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20110106410 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE HAVING VARIABLE VALVE MECHANISM - In a control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake valve, a variable valve mechanism capable of controlling a closing timing and an operating angle of the intake valve continuously and variably, a detection unit for detecting a possibility of pre-ignition, and a throttle for controlling an intake air amount such that when the possibility of pre-ignition is detected, the intake valve closing timing is retarded from bottom dead center by increasing the intake valve operating angle, the control device includes, an operating angle upper limit limiting value calculation unit that calculates an operating angle upper limit limiting value for limiting an upper limit value of the intake valve operating angle, and a throttle opening upper limit limiting value calculation unit that calculates a throttle opening upper limit limiting value for limiting an upper limit value of a throttle opening on the basis of the intake valve operating angle. | 05-05-2011 |
20120191319 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE BOOST PRESSURE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An internal combustion engine boost pressure diagnostic apparatus includes a boost pressure sensor, a throttle valve opening degree sensor, a bypass valve opening degree sensor and a control unit. The boost pressure sensor detects a pressure between a forced induction device and a throttle valve. The throttle valve opening degree sensor detects a throttle valve opening degree of the throttle valve. The bypass valve opening degree sensor detects a valve opening degree of a bypass valve. The control unit determines that the pressure between the forced induction device and the throttle valve is abnormal upon the boost pressure sensor detecting the pressure being equal to or larger than a prescribed value, the throttle valve opening degree sensor detecting the throttle valve opening degree being in a prescribed opening degree region, and the bypass valve opening degree sensor detecting the bypass valve opening degree being in a prescribed opening degree region. | 07-26-2012 |
20140165939 | ENGINE VALVE TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS - To achieve an intermediate lock state in a short period when an engine is stopped and improve the accuracy of confirmation of the intermediate lock state, an engine valve timing control apparatus includes a variable valve timing mechanism configured to vary engine valve timing, and an intermediate lock mechanism configured to restrict relative rotation positions of a first and a second rotor of the valve timing mechanism at an intermediate lock position for starting the engine. Upon detection of an engine stop request, the valve timing mechanism and the intermediate lock mechanism are driven and controlled for establishing an intermediate lock state. When a predetermined period from detection of the engine stop request has expired without detecting the intermediate lock state within the predetermined period, an engine stopping process is executed. Even after the engine stopping process has been executed, monitoring of the intermediate lock state is continued. | 06-19-2014 |
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20100128070 | LIGHTING DEVICE FOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A lighting device for a display device includes a light source and a chassis arranged to cover the light source. The light source includes a high voltage area to be subjected to relatively high voltage, and a low voltage area to be subjected to relatively low voltage. The chassis includes a distance providing mechanism arranged to provide a vertical distance between the chassis and the light source, so that the vertical distance is relatively large at the high voltage area of the light source and relatively small at the low voltage area of the light source. | 05-27-2010 |
20100149789 | LIGHTING DEVICE FOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A lighting device for a display device includes a light source and a chassis arranged to cover the light source. The chassis includes one of a groove section and an opening section located directly below the light source. The one of a groove section and an opening section has a relatively small width at an area directly below a low voltage area of the light source, compared to at an area directly below a high voltage area of the light source. | 06-17-2010 |
20100156952 | LIGHTING DEVICE FOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A lighting device for a display device includes a light source and a light source control device arranged to control the light source. The light source control device is arranged to generate a pulse signal as a light source control signal Vcon to control the light source. The light source control signal Vcon includes pulses, which individually have different shapes. | 06-24-2010 |
20100289420 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A lighting device ( | 11-18-2010 |
20110031892 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A lighting device ( | 02-10-2011 |
20110298845 | PANEL CONTROLLER, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, SIGNAL MODULATION METHOD, SIGNAL MODULATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The object of the invention is to prevent a large amount of unnecessary images from being displayed on an image on a liquid crystal display panel, due to a signal value of a pulse width modulation signal (PWM) which exceeds the minimum signal value of a vertical synchronization signal when the vertical synchronization signal (VS) interferes with the pulse width modulation signal (PWM) within a period of one frame. A liquid crystal display panel controller makes an intermediate signal value (M | 12-08-2011 |
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20110007099 | INVERTER CIRCUIT, BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is an inverter circuit capable of suppressing an increase in EMI level. In at least one embodiment, the inverter circuit includes: a drive circuit for outputting a pulse signal; a transformer for outputting a drive signal corresponding to the pulse signal to a fluorescent lamp, the transformer including a secondary winding having one end connected to the fluorescent lamp; a detection control circuit for detecting a detection signal corresponding to the drive signal supplied to the fluorescent lamp; a wiring line connecting another end of the secondary winding of the transformer and the detection control circuit; and a wiring line provided together with the wiring line so that magnetic fields generated are cancelled out each other. | 01-13-2011 |
20110249035 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A liquid crystal display device includes an image signal processing section configured to control a liquid crystal panel and a backlight unit in a liquid crystal display device based on an image signal and detect that an image displayed on the liquid crystal panel is changed to a whole-area black display image based on the image signal. The liquid crystal display device further includes a backlight unit control section that generates a dimming signal Sdv in response to detection by the image signal processing section and supplies the dimming signal sdv to the backlight unit. The dimming signal Sdv lowers luminescence brightness Lca of the backlight unit to be substantially zero in a gradual manner. | 10-13-2011 |
20110254872 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A liquid crystal display device includes a backlight unit that illuminates a rear surface of a liquid crystal panel and a backlight control section. In at least one embodiment, the backlight unit includes one end that receives a first dimming signal and another end that receives a second dimming signal. The backlight unit includes a fluorescent tube two ends of which are driven. The backlight control section generates the first dimming signal and the second dimming signal and supplies the first dimming signal and the second dimming signal to the fluorescent tube to control luminescence brightness of the backlight unit. The backlight unit control section stops supply of one of the first dimming signal and the second dimming signal to the fluorescent tube in response to detection that an image on the liquid crystal panel is a black display image. | 10-20-2011 |
20120014093 | CHASSIS, LIGHTING DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A backlight chassis | 01-19-2012 |
20150013295 | BLENDED NONWOVEN FABRIC, FILTER MEDIUM, AND FILTER UNIT - The present invention provides a filter medium causing a low pressure drop. The present invention is a filter medium including a porous fluororesin membrane and an air-permeable support member laminated on at least one surface of the porous fluororesin membrane. In this filter medium, the air-permeable support member is a blended nonwoven fabric containing: core-sheath fibers (A) having a polyester core and a polyolefin sheath; polyester fibers (B); and core-sheath fibers (C) having a polyester core and a copolymerized polyester sheath. | 01-15-2015 |
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20090072257 | Light emitting device - An upper electrode is formed on one surface of a semiconductor multilayer structure including a light emitting layer. An interface electrode is formed at a region of another surface of the semiconductor multilayer structure except a region right under the upper electrode. A center of the interface electrode coincides with a center of the upper electrode. At least a part of the interface electrode has a similar shape to a shape of an outer periphery of the upper electrode. A current blocking layer is formed at another region of another surface of the semiconductor multilayer structure except the region where the interface electrode is formed. A reflecting layer for reflecting a part of the light emitted from the light emitting layer is electrically connected to the interface electrode. A conductive supporting substrate is electrically connected to the semiconductor multilayer structure. | 03-19-2009 |
20090206354 | Semiconductor light-emitting device - A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a support structure, and a light-emitting structure. The support structure includes a support substrate, and a support substrate side bonding layer disposed on one surface of the support substrate. The light-emitting structure includes a light-emitting structure side bonding layer bonded to the support substrate side bonding layer, a reflection region disposed on the support substrate side bonding layer opposite the support substrate, and a semiconductor multilayer structure including a light-emitting layer disposed on the reflection region opposite the light-emitting structure side bonding layer for emitting a light with a predetermined wavelength, and a light-extraction surface disposed on the light-emitting layer opposite the reflection region for reflecting diffusely the light. The reflection region includes a transparent layer of a material with a lower refractive index than that of the semiconductor multilayer structure, and a reflection layer of a metallic material. The transparent layer has such a thickness that interference caused by multiple reflection of light inputted to the transparent layer can be suppressed. | 08-20-2009 |
20100065869 | Light emitting device and method for fabricating the same - A light emitting device includes a semiconductor multilayer structure having a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, and an active layer. A reflecting layer is provided at a side of one surface of the semiconductor multilayer structure and reflects a light emitted from the active layer. A supporting substrate of Si or Ge is provided at an opposite side of the reflecting layer with respect to the side of the semiconductor multilayer structure and supports the semiconductor multilayer structure via a metal bonding layer. A back surface electrode is provided at an opposite side of the supporting substrate with respect to a side of the metal bonding layer and includes Au alloyed with the support substrate. A hardness of the back surface electrode is higher than a hardness of the Au. | 03-18-2010 |
20100065870 | Light emitting device - A light emitting device includes a semiconductor multilayer structure having a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, and an active layer. A reflecting layer is provided at one surface of the semiconductor multilayer structure and reflects a light emitted from the active layer. A supporting substrate is provided at an opposite side of the reflecting layer with respect to a side of the semiconductor multilayer structure and supports the semiconductor multilayer structure via a metal bonding layer. An adhesion layer is provided at a surface of the supporting substrate at an opposite side with respect to a side of the metal bonding layer. A back surface electrode of an alloy contacts with a surface of the adhesion layer at an opposite side with respect to a surface contacting to the supporting substrate. | 03-18-2010 |
20100078659 | Light-emitting element - A light-emitting element includes a semiconductor laminated structure including a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type and an active layer sandwiched by the first and second semiconductor layers, a first electrode on one surface side of the semiconductor laminated structure, a conductive reflective layer on an other surface side of the semiconductor laminated structure for reflecting light emitted from the active layer, a contact portion partially formed between the semiconductor laminated structure and the conductive reflective layer and being in ohmic contact with the semiconductor laminated structure, and a second electrode on a part of a surface of the conductive reflective layer on the semiconductor laminated structure without contacting the semiconductor laminated structure for feeding current to the contact portion. | 04-01-2010 |
20100207146 | Light emitting element - A light emitting element includes a semiconductor laminated structure including a first semiconductor layer of first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, and an active layer sandwiched between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, a surface electrode including a center electrode disposed on one surface of the semiconductor laminated structure and a thin wire electrode extending from a periphery of the center electrode, and a contact part disposed on a part of another surface of the semiconductor laminated structure extruding a part located directly below the surface electrode, in parallel along the thin wire electrode, and including a plurality of first regions forming the shortest current pathway between the thin wire electrode and a second region allowing the plural first regions to be connected. The surface electrode has an arrangement that the shortest current pathway between the center electrode and the contact part is longer than the shortest current pathway between the thin wire electrode and the first region, and the shortest current pathway between an end part of the thin wire electrode and the contact part is not shorter than the shortest current pathway between the thin wire electrode and the first region. | 08-19-2010 |
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20090083610 | Storage sub-system and method for controlling the same - The present invention provides means for effectively reducing the amount of data by means of de-duplication in a disk array apparatus having a data guarantee code. | 03-26-2009 |
20110246720 | STORAGE SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE CONTROLLERS - A first controller, and a second controller coupled to the first controller via a first path are provided. The first controller includes a first relay circuit which is a circuit that controls data transfer, and a first processor coupled to the first relay circuit via a first second path. The second controller includes a second relay circuit which is a circuit that controls data transfer, and is coupled to the first relay circuit via the first path, and a second processor coupled to the second relay circuit via a second second path. The first processor is coupled to the second relay circuit not via the first relay circuit but via a first third path, and accesses the second relay circuit via the first third path during an I/O process. The second processor is coupled to the first relay circuit not via the second relay circuit but via a second third path, and accesses the first relay circuit via the second third path during an I/O process. | 10-06-2011 |
20110296129 | DATA TRANSFER DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A data transfer device that confirms completion of writing into a memory on transferring data to the memory via a bus through which a response indicating completion of data writing in the memory is not sent back includes an inter-memory data transfer control unit performing data transfer between the memories. When the inter-memory data transfer control unit detects switching of a write destination memory from a first memory to a second memory, in order to confirm that writing into the first memory is completed, the inter-memory data transfer control unit performs confirmation of write completion as to the first memory by a procedure different from writing into the memory. When a data transfer with a designated transfer length is completed, in order to confirm that writing is completed as to the write destination memory at the end of the data transfer, the inter-memory data transfer control unit performs confirmation of write completion as to the write destination memory at the end of the transfer by the procedure different from writing into the memory. The inter-memory data transfer control unit notifies the processor of completion of an inter-memory data transfer based on the confirmation of write completion. | 12-01-2011 |
20120017054 | STORAGE SUB-SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - The present invention provides means for effectively reducing the amount of data by means of de-duplication in a disk array apparatus having a data guarantee code. A control means for the disk array apparatus that adds a data guarantee code to each logical data block and checks the data guarantee code when reading data has a de-duplication performing function and control means for: generating LA substitution information for a function checking the data guarantee code or read data location address substitution information when performing the de-duplication and storing data; performing the de-duplication using the above-mentioned information when reading data; and thereby avoiding false diagnosis of the data guarantee code check. | 01-19-2012 |