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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160137272 | DOUBLE-SHELL TANK AND LIQUEFIED GAS CARRIER SHIP - A horizontal type cylindrical double-shell tank includes an inner shell and an outer shell. The inner shell includes an inner shell main part storing a liquefied gas and an inner shell dome protruding from the inner shell main part. The outer shell forms a vacuum space between the inner shell and the outer shell, and includes an outer shell main part surrounding the inner shell main part and an outer shell dome surrounding the inner shell dome. The inner shell dome is provided with an inner shell manhole. The outer shell dome is provided with an outer shell manhole at a position corresponding to a position of the inner shell manhole. | 05-19-2016 |
20160136565 | CARBON DIOXIDE SEPARATION AND RECOVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A carbon dioxide separation and recovery system includes: an adsorption reactor, which adsorbs, by an adsorbent, carbon dioxide contained in a to-be-treated gas, discharges the to-be-treated gas from which the carbon dioxide has been removed, and discharges the adsorbent that has adsorbed the carbon dioxide; a desorption reactor, which receives the adsorbent discharged from the adsorption reactor, condenses desorbing steam on the adsorbent to cause carbon dioxide to desorb from the adsorbent, and then discharges the adsorbent; and an adsorbent dryer, which receives the adsorbent discharged from the desorption reactor, dries the adsorbent until a water content ratio thereof becomes a predetermined value greater than or equal to a water content ratio limit by causing, with use of a drying gas, condensation water contained in the adsorbent to evaporate as steam, and then discharges the adsorbent. | 05-19-2016 |
20160131245 | HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT FOR CONTROLLING CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION - A hydraulic circuit for controlling a continuously variable transmission includes: a lubrication line provided with a lubrication pump, and configured to supply oil from an oil tank to a lubrication target by using the lubrication pump; a high pressure line provided with a high pressure pump, branching from the lubrication line, and configured to supply, by using the high pressure pump, high-pressure oil to a hydraulic control section that controls oil pressure of the oil to be supplied to the continuously variable transmission; and a cooling return line branching from the high pressure line, and configured to return the oil to a downstream side of the lubrication pump in the lubrication line, a portion of the cooling return line forming a cooling path to cool a generator connected to the continuously variable transmission. | 05-12-2016 |
20160122980 | CONSTRUCTION MACHINE ENERGY REGENERATION APPARATUS - A construction machine energy regeneration apparatus includes: a movable weight provided in a construction machine and movable vertically; and a power-transmitting hydraulic circuit, which moves the movable weight upward by utilizing energy that is generated when a boom, an arm, or a bucket moves in a gravitational direction or energy that is generated when a brake is applied to bring a turning unit or a running unit to a stop, and utilizes potential energy of the movable weight as energy for driving the boom or the arm. | 05-05-2016 |
20160116227 | HEAT RECEIVING TILE FORMED OF CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A heat receiving block formed of carbon material having a through hole; a cooling tube formed of copper alloy fitted in the through hole of the heat receiving block; cylindrical material of interlayer disposed between the heat receiving block and the cooling tube; and brazing material layers inserted between the material of interlayer and the heat receiving block and between the material of interlayer and the cooling tube, also a slit which penetrates the heat receiving block and the material of interlayer over thickness of the heat receiving block and reaches the cooling tube on the back side of the heat receiving surface. It can provide heat receiving tile formed of carbon fiber composite material for high heat flux component such as a first wall of nuclear fusion reactor, which is produced by metallurgically joining carbon material with copper alloy and has higher cooling efficiency than conventional heat receiving tiles. | 04-28-2016 |
20160115796 | TURBINE BLADE COOLING STRUCTURE - In a structure for internally cooling a turbine blade, a cooling medium passage is provided in the turbine blade. The cooling medium passage has a shape in which a plurality of cylindrical spaces, each having substantially cylindrical shape, extending in parallel with each other partially overlap each other. A cooling medium supply passage that supplies a cooling medium to the cooling medium passage is connected to a portion of the cooling medium passage that includes a peripheral wall, in a direction that forms an acute angle with respect to a longitudinal direction of the cooling medium passage. | 04-28-2016 |
20160108355 | SACCHARIFICATION REACTION APPARATUS - A saccharification-reaction apparatus includes: a reactor which causes a saccharification-reaction of a raw material; and a raw material charging device which charges the raw material into the reactor at a predetermined interval; the reactor includes: a heating steam feeder which increases a temperature of the raw material charged from the charging device to a saccharification-reaction temperature; and a feeding mechanism which sequentially feeds each of the charged raw materials toward an outlet-port in a predetermined short period of time while causing the saccharification-reaction of each raw material under a high temperature and pressure; the raw material charging-device charges into the reactor, the raw material with a suitable bulk density for a saccharification-reaction speed of the reactor; in this manner, the saccharification-reaction apparatus charges the raw material in a hydrolytic saccharification state into the reactor by the raw material charging device; and hydrolytically saccharifying the raw material efficiently in the reactor. | 04-21-2016 |
20160107317 | ROBOT HAVING END EFFECTOR AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - The present invention relates to an end effector including: blade members for holding substrates, each configured to hold the substrate, and configured such that each interval between the blade members can be changed; a blade support unit configured to support the blade members, the blade support unit being configured to be driven integrally with the blade members by the robot; and blade drive means configured to change the interval between the blade members by moving at least one of the blade members relative to another blade member. | 04-21-2016 |
20160107255 | ARC WELDING CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention provides an arc welding control system and method capable of simultaneously, sophisticatedly performing a weaving width control operation and a torch height control operation. Influence ratios (δ | 04-21-2016 |
20160102750 | TOROIDAL-TYPE STEPLESS TRANSMISSION - A toroidal-type stepless transmission includes: at least a pair of an input disc and an output disc; a power roller tiltably provided between the pair of the input disc and the output disc, the power roller being configured to transmit a driving force from the input disc to the output disc; and disc shrouds covering the input disc and the output disc, respectively. Each of the disc shrouds has an outer peripheral portion formed with an oil discharge groove configured to discharge an oil within each disc shroud to the outside, the oil discharge groove penetrating from an inner surface of the disc shroud to an outer surface of the disc shroud and extending in a circumferential direction of the disc shroud. | 04-14-2016 |
20160102564 | ROTATING BODY PROVIDED WITH BLADES - A rotating body includes a rotating body core, and a plurality of blades provided at an outer or inner circumference of the rotating body core at equal intervals in a circumferential direction, and connected circumferentially via an annular connection portion provided separately from the rotating body core. A resonance frequency under a two nodal diameter number mode of the rotating body is lower than or equal to a rotational secondary harmonic frequency with respect to a rated rotation speed. Where N | 04-14-2016 |
20160101455 | SPINNING THICKENING FORMING METHOD AND SPINNING THICKENING FORMING APPARATUS - A spinning thickening forming method is a method of, while rotating a plate including a center portion fixed to a fixing jig, increasing a thickness of a peripheral portion of the plate. Specifically, while locally heating the peripheral portion of the plate such that at least a portion of the plate which is adjacent to the fixing jig maintains stiffness, a forming roller is pressed against the peripheral portion of the plate to compress the peripheral portion in at least a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the peripheral portion. | 04-14-2016 |
20160090110 | COUPLER SYSTEM AND RAILCAR - A coupler system includes: a coupler main body attached to a longitudinal direction end of a carbody of a railcar so as to be rotatable in a yaw direction; a curvature information acquiring portion configured to acquire curvature information of a track, the railcar being located on the track; a control portion configured to determine a target rotation angle of the coupler main body in accordance with the acquired curvature information and output a rotation signal regarding the determined target rotation angle; and a rotation angle changing portion configured to rotate the coupler main body to the target rotation angle based on the output rotation signal. When the railcar is stopped or when the railcar is traveling at a coupling speed, the control portion outputs the rotation signal to start rotating the coupler main body. | 03-31-2016 |
20160075352 | RAILCAR BOGIE - A railcar bogie includes: a bogie frame including a cross beam and plate springs and being rotatable relative to a bolster in a yawing direction, the cross beam extending in a car width direction, the plate springs supporting both respective car width direction end portions of the cross beam and extending in a car longitudinal direction; and stoppers provided at the bogie frame and configured to contact interference members to restrict a rotation range of the bogie frame when the bogie frame rotates relative to the bolster in the yawing direction, the interference members being connected to the bolster. When the bogie frame is located at a neutral position relative to the bolster in the yawing direction, the stoppers are arranged at car width direction lateral sides of the cross beam so as to overlap the cross beam in a side view. | 03-17-2016 |
20160052529 | GUIDE DEVICE FOR GUIDE RAIL-TYPE VEHICLE, AND GUIDE RAIL-TYPE VEHICLE - Provided is a guide device for a guide rail-type vehicle which travels while being guided along a travel track. The guide device is provided with: guide wheels which include main guide wheels and branched guide wheels, the main and branched guide wheels being in contact with and roll on guide rails arranged on both sides of the travel track; steering arms which steer the vehicle; and elastic support members which each includes one end affixed to each of the steering arms and which each includes the other end including guide wheels rotatably supported thereon, the elastic support members absorbing an impact load by deflecting about the one end thereof. | 02-25-2016 |
20160047310 | HEAT STORAGE MECHANISM OF HEAT EXCHANGER - A heat storage mechanism, of a heat exchanger, which does not shorten the service life of the heat exchanger even when a facility using the heat exchanger is intermittently operated and which suppresses a decrease in efficiency at the time of restart of the facility, is provided. The heat storage mechanism for storing heat of a heat exchanger during stop of operation of a facility provided with the heat exchanger includes an outflow prevention unit configured to prevent outflow of an exhaust gas to the outside, which is a heating medium of the heat exchanger, during stop of operation of the facility is provided in an exhaust passage through which the exhaust gas is discharged to the outside. | 02-18-2016 |
20160040690 | DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEM OF OPERATING MACHINE, OPERATING MACHINE INCLUDING DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEM, AND DRIVE CONTROL METHOD OF OPERATING MACHINE - A drive control system of a hydraulic excavator includes a control device. When accelerating a turning body to a target turning speed, the drive control device controls an operation of the electric motor driving device such that the electric motor outputs high efficiency torque by which a highest electric power efficiency is obtained at the target turning speed. The control device controls an operation of an oil pressure supply device such that residual torque obtained by subtracting the high efficiency torque from target torque is output from an oil-pressure motor. | 02-11-2016 |
20160033131 | MULTIFUEL GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR - To provide a multifuel gas turbine combustor capable of combusting gases containing hydrogen in a high concentration with a low NOx while maintaining a low emission performance brought about by the pre-mixture combustion in the main burner, the gas turbine combustor includes a main burner ( | 02-04-2016 |
20160023671 | GUIDE DEVICE FOR RAIL-GUIDED VEHICLE, AND RAIL-GUIDED VEHICLE - Provided is a guide device for a rail-guided vehicle that is guided to travel along a travel track, the guide device including: guide wheels that roll in contact with guide rails arranged on both sides of the travel track; steering arms that steer the vehicle; guide wheel support members; and shock-absorbing members. One end of each guide wheel support member is supported at the tip end of a steering arm with shock-absorbing members interposed therebetween, and the other end of each guide wheel support member rollably supports a main guide wheel and a diverging guide wheel. The shock-absorbing members are disposed between each guide wheel support member and the corresponding steering arm, and mitigate the impact load transmitted from the guide wheels to the steering arms. | 01-28-2016 |
20160023670 | PARALLEL CARDAN DRIVING SYSTEM STEERING BOGIE - A steering mechanism configured to rotate first and second axles relative to bogie-frame to perform steering; electric motors supported by bogie-frame, arranged at the front and rear sides in the car longitudinal direction, respectively, including output shafts, respectively, and output shafts being parallel to first and second axles at the time of non-steering; reducers connected to axles, respectively; and first constant velocity ball joint by which the first output shaft is coupled to the first reducer and which follows rotations of the first axle at the time of steering to allow relative displacement between the first output shaft and the first reducer, and a second constant velocity ball joint by which the second output shaft is coupled to the second reducer and which follows rotations of the second axle at the time of the steering to allow relative displacement between the second output shaft and the second reducer. | 01-28-2016 |
20160016623 | MOTORCYCLE - A motorcycle of the present invention comprises a vehicle body; and a protruding section which is mounted to the vehicle body such that the protruding section protrudes from the vehicle body to at least one of right and left, and the protruding section has a structure which causes air to flow from front to back along an upper surface of the protruding section to generate a force for pushing the vehicle body downward. | 01-21-2016 |
20160001789 | RAILCAR BODYSHELL - A railcar bodyshell includes: a plurality of modules into which at least one of a floor portion, side portion, and roof portion of the bodyshell is divided in a car longitudinal direction; and an elongated member extending in the car longitudinal direction, the plurality of modules being attached to the elongated member. The elongated member includes a groove portion for fixing the plurality of modules to the elongated member the groove portion extending in the car longitudinal direction. | 01-07-2016 |
20150362194 | MULTIFUEL GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR - To provide a multifuel gas turbine combustor capable of combusting gases containing hydrogen in a high concentration with a low NOx while maintaining a low emission performance brought about by the pre-mixture combustion in the main burner, the gas turbine combustor includes a main burner ( | 12-17-2015 |
20150352477 | MIST SEPARATOR - A mist separator for separating liquid mist from a gas containing the liquid mist includes a rotor fixed to a hollow rotary shaft and includes main rotating vanes; and a stator axially juxtaposed to the rotor. The stator includes main fixed vanes located downstream of the main rotating vanes on a flow path for the gas; and a cover that covers outer peripheries of the main fixed vanes and the main rotating vanes. The main fixed vanes are formed so as to cause the gas to flow radially inward from the outer peripheries thereof while a flow rate of the gas is decreased, and the cover is provided with a cover discharge port to discharge a recovery liquid which is a collection of the liquid mist to the outside of the cover. | 12-10-2015 |
20150344047 | RAILCAR BOGIE - A railcar bogie includes: a cross-beam supporting a carbody; pair of axles at both cross-beam sides in car longitudinal direction and extending in car-width direction; bearings at both car-width direction sides of each axle and rotatably supporting axles; axle-boxes accommodating respective bearings; plate-springs supporting both car-width direction end-portions of the cross-beam and extending in car longitudinal direction, both car longitudinal direction end-portions of each plate-springs supported by axle-boxes; pressing members at both car-width direction end-portions of the cross-beam placed on respective car longitudinal direction middle-portions of plate-springs, lower surface of a portion of each pressing member having a convex downward circular-arc shape in side-view, the portion pressing the plate-spring, a middle-portion upper surface of each plate-spring having convex downward circular-arc shape in side-view, the middle-portion pressed by the pressing member, and a lower surface curvature of the pressing member larger than the upper surface curvature of the middle plate-spring portion. | 12-03-2015 |
20150344046 | RAILCAR BOGIE - A railcar bogie includes: a bogie frame including a cross beam supporting a carbody of a railcar; a pair of axles respectively arranged at both sides of the cross beam in a car longitudinal direction and extending in a car width direction; bearings provided at both car width direction sides of each of the axles and rotatably supporting the axles; axle boxes respectively accommodating the bearings; and coupling devices coupling the axle boxes and the bogie frame to one another, each of the coupling devices including a first member projecting from the axle box to the bogie frame, a second member projecting from the bogie frame to the first member, and a coupling portion coupling the first member and the second member to each other, and the second member being formed separately from the bogie frame and positioned by contacting the bogie frame. | 12-03-2015 |
20150344045 | VEHICLE AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM AND RAILROAD VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH SAME - An air-conditioning system in vehicle is installed in a vehicle in which a vehicle body center position and an aisle center position are different, and has an air conditioner. The air-conditioning system in vehicle has first and second outlets arranged on both sides of the vehicle in a vehicle width direction and discharging conditioned air having substantially the same air volume into an interior, and an air regulating member setting a merging position of air flows discharged from the first and second outlets to the position where the line segment connecting the vehicle body center position and the aisle center position is internally divided at a ratio of between 20:80 and 86:14. | 12-03-2015 |
20150342689 | SURGICAL ROBOT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - It is an object to provide a surgical robot which can enhance flexibility of treatment while ensuring sufficient safety of a surgery. The surgical robot has a robot body, an input unit for inputting control information of the robot body, a control unit for controlling the robot body based on the control information input to the input unit, an input side abnormality detection unit for detecting abnormality of an operator, an output side abnormality detection unit for detecting abnormality of a surgery state, an abnormality countermeasure unit for dealing with the abnormality of the surgery state detected by the output side abnormality detection unit, contents of an abnormality countermeasure action being changed based on a detection result of the input side abnormality detection unit. | 12-03-2015 |
20150333519 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR PARALLEL OPERATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF POWER GENERATOR - In a control method performed in shifting a plurality of different types of power generators to parallel operation, at least one of output voltage and a voltage drooping characteristic of at least one of the plurality of power generators is changed. In the case where the plurality of different types of power generators are a plurality of synchronous power generators having different voltage drooping characteristics, the voltage drooping characteristic of one power generator having a smaller voltage drooping characteristic among the plurality of power generators to be operated in parallel is changed so as to coincide with the voltage drooping characteristic of the other power generator. At the time of changing the voltage drooping characteristic, the other power generator is controlled so that the output voltage thereof is maintained at a value before start of the parallel operation. | 11-19-2015 |
20150329174 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE - An electric vehicle comprises an electric motor for generating driving power for driving a wheel; and a battery case accommodating a plurality of batteries storing DC power supplied to the electric motor in an inner battery space; wherein the plurality of batteries are arranged in an interior of the battery case, wherein the battery case includes an inlet through which a cooling medium is introduced into the battery space, and an outlet through which the cooling medium which has cooled the plurality of batteries is discharged outside of the battery space, and a seal member is placed in a predetermined location of a space formed between the plurality of batteries or the batteries and the battery case, the seal member defining a cooling passage in which the cooling medium introduced through the inlet travels in one direction between the batteries toward the outlet. | 11-19-2015 |
20150329011 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE - An electric motorcycle includes an electric motor, a manual transmission, a shift drum potentiometer, and an ECU. When it is determined based on an input from the shift drum potentiometer that a transmission manipulation has been performed, the ECU executes a first control operation when switching from a power transmission state to a power cut state and executes a second control operation when returning from the power cut state to the power transmission state. In the first control operation, the ECU controls an operation of the electric motor to facilitate disengagement of an engagement mechanism from a gear train of the manual transmission. In the second control operation, for facilitating engagement of the engagement mechanism with a different gear train, the ECU controls the operation of the electric motor to make a revolving speed of the different gear train close to the revolving speed of the engagement mechanism. | 11-19-2015 |
20150328673 | SPINNING FORMING DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to reduce heat transferred from a plate through a receiving jig to a rotating shaft in a spinning forming device. A spinning forming device includes: a receiving jig supporting a central portion of a plate to be formed; a rotating shaft to which the receiving jig is attached; a heater configured to heat a transform target portion of the plate by induction heating; and a processing tool configured to press the transform target portion to transform the plate. The receiving jig is configured to suppress heat transfer from the plate to rotating shaft. | 11-19-2015 |
20150322400 | AUTOMATIC CELL DETACHMENT DEVICE AND CELL DETACHMENT SYSTEM - An automatic cell detachment device includes: a placing board, to which a culture vessel is to be fixed; a scraper for scraping away cells adhering to an inner bottom surface of the culture vessel; and a chuck including a pair of claws configured to pinch an upper part of the scraper. The chuck is lifted and lowered by a lifting/lowering mechanism, and is moved by a moving mechanism between the placing board and a holding stand. The holding stand holds replacement scrapers in a state where an upper part of each replacement scraper is exposed. | 11-12-2015 |
20150321717 | MOTORCYCLE - A motorcycle of the present invention comprises a vehicle body frame; a front seat including a front seat body section on which a rider is to be seated, and a protruding section protruding rearward from the front seat body section; a rear seat including a rear seat body section on which a passenger is to be seated, and a recessed section which is provided in a front portion of the rear seat body section and opened upward and forward; and a seat lock device mounted to the vehicle body frame. In a state in which a front portion of the rear seat is placed over the vehicle body frame from above, the protruding section of the front seat is accommodated into the recessed section of the rear seat and presses the recessed section from above, and the front seat is locked by the seat lock device. | 11-12-2015 |
20150314703 | CONTROL DEVICE OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE - A control device includes a torque setting section for setting a target output torque of an electric motor based on a driving state including an accelerator operation amount; a non-transmission state determiner section for determining whether a driving power transmission path is in a non-transmission state in which driving power is not permitted to be transmitted from the electric motor to a drive wheel or in a transmission state in which the driving power is permitted; and a torque compensation section for compensating the target output torque, when the non-transmission state determiner section determines that the driving power transmission path is in the non-transmission state. The torque compensation section compensates the target output torque by using a slowness characteristic in which a change in the motor rotational speed which occurs with time is slower when in the non-transmission state than when in the transmission state. | 11-05-2015 |
20150314692 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE - An electric vehicle comprises an electric motor which generates driving power for driving a wheel; a battery case accommodating a battery storing DC power to be supplied to the electric motor, in a battery space in an interior of the battery case; and a plurality of electric components electrically connected to the battery and placed above the battery, wherein the plurality of electric components are placed in a plurality of layers, and arranged vertically to overlap with each other when viewed from above. | 11-05-2015 |
20150311770 | POWER GENERATION UNIT OF INTEGRATED GEARBOX DESIGN FOR AIRCRAFT ENGINE - A power generation unit is connected with an engine rotary shaft via an accessory gearbox. A rotor extends through the accessory gearbox and a drive gear is disposed at an intermediate portion of the rotor for driving the latter. Permanent magnet elements are mounted on opposite side portions with the intermediate portion intervening therebetween, and stator coils are disposed so as to confront respective outer peripheries of the permanent magnet elements. | 10-29-2015 |
20150308572 | SPEED CHANGE APPARATUS OF VEHICLE - A speed change apparatus for a vehicle includes a gear transmission, a shift lever device arranged in a zone where a driver on a driver's seat can operate the shift lever device, and an operation force transmission mechanism. The shift lever device is provided with a detent mechanism for positioning and holding the shift lever at each shift position, and an operation force transmission mechanism is constituted by a push pull cable. | 10-29-2015 |
20150308563 | SPEED CHANGE APPARATUS OF VEHICLE - A speed change apparatus of a vehicle according to the present invention includes: a shift lever device; a gear transmission; and an operation force transmission mechanism for transmitting an operation force of the shift lever device to the gear transmission. The gear transmission includes: a shift mechanism operated by the operation force so as to switch the gear transmission between a plurality of shift positions; and a plurality of detent mechanisms for positioning and holding the shift mechanism at each shift position. | 10-29-2015 |
20150308561 | V-BELT TYPE CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION - Provided is a V-belt type continuously variable transmission constructed such as to accommodate in a transmission case a transmission mechanism including: a drive shaft connected to an engine flywheel and provided with a drive pulley; a driven shaft provided with a driven pulley; and a V-belt wound around between the drive pulley and the driven pulley, the V-belt type continuously variable transmission comprising: an air intake chamber for introducing cooling air to surroundings of the drive shaft; and a flywheel cover for covering at least a periphery of the flywheel located in the air intake chamber. | 10-29-2015 |
20150308560 | V-BELT TYPE CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION - Provided is a V-belt type continuously variable transmission provided with a transmission case attached to an engine and forming an outer shape, comprising: an air intake duct provided with an air intake port arranged on the engine side; and an air intake duct connection port arranged in a side wall on the engine side of the transmission case and connected to the air intake duct, wherein the air intake duct connection port is inclined relative to the side wall. | 10-29-2015 |
20150308559 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A transmission apparatus comprises a case, a gear transmission housed in the case, an intra-shaft oil passage formed in a rotating shaft, an oil supplying passage for supplying oil to the intra-shaft oil passage, a guide plate faced to one end surface of a gear with a predetermined distance in an axial direction of the gear which is dipped into the oil in the case: and an oil passage formed between the one end surface and the guide plate, and the oil passage is extended along to outer-periphery of the one end surface. | 10-29-2015 |
20150308309 | OIL LEVEL DETECTION MECHANISM - An oil level detection mechanism for detecting an oil level in the inside of a case | 10-29-2015 |
20150307148 | SIDE MIRROR FOR STRADDLE VEHICLE - A side mirror for a straddle vehicle includes: a mirror stay including a base end portion attached to a vehicle body of a motorcycle (straddle vehicle); and a mirror portion including a mirror and provided at a tip end portion of the mirror stay. The mirror stay includes a first stay portion and a second stay portion which branch from the base end portion to extend toward the tip end portion. | 10-29-2015 |
20150307114 | CURVED PLATE FOR RAILCAR BODYSHELL, FRONT CAR BODYSHELL, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CURVED PLATE FOR RAILCAR BODYSHELL - A curved plate for a railcar bodyshell includes: a plate main body including an outer surface facing an outside of a railcar and an inner surface facing an inside of the railcar and the plate main body having a curved shape; and reinforcing ribs projecting from the inner surface of the plate main body toward the inside of the railcar. At least two of the plurality of the reinforcing ribs include machining reference surfaces formed on a same plane as reference surfaces used when machining an outer surface of the plate main body. At least one of the plurality of the reinforcing rib includes a mounting reference surface perpendicular to one of a rail direction, a sleeper direction, and a vertical direction as a reference surface used when mounting the curved plate to the railcar. | 10-29-2015 |
20150300481 | TRANSMISSION - A vehicle-use transmission | 10-22-2015 |
20150300478 | GEAR STRUCTURE OF TRANSMISSION - A transmission is provided that includes: a counter low-gear that is provided with a low-gear body and a boss fit into the low-gear body so that driving force can be transmitted and provided with dog-claws and an expanded part at one axial end and that is axially non-movably and rotatably fit around a counter shaft; a counter high-gear that is provided with a high-gear body arranged in the one side from the low-gear body and with a cylinder including dog-claws at the one axial end thereof and that is axially non-movably and rotatably fit around the boss; and a shift sleeve that is axially movably spline-fit around the counter shaft and is arranged in the one side from the counter high-gear and that includes dog-claws capable of engaging with the dog-claws of the gears, the high-gear body is axially non-movably arranged between the low-gear body and the expanded part. | 10-22-2015 |
20150300453 | TRANSMISSION - A vehicle-use transmission includes: an input shaft into which a driving force from an engine is inputted; a power extraction shaft for transmitting the driving force of the input shaft to front wheels; a transmission mechanism for transmitting the driving force of the input shaft to rear wheels; and a rear-wheel intermediate shaft provided in a power transmission path between the power extraction shaft and the transmission mechanism. The rear-wheel intermediate shaft transmits the driving force through a helical gear attached to the rear-wheel intermediate shaft. Further, the rear-wheel intermediate shaft is supported by tapered roller bearings. | 10-22-2015 |
20150291185 | SIDE BODYSHELL OF RAILCAR - A side bodyshell of a railcar includes: an outside plate including a window opening; horizontal frames arranged below the window opening and joined to the outside plate; and a vertical frame crossing the horizontal frames in a manner to pass over a pier panel, which is lateral to the window opening. The vertical frame includes: a first flange joined to the outside plate at the pier panel; and a second flange spaced apart from the outside plate below the first flange such that a step is formed between the first flange and the second flange, the second flange being joined to the horizontal frames. | 10-15-2015 |
20150291056 | Electric Vehicle and Method of Carrying Out Battery for Electric Vehicle - An electric vehicle comprises a first battery pack including a first battery which stores electric power for activating a wheel, and a vehicle body frame to which the first battery pack is mounted, wherein a suspending unit space in which a suspending unit which suspends and lifts up the first battery pack accommodated in a first battery accommodating space is placed is formed to be opened upward, above the first battery accommodating space, a lift-up space through which the first battery pack is movable upward, is formed, above the first battery accommodating space inside a vehicle body, and a carry-out space through which the first battery pack is movable to a space which is outside the vehicle body, is formed between an upper region of the lift-up space inside the vehicle body and the space which is outside the vehicle body. | 10-15-2015 |
20150291046 | Straddle Electric Vehicle - A straddle electric vehicle comprises a charging connector to which an outside connector connected to an outside electric power supply is detachably attached; a battery which charges therein electric power supplied from the outside electric power supply with the outside connector attached to the charging connector, and discharges the electric power stored therein to supply the electric power to an electric motor; a battery case accommodating the battery; and a seat on which a passenger is seated, wherein the battery case is disposed between the seat and a front wheel, the charging connector is attached to an upper portion of the battery case, and a charging port of the charging connector is located forward relative to the seat so as to face rearward. | 10-15-2015 |
20150283896 | Electric Vehicle - An air supply mechanism of an electric vehicle includes: a first air flowing pipe; a second air flowing pipe; and an air blower configured to generate a flow of air such that the air flows through a first air inlet into a first air flowing pipe and is discharged through a first air outlet to electric component accommodating spaces, and the air in the electric component accommodating spaces flows through a second air inlet into a second air flowing pipe and is discharged through a second air outlet to a space outside a vehicle body. The first air inlet and the second air outlet are arranged higher than a first battery, a second battery, and an inverter serving as “electric components.” | 10-08-2015 |
20150275755 | MULTI-FUEL-CAPABLE GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR - A multi-fuel-capable gas turbine combustor is provided which is able to sufficiently utilize various fuels having a characteristic deviating from a premixing characteristic range suitable for generating a premixed gas, even while maintaining favorable low-emission performance by premixed combustion. The gas turbine combustor includes: a main burner configured to supply a premixed gas containing a first fuel for premixing, to a first combustion region within a combustion chamber to cause premixed combustion; and a supplemental burner configured to supply a second fuel for reheating having a different composition from that of the first fuel, to a second combustion region at a location downstream of the first combustion region within the combustion chamber, to cause diffusion combustion. The first fuel has a premixing characteristic range suitable for generating a premixed gas. The second fuel has a characteristic deviating from the premixing characteristic range. | 10-01-2015 |
20150274326 | ASSEMBLING METHOD OF MANDREL USED FOR MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE MATERIAL STRUCTURE AND ASSEMBLING APPARATUS OF MANDREL - A technique which can assemble a mandrel having a substantially cylindrical shape and being dividable into plurality of segments, which is used for manufacturing, for example, a fuselage of an aircraft, with high position accuracy and an easy manner. In a segment fastening step, a segment which is a fastened target is fastened to a specified fastening portion which is one of a plurality of fastening portions set along a pair of support rings placed to face each other. In a rotation step, before the segment fastening step, the support rings are rotated so that the specified fastening portion is located at an uppermost portion of the support rings. In the segment fastening step, the segment which is the fastened target is placed between the support rings and lifted vertically up to a height corresponding to the specified fastening portion and then fastened to the support rings. | 10-01-2015 |
20150274019 | Regenerative Brake Control System of Electric Vehicle - A regenerative brake control system of an electric motorcycle includes an electric motor, sensors which detect the vehicle states, and a control unit which sets a target torque based on the vehicle state when the control unit determines that a regeneration condition is satisfied based on the detected vehicle state, and the control unit suppresses a regenerative braking amount more when it is detected that the electric motorcycle is turning than when it is detected that the electric motorcycle is not turning. | 10-01-2015 |
20150266077 | STRETCH FORMING SYSTEM AND STRETCH FORMING METHOD - A stretch forming system has jaws clamping a workpiece at end edge portions, a die disposed between the jaws and coming into contact with the workpiece, and a plurality of control axes changing relative positions and orientations of the jaws with respect to the die, and has a jaw path calculating unit calculating paths of the relative positions and orientations of the jaws with respect to the die when the workpiece is wrapped onto the die by moving the die in a vertical direction under a restricting condition that the positions and orientations of the jaws are freely changeable except for movement in a vertical direction being regulated, and a control axis operation pattern calculating unit calculating operation patterns of the plurality of the control axes achieving the paths of the jaws. | 09-24-2015 |
20150246607 | Electric Vehicle - A liquid leakage countermeasure of a cooling medium channel is facilitated, and a need of high power of a pump for circulating a cooling medium is relaxed. An electric vehicle includes: a vehicle body including a dashboard which separates a front space covered with a hood and a boarding space provided with a seat on which a driver is seated; an electric component which is provided behind the dashboard and generates heat by electric energy for generating rotational power for vehicle traveling; and a heat exchanger provided behind the dashboard and configured to cool down a cooling medium circulating between the heat exchanger and the electric component. | 09-03-2015 |
20150229168 | SUPERCONDUCTING FIELD POLE - Superconducting field poles each include a superconducting coil body formed by spirally winding a superconducting wire material, a ferromagnetic outer magnetic field-deflecting member arranged on an end face of the superconducting coil body at a radially outer side of a rotor, and a ferromagnetic inner magnetic field-deflecting member arranged on an end face of the superconducting coil body at a radially inner side of the rotor. | 08-13-2015 |
20150226190 | VARIABLE DISPLACEMENT PUMP REGULATOR - A regulator includes a feedback lever configured to move a compensating sleeve in an axial direction of a compensating spool. The compensating spool and the compensating sleeve form: a self-pressure introduction chamber, into which a self-pressure of a pump is introduced; and a pressure adjuster configured to output a control pressure from the self-pressure introduction chamber to a large-diameter pressure receiver of a servo piston. The compensating sleeve includes a stepped portion, to which a pressure in a direction in which a control spring urges the compensating spool is applied when the self-pressure is introduced into the self-pressure introduction chamber. | 08-13-2015 |
20150226119 | SUNLIGHT-UTILIZING GAS TURBINE POWER GENERATION SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH HYDROGEN-GENERATING UNIT - A power generation system having a gas turbine engine that utilizes sunlight, includes a compressor configured to compress an air which is a working medium, a solar heater configured to heat the air compressed by the compressor, utilizing sunlight as a heat source, a hydrogen combustor configured to burn the air compressed by the compressor utilizing hydrogen as a fuel, a turbine configured to output a motive power from a high-temperature gas heated by at least one of the solar heater and the hydrogen combustor, a power generator configured to be driven by the turbine, and at least one hydrogen-generating unit configured to generate hydrogen by utilizing an output of the turbine or exhaust heat from the turbine to decompose a water, and supply the hydrogen so generated to the hydrogen combustor. | 08-13-2015 |
20150224679 | DISASSEMBLING METHOD OF MANDREL USED FOR MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE MATERIAL STRUCTURE AND DISASSEMBLING APPARATUS OF MANDREL - The present invention provides a technique which can disassemble a mandrel having a substantially cylindrical shape and being dividable into a plurality of segments, easily and efficiently. The disassembling method comprises, in the mandrel adhesively attached with a composite material structure on an outer peripheral surface thereof, a rotation step of rotating the pair of support rings along with the mandrel to position a segment which is a detached target to an uppermost portion; and a segment detaching step of detaching the segment which is the detached target positioned at the uppermost portion, from the pair of support rings; wherein in the segment detaching step, the segment which is the detached target is moved in a vertically downward direction to a position inside of the mandrel, between the pair of support rings, and is carried out from between the pair of support rings. | 08-13-2015 |
20150219215 | PISTON OF AXIAL PISTON PUMP MOTOR, CYLINDER BLOCK OF AXIAL PISTON PUMP MOTOR, AND AXIAL PISTON PUMP MOTOR - An end part of a piston on a front edge side is formed so as to have a crowning of a 1.2-order to 2.5-order curve where a length is 10% or more and 80% or less of a length of a cylindrical part and a height is 10% or more and 160% or less of a clearance. An end part of a cylinder block on a front edge side is formed so as to have a crowning of a 1.2-order to 2.5-order curve where a length is 8% or more and 60% or less of the length of a cylindrical part and a height is 12% or more and 125% or less of the clearance. | 08-06-2015 |
20150209991 | SPINNING FORMING METHOD AND SPINNING FORMING APPARATUS - A spinning forming method includes a first forming step and a second forming step, in each of which a plate fixed to a main shaft is formed while being rotated. In the first forming step, a processing tool is brought into contact with a first main surface of the plate to form a first level-changing portion extending from the first main surface toward a second main surface. In the second forming step, the processing tool is brought into contact with the second main surface at an outer peripheral side of the first level-changing portion to form a second level-changing portion extending in an opposite direction to the first level-changing portion. | 07-30-2015 |
20150204216 | WASTE HEAT RECOVERY POWER GENERATION PLANT FOR SINTERING FACILITY - To provide a waste heat recovery power generation plant for sintering facility capable of efficiently recovering a waste heat of a sintering machine in addition to that of a sintered-ore cooler, while restraining that sulfuric anhydride contained in an exhaust gas of the sintering machine forms drops. An SM boiler is configured to heat all of or a part of hot water generated by an SC boiler, by introducing a high temperature part of an exhaust gas of a sintering machine. At this time, a temperature of the hot water to be supplied to the SM boiler is controlled such that a temperature of an exhaust gas at an exhaust-gas temperature of the SM boiler is maintained at a temperature higher than an acid dew point. | 07-23-2015 |
20150203129 | RAILCAR - A railcar according to the present invention includes: an underframe including an end beam at its railcar-longitudinal-direction end portion; side bodyshells; a roof bodyshell; side outside plates respectively arranged at both railcar-width-direction end portions of the railcar and constituting the side bodyshells; corner posts extending from the end beam toward the roof bodyshell; and intermediate coupling members each configured to couple the side outside plate and the corner post, the stiffness of the intermediate coupling member in a railcar longitudinal direction being lower than the stiffness of the intermediate coupling member in a vertical direction. | 07-23-2015 |
20150183054 | WELDING TOOL FOR USE IN DOUBLE-ACTING FRICTION STIR WELDING OR DOUBLE-ACTING FRICTION STIR SPOT WELDING AND WELDING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A double-acting friction stir welding tool according to the present invention at least includes: a columnar pin member; and a shoulder member positioned outside the pin member and having a cylindrical shape, the shoulder member being configured to rotate around an axis, which is the same as an axis of rotation of the pin member. A contact surface and an outer peripheral surface of the pin member, the contact surface coming into contact with a workpiece, have non-affinity for the workpiece. The shoulder member is configured such that an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface, the inner peripheral surface facing the pin member, have non-affinity for the workpiece, and only a contact surface coming into contact with the workpiece has an affinity for the workpiece. A clearance between the pin member and the shoulder member may be suitably set. | 07-02-2015 |
20150175113 | UTILITY VEHICLE - A utility vehicle is equipped with a R.O.P.S. enclosing a passenger space, a cargo bed disposed behind the passenger space, and a screen disposed between the passenger space and the cargo bed. The screen is divided into an upper screen and a lower screen. | 06-25-2015 |
20150175047 | UTILITY VEHICLE - A utility vehicle is equipped with a chassis, one or more rows of seats disposed on the chassis, and a cargo bed disposed behind the one or more rows of seats. The cargo bed is rotatably supported by a pivot shaft of the chassis so as to be movable up and down between a normal position in which the cargo bed is in a non-raised state and a dump position in which the cargo bed is in a raised state. Concave portions for cargo bed raising use that are used to raise the cargo bed by hand are integrally formed respectively in the left and right side walls of the cargo bed. | 06-25-2015 |
20150132194 | SYSTEM FOR LOW-CONCENTRATION-METHANE GAS OXIDATION EQUIPPED WITH MULTIPLE OXIDIZERS - A low-concentration methane gas oxidation system includes: a single heat source device; and an oxidation device to oxidize low-concentration methane gas by using heat from the heat source device. The oxidation device includes a plurality of individual oxidation units including respective catalyst oxidizers. The individual oxidation units include: a first individual oxidation unit including a first catalyst oxidizer using heat of heat source gas from the heat source device, and a first heat exchanger to preheat low-concentration methane gas that flows into an additional catalyst oxidizer provided in a branching supply passage on downstream side, by using, as a heating medium, oxidized gas from the first catalyst oxidizer; and at least one additional individual oxidation unit including an additional catalyst oxidizer to oxidize low-concentration methane gas preheated by the first catalyst oxidizer or the additional catalyst oxidizer provided in a branching supply passage on upstream side. | 05-14-2015 |
20150122573 | UTILITY VEHICLE - A utility vehicle according to the present invention has a body frame, a source of power arranged in the body frame, and an under cover for covering a lower surface of the body frame. Both ends of the under cover in the vehicle width direction or the vehicle front and rear direction are fixed to lower surfaces of a plurality of bottom frame members forming a bottom part of the body frame, and a region of the under cover facing the source of power from the lower side is raised upward. A vertically sectional shape of the raised and designated region is formed in for example an arch shape. | 05-07-2015 |
20150121891 | OXIDATION SYSTEM FOR TREATMENT OF LOW-CONCENTRATION METHANE GAS PROVIDED WITH MULTIPLE OXIDIZERS - A low-concentration methane gas oxidation system includes a single heat source device, and an oxidation device which catalytically oxides a low-concentration methane gas by using heat from the single heat source device. The oxidation device includes a plurality of oxidation lines each including each of a plurality of branching low-concentration gas supply passages which branch, in parallel, from a supply passage which supplies the low-concentration methane gas, and each of a plurality of catalyst oxidizers provided on each of the plurality of branching low-concentration gas supply passages. | 05-07-2015 |
20150118036 | FAN CASE FOR AIRCRAFT ENGINE - An annular fan case which covers an outer periphery of a fan in an aircraft engine includes: a case body including a first composite material containing a fiber and a resin; and a containment section including a second composite material containing a fiber and a resin, the containment section being formed on an outer periphery of the case body. A resin content of the containment section is set to be lower than the resin content of the case body. | 04-30-2015 |
20150114750 | EXHAUST MUFFLER FOR VEHICLE - An exhaust muffler for a vehicle includes a muffler body coupled to an exhaust pipe and a tailpipe coupled to the muffler body. The muffler body has a plurality of expansion chambers, an exit communication pipe that discharges exhaust to the tailpipe from one of the plurality of expansion chambers positioned in a most downstream part of an exhaust flow path, and a spark arrester arranged in the exit communication pipe. An exhaust flow path narrowing portion is provided at an entrance portion of the exit communication pipe. | 04-30-2015 |
20150114252 | CARBODY SUPPORT DEVICE AND RAILWAY VEHICLE - A carbody support device of a railway vehicle, including support mechanisms installed between a front bogie and a carbody and between a rear bogie and the carbody in a traveling direction, and supporting the carbody against the respective bogies. The support mechanisms regulate both the front bogie and the rear bogie inclining in the same vehicle width direction with respect to the carbody when the railway vehicle travels through a curve, while the support mechanisms permit the front bogie and the rear bogie inclining in different vehicle width directions. | 04-30-2015 |
20150107400 | PARKING BRAKE APPARATUS - A parking brake apparatus includes a base plate, a brake lever supported by the base plate, a pair of left and right brake actuating units, and left and right brake cables connecting between the brake lever and the left and right brake actuating units, respectively. The base plate has an elongated hole extended from a corresponding position to a cable connecting portion of the brake lever toward the outer cable holding portion, left and right inner cables of the pair of left and right brake cables are connected to a common inner cable by an equalizer, and the common inner cable is extended inside the elongated hole from the cable connecting portion toward the outer cable holding portion. | 04-23-2015 |
20150096460 | RAILCAR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An end bodyshell of a railcar bodyshell includes: a pair of end posts provided at a width direction middle portion of the end bodyshell; corner posts respectively provided at both width direction end portions of the end bodyshell; an end plate to which upper portions of the end posts and upper portions of the corner posts are coupled; and an end-side end beam to which lower portions of the end posts and lower portions of the corner posts are coupled. The end-side end beam includes: a middle member connecting the end posts in the width direction; and two side members each connecting the end post and the corner post in the width direction. | 04-09-2015 |
20150094884 | REGENERATIVE BRAKING EMERGENCY STOP SYSTEM - In a regenerative braking emergency stop system, a substation includes: a rectifier transformer configured to transform AC power received from outside; a rectifier configured to convert the transformed AC power into DC power; and a switch disposed on an electrical path between the rectifier and a power-feed rail and configured to be in a closed state or an opened state; a simulated ripple transmitter configured to transmit a simulated ripple, the simulated ripple being an AC signal having a predetermined frequency; a superimposing circuit connected to the power-feed rail in parallel with the rectifier and configured to superimpose the simulated ripple transmitted from the simulated ripple transmitter on DC power outputted from the rectifier; and a relay device configured to allow the simulated ripple transmitter to transmit the simulated ripple when the rectifier is receiving power from outside and the switch is in a closed state. | 04-02-2015 |
20150082797 | FUEL INJECTION DEVICE - A fuel injection device for supplying a fuel to a compressed air includes: a pilot fuel injector; a main fuel injector located at an outer periphery of the pilot fuel injector; and an air injection unit located between an outlet end portion of the pilot fuel injector and the main fuel injector. The air injection unit includes: a partition wall plate separating the air injection unit from a combustion chamber; a flame stabilization plate provided at a downstream side of the partition wall plate; a first opening at a downstream side between the flame stabilization plate and the outlet end portion of the pilot fuel injector; and a second opening provided in the partition wall plate and through which the compressed air is supplied. The flame stabilization plate includes an inclined portion inclined in a radially outward and downstream direction with respect to an axis. | 03-26-2015 |
20150075133 | GAS TURBINE ENGINE SYSTEM THAT USES ORGANIC MEDIUM - A gas turbine engine system is provided which achieves high efficiency while using sunlight as a heat source. In a gas turbine engine system including: a compressor configured to compress a first working medium; a heater configured to heat the compressed first working medium by an external heat source; a turbine configured to output power from the first working medium; and an intermediate cooler provided at the compressor and configured to cool the first working medium compressed by a low-pressure compression part of the compressor and supply the first working medium to a high-pressure compression part of the compressor, an organic Rankine cycle engine using, as a second working medium, an organic substance which is a cooling medium of the intermediate cooler is provided. | 03-19-2015 |
20150068246 | LIQUID HYDROGEN PRODUCTION DEVICE - A device (HS) is provided with a refrigeration cycle unit (R) and a liquid hydrogen generation unit (P) for generating liquid hydrogen by cooling high-pressure raw material hydrogen by means of the refrigeration cycle unit (R) and by adiabatically expanding said raw material hydrogen by means of a Joule-Thomson valve ( | 03-12-2015 |
20150068222 | METHOD FOR RE-LIQUEFYING BOIL-OFF GAS GENERATED AT LIQUID HYDROGEN STORAGE TANK - The boil-off gas discharged from a liquid hydrogen storage tank on a liquid hydrogen transport vessel ( | 03-12-2015 |
20150060207 | LUBRICATING APPARATUS FOR ROTATING SHAFT - A lubricating apparatus includes a rotating shaft disposed horizontally; a supporting wall supporting the rotating shaft with a bearing; an oil chamber surrounded by the supporting wall and the rotating shaft; an oil passage which extends within the rotating shaft and is communicated with lubricating portions; an oil intake portion for taking and supplying the oil to the oil chamber; and a plurality of guide ribs formed in the supporting wall, wherein the guide ribs are adapted to form at least two oil flow paths from a radially-outer portion of the oil chamber toward a center portion of the chamber. | 03-05-2015 |
20150059341 | GAS TURBINE ENGINE SYSTEM EQUIPPED WITH RANKINE CYCLE ENGINE - A combined-type gas turbine engine system is provided which achieves high efficiency by very effectively using exhaust heat from a gas turbine engine. In a gas turbine engine system including: a compressor for compressing a first working medium; a heater for heating the compressed first working medium by an external heat source; a turbine for outputting power from the first working medium; an intermediate cooler provided at the compressor for cooling the first working medium compressed by a low-pressure compression part of the compressor and supplying the first working medium to a high-pressure compression part of the compressor; and an exhaust heat boiler using as a heating medium an exhaust gas from the turbine, a Rankine cycle engine using the intermediate cooler and the exhaust heat boiler as heat sources and a cooling medium of the intermediate cooler as a second working medium. | 03-05-2015 |
20150057858 | Electric Vehicle - An electric vehicle such as an electric motorcycle includes a driving motor which activates a wheel via a driving power transmission mechanism (e.g., transmission, a mechanical oil pump which is mechanically activated by the driving motor to feed oil to the driving power transmission mechanism, and an electric oil pump which feeds the oil to the driving power transmission mechanism. A controller causes the electric oil pump to initiate its operation before the driving motor in a deactivated state initiates its operation under a specified condition, thus preventing a situation in which there is no lubrication oil in the driving power transmission mechanism during starting. | 02-26-2015 |
20150053825 | HIGH-LIFT DEVICE OF AIR VEHICLE - A high-lift device includes a flap body which is provided at a rear portion of a main wing which generates a lift for the air vehicle such that the flap body is deployed with respect to the main wing and stowed in the main wing and extends along a wingspan direction of the main wing; and a gap increasing section provided at an end portion of the flap body in an extending direction of the flap body, to increase a gap between the rear portion of the main wing and a front portion of the flap body in a state in which the flap body is deployed. | 02-26-2015 |
20150053166 | COVER STRUCTURE OF PLUG HOLE - A cover structure of a plug hole provided to a cylinder head cover of an engine includes: a plug cap detachably attached to the plug hole; an outer cover covering at least an upper side of the plug cap; and a seal member provided on an upper face of the cylinder head cover and surrounding a periphery of the plug hole. In the cover structure, the outer cover has a projection portion projected toward the cylinder head cover, and the seal member is pressed to the upper face of the cylinder head cover by the projection portion. | 02-26-2015 |
20150042160 | Electric Vehicle and Operation Method of Control Device in Electric Vehicle - An electric vehicle comprises a cylinder lock including an operation key which is movable by a user's operation between a driving position and a charging position provided at a position different from the driving position and an output unit for outputting information indicative of a position of the operation key; and a main controller permits driving control and inhibits charging control when the operation key is moved to the driving position; and the main controller permits the charging control and inhibits the driving control when the operation key is moved to the charging position. | 02-12-2015 |
20150037163 | BLADES FOR AXIAL FLOW COMPRESSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An axial flow compressor blade unit including a platform section and an airfoil section, which are used as arranged on a circumference about an axis of the compressor. The platform section includes an inner diametric surface segment inwardly of the circumference, an outer diametric surface segment outwardly of the circumference, two annular side surface segments extending in a circumferential direction, two axially side surface segments extending in the axial direction, and a coupling portion formed in each of the annular side surface segments so as to extend in the circumferential direction and being of a shape projecting or recessed in the axial direction. The airfoil section is formed to erect from the platform section so as to extend in a radial direction. The platform section and the airfoil section are formed integrally with each other while having a powdered metal sintered structure. | 02-05-2015 |
20150021985 | Electric Vehicle and Operation Method of Control Device in Electric Vehicle - An electric vehicle comprises an electric motor for generating driving power for moving a vehicle body of the electric vehicle; a battery unit for supplying electric power to the electric motor; a charging connector connected to an outside electric power supply for supplying the electric power to be charged; a main controller for controlling switching between a first connection state in which the battery unit is connected to the electric motor and a second connection state in which the battery unit is connected to the charging connector; and a relay for opening and closing a power supply path from the low-voltage battery to the main controller; wherein a relay opens the power supply path to cut off electric power supply to the main controller for a specified time, when the relay switches one of the first connection state and the second connection state to the other connection state. | 01-22-2015 |
20150018219 | FIELD ROTOR OF SUPERCONDUCTING ROTARY MACHINE - A field rotor of a superconducting rotary machine, includes a rotary shaft, a plurality of coil boxes, and a plurality of superconducting coils; wherein the coil boxes extend in a center axis direction of the rotary shaft, have walls defining spaces within the coil boxes, respectively, and are removably fastened to a peripheral surface of the rotary shaft; wherein the superconducting coils are disposed in the spaces of the coil boxes, respectively, and constitute field windings of the superconducting rotary machine. | 01-15-2015 |
20150008061 | Straddle Electric Vehicle - A straddle electric vehicle includes a battery case which accommodates a battery as an electric power supply for an electric motor, and is placed between a front wheel and a rear wheel; and a swing arm pivotably coupled at its front end portion to a vehicle body frame such that the swing arm supports the rear wheel by its rear end portion; wherein the electric motor is placed rearward relative to the battery case and forward relative to the rear wheel. | 01-08-2015 |
20150008053 | Straddle Electric Vehicle - A straddle electric vehicle comprises a battery case accommodating a battery which is an electric power supply for an electric motor; and an air box attached to an upper portion of the battery case, and the air box includes a ram air inlet through which ram air flows into the air box, and a ram air supply port through which the air is supplied from inside the air box to the battery case. | 01-08-2015 |
20150007745 | RAILCAR DOOR APPARATUS AND RAILCAR - A railcar door apparatus includes: a side sliding door that opens and closes an opening of a side bodyshell of a railcar; a first elastic member attached vertically to an end of the door; and a second elastic member opposed to the first so they do not touch when the door is closed. The first elastic member includes a first base portion and a first projecting wall portion projecting from the base toward the second elastic member; the second elastic member includes a second base portion and a second projecting wall portion projecting from the base toward the first elastic member; when the door is closed, a gap space is formed between the first and second elastic members, and the projecting wall portions overlap; and vertical grooves or projections are formed on the outside of at least one of the projecting wall portions, the outer surface facing the gap space. | 01-08-2015 |
20140379209 | Method and System for Diagnosing Electric Vehicle - A method of diagnosing an electric vehicle incorporating an electric component, comprises detecting a physical load applied to a vehicle body, which is other than an electric characteristic of the electric component; and changing a diagnostic operation for the electric component based on the electric characteristic of the electric component such that the diagnostic operation is performed based on the detected physical load applied to the vehicle body. | 12-25-2014 |
20140370796 | AIR-CONDITIONING DUCT IN PASSENGER CAR AND RAILCAR - An air-conditioning duct in a passenger car of transportation which is extended in a vehicle length direction in a ceiling portion of the passenger car utilized by the general public and receives conditioned air from an air-conditioning apparatus regulating a temperature of the air to guide the conditioned air into an inside of the passenger car. The air-conditioning duct in a passenger car has a non-uniform distribution configuration which makes the discharge volume of the conditioned air from the air-conditioning duct into the inside of the passenger car different and non-uniform among the respective regions of the inside of the passenger car. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368211 | Ground Leakage Detector, and Method of Detecting Ground Leakage in Electric Vehicle - A ground leakage detector for detecting a ground leakage in an electric vehicle including a battery, and a charging connector which is electrically connectable to a terminal member formed at one end of an outside electric wire through which electric power is supplied from outside to the battery, includes a connector connection section electrically connectable to the charging connector; a contactor configured to contact a vehicle body ground location in the electric vehicle; and a detecting circuit for detecting whether or not there is a ground leakage from the battery to the vehicle body ground location, based on a current flowing between the connector connection section and the contactor. | 12-18-2014 |
20140367184 | Electric Motorcycle - An electric motorcycle comprises a motor case which is provided at a rear portion of a vehicle body frame; a swing arm which is pivotably coupled at its front end portion to the rear portion of the vehicle body frame; and a rear suspension coupled to the vehicle body frame and the swing arm. The lower end portion of the rear suspension is located below the swing arm, and the rear suspension extends vertically in a location close to a pivot around which the swing arm is pivotable. | 12-18-2014 |
20140367183 | Straddle Electric Vehicle - A straddle electric vehicle which rotates a drive wheel by driving power generated in an electric motor, comprises a battery unit which is an electric power supply for the electric motor; a vehicle body frame including a support frame for supporting the battery unit; and a battery case storing the battery unit; the battery case includes a support member which is placed below the battery unit and is vertically directly or indirectly in contact with the battery unit; and wherein the support frame supports the battery case and the battery unit in such a manner that the support frame is placed below the battery case to be vertically directly or indirectly in contact with the battery case. | 12-18-2014 |
20140352817 | FUEL TANK VALVE - The present invention includes: a valve main body including a filling port through which a fuel gas is filled in a tank and an output port through which the fuel gas in the tank is output; and a jet flow deflection piece through which the fuel gas to be filled through the filling port is ejected at a predetermined angle relative to an axial direction of the tank. The jet flow deflection piece includes: a fuel ejecting portion including an ejection port through which the fuel gas is ejected into the tank; and a temperature measuring portion in which a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the fuel gas to be filled in the tank is provided. Thus, the temperature of the fuel gas when filling the fuel tank with the fuel gas can be precisely measure and monitored. | 12-04-2014 |
20140345827 | Straddle Electric Vehicle - A straddle electric vehicle comprises a battery case accommodating a Battery which is an electric power supply for an electric motor; an inverter which converts DC power stored in the battery into AC power and supplies the AC power to the electric motor; an air passage through which ram air is guided to an interior of a battery case and discharges air from the battery case; and a radiator for cooling a coolant used to cool the inverter using water or oil, wherein the radiator is placed forward relative to an air inlet of the air passage or within the air passage. | 11-27-2014 |
20140339740 | MECHANISM FOR AND METHOD OF CORRECTING YAWING OF CONVEYED WORKPIECE - A holding device to hold a side portion of a conveyed workpiece; a running device to convey the holding device in a feeding direction along a rail; and a support mechanism to support the holding device at front portion and rear portions of the mechanism. Eccentric shafts are with the holding device at respective positions, at one position, one of front and rear portions is eccentric in the feeding direction by a predetermined amount relative to one drive shaft's axis included in the running device. At the other position, one of front and rear portions is eccentric crossing the workpiece feeding direction by a predetermined amount relative to one drive shaft's axis in the running device. The yawing occurring while the workpiece is conveyed, is corrected by rotating the axes of eccentric shafts axes such the holding device moves relative to the running device's position. | 11-20-2014 |
20140339008 | Straddle Electric Vehicle - A straddle electric vehicle includes a battery unit which is an electric power supply for an electric motor; a vehicle body frame including a main frame unitarily joined to a head pipe; and a sub-frame extending rearward from an upper portion of the main frame. The main frame includes a down frame member extending downward from the head pipe and a lower frame member extending rearward from a lower end of the down frame member, and the sub-frame is detachably joined to the vehicle body frame. A bottom portion of the battery unit is supported on the lower frame member of the main frame, and a side portion of the battery unit is covered with the sub-frame. | 11-20-2014 |
20140338312 | Device and Method for Estimating Ideal Air-Fuel Ratio in Internal Combustion Engine, Method of Estimating Oxygen Storage Capacity of Catalyst, Internal Combustion Engine Device and Motorcycle Incorporating Internal Combustion Engine Device - A method of estimating an ideal air-fuel ratio in an internal combustion engine, comprises receiving an output of an upstream air-fuel ratio sensor and an output of a downstream air-fuel ratio sensor, the upstream air-fuel ratio sensor being attached to an exhaust gas passage such that it is positioned upstream of a catalyst provided in the exhaust gas passage to purify an exhaust gas, the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor being attached to the exhaust gas passage such that it is positioned downstream of the catalyst; detecting a state in which the catalyst does not store or release oxygen based on the output of the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor; and deciding as an estimated ideal air-fuel ratio in the internal combustion engine an air-fuel ratio detected by the upstream air-fuel ratio sensor when the state in which the catalyst does not store or release oxygen is detected. | 11-20-2014 |
20140336858 | Electric Vehicle - An electric vehicle comprises an electric motor; a manual transmission which selects one driving power transmission path and shifts a present driving power transmission path to the selected driving transmission path, in response to a rider changing a speed of the electric motor; a shifting state detecting device for detecting whether the manual transmission is in a driving power transmission state or in a driving power cut-off state; and a motor controller for executing a first control routine to control the electric motor; wherein in the first routine, torque control of the electric motor is performed when the manual transmission is detected to be in the driving power transmission state, and mitigation control of the electric motor is performed to mitigate an impact caused by shifting, when the manual transmission is detected to be in the driving power cut-off state, the mitigation control being different from the torque control. | 11-13-2014 |
20140331640 | LEAN FUEL INTAKE GAS TURBINE ENGINE - A lean fuel intake gas turbine engine includes a compressor to compress a working gas at a concentration equal to or lower than the flammable limit concentration to thereby generate a compressed gas, a catalytic combustor to burn the compressed gas through a catalytic reaction, a turbine driven by a combustion gas from the catalytic combustor, a heat exchanger to heat, by means of an exhaust gas from the turbine, the compressed gas that is introduced from the compressor into the catalytic combustor, a heat exchanger bypass valve to communicate between inlet and outlet sides of the heat exchanger, a first catalyst outlet temperature control unit to open the heat exchanger bypass valve in the event that the outlet temperature of the catalytic combustor attains a value equal to or higher than an outlet prescribed value. | 11-13-2014 |
20140308175 | CATALYTIC COMBUSTOR IN GAS TURBINE ENGINE - A catalytic combustor ( | 10-16-2014 |
20140308174 | CATALYTIC COMBUSTOR IN GAS TURBINE ENGINE - A catalytic combustor ( | 10-16-2014 |
20140305126 | FLOW VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION EQUALIZING APPARATUS - An apparatus for equalizing flow velocity distribution of a fuel gas supplied into a catalytic combustor includes a rectification vane and a rectification plate in an inlet chamber of the catalyst combustor. The inlet chamber has a round transverse sectional shape and includes an inflow port that allows the fuel gas to inflow radially, and an outflow port for discarding the fuel gas axially. The rectification vane has a front edge oriented towards the inflow port, and a rectifying surface ramified from the front edge so as to extend towards a cylindrical inner wall surface of the inlet chamber such that swirling flow of the fuel gas flown into the inlet chamber, that flows towards the inflow port along the cylindrical inner wall surface, is generated. The rectification plate is located at the outflow port and has openings for allowing the fuel gas to flow therethrough. | 10-16-2014 |
20140299393 | Straddle Electric Vehicle - A straddle electric vehicle which rotates a drive wheel by driving power generated in an electric motor, comprises a battery unit which is an electric power supply; and a battery case for storing the battery unit; wherein the battery case includes a pair of first case member and second case member which are joined together such that the first case member and the second case member are horizontally separable from each other, and a parting line of the first case member and the second case member extends above a bottom wall of the battery case; and wherein the first case member and the second case member include a first flange section and a second flange section, respectively, which define the parting line, and are separably joined to each other in a state in which the first flange section and the second flange section are engaged with each other. | 10-09-2014 |
20140298821 | GAS TURBINE ENGINE PROVIDED WITH HEAT EXCHANGER, AND METHOD FOR STARTING SAME - A method of starting a gas turbine engine includes a primary warming step of warming a heat exchanger ( | 10-09-2014 |
20140298820 | GAS TURBINE ENGINE AND METHOD FOR STARTING SAME - A starting method for a gas turbine engine includes a primary warming step of warming up the gas turbine engine while a constant primary warm-up rotation speed is maintained by an inverter motor and a secondary warming step of warming up the gas turbine engine while a constant secondary warm-up rotation speed is maintained by further increasing the speed of the inverter motor. The primary warming step terminates when an electric power required by the inverter motor attains a predetermined preset electric power value. The preset electric power value is so chosen as to decrease as the intake air temperature is low. | 10-09-2014 |
20140298818 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR LEAN FUEL INTAKE GAS TURBINE - A method and a device for controlling a lean fuel intake gas turbine engine, which can stably maintain operation of the gas turbine engine by preventing misfire and burnout of a catalytic combustor even when a catalyst in the combustor is deteriorated. A difference between measured temperatures of an inlet and an outlet of the combustor with respect to a methane concentration in an intake gas that is to be taken into the lean fuel intake gas turbine engine is compared with reference temperature difference data that is data indicating difference between temperatures of the inlet and the outlet of the combustor including a catalyst in its initial state to be a reference, and at least one of the inlet temperature and the outlet temperature of the combustor is controlled based on a difference between the measured temperature difference and the reference temperature difference data. | 10-09-2014 |
20140298809 | POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - To provide a power generation system that recovers heat from low-temperature exhaust gas of not more than 150° C. and utilizes the heat to increase an amount of generated electric power of a steam turbine, whereby efficiency in thermal use can be improved. A power generation system includes heat exchangers and configured to exchange heat of a heat medium and heat of water, and a vacuum flasher configured to supply steam to a vacuum stage of a steam turbine, wherein heat media are supplied to the heat exchangers and so as to generate a water fluid having a temperature exceeding a water boiling point under vacuum of a vacuum stage, the water fluid is supplied to the vacuum flasher to generate steam under vacuum of the vacuum stage, and the steam is introduced into the vacuum stage of the steam turbine, whereby an amount of generated electric power is increased. | 10-09-2014 |
20140297086 | Electric Vehicle - An electric vehicle comprises a motor controller for controlling an electric motor to execute a control routine to perform torque control when the driving power transmission path is detected to be in the driving power transmission state, and executes a control routine to perform rotational speed control, when the driving power transmission path is detected to be in the driving power cut-off state; wherein in the rotational speed control, an angular velocity of an upstream rotary member gets close to an angular velocity of a downstream rotary member; wherein when shifting from the driving power cut-off state to the driving power transmission state, the motor controller switches the rotational speed control to the torque control after performing predetermined transit control; and wherein a change rate of the torque output is made less in the transit control than in the torque control. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292235 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND DRIVING METHOD OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE - An electric vehicle comprises an electric motor for driving a wheel; a main battery for activating the electric motor; a case to which a sub-battery for activating the electric motor is detachably mounted; a connection terminal to which a terminal of the sub-battery is connected; a mounting detecting sensor for detecting that the connection terminal is connected to the terminal of the sub-battery; and a controller which detects the SOCs of the batteries and is configured such that electric power is supplied preferentially from the mounted sub-battery to the electric motor, when the SOC of the sub-battery is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and electric power is supplied from the main battery to the electric motor, when the SOC of the sub-battery is less than the predetermined value. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292075 | Straddle Electric Vehicle - A straddle electric vehicle comprises an electric motor which is a driving power source for activating the vehicle; a high-voltage battery for storing electric power supplied to the electric motor; a low-voltage battery for storing the electric power supplied to an auxiliary machine mounted in the vehicle; a converter for converting a voltage of the electric power supplied from the high-voltage battery to the low-voltage battery into a voltage to be charged into the low-voltage battery; and a case having an insulativity, for storing the high-voltage battery; wherein the low-voltage battery is placed outside the case, and the converter is stored in the case. | 10-02-2014 |
20140291993 | METHOD FOR OPERATING LEAN FUEL INTAKE GAS TURBINE ENGINE, AND GAS TURBINE POWER GENERATION DEVICE - A method for stably operating a lean fuel intake gas turbine engine by controlling the rotation speed of the lean fuel intake gas turbine engine for which it is difficult to control the rotation speed by controlling a fuel flow rate, is provided. In a method for operating a lean fuel intake gas turbine engine (GT) configured to use, as a fuel, a combustible component contained in a low-concentration methane gas to drive a power generator, a power converter ( | 10-02-2014 |
20140291122 | CONVEYANCE SYSTEM - A conveyance system includes a storage case, a lifting/lowering apparatus, a handover apparatus, and a conveying apparatus. The lifting/lowering apparatus lifts and lowers the storage case to position each substrate stored in the storage case to a receiving position sequentially. The handover apparatus receives the substrate at the receiving position, and hand over the substrate to the conveying apparatus at a handover position. The conveying apparatus includes a pair of belts. The pair of belts is provided such that the belts are spaced apart from each other in a left-right direction. A plurality of profiles associated with each other are provided on the pair of belts, respectively. The profiles associated with each other are configured to move together in a conveying direction, support outer edges of the substrate handed over at the handover position, and position the substrate to a prescribed position. | 10-02-2014 |
20140290252 | GAS TURBINE ENGINE PROVIDED WITH SCROLL - A gas turbine engine having high reliability is provided by suppressing occurrence of thermal stress between a scroll and a support member thereof. A gas turbine engine equipped with a combustor of a single-can type includes a scroll to guide a combustion gas fed from a combustor to a turbine while swirling the combustion gas about a rotation axis, a flange member to support the scroll with respect to the gas turbine engine from an inner peripheral side of the scroll, and a coupling member of an annular shape to couple the scroll and the flange member with each other. The scroll and the flange member are connected to the coupling member such that the scroll and the flange member are not in direct contact with each other. | 10-02-2014 |
20140283498 | GAS TURBINE SYSTEM - The gas turbine system (GT) includes a combustor ( | 09-25-2014 |
20140274515 | STRUCTURE FOR COUPLING V-BELT TYPE CONTINOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION WITH ENGINE - In a structure for coupling a V-belt type continuously variable transmission with an engine of a vehicle, the engine includes a first opening through which a crankshaft passes. A coupling plate mounted on a plate mounting surface that surrounds the first opening includes a second opening through which the crankshaft and an upper end flange of the oil pan pass. First and second seal plates are disposed on front and back surfaces of the coupling plate, and the first and second seal plates seal a space into which the upper end flange is inserted. A liquid seal agent seals gaps of various locations of the second opening. | 09-18-2014 |
20140262569 | Straddle Electric Vehicle - A straddle electric vehicle comprises a seat on which a rider is seated in a straddle state; right and left foot steps on which the rider puts feet, an electric motor for generating driving power for moving the straddle electric vehicle; a battery unit which is an electric power supply for activating the electric motor; and a battery case for storing the battery unit. The battery case is placed between the steering shaft and the seat in a forward or rearward direction and includes a seat vicinity portion which faces the seat in the forward or rearward direction. The seat vicinity portion is smaller in dimension in a rightward or leftward direction than a portion of the battery case which is other than the seat vicinity portion. | 09-18-2014 |
20140262568 | Straddle Electric Vehicle - A straddle electric vehicle comprises a battery case for storing a battery unit; an inverter for converting DC power stored in the battery unit into AC power; a plurality of electric components connected to the battery unit and the inverter; and an electric motor for generating driving power for rotating a drive wheel, by the AC power generated by conversion in the inverter; wherein the plurality of electric components are stored in the battery case such that the electric components are placed above the battery unit. | 09-18-2014 |
20140261275 | AIR INTAKE APPARATUS FOR FOUR WHEELED UTILITY VEHICLE - An air intake apparatus for a utility vehicle having a front seat, a rear seat, a cargo bed, an engine arranged below the rear seat and/or the cargo bed, and a V-belt type continuously variable transmission arranged sideward of the engine, the apparatus including an air cleaner connected to an air intake portion of the engine via a intake manifold, a cooling duct connected to an air intake portion for cooling the V-belt type continuously variable transmission, and a space in which front, rear, right, left, and lower sides thereof are surrounded by surrounding members arranged below the front seat or the rear seat, wherein the air cleaner, an air intake opening thereof, and an air intake opening at an end of the cooling duct are arranged in the space. | 09-18-2014 |
20140260322 | SUPPORT MECHANISM FOR HEAVY STRUCTURE - To provide a support mechanism for a heavy structure, capable of accommodating thermal deformation of component parts of a device operated under high temperature condition, a support mechanism for supporting the heavy structure by suspending includes a fast pulley fixed to an inner wall of a package that accommodates the heavy structure which is an object being supported, a movable pulley to function cooperatively with the fast pulley, a rope-like connecting member having one end connected with the structure and movably wound on the fast pulley and the movable pulley, a counterweight unit coupled to the other end of the connecting member and including a counterweight having adjustable weight to utilize the weight of the counterweight to support the heavy structure, and a suspending device in the counterweight unit to suspend and position the heavy structure at a position upwardly relative to a normal support position. | 09-18-2014 |
20140250892 | LEAN FUEL INTAKE GAS TURBINE - A lean fuel intake gas turbine which uses, as a working gas, a mixed gas having a concentration equal to or lower than a flammability limiting concentration and obtained by mixing two types of fuel gases having different fuel concentrations, includes a first mixer configured to mix a second fuel gas having a higher fuel concentration with a first fuel gas having a lower fuel concentration, of the two types of the fuel gases having different fuel concentrations, to generate a first stage mixed gas and a second mixer configured to further mix the second fuel gas with the first stage mixed gas to generate a second stage mixed gas which is the working gas. | 09-11-2014 |
20140250857 | LOW-CONCENTRATION METHANE GAS OXIDATION SYSTEM USING EXHAUST HEAT FROM GAS TURBINE ENGINE - A low-concentration methane gas oxidation system is provided which effectively uses exhaust heat from a gas turbine engine and is able to avoid burnout of a catalyst etc. to enable stable operation even when a methane concentration in a low-concentration methane gas which is a treatment target is rapidly increased. In a low-concentration methane gas oxidation system which oxidizes a low-concentration methane gas by using exhaust heat from a gas turbine engine, a supply source of the low-concentration methane gas which is an oxidation treatment target, a catalyst layer configured to oxidize the low-concentration methane gas by catalytic combustion, and an intake damper connected to a supply passage through which the low-concentration methane gas is supplied from the supply source to the catalyst layer and configured to introduce an air from an outside into the supply passage, are provided. | 09-11-2014 |
20140243138 | POWER SWITCHING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A power switching device for vehicle has at least first and second power switching mechanisms, a shared operating mechanism, and a housing accommodating the power switching mechanisms and the shard operating mechanism, the housing being integrally formed with a boss portion having a waiting mechanism, wherein the waiting mechanism includes drive and driven cylindrical shafts, and a coil spring connecting between the cylindrical shafts, both of the cylindrical shafts and the coil spring are arranged in a same axis, and are supported on an inner peripheral surface of the boss portion through drive and driven side needle roller bearings respectively, the coil spring is arranged inside the cylindrical shafts. | 08-28-2014 |
20140237994 | EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR FOUR WHEELED UTILITY VEHICLE - Provided is an exhaust apparatus for a utility vehicle which discharges exhaust gas from exhaust pipes connected to exhaust ports of an engine including cylinders, the apparatus including an exhaust gathering portion gathering the exhaust pipes, a catalyst portion located on a downstream side of the exhaust gathering portion and purifying the exhaust gas, and a sensor attaching pipe provided between the exhaust gathering portion and the catalyst portion and to which an exhaust gas sensor is detachably attached, wherein the sensor attaching pipe, in a state where the exhaust gas sensor is attached, has a height in which a sensing portion of the exhaust gas sensor is located in the sensor attaching pipe, and the sensor attaching pipe is provided such that a top end to which the exhaust gas sensor is detachably attached is located above a base end and away from a surrounding heat source. | 08-28-2014 |
20140234936 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ETHANOL USING CELLULOSIC BIOMASS AS RAW MATERIAL - In the present disclosure, after a volatile organic acid is added as a catalyst to a slurry and the hydrolytic saccharification reaction of hemicellulose is performed, the volatile organic acid (including one added to the slurry and one produced as a by-product) contained in a C5 saccharified solution can be easily recovered by adding a small amount of sulfuric acid to the C5 saccharified solution and subjecting the C5 saccharified solution to air stripping treatment. The efficiency of hydrolytic saccharification of hemicellulose into C5 sugars using a volatile organic acid can also be continuously improved by adding the recovered volatile organic acid as a catalyst to another slurry of cellulosic biomass. | 08-21-2014 |
20140234935 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ETHANOL USING CELLULOSIC BIOMASS AS RAW MATERIAL - According to the method of the present invention, a cellulosic biomass slurry whose concentration of cellulosic biomass between 1% and 5% by mass is hydrothermally treated at a temperature of between 140° C. and 200° C. a pressure of between 1 MPa and 5 MPa to saccharify/decompose hemicellulose into C5 sugars. Then, a dewatered cake obtained after the hydrothermal treatment is slurried and has a solid concentration of between 1% and 5% by mass, and the slurry is hydrothermally treated at a temperature of between 240° C. and 300° C. and a pressure of between 4 MPa and 10 MPa to saccharify/decompose cellulose into C6 sugars. A saccharified solution is concentrated by a concentration device such as a reverse osmosis membrane device so that the concentration of sugars is 10% by mass or higher, and is then subjected to alcoholic fermentation. | 08-21-2014 |
20140230713 | UNDERWATER MOBILE INSPECTION APPARATUS AND UNDERWATER INSPECTION EQUIPMENT - An underwater mobile inspection apparatus is capable of inspecting a subsea pipeline (inspection object) while cruising. The underwater mobile inspection apparatus includes: a cruising body configured to submerge under water and cruise along the inspection object in such a manner as not to come into contact with the subsea pipeline; a first movable arm provided on the cruising body; an inspection tool unit for use in inspecting the subsea pipeline, the inspection tool unit being provided on the first movable arm; and a controller configured to, when the cruising body cruises along the subsea pipeline in such a manner as not to come into contact with the subsea pipeline, operate the first movable arm to move the inspection tool unit, such that a positional relationship of the inspection tool unit with the subsea pipeline becomes a predetermined target positional relationship. | 08-21-2014 |
20140219048 | FLUID MIXER AND HEAT EXCHANGE SYSTEM USING SAME - A fluid mixing device includes a hollow tubular main body ( | 08-07-2014 |
20140216898 | PLATE MEMBER CONVEYING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONVEYING PLATE MEMBER - The present invention provides a plate member conveying apparatus configured such that an occupied area is small, and a plate member is unlikely to be damaged. A plate member conveying apparatus according to the present invention includes a feed device having a conveying portion and a pressurizing portion. The conveying portion includes a belt configured to contact one of surfaces of a plate member in a vertical state to feed the plate member in a conveying direction. The pressurizing portion applies pressure of a fluid to the other surface of the plate member in the vertical state in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the plate member to press the plate member toward the belt. Then, the plate member in the vertical state is conveyed while being held by sandwiching the plate member between the belt of the conveying portion and the fluid of the pressurizing portion. | 08-07-2014 |
20140216263 | CARBON DIOXIDE RECOVERY DEVICE AND CARBON DIOXIDE RECOVERY SYSTEM - A carbon dioxide recovery device can perform a carbon dioxide adsorption treatment, a carbon dioxide separation treatment, a carbon dioxide adsorbing material repair treatment, and a carbon dioxide adsorbing material manufacture treatment. The carbon dioxide recovery device includes: a casing including a fluid treatment passage, a gas supply port through which a fluid is supplied to the fluid treatment passage, and a gas exhaust port through which the gas supplied to the fluid treatment passage is discharged; a plurality of housing tanks provided in a fluid treatment passage and each configured to house carbon dioxide adsorbing materials K; and an adsorbing liquid supplying portion configured to supply an adsorbing liquid to the housing tanks. Passage opening-closing mechanisms configured to store the adsorbing liquid in or discharge the adsorbing liquid from the housing tanks are respectively provided at bottom portions of the housing tanks. | 08-07-2014 |
20140212301 | Electric Motorcycle - An electric motorcycle comprises a hydraulic pump, an oil passage, a first hydraulic pressure detecting section for detecting a hydraulic pressure in the oil passage, a hydraulic pressure determiner section for determining if the hydraulic pressure is less than a first allowable value, a pump state determiner section for determining if an activation command is output to the hydraulic pump, and a warning output section for outputting a warning signal according to a result of the determination performed by the hydraulic pressure determiner section and a result of the determination performed by the pump state determiner section, wherein the warning signal is not output when the activation command is not output and the hydraulic pressure is less than the first allowable value; and the warning signal is output when the activation command is output and the hydraulic pressure is less than the first allowable value. | 07-31-2014 |
20140210224 | END EFFECTOR DEVICE AND SUBSTRATE CONVEYING ROBOT INCLUDING END EFFECTOR DEVICE - An end effector device attached to a tip end portion of a robot arm includes a plurality of support units provided on a blade. Each of the support units includes: a plurality of nail pieces configured to support peripheral portions of a plurality of semiconductor wafers such that the semiconductor wafers are parallel to one another and spaced apart from one another; and a pitch changing mechanism configured to change upper-lower intervals of the nail pieces. The pitch changing mechanism includes: a coil spring configured to support the plurality of nail pieces such that the plurality of nail pieces are spaced apart from one another in an upper-lower direction and elastically deform in the upper-lower direction; and an operating mechanism configured to cause the coil spring to elastically deform in the upper-lower direction. The operating mechanism includes a piston pin fitted in the coil spring to move up and down. | 07-31-2014 |
20140209826 | PROPORTIONAL SOLENOID CONTROL VALVE - Provided is a configuration in which: a spool driven by an electromagnetic proportional solenoid is urged by a spool-returning spring configured to exert urging force in an opposite direction to a driving direction of the electromagnetic proportional solenoid; a mechanical stopper is disposed at the stroke end of the spool; current dither causes a control current to micro-vibrate, the control current driving the electromagnetic proportional solenoid; and the mechanical stopper includes a stopper-urging spring configured to allow the spool to vibrate owing to the current dither even when the spool is in contact with the mechanical stopper. A proportional solenoid control valve with this configuration is capable of reducing hysteresis at the stroke end of the spool by means of the current dither, and controlling the spool in a stable manner over the entire control range including the stroke end of the spool. | 07-31-2014 |
20140202155 | SOLAR THERMAL ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - A solar thermal electric power generation system using heating medium that undergoes phase change between liquid phase and vapor phase, including a Fresnel type heat collectors for heating the heating medium by solar thermal energy, a gas turbine generating device for generating electric power while discharging exhaust gas, a heating device including a first channel through which the heating medium flows and a second channel which is located near the first channel and through which the exhaust gas from the gas turbine generating device flows, a vapor-liquid separating device for separating the heating medium having been heated by the heating device into vapor phase and liquid phase, and a turbine generating device driven by the heating medium in vapor phase separated by the vapor-liquid separating device. The heating device heats the heating medium in the first channel by the exhaust gas in the second channel. | 07-24-2014 |
20140197681 | ELECTRIC SYSTEM STABILIZING SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT - A power stabilizing device in a system includes as a portion of a power converter section, a second PWM converter provided between a second primary AC bus and a second DC bus in an electric system and configured to perform mutual conversion between DC power and AC power. A power stabilizing control section in the power stabilizing device controls charging and discharging of a secondary battery based on a voltage and a frequency in the second primary AC bus, thereby stabilizing the electric system. | 07-17-2014 |
20140187376 | UTILITY VEHICLE - A utility vehicle is capable of switching between a two wheel drive mode for transmitting drive force to rear wheels and a four wheel drive mode for transmitting the drive force to front wheels and the rear wheels. The transmission includes an input shaft to which the drive force from an engine is inputted, a front wheel drive output shaft for transmitting the drive force of the input shaft to the front wheels, and a rear axle for transmitting the drive force of the input shaft to the rear wheels. A rear wheel drive output shaft is provided in a motive power transmission route between the front wheel drive output shaft and the rear axle. | 07-03-2014 |
20140187372 | POWER UNIT FOR UTILITY VEHICLE - An engine and a transmission are connected to each other via a connecting bracket interposed therebetween in the vehicular lengthwise direction, the engine is provided with a first connector having a first mounting hole substantially parallel to a vehicle lengthwise direction, a first tightening member to be inserted into the first mounting hole on a side opposite to the engine connects one end of the connecting bracket to the first connector, the transmission is provided with a second connector having a second mounting hole penetrating in a vehicular widthwise direction, and a second tightening member to be inserted into the second mounting hole connects the other end of the connecting bracket to the second connector. | 07-03-2014 |
20140187366 | V-BELT TYPE CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION - In a V-belt type continuously variable transmission for utility vehicle, a transmission case assembly covering a drive pulley assembly and a driven pulley assembly is provided, the transmission case assembly includes a transmission case main body, and a transmission cover attached to a cover attachment surface of the transmission case main body, the cover attachment surface is inclined with respect to a vertical plane which is orthogonal to a crankshaft, and the transmission cover is attached to the cover attachment surface by a plurality of bolts removed and inserted in the direction orthogonal to the cover attachment surface. | 07-03-2014 |
20140187365 | V-BELT TYPE CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION - A V-belt type continuously variable transmission includes a drive shaft, a drive pulley assembly, a driven shaft, a driven pulley assembly, a V belt, and a transmission case assembly, the drive shaft is formed as a separate body from the crankshaft, one axial end of the drive shaft is spline-fitted to a shaft coupling portion provided in an end of the crankshaft, freely move in the axial direction within a predetermined distance, and be permitted to fall slightly, and the other axial end of the drive shaft is supported in the transmission case assembly or via a front bearing. | 07-03-2014 |
20140183906 | UTILITY VEHICLE - In a utility vehicle according to the present invention, a ROPS (rollover protective structure) surrounding a riding space includes right and left side frame units, and a plurality of cross members. Each of the side frame units includes a front pipe portion extending upward from near a dashboard, an upper pipe portion extending rearward from the upper end of the front pipe portion, a rear pipe portion extending downward from the rear end of the upper pipe portion, and an intermediate pipe portion extending downward from the middle portion in the front-rear direction of the upper pipe portion. The front pipe portion, the upper pipe portion, and the rear pipe portion are integrally formed by bending. | 07-03-2014 |
20140183903 | UTILITY VEHICLE - A utility vehicle according to the present invention includes a chassis, one or more seat rows arranged on the chassis, a cargo bed arranged behind the seat row(s), the cargo bed turnably supported at a pivot of the chassis so as to be changeable between a normal position in which a front portion of the cargo bed is not raised and a dumping position in which the front portion of the cargo bed is raised, and cargo bed locking mechanisms capable of locking the cargo bed in the normal position to the chassis, the cargo bed locking mechanisms each having a grip of a locking operating lever arranged at a front of the cargo bed. | 07-03-2014 |
20140183894 | UTILITY VEHICLE - A utility vehicle includes a front seat, a rear seat at a rear side of the front seat, and a cargo bed at a rear side of the rear seat, and a screen for partitioning the cargo bed and a riding space at a front side of the cargo bed. The cargo bed includes left and right fixed side walls, a front wall movable into the riding space, and left and right expansion side walls expandable into the riding space. The cargo bed is changeable between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded forward into the riding space and a non-expanded state in which the cargo bed is not expanded into the riding space. The screen is attached to the front wall, and each expansion side wall is foldably attached to the front wall and a corresponding one of the fixed side walls. | 07-03-2014 |
20140183882 | PANEL LOCKING STRUCTURE FOR CARGO BED OF VEHICLE - A utility vehicle according to the invention includes a cargo bed having a panel locking mechanism. The panel locking mechanism includes a locking lever pivotably supported on a gate-type panel, a substantially U-shaped movable hook made of a spring steel and coupled to a middle of the locking lever, and a stationary hook provided on a panel adjacent to the gate-type panel and with which the movable hook is engageable. When seen from above, the middle portion of the movable hook is pressed onto a surface of the gate-type panel so as to press the gate-type panel inward of the cargo bed by a resilient force upon locking. For example, the movable hook can be formed with a straight portion. | 07-03-2014 |
20140183837 | SWINGARM SUPPORTING STRUCTURE FOR MOTORCYCLE - To provide a swingarm supporting structure which can prevent rigidity of a case from becoming excessive and which can improve a degree of freedom of design. The swingarm supporting structure comprises: a case ( | 07-03-2014 |
20140183836 | STEERING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A steering apparatus for a two-wheeled motor vehicle includes a handlebars-side steering shaft supported by a head pipe, a wheel supporting cylindrical shaft supported by a front axle and over which a hub is fitted, and a steering link mechanism. First and second link members of the link mechanism are connected to each other in a plurality of articulations such that the link members can angularly move. An amount of angular movement is limited to a predetermined range, and a distance between a front wheel-side end and the steering shaft-side end of the steering link mechanism can be changed. The front wheel-side end of the steering link mechanism is connected to the wheel supporting cylindrical shaft through a brake caliper bracket member. | 07-03-2014 |
20140183327 | UTILITY VEHICLE - In an exhaust system of a vehicle including at least: an engine; a transmission arranged on a rear side in a vehicle traveling direction relative to the engine; an exhaust pipe connected to the engine and discharging exhaust gas; and an exhaust muffler connected to a downstream end part of the exhaust pipe, the exhaust muffler is elastically supported on the transmission by an exhaust muffler support member arranged and located between the transmission and the exhaust muffler. | 07-03-2014 |
20140182964 | VEHICLE BODY FRAME OF UTILITY VEHICLE - A vehicle body frame | 07-03-2014 |
20140182294 | GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR - A gas turbine combustor includes a pilot burner, provided at a top portion of a combustion liner having a combustion chamber defined therein, and a main burner of a premixing type disposed adjacent an outer periphery thereof. The pilot burner is provided with an inflow passage, provided in an upstream end portion to allow the compressed air from a radially outer area into a radially inner area, a plurality of fuel supply holes for injecting the fuel into the inflow passage in a direction perpendicular to the flow of the compressed air, a premixing passage for guiding the air-fuel mixture from the inflow passage in an axially downstream direction while the compressed air and the fuel are mixed together, and a plurality of premixed air-fuel mixture injection holes for injecting the premixed air-fuel mixture from the premixing passage into the combustion chamber. | 07-03-2014 |
20140182276 | UTILITY VEHICLE - An exhaust system of a vehicle used for a parallel multiple cylinder engine in which a plurality of cylinders are aligned in vehicle width directions, at least comprising: an exhaust manifold that is connected to a plurality of exhaust ports formed in a front face of a cylinder head of the engine with respect to a vehicle traveling direction and that extends approximately horizontally in vehicle width directions along a front face of the cylinder head; and an exhaust pipe connected to an exhaust downstream end of the exhaust manifold. | 07-03-2014 |
20140177865 | AUDIO UNIT MOUNTABLE IN PERSONAL WATERCRAFT - An audio unit mountable in a personal watercraft, comprises a speaker, an automated adjustment device for automatically adjusting a volume of a sound emitted from the speaker such that the volume of the sound becomes an automated sound volume value corresponding to an engine speed or a watercraft speed, and a sound volume manipulation member manipulated by a rider to change the volume of the sound emitted from the speaker with respect to the automated sound volume value; wherein when the engine speed or the watercraft speed satisfies a predetermined deceleration condition, the automated adjustment device cancels a sound volume increase amount with respect to the automated sound volume value which was caused by the rider's manipulation of the sound volume manipulation member before the predetermined deceleration condition is satisfied, and adjusts the sound volume such that the volume of the sound becomes the automated sound volume value. | 06-26-2014 |
20140175836 | NUMBER PLATE MOUNTING STRUCTURE IN MOTORCYCLE - A motorcycle includes a front fender, which overhangs a front wheel, and a number plate which is disposed forwardly of a handlebar. A center portion of the front fender with respect to a widthwise direction is formed with a longitudinal groove that is recessed downwardly to represent a tapered shape and a lower end edge of the number plate is tapered enough to allow it to be engaged in the longitudinal groove. A projection is provided in an upper surface of the front fender and an engagement hole engageable with the projection is provided in the number plate. | 06-26-2014 |
20140174857 | Transmission Lubricating Structure - A transmission lubricating structure which lubricates a transmission using a lubricating fluid, the transmission including a plurality of gear pairs each including a drive gear and a driven gear, includes a lubricating fluid feeding unit for feeding the lubricating fluid to the gears of the gear pairs; wherein the lubricating fluid feeding unit includes a plurality of injection nozzles, each of which directly injects the lubricating fluid to a tooth of the drive gear and a tooth of the driven gear, which teeth start to engage with each other. | 06-26-2014 |
20140174095 | Heating Medium Supply System, Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Electric Power Generation System and Method of Controlling These Systems - A heating medium supply system is provided which, even when a temperature fluctuation of a heating medium occurs continuously, is capable of relieving a bad thermal influence upon a heat exchanging device due to the temperature fluctuation. The heating medium supply system includes: a heating system configured to heat a liquid heating medium by sunlight; a heat exchanging device configured to heat feedwater; heating medium supply piping for circulating the heating medium; a heating medium temperature detecting device, a heating medium flow rate detecting device and a first heating medium flow control valve; and a control device capable of calculating a value of supply thermal energy from results of detections by the heating medium temperature detecting device and the heating medium flow rate detecting device and controlling an operation of the heating medium flow control valve based on the value of supply thermal energy thus calculated. | 06-26-2014 |
20140169925 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF TRANSFERRING PLATE-SHAPED MEMBER WITH INTERLEAVING PAPER THEREON - In a system for transferring a plate-shaped member with interleaving paper thereon, a suction adhesion device included in a suction adhesion unit includes suction pads that adhere to a surface of a glass plate by suction with interleaving paper in between the surface and the suction pads; an air blowing device blows air between the adhered glass plate and a glass plate positioned below the adhered glass plate; a robot moves the suction adhesion unit; a clamping device includes a pair of pushing members that are arranged at both sides, respectively, of the glass plates and move toward the glass plates to come close to each other; and at least before the suction adhesion unit lifts the adhered glass plate, a controller causes the pair of pushing members to move to push protruding portions of pieces of interleaving paper, the protruding portions protruding from the sides of the glass plates. | 06-19-2014 |
20140167452 | MOTORCYCLE REAR BODY STRUCTURE - A rear fender overhanging a rear wheel of a motorcycle is disposed rearwardly of a rider's seat, and a side cover is disposed diagonally forwardly downwardly of the rear fender and beneath the rider's seat. The side cover conceals a rear frame structure from outside. The rear fender has a fender overlap portion formed in a lower portion of an outer side portion thereof, and the side cover has a cover overlap portion formed in a rear portion thereof, which cover overlap portion is overlapped on the fender overlap portion. The fender overlap portion has an undersurface provided with a projection, and the cover overlap portion is provided with an engagement hole engageable with the projection. | 06-19-2014 |
20140167382 | FRONT WHEEL SUPPORTING STRUCTURE FOR STRADDLE-TYPE VEHICLE - A front wheel supporting structure for a vehicle comprises a front arm for supporting a front axle and a suspension mechanism for resiliently suppressing vertical swinging motion of the front arm. The suspension mechanism includes a damper member disposed along a lateral direction between a head pipe and the front arm, and a connecting member for connecting the front arm with the damper member such that vertical swinging motion of the front arm is converted into lateral motion of the damper member. | 06-19-2014 |
20140167381 | FRONT WHEEL SUPPORTING STRUCTURE FOR STRADDLE-TYPE VEHICLE - A front wheel supporting structure for a straddle-type vehicle includes a front arm which supports a front axle and which extends rearward from a front axle to a location behind a front wheel, and a pair of upper and lower link members which is turnably connected to two vertically separated portions of a rear end of a front arm. The link members extend rearward. Rear ends of the link members are turnably connected to a vehicle body-configuring member. The front wheel supporting structure includes a front suspension mechanism which suppresses turning motion of the front arm. | 06-19-2014 |
20140152112 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR PARALLEL OPERATION OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF POWER GENERATION APPARATUSES - A parallel operation control method for different type power generation apparatuses to shift the power generation apparatuses having respective different drooping characteristics, in which the drooping characteristic is defined as a characteristic of decrease of a rated frequency along with an increase of a load, from independent operation of the power generation apparatuses under suitable drooping characteristics to parallel operation thereof to drive a common drive target, includes determining a load of one of the power generation apparatuses by subtracting a load of the other of the power generation apparatuses from a predetermined required load; changing a drooping characteristic of the one of the power generation apparatuses so as to coincide with a drooping characteristic of the other of the power generation apparatuses; and controlling the one of the power generation apparatuses so as to maintain frequency at the time of changing the drooping characteristic. | 06-05-2014 |
20140152110 | ELECTRIC POWER CONVERTER FOR COMBINED POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides an electric power converting unit that does not require a change in a control method in, for example, system interconnection by calculating a target value of an output current of an electric power converter from an internal phase angle calculated from an active electric power control loop and an internal electromotive voltage calculated from a reactive electric power control loop. Thus, a stand-alone power supply system that is easy to handle can be configured. | 06-05-2014 |
20140150688 | RAILCAR - There is provided a railcar including a under frame, paired side bodyshell parts, and a roof bodyshell part. Strap bar receiving parts hanging downward from the roof bodyshell part are fixed to the roof bodyshell part. An upper horizontal member and a lower horizontal member are provided like bridges between the paired side bodyshell parts. The upper horizontal member and the lower horizontal member are disposed at an interval in a vertical direction and connected by connection pipes. The upper horizontal member is formed by a plurality of reinforcement pipes and the lower horizontal member is formed by a plurality of reinforcement pipes. At least one ends of the plurality of reinforcement pipes are fixed to the strap bar receiving parts. | 06-05-2014 |
20140144863 | DEVICE FOR COUPLING HIGH-SPEED RAILROAD CARS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING DEVICE - A device for coupling tilting railroad cars onto a high-speed railroad train comprises a coupler and a shock absorber held in a shock absorber frame, each joined by a coupling pin via a coupling joint. The frame includes a front inner surface with a front end wall opening and a cylindrical surface extending to a semi-circular concave inner surface. The joint includes a rounded convex surface engaged with a semi-circular concave surface, a circumferential surface of a short cylinder receiving the rear portion of the coupler, and an insertion hole which is provided in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the short cylinder. The frame has a removal hole and an air removal pin of the coupling pin facing each other at a position to rotate at a predetermined angle in a circumferential direction in the assembled state, and at a position coaxial with the coupling pin in the assembled state. | 05-29-2014 |
20140144347 | RAILCAR BOGIE - A plate spring bogie includes: a cross beam supporting a carbody of a railcar; a pair of front and rear axles sandwiching and respectively arranged in front of and behind the cross beam in a railcar longitudinal direction to extend in a railcar width direction; bearings respectively provided at both railcar width direction sides of each of the axles and rotatably supporting the axles; axle boxes respectively accommodating the bearings; plate springs extending in the railcar longitudinal direction to respectively support both railcar width direction end portions of the cross beam and each including both railcar longitudinal direction end portions respectively supported by the axle boxes; and an auxiliary supporting mechanism supporting the railcar width direction end portion of the cross beam in a case where the railcar width direction end portion of the cross beam is displaced downward beyond a predetermined elastic deformation range of the plate spring. | 05-29-2014 |
20140142808 | POWER SUPPLY UNIT CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE DRIVEN VEHICLE AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE DRIVEN VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH POWER SUPPLY UNIT CONTROL DEVICE - There are provided a power supply unit control device for an internal combustion engine driven vehicle provided with a lamp driving switch for turning lamp-driving current supplied to a vehicle headlamp from a battery charged by the output of an AC generator driven by an internal combustion engine and with a conducting control unit for controlling the lamp driving switch. The conducting control unit normally performs on/off control of the lamp driving switch at a normal duty ratio, the normal duty ratio being an on/off duty ratio for the lamp driving switch at which lamp-driving current can be kept at a value not impeding the charging of the battery, and, when the internal combustion engine decelerates, performs engine deceleration lamp conducting control, in which on/off control of the lamp driving switch at the normal duty ratio is interrupted and the lamp driving switch is controlled so that lamp-driving current necessary to suppress reductions in the brightness of the headlamp is sent to the headlamp, only for a limited length of time. | 05-22-2014 |
20140137765 | RAILCAR BOGIE - A railcar bogie includes: a cross beam supporting a carbody; a pair of front and rear axles sandwiching and arranged in front of and behind the cross beam in a railcar longitudinal direction to extend in a railcar width direction; bearings provided at both railcar width direction sides of each and rotatably supporting the axles; axle boxes accommodating the bearings; side members extending in the railcar longitudinal direction supporting both railcar width direction end portions of the cross beam and each including both railcar longitudinal direction end portions supported by the axle boxes; contact members provided at both railcar width direction end portions and disposed on railcar longitudinal direction middle portions of the side members so as not to be fixed to the side members in an upper-lower direction; and supporting members provided at the axle boxes and supporting the railcar longitudinal direction end portions of the side members. | 05-22-2014 |
20140133986 | TURBINE ENGINE ROTOR, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, METHOD OF JOINING NI-BASED SUPERALLOY MEMBER AND STEEL MEMBER, AND JUNCTION STRUCTURE OF NI-BASED SUPERALLOY MEMBER AND STEEL MEMBER - A method of producing a turbine engine rotor includes: joining a first rotor disc ( | 05-15-2014 |
20140125475 | METER DISPLAY DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A meter display device for vehicle includes a rotation number display region which displays a rotation number of a drive source, wherein the rotation number display region is divided into a plurality of partial display regions having different rotation number ranges displayed, wherein the partial display regions have display operation elements which are changed between the minimum and maximum values of the respective corresponding partial rotation number ranges with the increase and decrease of the rotation number, wherein the partial display regions are separated from each other. | 05-08-2014 |
20140123919 | Cooling Device of V-Type Engine - A cooling device is incorporated into a V-type engine E in which a front cylinder and a rear cylinder are arranged in V-shape and a rear exhaust pipe is placed at a right side of a vehicle body. The cooling device 1 includes an intake duct and a fan. The intake duct has a suction port which opens toward the rear exhaust pipe. The fan suctions the air into the interior of the intake duct through the suction port and exhausts the suctioned air to a location distant from the exhaust pipe. | 05-08-2014 |
20140123870 | RAILCAR BOGIE - A plate spring bogie includes: a cross beam supporting a carbody of a railcar; a pair of front and rear axles sandwiching and respectively arranged in front of and behind the cross beam in a railcar longitudinal direction to extend in a railcar width direction; bearings respectively provided at both railcar width direction sides of each of the axles and rotatably supporting the axles; axle boxes respectively accommodating the bearings; plate springs extending in the railcar longitudinal direction to respectively support both railcar width direction end portions of the cross beam and each including both railcar longitudinal direction end portions respectively supported by the axle boxes; and an auxiliary supporting mechanism supporting the railcar width direction end portion of the cross beam in a case where the railcar width direction end portion of the cross beam is displaced downward beyond a predetermined elastic deformation range of the plate spring. | 05-08-2014 |
20140116794 | Straddle Vehicle - In a straddle vehicle such as a motorcycle, a harness in an electric power supply system which is thick, has a great weight, and is not easily mounted can be reduced in length as much as possible so that a weight and cost can be reduced, and assembling work can be made easier. An air cleaner and a fuel tank are disposed at a relatively rearward position such that the air cleaner and the fuel tank are disposed behind and distant from the head pipe to provide an electric component mounting space between the air cleaner and the fuel tank, and the head pipe, and a regulator, a relay box and a fuse box are disposed in the electric component mounting space. The fuel tank is disposed at a relatively rearward position such that its rear end portion is positioned behind and below a rear end of a main frame. | 05-01-2014 |
20140112709 | DISSIMILAR MATERIAL JOINT, STRUCTURE IN WHICH DISSIMILAR MATERIAL JOINT IS USED, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A dissimilar material joint is formed by arranging a plurality of joint segments consecutively in a longitudinal direction. Each joint segment is formed by joining and integrating together a first member, an intermediate member, and a second member by explosive welding. A groove is formed in a joint end face of each joint segment, the joint end face being joined to another one of the segments, the groove spacing apart an end face of the first member and an end face of the second member from each other in a stacking direction. In the dissimilar material joint, the end faces of the respective first members of the joint segments that are adjacent to each other are joined together by welding, and the end faces of the respective second members of the joint segments that are adjacent to each other are joined together by welding. | 04-24-2014 |
20140105809 | CO2 RECOVERY METHOD AND APPARATUS | 04-17-2014 |
20140102403 | GAS ENGINE, CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR GAS ENGINE - A control system in a gas engine includes a water injection means which injects water toward an interior of a cylinder in the gas engine; a water injection control means which controls the water injection section; and a knocking occurrence ratio measuring means which measures a measurement value of a knocking occurrence ratio in the cylinder. The water injection control means controls the water injection means to set the amount of the water injected toward the interior of the cylinder, based on a deviation between the measurement value and a target value. | 04-17-2014 |
20140102240 | MULTIPLE-JOINT INDUSTRIAL ROBOT - A wrist portion of a robot includes: a first movable portion configured to rotate relative to an arm portion around a first wrist axis; a second movable portion configured to rotate relative to the first movable portion around a second wrist axis; a third movable portion configured to rotate relative to the second movable portion around a third wrist axis; and a cable insertion portion through which an effector cable is inserted, the effector cable being used to supply electric power to an end effector attached to the third movable portion. The cable insertion portion is provided at the first movable portion so as to be located on the first wrist axis. Two motors among a plurality of motors configured to drive the wrist portion are attached to the first movable portion so as to sandwich the cable insertion portion in a direction perpendicular to the first wrist axis. | 04-17-2014 |
20140096684 | CARBON DIOXIDE SEPARATING AND CAPTURING APPARATUS - A carbon dioxide separating and capturing apparatus includes: a casing including inner space through which a to-be-treated gas containing carbon dioxide flows; a carbon dioxide adsorbing material disposed in the inner space, the carbon dioxide adsorbing material adsorbing and separating carbon dioxide from the to-be-treated gas flowing through the inner space; and a steam generator configured to generate steam in the inner space and release the steam in the inner space, the steam desorbing and capturing the carbon dioxide adsorbed to the carbon dioxide adsorbing material. | 04-10-2014 |
20140091602 | SEAT ASSEMBLY FOR SADDLE RIDING TYPE AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - A fellow passenger's seat ( | 04-03-2014 |
20140090919 | SADDLE-RIDING TYPE AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - A motorcycle frame assembly (FR) for a motorcycle includes a main frame ( | 04-03-2014 |
20140084618 | MOTORCYCLE FAIRING - A fairing unit ( | 03-27-2014 |
20140083321 | RAILWAY CAR COMPRISING HEAT-RESISTANT FLOOR - A railcar includes a heat-resistant floor, and the heat-resistant floor includes a floor panel, a heat absorbing layer provided under the floor panel and configured to absorb heat, and a supporting plate configured to support the heat absorbing layer from below. The supporting plate includes contacting portions each configured to contact the heat absorbing layer and separated portions each continuously formed from the contacting portion in a railcar width direction, separated downward from the heat absorbing layer, and extending in a railcar longitudinal direction. | 03-27-2014 |
20140083105 | GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR - An annular type gas turbine combustor having a plurality of fuel nozzle assemblies ( | 03-27-2014 |
20140081443 | PLATE MEMBER REVERSING SYSTEM AND REVERSING/TRANSFER METHOD THEREOF - A plate member reversing system adapted for sequentially reversing and transferring a plurality of plate members, includes a second delta robot, a reversing device and a second transfer device. The second delta robot is configured such that it sequentially holds the plate members and transfers and places them onto the reversing device. The reversing device, onto which the plate member is transferred and placed in a horizontal position by the second delta robot, is configured such that, while the transferred and placed plate member is being held by application of suction with its upper surface in an open state, it reverses the upper and the lower surfaces of the plate member. In addition, the second transfer device receives the reversed plate member from the reversing device and transfers it in a reversed state and in a horizontal position. | 03-20-2014 |
20140071705 | HEAD LAMP UNIT FOR VEHICLE - The present invention provides a head lamp unit for vehicle in which a head lamp and a position lamp are housed in a housing in which a cover lens is mounted on the front surface of a lamp body, wherein a position lamp emitter is arranged to be hidden by a head lamp reflector, seen from the front, wherein a position lamp reflection surface reflecting a light emitted from the position lamp emitter to guide the light to the front of the housing is provided around the head lamp reflector. | 03-13-2014 |
20140070123 | OPERATING DEVICE - A hydraulic operated valve includes an electromagnetic adsorption mechanism and a steel ball. In the electromagnetic adsorption mechanism, when a current is supplied, an adsorption plate is adsorbed by a solenoid. By this adsorption, a steel ball is pressed against an outer surface of a cam disc. The outer surface of the cam disc includes two steps. When the cam disc is rotated clockwise or counterclockwise, the pressed steel ball engages the two steps. Thus, the cam disc is detented. These two steps are configured such that when the cam disc is returned to a neutral position, the adsorption plate is separated from the solenoid against the pressing of the electromagnetic adsorption mechanism. Thus, the detent state of the cam disc is canceled. | 03-13-2014 |
20140069986 | FRICTION STIR SPOT WELDING DEVICE AND FRICTION STIR SPOT WELDING METHOD - A tool driving section of a friction stir spot welding device is configured to advance and retract each of a pin member and a shoulder member. A tool driving control section is configured to control the tool driving section such that an absolute value of a tool average position Tx defined by a following equation:
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20140069985 | FRICTION STIR SPOT WELDING DEVICE AND FRICTION STIR SPOT WELDING METHOD - A tool driving section of a friction stir spot welding device is configured to cause each of a pin member and a shoulder member to advance and retract, and is controlled by a tool driving control section. A press-fit reference point setting section sets a position where the pin member or the shoulder member contacts an object to be welded as a press-fit reference point, and the tool driving control section controls the position of the pin member with respect to the shoulder member on the basis of the press-fit reference point, thereby controlling the press-fit depth of a rotating tool press-fitted from the surface of the object to be welded. This achieves the excellent welding quality at suitable precision according to welding conditions especially in a double-acting friction stir spot welding method. | 03-13-2014 |
20140069529 | RELIEF VALVE - A relief valve configured such that a plunger configured to be pushed forward by an elastic member to block communication between an inflow opening and an outflow opening moves rearward by an increase in pressure of the inflow opening against an elastic force of the elastic member to cause the inflow opening and the outflow opening to communicate with each other; and a piston configured to push a rear end of the elastic member forward moves forward by the increase in the pressure of the inflow opening to compress the elastic member, the elastic member includes a first elastic member and a second elastic member arranged in series, and the second elastic member has a smaller elastic constant than the first elastic member. | 03-13-2014 |
20140060963 | EXHAUST SYSTEM FOR A MOTORCYCLE - A motorcycle includes an exhaust chamber ( | 03-06-2014 |
20140058609 | Electric Motorcycle, Vehicle Controller and Vehicle Control Method - An electric motorcycle includes a driving command detecting device, a state value detecting device, an electric motor driving a drive wheel, a control unit for executing a non-normal mode causing output of the electric motor in a non-normal mode to differ from the output of the electric motor in a normal mode, the control unit configured to shift the electric motorcycle from one of the normal or non-normal modes to the other normal or non-normal mode, when the state value satisfies a predetermined shift condition, in one of the normal and non-normal modes, and a cornering determiner unit for determining cornering status, wherein the control unit causes a change in the output of the electric motor to be less, when the electric motorcycle is cornering and the shift condition is satisfied than when the cornering determiner unit determines the electric motorcycle is not cornering and the shift condition is satisfied. | 02-27-2014 |
20140054992 | CANNED TYPE ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE - A rotating electrical machine according to the present invention includes a can formed in a tubular shape and made of fiber reinforced plastic. At least a part of a first end portion of the can is located on a radially outer side of an adhered portion of a first end member, and a resin-based adhesive is filled in a gap between the part of the first end portion and the adhered portion of the first end member. At least a part of a second end portion of the can is located on a radially outer side of an adhered portion of a second end member, and the resin-based adhesive is filled in a gap between the part of the second end portion and the adhered portion of the second end member. | 02-27-2014 |
20140053598 | LIQUEFIER SYSTEM - A liquefier system includes: a feed line configured to feed a raw material gas from a raw material supply source such that a pressure of the raw material gas in a predetermined portion of the feed line is kept higher than or equal to a predetermined pressure; a cooling medium circulation line configured to cause a cooling medium to circulate; a static pressure gas bearing configured to be supplied with the gas that has a pressure higher than or equal to the predetermined pressure and to rotatably support a rotating shaft of an expansion turbine; and a bearing supply line configured to connect the predetermined portion of the feed line and a gas inlet of the static pressure gas bearing, such that the gas is supplied to the static pressure gas bearing. | 02-27-2014 |
20140047861 | Turbo Refrigerator - In a turbo refrigerator in which: a gas-phase refrigerant from an evaporator is compressed by a turbo compressor and then condensed by a condenser; the obtained liquid-phase refrigerant is evaporated by the evaporator; and a cooling target is cooled down by evaporation heat of the liquid-phase refrigerant, the compressor is a back-to-back two-stage centrifugal type, and the condenser is provided at a position outside a compressor rear stage so as to overlap the compressor rear stage when viewed from each of an axial direction and a radial direction. With this, the pressure loss of a vapor refrigerant is eliminated, and the deterioration in efficiency can be suppressed. In addition, size reduction can be realized by space saving. Further, an evaporated refrigerant can be smoothly introduced to the condenser with a simple configuration. | 02-20-2014 |
20140038770 | GENERATING DEVICE FOR AIRCRAFT - An electric power generating device ( | 02-06-2014 |
20140036331 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND LASER MACHINING DEVICE - An optical scanning device includes: a light projector configured to radiate light while causing the light to make angular movement at a constant speed; and a light reflector configured to reflect the light radiated from the light projector to guide the light to an intended irradiated point on a predetermined scanning line. The light reflector includes a plurality of reflecting portions and reflects, at least twice, the light radiated from the light projector to guide the light to the intended irradiated point. The reflecting portions each include a plurality of reflecting surfaces. A length of an optical path from the light projector to the irradiated point is substantially constant for all of irradiated points on the scanning line, and a scanning speed, on the scanning line, of the light radiated from the light projector is substantially constant. | 02-06-2014 |
20140032002 | ELECTRIC SYSTEM STABILIZING SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT - An electric system of an aircraft includes a power stabilizing device connected to a primary AC bus and a secondary battery. The secondary battery has a rated voltage which allows the secondary battery to absorb regenerative power from a control surface actuator. Based on a voltage and a frequency in the primary AC bus, charging/discharging of the secondary battery is controlled to stabilize the electric system. | 01-30-2014 |
20140030938 | PERSONAL WATERCRAFT - A personal watercraft is provided which includes a body including a deck and a hull having a water intake on a bottom portion thereof; a water jet pump configured to suction water through the water intake and eject the water through an outlet port of an ejecting nozzle; an engine for actuating the water jet pump; an ejecting direction adjusting device for adjusting an ejecting direction of the water ejected from the water jet pump; a driver seat section provided on the deck and configured to accommodate a driver seated in a straddle state; a passenger seat section provided on the deck behind the driver seat section and configured to accommodate a passenger seated in a straddle state; a sensor for detecting the passenger seated on the passenger seat section; and a controller for controlling the engine to reduce an engine driving power, if the sensor detects the passenger. | 01-30-2014 |
20140030937 | PERSONAL WATERCRAFT - A personal watercraft is provided which includes a body including a deck and a hull having a water intake on a bottom portion thereof; a water jet pump configured to suction water through the water intake and eject the water through an outlet port of an ejecting nozzle; an engine for actuating the water jet pump; an ejecting direction adjusting device for adjusting an ejecting direction of the water ejected from the water jet pump; a driver seat section provided on the deck and configured to accommodate a driver seated in a straddle state; a passenger seat section provided on the deck behind the driver seat section and configured to accommodate a passenger seated in a straddle state; a sensor for detecting the passenger seated on the passenger seat section; and a controller for controlling the engine to reduce an engine driving power, if the sensor detects the passenger. | 01-30-2014 |