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20080257014 | PARTIAL PRESSURE MEASURING METHOD AND PARTIAL PRESSURE MEASURING APPARATUS - Provided is a partial pressure measuring method and a partial pressure measuring apparatus by which a partial pressure distribution is easily measured in a vacuum chamber. The partial pressure measuring method and the partial pressure measuring apparatus includes: moving a local plasma source dedicated to partial pressure measuring provided in the vacuum chamber, to a location at which the measuring is to be performed; and measuring a partial pressure distribution in the vacuum chamber, by receiving emission of plasma generated by the local plasma source through a window which is formed in a wall part of the vacuum chamber and through which the emission passes, and thereby performing emission spectral analysis on intensity of the emission. | 10-23-2008 |
20090139853 | SPUTTERING APPARATUS AND SPUTTERING METHOD - The present invention is to provide a sputtering apparatus and a sputtering method, specifically, a magnetron sputtering apparatus having a magnetron electrode capable of generating plasma in a wide region near the surface of a target, and a sputtering method using the apparatus. Thereby, a magnetic field shape enabling to generate plasma in a wide region near the surface of a target is realized, the use efficiency of the target material is increased, and dusts and abnormal electric discharges may be prevented. Magnetic circuit | 06-04-2009 |
20120115323 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A base conductive member is formed on a surface and in a hole section of a substrate, and a resist is formed on a part of the base conductive member in which a conductive layer is not to be formed. The conductive layer is formed on a part except for the part in which the resist has been formed, and a mask metal is formed on the conductive layer. Then, the resist is removed, and the base conductive member is etched using the mask metal as a mask to form the conductive layer into a predetermined shape. | 05-10-2012 |
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20110108478 | Hydrophilic Polyethersulfone Filtration Membrane, Process for Producing the Same, and Dope Solution - A hydrophilic filtration membrane having high chemical resistance, high strength, high water permeability and high blocking performance, and being superior in fouling resistance is provided. A hydrophilic filtration membrane containing a hydrophilic polyethersulfone having a contact angle of 65 to 74 degree, a molecular weight of 10,000 to 100,000, and the number of hydroxy groups of 0.6 to 1.4 per 100 polymerization repeating units. The hydrophilic filtration membrane may additionally contain a polyvinylpyrrolidone having a molecular weight of 10,000 to 1,300,000. | 05-12-2011 |
20130213259 | FLOOR STRUCTURE OF RAILCAR - Provided is a floor structure of a railcar in which thickness of a heat insulating material can be reduced while having predetermined heat resistance. The floor structure of the railcar includes a underframe having a pair of side sills extending in a railcar longitudinal direction and a cross beam arranged between the side sills and extending in a railcar width direction, a structural floor provided on an upper surface of the underframe, and a first heat insulating material arranged on a lower side of the structural floor via an air layer for the structural floor. | 08-22-2013 |
20130220169 | UNDERFRAME STRUCTURE OF RAILCAR - An underframe structure of a railcar capable of reducing a deformation amount of a cross beam supporting an underfloor equipment upon underfloor fire. The underframe structure of the railcar includes an underframe having a pair of side sills extending in a railcar longitudinal direction and a cross beam arranged between the side sills and extending in a railcar width direction, a structural floor provided on an upper surface of the underframe, and an underfloor equipment suspended down in a center part in the railcar width direction of the cross beam. The underframe structure includes a passenger cabin floor provided on an upper side of the structural floor, the passenger cabin floor forming a lower surface of a passenger cabin S, and floor receiving members supporting the passenger cabin floor and extending in the railcar longitudinal direction between the structural floor and the passenger cabin floor. | 08-29-2013 |
20140083321 | RAILWAY CAR COMPRISING HEAT-RESISTANT FLOOR - A railcar includes a heat-resistant floor, and the heat-resistant floor includes a floor panel, a heat absorbing layer provided under the floor panel and configured to absorb heat, and a supporting plate configured to support the heat absorbing layer from below. The supporting plate includes contacting portions each configured to contact the heat absorbing layer and separated portions each continuously formed from the contacting portion in a railcar width direction, separated downward from the heat absorbing layer, and extending in a railcar longitudinal direction. | 03-27-2014 |
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20100127442 | VIBRATION DAMPING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR VIBRATION DAMPING DEVICE, OFFSET CORRECTION METHOD FOR VIBRATION DAMPING DEVICE, AND BLADE SPRING - An automobile vibration damping device for an automobile in which a power plant in which an engine, a transmission and the like are combined is supported by a vehicle body, including a vibrating means that generates vibration separate from vibration of the engine. Thereby, it is possible to reduce the vibration amplitude of a seat portion by the reaction force of the vibrating means. Also, if the vibration mode of the vehicle body is adjusted so as to become a node in the vicinity of the seat portion, the vibration amplitude decreases in the vicinity of the seat portion, and improves riding comfort. | 05-27-2010 |
20110048118 | VIBRATION DAMPING DEVICE AND VEHICLE - The present invention provides a vibration damping device which can enhance a vibration damping effect even in a case where a vibration damping target position and a vibration damping force generation position are different from each other. The vibration damping device includes a vibration detecting means for detecting a vibration which is caused by a vibration generating source and is transmitted to a position at which the vibration is to be damped; a vibration application means which generates a vibration damping force to cancel the vibration, and is provided at a position different from the position at which the vibration is to be damped; a vibration application command generating means for outputting a vibration application command to generate the vibration damping force in the vibration application means, based on the vibration detected by the vibration detecting means; and a vibration application command correcting means which imparts to the vibration application command, a reverse property of a vibration damping force transmission path including a vibration transmission property from a position at which the vibration application means is mounted to the position at which the vibration is to be damped, and then outputs the vibration application command to the vibration application means. | 03-03-2011 |
20110066292 | VIBRATION CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE - [Object] To predetermine a target vibration level and keep vibration generated at a position at which vibration is to be controlled equal to or smaller than a target vibration level. | 03-17-2011 |
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20100036523 | VACUUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - A vacuum processing apparatus includes a vacuum chamber capable of keeping a first pressure lower than an atmospheric pressure, a driving source disposed in the vacuum chamber, an electric power supply mechanism including a primary side mechanism disposed outside the vacuum chamber for supplying electric power to the driving source and a secondary side mechanism disposed in the vacuum chamber for receiving the electric power from the primary side mechanism in a contactless relationship, and a vessel capable of accommodating airtightly the secondary side mechanism under a second pressure higher than the first pressure. | 02-11-2010 |
20120193847 | DAMPING APPARATUS FOR REDUCING VIBRATION OF AUTOMOBILE BODY - A damping apparatus for an automobile is provided, capable of ensuring a high level of reliability while obtaining excellent damping effect with simple configuration. The damping apparatus for an automobile that reduces vibrations of an automobile body may include an actuator that is attached to the automobile body and drives an auxiliary mass; a current detector that detects a current flowing through an armature of the actuator; a section that detects a terminal voltage applied to the actuator; a calculation circuit that calculates an induced voltage of the actuator, and further calculates at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator, based on a current detected by the current detector and the terminal voltage; and a control circuit that drive-controls the actuator based on at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator calculated by the calculation circuit. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197490 | DAMPING APPARATUS FOR REDUCING VIBRATION OF AUTOMOBILE BODY - A damping apparatus for an automobile is provided, capable of ensuring a high level of reliability while obtaining excellent damping effect with simple configuration. The damping apparatus for an automobile that reduces vibrations of an automobile body may include an actuator that is attached to the automobile body and drives an auxiliary mass; a current detector that detects a current flowing through an armature of the actuator; a section that detects a terminal voltage applied to the actuator; a calculation circuit that calculates an induced voltage of the actuator, and further calculates at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator, based on a current detected by the current detector and the terminal voltage; and a control circuit that drive-controls the actuator based on at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator calculated by the calculation circuit. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197491 | DAMPING APPARATUS FOR REDUCING VIBRATION OF AUTOMOBILE BODY - A damping apparatus for an automobile is provided, capable of ensuring a high level of reliability while obtaining excellent damping effect with simple configuration. The damping apparatus for an automobile that reduces vibrations of an automobile body may include an actuator that is attached to the automobile body and drives an auxiliary mass; a current detector that detects a current flowing through an armature of the actuator; a section that detects a terminal voltage applied to the actuator; a calculation circuit that calculates an induced voltage of the actuator, and further calculates at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator, based on a current detected by the current detector and the terminal voltage; and a control circuit that drive-controls the actuator based on at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator calculated by the calculation circuit. | 08-02-2012 |
20120217108 | DAMPING APPARATUS FOR REDUCING VIBRATION OF AUTOMOBILE BODY - A damping apparatus for an automobile is provided, capable of ensuring a high level of reliability while obtaining excellent damping effect with simple configuration. The damping apparatus for an automobile that reduces vibrations of an automobile body may include an actuator that is attached to the automobile body and drives an auxiliary mass; a current detector that detects a current flowing through an armature of the actuator; a section that detects a terminal voltage applied to the actuator; a calculation circuit that calculates an induced voltage of the actuator, and further calculates at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator, based on a current detected by the current detector and the terminal voltage; and a control circuit that drive-controls the actuator based on at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator calculated by the calculation circuit. | 08-30-2012 |
20120222929 | VIBRATION DAMPING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR VIBRATION DAMPING DEVICE, OFFSET CORRECTION METHOD FOR VIBRATION DAMPING DEVICE, AND BLADE SPRING - An automobile vibration damping device for an automobile in which a power plant in which an engine, a transmission and the like are combined is supported by a vehicle body, including a vibrating means that generates vibration separate from vibration of the engine. Thereby, it is possible to reduce the vibration amplitude of a seat portion by the reaction force of the vibrating means. Also, if the vibration mode of the vehicle body is adjusted so as to become a node in the vicinity of the seat portion, the vibration amplitude decreases in the vicinity of the seat portion, and improves riding comfort. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226414 | VIBRATION DAMPING DEVICE AND VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH THE VIBRATION DAMPING DEVICE - A damping device includes a calculator calculating a pseudo vibration to cancel a source vibration transmitted from a vibration source to a position to be damped, using an adaptive control algorithm. The canceling vibration is generated according to the pseudo vibration. A vibration detector detects an error vibration remaining at the position. The adaptive control algorithm is adapted by learning to reduce the error vibration. A frequency recognizer recognizes a frequency of the source vibration from a signal related to the vibration source. The frequency of the vibration is used to determine a frequency of the pseudo vibration. A phase difference identifier identifies a phase difference between the error vibration and the canceling vibration according to the pseudo vibration, and a frequency corrector corrects, according to the phase difference, the frequency of the vibration to eliminate the phase difference. | 09-06-2012 |
20120293094 | VIBRATION DAMPING APPARATUS, ELECTRIC ACTUATOR DRIVING APPARATUS AND VEHICLE - A vibration damping apparatus including reference wave production section that produces a reference wave; a fundamental order adaptive algorithm block that calculates fundamental order adaptive filter factors from a vibration detection signal and the reference wave and produces a fundamental order vibration damping current instruction; an amplitude detection section that calculates a peak current value of the fundamental order vibration damping current instruction; and a fundamental order current excess detection section that derives a fundamental order current upper limit value from the fundamental frequency to produce a fundamental order current upper limit excess signal that is output to the fundamental order adaptive algorithm block, which revises the fundamental order adaptive filter factors in a direction in which the vibration damping current instruction is limited within a range. | 11-22-2012 |
20130184935 | ACTIVE DAMPING DEVICE, VEHICLE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACTIVE DAMPING DEVICE - Provided is an active damping device (X) that suppresses vibrations of an object (T) to be damped by utilizing a reaction force generated when an auxiliary mass ( | 07-18-2013 |
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20140041987 | ARTICLE SORTING AND CONVEYING DEVICE - An article sorting and conveying device that conveys articles by the vibrations of a movable body provided through an elastic support means, includes a first vibration means that imparts a periodic vibration force to the movable body in a direction inclined from a vertical direction; a second vibration means that imparts a periodic vibration force in a direction crossing the periodic vibration force by the first vibration means; and a vibration control means that causes a periodic vibration force imparted by each vibration means to have a phase difference and occur simultaneously at the same frequency, and that creates an elliptical vibration trajectory in the movable body. The articles are sorted and conveyed on the movable body by setting the vibration trajectory of the movable body by the vibration control means such that articles having a different coefficient of friction are conveyed in different directions. | 02-13-2014 |
20140190791 | VIBRATION DEVICE, ARTICLE CONVEYANCE DEVICE, AND ARTICLE SORTING DEVICE - A vibration device includes a base, a movable bench elastically supported with respect to the base, a first horizontal excitation unit that vibrates the movable bench in a first horizontal direction, a second horizontal excitation unit that vibrates the movable bench in a second horizontal direction that crosses the first horizontal direction, a vertical excitation unit that vibrates the movable bench in a vertical direction, and first and second middle benches between the base and the movable bench, wherein first to third plate-like spring members elastically connect the base, the first and second middle benches, and the movable bench sequentially in the first horizontal direction, the second horizontal direction, and the vertical direction. | 07-10-2014 |
20150360873 | VIBRATION DEVICE, ARTICLE CONVEYANCE DEVICE, AND ARTICLE SORTING DEVICE - The vibration device includes a base, a movable bench, a first horizontal excitation unit, a second horizontal excitation unit, and a vertical excitation unit. The vibration device includes a first middle bench and a second middle bench between the base and the movable bench. The vibration device includes first horizontal elastic support units, second horizontal elastic support units, and vertical elastic support units that elastically connect the base, the first middle bench, the second middle bench, and the movable bench sequentially in the first horizontal direction, the second horizontal direction, and the vertical direction. If overall device is supposed as a first mass body, a second mass body, and a third mass body with the first horizontal elastic support units and the second horizontal elastic support units as boundaries, respective barycentric positions of these mass bodies are almost the same in the vertical direction and horizontal direction. | 12-17-2015 |
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20120173082 | STEERING APPARATUS - A steering apparatus that by effecting a predetermined relationship between a steering wheel angle and a yaw angular velocity generated for a vehicle makes a direction θ | 07-05-2012 |
20120245797 | STEERING APPARATUS, STEERING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A target value for yaw angle velocity gain is computed according to a map expressing a relationship between steering wheel angle and yaw angle velocity gain predetermined such that a direction as seen from a driver of a target destination point for vehicle travel at a predetermined time after a forward gaze and a direction as seen from the driver are caused to match each other, and a steering gear ratio is controlled accordingly. A target value for a steering wheel torque corresponding to the detected steering wheel angle and the acquired yaw angular velocity is set, based on a relationship between yaw angular velocity and resistance-feel level predetermined such that the resistance feel level for a driver monotonically increases with increasing yaw angular velocity. Control is then preformed so as to realize the steering wheel torque target value. | 09-27-2012 |
20130226411 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM, STEERING SIMULATING SYSTEM, STEERING TORQUE APPLICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THAT STORES PROGRAM FOR STEERING TORQUE APPLICATION METHOD - A steering angle sensor and a steering velocity detection unit respectively detect a steering angle of a steering wheel and a steering velocity of the steering wheel through driver's steering operation. A target torque setting unit, when the steering wheel is being steered from a neutral state of the steering wheel without changing a steering direction, sets a steering torque corresponding to the detected steering angle and the detected steering velocity as a target steering torque on the basis of a correspondence correlation at the detected steering velocity between a steering angle and a steering torque. An assist control unit executes control such that the set target steering torque is achieved. | 08-29-2013 |