| Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Patent applications |
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| 20120036511 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR DIE-SINKING ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINE - A program analyzing unit that extracts electrode numbers included in a plurality of processing programs, determines duplication of the electrode numbers among the processing programs to display a result of determination, and that stores correspondence between a revision electrode number that is specified by a user and an in-use electrode number that is used in the processing program for each of the processing programs and a program executing unit that executes each of the processing programs by reading the revision electrode number instead of the in-use electrode number used in each of the processing programs based on the stored correspondence at the time of execution of the processing programs are included, and duplication of the electrode numbers used among the programs is easily and certainly resolved. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036364 | SELF-AUTHENTICATION COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND DEVICE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - In a system where a communication device performs secure communication by using a digital certificate, to enable a device of a communication party to verify that a self certificate is certainly generated by a device indicated on the self certificate even if the self certificate is not delivered offline in advance. Based on a master key and a public parameter, a communication device generates an ID-based encryption private key for which a device unique ID is used as a public key. Then, the communication device generates the digital signature of an RSA public key as a ID-based encryption signature by using the ID-based encryption private key. Then, the communication device generates an RSA self signature for the RSA public key, an expiration date, a host name, the device unique ID, and the ID-based encryption signature as the target. Then, the communication device generates a self-signed certificate to include the ID-based encryption signature and the RSA self signature. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120035771 | COMMAND GENERATOR - A positive & negative jerk interval parameter setting section divides an acceleration & deceleration interval of an acceleration command curve into an acceleration increasing interval, a constant acceleration interval, and an acceleration decreasing interval, and sets the length of time of each interval independently of each other. A positive & negative jerk interval trigonometric command generating section employs an acceleration command curve generated based on a trigonometric function of a ½ cycle, thereby generating a position command or a speed command. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033963 | OPTICAL SUBSCRIBER TERMINATING DEVICE, PON SYSTEM, AND ABNORMALITY DETECTING METHOD - An ONU that receives a discovery gate transmitted by an OLT in a predetermined cycle, returns a response signal in response to the discovery gate, and receives a unicast frame transmitted to the ONU by the OLT having received the response signal, comprising: a received frame detecting unit that detects whether a signal received from the OLT is a discovery gate or a unicast frame; and an erroneous emission detecting unit that detects an abnormal emission state, based on a result detected by the received frame detecting unit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033593 | MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A scrambler performs IQ multiplexing of output signals from a spreader and a distributor in order to generate a complex signal (I signal and Q signal), amplitude coefficients βcc(I) and βcc(Q) are determined in accordance with signal powers on I axis and Q axis. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033421 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The light source device in which a first light source lamp, a second light source lamp and a relay optical system are arranged so that there is no part where an optical axis of a first light flux from the first light source lamp through a relay optical system to an entrance end of a light intensity equalizing element and an optical axis of a second light flux from the second light source lamp to the entrance end agree with each other, and the optical axis of the first light flux immediately before incidence on the entrance end and the optical axis of the second light flux from the second light source lamp to the entrance end are substantially parallel to each other. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032744 | POWER AMPLIFIER - A power amplifier comprises: an amplifier transistor; a bias circuit supplying bias current to the amplifier transistor; and a collector voltage terminal connected to a collector of the amplifier transistor. The bias circuit includes: a reference voltage terminal into which a reference voltage is input; a power terminal connected to a power source; a transistor having a control terminal connected to the reference voltage terminal, a first terminal connected to the power terminal, and a second terminal that is grounded. The transistor supplies a bias current corresponding to the reference voltage to the amplifier transistor; a variable capacitor connected between the first terminal and a grounding point; and a logic circuit controlling capacitance of the variable capacitor. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032725 | POWER MODULE - A power module comprises: first and second terminals; first and second switching elements having a first electrode and a second electrode which is connected to the second terminal; first and second wirings respectively connecting the first electrodes of the first and second switching elements to the first terminal; and a third wiring directly connecting the first electrode of the first switching element to the first electrode of the second switching element, wherein parasitic inductances of the first and second wiring are different or switching characteristics of the first and second switching elements are different. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032296 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE - A semiconductor circuit substrate includes a transistor-forming substrate and a circuit-forming substrate. The transistor-forming substrate is a GaN substrate and has a Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) located in its top surface. The bottom surface of the transistor-forming substrate is flat and has contact regions. The circuit-forming substrate is a material other than a compound semiconductor and has no semiconductor active elements. The circuit-forming substrate has a flat top surface, contact regions buried in and exposed at the top surface, and passive circuits. The transistor-forming substrate and the circuit-forming substrate are directly bonded together without any intervening film, such as an insulating film. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032189 | ORGANOPOLYSILOXANE COMPOSITION AND SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS - Provided is an organopolysiloxane composition that provides a cured product which has excellent heat resistance and does not peel or crack even under high temperatures. The organopolysiloxane composition comprises (A) an organopolysiloxane having difunctional siloxane units (D units) and trifunctional siloxane units (T units), and a weight-average molecular weight of 37,000 to 140,000 in which the molar ratio (T/D) of the T units to the D units is 0.3 to 0.8; and (B) an organopolysiloxane having the difunctional siloxane units (D units) and the trifunctional siloxane units (T units), and a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 60,000 in which the molar ratio (T/D) of the T units to the D units is 0.15 or less, the organopolysiloxane composition being characterized by having a molar ratio (B/A) of the organopolysiloxane (B) to the organopolysiloxane (A) of 1.5 to 6.5. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031983 | INDOOR UNIT OF AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS AND AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An indoor unit includes: a casing formed with a suction port and a blow-out port; a plurality of fans provided in parallel in the casing; a heat exchanger provided on the downstream side of the fans and on the upstream side of the blow-out port; a horizontal wind direction control vane provided at the blow-out port to control the horizontal direction of an airflow blown out from the blow-out port; a vertical wind direction control vane provided at the blow-out port to control the vertical direction of the airflow blown out from the blow-out port; and an infrared ray human detection sensor configured to detect the position of a person present in a room, and air volumes, the orientation of the horizontal wind direction control vane, and the orientation of the vertical wind direction control vane of the fans are each controlled according to results of detection by the infrared ray sensor. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031883 | LASER MACHINING DEVICE AND LASER MACHINING METHOD - The machining device is equipped with a fiber laser oscillator for oscillating laser light of a top hat shape, and a light collecting lens and a machining head for collecting the laser light of the top hat shape and emitting the laser light onto a machining target such that the beam diameter of the laser light of the top hat shape at a position where light intensity becomes the one corresponding to a machining threshold of the machining target is about three times the size of the beam diameter of laser light in a Gaussian mode at the same position, when the laser light in the Gaussian mode has a beam quality substantially the same as that of the laser light of the top hat shape. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031605 | AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS - There are provided a plurality of use-side heat exchangers, inter-heat-medium heat exchangers, heat medium flow path switching devices, which switch flow paths, and pumps, which feed heat media to these paths; the inter-heat-medium heat exchangers heat or cool a heat medium by exchanging heat between the heat medium and a heat source fluid fed from a heat source apparatus. About half of the plurality of use-side heat exchangers are preheated or precooled, and the remaining use-side heat exchangers which are not preheated or precooled exchange heat media with use-side heat exchangers that have been preheated or precooled and that are not yet started to operate, suppressing energy consumed for preheating or precooling. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031139 | INDOOR UNIT OF AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS AND AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An indoor unit includes a casing having a suction port formed on an upper portion and a blow-out port on a lower side of a front surface portion, an axial-flow or mixed-flow fan provided on the downstream side of the suction port in the casing, and a heat exchanger provided in the casing at a position on the downstream side of the fan and on the upstream side of the blow-out port. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of fins arranged side by side with predetermined gaps therebetween and a plurality of heat-transfer tubes penetrating through the plurality of fins. The heat exchanger is configured in such a manner that the air-flow resistance of an area facing the outer peripheral side of the fan is larger than the air-flow resistance of an area facing a center portion of the fan. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031134 | INDOOR UNIT OF AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS AND AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An indoor unit includes a heat exchanger provided on the downstream side of a fan and formed with a plurality of lower end portions in a vertical cross section from the front side to the back side of a casing, a plurality of drain pans provided below the lower end portions of the heat exchanger and configured to collect drain water occurring on the heat exchanger, and a drain channel provided between the drain pans and configured to be a flow channel of the drain, and a connecting port to which a drain hose configured to drain the drain water collected by the drain pans to the outside of the casing, and one of the drain pans is arranged to a level equal to or higher than the level of the other drain pan, and the drain channel is provided on the drain pan arranged on the back side of the casing. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031130 | RELAY UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS - A relay unit connected to one or a plurality of outdoor units and a plurality of indoor units by different pipeline systems, respectively, so as to exchange heat between a refrigerant circulating through the outdoor unit and a heat medium different from the refrigerant and to circulate the heat medium through the indoor unit, provided with a valve block unit in which a plurality of valve blocks integrated with at least a plurality of branch pipes connected to the indoor unit, a plurality of main pipes which become channels for the heat medium relating to the heat exchange, and heat medium flow direction switching devices that switch the main pipes to communicate with the branch pipes are connected. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120029874 | AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An air conditioning system diagnosis apparatus is obtained in which a refrigerating cycle is automatically analyzed and waveform data in messages flowing in a general-purpose network is acquired and automatically analyzed according to the analysis result of the refrigerating cycle, thereby achieving, with a single apparatus, diagnosis and monitoring of errors in the refrigerating cycle and in the general-purpose network. A trigger output means creates a trigger on the basis of a waveform analysis condition and the analysis result of a packet received from a message analyzing means; when receiving the trigger, a waveform input means reads out waveform data stored in a buffer; waveform analyzing means notifies a synchronization determining means of the analysis result of the waveform data; the synchronization determining means searches for the analysis result of a packet synchronized with the received analysis result of the waveform data. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120029675 | NUMERICAL CONTROL PROGRAMMING METHOD, APPARATUS THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM FOR CAUSING A COMPUTER TO EXECUTE THE METHOD - A level difference or a uncut portion is prevented from being left between adjoining worked regions without forming any useless worked region. A lathe sectional shape forming unit ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028453 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An object is to provide a method for manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device in which a time required for removing a sacrificial oxide film can be shortened and damage to a surface of the silicon carbide layer can be reduced. The method for manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device includes: (a) performing ion implantation to a silicon carbide layer; (b) performing activation annealing to the ion-implanted silicon carbide layer 2; (c) removing a surface layer of the silicon carbide layer 2, to which the activation annealing has been performed, by dry etching; (d) forming a sacrificial oxide film on a surface layer of the silicon carbide layer, to which the dry etching has been performed, by performing sacrificial oxidation thereto; and (e) removing the sacrificial oxide film by wet etching. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027160 | SHIFT REGISTER CIRCUIT - A shift register circuit is provided that can suppress a decrease in a drive capability when a frequency of a clock signal increases. A unit shift register includes a first transistor for supplying a clock signal to an output terminal, a pull-up driving circuit for driving the first transistor, a second transistor for discharging the output terminal, and a pull-down driving circuit for driving the second transistor. In the pull-up driving circuit, the gate of a third transistor charging the gate of the first transistor is charged in accordance with activation of an output signal of preceding stage, and the potential at the gate of the third transistor is increased with a capacitive element. As a result, the third transistor operates in the non-saturated region. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025746 | MOTOR, ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MOTOR - In a motor driven by a drive circuit such as an inverter, there is a problem that electric current flowing through a bearing causes electric corrosion, which impairs the durability of the bearing. A motor of the invention includes: a stator in which a winding is applied through an insulating part to a stator core formed by laminating a predetermined number of electromagnetic steel plates which have been punched into a predetermined shape; a rotor assembly in which a rotor and bearings and formed by rolling bearings are fitted to a shaft; a printed wiring board which is arranged at an end part of the stator in an axial direction and to which a drive circuit is mounted; a bracket imposed to at least the end part of the stator in the axial direction to which the printed wiring board is arranged; and a conductive sheet provided between the printed wiring board and the bracket. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025657 | VEHICLE AC GENERATOR - In order to provide a vehicle AC generator capable of easily setting an attachment direction of a battery terminal and reducing the total shaft length of the generator, in the vehicle AC generator including a case composed of a front bracket and a rear bracket, and a rotor and a stator which are arranged in the case, the vehicle AC generator includes a battery terminal arranged on an outer circumferential portion of the rear bracket, an engaging body provided on the battery terminal, and a plurality of fitting portions to which the engaging body is fitted. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025366 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises: forming a circuit pattern and a first metal film on a first major surface of a body wafer; forming a through-hole penetrating the body wafer from a second major surface of the body wafer and reaching the first metal film; forming a second metal film on a part of the second major surface of the body wafer, on an inner wall of the through-hole, and on the first metal film exposed in the through-hole; forming a recess on a first major surface of a lid wafer; forming a third metal film on the first major surface of the lid wafer including inside the recess of the lid wafer; with the recess facing the circuit pattern, and the first metal film contacting the third metal film, joining the lid wafer to the body wafer; and dicing the joined body wafer and lid wafer along the through-hole. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025263 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A plurality of cell structures of a vertical power device are formed at a semiconductor substrate. One cell structure included in the plurality of cell structures and located in a central portion CR of the main surface has a lower current carrying ability than the other cell structure included in the plurality of cell structures and located in an outer peripheral portion PR of the main surface. This provides a power semiconductor device having a long power cycle life. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120024636 | ELEVATOR DERAILMENT DETECTING APPARATUS - In an elevator derailment detecting apparatus, first and second conducting wires are disposed parallel to a direction of raising and lowering of an ascending/descending body inside a hoistway. First and second contacts that respectively contact the first and second conducting wires if the ascending/descending body disengages from a guide rail are mounted to the ascending/descending body. The first conducting wire is set to positive electric potential, and the second conducting wire is set to ground electric potential. The detecting portion detects by the presence or absence of conduction between the first contact and the first conducting wire whether or not the ascending/descending body is disengaged from the guide rail. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120024513 | COOLING STRUCTURE, HEATSINK AND COOLING METHOD OF HEAT GENERATOR - A cooling structure includes a heat dissipation structure having a heat generator and a heatsink that is adhered through an insulating adhesive layer to at least a surface of the heat generator that faces a cooling fluid and made of a metal foil having the flexibility. A fluid flow path is disposed outside of the heat dissipation structure so that the cooling fluid flowing inside thereof and the heatsink may directly come into contact. Further, a fine recess is disposed on a surface of the heatsink that directly comes into contact with the cooling fluid. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120024506 | SWITCHGEAR - In order to obtain a switchgear which can improve heat dissipation efficiency, in the switchgear which dissipates heat outside an apparatus vessel, the heat being generated from an electrical apparatus placed in the apparatus vessel, the switchgear includes a first heat conductor in which one side is connected to a heat generation portion of the apparatus vessel and the other side is extended toward the apparatus vessel side, a second heat conductor in which one side is disposed near the other side of the first heat conductor and the other side is extended outside the apparatus vessel, and an insulating member between conductors disposed between the other side of the first heat conductor and one side of the second heat conductor. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120023984 | AIR CONDITIONER - In a compressor shell built in an outdoor unit of an air conditioner, a compressor shell thermistor that detects a temperature of the shell is installed. Also, an outside air temperature thermistor that detects an outside air temperature is installed in an outdoor unit. The outside air temperature is compared with the compressor shell temperature, and if the shell temperature is higher than the outside air temperature, a compressor heating device is invalidated. If the shell temperature is lower than the outside air temperature, it is determined as a refrigerant collection condition, and the compressor heating device is operated. Also, if the shell temperature is higher than the outside air temperature by a certain temperature or more, the operation of the compressor heating device is stopped so that wasteful standby power is reduced, and energy of the apparatus is saved. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120023722 | ELEVATOR RENOVATION METHOD - A method for renovating an existing elevator includes connecting a new group supervising apparatus that is connected to new landing operating panels to an existing elevator controlling apparatuses by a relaying apparatus that includes a relay panel and an input/output panel to enable existing elevator cars to be operated by the new group supervising apparatus. The existing group supervising apparatus is removed with the landing operating panels. New elevator cars and new elevator controlling apparatuses are substituted for the existing elevator controlling apparatuses together with the existing elevator cars. The new elevator controlling apparatuses are connected to the relaying apparatus to enable the new elevator cars to be operated by the new group supervising apparatus. The renovating method enables substitution of a new system of group supervised elevators without losing overall elevator service during a refurbishment transition period, and enables an elevator to be refurbished without losing elevator operating efficiency. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120022797 | SWITCHING-DEVICE REMAINING LIFETIME DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND APPARATUS - There are provided a switching-device remaining lifetime diagnosis method and a switching-device remaining lifetime diagnosis apparatus, wherein as status amount history data, there are accumulated status amounts related to a deterioration status of a switching device, estimated based on measurement data obtained through measurement of performance characteristics of the switching device; based on the accumulated status amount history data, there are created a plurality of system data pieces in which the status amounts are arranged with the respective abscissas of an elapsed time during an operation period of the switching device, the number of operations of the switching device, an inoperative time of the switching device, and an accumulated operation time of the switching device; based on the created system data pieces, the remaining lifetime of the switching device is estimated. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120022682 | NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE - A numerical control device according to the invention is a numerical control device for a multi-spindle machine tool including a rotation axis and controlling a tool attitude relative to a machining workpiece, including a first storage device capable of recording a machining program; a second storage device capable of storing coordinate systems; and a central processing unit capable of executing the machining program, selecting a coordinate system suitable for machining from among the coordinate systems stored in the second storage device based on the tool attitude set by the machining program or an external input, and outputting data for machining the workpiece on the selected coordinate system. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020056 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A display device where concentration of a stress in a display panel is suppressed, to allow improvement in display quality, reliability and the like. A display device includes a display panel, an adhesive layer and a supporting substrate. The adhesive layer is provided on the display panel. The supporting substrate is made up of a member previously provided with curved surfaces. The display panel is bonded onto the curved surface of the supporting substrate by the adhesive layer. The supporting substrate supports the display panel in a curved form along the curved surface. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020025 | COOLING STRUCTURE OF CAPACITOR AND INVERTER DEVICE - A cooling structure of a capacitor includes a snubber capacitor in which lead terminals are joined to external electrodes of a laminated ceramic electronic component; a circuit board which is for mounting the snubber capacitor and semiconductor switching elements; and a heat dissipation plate which is made of metal that dissipates the heat generated in the circuit board. The cooling structure of the capacitor is configured such that an insulating member having a high coefficient of thermal conductivity intervenes between the snubber capacitor and the heat dissipation plate. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019183 | DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEM - A rotary breaker that interrupts a transmission of a driving force from a motor to a drive mechanism unit is provided between the motor having a permanent magnet incorporated therein and the drive mechanism unit of an electric vehicle. A second controller controls the rotary breaker based on operation states of a power converting unit that has a power converter that drives the motor by converting a direct-current voltage or an alternate-current voltage into an alternate-current voltage with an arbitrary frequency and a first controller that controls the power converter, operation states of the motor and the rotary breaker, and an operation state of the second controller itself. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019178 | POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING CAPACITOR VOLTAGE OF POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS - A power conversion apparatus includes: a line breaker that is connected in series to a direct-current power supply; a first capacitor that is connected in parallel to the direct-current power supply through the line breaker; a discharge circuit that includes a resistor and a first switching circuit connected in series and is connected in parallel to the first capacitor; a power converter for driving a synchronous machine; a second capacitor that is connected in parallel to a direct-current side of the power converter; a second switching circuit that is connected in series between the first capacitor and the second capacitor; and a control circuit for controlling the discharge circuit. The control circuit controls the discharge circuit on the basis of the voltage of the first capacitor and the voltage of the second capacitor. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018639 | INFRARED SENSOR AND AIR CONDITIONER - In an infrared sensor | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018257 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - In an elevator system in which a user registers a destination call by inputting his or her personal information before boarding an elevator car, it is ensured that information on an assigned car can be appropriately provided, and that the user is able to easily make sure of the elevator car to board even after the registration of a destination call. For this purpose, there are installed in an elevator hall or the like a destination call registration device with which a user registers a destination call before boarding the elevator car and an assigned car confirming device with which a user makes sure of an assigned car by inputting his or her personal information. When an elevator has been assigned to a destination call registered from the destination call registration device, regarding the destination call for which the assignment has been performed, information on an assigned car and personal information of a user are stored in storage means by associating these pieces of information with each other. When personal information of a user has been inputted, the assigned car confirming device provides information on the assigned car of the user on the basis of the personal information and the memory content in the storage means. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018129 | TEMPERATURE ADJUSTING APPARATUS, FLUID SUPPLY SYSTEM, HEATING SYSTEM, INSTALLATION METHOD OF TEMPERATURE ADJUSTING APPARATUS, AND FLUID SUPPLY METHOD - It is aimed to simultaneously supply hot water at a required temperature to a high-temperature heating appliance and hot water at a required temperature to a low-temperature heating appliance, the low-temperature heating appliance requiring hot water at a temperature lower than a temperature required by the high-temperature heating appliance, and to enhance efficiency by collecting surplus heat when the temperature of the hot water to be supplied to the low-temperature heating appliance is adjusted. A pipe through which flows the hot water at a high temperature to be supplied to the high-temperature heating appliance is branched into a first supply pipe and a second supply pipe. Heat exchange is effected between the hot water flowing through the first supply pipe and return water which has been supplied to a first appliance. The first supply pipe and the second supply pipe are joined again, so that the hot water which has flowed through the first supply pipe and the hot water which has flowed through the second supply pipe are mixed and supplied to the low-temperature heating appliance. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018117 | INDOOR UNIT OF AIR CONDITIONER AND AIR CONDITIONER - An indoor unit includes a casing having a suction port formed in an upper part and a blow-out port formed on a lower side at a front face part, an axial-flow or diagonal-flow fan provided on the downstream side of the suction port in the casing, and a heat exchanger provided on the downstream side of the fan and on the upstream side of the blow-out port in the casing, in which air blown out of the fan and refrigerant are heat-exchanged. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017986 | PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The method includes: steps of forming an n-type diffusion layer having an n-type impurity diffused thereon at a first surface side of a p-type silicon substrate; forming a reflection prevention film on the n-type diffusion layer; forming a back-surface passivation film made of an SiONH film on a second surface of the silicon substrate; forming a paste material containing silver in a front-surface electrode shape on the reflection prevention film; forming a front surface electrode that is contacted to the n-type diffusion layer by sintering the silicon substrate; forming a paste material containing a metal in a back-surface electrode shape on the back-surface passivation film; and forming a back surface electrode by melting a metal in the paste material by irradiating laser light onto a forming position of the back surface electrode and by solidifying the molten metal. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017630 | ELECTROSTATIC ATOMIZING APPARATUS, APPLIANCE, AIR CONDITIONER, AND REFRIGERATOR - It is an object to provide an electrostatic atomizing apparatus which is simply structured, is easy to assemble, is low in cost, has clogging resistance against foreign matter, can be used for a long time, and is highly reliable, or a home electrical appliance such as a refrigerator, air conditioner, etc. including the electrostatic atomizing apparatus. A discharge electrode formed of foam metal, whereto water that attaches to a surface is supplied by capillary action, a counter electrode provided so as to be opposed to the discharge electrode, and a water supply means that is provided directly above the discharge electrode via a predetermined clearance, supplying water to the discharge electrode or the electrode holding part, are included. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017628 | ELECTROSTATIC ATOMIZING APPARATUS, APPLIANCE, AIR CONDITIONER, AND REFRIGERATOR - It is an object to provide an electrostatic atomizing apparatus which is simply structured, is easy to assemble, is low in cost, has clogging resistance against foreign matter, can be used for a long time, and is highly reliable, or a home electrical appliance such as a refrigerator, air conditioner, etc. including the electrostatic atomizing apparatus. A discharge electrode formed of foam metal, whereto water that attaches to a surface is supplied by capillary action, a counter electrode provided so as to be opposed to the discharge electrode, and a water supply means that is provided directly above the discharge electrode via a predetermined clearance, supplying water to the discharge electrode or the electrode holding part, are included. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017619 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - There are provided an electric energy meter with a transmission device that generates a pulse signal for measuring electric energy supplied to an outdoor unit, an input circuit for an external signal that receives the pulse signal, and a control unit that measures electric energy on the basis of the pulse signal, wherein the control unit includes a determination unit that determines, as an input port for the pulse signal, one of input ports that are not in use from among a plurality of input ports forming the input circuit for an external signal, and a calculation unit that calculates electric power, electric energy consumption, and energy consumption efficiency on the basis of the pulse signal. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017460 | HAND DRYER - A hand dryer includes a hand drying chamber that includes a hand insertion opening from which a hand is inserted, a first wall section that faces the hand inserted from the hand insertion opening, a second wall section that faces the hand and the first wall section, and a plurality of air nozzle sections, which extends in a direction from the hand insertion opening to a far side and jets a high-speed air, on any one of the first wall section and the second wall section, and a distance between the air nozzle sections in a horizontal direction is wide on a side of the hand insertion opening and is narrow on the far side. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017459 | HAND DRYER - A hand dryer includes a hand drying chamber that includes a hand insertion opening from which a hand is inserted, a first wall section that faces the hand inserted from the hand insertion, opening, a second wall section that faces the hand and the first wall section, and a plurality of air nozzle sections, which extends in a direction from the hand insertion opening to a far side and jets a high-speed air, on any one of the first wall section and the second wall section, wherein a distance between the first wall section or the second wall section that faces the air nozzle sections and the air nozzle sections is large in an upper portion and is small in a lower portion. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120016514 | NUMERICAL CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRODUCTION SYSTEM - A numerical control apparatus includes a machining-program reading unit that reads a command issued from a machining program, a command-path storing unit that stores a pre-compression command path in a pre-compression command path buffer, a compression processing unit that creates new one post-compression command path connecting start points and end points of a continuous plurality of pre-compression command paths, a movement-data creating unit that creates tool movement data necessary for correcting the post-compression command path to a tool movement path and interpolating the tool movement path, and an interpolation processing unit that interpolates the tool movement path and calculates a tool position using both the pre-compression command path stored by the command-path creating unit and the tool movement data of the tool movement path after compression created by the movement-data creating unit. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016507 | PROCESSING SIMULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM MAKING COMPUTER EXECUTE THE METHOD - A processing simulation method and apparatus is provided, which can appropriately detect interference between a tool processing area and a shape model of a material without being affected by the accuracy of expression of a tool movement path and the shape model. A tool shape model for processing a material, that includes a strict tool shape, and a tool shape model for checking interference, that is included in the strict tool shape, are generated by tool model setting unit according to an error range set in consideration of the tool movement path and the expression accuracy of the shape model, and the processed material shape model is generated by generating a tool processing area shape model from the tool movement path during processing feed and the tool shape model for processing the material and removing the tool processing area shape model from the material shape model. The tool processing area shape model is generated from a tool movement path during fast feed and the tool shape model for detecting the interference, and the interference between the tool processing area shape model and the material shape model is detected. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120015470 | METHOD FOR ROUGHENING SUBSTRATE SURFACE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - A method of roughening a substrate surface includes forming an opening in a protection film formed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, performing a first etching process using an acid solution by utilizing the protection film as a mask so as to form a first concave under the opening and its vicinity area, performing an etching process by using the protection film as a mask so as to remove an oxide film formed on a surface of the first concave, performing anisotropic etching by using the protection film as a mask so as to form a second concave under the opening and its vicinity area, and removing the protection film. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014485 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE - A prediction error calculating unit | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014395 | COMMUNICATION ADAPTER APPARATUS - An object is to provide a communication adapter apparatus that allows main equipment to be easily connected to a plurality of communication networks based on different communication protocols. The communication adapter apparatus according to the present invention is a communication adapter apparatus connecting main equipment to a communication network, which includes a main equipment interface section connecting to the main equipment, a memory that stores a plurality of communication protocol stacks corresponding to various communication networks, a microcomputer, an Ethernet (registered trademark) communication connecting connector that is connected to the communication network, and a communication control circuit for controlling transmission and reception of communication data, in which the microcomputer includes a protocol selecting section for selecting any one from among the plurality of communication protocol stacks and a protocol abstraction section for performing data conversion for the data that the main equipment transmits to and receives from a communication network in accordance with a protocol stack selected by the protocol selecting section. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014139 | POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS - In a power converting apparatus which converts AC power into DC power, an inverter circuit including at least one series-connected single-phase inverter is connected in a downstream of a stage in which an AC input is rectified in series therewith. In the downstream stage of the inverter circuit, there are provided a smoothing capacitor connected via a rectifier diode and a short-circuiting switch for bypassing the smoothing capacitor. The short-circuiting switch is set to an ON state only in each of short-circuiting phase ranges of which midpoint matches each of zero-crossing phases and an output of the inverter circuit is controlled by using a current command so that a DC voltage of the smoothing capacitor follows a target voltage and an input power factor is improved. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013427 | TRANSFORMER - A transformer includes a tank that is attached under a floor of a vehicle, the tank being for housing an iron core, a coil, and an insulating liquid, thereby immersing the iron core and the coil in the insulating liquid; and a cooling unit for air-cooling the insulating liquid that has flowed from tank and returning the insulating liquid to tank, the cooling unit including a plurality of pipes arranged to be spaced from one another such that a spacing in a region relatively closer to floor of the vehicle is greater than a spacing in a region relatively away from floor of the vehicle. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013371 | GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT - A gate driving circuit for driving a voltage-driven switching device is provided with a current limiting circuit for limiting a gate current ig that flows into a gate terminal through a gate resistor at turn-on to a current limit value IL which defines an upper limit value. The current limit value IL is set at a value which is larger than a gate current value I | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013349 | METHOD OF MEASURING CHARACTERISTICS OF A SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A measurement terminal is arranged at an edge of a semiconductor wafer to be apart from a gate electrode and a source electrode formed in a surface portion on one side in a thickness direction of a semiconductor wafer so that an electrode contact portion is in contact with a drain electrode on the other side in the thickness direction of the semiconductor wafer and that a terminal contact portion is exposed to the one side in the thickness direction of the semiconductor wafer. A probe terminal is brought into contact with the terminal contact portion of the measurement terminal and the probe terminal is brought into contact with the gate electrode and the source electrode, to thereby measure electrical characteristics of a MOSFET. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013208 | Motor for Vehicle - A motor for a vehicle is installed in a railway train and has a fan that is mounted on a rotor shaft and that causes the outside air into the motor. The motor for a vehicle includes a stopper that is fixed in between a bearing, which supports the rotor shaft, and the fan, which is inserted from that side of the rotor shaft at which the bearing lies. The stopper is configured to fit with the fan. The fan has a linear expansion coefficient set to be greater than linear expansion coefficients of the rotor shaft and the stopper. The fan is configured to be fittable with the stopper using bolts that are inserted from outside toward the stopper. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012947 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a gate pad, a gate wiring conductor connected to the gate pad, and a gate electrode formed under the gate pad and the gate wiring conductor. Portions of the gate electrode closer to the gate pad have a higher resistance per unit area than portions of the gate electrode farther away from the gate pad. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012738 | MULTIPLE WAVELENGTH RECEIVER MODULE - A multiple wavelength light detector module includes an optical fiber emitting an optical signal including light of multiple wavelengths, a prism on which the optical signal is incident, a total reflection mirror bonded to a first surface of the prism, a bandpass filter bonded to a second surface of the prism, opposite the first surface, and a photodetector for detecting optical beams exiting the bandpass filter. The first surface extends at an angle with respect to the second surface. When light is incident on the bandpass filter, the bandpass filter transmits only light of a particular wavelength determined by the angle of incidence of the light, and reflects light of remaining wavelengths in the light. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012297 | AIR CONDITIONER - In an air conditioner according to the present invention, an indoor unit includes an indoor air temperature detection unit to detect an indoor air temperature, a floor/wall/ceiling temperature detection unit to detect a floor and wall temperature and a ceiling ambient temperature, and a control device including a microcomputer in which a program relating to control of the air conditioner is embedded, wherein, in heating operation or ventilation operation, the control device performs circulator operation of moving air accumulating near a ceiling to a floor when the ceiling ambient temperature detected by the floor/wall/ceiling temperature detection unit becomes higher, by a predetermined threshold value or more, than an indoor air preset temperature set by a user. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012291 | PLATE HEAT EXCHANGER AND REFRIGERATION AIR CONDITIONER - It is aimed to enhance the strength of a plate heat exchanger while maintaining the heat exchange capability of the plate heat exchanger. A plate heat exchanger | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120011739 | HAND DRYER APPARATUS - A hand dryer apparatus includes a high-pressure airflow generator that generates a high pressure airflow, a control circuit that controls the high-pressure airflow generator, a power connecting unit that connects a commercial power source to the control circuit, a main body that forms a hull by housing the high-pressure airflow generator, the control circuit, and the power connecting unit, and nozzles that are formed in the main body and blows out the high pressure airflow created by the high-pressure airflow generator; further includes a panel composing a part of the main body and is detachable by a tool, and switching units that are housed in the main body and can switch a setting of the hand dryer apparatus, and enables access to the power connecting unit and the switching unit by removing the panel. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120010766 | NAVIGATION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR SHIP - To propose a ship navigation control system that can easily and automatically switch between a target throttle opening for constant velocity navigation control and a target throttle opening corresponding to a lever operation amount of an operation lever. Throttle control means includes first computation means that computes a first target throttle opening for constant velocity navigation control of a ship based on a constant velocity navigation command using at least a ship velocity signal and a target ship velocity command signal, second computation means that computes a second target throttle opening corresponding to the lever operation amount, and a selection and output means that selects one having a smaller value of the first target throttle opening and the second target throttle opening and outputs the one as a throttle opening. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120010738 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE - An audio signal processing device | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009801 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a silicon carbide MOSFET, interface state generated at an interface between a silicon carbide layer and a gate insulating film cannot be reduced sufficiently, and mobility of a carrier is decreased. To solve this problem, a silicon carbide semiconductor device according to this invention includes a substrate introduction step of introducing a substrate, which includes a silicon carbide layer on which a gate insulating film is formed, in a furnace, and a heating step of heating the furnace having the substrate introduced therein while introducing nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen therein, wherein, in the heating step, nitrogen is reacted to nitride an interface between the gate insulating film and the silicon carbide layer. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009078 | VANE COMPRESSOR - A vane compressor according to the present invention, including a cylinder which is approximately cylindrical and whose both ends located in an axial direction are open, a cylinder head and a frame which close both the ends of the cylinder, a rotor shaft which includes a rotor part being cylindrical and rotating in the cylinder and a shaft part transmitting torque to the rotor part, and a vane which is installed in the rotor part and whose tip portion has the R-shape facing outward, performs the compression operation in the state where the normal to the R-shape of the tip portion of the vane and the normal to the inner surface of the cylinder are always approximately coincident with each other. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009059 | MULTIBLADE FAN - To provide a multiblade fan that enables an improvement in noise characteristics or blowing performance. The multiblade fan includes a scroll type casing that has a bell-mouthed inlet and an impeller housed in the casing. The impeller includes a plurality of blades and a rotation axis m oriented toward the inlet of the casing. The blades are annularly arranged. In the multiblade fan, a center axis of the inlet and the rotation axis of the impeller are arranged at a tilt angle to each other and in any one of an intersecting positional relationship and a skew-lines positional relationship so that a space between the inlet and the impeller increases from the rotation axis of the impeller toward an outlet of the casing. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008963 | OPTICAL MODULATOR, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND BIAS ADJUSTING METHOD - Included are a first modulator, a second modulator, a first optical amplifier that amplifies an output of the first modulator at an amplification factor based on a first bias signal, a second optical amplifier that amplifies an output of the second modulator at an amplification factor based on a second bias signal, an optical phase adjuster that phase-rotates an output of the second optical amplifier, an optical multiplexer that multiplexes an output of the first optical amplifier with an output of the optical phase adjuster, and a second bias corrector that generates a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal, which are complementary to each other, and obtains a first bias value and a second bias value based on a change of strength of an output signal of the optical multiplexer. The first and second pulse signals are superimposed on the first and second bias signals, respectively. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008289 | OPTICAL MODULE - Provided is an optical module in which wiring density may be reduced to ensure isolation between lines to reduce crosstalk. A flexible printed circuit includes: dielectric layers; a first pattern facing portion including a first ground conductor pattern and a first wiring pattern electrically connected to an electric terminal, which are facing each other through the dielectric layer; and a second pattern facing portion including a second ground conductor pattern and a second wiring pattern electrically connected to the electric terminal, which are facing each other through the dielectric layer, the second pattern facing portion facing the first pattern facing portion, in which when the dielectric layer is bent along a portion between the first pattern facing portion and the second pattern facing portion, at least one of the first ground conductor pattern and the second ground conductor pattern is located between the first wiring pattern and the second wiring pattern. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007569 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE AC GENERATOR - A control device for a vehicle AC generator, in which a part can be shared even when electrical configuration positions of field coils of rotors of generators are different, is obtained. Switching elements connected in series to the field coil in order to control a field current; and a control signal processing unit, in which information as to whether the field coil is connected to the high potential side or connected to the low potential side is inputted, one of the high potential side terminal and the low potential side terminal is selected on the basis of the inputted information, a control signal is outputted, and ON/OFF control of the switching element is performed to control the field current of the field coil, are provided. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007540 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE - Provided is a motor control device which realizes automatic adjustment of control of a motor for driving a mechanical load through a simple operation. The motor control device includes: a follow-up control unit ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007539 | NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE - In order to obtain an NC device that can easily shift by an arbitrary amount a main spindle single-revolution reference signal without being dependant on hardware and while rotating a main spindle, the NC device includes a main spindle reference angle correction amount setting unit for inputting a correction angle of a reference point, a main spindle within-single-revolution feed-back position correction unit for correcting the reference point by a correction angle set by the main spindle reference angle correction amount setting unit, and a main spindle within-single-revolution command position correction unit for correcting a main spindle within-single-revolution command position by the correction angle set by the main spindle reference angle correction amount setting unit. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007153 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes: a compound semiconductor substrate; a buffer layer, a channel layer, and a Schottky junction forming layer sequentially disposed on the compound semiconductor substrate, the buffer layer, the channel layer, and the Schottky junction forming layer each being compound semiconductor materials; a source electrode and a drain electrode located on the Schottky junction forming layer; and a gate electrode disposed between the source and drain electrodes and forming a Schottky junction with the Schottky junction forming layer. The dopant impurity concentration in the channel layer is inversely proportional to the third power of depth into the channel layer from a top surface of the channel layer. The gate electrode has a gate length in a range from 0.2 μm to 0.6 μm. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007089 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - In the array substrate where the display region has the non-quadrangle shape, a sub-capacitance line which forms a sub-capacitance is disposed at the pixel, a intersection region of the scanning lead-out line and a signal lead-out line is located at the frame region on the outside of the display region, a common lead-out line which connects the sub-capacitance line in common is disposed at the frame region side where the scanning lead-out line is disposed, the common lead-out line is not disposed in the intersection region, but disposed in a region between a region of the scanning lead-out line and a region of the signal lead-out line while intersecting any one of the scanning lead-out line and the signal lead-out line. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006982 | ROTARY ENCODER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A rotating shaft; a boss that has a fitting hole formed in a center portion thereof, has a clean adhering surface at an end thereof, and is configured so that the rotating shaft is fitted into the fitting hole while the boss is fixed to the rotating shaft by a fixing member; a pulse disk that has an interference-fit hole formed in a center portion thereof for the rotating shaft, has a clean adhesion-receiving surface in a surrounding of the interference-fit hole, is configured so that the rotating shaft is pressed into the interference-fit hole and so that the adhesion-receiving surface is adhered to the adhering surface of the boss by an adhesive agent, and has a position detecting pattern formed thereon; a light emitting element that radiates light; and a light receiving element that receives the light from the light emitting element via the position detecting pattern are included. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006631 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - An elevator system in which a controller monitors whether or not a speed of an ascending/descending body reaches a preset overspeed. At a time of maintenance work, a stopper is interposed between a buffer and the ascending/descending body to limit a lowered position of the ascending/descending body. Stopper detection means detects installation of the stopper onto at least one of the buffer and the ascending/descending body. When the stopper is detected by the stopper detection means, the controller lowers a set value of the overspeed. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006628 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - An elevator system in which a controller monitors whether or not a speed of an ascending/descending body reaches a preset overspeed. At a time of maintenance work, a stopper is interposed between a buffer and the ascending/descending body to limit a lowered position of the ascending/descending body. Stopper detection means detects installation of the stopper onto at least one of the buffer and the ascending/descending body. When the stopper is detected by the stopper detection means, the controller lowers a set value of the overspeed. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006262 | APPARATUS FOR FORMING THIN FILM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR FILM - An apparatus including a vacuum chamber having a substrate holding unit that holds a substrate and a plasma electrode facing the substrate, a first gas supply unit that supplies a H | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006050 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - Use side heat exchangers, an intermediate heat exchanger that heats a heat medium flowing to the use side heat exchangers, an intermediate heat exchanger that cools the heat medium flowing to the use side heat exchangers, three-way valves that switch between a flow path connecting the intermediate heat exchanger to the use side heat exchangers and a flow path connecting the intermediate heat exchanger to the use side heat exchangers, and three-way valves and bypasses that control the flow rate of the heat medium flowing into the use side heat exchangers are included. When at least one of the use side heat exchangers is switched from a stop state to an operation state or switched to another operation mode, the flow rate of the heat medium flowing into this use side heat exchanger is suppressed, and a change in air output temperature in the use side heat exchangers other than this use side heat exchanger is suppressed. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120005755 | INFECTION INSPECTION SYSTEM, INFECTION INSPECTION METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - When detecting a traffic abnormality, an abnormality detection apparatus | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005743 | INTERNAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INTERNAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A relay apparatus log analysis apparatus 132 periodically receives log data from a relay apparatus 112, when detecting a traffic abnormality, an abnormality detection apparatus 131 notifies the IP address of a terminal device that has caused the abnormality to the relay apparatus log analysis apparatus 132, the relay apparatus log analysis apparatus 132 analyzes traffic information generated by a router apparatus 121 to identify a time when the traffic abnormality has occurred, the relay apparatus log analysis apparatus 132 analyzes the log data, based on the occurrence time of the traffic abnormality and the IP address of the terminal device that has caused the abnormality, identifies an address accessed by the terminal device, regards the identified address as the destination from the malware, and sets the relay apparatus 112 so as to block a packet to the address. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120003867 | CONNECTOR PORT - A connector port provided on the outer surface of a housing of an electronic device includes: a connector holding section that is formed in the housing and has a connector opening; and an opening/closing cover including an attaching section that is screwed to the connector holding section, a flat cover section that is pivotably supported by the attaching section at the proximal end thereof and opens and closes the connector opening, and an elastically deforming section that is provided at the distal end of the cover section and elastically deforms to engage in the connector holding section. The connector holding section is formed as a recess on the outer surface of the housing, the opening/closing cover is housed in the recess, and the outer surface of the housing and the outer surface of the cover section are substantially flush with each other. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002661 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND RECEIVING DEVICE - A wireless communication system includes a transmission device including plural transmission antennas and a receiving device including plural reception antennas. The transmission device includes a branching unit that branches a signal into plural transmission signals respectively passing plural signal lines each corresponding to each of the transmission antennas and delay units provided on at least one of the signal lines to apply a delay to the transmission signal. When a transmission signal branched by the branching unit is applied with a delay by the delay units, the transmission device sets the transmission signal on which the delay is applied as the transmission signal, and transmits the transmission signals to the receiving device via the transmission antennas. The receiving device includes delay units provided on at least one of plural signal lines that respectively pass plural reception signals received at the reception antennas to apply a delay to the reception signal and a combining unit that sets the reception signal on which the delay is applied as the reception signal, and combines the reception signals. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002633 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND FREQUENCY ALLOCATION METHOD - A communication system in which a base station selects any one of a continuous allocation scheme of allocating frequency bands continuously and a discrete allocation scheme of allocating frequency bands discretely and performs allocation of frequency bands to a user terminal. If the discrete allocation scheme is selected, the base station divides the frequency bands to be allocated into sub blocks on the basis of predetermined discrete allocation information for imposing a constraint on a discrete allocation state, and generates a control signal on the basis of the discrete allocation information (S | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002629 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A SHIFTING PARAMETER TO BE USED BY A TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR TRANSFERRING SYMBOLS - A method for determining a shifting parameter P to be used by a telecommunication device for mapping symbols on sub-carriers, the telecommunication device including at least two transmit antennas, the symbols being transferred through each antenna of the telecommunication device on at least an even number K, strictly greater than two, of sub-carriers allocated to the telecommunication device. The telecommunication device transfers on a first antenna on each sub-carrier ‘k’, a signal representing a symbol ‘X | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002358 | INPUT/OUTPUT UNIT - An input/output unit includes: input/output subunits each including an input/output card that has front-side connectors, which are engaged with back-unit connectors on a back unit of a control device, mounted on a front edge of a substrate and has mounted on a rear edge of the substrate, rear-side connectors to be engaged with connectors of field devices and a card holder that has at a front side, guide shafts to be inserted into guide holes of the back unit and holds the input/output card; and a case which is formed with slots into which the input/output subunits are inserted with a gap, which is formed on a front plate with a long hole into which the back-unit connectors are inserted with a gap and with shaft holes through which the guide shafts are penetrated from inside with a gap, and which is attached to the back unit. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001837 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE - An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of pairs of a TFT including a gate electrode and a gate insulating film formed on an insulating substrate, a channel layer made of at least one of a crystalline semiconductor film and an amorphous semiconductor film, and a source electrode and a drain electrode, and a pixel electrode arranged in an array. The channel layer is formed within a formation area of the gate electrode, the source electrode and the drain electrode are formed within a formation area of the channel layer, a source line is formed above the gate insulating film in a position spaced from the gate electrode, and the source line is connected to the source electrode through a connection line made of an oxide conductive film formed on top of the source electrode and extending from the top of the source electrode. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001597 | ELECTRIC POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS - A microcomputer that exercises driving control and power-generation control over a motor generator unit and a power-generation maintaining unit that, separately from the power-generation control exercised by the microcomputer, maintains a power-generation process performed by the motor generator unit are provided. While the microcomputer is operating normally, the power-generation maintaining unit allows the microcomputer to exercise the power-generation control. When an abnormality has occurred in the microcomputer, the power-generation maintaining unit maintains the power-generation process performed by the motor generator unit, in an autonomous manner independently of the microcomputer. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001587 | POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS - A power converting apparatus including a power converter that converts a DC voltage into an AC voltage and applies the AC voltage to an AC rotating machine and a control unit that controls the power converter based on an operation command from the outside is provided. The power converting apparatus includes: a first calculating unit that calculates and outputs, from a d-axis current detection value and a q-axis current detection value detected by the AC rotating machine and current command values based on the operation command, first voltage command values to the power converter, magnetic fluxes of the AC rotating machine, and an angular frequency; and a second calculating unit that sets, as an initial value, at least one of the magnetic fluxes and the angular frequency input from the first calculating unit and calculates and outputs second voltage command value to the power converter and an angular frequency. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001586 | Power Conversion Device - A power conversion device includes a converter-inverter controller for controlling a converter and an inverter. The power conversion device further includes a DC capacitor connected between the converter and the inverter and a DC capacitor voltage detector for detecting a DC capacitor voltage Efc between the connection ends of the DC capacitor. The converter-inverter controller provides variable control on the DC capacitor voltage Efc to the converter on the basis of the motor frequency of an AC motor, the DC capacitor voltage Efc, and a pulse mode. Within a predetermined range of motor frequencies, the converter-inverter controller fixes the PWM modulation factor of the inverter to a value m | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001573 | CONTROLLER FOR AC ROTARY MACHINE - A controller for an AC rotary machine which performs a smooth drive from a low-speed region including zero speed to a high-speed region, and which can attain, even if an initial value error is present in an estimated phase, desired characteristics by promptly converging the error. An adaptive observation mechanism outputs an estimated magnetic flux phase, an estimated current vector, an estimated magnetic flux vector, and an estimated speed, based on a voltage instruction vector, a current deviation vector, and an amplified deviation vector; a deviation vector calculator calculates the current deviation vector between the estimated current vector and a detected current vector from a current vector detector, and a magnetic flux deviation vector between the estimated magnetic flux vector and a detected magnetic flux vector from a magnetic flux vector detector; and a deviation amplifier amplifies the current deviation vector and the magnetic flux deviation vector, and outputs the result as the amplified deviation vector. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001188 | TRANSFLECTIVE TYPE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A method of manufacturing a transflective type liquid crystal display device includes forming an organic film having different film thicknesses on a passivation film covering a TFT, etching the passivation film to form a contact hole, etching a reflective electrode and a transmissive electrode formed on the organic film by using a resist pattern having different film thicknesses, removing, by ashing, a thin film portion of the resist pattern, and a thin film portion of the organic film exposed from the transmissive electrode to form an opening, etching the reflective electrode by using the resist pattern left after the removal of the thin film portion, and bonding substrates in such a manner that a sealing material in a shape of a frame is arranged in the opening of the organic film. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001029 | TRAIN INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM AND TRAIN INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE - In a train information display system that displays an operation information on each train in a train, a ground system adds the information on the degree of influence on the passengers of each train to the operation information, and transmits the resultant operation information to a transmission-reception device. A content data server stores in advance, as normal-time display information, at least one of advertisement information and destination guidance information that are to be displayed during normal operations. Instruction output devices instruct content display units to display the operation information and normal-time display information in a display sequence corresponding to the influence information received by the transmission-reception device. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120000518 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A photoelectric conversion device is provided in which a first photoelectric conversion module having a plurality of first photoelectric conversion elements formed on one surface of a first translucent insulated substrate and a second photoelectric conversion module having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements formed on one surface of a second translucent insulated substrate are bonded together with the first photoelectric conversion elements and the second photoelectric conversion elements placed on an inner side. The photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion element pairs formed by electrically connecting, in series, the first photoelectric conversion elements and the second photoelectric conversion elements arranged in positions opposed to each other. All the photoelectric conversion element pairs are electrically connected in series. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120000280 | FLOW RATE MEASURING APPARATUS - Provided is a flow rate measuring apparatus which prevents a reduction in flow-rate detection accuracy through reducing stress applied to a flow rate detection element. The flow rate measuring apparatus includes a support member ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110320464 | RETRIEVAL DEVICE - In conventional retrieval techniques for narrowing down a candidate when there are a plurality of candidates as retrieval results, a method results in a huge number of candidates in order to prevent omission of candidates, whereby the administration cost is increased, and another method involves always processing all candidates, whereby the processing time becomes longer and the response performance is lowered. Retrieval history storage means stores a retrieval history including a content input from input means and a candidate list, narrowing-down method selecting means selects, according to the content of the stored retrieval history, a narrowing-down method from a method of limiting search targets to top-ranked candidates and a method of performing a search again based on inputs made in the past, candidate score update means sets, from the search history, a search candidate and a score thereof according to the selected narrowing-down method, and updates a candidate score based on a character string received from the input means with reference to an index for search, candidate determining means determines a candidate to be presented based on a number of candidates and score distribution which are updated, and candidate presenting means presents, to the user, the determined candidate with reference to name information data. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320146 | DEVICE FOR DETECTING INSULATION DEGRADATION - The invention is related to a device for detecting insulation degradation in an inverter-driven load device, in particular a motor, the device including: zero-phase current measuring means for measuring a zero-phase current in power-feed lines, provided in the power-feed lines between an inverter device and the motor; and command control means for putting rotation of the motor on standby; wherein the zero-phase current measuring means measures the total of phase currents fed into respective phases so as not to rotate a shaft even when an external force is applied to the shaft during the rotation being on standby, whereby allowing regular detection of insulation degradation without switching over the power-feed lines connected with the load device. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317731 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor laser includes a P-type InP substrate and a P-type InP cladding layer, an AlGaInAs strained quantum well active layer, an N-type InP cladding layer, a P-type InP buried layer, an N-type InP buried layer, a P-type InP buried layer, an N-type InP layer, an N-type InP contact layer, an SiO | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317534 | OPTICAL DISC REPRODUCTION POWER SETTING METHOD, OPTICAL DISC REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - According to a method for setting the laser beam power applied to reproduce information recorded on an optical disc, information recorded in a region on the optical disc is reproduced using three or more test reproduction powers (S | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317461 | POWER CONVERTER - A synchronization detection PLL section generates an ON synchronized signal formed as a result of synchronization control based on a diode ON synthesized signal. The synchronization detection PLL section also generates an OFF synchronized signal formed as a result of synchronization control based on a diode OFF synthesized signal. A stator gate instruction generator PWM section generates a gate instruction signal for controlling the switching of a switching element on the basis of the ON synchronized signal and the OFF synchronized signal. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317455 | LEAKAGE CURRENT REDUCTION APPARATUS - Three-phase windings | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317389 | SEALED ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - Provided is a small resin-sealed electronic control device with a reduced plane area and volume, which can provide an enlarged area on which circuit components are mounted without increasing a plane area of electronic boards. In the resin-sealed electronic control device, a support member ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316730 | ANALOG UNIT - An ADC code given in response to input of an analog input value to an A/D converter circuit is measured at a site where an A/D converter unit is used to measure a user-measured value. A user-set value calculating part calculates a user offset value and a user gain value on the basis of one user-measured value, a factory offset value, and a factory gain value, and stores the calculated user offset value and the user gain value in a nonvolatile memory. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316459 | MOTOR CONTROLLER - When an output pattern (LLL or HHH) due to a signal with a prescribed logic level corresponding to a ground short or instantaneous interruption of an output signal line of Hall ICs | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316115 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A power semiconductor device comprises: a high-voltage side switching element and a low-voltage side switching element which are totem-pole-connected in that order from a high-voltage side between a high-voltage side potential and a low-voltage side potential; a high-voltage side drive circuit that drives the high-voltage side switching element; a low-voltage side drive circuit that drives the low-voltage side switching element; a capacitor which has a first end connected to a connection point between the high-voltage side switching element and the low-voltage side switching element and a second end connected to a power supply terminal of the high-voltage side drive circuit and supplies a drive voltage to the high-voltage side drive circuit; and a diode which has an anode connected to a power supply and a cathode connected to the second end of the capacitor and supplies a current from the power supply to the second end of the capacitor, wherein the diode includes a P-type semiconductor substrate, an N-type cathode region on a surface of the P-type semiconductor substrate, a P-type anode region in the N-type cathode region, a P-type contact region and an N-type contact region in the P-type anode region, a cathode electrode connected to the N-type cathode region, and an anode electrode connected to the P-type contact region and the N-type contact region. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316071 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a power semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, in which a current flows in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a resistance control structure configured so that a resistance to the current becomes higher in a central portion of the semiconductor substrate than a peripheral portion of the semiconductor substrate. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316047 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - The objective of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device of a hetero-junction field effect transistor that is capable of obtaining a high output and a high breakdown voltage and a manufacturing method of the same. The present invention is a semiconductor device of a hetero junction field effect transistor provided with an Al | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315460 | VEHICLE DRIVING APPARATUS - In a vehicle in which side covers are disposed at the underfloor sides of a vehicle body, a totally enclosed main motor is disposed outside a frame of a chassis. The totally enclosed main motor includes an outside air ventilating flue through which the outside air is suctioned from a suction inlet, circulated and then exhausted from an exhaust outlet. The totally enclosed main motor uses the outside air ventilating flue to release heat generated internally to the outside. One end of a ventilating duct is connected to the suction inlet and the other end opens toward the outside of the vehicle at the side covers. With this, it is possible to supply the outside air from the outside of the vehicle thereby enhancing the cooling efficiency. Moreover, it is possible to use the totally enclosed main motor of a high capacity by disposing outside the frame of the chassis. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315428 | GAS INSULATED APPARATUS - When electric discharging occurs inside a gas insulated apparatus in which sulfur hexafluoride is filled, hydrogen-fluoride gas is generated, which abrades a part formed of glass fiber reinforced plastics included in the apparatus. Previously, resin for preventing the abrasion has been coated on the surface of the part; however, a problem has occurred that the coating film peels off. Organic fiber woven cloth woven using organic fiber such as aramid fiber or the like having hydrogen fluoride resistance and mechanical toughness is wrapped around the surface of glass fiber reinforced plastics, and thermosetting resin is wettably impregnated into weave patterns of the organic fiber woven cloth and then heat cured; thereby, an abrasion-preventing protection layer that does not peel off is formed. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315360 | COATING COMPOSITION, COATING METHOD, AIR CONDITIONER, VENTILATION FAN, AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT - A coating composition having high dirt prevention properties and improved adhesiveness to hydrophobic surfaces such as those made of a plastic, and a coating method are provided. More specifically, provided is a coating composition, including: hydrophobic resin particles dispersed in an aqueous medium; hydrophilic inorganic fine particles; and an oxidizing agent containing at least one of a peroxide, a perchloric acid, a chlorate, a persulfuric acid, a superphosphoric acid, and a periodate, and also provided is a coating method including the steps of: preparing a first agent having hydrophilic inorganic fine particles and hydrophobic resin particles dispersed in an aqueous medium; preparing a second agent by adding, to the first agent, an oxidizing agent containing at least one of a peroxide, a perchloric acid, a chlorate, a persulfuric acid, a superphosphoric acid, and a periodate; applying the second agent onto a member to be coated; and drying the second agent on the member to be coated. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315093 | FLUID HEATING SYSTEM, FLUID HEATING METHOD, FLUID HEATING CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - When using a plurality of heaters such as heat pump units, capacity is properly distributed according to the required capacity, thereby enabling highly efficient operation of a hot water system. To achieve this, a control apparatus determines the heating capacity of each of the heat pump units in a way that the total heating capacity of the heat pump units reaches the heating capacity required in the hot water system as a whole, and further in a way that the total COP (coefficient of performance) of the heat pump units satisfies predetermined condition. The control apparatus controls each of regulating valves in a way that the heating capacity of each of the heat pump units reaches the above determined heating capacity. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110314854 | REFRIGERATOR - A refrigerator provided with a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a condenser, a liquid container, a supercooling heat exchange portion, a throttle valve, and an evaporator connected in this order by piping, a return circuit that branches from a downstream position in a refrigerant flowing direction of the supercooling heat exchange portion in the refrigerant circuit and leads to an intermediate-pressure chamber of the compressor via the supercooling heat exchange portion, a supercooling throttle valve with a variable valve opening-degree that is disposed on a refrigerant inlet side of the supercooling heat exchange portion in the return circuit, and operation state detecting means that detects operation state data in the refrigerant circuit, in which dryness-degree calculating means that calculates a dryness-degree of the refrigerant on the outlet side of the supercooling heat exchange portion in the return circuit on the basis of the detected operation state data and supercooling throttle valve control means that controls the valve opening-degree of the supercooling throttle valve so that the calculated dryness-degree gets close to the value of 1. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110314848 | COMBINED AIR-CONDITIONING AND HOT-WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM - A configuration provided with a heat source unit, an indoor unit, a circuit for a hot-water supply heat source provided with a refrigerant—refrigerant heat exchanger and throttle means for the hot-water supply heat source, and a branch unit that distributes a refrigerant flowing through the indoor unit and the circuit for hot-water supply heat source and also provided with a refrigerating cycle for air conditioning in which the indoor unit and the circuit for hot-water supply heat source are connected in parallel and connected to the heat source unit by at least two connection pipelines via the branch unit and a refrigerating cycle for hot-water supply in which a compressor for hot-water supply, a heat-medium—refrigerant heat exchanger, throttle means for hot-water supply, and the refrigerant—refrigerant heat exchanger are connected in series, in which the refrigerating cycle for air conditioning and the refrigerating cycle for hot-water supply are connected so as to exchange heat between the refrigerant for air conditioning and the refrigerant for hot-water supply in the refrigerant—refrigerant heat exchanger. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110314494 | ON-TRAIN INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, ON-TRAIN INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, AND AUDIO DATA PROVIDING METHOD - The on-train information providing device, which is provided with a controlling unit that transmits to the display device video data that is transmitted from the ground transmitting and receiving device to the on-train transmitting and receiving device, includes a storage unit that stores therein a program listing in which a valid period of video is stored in accordance with each advertisement, audio data transmitted from the ground transmitting and receiving device to the on-train transmitting and receiving device, and video data including audio data; and a sound recognizing unit that attaches a value of 1 or greater as an audio flag to the program listing when the video data does not include any audio data, and attaches 0 as the audio flag to the program listing when the video data includes audio data. The controlling unit sends the audio data corresponding to the audio flag to the radio radiating device. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110312161 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A film of an epitaxial layer that allows the reduction in both the height of a bunching step and crystal defects caused by a failure in migration of reactive species on a terrace is formed on a SiC semiconductor substrate having an off angle of 5 degrees or less. A film of a first-layer epitaxial layer is formed on and in contact with a surface of the SiC semiconductor substrate having an off angle of 5 degrees or less. Subsequently, the temperature in a reactor is lowered. A second-layer epitaxial layer is caused to epitaxially grow on and in contact with a surface of the first-layer epitaxial layer. In the above-described manner, the epitaxial layer is structured with two layers, and the growth temperature for the second epitaxial layer is set lower than the growth temperature for the first epitaxial layer. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311229 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION MODULE - An optical transmission/reception module including a filter holder on which filter mount surfaces for mounting wavelength division multiplexing filters and light wavelength band limiting filters are formed and in which a hole for guiding a light signal is formed in each of the filter mount surfaces incorporated into a housing. The wavelength division multiplexing filters and the light wavelength band limiting filters are mounted to the filter mount surfaces formed on the filter holder, respectively. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311221 | MASTER STATION UNIT AND METHOD OF ALLOCATING GRANT - In a PON system including a high-speed optical signal of a high transmission speed and a low-speed optical signal the speed of which is lower than that of the high-speed optical signal, the PON system employing TDMA system for upward signal transmission, an OLT controls transmission and reception of the low-speed optical signal and the high-speed optical signal and allocates a grant to a slave station unit connected to the OLT. The OLT includes: a traffic monitoring part for measuring the amount of traffic of data received from a high-speed ONU that is a slave station unit that makes communications using the high-speed optical signal; and a bandwidth allocating part for allocating a grant to a low-speed ONU on the basis of report information acquired from the low-speed ONU that is a slave station unit that makes communications using the low-speed optical signal, the bandwidth allocating part allocating a grant to the high-speed ONU on the basis of report information acquired from the high-speed ONU, a grant allocated in a previous cycle, and a result of measurement of the amount of traffic in the previous cycle acquired from the traffic monitoring part. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311217 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - An optical transmission apparatus that protects different types of signals with a common backup transponder. The optical transmission apparatus includes working transponder units that relay respective optical signals on corresponding working transmission lines to or from external client devices, a backup transponder unit that can relay optical signals of different interface types, a 3:1 optical switch unit and a 1:3 optical switch unit that connect the external client devices and the working transponder units, and can connect the external client device and the backup transponder unit, and a monitor control unit that monitors occurrence of a failure in the working transponder units and the backup transponder unit, and controls switching of the transmission lines upon detection of a failure. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310836 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSFERRING SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF A PILOT SYMBOL PATTERN - The present invention concerns a method, a device and a system for transferring signals representative of a pilot symbol pattern to a first telecommunication device by a second telecommunication device. The method is executed by the second telecommunication. It obtains information associated with data to be transferred to the first telecommunication device. The adjusted transmission power of the signals representative of the pilot symbol pattern is according the associated information. The signals representative of the pilot symbol pattern at the adjusted transmission power are subsequently transferred. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310645 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SNUBBER DEVICE - A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a switching transistor, and a recovery diode and a snubber device which are mounted on a single conductive substrate (frame) on which the switching transistor is also mounted. The snubber device includes a SiC-MOSFET connected between an output terminal C and a reference terminal E of the switching transistor, a Zener diode formed between a gate terminal G and a drain terminal D of the SiC-MOSFET, and a resistor formed between the gate terminal G and a source terminal S of the SiC-MOSFET. The reference terminal E of the switching transistor, the source terminal S of the SiC-MOSFET, and an anode terminal of the recovery diode are commonly connected. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310091 | AERIAL IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, AERIAL IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING AERIAL IMAGE GENERATING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - An objective is to provide a road image including no features such as trees and tunnels hiding or covering a road surface. A mobile measuring apparatus | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309776 | SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT DEVICE INCLUDING SWITCHING ELEMENT - A semiconductor circuit device includes a semiconductor circuit including a switching element, a temperature monitoring unit, and a control unit. The temperature monitoring unit detects or estimates a temperature of a component connected to an inside or an outside of the semiconductor circuit. Here, the temperature of the component changes in accordance with a frequency of a current flowing through the component, and the frequency of the current flowing through the component changes in accordance with a switching frequency of the switching element. The control unit adjusts the switching frequency of the switching element such that the temperature of the component is equal to a target temperature. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309436 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A gate electrode is provided for controlling a current flowing through a semiconductor layer. A gate insulating film electrically insulates the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode from each other. A conductor portion is provided on the semiconductor layer, and electrically connected with the semiconductor layer. An interlayer insulating film is provided on the gate electrode such that the conductor portion is electrically insulated from the gate electrode. A buffer insulating film covers a partial region on the conductor portion and the interlayer insulating film, and is made of an insulator. An electrode layer has a wiring portion located on a region from which the conductor portion is exposed, and a pad portion located on the buffer insulating film. Thereby, damage to an IGBT caused when a wire is connected to the pad portion can be suppressed. Further, larger electric power can be handled, while preventing occurrence of breakage due to current concentration. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309375 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes semiconductor elements mounted on a heat spreader, lead frames connected to the semiconductor elements, and a molding resin which holds them and forms a housing. Upper portions and side surfaces of the semiconductor elements are covered with an organic thin film which is formed between the semiconductor elements and the molding resin. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110308896 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL APPARATUS - Provided is an elevator group control apparatus which brings distributed standby control into action when the movement of users is heavy in one direction in an unbalanced manner in time zones which account for large proportions of an elevator use condition of a day, for example, in off-hour zones and time zones in which traffic demand is relatively small, thereby improving the waiting time of users, and does not bring distributed standby control into action when there is no unbalanced condition of the movement of the users, whereby it is possible to perform energy savings by reducing power consumption during runs without greatly worsening the waiting time of the users. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110308273 | REFRIGERATING AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - A refrigerating air-conditioning apparatus, at least provided with no possibility that a foreign material returns to a compressor from an accumulator at a time of the pipeline-cleaning operation firstly, and provided with a possibility to perform a collecting operation for the foreign material in a short time secondary, is provided. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110308272 | REFRIGERATING AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - A refrigerating air-conditioning apparatus, at least provided with no possibility that a foreign material returns to a compressor from an accumulator at a time of the pipeline-cleaning operation firstly, and provided with a possibility to perform a collecting operation for the foreign material in a short time secondary, is provided. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110308267 | REFRIGERATING CYCLE APPARATUS - A refrigerating cycle apparatus is obtained that can determine excess/shortage of a refrigerant amount in a refrigerating circuit at high precision even if a factor such as a heat exchanger whose refrigerant amount is difficult to calculate exists. The refrigerating cycle apparatus according to the present invention includes one heat source unit or more, one utilization unit or more, a refrigerating circuit constituted by the heat source unit and utilization unit, a storage part which stores an appropriate refrigerant amount of a refrigerant to be charged in the refrigerating circuit and a correction coefficient which corrects a liquid refrigerant amount such that calculation of the refrigerant amount of each constituent element of the refrigerating circuit is equal to the appropriate refrigerant amount, a measurement part which detects an operation state amount in each constituent element of the refrigerating circuit, a calculation part which calculates the refrigerant amount of each constituent element of the refrigerating circuit based on the operation state amount by using the correction coefficient, a comparison part which compares the appropriate refrigerant amount with a calculative refrigerant amount calculated by the calculation part, and a determination part which determines excess/shortage of the refrigerant amount charged in the refrigerating circuit based on a comparison result of the comparison part. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110308263 | INFORMATION TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR REFRIGERATION AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An information transfer system for a refrigeration air-conditioning apparatus in which one or more heat-source units for the refrigerating/air conditioning apparatus, one first relay unit, and one or more second relay units are connected by refrigerant piping, and the second relay units and one or more indoor units are connected by water piping, wherein communications are performed discretely between a pair of the heat-source unit and the first relay unit, a pair of the first relay unit and the second relay units, and a pair of the second relay units and the indoor units through transmission lines respectively. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110307635 | A/D CONVERTER AND PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLER SYSTEM - An A/D converter that is attached to a programmable controller (PLC) and sequentially converts an analog value inputted from outside into a digital value. The A/D converter includes: a shared memory that can read-access from a CPU unit that controls the entire PLC and includes a log storage area with a ring buffer configuration for sequentially logging the digital value and a parameter storage area for storing a head pointer serving as a parameter indicating a position where a next log data is stored; and a logging executing unit that writes a digital value in an address indicated by the head pointer in the log storage area as log data and updates the head pointer. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307488 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A behavior index indicates a development of occurrence of events included in log data by a connection of a plurality of nodes, and includes a branching node connecting to two or more subsequent nodes and an integrating node connected to two or more preceding nodes. When a regular expression converting part inputs a search condition indicating an event appearance order from a client, a search automaton retaining part generates a state transition table in accordance with the search condition. While a node type determining part determines the node types of the respective nodes of the behavior index, a state evaluating part analyzes the respective nodes to determine the states of the respective nodes, and determines whether or not a state transition pattern matches the state transition table. Regarding a branching node, the respective nodes of each of branching routes branching from the branching node are analyzed. Regarding an integrating node, the respective nodes of each of upstream routes merging into the integrating node are analyzed. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110306374 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system including a master station, and slave stations that execute a predetermined operation based on an operation instruction transmitted by the master station, in which the master station includes a normal frame processor that generates an operation instruction, and a Go/Stop signal processor that generates an execution instruction signal instructing to execute the operation instruction to transmit the signal when a response to the operation instruction is obtained from all the slave stations during a predetermined response waiting time, each of the slave stations include an execution-instruction-signal receiving unit that receives the execution instruction signal, and the execution-instruction-signal receiving unit executes an operation corresponding to the execution instruction signal when receiving the execution instruction signal or waits execution of the corresponding operation until the execution instruction signal corresponding to the operation instruction is received. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110306334 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING AT LEAST ONE TERMINAL FOR WHICH SIGNALS TRANSFERRED BETWEEN THE AT LEAST ONE TERMINAL AND A BASE STATION HAVE TO BE RELAYED BY A RELAY - A method for identifying at least one terminal for which signals transferred between the at least one terminal and a base station of a wireless cellular telecommunication network have to be relayed by a relay, the base station providing a random access channel enabling any terminal to notify to the base station the presence of the terminal by transferring a random access signal to the base station. The relay: transfers the random access signal to the base station for obtaining a list of at least one terminal, receives the list, identifies, from the received list, at least one terminal for which signals transferred between the at least one identified terminal and the base station have to be relayed by the relay, and relays signals between the at least one identified terminal and the base station. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305562 | PUMP AND HEAT PUMP APPARATUS - A highly efficient and long-life pump is provided through improvement of pump efficiency by extending an effective length of a blade of an impeller and through reduction of friction loss of a thrust bearing. In a pump | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305451 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF ALLOCATING BANDWIDTH - A communication device operating as a master unit includes: a MAC layer termination functioning unit for extracting, from a receiving signal, queue length information scheduled to be transmitted from an ONU, and controlling transmission of a grant to the ONU; a traffic monitor for measuring an amount of uplink traffic of each ONU; and a bandwidth allocation functioning unit for determining a bandwidth to be allocated to each ONU based on the queue length information extracted by the MAC layer termination functioning unit, the amount of traffic measured by the traffic monitor, and a bandwidth that can be allocated in one cycle of bandwidth update, and issuing a grant according to the determination. The bandwidth allocation functioning unit updates a bandwidth to be allocated periodically. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305255 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL INTEGRATED ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor optical integrated element includes: a substrate; and a laser diode and a modulator which are integrated on the substrate. The laser diode includes an embedded waveguide having a core layer, both sides of which are embedded in a semiconductor material. The modulator includes a high-mesa ridge waveguide having a core layer, neither side of which is embedded in the semiconductor material. The core layers in the laser diode and the modulator are stripe-shaped. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305038 | PLANAR LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A planar light source device including: a point light source; and a light guide plate, wherein the light guide plate includes: an emitting surface; an opposite emitting surface; and a side surface that connects the emitting surface and the opposite emitting surface; wherein the point light source is arranged adjacent to the side surface of the light guide plate, wherein the light guide plate has a cylindrical hole that is formed at a position, which corresponds to the position where the point light source is arranged, and wherein the hole forms an opening at the side surface to emit a portion of the light to the outside of the light guide plate, the portion of the light is emitted by the point light source and the portion of the light being a portion that was not totally reflected at the side surface. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304290 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE - A controller outputting voltage instructions for drive control of an electric rotating machine adds, by using adders, position estimation voltage instructions for estimating the rotor position generated by a position estimation voltage generator, to drive voltage instructions, and outputs the resultant signals as voltage instructions. A position estimation device includes current extractors for extracting position estimation currents having the same frequency components as that of the position estimation voltage instructions, from electric rotating machine currents detected by a current detector, a position estimation current amplitude calculation section for calculating position estimation current amplitudes from the position estimation currents; and an estimation position calculation unit for calculating an estimated position of the electric rotating machine, based on the position estimation current amplitudes. The position estimation current amplitude calculation section calculates the position estimation current amplitudes, based on an autocorrelation obtained by squaring the position estimation currents. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304039 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having a first main surface and a second main surface; a stacked structure on which the semiconductor chip is disposed; and a cooling body on which the stacked structure is disposed. The stacked structure includes a first thermal conductor fixed to the cooling body, an insulator disposed on the first thermal conductor, and a second thermal conductor disposed on the insulator and having the semiconductor chip disposed thereon. The first main surface of the semiconductor chip opposite to the second main surface in contact with the stacked structure is sealed with an insulation material. At least a part of the first thermal conductor protrudes outwardly of the insulation material in plan view. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304037 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes an enclosure of insulating material having an introduction portion and a discharge portion for an insulating refrigerant and also having an opening, filters mounted on the introduction portion and the discharge portion, respectively, so as to prevent conductive foreign matter from entering the enclosure, a power semiconductor element provided on the outside of the enclosure, a heat sink bonded to the power semiconductor element and extending through the opening and within the enclosure, and an insulator covering the portions of the power semiconductor element and the heat sink lying outside of the enclosure. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110303992 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF - A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an element formed on the substrate, a nitride film formed on the substrate, a anti-peel film formed on the nitride film, and a molded resin covering the anti-peel film and the element. The anti-peel film has residual compressive stress. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110303949 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-RECEIVING ELEMENT - A semiconductor light-detecting element includes: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a light absorption recoupling layer of the first conductivity type, a multilayer reflection film of the first conductivity type, a light absorbing layer, and a window layer, which are laminated, in that order, on the semiconductor substrate; a doped region of a second conductivity type in part of the window layer; a first electrode connected to the doped region; and a second electrode connected to an underside of the semiconductor substrate. The band gap energy of the window layer is larger than the band gap energy of the light absorbing layer, and the band gap energy of the light absorption recoupling layer is smaller than the band gap energy of the semiconductor substrate. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110303495 | ELEVATOR CONTROLLER - An elevator controller which enables a stop to be made at the nearest floor in the event of a disaster and can prevent users from being shut up in an emergency landing entrance floor. The elevator controller includes an operation mode controller, a door open/close controller which causes the elevator to open the elevator door at the nearest emergency landing entrance floor for a given time when the operation mode controller has returned an operation mode from an emergency operation mode to a normal operation mode, and an informing controller which causes an informing device, which is provided in a hall of an emergency landing entrance floor for which the door open/close controller causes the door to be opened for a given time or provided in the car, to provide information to the effect that the elevator can be used when the operation mode-controller has returned the operation mode from the emergency operation mode to the normal operation mode. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110303177 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEM - There are provided a crank angle detection means configured in such a way as to have a function of outputting respective recognition signals from a plurality of intermediate positions each flanked with the positions corresponding to the respective top dead centers of the pistons of a plurality of cylinders and to differentiate the kinds of the respective recognition signals outputted from the adjacent intermediate positions; and a piston position determination means that determines the stopping position of the piston at a time when the internal combustion engine stops, based on the crank angle range stored in a crank angle range storage means and the crank angle corresponding to the position of the recognition signal outputted by the crank angle detection means. There is determined the cylinder to which a fuel is to be initially supplied when the internal combustion engine restarts, based on the stopping position of the piston determined by the piston position determination means. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110302941 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus has at least one intermediate heat exchanger that exchanges heat between a refrigerant changing in two phases or a refrigerant in a supercritical state and a heat medium such as water and anti-freezing fluid different from the refrigerant, a refrigeration cycle in which a compressor, a heat-source side heat exchanger, at least one expansion valve, and a refrigerant-side channel of the intermediate heat exchanger are connected via a pipeline through which the refrigerant flows, and a heat-medium circulation circuit in which a heat-medium side channel of the intermediate heat exchanger, a pump, and a use-side heat exchanger are connected via a pipeline through which the heat medium flows, in which in the heat-medium circulation circuit, a fourth temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the heat-medium flowing out of the use-side heat exchanger is provided, and leakage of the heat medium from the heat-medium circulation circuit is detected on the basis of a change amount of a detected temperature of the fourth temperature sensor. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110302466 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR ELEVATOR - Each of a control panel node | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110301719 | PARAMETER SETTING DEVICE - To collectively set multi-CPU parameters included in a project of each CPU having a multi-CPU relationship, a parameter setting device includes: unit configuration information used for managing, for each PLC, unit information in which a CPU and a project allocated to the CPU are associated with each other; a unit-configuration analyzing unit that extracts a list of unit information on CPUs provided in a same PLC that includes a CPU specified by a user from the unit configuration information; and a parameter writing unit that acquires each project of CPUs provided in a same PLC that includes the CPU based on the extracted list of unit information when a parameter of a project of the specified CPU is set, and sets a setting content, which is same as a setting content regarding a project of the specified CPU, to each of the acquired projects. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110300823 | IMAGE REJECTION MIXER AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An image rejection mixer and a communication device, which may suppress unwanted frequency components of a high power output assuming a fourth-order harmonic mixer. The image rejection mixer and communication device include first and second fourth-order harmonic mixers, a 90-degree IF synthesis distributor, a 90-degree LO distributor, and a 90-degree RF synthesis distributor. Use of the 90-degree distributors for LO distribution of the fourth-order harmonic image rejection mixer suppresses the unwanted frequency components of the high power output. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110300370 | COATING METHOD AND COATED ARTICLE - Provided is a coating method, including the steps of: applying a coating composition including inorganic fine particles and fluororesin particles in an aqueous medium onto a material to be coated; drying the coating composition on the material to be coated to remove the aqueous medium, thereby forming a porous film formed of the inorganic fine particles, the porous film having the fluororesin particles therein and having voids; and applying one or more water-soluble substances selected from the group consisting of a water-soluble surfactant and a water-soluble polymer onto the porous film, thereby filling the one or more water-soluble substances in the voids of the porous film. According to the coating method, there can be formed a coated article having a coating film which exhibits the excellent effect for inhibiting the attachment of oil stains for a long period and from which, even if oil stains are attached, the oil stains can be easily removed by wiping or washing with water. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299852 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM, OPTICAL TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION METHOD - An optical transmission and reception system in which a plurality of tributary signals are converted into multilevel modulated light for transmission and reception. An apparatus for transmitting multilevel modulated light includes: FECs which perform error correction processing including addition of a tributary identifier; and a GEAR BOX which performs rate conversion on the processed signals. An apparatus for receiving multilevel modulated light includes: a 20G DQPSK REC which separates received multilevel modulated light into received tributary signals and outputs the signals to respective output systems; the GEAR BOX which performs rate conversion on the received tributary signals; the FECs which extract tributary identifiers from the received tributary signals; a TIM which compares tributary identifiers defined for the respective output systems in advance with the tributary identifies extracted; and a tributary selector which gives an instruction to change correspondence between the received tributary signals and the output systems if the result of comparison is a mismatch. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299646 | SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING NUCLEAR POWER PLANT OPERATION - A system for supporting nuclear power plant operation includes an event data base that stores events corresponding to behaviors of the plant data. A countermeasure operation database stores operations corresponding to the events. An operation procedure database stores operation procedures that are required for the corresponding operations. An event discriminating section retrieves an event that occurs in a nuclear power plant from an event database so as to discriminate based on a behavior of plant data that is captured from the plant interface. A countermeasure retrieval section retrieves a countermeasure operation from the countermeasure operation database based on an event that is discriminated by the event discriminating section. A display control section displays an operation procedure that is required for performing the countermeasure operation on a display device. An operation confirmation section judges whether the countermeasure operation that is retrieved by the countermeasure retrieval section is completed. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299227 | GAS INSULATED SWITCHGEAR - A gas insulated switchgear includes: a center conductor that is arranged to extend horizontally in a tank; a cylindrical member that is arranged in the tank to surround a center conductor, and formed by curving a metal plate-like member into a cylindrical shape and then joining circumferentially opposed both ends of the plate-like member by welding to form a welding portion, the welding portion being located on a lower side of the cylindrical member; and a current transformer for instruments, through which the cylindrical member is inserted, the current transformer being supported by the cylindrical member, and being arranged to surround the center conductor. The welding portion includes a metal spacer sandwiched between the circumferentially opposed both ends of the plate-like member, and the spacer and the ends are welded to each other. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299208 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS - Included are: a circuit-specific printed circuit board to be a circuit board that generates a power supply voltage; a first diode that is connected in antiparallel with the transistor and is configured so as to be capable of passing a current through a path to circumvent the transistor; a second diode that is connected in series to the transistor and prevents a current flow through a parasitic diode formed on the transistor; a protection circuit that is connected in parallel with the second diode to protect the second diode from a high voltage breakdown, and is formed on a substrate different from the circuit-specific printed circuit board; and a cooling unit that is joined to the protection circuit outside the circuit-specific printed circuit board and cools the protection circuit. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299005 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE - In an active matrix substrate, the source electrode side and/or the drain electrode side of a crystalline semiconductor film extends to an area located outside both the thin-film transistor and the gate electrode, and a metal light-shielding film is provided, in the same layer as the gate electrode, between the contacting portion between the source electrode or the source line and the crystalline semiconductor film and the gate electrode, and/or between the contacting portion between the drain electrode and the crystalline semiconductor film and the gate electrode. An impurity-implanted region implanted with n-type impurity may be formed between the contacting portion between the source electrode or the source line and the crystalline semiconductor film and the gate electrode, and/or between the contacting portion between the drain electrode and the crystalline semiconductor film and the gate electrode. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298809 | ANIMATION EDITING DEVICE, ANIMATION PLAYBACK DEVICE AND ANIMATION EDITING METHOD - An animation editing device includes animation data including time line data that defines frames on the basis of a time line showing temporal display order of the frames, and space line data that defines frames on the basis of a space line for showing a relative positional relationship between a display position of each of animation parts and a reference position shown by a tag by mapping the relative positional relationship onto a one-dimensional straight line, displays the time line and the space line, and the contents of the frames based on the time line and the space line, and accepts an editing command to perform an editing process according to the inputted editing command. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298485 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE TEST METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of testing a semiconductor device includes a conductive foreign matter test step of measuring the resistance value between the first and second conductive patterns to determine whether conductive foreign matter is present between the first and second conductive patterns, a first open circuit test step of measuring the resistance value between two points on the first conductive pattern to determine whether there is an open circuit in the first conductive pattern, and a second open circuit test step of measuring the resistance value between two points on the second conductive pattern to determine whether there is an open circuit in the second conductive pattern. The measurement of the resistance value in each of the test steps is accomplished by pressing probes vertically against the first conductive pattern or the second conductive pattern or both. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298276 | STARTER DRIVING SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCH APPARATUS - A starter driving semiconductor switch apparatus energizes and de-energizes a starter according to a command from an outside. A series circuit to which semiconductor switches are connected in series is provided between a battery serving as a power supply and the starter. The starter is energized by bringing all the semiconductor switches into conduction. A voltage or a current at a predetermined point in the series circuit is monitored to make a self-diagnosis on whether the starter is allowed to start and whether there is a failure in the semiconductor switches according to a monitor output. The starter driving semiconductor switch apparatus is thus expected to have a longer useful life by energizing the starter not by using mechanical contacts but by using semiconductor switches. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298121 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A power semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a heat sink made of Cu and having a thickness of 2 to 3 mm, an insulating substrate bonded on the heat sink with interposition of a first bonding layer (under-substrate solder), and a power semiconductor element mounted on the insulating substrate. In the heat sink, a buffer slot is formed at a periphery of a region bonded to the insulating substrate. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298081 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a surface electrode formed on the semiconductor substrate, an ineffective region formed to surround the surface electrode, and an ID-indicating portion made of a different material than the surface electrode and formed on the surface electrode to indicate an ID. The area of the ineffective region is smaller than the area of the surface electrode. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110297967 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-RECEIVING ELEMENT AND OPTICAL MODULE - A semiconductor light-detecting element includes: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type having a band gap energy, a first principal surface, and a second principal surface opposed to the first principal surface; a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type on the first principal surface and having a band gap energy smaller than the band gap energy of the semiconductor substrate; a second semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type on the first semiconductor layer; an area of a second conductivity type on a part of the second semiconductor layer; a first electrode connected to the second semiconductor layer; a second electrode connected to the area; and a low-reflection film on the second principal surface. The second principal surface is a light-detecting surface detecting incident light, and no substance or structure having a higher reflection factor, with respect to the incident light, than the low-reflection film, is located on the second principal surface. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110297487 | CAR DESTINATION FLOOR INDICATION DEVICE - There is provided a car destination floor indication device which can indicate all registered destination floors even when a large number of destination floors have been registered, and enables a user to easily grasp how the registration condition of destination floors has changed. For this purpose, a car destination floor indication device which is provided in a hall or car of an elevator and indicates destination floors of the elevator to users includes an indication section which indicates registered destination floors, and an indication control section which controls indication contents of the indication section and controls switching of a plurality of indication layouts for indicating the indication contents. The configuration is such that the indication control section performs switching of the indication layout presently being indicated to another indication layout belonging to the indication layouts when the number of registered destination floors has exceeded a first reference value and when the number of registered destination floors has become not more than a second reference value. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110297363 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus is provided with a heat-source device that supplies a refrigerant, a relay unit that exchanges heat of a heat medium such as water or anti-freezing fluid supplied from the heat-source device in an intermediate heat exchanger and supplies the heat medium, an indoor unit that exchanges heat between a use side heat exchanger through which the heat medium supplied from the relay unit flows and indoor air and performs cooling or heating in the indoor space, a controller that controls operations of the heat-source device, the relay unit and the indoor unit, and a third temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the heat medium flowing through the use side heat exchanger, and if an abnormality in at least one of the heat-source device and the relay unit is detected, the controller continues the operation of the indoor unit while the temperature detected by the third temperature sensor remains within a first predetermined temperature range. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110297207 | SOLAR BATTERY MODULE - A solar battery module having a plurality of solar battery cells embedded in an in-plane direction in a front-surface sealing member by separating the solar battery cells at a distance therebetween, the solar battery cells being electrically connected to each other in a filling material sandwiched between the front-surface sealing member having translucency and a back-surface sealing member. The back-surface sealing member is a high reflectance portion having a high reflection rate such that an average reflection rate of light of a wavelength in a range of 400 to 1200 nanometers is equal to or higher than 50% in at least a region corresponding to the solar battery cells, and the back-surface sealing member includes a low reflectance portion having a low reflection rate such that an average reflection rate of light of a wavelength in a range of 400 to 1200 nanometers is lower than 50%, at any position between a front surface of the reflection prevention film of the solar battery cells and the back-surface sealing member, in a region between the solar battery cells adjacent to each other or in a region corresponding to a region in a thickness direction of the solar battery module. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110296818 | VEHICLE MOUNTED ENGINE CONTROL APPARATUS - A vehicle mounted engine control apparatus serves to prevent air fuel ratio control from becoming an excessively fuel rich state by sequentially actuating heaters for early activation of a pair of exhaust gas sensors arranged in an upstream and a downstream position of a catalyzer. Electric power is first supplied to a heater for an upstream exhaust gas sensor, and the supply of electric power to a heater for a downstream exhaust gas sensor is started without waiting for activation of the upstream exhaust gas sensor, if a heater current declines to a predetermined value or less. When the upstream exhaust gas sensor is inactive, an output signal of an upstream air fuel ratio control unit inputted to a fuel injection control unit is restricted to a predetermined fuel rich command, and when the downstream exhaust gas sensor is inactive, an output signal of an downstream air fuel ratio control unit inputted to the upstream air fuel ratio control unit is restricted to a predetermined fuel rich command. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110295576 | COLLISION DETERMINATION DEVICE AND COLLISION DETERMINATION PROGRAM - A collision determination device includes a target cell designation unit that designates a target cell for a voxel model which represents the shape of a first object. A determination test point generation unit generates determination test points for the target cell. A spatial curve creation unit creates a spatial curve as the trajectory curve of a determination test point. A curve intersecting determination unit determines whether or not each boundary element of a boundary representation model representing the shape of a second object is intersecting the spatial curve. A distance computation unit computes the closest distance from the spatial curve to the boundary surface of the boundary representation model. A collision determination unit determines, based on the determination result and the computation result, whether there is a possibility of collision between both objects. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295549 | ANGULAR VELOCITY ESTIMATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND ANGULAR VELOCITY ESTIMATION METHOD - An angular velocity estimation apparatus of the invention is provided to estimate the angular velocity of a moving object with good accuracy. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295548 | ROAD CONFIGURATION ESTIMATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND ROAD CONFIGURATION ESTIMATION METHOD - There is provided a road configuration estimation apparatus that precludes influences of erroneous detection of an object and erroneous still determination and estimates a road configuration. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295388 | LADDER PROGRAM EDITION DEVICE - When constituting a ladder program edition device that edits a ladder diagram, there is provided an edit control unit that generates data of a logical expression corresponding to a logical structure of an input condition and an output condition in a ladder diagram based on an arrangement of circuit elements in a ladder diagram, sets circuit elements that specify the input condition as one circuit unit of one input and one output for each input condition based on the data of the above logical expression, and connects output ends of circuit units to be connected in parallel with each other in the ladder diagram. With this configuration, generation of a syntactically erroneous ladder diagram is prevented. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110294233 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, which includes the steps of: (a) preparing a processing target including a wafer ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292988 | CLASSIFICATION OF INTERFERENCE - An interference classifier is disclosed for determining the type of interference present in a signal. The interference classifier | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292837 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION NODE, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD - The communication management apparatus includes a network-presence-check processing unit that performs network presence check processing for generating network presence information, a token-circulation-order determining unit that determines token circulation order using the network presence information, a setup processing unit that notifies each of communication nodes in the network of token circulation destination information, a token-frame processing unit that, after transmission of a data frame by a data-frame-communication processing unit, transmits, based on the token circulation order, a token frame including information concerning a transmission right acquiring apparatus that acquires a transmission right next and determines whether the transmission right acquiring apparatus of the transmission right acquiring apparatus information of the received token frame is the own apparatus, and the data-frame-communication processing unit that performs transmission and reception processing for a data frame for acquiring the transmission right. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292673 | DISPLAY AND ILLUMINATION SYSTEM - A display and illumination system includes a light source section accommodating a light source; an optical fiber for transmitting light from the light source; a display illumination unit radiating light transmitted by the optical fiber; a light source module installed in the light source section, accommodating the light source, and optically connected to the optical fiber; a plug electrode installed in the light source module and supplying electric power to the light source; a convex portion on a first side of the light source module, engaging the optical fiber, and extracting light from the light source; and a concave portion located opposite the first side of the light source module and urging the convex portion toward the optical fiber with a constant force. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292624 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT - An electronic control unit includes an electronic circuit board mounted with a plurality of electronic components disposed in a scattered manner on one or both surfaces of the board and at least one connector, and the electronic circuit board is housed in an enclosure made up of enclosure members including a cover and a base, wherein the electronic control unit is structured in such a way that intermediate members each are disposed on both top face of a part of or all of the electronic components and their projected area on the opposite mount surface of the board, portions of the enclosure members are made to closely contact the intermediate members so that both surfaces of the electronic circuit board are sandwiched by the enclosure members and the intermediate members, and edge portions in the periphery of the electronic circuit board are sandwiched by the enclosure members. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291875 | AUTOMOTIVE RADAR WITH RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE AVOIDANCE - An automotive radar system is disclosed that comprises an interference classifier | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291779 | CONDUCTION COOLING SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET DEVICE - A superconducting coil is accommodated in a vacuum chamber. A radiation shield is arranged in the vacuum chamber with a prescribed space from the vacuum chamber to surround a periphery of the superconducting coil. A refrigerator cools the superconducting coil and the radiation shield by conduction. A provided member at least partly lies between the vacuum chamber and the radiation shield, through which heat is conducted from the vacuum chamber to the radiation shield. A cooling pipe has opposite end portions drawn out of the vacuum chamber and an intermediate portion in contact with the superconducting coil, the radiation shield, and the provided member. The provided member dissipates heat into a coolant flowing through the cooling pipe, to reduce the heat conducted to the radiation shield. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291712 | SCANNING-LINE DRIVE CIRCUIT - A gate-line drive circuit is driven by three clock signals of different phases, and includes a plurality of cascade-connected unit shift registers. In a normal operation, activation periods of the three clock signals do not overlap one another. However, the two clock signals of them are simultaneously activated at the beginning of a frame period. A unit shift register of the first stage is adapted to activate an output signal in accordance with the simultaneous activation of the two clock signals. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291646 | ORIGIN POSITION SIGNAL DETECTOR - An origin position signal detector comprising: a rotary or linear scale ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291601 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE - A controller outputting a voltage instruction for drive control to a electric rotating machine includes a drive voltage instruction calculation section calculating drive voltage instructions for driving the electric rotating machine, a position estimation voltage generator generating position estimation voltage instructions for position estimation about the electric rotating machine, a noise reduction voltage generator generating noise reduction voltage instructions for reducing noise occurring from the electric rotating machine along with input of the position estimation voltage instructions to the electric rotating machine, and adders outputting, to a voltage application means, a voltage instruction obtained by adding the position estimation voltage instructions and the noise reduction voltage instructions to the drive voltage instructions. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291223 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a diode active region and an edge termination region adjacent to each other, a first region of a first conductivity type in the diode active region, a second region of a second conductivity type, a third region of the first conductivity type in the edge termination region, and a fourth region of the second conductivity type. The first region and the third region share a drift region of the first conductivity type. The first region and the third region share a fifth region of the first conductivity type. The drift region in the third region is greater in number of crystal defects per unit volume than the drift region in the first region in order that the drift region in the third region is shorter in carrier lifetime than the drift region in the first region. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291106 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a power semiconductor device including: a power semiconductor element; a metal block as a first metal block that is connected to the power semiconductor element through an upper surface electrode pattern as a first upper surface electrode pattern selectively formed on an upper surface of the power semiconductor element; and a mold resin filled so as to cover the power semiconductor element and the metal block, wherein an upper surface of the metal block is exposed from a surface of the mold resin. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291105 | SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor module according to the present invention includes: an insulating substrate ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110290408 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRINTED WIRING BOARD - A method of manufacturing a printed wiring board ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110290400 | CONNECTION METHOD OF THERMOPLASTIC RESIN LONG BODY - A connection method for interconnecting end portions of a thermoplastic resin long body in which conductive unstretchable members are embedded within the thermoplastic resin along a longitudinal direction, wherein the unstretchable members in each of specific sections in the both end portions of the thermoplastic resin long body are heated using an induction heating portion so that the thermoplastic resin coating the unstretchable members is removed by melting for the unstretchable members to be exposed, after which the both end portions are interconnected while they are held in a state where the unstretchable members being exposed in the respective end portions are butt-connected to each other. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110289492 | PROGRAM CODE GENERATION SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM EXECUTION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM CODE COMPRESSION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - To obtain a program code generation support device, method, and the like, capable of generating a new program code, in particular, generating in accordance with an incorporating apparatus, by performing a further optimization on a program code. The device includes storage means for storing as data, an optimization rule that is composed of a conversion condition for converting data of a program code and a conversion content thereof, and code optimization means that includes a code analysis unit for analyzing the program code, a condition search unit for search a part matching the conversion condition in the program code through a collation with the optimization rule stored in the storage means on the basis of the analyzed program code, and an optimization unit for generating data of a new program code by converting the part matching the conversion condition on the basis of the conversion content. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110288667 | INDUSTRIAL ROBOT SYSTEM - Provided is an industrial robot system which enables a reduction in an installation/adjustment period, and an increase in a no-error continuous operation period, and includes an action planning section ( | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110287570 | LASER PROCESSING APPARATUS, LASER PROCESSING METHOD, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - To provide a conveying unit that holds a workpiece and conveys the workpiece at a constant rate in one direction, a laser oscillator that emits a pulsed laser beam, a splitter that splits a pulsed laser beam into a pattern having a predetermined geometric pitch, a first deflector that scans the split pulsed laser beam in the other direction substantially orthogonal to the one direction, a second deflector that adjusts and deflects the split pulsed laser beam deflected by the first deflector on the surface to be processed in the one direction so as to scan the resultant pulsed laser beam onto the surface to be processed at a constant rate equal to a rate at which the workpiece is conveyed, and a condenser that condenses the split pulsed laser beam deflected by the second deflector onto the surface to be processed. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286605 | NOISE SUPPRESSOR - A voice/noise section decision unit | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286464 | TRAIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TRAIN COMMUNICATION METHOD - A train communication system includes a communication relay device that is installed in each vehicle and a communication terminal device that is connected to the communication relay device. The communication relay device acquires vehicle information indicating an in-formation position of a vehicle in which the communication relay device is installed. The communication terminal device refers to a correspondence table that defines a correspondence relationship between vehicle information and communication identification information, and determines communication identification information to be provided to the communication terminal device, based on vehicle information obtained from the communication relay device. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286251 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A power supply device includes: a magneto generator with a rotor having a magnet; a torque supplying device supplying torque to the rotor; a rectifier circuit supplying electric power to a electrical load device by rectifying an output of the magneto generator; a short circuit electrically shorting an output end of the magneto generator; a voltage detection circuit detecting a terminal voltage of the electrical load device; and a control circuit controlling a voltage of the electrical load device to be a first set value by controlling the short circuit to switch ON (short operating mode) and OFF (rectification operating mode) according to the voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit and allowing the short circuit to operate while making a switching between the two operating modes according to a operating state relating to a rotation of the rotor of the magneto generator. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285459 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a power semiconductor array including a first power semiconductor located on one end of the power semiconductor array, a second power semiconductor located on the other end and a third power semiconductor located between the first and second power semiconductors and a diode array including a first diode located on one end of the diode array, a second diode located on the other end and a third diode located between the first and second diodes. A resistance value between an emitter electrode and a collector electrode in ON state is higher at the third power semiconductor than at the first and second power semiconductors. Upon application of a voltage of not less than a rising voltage, the third diode has a higher resistance value than resistance values of the first diode and the second diode upon application of a voltage not less than a rising voltage. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285361 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A power supply device includes: a rectifier having a full-wave rectification circuit whose low side elements are made of MOSFETs; an electrical load supplied with DC power from the rectifier; and a control circuit having a load voltage detector and an AC voltage detector for detecting an input terminal voltage from a permanent-magnet generator; wherein when a terminal voltage across the electrical load is lower than a predetermined value, the control circuit operates the rectifier in full-wave rectification mode, whereas when the terminal voltage across the electrical load is higher than the predetermined value, the control circuit short-circuits input terminals of the permanent-magnet generator with each other, and when power for driving the control circuit is not secured, the control circuit retains the full-wave rectification mode even if the terminal voltage across the electrical load is higher than the predetermined value. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285255 | ALTERNATOR - An alternator is provided with a rectifier including a positive-side and a negative-side heatsink that cool rectifier elements corresponding to each heatsink and a circuit board that holds the positive-side and the negative-side heatsink, wherein one of either the positive-side and the negative-side heatsink or the circuit board is provided with engaging holes, and the other with engaging protrusions that are engaged with the holes. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285212 | INPUT/OUTPUT APPARATUS AND REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS - An input/output apparatus is provided which is capable of preventing electric shock without reinforcing the insulation of a power-supply unit and capable of connecting to a USB, a LAN, or the like. An input/output apparatus includes a power-supply circuit that uses electric power as the power supply of the present apparatus, which is generated in a resonance circuit by an induction of an AC magnetic field from the resonance circuit on the apparatus main body side, and a communication circuit that transmits and receives a signal between a resonance circuit of the present apparatus and a resonance circuit on the apparatus main body side, and capable of being insulated from the power supply of the apparatus main body by receiving electric power from the apparatus main body in a non-contact state and by communicating with the apparatus main body in a non-contact state, thereby. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110284874 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - In a cell region of a first major surface of a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first well of a second conductivity type is in an upper surface. A diffusion region of a first conductivity type is in the upper surface in the first well. A first gate insulating film is on the first well, and a first gate electrode on the first gate insulating film. A second well of a second conductivity type is in the upper surface of the first major surface on a peripheral portion of the cell region. A second gate insulating film is on the second well, and a thick field oxide film is on the peripheral side than the second gate insulating film. A second gate electrode is sequentially on the second gate insulating film and the field oxide film and electrically connected to the first gate electrode. A first electrode is connected to the first, second well and the diffusion region. A second electrode is connected on a second major surface of the semiconductor substrate. A gate wiring is on the field oxide film, going around a periphery of the cell region, and electrically connected to the second gate electrode. The gate wiring is a silicide of a constituting substance of the second gate electrode. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110284317 | SPEAKER DIAPHRAGM, SPEAKER, AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF SPEAKER DIAPHRAGM - A speaker diaphragm ( | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110284264 | CONDUCTOR OF HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL APPARATUS - In a conductor of a high voltage electrical apparatus, the conductor being placed in a vessel filled with insulating gas together with an electrical apparatus, the conductor is configured by a polygonal tubular conductor, and an opening portion which makes the insulating gas flowing in from an end portion of the polygonal tubular conductor flow out is formed in at least one surface of the polygonal tubular conductor. This aims to obtain the conductor of the high voltage electrical apparatus, the conductor being capable of achieving reduction in cost and high reliability. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110283728 | SCALE DEPOSITION DEVICE AND WATER HEATER - Provided is a water heater, which allows efficient deposition of a scale component dissolved in water so as to reduce adhesion of the scale to a heat-transfer channel. The water heater includes: scale deposition means including a tank, an anode and a cathode provided in the tank so as to be opposed to each other, and a first power supply for applying a voltage between the anode and the cathode, the scale deposition means depositing a scale component dissolved in water retained in the tank; a heat-transfer channel provided at downstream of the scale deposition means, for guiding the water; and a heat source for heating the water by heat exchange in the heat-transfer channel, in which the scale deposition means includes oxygen-gas supplying/dissolving means for supplying an oxygen gas to a water feed pipe for feeding the water to the tank and dissolving the oxygen gas in the water. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110283255 | PROGRAM CODE GENERATION SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM EXECUTION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM CODE COMPRESSION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - To obtain a program code generation support device, method, and the like, capable of generating a new program code, in particular, generating in accordance with an incorporating apparatus, by performing a further optimization on a program code. The device includes storage means for storing as data, an optimization rule that is composed of a conversion condition for converting data of a program code and a conversion content thereof, and code optimization means that includes a code analysis unit for analyzing the program code, a condition search unit for search a part matching the conversion condition in the program code through a collation with the optimization rule stored in the storage means on the basis of the analyzed program code, and an optimization unit for generating data of a new program code by converting the part matching the conversion condition on the basis of the conversion content. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282561 | CONTROLLER OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110281573 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING DEVICES - A connected-device-information managing unit that obtains connection information that is predetermined information for connection from a connected device as a communication counterpart, holds it, and, when a communication process is completed normally, holds a parameter value used in the communication process as normal connection information which is a part of the connection information for each connected device, and a hands-free controller that performs a communication process based on the connection information. When a communication process is started with a device that normal connection information has been already stored in the connected-device-information managing unit, the hands-free controller sets a parameter based on the normal connection information to perform the communication process. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110281419 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DIELECTRIC ISOLATION TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for manufacturing a dielectric isolation type semiconductor device comprises: forming a plurality of trenches in a first region on a major surface of a semiconductor substrate; forming a first dielectric layer on the major surface of the semiconductor substrate and a first thick dielectric layer in the first region by oxidizing a surface of the semiconductor substrate; bonding a semiconductor layer of a first conductive type to the semiconductor substrate via the first dielectric layer; forming a first semiconductor region by implanting an impurity into a part of the semiconductor layer above the first thick dielectric layer; forming a second semiconductor region by implanting an impurity of a second conductive type into a part of the semiconductor layer so as to surround the first semiconductor region separating from the first semiconductor region. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110281170 | ELECTRIC STORAGE DEVICE ELECTRODE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A method of manufacturing an energy storage device electrode in which breakage of electrode particles and warping of a collector are reduced, and internal resistance is lowered by lowering the contact resistance between the collector and an electrode layer. The method manufactures an electric double-layer capacitor electrode, and includes: forming a plurality of grooves that run in one direction in each of a front surface and rear surface of a collector foil; subsequently providing an electrode layer that includes plural electrode particles on each of the front surface and rear surface of the collector foil; and subsequently pressing the electrode layer toward the collector foil to move the plurality of electrode particles along the plurality of grooves until the plural electrode particles dig into the plurality of grooves. | 11-17-2011 |
