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20110227443 | STATOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The invention has an object to provide a stator including coils that protrude less in the radial direction of the stator and can be made smaller in the radial direction of the stator, and a method of manufacturing the same. In the stator, the conductor having a rectangular cross section is formed in a continuous meandering fashion, the conductor including: a plurality of in-slot portions arranged inside a slot of the stator such as to be overlapped with one another in a circumferential direction of the stator with long sides of the rectangle being oriented along a radial direction of the stator; a plurality of circumferential portions arranged at a coil end such as to be overlapped with one another in the radial direction of the stator with short sides of the rectangle oriented along the radial direction of the stator; a bent portion connecting the in-slot portion and the circumferential portion; and a twisted portion formed in the bent portion, the bent portion including a first bend formed on a side of the circumferential portion and a second bend formed on a side of the in-slot portion. | 09-22-2011 |
20120186081 | METHOD OF FORMING FLAT CONDUCTOR WIRE FOR USE IN CAGE-SHAPED DISTRIBUTED WINDING COIL AND FORMING APPARATUS OF THE WIRE - A flat conductor material before being formed into a flat conductor includes a in-slot conductor portion where a conductor having rectangular cross-section is continuously pre-formed in a zigzag pattern on a same plane and a plurality of conductors are so arranged as to be overlapped in the slot of the stator core, a coil end conductor portion where a plurality of conductors are arranged while overlapping as a coil end on the outside of the slot, and a bending portion which bends to connect both conductor portions. When the flat conductor is formed, the bending portions located at the opposite ends of the in-slot conductor portion are grasped by means of a pair of grasping tools, and the in-slot conductor portion is clamped by means of a twist tool in the setting process. Thereafter, the bending portions are twisted and bent into crank-shape in the machining process by displacing a predetermined axis to a predetermined direction while rotating the twist tool about the axis. The flat conductor is obtained by carrying out the setting process and the machining process entirely for the plurality of in-slot conductor portions. | 07-26-2012 |
20150039168 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS - Disclosed is a vehicle control apparatus which can execute a start-up control for improving acceleration performance at the time of starting an internal combustion engine during the running of a hybrid vehicle. When a hybrid ECU determines that a predetermined time has not yet elapsed after termination of the start-up control of the engine, and that the hybrid vehicle is in a high speed, high load condition, but not in a warming-up state, the hybrid ECU sets a value Nupest2 larger than a value Nupest1, that is usually set as a maximum value Krmx of a rise rate of an engine rotational speed. | 02-05-2015 |
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20140136087 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS - When there is a request for heating prior to completion of warm-up of an engine, an air-conditioner electronic control unit uses a PTC heater as a heat source for heating and cancels a warm-up request for the engine if the state of charge of a battery is high, while the control unit uses the engine as a heat source for heating and sets a warm-up request for the engine if the state of charge of the battery is low. Thus, stopping the engine for heating is less frequently inhibited while ensuring the heating performance. | 05-15-2014 |
20140163803 | HYBRID VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A hybrid vehicle is mounted with a traction motor, a power storage device for storing electric power input to and output from the traction motor, an engine, and a power generation mechanism to generate charging electric power for the power storage device by an output from the engine. An ECU sets charging/discharging electric power of the power storage device to control SOC of the power storage device to be within a predetermined range centered about a SOC control target in a running mode with the engine operating. The output from the engine set to ensure the charging/discharging electric power. The ECU sets the charging/discharging electric power such that the power storage device is discharged to an extent corresponding to a predetermined SOC higher than the lower limit SOC according to requirement power required for vehicle running, even when the SOC is lower than the SOC control target. | 06-12-2014 |
20140358351 | ENGINE OPERATION START CONTROL DEVICE OF HYBRID VEHICLE - The invention relates to an engine operation start control device of a hybrid vehicle comprising a power output device having an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. In this hybrid vehicle, an intermittent control for intermittently operating the engine can be performed and when the operation of the engine is started during the intermittent control being performed, a cranking of the engine is performed until the engine speed reaches a target engine speed. According to the invention, in case that the operation of the engine is started when the speed of the hybrid vehicle is higher than or equal to a predetermined speed and a power required for the power output device is larger than or equal to a predetermined power, the engine speed, which increases as the speed of the hybrid vehicle increases, is set as the target engine speed. | 12-04-2014 |
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20140251185 | COMPLEX INORGANIC COLORED PIGMENT WITH REDUCED ELUTION OF HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM THEREFROM - The present invention provides a CICP that maintains high durability and excellent color properties inherent in chromium-containing CICP while allowing a reduced amount of hexavalent chromium elution from the pigment. The CICP with reduced elution of hexavalent chromium therefrom characterized in that the pigment consists of: a pigment component selected from the group consisting of Colour Index (C.I.) Pigment Blue 36, C.I. Pigment Green 17, C.I. Pigment Green 51, C.I. Pigment Green 26, C.I. Pigment Yellow 162, C.I. Pigment Yellow 163, C.I. Pigment Red 233, C.I. Pigment Red 235, C.I. Pigment Red 236, C.I. Pigment Red 230, C.I. Pigment Brown 24, C.I. Pigment Brown 33, C.I. Pigment Brown 35, C.I. Pigment Brown 39, C.I. Pigment Brown 40, C.I. Pigment Brown 46, C.I. Pigment Black 27, C.I. Pigment Black 28, C.I. Pigment Brown 29, and C.I. Pigment Black 30; and an additive component in an amount of 0.1 to 5% by weight consisting of an oxide of at least one element selected from the group consisting of phosphorus, boron, tungsten, vanadium, magnesium, lithium and molybdenum. | 09-11-2014 |
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20080265761 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE HAVING DOPANTS IN A LIGHT EMITTING LAYER - A light emitting device having an anode and a cathode provided on a substrate, and an organic light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, where the organic light emitting layer includes a light emitting material and first and second dopants for improving the dispersability thereof. The first and second dopants are metal organic complex compounds having the same ligand skeletal structures. | 10-30-2008 |
20080265762 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE HAVING DOPANTS IN A LIGHT EMITTING LAYER - In order to improve the light emission efficiency and the light emission life time of an organic electroluminescent device, the invention provides a method for improving the dispersibility of a light emitting material in the light emitting layer. The light emitting device comprises electrodes consisting of an anode and a cathode provided on a substrate, and an organic light emitting layer between the electrodes, wherein the organic light emitting layer includes a light emitting material and a dopant for improving the dispersibility thereof. As the dopant, there are employed a light emitting compound and a non-light emitting compound or a current enhancing material. In case of employing the light emitting compound, the composition corresponds to a case of utilizing plural light emitting materials, and, in such case, the light emission wavelengths are preferably mutually closer. Also evaporation of the light emitting material and the dopant in a same evaporation boat allows to reduce the evaporation temperature, to improve the dispersibility of the light emitting material and to improve the device characteristics. In this manner there can be obtained a light emitting device of a high light emission efficiency and a long light emission life. | 10-30-2008 |
20080265763 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE HAVING DOPANTS IN A LIGHT EMITTING LAYER - A light emitting device having an anode and a cathode provided on a substrate, and an organic light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, where the organic light emitting layer includes a light emitting material and first and second dopants for improving the dispersability thereof. As the first dopant, there is employed a phosphorescent dopant. The amount of the second dopant is greater than the amount of the first dopant. | 10-30-2008 |
20110089821 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE HAVING DOPANTS IN A LIGHT EMITTING LAYER - A light emitting device comprises a pair of electrodes and an organic light emitting layer between the electrodes. The organic light emitting layer includes a host material, a first phosphorescent dopant, and a second dopant different from the first phosphorescent dopant. The amount of the second dopant is greater than the amount of the first dopant in the organic light emitting layer. The host material, the first phosphorescent dopant and the second dopant are mixed throughout the organic light emitting layer. | 04-21-2011 |
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20120209587 | MACHINE TRANSLATION APPARATUS, MACHINE TRANSLATION METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MACHINE TRANALATION - According to one embodiment, a machine translation apparatus includes an input device which inputs a first language sentence; an additional information acquisition unit which acquires a first user or a current location of the first language sentence as a first additional information; a reference data storage device which stores second language reference data that are the relationships between second language sentences and at least one of a second user and a second user usage location of the second language sentences as a second additional information; a text data acquisition unit which acquire second language text data from the second language reference data including second additional information being the same at least one part of the first additional information; and a translation unit which translates the first language sentence to a second language sentence by using the second language text data. | 08-16-2012 |
20130080144 | MACHINE TRANSLATION APPARATUS, A METHOD AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - According to one embodiment, an apparatus translates a source sentence of a first language into a target sentence of a second language. The apparatus includes a source sentence transfer unit, a translation unit, and a proposition transfer unit. The source sentence transfer unit is configured to extract a grammatical feature from the source sentence, and to transfer the source sentence to a source proposition not including the grammatical feature. The translation unit is configured to translate the source proposition into a target proposition of the second language. The proposition transfer unit is configured to transfer the target proposition to the target sentence, based on the grammatical feature. | 03-28-2013 |
20130211818 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS, SPEECH TRANSLATION METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SPEECH TRANSLATION - According to one embodiment, a speech translation apparatus includes a first input unit configured to input a first speech of a first speaker; a second input unit configured to input a second speech of a second speaker that is different from the first speaker; a first translation unit configured to translate the first speech to a first target language sentence; a second translation unit configured to translate the second speech to a second target language sentence; a first output unit configured to output the first target language sentence; a second output unit configured to output the second target language sentence; a speech detecting unit configured to detect a first speech duration from the first speech and detect a second speech duration from the second speech; and an output timing adjustment unit configured to adjust at least one of the first output unit and the second output unit, when the first speech duration and the second speech duration overlap each other. | 08-15-2013 |
20140095151 | EXPRESSION TRANSFORMATION APPARATUS, EXPRESSION TRANSFORMATION METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EXPRESSION TRANSFORMATION - According to one embodiment, an expression transformation apparatus includes a processor; an input unit configured to input a sentence of a speaker as a source expression; a detection unit configured to detect a speaker attribute representing a feature of the speaker; a normalization unit configured to transform the source expression to a normalization expression including an entry and a feature vector representing a grammatical function of the entry; an adjustment unit configured to adjust the speaker attribute to a relative speaker relationship between the speaker and another speaker, based on another speaker attribute of the other speaker; and a transformation unit configured to transform the normalization expression based on the relative speaker relationship. | 04-03-2014 |
20150081270 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS, SPEECH TRANSLATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a speech of a first language is recognized using a speech recognition dictionary to recognize the first language and a second language, and a source sentence of the first language is generated. The source sentence is translated into a second language, and a translation sentence of the second language is generated. An unknown word included in the translation sentence is detected. The unknown word is not stored in the speech recognition dictionary. A first pronunciation candidate of the unknown word is estimated, from a representation of the unknown word. A second pronunciation candidate of the unknown word is estimated from a pronunciation of an original word included in the source sentence corresponding to the unknown word. The unknown word, the first pronunciation candidate and the second pronunciation candidate, are registered into the speech recognition dictionary correspondingly. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081271 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS, SPEECH TRANSLATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A first speech processing device includes a first speech input unit and a first speech output unit. A second speech processing device includes a second speech input unit and a second speech output unit. In a server therebetween, a speech of a first language sent from the first speech input unit is recognized. The speech recognition result is translated into a second language. The translation result is back translated into the first language. A first speech synthesis signal of the back translation result is sent to the first speech output unit. A second speech synthesis signal of the translation result is sent to the second speech output unit. Duration of the second speech synthesis signal or the first speech synthesis signal is measured. The first speech synthesis signal and the second speech synthesis signal are outputted by synchronizing a start time and an end time thereof, based on the duration. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081274 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSLATING SPEECH, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A first speech input device captures a speech of a first language. A first speech output device outputs another speech of the first language. A second speech input device captures a speech of a second language. A second speech output device outputs another speech of the second language. In a speech recognition/translation server, a first speech recognition device receives a first utterance speech of the first language from the first speech input device, and recognizes the first utterance speech. A first machine translation device consecutively translates the first language of the recognition result into the second language without waiting completion of the first utterance speech. A first speech synthesis device generates a second speech of the translation result. A first output adjustment device outputs the first utterance speech and the second speech to the second speech output device by adjusting a volume of the first utterance speech to be smaller than a volume of the second speech. | 03-19-2015 |
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20080243474 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Speech translation apparatus includes first generation unit generating first text representing speech recognition result, and first prosody information, second generation unit generating first para-language information, first association unit associating each first portion of first text with corresponding first portion of first para-language information, translation unit translating first text into second texts, second association unit associating each second portion of first para-language information with corresponding second portion of each second text, third generation unit generating second prosody-information items, fourth generation unit generating second para-language-information items, computation unit computing degree-of-similarity between each first para-language information and corresponding one of second para-language-information items to obtain degrees of similarity, selection unit selecting, from second prosody-information items, maximum-degree-of-similarity prosody information corresponding to maximum degree, fifth generation unit generating prosody pattern of one of second texts which corresponds to maximum-degree-of-similarity prosody information, and output unit outputting one of second texts which corresponds to maximum-degree-of-similarity prosody information. | 10-02-2008 |
20130262076 | MACHINE TRANSLATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a machine translation apparatus includes a speech recognition unit, a translation unit, a detection unit and an addition unit. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition of speech. The translation unit translates the plurality of source language strings into target language strings in a chronological order. The detection unit detects ambiguity in interpretation of the speech corresponding to a first target language string of the target language strings. The addition unit adds, an additional phrase being one of words and phrases to interpret uniquely a modification relationship, to the first target language string if ambiguity is detected. | 10-03-2013 |
20140006007 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM | 01-02-2014 |
20150199341 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a speech translation apparatus includes a speech recognition unit, a translation unit, a search unit and a selection unit. The speech recognition unit successively performs speech recognition to obtain a first language word string. The translation unit translates the first language word string into a second language word string. The search unit search for at least one similar example and acquires the similar example and a translation example. The selection unit selects, in accordance with a user instruction, at least one of the first language word string associated with the similar example and the second language word string associated with the translation example, as a selected word string. | 07-16-2015 |