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20090286651 | Starting and generating apparatus for engine - The invention is a starting and generating apparatus for an engine, including: a rotator configured to be used as a generator driven by an engine as well as used as a starter motor for starting the engine; a power transmission mechanism configured to connect the engine with the rotator; a starter drive unit configured to supply an electricity to the rotator to drive the rotator as the starter motor when the engine is to be started; a clutch mechanism configured to shut off a power transmission from the engine to the power transmission mechanism when the engine is to be started; and a clutch control unit configured to bring the clutch mechanism into a connected state when a rotational speed of the rotator has reached a given rotational speed at which the engine can be started. | 11-19-2009 |
20100200692 | Aircraft electric generation system - This invention provides an aircraft electric generation system, which can achieve significantly increased capacity of electric generation, while adequately suppressing unwanted increase of a front face area of an aircraft engine as well as successfully dealing with considerably large changes of an engine spool speed. This electric generation system is driven by the engine and includes: a continuously variable transmission (CVT) connected with a rotation shaft of the engine; an electric generator located above the CVT and driven by an output of the CVT; and a lubricating oil pump unit located below the CVT and also driven by the output of the CVT. | 08-12-2010 |
20110101693 | AIRCRAFT STARTER GENERATOR - A starter generator has an electric rotating machine having a rotating shaft and designed to carry two reverse operations—motor and generator. A first clutch is connected between the rotating machine and the first rotating shaft for transmitting rotations of the rotating machine to the first rotating shaft. A second clutch is connected between the rotating machine and the second rotating shaft for transmitting rotations of the second rotating shaft to the rotating machine. A continuously variable transmission is provided for changing the number of rotations transmitted from the second rotating shaft to the rotating machine. The rotating machine is supplied with electric power to rotate the rotating shaft, or the number of rotations of the rotating shaft is kept constant by controlling a transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission. | 05-05-2011 |
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20140026589 | AIRCRAFT ENGINE - To provide an aircraft engine in which an accessory can be directly supported with no accessory gearbox intervening to thereby suppress an increase in size thereof, the aircraft engine (E) includes a take-out shaft ( | 01-30-2014 |
20140038770 | GENERATING DEVICE FOR AIRCRAFT - An electric power generating device ( | 02-06-2014 |
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20090186431 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD - In a light-emitting device and its manufacturing method, mounting by batch process with surface-mount technology, high light extraction efficiency, and low manufacturing cost are realized. The light-emitting device comprises semiconductor layers of p-type and n-type nitride semiconductor, semiconductor-surface-electrodes to apply currents into each of the semiconductor layers, an insulating layer which holds the semiconductor layers, and mount-surface-electrodes. The semiconductor layers has a non-deposited area where the other semiconductor layer is not deposited. The insulating layer has VIA which electrically connect the mount-surface-electrodes and the semiconductor-surface-electrodes. In the manufacturing process, firstly, semiconductor layers and semiconductor-surface-electrodes are deposited on the transparent crystal substrate, and by using build-up process, insulating layer and the mount-surface-electrodes are formed, and secondly, VIA are formed, and finally, the transparent crystal substrate is separated to get light-emitting device. Light can be extracted directly and efficiently from the semiconductor layers. With the mount-surface-electrodes, light-emitting device can be mounted by using surface mount technology. | 07-23-2009 |
20100200887 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - A light emitting device including a thinned color conversion layer which emits a light with a minimized color ununiformity. The light emitting element includes an LED chip, a color conversion layer. The color conversion layer is made of a light-transmissive material containing a phosphor. The phosphor is excited by a light emitted from the LED chip to emit a light of a color having a wavelength longer than that of a luminescent color of the LED chip. The LED chip is provided at its top surface with a frame-shaped electrode which extends along its edge. The color conversion layer is formed on the top surface of the LED chip at an area surrounded by the frame-shaped electrode. | 08-12-2010 |
20100207134 | LED LIGHTING DEVICE - An LED lighting device comprises a plurality of light emitting units which is configured to emit visible light having different colors which are mixed with each other to produce a white light. Each the light emitting units is composed of an LED chip and a phosphor. The LED chip is configured to generate light. The phosphor has a property of giving off a light of a predetermined color when the phosphor is excited by the light from the LED chip. The LED chip is selected from a group consisting of a blue LED chip, a UV LED chip, ad a violet LED chip. Each the phosphor is selected to give off the light of a predetermined color different from one another. | 08-19-2010 |
20100219760 | LED LUMINAIRE - An LED luminaire is provided with a light emitting module composed of plural kinds of LEDs emitting lights of different colors, a lens unit having a lens for diffusing the mixed-color light from the light emitting module, a light output controller for controlling electric current fed to each of the LEDs, and a light sensor for sensing the light from the light emitting module. The light output controller performs feedback control on the electric current fed to each of the LEDs based upon light levels of the sensed light, so that the light emitted from the light emitting module has desired chromaticity. The lens unit contains a light guide for guiding the light from the lens to the light sensor and can guide the light from the light emitting module to the light sensor with a high efficiency. | 09-02-2010 |
20110006323 | LIGHTING DEVICE - A lighting device comprising an LED chip having a light emitting surface, and being configured to emit a light from the light emitting surface, a mounting substrate being configured to mount the LED chip, a first color conversion member comprising a first light transmissive material and a first phosphor, the first phosphor being excited by the light which is emitted from the LED chip, thereby giving off a first light having a wavelength which is longer than a wavelength of the light emitted from the LED chip, the first color conversion member being directly disposed on the light emitting surface of the LED chip, a second color conversion member comprising a second light transmissive material and a second phosphor, the second phosphor being excited by the light which is emitted from the LED chip, thereby giving off a second light having a wavelength which is longer than the wavelength of the light emitted from the LED chip, the second color conversion member being shaped to have a dome-shape, wherein the LED chip and the first color conversion member are disposed between the mounting substrate and the second color conversion member. | 01-13-2011 |
20110018012 | LED LIGHTING DEVICE - The LED lighting device in this invention comprises a light source, a first face sheet, and a reflection sheet. The light source comprises a plurality of LED chips which are configured to emit lights having wavelengths which are different from each other. The first face sheet has a rear surface. The rear surface is defined as a diffusing and reflecting surface which is being configured to diffuse and reflect the lights which are emitted from the LED chips. The first face sheet is provided with a plurality of apertures. The reflection sheet has a second reflecting surface. The second reflecting surface is configured to reflect the light which is reflected from the diffusing and reflecting surface of the first face sheet toward the first face sheet. Each the aperture is shaped to pass the light which is reflected from the second reflecting surface. Each the aperture is configured to prevent the light which is directly emitted by the light from being passed through the aperture without being subjected to any reflection. | 01-27-2011 |
20110037084 | LENS-MOUNTED LIGHT EMITTING UNIT - In a lens-mounted light emitting unit comprising LED elements of multiple light colors, narrow-angle light distribution is enabled, and color mixing properties are improved. The lens-mounted light emitting unit | 02-17-2011 |
20110249431 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - A light emitting device includes: a light source unit which has a first and a second LED which are connected in parallel and emit lights of different colors, respectively. The lights of the first and the second LED are mixed to provide an emission light of the light source unit when an operating voltage is applied. The light source unit further has a resistor which is connected in series to the first LED to make forward current changing characteristics of the first and the second LED depending on change in the operating voltage to be different from each other, so that a required luminous flux-color temperature property, in which change in a color temperature of the emission light is made to depend on change in a luminous flux of the emission light, is obtained while the first and the second LED are turned on by applying the operating voltage. | 10-13-2011 |
20120153313 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS USING SAME - A light emitting device includes a solid light-emitting element; a mounting substrate mounting the solid light-emitting element thereon; an encapsulating member encapsulating the solid light-emitting element; and a lead frame electrically connected to the solid light-emitting element through a wire. The lead frame is arranged on a rear surface of the mounting substrate, and the mounting substrate includes a front mounting surface on which the solid light-emitting element is mounted. The front mounting surface having a smooth surface region covered with the encapsulating member. The mounting substrate further includes a wire hole through which the wire extends from the front mounting surface of the mounting substrate to the rear surface thereof. | 06-21-2012 |
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20090297408 | Method for Formation of Alumina Coating Film, Alumina Fiber, and Gas Treatment System Comprising the Alumina Fiber - In the formation of an oxide film on an aluminum fiber, it has been difficult to form a thick alumina coating film on the aluminum fiber which already has a natural oxide film formed thereon. To overcome this problem, there is provided a method for forming an alumina coating film which enables the deep penetration of oxygen into an aluminum fiber by employing a three-stage heating treatment and an alumina fiber formed by the method. Also provided is a system for producing water by photocatalytic reaction, in which a photocatalyst comprising the alumina fiber coated with titania is irradiated with light from a light source to generate an active oxygen species, diffusing the active oxygen species in water to impart the function of the active oxygen species to water. The system can perform washing by utilizing an oxidation reaction with the resulting water. Further, provided is a gas treatment system which comprises the alumina fiber coated with titania to impart a photocatalytic function to the aluminum fiber. | 12-03-2009 |
20100247390 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING WATER HAVING REDOX ACTIVITY - The present invention provides an apparatus for producing water having redox activity. In the apparatus, at least one of oxygen, ozone, chlorine, nitrogen monoxide, and ammonia as a reaction precursor is previously mixed into water or running water while regulating the concentration of the dissolved substance followed by the application of ultrasonic vibrations, whereby active oxygen species are generated in water. In another embodiment, water or running water is brought into contact with a catalyst to which ultrasonic vibrations or electromagnetic waves have been applied, whereby active oxygen species are generated in water. | 09-30-2010 |
20110212185 | WATER THAT EXPRESSES PATHOGEN-RESISTANCE GENES (PR GENE CLUSTERS) TO ENCODE PLANT IMMUNOPROTEINS, A METHOD OF PREVENTING PLANT DISEASES USING THE WATER, AND A DEVICE FOR PRODUCING THE WATER - Disclosed is a method of preventing diseases in plants which can bring about a redox reaction in the inside of plant cells thus inducing the expression of pathogen-resistance genes in the plant cells. There is no possibility that residual contents remain in soils. It is also possible to cultivate plants which are strong against diseases. By bringing water which contains reactive oxygen species and allows the reactive oxygen species to be held and to function for a long period into contact with plants, the expression of the pathogen-resistance genes which the plants possess is induced. Accordingly, the water containing reactive oxygen is absorbed into the plants to prevent diseases in plants. | 09-01-2011 |
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20100157573 | Light source apparatus - A light source apparatus includes a first light emitter, a second light emitter, and a third light emitter. The first light emitter has a peak wavelength within the range from 600 nm to 660 nm and a wavelength range at half peak intensity wider than the range from 600 nm to 660 nm, the second light emitter has a peak wavelength within the range from 530 nm to 570 nm and a wavelength range at half peak intensity wider than the range from 530 nm to 570 nm, and the third light emitter which a peak wavelength is 420 nm-470 nm in a spectral power distribution thereof. | 06-24-2010 |
20100225241 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A COLOR TEMPERATURE OF IRRADIATED LIGHT - An illumination device is provided for controlling a color temperature of light irradiated from a light source having a plurality of light-emitting elements of different light colors. A control setting module provides a control signal associated with a desired color temperature for the irradiated light. A light quantity determination circuit determines light quantities for each of the light-emitting elements based on a relationship between the control signal from the control setting module and an inverse color temperature. A plurality of driver circuits provide driver signals to the light-emitting elements corresponding to the determined light quantities. In this manner the color temperature for light irradiated from the light source coincides with the desired color temperature. | 09-09-2010 |
20120106125 | LIGHTING DEVICE TOPOLOGY FOR REDUCING UNEVENNESS IN LED LUMINANCE AND COLOR - A lighting device is provided in accordance with the present invention having reduced luminance and color unevenness. A plurality of solid-state light emitting elements are mounted on a base substrate. An optical member is further mounted on the substrate and arranged so as to cover light emitting surfaces of the light emitting elements, the optical member having a semicircular or semielliptical cross-sectional surface, and gutter-shaped in a longitudinal direction with respect to the substrate. A wavelength converting member covers the semicircular or semielliptical cross-sectional surface of the optical member, and is excitable by light from the solid-state light emitting elements to thereby emit wavelength-converted light. In various embodiments light diffusion members may be further distributed among the light emitting elements. | 05-03-2012 |
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20100053452 | TELEVISION RECEIVER - It is an object of the present invention to provide a television receiver for discriminating a CM broadcast from a received television broadcast and controlling a volume of the CM broadcast without complicating a configuration of a discriminating process of the CM broadcast. The present invention includes a silence detection means, a scene change detection means, a video audio changing point detection means, a first characteristic amount extraction means, a second characteristic amount extraction means, a comparison determining means and a volume control means. The comparison determining means compares the first characteristic amount which is an audio characteristic amount of a television signal before the time when the video audio changing point is detected, and the second characteristic amount which is an audio characteristic amount of a television signal after the time when the video audio changing point is detected, to determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied or not. The volume control means controls an output level when outputting audio of the television signal on the basis of a result of the comparison determining means. | 03-04-2010 |
20120140854 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication device which when transmitting both a first information sequence, on which π/4-shift differential phase shift modulation is performed, as a delayed wave and a second information sequence, on which a differential phase shift modulation is performed, as an advance wave by using a PADM method, interchanges signal points respectively belonging to quadrants which are one of a first quadrant and a third quadrant, a second quadrant and a fourth quadrant, the first quadrant and the second quadrant, the first quadrant and the fourth quadrant, the second quadrant and the third quadrant, and the third quadrant and the fourth quadrant, the signal points being included in signal points mapped onto a complex plane which consists of a real number axis and an imaginary number axis, to change the arrangement of the information sequence. | 06-07-2012 |
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20110266554 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE DEVICE - In a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, first, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a p-type third semiconductor layer are sequentially epitaxially grown on a substrate. After that, the third semiconductor layer is selectively removed. Then, a fourth semiconductor layer is epitaxially grown on the second semiconductor layer. Then, a gate electrode is formed on the third semiconductor layer. | 11-03-2011 |
20110272737 | TRANSISTOR AND TRANSISTOR CONTROL SYSTEM - A transistor includes a transistor body, and a stress application section applying stress to the transistor body. The transistor body includes a formation substrate, and a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer which are sequentially stacked on the formation substrate. The second semiconductor layer having a wider bandgap than the first semiconductor layer. The stress application section applies stress to the transistor body so that tensile stress applied to the second semiconductor layer increases in accordance with an increase in a temperature. | 11-10-2011 |
20110278540 | FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR - Provided is a field-effect transistor which is capable of suppressing current collapse. An HEMT as the field-effect transistor includes: a first semiconductor layer made of a first nitride semiconductor; and a second semiconductor layer formed on the first semiconductor layer and made of a second nitride semiconductor having a greater band gap than a band gap of the first nitride semiconductor, wherein the first semiconductor layer includes a region in which a threading dislocation density increases in a stacking direction. | 11-17-2011 |
20110297960 | TRANSISTOR ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing a transistor assembly includes the steps of: (a) forming a transistor; (b) polishing a base substrate; and (c) securing the transistor of which the base substrate is polished to a support substrate. The step (a) is a step of forming a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer on a principle surface of the base substrate. The step (b) is a step of polishing a surface of the base substrate opposite to the principle surface. The step (c) is a step of securing the transistor on the support substrate in the presence of a stress applied on the base substrate in such a direction that a warp of the base substrate is reduced. The base substrate is made of a material different from that of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and a tensile stress is applied on the second semiconductor layer. | 12-08-2011 |
20130070452 | LEAD FRAME, WIRING BOARD, LIGHT EMITTING UNIT, AND ILLUMINATING APPARATUS - Provided is lead frame in which a wiring pattern supported by a support piece inside of a one-pitch outer frame section comprises a plurality of base units, each of which comprises a die pad on which a solid-state light emitting element is mounted, a heat sink extending from die pad so as to surround die pad electrically connected to one electrode of the element, and a lead electrically connected to the other electrode of the element. Lead of one base unit among adjacent base units and heat sink of the other base unit are coupled and electrically connected in series. Increase in temperature of the element is inhibited, light output is increased, and cost of a light emitting unit in which a plurality of solid-state light emitting elements connected in series are used is reduced. Also provided are wiring board, light emitting unit, and illuminating apparatus. | 03-21-2013 |
20130113018 | FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR - A first group III nitride semiconductor layer has a low carbon concentration region having a carbon concentration of less than 1×10 | 05-09-2013 |
20130126943 | FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR - An insulator is formed on the upper surface of a first semiconductor layer on at least a part of a portion above which a second semiconductor layer is not formed due to an opening. In the opening, a source electrode is formed to cover an insulator. The source electrode is formed to be in contact with an interface between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. | 05-23-2013 |
20130234622 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND SYSTEM USING SAME - A light emitting device includes multiple types of solid state light emitting elements having different peak wavelengths from each other; and a wavelength converter including phosphors that convert a wavelength of light emitted from each of the solid state light emitting elements. The phosphors include two or more of a first phosphor, a second phosphor, and a third phosphor. The first phosphor is excited by light emitted from a solid state light emitting element having a relatively long peak wavelength, and the second phosphor is excited by light emitted from a solid state light emitting element having a relatively short peak wavelength. The third phosphor is excited by light emitted from any of the solid state light emitting elements. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235555 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND LUMINAIRE USING SAME - A light emitting device including multiple kinds of light emission units with different emission colors; a driver which drives the light emission units; and a cover member which is commonly provided for the multiple kinds of light emission units. The multiple kinds of light emission units include solid state light emitting elements of the same kind, and wavelength converters which cover the solid state light emitting elements, respectively, and convert wavelengths of lights emitted from the solid state light emitting elements into different wavelengths from each other. Further, the cover member contains a correction phosphor for correcting a chromaticity of light obtained by mixing lights emitted from the light emission units, to a predetermined chromaticity. | 09-12-2013 |
20130265757 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - A light-emitting unit includes a mounting substrate, and a first light-emitting portion disposed on the mounting substrate and emits light of a first color temperature to irradiate a first irradiation area, and second light-emitting portions each disposed on the mounting substrate and emits light of a second color temperature to irradiate a second irradiation area. The second irradiation area overlaps part of the first irradiation area and includes a region surrounding the first irradiation area. | 10-10-2013 |
20140138704 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a field effect transistor that has a first nitride semiconductor layer and a second nitride semiconductor layer larger in bandgap than the first nitride semiconductor layer formed on a substrate in this order and a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, and uses two-dimensional electron gas formed at the interface between the first and second nitride semiconductor layers as the channel. The field effect transistor further has a p-type nitride semiconductor layer formed between the gate electrode and the drain electrode and electrically connected to the drain electrode. | 05-22-2014 |
20150077982 | LED MODULE, LIGHTING DEVICE, AND LAMP - An LED module includes: an opaque substrate on which a wiring circuit is provided; a submount bonded to a surface of the opaque substrate with a first bond; an LED chip bonded with a second bond to an opposite side of the submount from the opaque substrate; and wires electrically connecting the LED chip to patterned wiring circuit. In the LED module, the first bond and the second bond each allow light emitted from the LED chip to pass therethrough. The submount is a light-transmissive member. A lighting device includes a device main body and the LED module. The lamp includes the LED module. | 03-19-2015 |