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20140040437 | RECEIVER AND RECEPTION METHOD - A receiver includes: an application information acquiring unit that acquires an AIT for carousel transmission; an application requesting unit that provides, based on an application control code, an application request signal to a receiver application server associated with a location indicated by location information; an application acquiring unit that acquires an application transmitted from the receiver application server; an application execution unit that executes the acquired application; a content requesting unit that provides, along with execution of the application, a content request signal to a content delivery server that stores content data associated with the application; and a content acquiring unit that acquires content data transmitted from the content delivery server. | 02-06-2014 |
20140075472 | COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION/BROADCASTING SYSTEM, APPLICATION MANAGEMENT SERVER, RECEIVER, RECEPTION METHOD FOR RECEIVER, AND APPLICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR APPLICATION MANAGEMENT SERVER - An application management server includes: a terminal management table storage unit configured to store terminal device identification data for identifying a terminal device and information indicating whether or not transmission of notification data is necessary while correlating the terminal device identification data with the information; a registration request reception unit configured to receive from the terminal device, a registration request for registering transmission of notification data, and update the terminal management table storage unit based on the registration request; a release request reception unit configured to receive from the terminal device, a release request for releasing transmission of notification data, and update the terminal management table storage unit based on the release request; a via-broadcasting notification transmission unit configured to perform a process of including notification data in a broadcasting signal and transmitting the notification data; and a via-communication notification transmission unit configured to perform a process of referring to the terminal management table storage unit and transmitting the notification data to the terminal device. | 03-13-2014 |
20140143802 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - Provided are a signal processing device and a program which is capable of switching from a broadcast program to VOD, and during viewing of the VOD, if an emergency alert is superimposed upon a broadcast wave, displays the emergency alert under certain conditions, and which additionally is capable of displaying only VOD when viewing a recording. This signal processing device ( | 05-22-2014 |
20140150015 | RECEIVER - The receiver ( | 05-29-2014 |
20140157319 | PROGRAM SWITCHING CONTROL DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A terminal ( | 06-05-2014 |
20140214967 | RECEIVER AND RECEPTION METHOD - A receiver includes: a terminal-side server unit configured to receive a request output by a device executing an application; a receiver-side server unit configured to receive a request output by an application execution unit executing an application; a connecting unit configured to establish connection among the terminal-side server unit or the receiver side-server unit, the application execution unit, and the terminal; and a bridge unit configured to bridge-connect the terminal-side server unit and the receiver-side server unit via the connection established by the connecting unit. | 07-31-2014 |
20140304732 | BROADCAST EQUIPMENT - The broadcast equipment is provided with a receiving unit ( | 10-09-2014 |
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20100119390 | PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR, HERMETIC COMPRESSOR, AND FAN MOTOR - An object is to provide a permanent magnet motor that highly reduces torque fluctuation, thereby reducing noise and vibration. The permanent magnet motor may be formed as follows: a length D of a permanent magnet | 05-13-2010 |
20100247347 | INDUCTION MOTOR AND HERMETIC COMPRESSOR - The present invention is directed to provide an induction motor having an ideal efficiency at the normal operation time, while obtaining a high locked-rotor torque without having to use a special drive circuit. According to the induction motor related to the present invention, the induction motor has a rotor | 09-30-2010 |
20100253174 | INDUCTION MOTOR ROTOR, INDUCTION MOTOR, COMPRESSOR, FAN, AND AIR CONDITIONER - To provide an indication motor rotor capable of improving motor performance by concentrating portions under magnetic saturation conditions of rotor teeth. The rotor | 10-07-2010 |
20110070108 | ROTARY ELECTRIC MOTOR AND BLOWER THAT USES THE SAME - In a rotary electric motor a first stator core and a second stator core are disposed coaxially so as to be separated by a predetermined distance axially and such that circumferential positions of teeth are aligned, and a first rotor core and a second rotor core on which salient poles are disposed at a uniform angular pitch circumferentially are fixed coaxially to a rotating shaft so as to be positioned on inner peripheral sides of the first stator core and the second stator core, respectively, and so as to be offset circumferentially by a pitch of half a salient pole from each other. A first permanent magnet that is magnetically oriented such that a direction of magnetization is radially inward is disposed on an outer peripheral surface of a core back of the first stator core, and an outer peripheral surface of the first permanent magnet and the outer peripheral surface of the core back of the second stator core are linked by a frame that is made of a magnetic material. | 03-24-2011 |
20110081263 | INDUCTION MOTOR AND HERMETIC COMPRESSOR - It is an object to obtain a highly efficient induction motor which does not degrade the fitting strength of shrink-fit and of which the starting torque is high, and further to obtain a highly reliable hermetic compressor which suppresses the oil amount flowing out of the hermetic compressor. According to the present invention, an induction motor includes a stator having a winding to be inserted to a plurality of stator slots formed along an inner circumferential edge of a stator iron core; and a rotor | 04-07-2011 |
20130140922 | ROTOR OF PERMANENT MAGNET EMBEDDED MOTOR, COMPRESSOR, AND REFRIGERATION AND AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS - A rotor of a permanent magnet embedded motor according to this invention includes: a rotor iron core formed by stacking a predetermined number of electromagnetic steel plates perforated in a predetermined shape; a plurality of permanent magnet insertion holes formed along an outer circumferential section of the rotor iron core; permanent magnet end gaps provided at both ends of the permanent magnet insertion hole; a permanent magnet inserted in the permanent magnet insertion hole; and a plurality of slits formed in an iron core section on the outer side of the permanent magnet insertion hole. The width in the radial direction of a slit thin section of each of the slits between the slit and the rotor iron core outer circumference gradually increases from an inter-electrode side toward a magnetic pole center and changes in a sine wave shape having a peak in the magnetic pole center. | 06-06-2013 |
20130175896 | ROTOR OF INDUCTION MOTOR, INDUCTION MOTOR, COMPRESSOR, AIR BLOWER, AND AIR CONDITIONER - A rotor of an induction motor according to the present invention is a rotor including a squirrel-cage secondary conductor, wherein the rotor slot is constituted by an outer circumferential slot formed near an outer circumference of the rotor and an inner circumferential slot communicating with the outer circumferential slot and formed inside of the outer circumferential slot, a circumferential width TC of an innermost circumference of the outer circumferential slot is smaller than a circumferential width TD of an outermost circumference of the inner circumferential slot, and a circumferential width of the outer circumferential slot is smaller as the outer circumferential slot approaches to the outer circumference of the rotor. | 07-11-2013 |
20130214635 | INDUCTION MOTOR, COMPRESSOR, AIR BLOWER, AND AIR CONDITIONER - In an induction motor, when dimensions of respective elements of a rotor slot are defined as
| 08-22-2013 |
20140232230 | PERMANENT MAGNET EMBEDDED MOTOR AND COMPRESSOR, BLOWER, AND REFRIGERATING AND AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS USING PERMANENT MAGNET EMBEDDED MOTOR - A permanent magnet embedded motor includes a rotor and permanent magnets. The outer circumferential surface of the rotor is formed by divided outer circumferential surfaces divided at equal angle intervals in a circumferential direction corresponding to permanent magnets. The divided outer circumferential surface is formed by a first curved surface, a radial direction distance of which from a rotor axis is maximized in a circumferential direction center of divided outer circumferential surface and second curved surfaces formed from the circumferential direction both ends to the circumferential direction center and crossing the first curved surface. The second curved surfaces are formed by arcuate surfaces each having the rotor axis as a central axis. A distance between both ends of the first curved surface is smaller than the width of a permanent magnet in a direction orthogonal to a radial direction in the circumferential direction center. | 08-21-2014 |
20140232231 | ROTOR OF INTERIOR PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR, COMPRESSOR, AND REFRIGERATING AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - A rotor of an interior permanent magnet motor includes a rotor core; permanent magnet insertion holes formed in an outer circumferential portion of the rotor core along a circumferential direction; a permanent-magnet end-portion air gap formed in each of both end portions of each permanent magnet insertion hole; a permanent magnet inserted in each permanent magnet insertion hole; and slits formed in an outer circumferential core portion on an outer side in a radial direction with respect to each permanent magnet insertion hole, wherein a width of a core present between the permanent-magnet end-portion air gap and the slit and a width of a core present between the slits are such that a width of a core gradually increases as the core is closer to a magnet pole center from the interpolar line. | 08-21-2014 |
20140368081 | ROTOR OF PERMANENT-MAGNET EMBEDDED MOTOR, AND COMPRESSOR, BLOWER, AND REFRIGERATING/AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE USING THE ROTOR - A rotor of a permanent-magnet embedded motor includes a rotor core having magnet insertion holes along a circumferential direction and a magnet inserted into each of the holes, wherein a gap is formed at opposite ends of a hole at a time of inserting the magnet therein, an outer peripheral face of the core is formed by a first curved surface formed from a magnetic pole center to between poles, with a radial distance from a shaft center of the core being largest at the pole center on the peripheral face, and a second curved surface formed from an interpolar portion toward the pole center to intersect with the first curved surface, with the radial distance from the shaft center being smallest in the interpolar portion on the peripheral face, and wherein a length of the first curved surface is larger than a length of the second curved surface. | 12-18-2014 |
20150028708 | MOTOR - A drive device driving a power converter that includes a switching element formed from a wide bandgap semiconductor, includes a PWM-signal output unit that generates a drive signal that drives the switching element with PWM; an on-speed reducing unit that, when the switching element is changed from off to on, reduces a change rate of the drive signal; and an off-speed improving unit that, when the switching element is changed from on to off, draws charge from the switching element at a high speed and with a charge drawing performance higher than that at a time when the switching element is changed from off to on. | 01-29-2015 |
20150084468 | ROTOR FOR PERMANENT-MAGNET-EMBEDDED ELECTRIC MOTOR, ELECTRIC MOTOR INCLUDING THE ROTOR, COMPRESSOR INCLUDING THE ELECTRIC MOTOR, AND AIR CONDITIONER INCLUDING THE COMPRESSOR - A rotor for a permanent-magnet-embedded electric motor includes slit holes each axially formed near opposite ends of a magnetic pole between an outer peripheral face of a rotor core and a magnet insertion hole, and forming a symmetrical shape in an approximately truncated chevron shape along the outer peripheral face of the rotor core, based on a centerline of each of the magnetic poles, wherein a thickness of each of permanent magnets is set to be twice or more of an air gap, a width of a shortest magnetic path in which a distance between the slit hole and the permanent magnet becomes shortest is set to be twice or more of the air gap, and an inclination of the slit hole with respect to a width direction of the permanent magnet orthogonal to a radial direction is set to be in a range from 0 to 30 degrees. | 03-26-2015 |
20150139830 | PERMANENT-MAGNET-EMBEDDED ELECTRIC MOTOR, COMPRESSOR, AND REFRIGERATION AIR CONIDITIONING APPARATUS - In a permanent-magnet-embedded electric motor, at the distal ends of base sections of teeth sections of a stator core, increased magnetic-resistance sections, which have magnetic resistance larger than magnetic resistance of the base sections, are provided. Given that a minimum interval in the circumferential direction between the base sections adjacent to each other is represented as La, an interval of a minimum gap between the teeth sections adjacent to each other is represented as Lb, and an interval of a gap between a rotor and a stator is represented as Lg, a relation of La>2Lg>Lb holds. Due to such a configuration, it is possible to provide the electric motor that does not spoil a magnetic characteristic of the rotor and that is excellent in a demagnetization characteristic. | 05-21-2015 |
20150184871 | AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT - To provide an air conditioner outdoor unit including a casing having an air inlet on a side surface and an air outlet on an upper surface, a heat exchanger that covers the air inlet and is provided inside the casing, a fan that sucks in air from the air inlet and discharges air from the air outlet, and a fan motor provided on a lower side of the fan. The fan motor is set such that an outer diameter D | 07-02-2015 |
20150236558 | ELECTRIC MOTOR HAVING EMBEDDED PERMANENT MAGNETS - A rotor of an interior permanent magnet motor includes a rotor core having a plurality of magnet insertion holes, a shaft, a plurality of rare-earth magnets, and a pair of magnet fixing members. One surface of the magnet fixing member is provided with a plurality of pairs of tongue-like portions, and the tongue-like portions are inserted into the magnet insertion holes. On each of both sides in a rotary shaft direction, the rare-earth magnets have both end surfaces in a rotor circumferential direction sandwiched by a corresponding pair of tongue-like portions. An interval between the tongue-like portions includes, at a position separated from a base position, an interval that is smaller than the width of the rare-earth magnet in the rotor circumferential direction. | 08-20-2015 |
20150256038 | ELECTRIC MOTOR WITH EMBEDDED PERMANENT MAGNET, AND REFRIGERATING AIR CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT EQUIPPED WITH SAME - A permanent magnet embedded electric motor includes a slit and a flux barrier. A hole defining portion of a magnet insertion hole includes an extended portion. The extended portion projects toward an interpolar core portion in a rotor core in an area positioned further on an outer side of a circumferential direction with respect to a width-direction end surface of a permanent magnet. (Lb) is larger than (La), and (Lc) is smaller than (Ld), where the (La) represents a distance between the slit and the core outer peripheral surface; the (Lb) represents a distance between the slit and an outer peripheral-side surface of the permanent magnet; the (Lc) represents a shortest distance between the extended portion and the interpolar core portion; and the (Ld) represents a thickness of the permanent magnet. | 09-10-2015 |
20150280500 | PERMANENT MAGNET EMBEDDED MOTOR, COMPRESSOR, AND REFRIGERATION AND AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE - A rotor core includes a plurality of first electromagnetic steel plates that are stacked in an axial direction and a plurality of second electromagnetic steel plates that are stacked in an axial direction at both ends of the electromagnetic steel plate group thereof. The first electromagnetic steel plates are provided therein with magnet insertion holes and first flux barriers. The second electromagnetic steel plates are provided therein with the magnet insertion holes, second flux barriers, and projections that regulate the positions of the magnets. The second electromagnetic steel plates are stacked at at least one of the axial direction ends of the electromagnetic steel plate group including the plurality of first electromagnetic steel plates and are provided at a position overhanging the axial direction end of a stator core. | 10-01-2015 |
20150318743 | PERMANENT MAGNET-EMBEDDED ELECTRIC MOTOR - An interior permanent magnet motor capable of increasing an output of a motor without reducing torque by increasing demagnetization resistance. The interior permanent magnet motor includes a rotator including a rotator core, and a stator. The rotator core includes a plurality of magnet accommodating holes and a plurality of permanent magnets. The thickness in the short-side direction of each of the magnet accommodating holes is minimum at the center portion of the magnetic pole, and is gradually increased toward the radially outer side of the rotator core. At least the thickness in the short-side direction of the permanent magnet at the center portion of the magnetic pole is equal to the thickness in the short-side direction of the magnet accommodating hole at the center portion of the magnetic pole. | 11-05-2015 |
20150318764 | PERMANENT MAGNET BURIED TYPE ELECTRIC MOTOR AND COMPRESSOR - A permanent magnet buried type electric motor includes a rotator having a rotator core and a stator. The rotator core includes: a plurality of magnet accommodating holes formed as many as the number of poles; a plurality of permanent magnets; air holes through which a coolant and a refrigerant oil pass; and a fastening hole. The magnet accommodating hole is formed into a shape that projects toward a radially inner side and is recessed toward a radially outer side. The air hole portions and the fastening holes are arranged so as to be alternately positioned. The air hole portion is formed into such a shape that includes a portion extending in an arc shape along an outer peripheral surface of a rotary shaft in a circumferential direction of the rotator core so that an area of the air hole portion is larger than an area of the fastening hole. | 11-05-2015 |
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20100035150 | ELECTRIC STORAGE DEVICE - An electrode laminate unit of an electric storage device includes positive electrodes, negative electrodes and a lithium electrode connected to the negative electrode. When an electrolyte solution is injected into the electric storage device, lithium ions are emitted from the lithium electrode to the negative electrode. A positive and a negative electrode current collector have through-holes that guide the lithium ions in the laminating direction. The aperture ratio of the through-holes at the edge parts where the electrolyte solution is easy to be permeated is set to be smaller than the aperture ratio at central parts in order to suppress the permeation. Thus, the distribution of the electrolyte solution is made uniform, whereby the doping amount is made uniform. | 02-11-2010 |
20110001084 | ELECTRODE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - The electrode material according to the present invention has a crystal phase in the form of a lattice containing lithium vanadium oxide, such as Li | 01-06-2011 |
20110108760 | ELECTRODE MATERIAL, PRODUCTION METHOD OF SAME AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - An electrode material uses, as an active material, sodium vanadium oxide represented by Na | 05-12-2011 |
20120295163 | ELECTRIC STORAGE DEVICE AND POSITIVE ELECTRODE - An electric storage device is provided with a positive electrode having a positive-electrode mixture layer including a positive-electrode active material. The positive-electrode active material includes a lithium-vanadium-phosphate from 8% to 70% by mass and a lithium-nickel complex oxide from 20% to 82% by mass. A coating concentration of the positive-electrode mixture layer is from 4 mg/cm | 11-22-2012 |
20130095391 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - In a lithium on secondary battery, lithium ions are reversibly absorbed to and released from a negative electrode. A positive electrode includes lithium vanadium phosphate. A non-aqueous electrolytic solution includes fluorinated carbonate as a solvent. | 04-18-2013 |
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20150318571 | LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY - Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery having a large energy density and an improved capacity retention rate after repeated use even under high voltage application (cycle characteristics), and excellent in safety. A lithium ion secondary battery containing a negative electrode for reversibly intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions, a positive electrode containing lithium vanadium phosphate, and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution containing lithium fluoroethyl phosphate as an electrolyte can be obtained. | 11-05-2015 |
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20100125370 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - To achieve a reduction in power consumption by allowing a plurality of air conditioners to communicate with each other and thereby leveling their air-conditioning capacities with no load variations involved by temperature variations. An air-conditioning apparatus 100 may include a plurality of air conditioners and a computing section for control, where each air conditioner includes an indoor unit and an outdoor unit that form a closed refrigeration cycle. The indoor units of the plurality of air conditioners are installed in an area to be air-conditioned. The computing section for control may allow the plurality of air conditioners to communicate with each other, thereby leveling their air-conditioning capacities based on air-conditioning load detected by each air conditioner. | 05-20-2010 |
20100174414 | AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM - Control units for three indoor units of air conditioners installed in a same indoor space are connected by a communication line. Each of the control units can grasp the detection information of the human detection sensor, preset temperature information of the remote controller, inlet temperature information of the inlet temperature sensor of all of the other air conditioners in the same space. On the basis of the above-mentioned information, each of the control units calculates an air-conditioning load of each of the air-conditioning target spaces and the air-conditioning load of an entire air-conditioning space on the basis of these air-conditioning target spaces in the same manner. A compressor is driven and controlled on the basis of a calculation result thereof to perform a power-saving operation of the entire air-conditioning space. | 07-08-2010 |
20110192186 | BLOWER AND HEAT PUMP APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The rear side outer peripheral edge of a propeller fan rotated and driven by a motor, of a propeller fan drive unit, is surrounded by a bell mouth. An upper plate, a lower plate, a side plate, and a machine room plate constitute an air duct at the suction side, outside the radial direction of the propeller fan. The cross-section of the bell mouth, at a first position in the vicinity where a blade of the propeller fan is closest, and where the distance between the propeller fan and the plate constituting the air duct outside the radial direction is relatively narrow, is made to be such that an expansion angle θ | 08-11-2011 |
20130306301 | HEAT PUMP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR HEAT PUMP APPARATUS - A heat pump apparatus includes a heat source unit that cools or heats a refrigerant, an indoor unit that performs a cooling operation, and a hot water supply unit that performs a hot water supply operation. When there is an operation request for one of the indoor unit and the hot water supply unit, even when there is no operation request for the other, the heat pump apparatus causes both the one and the other to operate if the other satisfies a certain condition so that the hot water supply unit performs a hot water supply operation by utilizing a refrigerant heated by performing a cooling operation in the indoor unit and the indoor unit performs a cooling operation by utilizing a refrigerant cooled by performing a hot water supply operation in the hot water supply unit. | 11-21-2013 |
20130312443 | REFRIGERATION CYCLE APPARATUS AND REFRIGERATION CYCLE CONTROL METHOD - A combined air-conditioning and hot water supply system includes a refrigeration cycle mechanism, a hot water storage tank, and a controller. The refrigeration cycle mechanism has a compressor whose operating frequency can be controlled, a plate water-heat exchanger that heats water, a hot water supply pressure-reducing mechanism, and an outdoor heat exchanger. The controller includes a clock section, a computing section, a memory section, and a controlling section. The clock section measures time. The computing section calculates the actual hot water supply load. The memory section stores information related to the hot water supply load calculated by the computing section. The controlling section controls the operating frequency of the compressor based on the quantity of heat storage, the hot water supply load, and a preset hot water supply time. | 11-28-2013 |
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20110042950 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An object of the invention is to reduce stop time of a wind turbine generator caused by icing on a wind turbine blade in the wind turbine generator. The invention provides the wind turbine generator including an ice detecting unit for detecting an amount of icing on a wind turbine blade, wherein an operation mode is switched to a no-load operation mode with no power being generated in a case where the icing amount detected by the ice detecting unit exceeds a first predetermined value, and an icing amount is detected by the ice detecting unit in a state where the apparatus is operated in the no-load operation mode. | 02-24-2011 |
20110182732 | WIND TURBINE AND METHOD OF DEICING WIND TURBINE BLADE - A wind turbine is provided with a rotor including a plurality of blades and a deicing unit. The deicing unit performs a deicing operation only on one(s) of the plurality of blades, which has an azimuth angle within a predetermined range. The predetermined range is within a range from 90 to 270 degrees, and includes 180 degrees. Therefore, ice scattering is suppressed in deicing the wind turbine blades. | 07-28-2011 |
20110193343 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND BLADE PITCH ANGLE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a wind turbine generator and a blade pitch angle control method thereof in which an aerodynamic imbalance of a wind turbine rotor at the time of shutdown is further reduced, the maximum load of a wind turbine is further reduced, and the wind turbine generator can be reduced in weight and cost. The wind turbine generator includes a collective pitch angle controller | 08-11-2011 |
20110266798 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND START-UP METHOD OF THE SAME - A start-up method of a wind turbine generator includes a step of increasing a pitch angle of a wind turbine blade from a feather pitch angle to a fine pitch angle. The step of increasing the pitch angle of the wind turbine blade includes steps of: determining based on first to n-th pitch angles (n≧2) greater than the feather pitch angle and smaller than the fine pitch angle and first to n-th rotational speed conditions associated with the first to n-th pitch angles, respectively, whether a control target rotational speed, which is a wind turbine speed or generator speed, satisfies the i-th rotational speed condition when the pitch angle reaches the i-th rotational speed out of the first to n-th pitch angles, the first to n-th pitch angles and the first to n-th rotational speed conditions being stored in a storage unit; decreasing the pitch angle to the (i−1)-th pitch angle or the feather pitch angle in a case that the control target rotational speed does not satisfy the i-th rotational speed condition when the pitch angle reaches the i-th pitch angle; and increasing the pitch angle to the (i+1)-th pitch angle or the fine pitch angle in a case that the control target rotational speed satisfies the i-th rotational speed condition when the pitch angle reaches the i-th pitch angle. | 11-03-2011 |
20110293418 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WIND TURBINE - In a conventional technique, a shutdown sequence indicating a sequential operation from a start of the feathering of a wind turbine to the stop is started in response to an alert signal caused by an external factor. In the present invention, when the alert is called off during the shutdown sequence, the shutdown sequence is stopped, and the recovery control by which the pitch angle of the wind turbine blade is controlled toward the fine state is performed. By such a control, the stop period of the wind turbine under the shutdown can be shortened, so that the decrease in the operating rate of the wind farm can be suppressed. | 12-01-2011 |
20120061971 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - An object of the present invention is to provide a wind turbine generator in which a communication channel can be added in communication between a hub and a nacelle, without making a modification to the design of a slip ring. The present invention provides a wind turbine generator in which communication between the hub and the nacelle is performed by superimposing an information signal onto AC power carried over an AC power line between the hub and the nacelle via the slip ring. | 03-15-2012 |
20120274067 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - An object of the present invention is to provide a wind turbine generator in which a communication channel can be added in communication between a hub and a nacelle, without making a modification to the design of a silo ring. The present invention provides a wind turbine generator in which communication between the hub and the nacelle is performed by superimposing an into signal onto AC power carried over an AC power line between the hub and the nacelle via the slip ring. | 11-01-2012 |
20140152105 | OUTPUT CONTROL DEVICE AND OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD FOR WIND FARM - An output control device for a wind farm which includes n number of wind turbines includes a WTG output obtaining unit for obtaining a current output P | 06-05-2014 |
20150240783 | YAW CONTROL SYSTEM AND YAW CONTROL METHOD FOR WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - Provided are a yaw control system and a yaw control method for a wind turbine generator, which are capable of obtaining an accurate value of the yaw direction even when the yaw direction sensor is abnormal. A yaw control system for a wind turbine generator which includes a nacelle configured to be capable of yaw rotation by a yaw drive mechanism comprises: a yaw direction sensor for detecting a yaw direction value of the nacelle at a current time; a yaw rotation amount calculation part for calculating an amount of yaw rotation of the nacelle in a predetermined period of time based on a yaw rotation speed and a yaw rotation time of the nacelle; a yaw direction estimation part configured to calculate an estimate value of a yaw direction of the nacelle at an end point of the predetermined period by an estimate value calculation logic, based on the amount of yaw rotation in the predetermined period calculated by the yaw rotation amount calculation part and the yaw direction value at a starting point of the predetermined period, and a yaw drive control part for controlling the yaw drive mechanism, wherein the yaw drive control part is configured to: when the yaw direction sensor is normal, determine a yaw rotation direction of the nacelle based on a detected result of the yaw direction value detected by the yaw direction sensor; and when the yaw direction sensor is abnormal, determine the yaw rotation direction of the nacelle based on the estimate value calculated by the yaw direction estimation part. | 08-27-2015 |
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20120217730 | OCCUPANT PROTECTION APPARATUS AND OCCUPANT PROTECTION METHOD - A side airbag apparatus includes an airbag that can form a plurality of chambers with a single inflator and protects an occupant from an impact on a side door by deploying the airbag between the occupant and the side door. The chambers of the airbag includes a vehicle sidewall chamber that can be deployed around a shoulder region of the occupant and a compartment chamber that is disposed closer to the inner side of an occupant compartment in the vehicle width direction than the vehicle sidewall chamber and can be deployed around a chest region of the occupant. | 08-30-2012 |
20120217731 | OCCUPANT PROTECTION APPARATUS AND OCCUPANT PROTECTION METHOD - A side airbag apparatus includes an airbag that can form a plurality of chambers with a single inflator and protects an occupant from an impact on a side door by deploying the airbag between the occupant and the side door. The chambers of the airbag includes an upper chamber and a lower chamber that can be deployed above and below a door arm rest in a vehicle vertical direction, and a chest chamber | 08-30-2012 |
20130001934 | OCCUPANT PROTECTION DEVICE - There is provided an occupant protection device. An airbag device includes an airbag that is stored in a center pad of a steering wheel of a vehicle and is expandable toward an occupant side upon a collision of the vehicle. The center pad is disposed to have a non-rotating structure independent from the steering wheel. The airbag includes a first extension portion and a second extension portion which are disposed at opposing edges of the airbag in a width direction of the vehicle and are expandable to extend toward a rear side of the vehicle. | 01-03-2013 |
20130001935 | OCCUPANT PROTECTION DEVICE - There is provided an occupant protection device. An air bag device according to the present invention protects an occupant against an impact caused by a collision of a vehicle by inflating and expanding a head protection air bag body and a chest protection air bag body upon the impact which are housed in a center pad of a steering wheel, the occupant protection device including an inflation and expansion mode control unit configured to inflate and expand the head protection air bag body and the chest protection air bag body mutually independently in accordance with a collision mode of the vehicle, and to control inflation and expansion modes of the head protection air bag body and the chest protection air bag body when inflated and expanded. | 01-03-2013 |
20130001936 | OCCUPANT PROTECTION DEVICE - There is provided an occupant protection device. An air bag device according to the present invention protects an occupant against an impact caused by a collision of a vehicle by inflating and expanding an air bag body upon the collision, which is housed in a center pad of a steering wheel, the center pad being provided so as not to rotate along with the steering wheel, the air bag body having a first chamber and a second chamber which is configured to be expanded between the occupant and the lower edge of the steering wheel in the vertical direction of the vehicle. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006477 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - There is provided a control device for vehicle. A sideslip speed which is the moving speed of a vehicle in the width direction is calculated on the basis of an estimated running position of the vehicle after a predetermined time interval has elapsed from a time at a starting running position of the vehicle on the estimated running path, and the actual running position of the vehicle after the predetermined time interval has elapsed from the time at the starting running position of the vehicle on the estimated running path. | 01-03-2013 |
20130038044 | STEERING DEVICE - There is provided a steering device. The steering device has an airbag module that is disposed inside a steering wheel for steering a vehicle and that protects a vehicle occupant during a collision of the vehicle with another object by deploying an airbag body toward the vehicle occupant. The steering device includes a detecting unit that detects the collision of the vehicle with another object in advance; and an adjusting unit that positionally adjusts the steering wheel to a neutral position when the collision of the vehicle with another object is detected by the detecting unit, the neutral position of the steering wheel being a position of the steering wheel when the vehicle is traveling straight. | 02-14-2013 |
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20090009835 | Hologram Reproducer and Hologram Reproducing Method - When a hologram recording material is changed in volume and refractive index during hologram recording, if one sheet of non-defective reconstructed images cannot be obtained even if conditions are changed so as to conform with Bragg's law most closely by changing the angle or position of a reference beam, a hologram reconstructing apparatus and a hologram reconstructing method are provided, in that a plurality of sheets of partially non-defective and favorable reconstructed images ( | 01-08-2009 |
20100265554 | HOLOGRAM REPRODUCING AND IMAGING APPARATUS, AND HOLOGRAM REPRODUCING AND IMAGING METHOD - A hologram reproducing and imaging apparatus includes a reference light source configured to be arranged near a hologram recording material on which a hologram is recorded and has an arrangement of a plurality of light sources, a reference light source drive section configured to drive the plurality of light sources in a time-division manner, an imaging sensor configured to capture an image of a reproduction area irradiated with reference light from the reference light source and photoelectrically convert the image, and an image processing section configured to process an imaging signal from the imaging sensor. Partial captured images are obtained by enabling the imaging signal of the area irradiated when the plurality of light sources are turned on, and the partial captured images are combined to be a reproduction image by the image processing section. | 10-21-2010 |
20120002074 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus and a method which enable effective removal of flicker are provided. Under an illumination environment such as a fluorescent lamp with luminance variation, flicker that occurs in images shot with an X-Y address scanning type imaging device such as a CMOS is effectively removed or reduced. The integral value of the row-by-row signal intensity of an image to be corrected from which to remove flicker is calculated, and this integral value is used to detect flicker components contained in individual rows of an image frame. The detected flicker components represent data according to the actual flicker waveform of the illumination, and a correction process is executed using flicker correction coefficients formed by an anti-phase pattern of the flicker components. Effective flicker removal becomes possible through this process. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002257 | HOLOGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, HOLOGRAM REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND HOLOGRAM REPRODUCTION METHOD - A hologram recording medium having two or more images recorded therein, wherein when substantially collimated light is incident along a first direction on the hologram recording medium, a first image is reproduced with the intensity of light diffracted in the hologram recording medium maximized in a predetermined direction, when substantially collimated light is incident along a second direction on the hologram recording medium, a second image is reproduced with the intensity of light diffracted in the hologram recording medium maximized in the predetermined direction, and a full width at half maximum of a reproduction angle of at least either of the diffracted light intensities of the first and second images is 8° or smaller. | 01-05-2012 |
20120007946 | HOLOGRAM REPRODUCTION IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD - A holographic reproduction image processing apparatus includes: a detecting section detecting the luminance of a plurality of pixels in an area of a holographic reproduction image extending in a direction substantially orthogonal to a direction in which the image has luminance variation; and an image processing section correcting the luminance variation according to luminance information supplied from the detecting section. | 01-12-2012 |
20120206635 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a storage section configured to store a correction matrix correcting crosstalk generated by a light or electron leak from an adjacent pixel existing among a plurality of pixels for receiving light in an imaging device; and a processing section configured to carry out processing to apply the correction matrix stored in the storage section to an image signal generated by the imaging device for each of the pixels. | 08-16-2012 |
20130329085 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a storage section configured to store a correction matrix correcting crosstalk generated by a light or electron leak from an adjacent pixel existing among a plurality of pixels for receiving light in an imaging device; and a processing section configured to carry out processing to apply the correction matrix stored in the storage section to an image signal generated by the imaging device for each of the pixels. | 12-12-2013 |
20140375848 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus and a method capable of effectively eliminating flicker are provided. Flicker which occurs in a captured image captured under a lighting environment such as a fluorescent light having a luminance change is effectively eliminated or reduced. A short exposure image and a long exposure image, which are images captured with at least two different exposure periods, are input, a short exposure image row profile having integrated values of a row-by-row signal quantity of the short exposure image and a reference profile having integrated values of a row-by-row signal quantity of the long exposure image are generated, a flicker correction waveform is generated by a division process on the short exposure image row profile by the reference profile or the like, and a corrected image is generated whose flicker components have been eliminated by a process of multiplying pixel values of each of the rows of the short exposure image by a row-by-row coefficient defined by the flicker correction waveform. | 12-25-2014 |
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20090302462 | Prepreg, Method for Manufacturing Prepreg, Substrate, and Semiconductor Device - A prepreg which can meet a demand for thickness reduction is provided. The prepreg has first and second resin layers having different applications, functions, capabilities, or properties, and allows an amount of a resin composition in each of the first and second resin layers to be set appropriately depending on a circuit wiring portion to be embedded into the second resin layer. Further, a method for manufacturing the above prepreg, and a substrate and a semiconductor device having the prepreg are also provided. The prepreg according to the present invention includes a core layer including a sheet-shaped base member and having one surface and the other surface which is opposite to the one surface, the first resin layer provided on the one surface of the core layer and formed of a first resin composition, and the second resin layer provided on the other surface of the core layer and formed of a second resin composition, wherein at least one of a requirement that a thickness of the first resin layer is different from that of the second resin layer and a requirement that a constitution of the first resin composition is different from that of the second resin composition is satisfied. | 12-10-2009 |
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20100300619 | PREPREG, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PREPREG, SUBSTRATE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A prepreg which can meet a demand for thickness reduction is provided. The prepreg has first and second resin layers having different applications, functions, capabilities, or properties, and allows an amount of a resin composition in each of the first and second resin layers to be set appropriately depending on a circuit wiring portion to be embedded into the second resin layer. Further, a method for manufacturing the above prepreg, and a substrate and a semiconductor device having the prepreg are also provided. The prepreg according to the present invention includes a core layer including a sheet-shaped base member and having one surface and the other surface which is opposite to the one surface, the first resin layer provided on the one surface of the core layer and formed of a first resin composition, and the second resin layer provided on the other surface of the core layer and formed of a second resin composition, wherein at least one of a requirement that a thickness of the first resin layer is different from that of the second resin layer and a requirement that a constitution of the first resin composition is different from that of the second resin composition is satisfied. | 12-02-2010 |
20110256367 | PREPREG, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PREPREG, SUBSTRATE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A prepreg which can meet a demand for thickness reduction is provided. The prepreg has first and second resin layers having different applications, functions, capabilities, or properties, and allows an amount of a resin composition in each of the first and second resin layers to be set appropriately depending on a circuit wiring portion to be embedded into the second resin layer. Further, a method for manufacturing the above prepreg, and a substrate and a semiconductor device having the prepreg are also provided. The prepreg according to the present invention includes a core layer including a sheet-shaped base member and having one surface and the other surface which is opposite to the one surface, the first resin layer provided on the one surface of the core layer and formed of a first resin composition, and the second resin layer provided on the other surface of the core layer and formed of a second resin composition, wherein at least one of a requirement that a thickness of the first resin layer is different from that of the second resin layer and a requirement that a constitution of the first resin composition is different from that of the second resin composition is satisfied. | 10-20-2011 |
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20140059250 | NETWORK SYSTEM - A network system of the present invention includes a computer and a device connected via a network, and a system management device. The computer and the device include, respectively, bridges that encapsulate transmission/reception data transmitted and received to and from each other and transmit and receive the data to and from each other via the network. Each of the bridges includes a control data transmitting means for generating control data for controlling the state of the system based on control auxiliary data issued from the computer or the device and used for controlling the state of the system, and transmitting the control data to the system management device via the network. The system management device includes a system controlling means for controlling the state of the system in accordance with the control data received thereby. | 02-27-2014 |
20140281053 | I/O DEVICE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING I/O DEVICE - A plurality of bridge units which connect a computer, a data movement source I/O device, and a data movement destination I/O device to a network, a memory unit which relays movement of data between the data movement source I/O device and the data movement destination I/O device outside the computer, and an I/O data movement control unit which causes the data movement source I/O device to write data to the memory unit and causes the data movement destination I/O device to read the data from the memory unit are included. | 09-18-2014 |
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20100036251 | DELAY ADJUSTMENT MODULE AND ULTRASONIC RECEIVING BEAM FORMING APPARATUS - A delay adjustment memory is shared by two signal processing channels, a signal in one signal processing channel having a smaller delay time of the two signal processing channels is adjusted in delay by the delay adjustment memory, and another signal in the other signal processing channel having a larger delay time is directly supplied to a subsequent calculation unit without passing through the delay adjustment memory, thereby performing the ultrasonic receiving beam forming processing. | 02-11-2010 |
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20110128816 | RECEIVED DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS OF PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY - There is provided a received data processing apparatus of photoacoustic tomography including a minimum constitution unit data composition unit that sequentially reads receiving digital signals from first storage units and composes minimum constitution unit data of the acoustic wave of the minimum constitution units by performing a delay-and-sum process; a second storage unit that stores the minimum constitution unit data of the entire region of the specimen; an image construction unit that constructs an image of the specimen based on the minimum constitution unit data stored in the second storage unit; and a control unit that sequentially stores the minimum constitution unit data calculated by the minimum constitution unit data composition unit in the second storage unit and reads the stored minimum constitution unit data of the entire region of the specimen to transmit the minimum constitution unit data to the image construction unit. | 06-02-2011 |
20110208035 | SUBJECT INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - Generally, a photoacoustic signal has a wavelength longer than a general ultrasonic signal. That is, it does not matter even if at the time of acquisition of the photoacoustic signal, an element pitch of a probe is several times as large as at the time of acquisition of the ultrasonic signal. Thus, at the time of acquisition of the photoacoustic signal, a plurality of neighboring elements in a receiving element array are collectively considered as one element, and a phasing process is performed. As a result, the same effect as a plurality of phasing addition circuits are disposed in parallel is obtained, and not only a phasing addition process of the photoacoustic signal but also image reconstruction can be performed in real time at a high speed. | 08-25-2011 |
20120243369 | SUBJECT INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS AND SUBJECT INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD - A subject information acquisition apparatus includes: an acoustic wave detector which detects an acoustic wave which is generated from a subject by irradiating light and outputs a detection signal; an amplifier which amplifies the detection signal which is output from the acoustic wave detector; a gain control unit which changes a gain of the amplifier as time elapses, according to a gain control table, in order to correct a drop in intensity of the acoustic wave caused by attenuation of fluence inside the subject; and a signal processing unit which obtains information inside the subject based on the signal amplified by the amplifier. Measurement under a plurality of measurement conditions, where at least fluence distribution inside the subject or a position of the acoustic wave detector differs, is possible, and the gain control unit changes the gain control table according to the measurement conditions. | 09-27-2012 |
20120259198 | SUBJECT INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided a subject information processing apparatus including a first acoustic conversion element that receives an acoustic wave having a first frequency reflected inside a subject and converts the acoustic wave into an analog signal, a second acoustic conversion element that receives an acoustic wave having a second frequency generated when light is irradiated to a subject and converts the acoustic wave into an analog signal, an A/D converter that converts the analog signal into a digital signal, a data memory that retains the digital signal, and a controller that instructs the data memory to output the digital signal at a predetermined sampling frequency for each receiving axis. | 10-11-2012 |
20140121518 | SPECIMEN INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS AND SPECIMEN INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD - A specimen information acquisition apparatus includes a signal processor which can selectively operate in first and second modes. In the first mode, when a first group represents a group of devices among receiving devices and a second group represents at least a fraction of a group of devices other than the first group, a photoacoustic image and an ultrasonic image are obtained based on received signals from the first group and the second group, respectively. In the second mode, when a third group represents a group of devices having at least a fraction of a group of devices other than the first group and a fourth group represents at least a fraction of a group of devices other than the third group, a photoacoustic image and an ultrasonic image are obtained based on received signals from the third group and the fourth group, respectively. | 05-01-2014 |
20150327769 | PHOTOACOUSTIC APPARATUS - A photoacoustic apparatus includes a light source; a supporting member configured to support a receiving element that receives a photoacoustic wave generated through irradiation of a subject with light generated by the light source and that outputs a time-series reception signal; a control unit configured to set a plurality of measurement positions at which the supporting member is located when the subject is irradiated with the light at a plurality of timings; a moving unit configured to move the supporting member to the plurality of measurement positions; a signal data obtaining unit configured to generate reception signal data by reducing a data amount of the time-series reception signal in accordance with a measurement position among the measurement positions, and store the reception signal data; and an information obtaining unit configured to obtain information about the subject on the basis of the reception signal data. | 11-19-2015 |
20150327770 | PHOTOACOUSTIC APPARATUS - A photoacoustic apparatus includes a light source; a receiving element configured to receive, at a plurality of positions, a photoacoustic wave generated through irradiation of a subject with light generated by the light source, and output a time-series reception signal; a signal data obtaining unit configured to obtain information that is based on a shape of the subject, generate reception signal data by reducing a data amount of the time-series reception signal on the basis of the obtained information that is based on the shape of the subject, and store the reception signal data; and an information obtaining unit configured to obtain information about the subject on the basis of the reception signal data stored in the signal data obtaining unit. | 11-19-2015 |
20150327771 | PHOTOACOUSTIC APPARATUS - A photoacoustic apparatus includes a light source, a probe including a reception element that receives a photoacoustic wave generated by a subject in response to being illuminated with light and output a time-series reception signal, a signal data acquisition unit that generates reception signal data based on the time-series reception signal and stores the resultant data, a light fluence acquisition unit that acquires a light fluence at a position of interest in the subject, and an information acquisition unit that acquires subject information based on the stored reception signal data, wherein in a case where the light fluence at the position of interest is smaller than a threshold value, the signal data acquisition unit reduces the amount of data for a part of the time-series reception signal that corresponds to the position of interest. | 11-19-2015 |
20150327772 | PHOTOACOUSTIC APPARATUS - A photoacoustic apparatus includes a light source, a plurality of receiving elements that receive a photoacoustic wave generated as a subject is irradiated with light emitted from the light source and output time-series reception signals, a signal data acquisition unit that generates reception-signal data based on the time-series reception signals and store the reception-signal data, and an information acquisition unit that acquires information on the subject based on the reception-signal data stored in the signal data acquisition unit. | 11-19-2015 |