-side CPLT signal generating circuit is used for generating CPLT signals. The device-side CPLT signal detecting circuit is used for detecting the CPLT signals transmitted from the vehicle through the signal line to determine whether or not the vehicle is ready for charging and whether or not the charging is completed. The device-side LPF is connected to an input of the device-side CPLT signal detecting circuit and has such a frequency characteristics that allows the CPLT signals to pass through the device-side LPF but removes signals having frequencies in a frequency band used for PLC. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025761 | RESONANCE TYPE NON-CONTACT POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE - A resonance type non-contact power supply system is provided that includes power supplying equipment and an electric vehicle. The power supply equipment includes an alternating-current power source and a primary-side resonance coil for receiving power from the alternating-current power source. The electric vehicle includes power receiving equipment and a vehicle height control device mounted on the electric vehicle. The power receiving equipment includes a secondary-side resonance coil that receives power from the primary-side resonance coil, a rectifier that rectifies the power received by the secondary-side resonance coil, and an electrical storage device, to which the power rectified by the rectifier is supplied. A resonance system that includes the primary-side resonance coil and the secondary-side resonance coil is configured such that impedance thereof is adjusted by the use of the vehicle height control device when the electrical storage device is charged. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120014825 | ROOTS TYPE FLUID MACHINE - A roots type fluid machine includes a case having a side wall, a pair of rotary shafts provided in the case, a pair of rotors engaged with each other and fixed to the pair of rotary shafts so as to extend axially, respectively, a suction space formed by the case and the pair of rotors for introducing fluid, a discharge space formed by the case for discharging fluid and the pair of rotors and a transfer chamber formed by the case and the rotor. The rotor has a rotor end surface. A clearance is formed between the side wall and the rotor end surface. The transfer chamber transfers gas introduced in the suction space to the discharge space in accordance with the rotation of the pair of rotors. The case has a guide groove formed in the side wall facing the rotor end surface. Gas leaked from the discharge space into the clearance is introduced to the transfer chamber through the guide groove. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012232 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF FRICTION WELDING TO INCREASE TENSILE STRENGTH OF WELDED WORKPIECE - A friction welding method includes a step of friction welding a first workpiece and a second workpiece together by pressing the first workpiece against the second workpiece relatively while rotating the two workpieces relatively, and a step of annealing the friction welded workpiece at a position adjacent to a welded portion thereof with high frequency induction heating. A friction welding apparatus is provided for friction welding a first workpiece and a second workpiece together by pressing the first workpiece against the second workpiece relatively while rotating the two workpieces relatively. The friction welding apparatus includes a high frequency induction heater for annealing the friction welded workpiece at a position adjacent to a welded portion thereof with high frequency induction heating. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120003034 | FASTENING STRUCTURE OF RESIN MEMBER - A fastening structure of a resin roof panel is disclosed for fastening a sunshade housing thereto. The sunshade housing includes an attaching portion. The roof panel includes coupling portions. The attaching portion and the coupling portions are fastened to each other by combined members. Each combined member is formed by combining a fastening bolt and a plate spring, and is inserted in an elongated hole. Each combined member permits the attaching portion and the associated coupling portion to be relatively displaced along the longitudinal direction of the elongated hole, and permits the attaching portion and the associated coupling portion to be relatively displaced along the axial direction of the fastening bolt through elastic deformation of the associated plate spring. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001519 | VIBRATION ACTUATOR - A vibration actuator includes a roller, a vibrating element having a contact portion that is in contact with the roller, a vibrator for vibrating the vibrating element, a pressing device for pressing the roller against the vibrating element, and a lubricator disposed close to the contact portion and in contact with the roller. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001513 | STATOR FOR ELECTRIC MACHINE - Disclosed is a stator for an electric machine. The stator is provided with a stator core, and first and second series of coils each formed into a predetermined shape. Each of the coils in the first series is provided with a pair of first coil ends which respectively protrude from both end faces of the stator core. Each of the first coil ends is provided with a pair of bent portions which extend outward in the radial direction of the stator, and a bridge portion which connects the bent portions. Each second coil end is provided with a pair of upright portions and a bridge portion which connects the upright portions. The bridge portions of the coils in the first series are disposed outside the bridge portions of the coils in the second series in the radial direction of the stator. The bridge portion of each of the coils in the second series extends across the bent portions of two adjacent coils in the first series. The coils in the first series and the coils in the second series are configured so that each series includes a mixture of coils of at least two phases among a U-phase, a V-phase, and a W-phase. Each of the coils in the first series is connected to a coil of the same phase in the second series. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120000501 | CONNECTION STRUCTURE OF ELEMENTS AND CONNECTION METHOD - A connection structure for elements includes a first plate having an electrode layer formed on one surface of the first plate, an element connected to the electrode layer at one surface of the element and a second plate connected to the other surface of the element. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110319640 | LARGE-SCALE PURIFICATION OF 2-PYRONE-4,6-DICARBOXYLIC ACID - To provide an industrial purification method of PDC obtained by fermentative production. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316553 | ABNORMALITY DETECTION SYSTEM - The abnormality detection system is provided for detecting an abnormality of an object. The abnormality detection system includes a high-frequency power source, a primary coil, a secondary coil and a controller. The high-frequency power source supplies power. The primary coil receives the power supplied from the high-frequency power source. The secondary coil is mounted to the object in noncontact with the primary coil for receiving power supplied from the primary coil. The controller is operable to detect the power received by the secondary coil and also to determine whether or not an abnormality is present in the object based on the detected power. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315919 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR LITHIUM-BORATE-SYSTEM COMPOUND - A process is provided, process which makes it possible to produce lithium-borate-system materials by means of relatively simple means, lithium-borate-system materials which are useful as positive-electrode active materials for lithium-ion secondary battery, and the like, whose cyclic characteristics, capacities, and so forth, are improved, and which have better performance. The present production is characterized in that a divalent metallic compound including at least one member of compounds that is selected from the group consisting of divalent-iron compounds and divalent-manganese compounds, and boric acid as well as lithium hydroxide are reacted at 400-650° C. in a molten salt of a carbonate mixture comprising lithium carbonate and at least one member of alkali-metal carbonates that is selected from the group consisting of potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, rubidium carbonate and cesium carbonate in a reducing atmosphere. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110304304 | CHARGE CONTROLLER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A charge controller supplies current to a plurality of charging devices for charging a battery for a vehicle including an electric vehicle and a plug-in hybrid vehicle. The charge controller includes a rechargeable battery, a current supply unit and a current distribution controller. The rechargeable battery stores electric power supplied from a power distribution line. The current supply unit supplies current from the rechargeable battery to the charging devices. The current distribution controller determines distribution of the current supplied through the current supply unit to the charging devices based on the charging data about the vehicle received from the charging devices. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110300065 | APPARATUS FOR PURIFYING HYDROGEN AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME - An apparatus and method purify hydrogen from a mixed fluid containing gaseous hydrogen, gaseous oxygen, and liquid water. The apparatus has a mixed fluid channel through which the mixed fluid flows; a first gas channel through which a mixed gas containing gaseous hydrogen and gaseous oxygen flows; a second gas channel through which gaseous hydrogen or oxygen flows; a gas-liquid separating membrane forming a wall between the mixed fluid channel and the first gas channel, separating the mixed gas from the mixed fluid of the mixed fluid channel, and providing the separated mixed gas to the first gas channel; and a hydrogen or oxygen separating membrane forming a wall between the first gas channel and the second gas channel, separating gaseous hydrogen or oxygen from the mixed gas of the first gas channel, and providing the separated gaseous hydrogen or oxygen to the second gas channel. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110300011 | SCROLL TYPE COMPRESSOR - A scroll type compressor has a rotary shaft, a fixed scroll member, a movable scroll member and a rib. The fixed scroll member has a fixed end plate and a fixed scroll wall. The fixed end plate has first and second sides. The fixed scroll wall is formed on the first side. The movable scroll member has a movable end plate and a movable scroll wall. The movable scroll wall is formed on the movable end plate. The movable scroll member is adapted to make an orbital motion in accordance with the rotation of the rotary shaft whereby a compression chamber to decrease the volume of the compression chamber with the orbital motion of the movable scroll member is formed between the fixed scroll member and the movable scroll member. The rib is provided on the second side so as to extend behind the inner end of the fixed scroll wall. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298926 | PARKING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS AND PARKING ASSISTANCE METHOD - Provided is a parking assistance apparatus utilizing a fixed target by taking an image thereof, the parking assistance apparatus being capable of recognizing the fixed target with high recognition accuracy while using simple image recognition processing. A mark (M) includes a plurality of illuminators ( | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298294 | NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND DESIGN METHOD THEREOF - A non-contact power transmission device is disclosed. The resonant system includes a primary coil connected to the AC power source, a primary resonance coil, a secondary resonance coil, and a secondary coil is connected to the load. When the relationship between an input impedance of the resonant system and a frequency of an AC voltage of the AC power source is shown in a graph, the frequency of the AC voltage of the AC power source is set between a first frequency at which the input impedance has a local maximum value, and a second frequency that is greater than the first frequency and at which the input impedance has a local minimum value. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110297531 | HYDROGEN GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF USING SAME - The present invention provides a hydrogen generation device using a photocatalyst to generate hydrogen from liquid water or water vapor and a method of using the same. The hydrogen generation device of the present invention has a water channel through which liquid water or water vapor flows, and which has an outer circumferential wall made at least in part of a transparent material; a hydrogen channel through which hydrogen flows and which is located at the inner circumference side of the water channel; a hydrogen separating membrane forming at least part of a wall between the water channel and hydrogen channel, separating hydrogen from the liquid water or water vapor in the water channel, and providing the hydrogen to the hydrogen channel; and a photocatalyst layer arranged on least at part of the water channel-side surface of the hydrogen separating membrane. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110291055 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR LITHIUM-SILICATE-SYSTEM COMPOUND - The present invention is one which provides a production process for lithium-silicate-system compound, the production process being characterized in that: a lithium-silicate compound being expressed by Li | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110285353 | ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR NON-AQUEOUS-SYSTEM SECONDARY BATTERY AND NON-AQUEOUS-SYSTEM SECONDARY BATTERY - An active material for non-aqueous-system secondary battery according to the present invention is characterized in that it comprises a mixture of an alkali metal salt and a transition metal, and it carries out reversible oxidation-reduction by means of charging-discharging, oxidation-reduction in which an alkali metal is eliminated from a compound being made by reacting the alkali metal salt with the transition metal, and oxidation-reduction in which the alkali metal salt and the transition metal are reproduced from the compound into which the alkali metal has been inserted. It becomes feasible to make a non-aqueous-system secondary battery exhibit a higher capacity by using this active material for the non-aqueous-system secondary battery. Moreover, since the active material for non-aqueous-system secondary battery according to the present invention includes an alkali metal that works as electrolyte ions, another active material that is used for the counter electrode is not limited. For example, in a lithium-ion secondary battery, the safety upgrades because it is possible to forgo employing electrodes that include metallic lithium. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110284187 | EBULLIENT COOLING DEVICE - To provide an ebullient cooling device that can prevent the freezing of liquid cooling medium, and which can inhibit the occurrence of burnout. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110280768 | AMMONIA SUPPLY DEVICE, AMMONIA SUPPLY METHOD AND EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION SYSTEM - An ammonia supply device includes an ammonia absorber, a conductive element, a mixture, a tank and an electrode. The ammonia absorber is in powder or granular form. Ammonia is stored in the ammonia absorber and released from the ammonia absorber. The conductive element in paste or liquid form has a conductive property and a nonreactive property with ammonia. The mixture is made by mixing the ammonia absorber and the conductive element. The tank holds the mixture. The electrode includes a pair of first and second electrode elements for applying voltage to the mixture. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279210 | COIL COMPONENT, REACTOR, AND METHOD FOR FORMING COIL COMPONENT - A coil component comprises a plurality of coil elements arranged side-by-side and a connecting portion that interconnects the coil elements. The plurality of coil elements are formed from a single flat wire wound edgewise so that the coil elements wind in the same direction. The connecting portion includes a portion of the flat wire between the two coil elements wound edgewise, wherein a part of the connection portion protrudes radially outward from the two coil elements. The connecting portion is bent flatwise at two positions so that the two coil elements are arranged side-by-side with their axes in parallel with each other. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279208 | COIL COMPONENT, REACTOR, AND METHOD FOR FORMING COIL COMPONENT - A coil component comprises a plurality of coil elements arranged side-by-side and a connecting portion that interconnects the coil elements. The plurality of coil elements are formed from a single flat wire wound edgewise so that the coil elements wind in the same direction and have rectangular annular configurations. The connecting portion includes a portion of the flat wire between the two coil elements wound edgewise to protrude radially outward from two adjacent sides of the rectangular annular configurations of the coil elements, and bent flatwise at three positions including a turnover so that the two coil elements are arranged side-by-side with their axes in parallel with each other. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110268870 | FILM FORMING APPARATUS AND FILM FORMING METHOD - In an apparatus for film formation, constituted so that an organic EL molecular gas is ejected into an ejection vessel, a plurality of organic EL material vessels are provided together with a piping system for connecting the plurality of organic EL material vessels to the ejection vessel. The plurality of organic EL material vessels are selectively put into a supply state of organic EL molecules. The piping system is constructed so that the carrier gas is fed into each organic EL material vessel in such a manner that the pressure during film formation and the pressure during non-film formation are equal to each other. During non-film formation, the carrier gas is allowed to flow from one of the organic EL material vessels to other material vessel. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110245004 | COMPRESSOR WITH TRANSMISSION - A compressor includes a housing, a compression mechanism, an input shaft rotatable on an axis thereof, an output shaft for driving the compression mechanism, a transmission for transmitting torque from the input shaft to the output shaft and also changing the rotating speed of the input shaft and a control device. The transmission includes a plurality of planetary rollers, a carrier rotatably supporting the respective planetary rollers and being integrally rotatable with the input shaft, a sun roller engaged with the respective planetary rollers and integrally rotatable with the output shaft and a ring roller engaged with the respective planetary rollers. The ring roller can be fixed to the housing or rotatable relative to the housing. The control device includes a one-way clutch allowing the ring roller to rotate only one direction relative to the carrier and a clutch fixing the ring roller to the housing or allowing the ring roller to rotate relative to the housing. The ring roller includes a first ring engaged with the respective planetary rollers and a second ring supporting the one-way clutch. The ring roller can be movable relative to the housing in the direction parallel to the axis. The first ring and the second ring are connected so that the first ring can be displaced in a radial direction, integrally rotatable with the second ring and movable with the second ring in the direction parallel to the axis. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110244326 | ELECTRODE FOR SECONDARY BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR THE SAME - It is an assignment to be solved to provide an electrode for secondary battery, electrode in which the active material is suppressed from coming off or falling down from the electricity collector, and that has excellent cyclic performance. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110243777 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - [Object] To provide a scroll compressor capable of improving compression efficiency.
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| 20110243771 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR - An electric compressor is installed in a vehicle and includes a shell. The electric compressor includes an inverter, a cover, and a conductive component. The cover covers the shell and the inverter. The conductive component is electrically connected to the inverter and arranged outside the cover. The cover includes an outer guide surface inclined relative to a forward direction of the vehicle. The outer guide surface has a normal including a forward component directed in the forward direction. The outer guide surface is arranged closer to an outer side of the vehicle than the conductive component. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110243769 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - A motor-driven compressor includes a connector to which a first and second conductors are connected, and a connector case receiving the connector. The connector case includes a first case member and a second case member. A seal member is provided between the first and second case members. The first case member has a first sealing surface extending along the periphery of the first case member. The second case member has a second sealing surface extending along the periphery of the second case member and facing the first sealing surface. The seal member includes a main seal portion for sealing between the first sealing surface and the second sealing surface. The main seal portion has a first peripheral seal portion for sealing the periphery of the first conductor inserted therethrough and has a second peripheral seal portion for sealing the periphery of the second conductor inserted therethrough. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110243767 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - A motor-driven compressor is to be mounted to a first mounting of a vehicle. The compressor includes a compressor body that is electrically powered to draw in fluid for compression and to discharge the compressed fluid, and a second mounting for securing the compressor body to the first mounting. The second mounting includes a first mounting member having a first mounting hole, a second mounting member provided away from the first mounting member and having a second mounting hole, a resin member integrally formed with the first and second mounting members and provided at least between the first mounting member and the compressor body, a first fastening member inserted through the first mounting hole for securing the first mounting member to the first mounting, and a second fastening member inserted through the second mounting hole for securing the second mounting member to the compressor body. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110243766 | COMPRESSOR WITH TRANSMISSION - A compressor includes a housing, a compression mechanism, an input shaft rotatable on an axis thereof, an output shaft for driving the compression mechanism, a transmission for transmitting torque from the input shaft to the output shaft and also changing the rotating speed of the input shaft and a control device for controlling the operation of the transmission. The transmission includes a plurality of planetary rollers, a carrier rotatably supporting the respective planetary rollers and being integrally rotatable with the input shaft, a sun roller engaged with the respective planetary rollers and integrally rotatable with the output shaft and a ring roller engaged with the respective planetary rollers. The ring roller can be fixed to the housing or rotatable relative to the housing. The control device includes a one-way clutch allowing the ring roller to rotate only one direction relative to the carrier and a clutch fixing the ring roller to the housing or allowing the ring roller to rotate relative to the housing. The input shaft, the carrier, the respective planetary rollers and the sun roller cooperate to form an assembly that can move as a unit relative to the housing in the direction that is parallel to the axis. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110243765 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - The motor-driven compressor is mounted on a mounting of a vehicle. The motor-driven compressor includes a compressor body, a mounting, a damper and a fastener. The compressor body is electrically powered to draw in fluid for compression and to discharge the compressed fluid. The mounting of the compressor is formed on the compressor body and has a mounting hole. The damper is made of a resin and receives therein the mounting of the compressor. The damper is interposed between the compressor body and the mounting of the vehicle and has a through hole. The fastener is inserted through the through hole of the damper and the mounting hole of the compressor for securing the damper to the mounting of the vehicle. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110243764 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - The motor-driven compressor is mounted on a first mounting of a vehicle. The motor-driven compressor includes a compressor body, a second mounting, a first spacer, a flexible conductor and a fastener. The compressor body is electrically powered to draw in fluid for compression and to discharge the compressed fluid. The second mounting is formed on the compressor body and has a mounting hole. The first spacer is made of a resin and interposed between the first mounting and the second mounting. The conductor is formed integrally with the first spacer for electrically connecting the first mounting and the second mounting. The fastener is made of a resin and inserted through the mounting hole of the second mounting for joining the first mounting and the second mounting. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110243763 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - A motor-driven compressor is to be mounted to a first mounting of a vehicle. The compressor includes a housing having therein a compression mechanism that is electrically powered to draw fluid into the housing for compression and to discharge the compressed fluid out of the housing, and a second mounting for securing the housing to the first mounting. The second mounting includes a first cylindrical member, a damping member made of a resin and provided between the first cylindrical member and the housing, a first fastening member extending through the first cylindrical member and the damping member for securing the first cylindrical member and the damping member to the housing, and a second fastening member inserted through the first cylindrical member for securing the first cylindrical member to the first mounting. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110241587 | DIRECT-CURRENT TO THREE-PHASE ALTERNATING-CURRENT INVERTER SYSTEM - A direct-current to three-phase alternating-current inverter system includes a three-phase motor, a plurality of switching elements, an inverter circuit for the three-phase motor, a capacitor, a direct-current power source and a control circuit. The switching elements arranged in the inverter circuit serve as upper and lower arms for the respective three phases of the three-phase motor, respectively. The capacitor is connected in parallel to the respective pairs of the upper and lower arms. The direct-current power source is arranged between the neutral-point of the three-phase motor and the respective lower arms or the respective upper arms. The control circuit controls the switching elements such that at least the switching frequency of one pair of the switching elements for one phase through which the current having the greatest value flows is lower than the switching frequencies of the other pairs of the switching elements for the other phases. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110241585 | DIRECT-CURRENT TO THREE-PHASE ALTERNATING-CURRENT INVERTER SYSTEM - A DC to three-phase AC inverter system includes a three-phase motor, an inverter circuit, switching elements, a capacitor, a DC power source and a control circuit. The DC power source is connected to the three-phase motor at a neutral point thereof. The control circuit calculates voltage commands, first through third divided boost commands by dividing a boost command, and first through third drive signals based on the voltage commands and the first through third divided boost commands. The second and third divided boost commands are used when the PWM control is performed by turning on and off the switching elements for the second and third phases while the switching elements for the first phase continues to be on or off state is set larger than those used when the PWM control is performed by turning on and off the switching elements for the first through third phases. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110241440 | NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND POWER TRANSMISSION METHOD USING A NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - Disclosed is a non-contact power transmission apparatus provided with an AC power source and a resonant system. The resonant system has a primary coil that is connected with the AC power source, a primary-side resonance coil, a secondary-side resonance coil, a secondary coil and a load that is connected with the secondary coil. In addition, the non-contact power transmission apparatus is provided with a state detection unit and a variable-impedance circuit. The state detection unit detects the state of the resonant system. The variable-impedance circuit is constructed so as to adjust its own impedance in accordance with the state of the resonant system detected by the state detection unit, in such a way that the input impedance and the output impedance at the resonant frequency of the resonant system are matching. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110236234 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - A motor-driven compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft, a compression mechanism and an electric motor. The housing includes a suction port and a discharge port. The compression mechanism is disposed in the housing and compresses refrigerant flowed through the suction port into the compression mechanism and discharges the refrigerant through the discharge port. The electric motor is disposed in the housing and drives the rotary shaft to rotate to drive the compression mechanism. The electric motor includes a rotor fixedly mounted on the rotary shaft and a stator fixed to the housing. The rotor includes a permanent magnet and a compressor interior environment improvement agent containing at least one of an absorbent for absorbing moisture and a neutralizer for neutralizing acid. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235279 | COOLING DEVICE - A cooling device includes a heat sink having a top plate, a bottom plate spaced from the top plate and fins between the top and bottom plates, a first metal member laminated to the side of the top plate that is opposite from the fins, and a first insulator laminated to the first metal member. The top plate, the bottom plate and the first metal member are each made of a clad metal that is composed of a base metal and a brazing metal, so that the fins are brazed to the top and bottom plates, the first metal member is brazed to the top plate, and the first insulator is brazed to the first metal member. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234359 | REACTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING REACTOR - A reactor includes: a first core having end surfaces; a second core having end surfaces facing the end surfaces of the first core; coils wound around at least part of the circumference of the first core and the second core; and gap members arranged between the end surfaces of the first core and the end surfaces of the second core. The coils and the gap members are integrally molded with a first resin in a state where the first and second cores are not provided. The coils and the first and second cores are integrally molded with a second resin in a state where the gap members are sandwiched between the end surfaces of the first core and the end surfaces of the second core. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110232316 | COOLING DEVICE - A cooling device includes a refrigerant inlet, a refrigerant outlet, a cooler including therein a refrigerant passage, an introduction tube communicating with the refrigerant inlet and a filter detachably disposed between the refrigerant inlet and the introduction tube. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110229656 | IN-LIQUID PLASMA FILM-FORMING APPARATUS, ELECTRODE FOR IN-LIQUID PLASMA, AND FILM-FORMING METHOD USING IN-LIQUID PLASMA - In an in-liquid plasma film-forming apparatus having: a vessel | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110227526 | BATTERY CHARGING WAREHOUSE - The battery charging warehouse includes a pallet rack and a battery charger. The pallet rack has a plurality of storage locations in each of which a battery is stored. At least one of the storage locations is a charging storage location in which the battery is charged. The battery charger is mounted to an upper part of the charging storage location. The battery charger is movable up and down in the charging storage location and has a charge connector. When the battery charger is moved down in the charging storage location, the charge connector is received by a battery connector of the battery stored in the charging storage location thereby to automatically connect the charge connector to the battery connector. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110227421 | NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND DESIGN METHOD - A non-contact power transmission apparatus is disclosed. The non-contact power transmission apparatus includes an alternating-current power source and a resonant system. The resonant system includes a primary coil connected to the alternating-current power source, a primary-side resonance coil, a secondary-side resonance coil, and a secondary coil is connected to a load. The apparatus also has a first capacitor and a second capacitor. A first resonant frequency, which is a resonant frequency of the primary-side resonance coil and the first capacitor, and a second resonant frequency, which is a resonant frequency of the secondary-side resonance coil and the second capacitor, are set to be equal to each other. The frequency of an alternating voltage of the alternating-current power source is set to match with the first resonant frequency and the second resonant frequency. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110220327 | EBULLIENT COOLING DEVICE - Provided is an ebullient cooling device that can prevent the freezing of liquid cooling medium, and which can inhibit the occurrence of burnout. An ebullient cooling device includes an accommodating unit in which a liquid cooling medium is accommodated, the liquid cooling medium receiving heat that results from a heating element and is an ebullient cooling device to be installed in vehicle, wherein the liquid cooling medium is a mixed liquid of water and ethanol, and the mixed liquid has an ethanol concentration of 40% by mass or more. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110220251 | MAGNESIUM ALLOY AND MAGNESIUM-ALLOY CAST PRODUCT - A magnesium alloy according to the present invention comprises: Al in an amount of from 2 to 6%; Ca in an amount making a compositional ratio (i.e., Ca/Al) being from 0.5 to 1.5; Mn in an amount of from 0.1 to 0.7%; strontium (Sr) in an amount of from 1 to 6%; and the balance being magnesium (Mg), and inevitable impurities and/or a modifying element; when the entirety is taken as 100% by mass. By means of this setting, Mg alloys, which are also good in terms of high-temperature characteristics, such as creep resistance and heat conductivity, in addition to ordinary-temperature characteristics, are obtained. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110215743 | BATTERY CHARGING CIRCUIT AND CHARGING METHOD - A charging circuit is provided that charges a battery for supplying power to a motor drive system that includes a three-phase motor and a three-phase inverter for controlling the three-phase motor. The three-phase inverter includes first to third sets of switching elements. Each set corresponds to one of the three phases. The charging circuit includes a single-phase output transformer, a rectifier circuit, a line, and a controller. The single-phase output transformer includes a secondary side output section having a first terminal and a second terminal. The rectifier circuit is connected in parallel with the three-phase inverter and the battery. The rectifier circuit is also connected to the first terminal of the secondary side output section. The line connects a connecting point between the first set of the switching elements in the three-phase inverter with the second terminal of the secondary side output section. The controller performs on-off control of the first to third sets of the switching elements. During charging of the battery, the controller maintains the first set of the switching elements in an OFF state, and performs the on-off control of at least one set of the second and third sets of the switching elements. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110214838 | VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONER - A vehicle air conditioner includes a first heat storage device having a first heat storage medium, a battery disposed under a floor of a compartment of a vehicle on a chassis side and a heat insulator covering the first heat storage device for insulating. The first heat storage device is disposed on and thermally connected to the battery. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110214564 | VARIABLE DISPLACEMENT COMPRESSOR - The variable displacement compressor has a suction-pressure region, a discharge-pressure region and a crank chamber. The compressor includes a supply passage, a bleed passage and a control valve that adjusts cross-sectional area of the bleed passage. The control valve includes a valve chamber, a valve portion and a valve seat member. The valve portion is disposed in the valve chamber for dividing the valve chamber into a bleed chamber, a backpressure chamber and a communication passage. The bleed chamber forms a part of the bleed passage. The backpressure chamber communicates with the supply passage. The communication passage is formed between an outer circumferential surface of the valve portion and an inner circumferential surface of the valve chamber for providing fluid communication between the bleed chamber and the backpressure chamber. The valve seat member is disposed in the bleed chamber and provided separately from a compressor housing forming the valve chamber. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110210639 | MOTOR STATOR AND PHASE COIL PREFORM - A stator of a motor includes a stator core having a plurality of teeth forming slots between any two adjacent teeth and a plurality of phase coils provided in the slots, each formed by wave winding and made of a continuous wire. Each phase coil includes a first wave winding bundle and a second wave winding bundle that is passed through a first slot and a second slot. The first slot is located adjacent to one side of a group of slots through which the phase coils other than said each phase coil are passed and the second slot is located adjacent to the other side of the group of slots. The first wave winding bundle is passed through a third slot and a fourth slot. The third slot is located adjacent to the first slot on the opposite side of the first slot from the group of slots and the fourth slot is located adjacent to the second slot on the opposite side of the second slot from the group of slots. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110204682 | VEHICLE ROOF STRUCTURE - A sun shade device is positioned on an inner surface of a panorama roof panel. The sun shade device includes a sheet-shaped shade member that can be pulled out and retracted in back and forth directions of a vehicle, and a shade cover member that can cover the wound shade member. The shade cover member is made of an elongated rigid body and is laterally bridged in right and left directions of the vehicle along a winding axis of the shade member. The shade cover member is secured to a vehicle main body at both ends thereof. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110200875 | SULFUR-MODIFIED POLYACRYLONITRILE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND APPLICATION THEREOF - Provided is a sulfur-modified polyacrylonitrile manufacturing method that is characterized in that a starting base powder that comprises sulfur powder and polyacrylonitrile powder is mixed and the mixture is heated in a non-oxidizing environment while outflow of sulfur vapor is prevented. Also provided are a cathode for lithium batteries that uses, as the active substance, the sulfur-modified polyacrylonitrile manufactured with the method, and a lithium secondary battery that includes the cathode as a component element. This enables the practical use of an inexpensive sulfur-based material as the cathode material for lithium secondary batteries, and in particular, a sulfur-based cathode material that enables higher output and has excellent cycle life characteristics, as well as other characteristics, and secondary lithium batteries using the same can be obtained. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110192528 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING TUBE MEMBER MADE OF FIBER-REINFORCED RESIN - There is provided a process for producing a tube member made of fiber-reinforced resin in which it is unnecessary to fold back an end portion of a fiber layer impregnated with uncured resin, and which is capable of joining a tube member, which comprises a resin fiber, and a flanged tube material, which is to be directly rigidly coupled with an engine box or the like, while maintaining the fiber orientation in the initial orientation posture and through an extremely simple process as well. In the process, there is provided a base member | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110192507 | IRON ALLOY, IRON-ALLOY MEMBER, AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An iron alloy according to the present invention comprises: Al in an amount of from 3 to 5.5%; Mn in an amount from 0.2 to 6%; and the balance being iron (Fe), and inevitable impurities and/or a modifying element; when the entirety is taken as 100%. Since a high damping factor is obtainable at a low-strain amplitude, this iron alloy demonstrates a stable damping property even in a high-temperature region. Moreover, since the alloying elements are Al and Mn alone, and since their contents are less, the iron alloy according to the present invention is low in cost. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110176955 | HEAT-RESISTANT MAGNESIUM ALLOY - A heat-resistant magnesium alloy according to the present invention has Mg as the major component, includes Al, Ca and Mg, and has a metallic structure that comprises Mg crystalline grains and grain-boundary crystallized substances being crystallized out in a grain boundary between the Mg crystalline particles. The grain-boundary crystallized substances comprise a mixed crystal phase of a Laves-phase compound with a type-“C14” crystalline structure, and another Laves-phase compound with a type-“C36” crystalline structure. Moreover, a relative angle between a normal vector to the hexagonal-system basal plane of the Mg crystalline grains and another normal vector to the hexagonal-system basal plane of the grain-boundary crystallized substances is from 88 deg. to 92 deg. at an interface between the Mg crystalline grains and the grain-boundary crystallized substances at least. The present magnesium alloy exhibits high mechanical characteristics in high-temperature atmospheres, because it has the metallic structure in which a basal-plane slip is much less likely to occur than ever before, and because the basal-plane slip is less likely to occur even at high temperatures. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110175470 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - A motor-driven compressor includes a housing having at one end thereof an accommodation space, an electric motor, a motor driver circuit provided in the accommodation space and having a circuit board, a connector having a bus bar electrically connected to the circuit board, and a cylindrical portion located at the one end of the housing and extending toward the direction close to the electric motor. The housing has a mounting hole communicating with the accommodation space and the interior of the cylindrical portion. The bus bar has a bent shape having opposite ends extended toward the direction close to the electric motor. The connector is disposed in the mounting hole with one end of the bus bar inserted in the cylindrical portion and the other end of the bus bar inserted in the accommodation space. The mounting hole is closed up by a cover with a seal member provided therebetween. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110166301 | POLYESTERS, POLYURETHANES AND PROCESS FOR THEIR PRODUCTION - The invention provides biodegradable polyesters, polyurethanes, comprising 3-carboxymuconolactone as a structural unit, 3-carboxymuconolactone esters and a process for their production. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110163508 | GASKET FOR CYLINDER HEAD - A gasket for arrangement between a cylinder block and cylinder head of an internal combustion engine. The gasket includes a lubricant hole through which lubricant is supplied to the cylinder head. A high pressure bead extends around the lubricant hole. A low pressure bead is extends around the high pressure bead and at least partially extends around a hollow portion, which is in communication with a lubricant reservoir of the engine, when the gasket is arranged between the cylinder block and the cylinder head. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110158833 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR - An electric compressor is provided with a hermetic terminal wherein the number of components and the number of steps and amount of time required for assembling the hermetic terminal and for machining the components are reduced, to thereby improve production efficiency. The hermetic terminal ( | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110146363 | TIP SHAPING APPARATUS - A tip shaping apparatus presses electrode tips against a shaping roller thereof held by a rotationally driven holder in such a manner as to bring tip sections of the tips close to each other, thereby shaping the tip sections into reusable condition. The tip shaping apparatus includes deburring sections located in such positions as to confront burrs that are formed during shaping in such a manner as to project from outer circumferences of root sections proximate the tip sections of the electrode tips in a direction perpendicular to the axes of the electrode tips, at ejection of the electrode tips from the apparatus. Each of the deburring sections is located proximate an outer circumferential plane of the root section of each of the electrode tips undergoing shaping so as to abut against and cut off or bend the burrs in such a manner as to suppress the projecting height of the burrs when the electrode tips are ejected from the tip shaping apparatus. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110140551 | HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - A heat recovery system includes an electric rotary device, a heat exchanger, a pipe and a reservoir. The electric rotary device has a stator core and a housing. The stator core is wounded with a coil. The heat exchanger provides heat exchanging between first and second heat medium. The first heat medium is in contact with the coil and absorbs heat from the coil. The pipe connects the electric rotary device to the heat exchanger and transfers the first heat medium. The reservoir is formed in the housing and stores the first heat medium. The electric rotary device has an insulative body. The insulative body prevents heat of the first heat medium from being dissipated outside of the housing. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110137503 | TRAVEL CONTROLLER FOR INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE - A travel controller for a hybrid forklift includes an acceleration command reference value generation unit, an acceleration limit value generation unit, an acceleration command value determination unit, and a travel motor control unit. The acceleration command reference value generation unit obtains an acceleration command reference value. The acceleration limit value generation unit obtains an acceleration limit value that limits an acceleration command value to a range that prevents discharge power of the battery from exceeding a battery discharge power limit value. The acceleration command value determination unit determines the acceleration command value for the travel motor from the acceleration command reference value and the acceleration limit value. The travel motor control unit controls the travel motor with the acceleration command value. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110137502 | HYBRID INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE - A hybrid industrial vehicle including an engine, generator motor, battery, and a travel motor. A first generated power computation unit computes a deceleration rate based required generated power based on the travel power and charge power of the battery. A second generated power computation unit computes an actual power based required generated power based on used power used by the travel motor and the charge power of the battery. A generated power control unit controls the generator motor so that the generated power of the generator motor becomes equal to a total generated power determined from the deceleration rate based required generated power and actual power based required generated power. An engine rotation speed control unit controls rotation speed of the engine to be greater than or equal to a required cargo handling engine rotation speed. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110128662 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL APPARATUS - A power supply control apparatus for controlling a power supply unit including a battery and a load is provided. The power supply control apparatus includes a main relay and a ground relay, a pre-charge relay, an inrush current limiting resistor, a first relay control section, and a time measurement section. The main relay and the ground relay are connected between the battery and the load. The pre-charge relay is connected in parallel with one of the main relay and the ground relay. The inrush current limiting resistor is connected in series with the pre-charge relay, and limits an inrush current from the battery to the load. The first relay control section temporarily turns ON the pre-charge relay and turns ON the main relay and the ground relay upon receiving a power supply connection request from the outside, and turns OFF the main relay and the ground relay upon receiving a power supply interruption request from the outside. The time measurement section chooses a time point in the period from when the pre-charge relay is turned ON to when it is turned OFF, and measures the elapsed time from the chosen time point. Before the elapsed time measured by the time measurement section reaches a predetermined reference period, the first relay control section does not turn OFF the main relay and the ground relay, but maintains the relays ON, even when receiving the power supply interruption request. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110118922 | DRIVE CONTROLLER FOR CARGO HANDLING VEHICLE - A drive controller for a cargo handling vehicle including an engine, a generator motor, a cargo handling pump, a cargo handling actuator, a travel motor, and a battery. The drive controller includes an engine control unit, a rotation speed detection unit, a deviation calculation unit, and a power generation control unit. The engine control unit controls the engine in accordance with a command rotation speed. The rotation speed detection unit detects an actual rotation speed of the engine. The deviation calculation unit calculates a rotation speed deviation of the command rotation speed for the engine and the actual rotation speed of the engine. The power generation control unit controls the generator motor in accordance with the rotation speed deviation so as to limit power generated by the generator motor to drive the travel motor. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110113809 | HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM - A heating and cooling system, which includes a refrigerant circulation circuit, first and second targets, first and second refrigerant circuits, a first switching section, and a control device, is disclosed. The first switching section is selectively switched between a first position at which a refrigerant discharged from a discharge area of a compressor is permitted to flow to the first target and a second position at which the refrigerant is not permitted to flow to the first target. The control device switches the first switching section to the first position so that the refrigerant circulation circuit functions as a first refrigerant circuit, thereby heating the first target and cooling the second target. The control device switches the first switching section to the second position so that the refrigerant circulation circuit functions as a second refrigerant circuit, thereby cooling only the second target. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110112712 | CARGO HANDLING CONTROLLER FOR CARGO HANDLING VEHICLE - A cargo handling controller includes a rotation speed setting unit, an engine control unit, a memory, a rotation speed detection unit, a deviation calculator, an assistance amount setting unit, and a generator-motor control unit. The deviation calculator calculates a deviation of a feedback control rotation speed, which is determined from a target engine rotation speed stored in the memory a predetermined time earlier, and an actual rotation speed of the generator-motor, which is detected by the rotation speed detection unit. The assistance amount setting unit obtains a generator-motor assistance amount in accordance with the deviation. The generator-motor control unit sends a drive signal that is in accordance with the generator-motor assistance amount to the generator-motor. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110112386 | NONINVASIVE ALCOHOL SENSOR - The present invention provides a noninvasive alcohol sensor that measures ethanol concentration with high accuracy by suppressing error dependent on glucose concentration. An alcohol sensor | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110109263 | RESONANCE TYPE NON-CONTACT CHARGING APPARATUS - A resonance type non-contact charging system is disclosed that includes a resonance system. The resonance system has a primary side resonance coil, a secondary side resonance coil, a power converting section having a DC/DC converter, and a battery. The charging system has a controlling section that controls the DC/DC converter. The controlling section controls the duty cycle of the DC/DC converter such that the input impedance of the resonance system at the resonant frequency and the output impedance of a high-frequency power source match each other. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110108338 | TOWING TRACTOR - A towing tractor includes an operator's cockpit, a battery, a hood, a first inclined surface, a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface. The battery is disposed forward of the operator's cockpit. The hood covers the top of the battery. The first inclined surface is formed on the hood and inclined downwardly toward the front of the towing tractor. The second inclined surface is located forward of the first inclined surface and inclined downwardly toward the front of the towing tractor. The inclination angle of the second inclined surface is greater than the inclination angle of the first inclined surface. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110108337 | BATTERY-POWERED TOWING TRACTOR - The battery-powered towing tractor includes a front wheel, a rear wheel, a body, a battery, a member plate, a front reinforcing plate and a rear reinforcing plate. The body has a floor formed between the front wheel and the rear wheel. The battery is disposed in the body at a position between the front wheel and the floor. The member plate extends in width direction of the body for compartmenting a rear end of the floor in the body. The front reinforcing plate is joined to a front surface of the member plate. The rear reinforcing plate is joined to a rear surface of the member plate. The front reinforcing plate and the rear reinforcing plate are opposed across the member plate. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110108336 | TOWING TRACTOR - A towing tractor includes a tractor body, a motor, a controller, a cable electrically connecting the motor and the controller, an axle housing integrally mounted with the motor, and a suspension through which the axle housing is supported by the tractor body. The controller is fixed to the tractor body. The length of the cable is greater than the shortest distance between the motor and the controller. The suspension allows vertical movement of the axle housing and the motor relative to the tractor body. The controller, the axle housing and the motor are arranged in this order in longitudinal direction of the tractor body. The controller is located above the axle housing and the motor. The cable led out from the motor extends below the axle housing and then upward toward the controller. The part of the cable between the axle housing and the controller forms an extra length portion. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110101639 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR AXLE HOUSING OF A TOWING TRACTOR - A support structure for an axle housing of a towing tractor includes a leaf spring forming a part of a suspension, an axle housing which has a contact surface and is supported at opposite ends of the axle housing by the suspension and a spring seat which is separately provided from the leaf spring and the axle housing and disposed between the leaf spring and the axle housing, and the spring seat has a support surface. The axle housing is supported by the spring seat in plane surface contact between the contact surface and the support surface. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110100021 | AIR CONDITIONER - An air conditioner includes a heat storage unit having a heat storage medium, a first heat exchanger for heat exchange with air in a compartment, a second heat exchanger for heat exchange with outside air, and a peltier unit having a first and second heat exchange surfaces opposite to each other. The first heat exchange surface is thermally conductive to the heat storage unit, and the second heat exchange surface is thermally conductive to the first and second heat exchangers. In heat storage mode electric current flows through the peltier unit in one direction to provide heat transfer between the second heat exchanger and the heat storage unit. In air conditioning mode electric current flows through the peltier unit in the other direction to provide heat transfer between the first heat exchanger and the heat storage unit. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110099977 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An exhaust gas purification apparatus includes an exhaust passage through which exhaust gas discharged from an engine flows, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst provided in the exhaust passage, a urea water supply device for supplying urea water into the exhaust passage upstream of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst, a sensor responding to respective quantities of NOx and ammonia downstream of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst and detecting a value based on the response by the sensor, an exhaust gas recirculation passage through which a part of exhaust gas is refluxed to an intake system of the engine, an exhaust gas recirculation control valve for controlling amount of exhaust gas that is refluxed through the exhaust gas recirculation passage and a control device for controlling quantity of urea water supplied from the urea water supply device to the exhaust passage and also opening and closing of the exhaust gas recirculation control valve. The control device controls opening and closing of the exhaust gas recirculation control valve so as to increase or decrease the amount of exhaust gas refluxed through the exhaust gas recirculation passage for a predetermined period of time and also determines quantity of urea water based on change between the values detected by the sensor before and after changing opening and closing of the exhaust gas recirculation control valve. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110094722 | LIQUID-COOLED-TYPE COOLING DEVICE - A liquid-cooled-type cooling device includes a casing having a cooling-liquid flow channel. Fins are provided on an inner surface of a top wall of the casing. Each fin has a wavy shape on a horizontal plane perpendicular to a fin height direction. In a left fin of two adjacent fins, lines of intersection between the horizontal plane and right side surfaces of two slant portions connecting two adjacent wave crest portions and a wave trough portion therebetween intersect each other at a first point located on a first straight line. In a right fin, lines of intersection between the horizontal plane and left side surfaces of two slant portions connecting two adjacent wave trough portions and a wave crest portion therebetween intersect each other at a second point located on a second straight line. The first straight line is located on the right fin side of the second straight line. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110094210 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS FOR A DIESEL ENGINE - An exhaust gas purification apparatus for a diesel engine mounted on a vehicle includes a regenerative diesel particulate filter, an accumulated amount detector, an exhaust gas temperature raising unit, and a forcible regeneration control unit. The forcible regeneration control unit measures an automatic regeneration enable time in which an automatic regeneration condition for regenerating the filter is satisfied when the diesel engine is operating, determines from the automatic regeneration enable time whether the probability is high in which a regeneration will be completed without being interrupted when the automatic regeneration condition is continuously satisfied, performs automatic regeneration when determining that the probability of regeneration being completed is high. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110088397 | WASTE HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM - The waste heat recovery system of an engine includes a Rankine cycle, a first bypass passage, a first valve and a control unit. The Rankine cycle allows a working fluid to circulate therethrough. The Rankine cycle has a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, an expander and a condenser. The first heat exchanger exchange heat between the working fluid and the engine or a first intermediate medium exchanging heat with the engine. The first bypass passage allows the working fluid to pass therethrough. One end of the first bypass passage is located at an upstream side of the condenser and the other end is located at a downstream side of the condenser. The first valve opens and closes the first bypass passage. When temperature of the engine or the first intermediate medium is lower than a first predetermined value, the control unit opens the first valve. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110088394 | WASTE HEAT REGENERATION SYSTEM - A waste heat regeneration system for a vehicle having a vehicle engine actuated by a start-stop switch includes Rankine cycle circuit, a motor generator, a by-pass circuit and a control device. The Rankine cycle circuit includes a pump, a boiler heating the heat medium by heat exchanging with waste heat generated by the vehicle engine, an expansion device and a condenser. The by-pass circuit is connected to the Rankine cycle circuit at the upstream and downstream sides of the condenser and the communication of the heat medium is openable and closable therethrough. When the start-stop switch of the vehicle engine is turned off, the control device controls the by-pass circuit to communicate the heat medium therethrough and keeps controlling of the rotational speed of the motor generator until pressure difference between the upstream and downstream of the expansion device is decreased to a predetermined level, and then stops the control. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110088372 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust passage through which exhaust gas flows, a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst provided in the exhaust passage, a urea water supply device and a control unit for controlling amount of urea water to be supplied into the exhaust passage upstream of the SCR catalyst at predetermined intervals. The control unit further estimates amount of ammonia converted from adsorbed deposit which is converted from the urea water and adsorbed on the SCR catalyst during the predetermined interval based on a physical quantity of the internal combustion engine or the exhaust gas purification apparatus, and determines amount of urea water to be supplied into the exhaust passage based on the estimated amount of ammonia converted from the adsorbed deposit on the SCR catalyst. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110083920 | VEHICLE WITH RANKINE CYCLE SYSTEM AND REFRIGERATING CYCLE SYSTEM - A vehicle with a Rankine cycle system and a refrigerating cycle system for air-conditioning includes a Rankine condenser forming a part of the Rankine cycle system which converts waste heat of a vehicle into power and an air-conditioning condenser forming a part of the refrigerating cycle system. The Rankine condenser and the air-conditioning condenser are disposed one above the other in the vehicle as viewed from a front of the vehicle. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110079029 | AIR CONDITIONER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OF AIR CONDITIONER - An air conditioner includes first and second air passages, first and desiccant devices, a system heat source, a heat supplier, a system heat source temperature sensor, an airflow controller and a controller. The first and second air passages are communicable with a space to be air conditioned. The first desiccant device disposing in the first air passage has a first desiccant material. The second desiccant device disposed in the second air passage has a second desiccant material whose temperature for regeneration is higher than the temperature for regeneration of the first desiccant material. The heat supplier supplies heat generated by the system heat source to the first desiccant device for regenerating the first desiccant material. The airflow controller regulates airflow in the first and second air passages. The controller controls the airflow controller based on the temperature of the system heat source detected by the system heat source temperature sensor. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110070508 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A fuel cell system includes an exhaust pipe through which anode purge gas is discharged into the atmosphere, a heat medium passage through which heat medium is flowed, a circulation pump for circulating the heat medium through the heat medium passage, a heat exchanger provided in the heat medium passage, a heat exchanger fan for generating airflow through the heat exchanger, and a guide by which the airflow is guided so as to diffuse the anode purge gas. The circulation pump and the heat exchanger fan are operated during anode purge in such a way that the heat exchanger fan is operated regardless of the heat medium temperature, and a flow rate of the heat medium flowing through the heat medium passage is zero or lower than a flow rate when output of a fuel cell is maximum. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110064887 | MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR WORKPIECE FOR ELECTROLESS PLATING - A process for manufacturing workpiece whose surface is to be plated by means of electroless plating includes an ozone-processing step, and a superficial-layer removing step. In the ozone-processing step, a workpiece body including resin and having a surface is processed by means of an ozone treatment by brining the workpiece body into contact with a solution including ozone. Thus, a modified layer is formed on the surface of the workpiece body. Then, in the superficial-layer removing step, a superficial layer is removed from the resultant modified layer by applying energy onto the modified layer. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110062814 | PERMANENT MAGNET EMBEDDED ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE - The permanent magnet embedded rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a plurality of flat permanent magnets. The rotor has on an outer periphery thereof a plurality of pairs of concave portions and a plurality of convex portions. Each of the convex portions is located between the pair of concave portions. The concave portions are formed at radially outward of respective adjacent magnetic pole ends of the permanent magnet. A bridge is provided in the rotor at an angular position about an axis of the rotor between opposed magnetic pole ends of two adjacent permanent magnets. Each concave portion at radially outward of the magnetic pole end of the permanent magnet is located close to the center of the same permanent magnet in relation to the bridge next to the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction of the rotor. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110061374 | EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT SYSTEM - An exhaust gas treatment system includes an exhaust passage through which exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine is allowed to flow, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst provided in the exhaust passage, a mixing chamber provided upstream of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst in the exhaust passage as viewed in the direction of exhaust gas flow, a fuel injection valve for injection of fuel, an air injection valve for injection of air, and a urea water injection valve for injection of urea water. The fuel injection valve, the air injection valve and the urea water injection valve each has an injection port directed to the mixing chamber. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110058973 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - A motor-driven compressor includes a compression mechanism, an electric motor, a compressor housing, a conductive member, a terminal base, an insulating member, a connection terminal, a wire assembly, a terminal housing, first and second holes formed through the terminal housing and first and second seal members. The conductive member extends from the inside to the outside of the compressor housing and connected electrically to the connection terminal at a terminal connection. The wire assembly has a core wire connecting electrically between the connecting terminal and the electric motor, and an insulator covering the core wire. The terminal housing disposed in the compressor housing covers the terminal connection. The wire assembly has an insulating tube covering the insulator, wherein both ends of the insulating tube are opened for communicating with the inside and the outside of the terminal housing through a clearance formed between the insulating tube and the insulator. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110058962 | COMPRESSOR FOR USE IN A VEHICLE - A compressor for use in a vehicle includes a mechanical compression mechanism including a first casing and a drive shaft. The first casing has therein a first suction chamber and a first discharge chamber. The drive shaft is rotatably supported by the first casing and mechanically driven by a drive source for compression of refrigerant. The compressor further includes a linear electric compression mechanism including a second casing and a piston. The second casing has therein a second suction chamber and a second discharge chamber. The piston is reciprocally movable in the second casing and driven by electromagnetic force for compression of refrigerant. The first casing is integrated with the second casing so as to allow at least one of fluid communication between the first suction chamber and the second suction chamber and between the first discharge chamber and the second discharge chamber. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110056629 | FRICTION WELDING APPARATUS - A friction welding device allows one work ( | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110056370 | VARIABLE DISPLACEMENT SWASH PLATE COMPRESSOR - The variable displacement swash plate compressor includes a housing, a drive shaft, a swash plate, a piston, a bleed passage, a supply passage and a low-melting member. The housing has a cylinder bore, a suction chamber, a discharge chamber and a crank chamber. The swash plate is supported in the crank chamber by the drive shaft and inclination angle of the swash plate is adjustable. The piston is reciprocally movably received in the cylinder bore. The bleed passage is formed in the housing in communication with the crank chamber and the suction chamber. The supply passage is formed in the housing in communication with the discharge chamber and the crank chamber. The low-melting member is disposed in the bleed passage so as to restrict fluid flow therethrough and has a lower melting point than the housing. When the low-melting member is melted, an opening of the bleed passage is increased. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110056235 | LINEAR ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR AND REFRIGERANT CIRCUIT - A refrigerant circuit includes a linear electric compressor including a housing with a cylinder bore, a pair of end plates, a valve unit, a piston, an urging device for urging the piston, a coil generating electromagnetic force and a permanent magnet. The permanent magnet cooperates with the urging device and the coil to reciprocate the piston in the cylinder bore. The piston further includes a piston rod and the urging device is provided around the piston rod and a pair of piston heads integrally formed at opposite ends of the piston rod. The diameter of the piston rod is smaller than that of the piston head. The permanent magnet is provided on the piston head and the coil surrounds the piston head. The housing further includes a seat located between the pair of piston heads and the urging device is provided between the seat and each of the piston head. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110052454 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS - The exhaust gas purification apparatus includes an oxidation catalyst, a first selective catalytic reduction catalyst, a second selective catalytic reduction catalyst and a urea water supply device. The oxidation catalyst is provided in a passage through which exhaust gas flows. The first selective catalytic reduction catalyst is located in the passage downstream of the oxidation catalyst. The second selective catalytic reduction catalyst is located in the passage downstream of the first selective catalytic reduction catalyst and operable to adsorb more ammonia than the first selective catalytic reduction catalyst. The urea water supply device is provided for supplying urea water to the passage upstream of the first selective catalytic reduction catalyst. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110047994 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS - An exhaust gas purification apparatus includes an exhaust gas passage, a first oxidation catalyst, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst, an oxidation-reduction catalyst and a urea water supply device. Exhaust gas is flowed through the first oxidation catalyst. The first oxidation catalyst is disposed in the exhaust gas passage. The selective catalytic reduction catalyst is disposed downstream of the first oxidation catalyst. The oxidation-reduction catalyst is disposed downstream of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst. The oxidation-reduction catalyst has reducing property and oxidizing property which are influenced by temperature, wherein the oxidizing property of the oxidation-reduction catalyst is greater than the reducing property of the oxidation-reduction catalyst under a temperature that is higher than a temperature under which the reducing property of the oxidation-reduction catalyst is greater than the oxidizing property of the oxidation-reduction catalyst. The urea water supply device supplies urea water upstream of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110047991 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS - An exhaust gas purification apparatus includes a first oxidation catalyst provided in a passage through which exhaust gas flows, a particulate matter collecting device provided downstream of the first oxidation catalyst, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst integrally formed with the particulate matter collecting device and having ammonia adsorption property, a second oxidation catalyst integrally formed with the particulate matter collecting device and oxidizing ammonia at a predetermined temperature or higher and a urea water supply device provided upstream of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst for supplying urea water. The urea water supply device supplies urea water only when a temperature of the second oxidation catalyst is below the predetermined temperature. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110031935 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR THE SAME - The present invention is characterized in that, in a negative electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery, the negative electrode being manufactured via an application step of applying a binder resin and an active material onto a surface of collector, the binder resin is an alkoxysilyl group-containing resin that has a structure being specified by formula (I); and the active material includes a lithium-inactive metal that does not form any intermetallic compounds with lithium, or a silicide of the lithium-inactive metal, and an elemental substance of Si. It is possible to upgrade cyclic characteristics by means of using the negative electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery according to the present invention. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110030389 | HEAT EXCHANGER - A heat exchanger includes a thermoelectric module. A first fluid passage is arranged at a heat dissipation side of the thermoelectric module and a second fluid passage is arranged at a heat absorption side of the thermoelectric module. The thermoelectric module includes P type and N type thermoelectric semiconductor elements. An electrical insulator couples the P type and N type thermoelectric semiconductor elements. Heat dissipation side electrodes are exposed in the first fluid passage and heat absorption side electrodes are exposed in the second fluid passage. At least the heat dissipation side of the thermoelectric module includes valleys and ridges with the heat dissipation side electrode being free from projections. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110030358 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS - An exhaust gas purification apparatus includes an oxidation catalyst, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst, a first urea water supplying device, a second urea water supplying device and a controller. The oxidation catalyst oxidizes nitrogen monoxide to nitrogen dioxide. The selective catalytic reduction catalyst is disposed downstream of the oxidation catalyst. The first urea water supplying device is disposed upstream of the oxidation catalyst. The second urea water supplying device is disposed downstream of the oxidation catalyst and upstream of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst. The controller controls the supply of urea water to exhaust gas by the first urea water supplying device and the second urea water supplying device according to temperature of the exhaust gas. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110030351 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS - The exhaust gas purification apparatus includes an oxidation catalyst, an ammonia adsorption portion, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst and a urea water supply device. The oxidation catalyst is provided in a passage through which exhaust gas flows. The ammonia adsorption portion is located in the passage downstream of the oxidation catalyst with respect to the flow of the exhaust gas and operable to adsorb ammonia. The selective catalytic reduction catalyst is located in the passage downstream of the ammonia adsorption portion. The urea water supply device is provided for supplying urea water to the passage upstream of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110030350 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING APPARATUS - An exhaust gas purification apparatus includes an oxidation catalyst provided in a passage through which exhaust gas flows, a urea decomposition accelerator, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst provided downstream of the urea decomposition accelerator and a urea water supplying device for supplying urea water to the urea decomposition accelerator. The urea decomposition accelerator is provided downstream end surface of the oxidation catalyst and has at least one of hydrophilic function and hydrolytic catalytic function. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110020162 | SCREW ROTOR - A screw rotor is for use in a screw pump that pumps fluid by rotation of a pair of screw rotors engaged with each other in a rotor housing. The screw rotor includes a multiple-thread portion for pump suction side and a single-thread portion for pump discharge side. The screw rotor is formed so that the tooth profile of the multiple-thread portion is connected to the tooth profile of the single-thread portion through a boundary plane that is perpendicular to the rotation axis of the screw rotor. The first curved portion coincides with the third curved portion in the boundary plane. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110020153 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - A motor-driven compressor includes a compression mechanism for compressing refrigerant, an electric motor for driving the compression mechanism, an inverter for controlling the operation of the electric motor, and a motor harness for electrically connecting the electric motor to the inverter. The compression mechanism and the electric motor are mechanically connected each other. The electric motor has first and second coil ends. The first coil end is located on the side of the compression mechanism and the inverter is located on the side of the second coil end. The motor harness is led out from the first coil end. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110016993 | CLIP FOR DETECTING WINDOW GLASS BREAKAGE - A clip for detecting window glass breakage used to detect breakage of a window glass when the arrangement state of a detected member relative to a window glass of a vehicle changes. The clip for detecting window glass breakage includes first and second members bent toward each other to hold an end portion of the window glass. When the window glass is unbroken, the first member and the second member contact the window glass at different positions in a plane of the window glass and are urged toward each other in a state in which the window glass is arranged therebetween. When the window glass is broken, the first member and the second member are elastically deformed so as to shatter the end portion of the window glass and thereby change the arrangement state of the detected member relative to the window glass. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110012475 | INTERPHASE INSULATIVE STRUCTURE FOR MOTOR AND METHOD FOR COUPLING INTERPHASE INSULATIVE SHEET IN MOTOR - An interphase insulative structure for a motor. The motor includes a stator core, a plurality of teeth arranged along an inner circumference of the stator core, and first to third phase windings wave wound to the stator core. The interphase insulative structure includes first interphase insulators and second interphase insulators. The first and second interphase insulators are connected between adjacent coil end conductive portions of the second winding at least at a second end of the stator core. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20100329937 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS - An exhaust gas purification apparatus includes an oxidation catalyst provided in an exhaust gas passage through which exhaust gas flows, a SCR catalyst provided downstream of the oxidation catalyst, a urea water passage that is formed through a urea water pipe and provided in the oxidation catalyst and a urea water supply device provided outside the exhaust gas passage for supplying urea water to the urea water passage. The urea water passage is separated from the oxidation catalyst and led downstream of the oxidation catalyst. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100326054 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION SYSTEM - An exhaust gas purification system includes a casing through which exhaust gas is allowed to flow, an oxidation catalyst provided in the casing, a particulate matter collector located downstream of the oxidation catalyst in the casing as viewed in the direction of exhaust gas flow and spaced apart from the oxidation catalyst to form a space therebetween, an SCR catalyst integrated with the particulate matter collector, and a urea water supply device for supplying urea water to the space between the oxidation catalyst and the particulate matter collector. The casing is for being mounted to an engine assembly. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100321172 | WINDOW GLASS BREAKAGE DETECTOR AND BREAKAGE DETECTING APPARATUS - A window glass breakage detection tool attached to a window glass of a vehicle to detect breakage of the window glass is disclosed. When the window glass is unbroken, at least part of the breakage detection tool is located in a through hole arranged in the window glass and urges a wall of the through hole in a direction expanding the through hole with an elastic force of the detection tool. When the window glass breaks, the breakage detection tool shatters the window glass at a portion surrounding the through hole and the detector is at least partially displaced. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100315024 | INVERTER DEVICE - An inverter device includes a filter circuit, an inverter circuit, an electric current detecting circuit, a voltage detecting circuit, a control circuit for outputting a drive signal so as to switch switching devices ON and OFF and an internal power supply. The control circuit includes a shutdown circuit for stopping outputting the drive signal from the control circuit to the switching devices when an electric current flowing through a motor is an overcurrent or a voltage across the inverter circuit is an overvoltage. The shutdown circuit also stops outputting the drive signal from the control circuit to the switching devices when the voltage outputted from the internal power supply is not stabilized. When electric power by residual charge in the capacitor is used after the inverter device is disconnected from a high-voltage battery, the control circuit generates the drive signal based on a triangular reference waveform and also based on three command values for keeping switching devices corresponding to one phase of three phases in either ON or OFF state and for switching ON and OFF the other switching devices corresponding to the remaining two phases. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100307884 | ELECTROMAGNETIC CLUTCH - An electromagnetic clutch includes an external drive source, a driven apparatus having a rotary shaft, a power transmission path, first and second rotating parts, a power source, an electromagnetic coil and a power cutoff mechanism. A power transmission path is formed between the external drive source and the driven apparatus, and in which the first and the second rotating parts, the electromagnetic coil and the power cutoff mechanism are disposed. The first rotating part is driven to rotate by power from the external drive source. The second rotating part is mounted on the rotary shaft for rotation therewith. The electromagnetic coil is energized by electric current from the power source to generate electromagnetic attraction force by which the first and the second rotating parts are connected for transmitting power therebetween. The power cutoff mechanism stops excessive power transmission from the external drive source to the driven apparatus when the electromagnetic coil is energized. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100301802 | CHARGING APPARATUS - The charging apparatus supplying power from a power source to a vehicle includes a body, a cable, a communication device, a starting switch and a controller. The controller is connected to the communication device and the starting switch for controlling the power supply from the power source to the charging connector. If the charging connector is connected to a vehicle which has no communication function for communicating with the charging apparatus, the controller controls so that a voltage is applied to the charging connector when the starting switch is operated. If the charging connector is connected to a vehicle which has communication function for communicating with the charging apparatus, the controller controls so that a voltage is applied to the charging connector in accordance with the communication between the communication device and the vehicle. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100300657 | EBULLIENT COOLING DEVICE - An ebullient cooling device that can maintain favorable cooling-medium circulation is provided. An ebullient cooling device according to the present invention is characterized in that it is an ebullient cooling device that includes a heat receiving unit to which a heating element is installed, and which has a cooling medium in the inside, a condensing unit which communicates with the heat receiving unit, and which condenses the cooling medium that has been boiled by means of heat resulting from the heating element, a cooling-medium circulating unit which communicates with the heat receiving unit and condensing unit, into which the cooling medium having been condensed at the condensing unit flows and additionally which supplies the cooling medium to the heat receiving unit, and an inner bottom face of the condensing unit includes a guiding portion which guides the cooling medium to the cooling-medium circulating unit by means of gravity. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100293966 | VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONER - A vehicle air conditioner includes a first heat exchanger, wherein air around the first heat exchanger is supplied into a vehicle compartment, a heat storage unit, an in-vehicle circuit that connects between the first heat exchanger and the heat storage unit, a second heat exchanger, wherein air around the second heat exchanger is sent outside a vehicle, a vehicle system, wherein the vehicle system generates exhaust heat, an out-vehicle circuit, a connection circuit that connects between the in-vehicle and the out-vehicle circuits, a plurality of valves operating so that the in-vehicle circuit and the out-vehicle circuit are connected or disconnected from each other through the connection circuit and a control device for controlling states of the valves. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100290957 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING SYSTEM - An exhaust gas purifying system includes an exhaust passage, an oxidation catalyst, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst, a urea water supply device, a first heating mechanism and a controller. The exhaust gas discharged from an internal combustion engine flows through the exhaust passage. The oxidation catalyst for oxidizing nitrogen monoxide contained in the exhaust gas to nitrogen dioxide is disposed in the exhaust passage. The selective catalytic reduction catalyst is disposed downstream of the oxidation catalyst. The urea water supply device supplies urea water into the exhaust passage at the upstream of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst. The first heating mechanism heats the oxidation catalyst. The controller controls the first heating mechanism to adjust the temperature of the oxidation catalyst such that molar ratio between nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen dioxide in the exhaust gas flowing into the selective catalytic reduction catalyst become one to one. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100289630 | WINDOW GLASS BREAKAGE DETECTOR - A clip is used for detecting breakage of an openable window glass. The clip clips a window glass that selectively opens or closes an opening of a vehicle at an end of the window glass, and breaks apart the end of the window glass following breakage of the window glass. The clip includes a first member and a second member opposing each other that are formed by folding a steel plate for making a leaf spring. The first member and the second member contact the window glass disposed therebetween at offset positions on the window glass in directions to approach each other. Accordingly, detection of the breakage of the window glass is ensured even when the entire window glass is not broken apart following the breakage of the window glass. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100284849 | AUSTENITIC CAST IRON AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR THE SAME, AUSTENITIC-CAST-IRON CAST PRODUCT AND COMPONENT PART FOR EXHAUST SYSTEM - An austenitic cast iron according to the present invention has Ni: from 7 to 15% by mass, and is characterized in that it comprises a base structure in which an austenite phase makes a major phase even in ordinary-temperature region by adjusting the respective compositions of Cr, Ni and Cu, excepting C and Si, so as to fall within predetermined ranges. In accordance with the present invention, it is possible to obtain an austenitic cast iron, which is excellent in terms of oxidation resistance and the like, inexpensively, while reducing the content of expensive Ni. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100282070 | FIXED DISPLACEMENT PISTON COMPRESSOR - A compressor includes a rotary shaft, a swash plate, a cylinder block, plural pistons, a crank chamber, a housing, plural passages, a thrust bearing, and an anti-rotation mechanism. The crank chamber accommodates therein the swash plate, and refrigerant of suction pressure is introduced into the crank chamber. The housing is connected to the cylinder block and forms therein a suction chamber and a discharge chamber. The plural passages are provided for communication between the crank chamber and the suction chamber. The thrust bearing is provided between the swash plate and the cylinder block so as to receive thrust load from the swash plate. The thrust bearing has a thrust race located adjacent to the cylinder block. The anti-rotation mechanism is provided for preventing relative rotation of the thrust race to the cylinder block. The anti-rotation mechanism restricts the fluid flow through a specific passage of the plural passages. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100281904 | DEHUMIDIFICATION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - A dehumidification system for a vehicle includes a duct and a desiccant dehumidifier. The duct includes inside and outside air inlets, an air passage, a flap, an air outlet communicating with the vehicle interior, a heat source and an outside air heat exchanger. The desiccant dehumidifier includes a desiccant rotor, a humidity conditioning air passage, a dehumidified air passage, a regeneration passage, a humidified air passage and a regeneration heater. The air from the heat source is introduced into the desiccant rotor through the humidity conditioning air passage and introduced to the air outlet through the dehumidified air passage. The air from the heat source is introduced into the desiccant rotor through the regeneration passage and flowed through the humidified air passage. The outside air heat exchanger includes a heat exchanger, an outside air passage, a heated outside air passage and a cooled humidified air passage. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100279191 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system including a fuel cell, a gas-liquid separator, a tank, an outlet pipe, and an inlet pipe is disclosed. The gas-liquid separator separates off-gas discharged from the fuel cell into water and gas. The tank is capable of containing water separated by the gas-liquid separator. The outlet pipe discharges gas, which is separated by the gas-liquid separator, from the gas-liquid separator. The outlet pipe has a venturi. The inlet pipe draws the water contained in the tank into the venturi. The water contained in the tank is drawn through the inlet pipe into the venturi to be atomized and discharged as atomized water from the outlet pipe. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100278665 | FIXATION STRUCTURE FOR COMPRESSOR - Provided is a compressor fixation structure that can reduce the occurrence of condensation. In a fixation structure for a compressor that has an electric motor and a compression mechanism provided adjacently to the electric motor and driven by the electric motor, when forming a motor housing for the electric motor and a compression mechanism housing for the compression mechanism separately from each other, a fixation part to be fixed to an object to which the compressor is to be attached is provided in the compression mechanism housing. Consequently, the compression mechanism housing is integrated with the object, and the heat capacity of the compression mechanism including the compression mechanism housing can be assumed to be a larger capacity which includes the heat capacity of the object. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100259136 | ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE AND DRIVING CONTROLLER FOR ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE - A plurality of salient poles projecting toward a stator are arranged on a rotor core along the circumferential direction while being spaced apart from each other, and rotor windings are wound around these salient poles. The rotor windings are short-circuited through diodes, respectively; and when currents rectified by the diodes flow through the rotor windings, the salient poles are magnetized to produce a magnet where the magnetic pole is fixed. The width θ of each salient pole in the circumferential direction is smaller than a width corresponding to an electric angle of 180° of the rotor, and the rotor windings are wound around each salient pole by short-pitch winding. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100257890 | THERMAL STORAGE UNIT AND VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONER - A thermal storage unit includes a thermal storage, a heat exchange path, a housing and a reservoir. The thermal storage is filled with a thermal storage medium. A heat exchange medium flows through the heat exchange path. The housing surrounds and thermally insulates the thermal storage from the outside. The housing has an inlet port and an outlet port for communicating with the heat exchange path and a conduit which is located outside the housing and connected to the inlet port and the outlet port. The reservoir is located in the housing for reserving the heat exchange medium. When the thermal storage unit is not in use, the reservoir collects the heat exchange medium flowing by weight thereof through the inlet port and the outlet port, thereby allowing air to be present at the inlet port and the outlet port. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100257870 | VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONER - A vehicle air conditioner includes a heat storage unit having a heat storage medium, a first heat exchanger for heat exchange with air that is sent out of the vehicle, a second heat exchanger for heat exchange with air that is sent to the vehicle compartment, and a peltier device. The heat storage unit has a first inlet port and a first outlet port through which heat exchange medium flows in and out of the heat storage unit where heat is exchanged between the heat storage medium and the heat exchange medium. The peltier device is operable to provide one of positive heat and negative heat to the heat exchange medium flowing through the heat storage unit and also to provide the other of the positive heat and the negative heat directly or indirectly to the first heat exchanger. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100254846 | ROOTS TYPE FLUID MACHINE - A roots type fluid machine includes suction and discharge ports, rotary shafts and a pair of rotors. The rotor has a number n of lobe and valley portions with apex and bottom ends. The lobe portions are located on imaginary lines extending radially from an axis of the rotary shaft. The outer surface of each one of the rotors is generated by rotating an outline of the rotor including an arc and involute and envelope curves around and moving the outline in the direction of the axis. The arc has a radius R and a center located on the imaginary line. The involute curve is formed by an imaginary base circle having a radius r and a center located on the axis. The envelope curve is formed by an arc having a radius R. The number n is four or more. A torsional angle β is over | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100252235 | LIQUID-COOLED-TYPE COOLING DEVICE - A casing of a liquid-cooled-type cooling device has a peripheral wall including mutually facing right and left side walls. A cooling-liquid inlet is formed at one end of the right side wall, and a cooling-liquid outlet is formed at an end of the left side wall corresponding to the other end of the right side wall. A parallel-flow-channel section is provided within the casing to be located between the left and right side walls and between the cooling-liquid inlet and outlet and includes flow channels through which cooling liquid flows. Internal regions of the casing located upstream and downstream of the parallel-flow-channel section serve as inlet and outlet header sections, respectively. The cross-sectional area of the inlet header section reduces from the cooling-liquid inlet toward the left side wall. The outlet and inlet header sections are asymmetric in shape with respect to the width direction of the parallel-flow-channel section. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100246215 | ISOLATED DC-DC CONVERTER - An isolated DC-DC converter includes a transformer, a main switch, an active clamp circuit and a control unit. The transformer has a primary winding. The main switch and the active clamp circuit are connected to the primary winding. The active clamp circuit has an auxiliary switch and a clamp capacitor connected in series. The control unit is provided for controlling the main switch and the auxiliary switch. The control unit performs a soft start operation of the converter before a normal operation. The control unit performs anti-saturation control before starting the soft start operation. The anti-saturation control includes an act of controlling the main switch and the auxiliary switch so that the auxiliary switch performs ON-OFF operation with the main switch kept OFF until voltage of the clamp capacitor drops below a level at which the transformer is to be magnetically saturated after starting the soft start operation. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100246139 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND HEAT CONDUCTIVE SHEET - A semiconductor apparatus is comprising a circuit board with a semiconductor device surface-mounted on one surface thereof. A heatsink is disposed and fixed with a connection member and separated with a predetermined distance on one side of the circuit board opposite to the surface where the semiconductor device is mounted. A heat conductive sheet is provided between the circuit board and the heatsink and thermally connecting the semiconductor device and the heatsink through the circuit board. The heat conductive sheet is constituted as a laminate of a first member and a second member and one of the first and second members is a ceramic board whereas the other is a resin sheet material having highly heat conductive fillers mixed therein. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100236767 | HYDROGEN GAS STORING DEVICE - A plurality of MH tank modules ( | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100233006 | SCREW-TYPE FLUID MACHINE - A vacuum pump includes rotary shafts connected to a pair of screw-type rotors, respectively, and a pair of shaft retainers extending in the housing. Each shaft retainer supports the corresponding rotary shaft by means of a proximal bearing portion and a distal bearing portion. Each pair of the proximal and distal bearing portions are fixed in the axial direction with respect to the corresponding rotary shaft and shaft retainer. Lubricant oil is stored in an oil storage space in a gear case attached to the housing. A cooling water passage through which cooling water to cool the lubricant oil passes is formed in the gear case. A controller controls the flow rate of the cooling fluid, so that the temperature of the lubricant oil in the oil storage space is kept constant. With this configuration, when the bearing portions are fixed in the axial direction with respect to the rotary shafts and the shaft retainers, it is possible to prevent load from being applied to the bearing portions in the axial direction. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100221135 | SCROLL TYPE COMPRESSOR - A scroll type compressor has a housing, a rotary shaft, a fixed scroll member, a movable scroll member and a rotation preventing mechanism. The rotation preventing mechanism has a movable pin that is provided on the surface of movable end plate and extends toward end surface of the housing in parallel with an axis of the rotary shaft, a fixed pin that is provided on the end surface of the housing and extends toward the surface of the movable end plate in parallel with the axis of the movable pin, a rolling element that is disposed between the movable and the fixed pins, being contactable with the movable and the fixed pins and a retainer retaining the rolling element between the movable and the fixed pins. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100219087 | HYDROGEN GAS STORAGE DEVICE - An MH tank module | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100213931 | DEVICE FOR DETECTING BREAKAGE OF OPEN/CLOSE TYPE WINDOW GLASS - A breakage detection device for detecting breakage of a window glass capable of opening and closing an opening of a vehicle is provided. The breakage detection device includes a clip, a magnetic sensor, a detection unit, and a determination unit. The clip is arranged at an end portion of the window glass and holds an end portion of the window glass with a force enabling the end portion of the window glass to be crushed when the window glass breaks. The magnetic sensor detects displacement of at least part of the clip when the window glass breaks. The detection unit acquires an output value of the magnetic sensor in predetermined time intervals to detect a temporal change in the output value of the magnetic sensor. The determination unit determines that the window glass is broken when the temporal change detected by the detection unit is outside a tolerable range. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100211267 | PARKING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, VEHICLE-SIDE APPARATUS OF PARKING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, PARKING ASSIST METHOD, AND PARKING ASSIST PROGRAM - A parking assistance apparatus makes it easy for a driver to grasp a relative positional relation between a vehicle and a target parking position and makes it possible to park the vehicle at the target parking position in a parking space with accuracy. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100209978 | GENE-DISRUPTED STRAIN, RECOMBINANT PLASMIDS, TRANSFORMANTS AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF 3-CARBOXYMUCONOLACTONE - Industrial-scale fermentative production of 3-carboxy-cis,cis-muconic acid from terephthalic acid. Also, a protocatechuate 4,5-ring-cleaving enzyme gene-disrupted strain in which the gene coding for (a) the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 3, or (b) the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 3 which has a deletion, substitution, addition and/or insertion of one or more amino acids and exhibits protocatechuate 4,5-ring cleavage activity, present in the chromosomal DNA of microbial cells, has been disrupted; recombinant plasmids comprising the Tph gene and protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase gene; transformants obtained by introducing the recombinant plasmids into the disrupted strain; and a process for production of 3-carboxy-cis,cis-muconic acid and/or 3-carboxymuconolactone characterized by culturing the transformants in the presence of terephthalic acid. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100209305 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS - An exhaust gas purification apparatus includes a catalyst carrier which has a body and a catalyst supported on the body, and an electrically conducting device for conducting an electric current to the body. A part of the body is at least made of a conductive nonmetal. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100209285 | MAGNESIUM ALLOY FOR CASTING AND MAGNESIUM-ALLOY CAST PRODUCT - A magnesium alloy for casting according to the present invention is characterized in that, when the entirety is taken as 100% by mass, it includes copper (Cu) in an amount of from 1% by mass or more to 5% by mass or less, calcium (Ca) in an amount of from 0.1% by mass or more to 5% by mass or less, tin (Sn) in an amount of from 0.1 or more to 3 or less by mass ratio with respect to the Ca (Sn/Ca); and the balance comprising magnesium (Mg) and inevitable impurities. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100209262 | PISTON COMPRESSOR - A piston compressor includes first and second cylinder blocks having an inlet port and a swash plate chamber, a drive shaft having first and second guide holes, and a swash plate having first and second supply ports. The swash plate chamber communicates with the inlet port and also with the first and second guide holes via the first and second supply ports, respectively. A distance from the inlet port to the first supply port when the first supply port is moved closest to the inlet port is greater than a distance from the inlet port to the second supply port when the second supply port is moved closest to the inlet port, and the smallest flow passage area in the first supply port and the first guide hole is greater than the smallest flow passage area in the second supply port and the second guide hole. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100204356 | POLYURETHANES, POLYUREAS, AND PROCESS FOR THEIR PRODUCTION - A high-elasticity biodegradable polymer comprising PDC, which has excellent solubility in solvents and reactants, in their repeating unit structures is provided in an inexpensive manner. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100201810 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - Images are taken by a fixed camera and a moving camera, and a relative position calculation unit recognizes a current position and orientation of the moving object based on a detection signal that is input from a sensor for obtaining positional information of a moving object and calculates a relative positional relationship of the moving camera with respect to the fixed camera by comparing the current position and orientation of the moving object with a given position at which the fixed camera is installed. Based on the relative positional relationship, the image taken by the fixed camera and the image taken by the moving camera are synthesized into one image by an image composition unit, and a composite image viewed from a virtual viewpoint is displayed on a monitor. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100201316 | NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A non-contact power transmission apparatus having an AC power source and a resonance system is disclosed. The resonance system has a primary coil connected to the AC power source, a primary side resonance coil, a secondary side resonance coil, a secondary coil, and a load connected to the secondary coil. The primary side resonance coil is separated from the primary coil in an axial direction by a first distance, and the secondary coil is separated from the secondary side resonance coil in the axial direction by a second distance. At least one of the first distance and the second distance is adjusted to be a distance that is determined in advance in accordance with the impedance of the load so that the power transmission efficiency is maintained at a proper value. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100201204 | NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A non-contact power transmission apparatus is disclosed. The non-contact power transmission apparatus includes an AC power source, a primary coil, a primary side resonance coil, a secondary side resonance coil, a secondary coil, a voltage measuring section, and a distance calculating section. AC voltage of the AC power source is applied to the primary coil. A load is connected to the secondary coil. The voltage measuring section measures the voltage of the primary coil. The distance calculating section calculates the distance between the primary side resonance coil and the secondary side resonance coil based on the voltage measured by the voltage measuring section. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100200399 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION SYSTEM - An exhaust gas purification system which purifies exhaust gas discharged from an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust pipe, an electrochemical reactor and a cooler. The exhaust gas flows through the exhaust pipe. The electrochemical reactor is mounted to the exhaust pipe and has a polyelectrolyte membrane. The cooler is provided at a position that is upstream of the electrochemical reactor for cooling the exhaust gas. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100199642 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REGENERATING PARTICULATE FILTER THEREOF - An exhaust gas purifying apparatus includes an exhaust pipe, a first oxidation catalyst, a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst, a urea water supply system, a particulate filter (PF) and a controller. Exhaust gas discharged from an internal combustion engine flows through the exhaust pipe. The first oxidation catalyst is disposed in the exhaust pipe. The SCR catalyst is disposed in the exhaust pipe downstream of the first oxidation catalyst. The urea water supply system supplies urea water to the SCR catalyst. The PF is disposed in the exhaust pipe downstream of the SCR catalyst. The controller stops supplying the urea water from the urea water supply system during regeneration of the PF, so as to supply the NO | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100196639 | FLANGED FIBER-REINFORCED RESIN HOLLOW PART AND METHOD OF MOLDING THE SAME - Provided is a method capable of easily and inexpensively molding a flanged fiber-reinforced resin hollow part with a non-uniform cross-section and a bent portion with a sufficiently reduced weight and substantially uniform thickness. To this end, a hollow laminate ( | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100194550 | WINDOW GLASS SECURITY SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - A vehicle window glass security system including a closure forgetting device, a glass breakage detection device, a detection unit, and a controller is disclosed. The closure forgetting detection device detects closure forgetting of a window glass. The glass breakage detection device detects breakage of the window glass. The detection unit is commonly shared by the glass breakage detection device and the closure forgetting detection device. The controller detects closure forgetting with the closure forgetting device before the glass breakage detection device starts a breakage detection mode to detect breakage of the window glass when the window glass is in not in a closure forgetting state. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100193941 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes an insulating substrate having a ceramic substrate and metal coating layers on opposite surfaces of the ceramic substrate, a semiconductor chip mounted on one surface of the insulating substrate, a heat sink directly or indirectly fixed to the other surface of the insulating substrate and thermally connected to the semiconductor chip through the insulating substrate and at least one anti-warping sheet disposed on at least one surface of the heat sink. The anti-warping sheet is made of a metal sheet having a coating layer and has coefficient of thermal expansion between those of the insulating substrate and the heat sink. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100189576 | PISTON COMPRESSOR - A compressor includes a rotary shaft, a cam, a cylinder block, pistons, a thrust bearing, a rotary valve, and an oil passage. The rotary shaft has an in-shaft passage formed therein. The in-shaft passage has an outlet open to the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft. The cam rotates integrally with the rotary shaft. The pistons are coupled to the rotary shaft through the cam. The thrust bearing is provided between the cam and the cylinder block. The thrust bearing includes a first race in contact with the cam, a second race in contact with the cylinder block, and rolling elements retained between the first and second races to form a gap therebetween. The oil passage is formed in the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft so as to extend from the gap to the outlet of the in-shaft passage. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100186404 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE - A control device for an industrial vehicle including an electric storage device, a load device, a hydraulic pump, and a load motor is disclosed. The electric storage device stores regenerative power generated through regenerative braking performed by the travel motor. The hydraulic pump supplies a hydraulic circuit with hydraulic oil to operate the load device. The load motor drives the hydraulic pump. The control device includes a power control unit and a resistance flow passage. The power control unit executes control for supplying the load motor with the regenerative power when the electric storage device is in a fully charged state during regenerative braking performed by the travel motor. The resistance flow passage is arranged in the hydraulic circuit and enables passage of hydraulic oil while applying flow resistance to the hydraulic oil. When the electric storage device is in the fully charged state during regenerative braking performed by the travel motor and, at the same time, the load device is not performing a load handling operation, the hydraulic oil supplied from the hydraulic pump is guided to the resistance flow passage. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100182750 | INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE WITH ELECTRIC COMPONENT UNIT - An industrial vehicle has a vehicle body and an electric component unit. The electric component unit has a base member fixed to the vehicle body, a fan fixed to the base member for ventilating, at least one electric device fixed to the base member and at least one radiator fixed to the electric device. The base member has an opening provided in the center of the base member and a plurality of ducts. The ducts and the electric device cooperate to form a ventilating passage. The ventilating passage has a plurality of separate passages communicated with the opening and the radiator is disposed in each of the separate passages. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100181829 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC POWERED VEHICLE INCLUDING POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM - Converters are configured to operate in a normal operation to convert the electric power that is input/output to/from secondary batteries bidirectionally to direct current voltage. In a predetermined mode allowing the secondary batteries to be charged, at least one of the converters does not perform a switching operation and holds on an upper arm element to avoid a switching loss in charging the secondary batteries. An electric power loss caused at the converters in charging the secondary batteries can be reduced, and charging efficiency can be enhanced. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100181213 | HYDROGEN STORAGE TANK - A hydrogen storage tank includes a tank main body, partition sections, and a hydrogen flow pipe. The hydrogen flow pipe prevents MH powder from passing through and permits hydrogen to pass through. The tank main body includes a hollow body portion having openings on opposite ends. Dome portions are joined to opening ends of the body portion. Partition sections are provided in the body portion so that first retaining chambers, which retain the MH powder, are defined in the body portion. Extended portions, which serve as second partition members, are provided in the dome portions to divide the space in the dome portions into second retaining chambers, which retain the MH powder. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100178178 | PISTON COMPRESSOR - A compressor includes a rotary shaft, a cam, a cylinder block, pistons, a thrust bearing, a rotary valve, and an oil passage. The rotary shaft has an in-shaft passage formed therein. The cam rotates integrally with the rotary shaft. The pistons are coupled to the rotary shaft through the cam. The thrust bearing is provided between the cam and the cylinder block. The thrust bearing includes a first race in contact with the cam, a second race in contact with the cylinder block, and rolling elements retained between the first and second races to form a gap therebetween. The oil passage extends from the gap to the in-shaft passage and includes an oil retaining space formed in at least one of the cam and the cylinder block. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100175421 | LUBRICANT COMPOSITION FOR REFRIGERATOR AND COMPRESSOR USING THE SAME - Provided is a lubricant composition for a refrigerator, which is characterized by using a substance mainly containing a polyoxyalkylene glycol derivative and having a hydroxyl number of 5 mgKOH/g or less, as a base oil. Also provided is a compressor using such the lubricant composition for a refrigerator. The lubricant composition for a refrigerator is used for a refrigerator which uses a refrigerant having a specific structure such as an unsaturated fluorohydrocarbon and being usable in current air-conditioning systems for cars or the like. The lubricant composition for a refrigerator exhibits excellent compatibility with the refrigerant, while having excellent stability. The compressor uses such the lubricant composition for a refrigerator. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100170628 | FIBER BUNDLE ARRANGING DEVICE AND FIBER BUNDLE ARRANGING METHOD - A fiber bundle arranging device is provided that laminates fiber bundle layers formed of a fiber bundle. The fiber bundle is engaged with arranged pins to have straight parts. The device includes a press roller and a first moving device. The press roller includes a peripheral portion. The peripheral portion of the press roller depresses the straight parts of the fiber bundle engaged with the pins toward the roots of the pins in the vicinity of the pin. The first moving device moves the press roller in the arrangement direction of the pins such that the peripheral portion sequentially intersects the straight parts of the fiber bundle. The peripheral portion is located in the front of the press roller in the moving direction, and the press roller is moved to sequentially intersect the straight parts of the fiber bundle while being inclined such that, toward the front end in the moving direction of the press roller, the distance from the roots of the pins in the laminating direction of the fiber bundle layers increases. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100159271 | SLIDING MEMBER FOR COMPRESSOR - A sliding member for a compressor includes a base metal, a first layer and a second layer. The base metal is made of an aluminum-based metal. The first layer is formed on or over the base metal and made of a nickel-based plating layer containing at least one material of nitrogen (N), silicon (Si), titanium (Ti), chromium (Cr) and aluminum (Al) as an additive. The second layer is formed on the surface of the first layer and made of a diamond-like carbon layer containing the same additive as the additive contained in the first layer. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100158710 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A compressor includes a housing, a fixed scroll, a movable scroll and a control valve. The housing has a suction chamber, a discharge chamber and a backpressure chamber formed therein. The scrolls are pressed against each other by backpressure in the backpressure chamber. The control valve for controlling the backpressure has first, second and third chambers arranged in this order. The first, second and third chambers are connected to the discharge chamber, the backpressure chamber and the suction chamber, respectively. The control valve has a valve member. The valve member has a first pressure-receiving surface located in the first chamber, a second pressure-receiving surface located in the second chamber and a third pressure-receiving surface located in the third chamber. The area of the third pressure-receiving surface is larger than the area of the first pressure-receiving surface and larger than the area of the second pressure-receiving surface. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100156346 | RESONANCE-TYPE NON-CONTACT CHARGING APPARATUS - A resonance type non-contact charging apparatus is disclosed. A charger of the apparatus receives the high frequency power from a secondary side resonance coil of the apparatus. A power ratio detecting section of the apparatus detects the ratio of the reflected power from a primary side resonance coil to the high frequency power source with respect to the output power from the high frequency power source to the primary side resonance coil. A stop control section of the apparatus stops the high frequency power source when the ratio detected by the power ratio detecting section becomes greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100156138 | QUARTER WINDOW - A quarter window ( | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100156079 | INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE - An industrial vehicle includes a vehicle body, an electric component and a counterweight. The electric component of the industrial vehicle is mounted on the vehicle body. The counterweight is mounted on the vehicle body at the rear end and rearward of the electric component. The counterweight has a recess formed extending forwardly of the vehicle body from the rear end surface of the counterweight and an air passage formed extending upwardly of the vehicle body toward the electric component from an opening formed at the top surface of the recess. The recess has a closed end at a position forward of the opening of the air passage. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100155164 | BATTERY-FIXING DEVICE FOR A BATTERY FORKLIFT - A battery-fixing device includes a frame member, a stopper and a lock arm. The frame member is formed in a body of the forklift and provided by a battery space where a battery case is placed. The frame member has a through hole. The stopper has a lock portion and a groove. The stopper is movable in the through hole. The lock arm is pivotally supported on the frame member so as to engage with or disengage from the lock portion. The engagement of the lock arm with the lock portion keeps the stopper projecting from the through hole toward the battery space so that the groove is engagable with the battery case. The disengagement of the lock arm from the lock portion allows the stopper to be pulled back into the through hole so that the groove is not engaged with the battery case. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100150760 | ROTARY VACUUM PUMP - The rotary vacuum pump includes a pump housing, a rotary shaft, a thrust movement restriction mechanism and a first elastic member. The pump housing has therein a pump chamber. The rotary shaft has thereon a rotor rotatably disposed in the pump chamber. When the rotor is rotated with the rotary shaft, gas in the pump chamber is pumped thereby to draw gas into the pump chamber. The thrust movement restriction mechanism is provided for allowing the rotor to displace in the pump chamber in one thrust direction due to thermal expansion thereof during the operation of the rotary vacuum pump. The first elastic member is provided for urging the rotary shaft in the other thrust direction opposite to the one thrust direction. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100147612 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE - An electric vehicle includes a vehicle frame, a frame connector, a battery compartment, a battery stopper and an anti-connection portion. The battery compartment is provided for receiving a battery unit which has a cable connector connected thereto by a power cable. The battery stopper is mounted to the vehicle frame and movable between a closed position where the battery unit is stopped from removing and an open position where the battery unit is removable. The anti-connection portion is provided on the battery stopper. When the battery stopper is placed in the open position, the anti-connection portion is located at an anti-connection position thereby to prevent the cable connector from being connected to the frame connector. When the battery stopper is placed in the closed position, the anti-connection portion is spaced away from the anti-connection position thereby to allow the cable connector to be connected to the frame connector. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100147016 | LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION FOR REFRIGERATORS AND COMPRESSORS WITH THE COMPOSITION - A lubricating oil composition for refrigerators comprising a base oil which comprises as a main component a polyol ester compound obtained from a polyhydric alcohol selected from among pentaerythritol, dipentaerythritol, trimethylolpropane, and neopentyl glycol and a C | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100144506 | GUIDE ROLLER AND FIBER BUNDLE ARRANGING DEVICE - A guide roller | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100141213 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A power supply apparatus for a vehicle includes first and second batteries provided electrically in parallel to main loads, a boost converter provided between the first battery and the main loads, a boost converter provided between the second battery and the main loads, an auxiliary battery, a DC/DC converter, and an auxiliary load driven by power from the auxiliary battery or DC/DC converter. The controller determines charging currents or discharging currents for the batteries reflecting variations in a current flowing through the auxiliary load. Accordingly, a power supply apparatus for a vehicle can thus be provided in which imbalance between charging/discharging currents for a plurality of power storage devices is reduced. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100139804 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING BREAK IN WARP YARN IN LOOM - An apparatus for detecting a break in a warp yarn in a loom includes a heald, a heald frame, a carrier rod, a sensor, a controller and a signal line. The heald is made of a resin material for guiding a warp yarn. The heald frame performs a shedding operation of warp yarns and has the carrier rod for supporting a plurality of the healds. The sensor is provided in the heald for sensing a deformation of the heald caused by a tension of the warp yarn and outputting a signal. The controller is provided for determining a condition of the break in the warp yarn based on the signal of the sensor. The signal line electrically connects to the sensor and the controller. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100139803 | HEALD FRAME - A heald frame has a frame stave, a carrier rod provided along the frame stave and a heald made of a resin material. A plurality of healds are supported by the carrier rod and arranged in a row. A magnet having N and S poles is provided in each heald and the healds are arranged so that the adjacent ends of any two adjacent magnets are of the same polarity. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100134065 | ELECTRIC SYSTEM, CHARGING DEVICE AND CHARGING METHOD FOR ELECTRIC SYSTEM - An ECU executes a program including the steps of causing a battery pack to discharge when an external power supply is connected to a charger, stopping discharge of the battery pack when a state of charge of the battery pack is reduced to a reset value, and charging the battery pack after the state of charge is reduced to the reset value. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100123412 | PULSE GENERATING CIRCUIT - A high-voltage pulse generating circuit includes a direct current power source, a transformer, a switching device and a switching control circuit. The transformer includes a primary winding and a secondary winding. The switching device is connected between the direct current power source and the primary winding. The switching control circuit controls the switching device to be in the non-conductive state after the switching device is set in the conductive state during first conductive time and further controls the switching device to be in the conductive state during second conductive time after one of the voltages of the primary winding and the secondary winding excess the predetermined value and then to be in the non-conductive state. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100119405 | MAGNESIUM ALLOY FOR CASTING AND MAGNESIUM-ALLOY CAST PRODUCT - A magnesium alloy for casting according to the present invention is characterized in that, when the entirety is taken as 100% by mass, it includes copper (Cu) in an amount of from 1% by mass or more to 5% by mass or less, calcium (Ca) in an amount of from 0.1% by mass or more to 5% by mass or less, silver (Ag) in an amount of from 0.1% by mass or more to 5% by mass or less, and the balance comprising magnesium (Mg) and inevitable impurities. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100117741 | PLL Circuit - A VCO/current switching circuit outputs a VCO selection signal for selecting one VCO out of two or more VCOs on the basis of the externally provided frequency division data. Moreover, when switching the VCOs, the VCO/current switching circuit outputs a switching signal for changing the output current of the variable charge pump to a larger value than normal (value when it is locked). After completing the switching of the VCOs, the VCO/current switching circuit outputs a switching signal for changing the output current of the variable charge pump to a normal small value. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100117306 | CYLINDER HEAD GASKET AND ENGINE - The thickness of an intermediate plate portion ( | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100116378 | HEAT-RESISTANT MAGNESIUM ALLOY - A heat-resistant magnesium alloy according to the present invention includes Mg, a major component; a first alloying element “M | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100115474 | NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A non-contact power transmission apparatus having a resonance system is disclosed. The resonance system includes a primary coil to which an alternating-current voltage from an alternating-current source is applied, a primary-side resonance coil, a secondary-side resonance coil, and a secondary coil to which a load is connected. The impedance of the primary coil is set such that the output impedance of the alternating-current source and the input impedance of the resonance system are matched to each other. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100110638 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor module mounted on a vehicle is disclosed. The semiconductor module includes a semiconductor element, a forced-cooling type cooler, and a heat mass. Heat generated in the semiconductor element is conducted to the cooler. The heat mass is joined onto the semiconductor element, so as to be thermally coupled to the semiconductor element. The heat mass is formed such that the thermal resistance of a part of the heat mass that corresponds to a high temperature part of the semiconductor element in a heat generating state is lower than the thermal resistance of a part of the heat mass that corresponds to a lower temperature part of the semiconductor element. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100107504 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR VEHICULAR RESIN WINDOW - A resin window includes a plate-shaped main body portion and a gear projection portion that is molded integrally with the main body portion so as to project in a thickness direction of the main body portion from a rear end portion of the main body portion. A part of a side face of the gear projection portion is surrounded by a gear-side guide frame for guiding the raising/lowering of the resin window. The gear projection portion includes a meshing gear provided along a vertical direction to mesh with a drive gear, and positioning members provided respectively on upper and lower end portions of the gear projection portion to abut on an inside surface of the gear-side guide frame. When the drive gear is rotated, the positioning members slide relative to the inside surface of the gear-side guide frame, and thus the resin window can be raised or lowered along the gear-side guide frame. | 05-06-2010 |
