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| 20090189814 | Radar device and target detection method - A target position is estimated in such a manner to maintain target position continuity, with high accuracy, even when the X coordinate displacement of the target is large. On a scan in which the target position is not detected, when a trajectory of the target in the past is within a predetermined region in the vicinity of the Y-axis, a position for estimate is a position having an X coordinate resulting from shifting, by a first displacement, the X coordinate estimated according to the trajectory, on a basis of the X coordinate of a previous position, while when the trajectory is not within the predetermined region, the position for estimate is a position having an X coordinate resulting from shifting, by a second displacement that is larger than the first displacement, the X coordinate estimated according to the trajectory, on a basis of the X coordinate of a previous position. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090207071 | Radar device and target angle detection method - A radar device has a plurality of receiving antennas which receive, as a reception wave, a radar wave sent in a predetermined reference direction and reflected by a target; a phase difference detection unit which detects a first phase difference of the reception wave received by a first receiving antenna pair that is spaced by a first gap, and a second phase difference of the reception wave received by a second receiving antenna pair that is spaced by a second gap smaller than the first gap; and an angle detection unit which performs a first process of determining, as a detection angle, an angle of the target relative to the reference direction being a mutually coincident angle from among a plurality of first angles corresponding to the first phase difference and a plurality of second angles corresponding to the second phase difference. The radar device allows expanding an angle detection range without reducing the resolution of the angle corresponding to the second phase difference. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20100033364 | Signal processing device, radar device, vehicle control device, and signal processing method - In order to prevent delays in output of detection results, even when a plurality of frequency modulation methods with different frequency change rates are used, an FM-CW radar device employing frequency modulation with two different frequency change rates, has distance/velocity detection unit for detecting the relative distance or relative velocity of a target object based on beat signals of transmission signals with the same frequency change rate and for detecting the relative distance or relative velocity using beat signals when the frequency change rates are different, and distance/velocity confirmation unit for adding evaluation values for relative distances or relative velocities detected in the detection processing, and for confirming the relative distance or relative velocity based on the evaluation value which has reached a criterion value. As a result, more data can be obtained in one detection cycle, and the same advantageous results as when executing a plurality of detection cycles can be obtained. Consequently, delay of output of detection results from the radar device to a vehicle control device can be prevented. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100033365 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, RADAR APPARATUS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing apparatus for a radar transceiver, which receives a reflected signal generated by a target object in response to a frequency modulated transmission signal, and generates a beat signal having a frequency difference between the transmission signal and a reception signal, includes: an azimuth angle detection unit that detects an azimuth angle of the target object on the basis of a peak signal in a frequency spectrum of the beat signal; a peak signal extraction unit that prioritizes extraction of a peak signal corresponding to a predetermined azimuth angle range and a predetermined relative distance range of the target object; and a target object detection unit that detects the target object from the extracted peak signal. | 02-11-2010 |
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| 20090313821 | Method of manufacturing an inflator - At the time of manufacturing an inflator, a blocking body is first disposed at an opening so as to allow the interior and the exterior of a housing to communicate with each other. The blocking body is abutted against a peripheral edge of the opening so as to ensure sealability between the blocking body and the peripheral edge of the opening. A filling nozzle injecting a pressurized gas is then pressed against a periphery of an inlet port of the blocking body, and the pressurized gas is injected from the filling nozzle so as to fill the pressurized gas into the housing through a filling channel. Subsequently, to block the filling channel, the blocking body is energized with a resistance-welding current to resistance-weld an inner peripheral portion of the filling channel. At the same time, the blocking body is fixed to the peripheral edge of the opening by resistance-welding so as to maintain sealability, thereby manufacturing the inflator. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100031844 | Inflator - An inflator according to this invention has a structure that an interior part of a housing is charged with a pressurized gas and a gas generating agent capable of generating a gas when combusted, wherein the pressurized gas formed only of an inert gas; a quantity of heat to be generated when the gas generating agent is combusted is set within a range of 6000 to 10000 J/g; and a molar ratio between the pressurized gas and the combustion gas generated by the combustion of the gas generating agent is set within a range of 20 to 40. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100071581 | Gas generator - In a gas generator of the invention, a closure member is disposed so as to be connected to an outer circumferential wall side along a circumferential edge thereof in a housing and to close an outlet port which is formed in a ceiling wall of the housing. Thin breakable portions adapted to be broken when a squib is activated are formed in the closure member so as to extend substantially radially from a center of the closure member in a rectilinear fashion. When the squib | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100127486 | Inflator - An inflator includes a compressed gas chamber defined by closing an exit hole with a rupture plate, a housing which holds a gas generator which can rupture the rupture plate and which has discharge ports from which a compressed gas can be discharged to the outside, and a guide for guiding a combustion gas from the gas generator to the rupture plate so as to rupture the rupture plate. The guide includes a substantially cylindrical spouting tube portion which extends toward the exit port at a distal end thereof, a mounting seat which is disposed at a proximal portion of the spouting tube portion and a connecting portion disposed between the mounting seat and the spouting tube portion. The guide is installed so as to be held to a holding tube portion with the spouting tube portion extending towards the exit port while defining a space H between an inner circumferential surface of a connecting tube portion of the housing and the spouting tube portion so extending and the mounting seat kept in abutment with a riser surface of the housing. | 05-27-2010 |
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| 20090191879 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND SOFT HANDOFF CONTROL METHOD IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - When measurement results of received radio wave intensities of wireless base stations, which demands a soft handoff, are received from a wireless terminal in a wireless communication system and when a base station controller attempts to acquire a traffic channel in a wireless base station, via which a wireless communication path will be added, in the state in which the channel resource usage rate of that wireless base station is over a threshold, a traffic channel may be acquired only if the ratio between the radio wave intensity of the wireless base stations establishing communication paths and the radio wave intensity of the wireless base station via which a communication path will be added is higher than a threshold or if the difference between the radio wave intensity of the wireless base stations and the radio wave intensity of the wireless base station smaller than a threshold. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090253378 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLING NON-COMMUNICATION MONITORING TIMER - The present invention provides with a terminal having a monitoring period changing function for changing the value (monitoring period) of a no-traffic monitoring timer of the terminal by feeding back the information on radio signal conditions, and a no-traffic monitoring function for changing the status of the call of the terminal to “a disconnected state for only receiving radio signal from a base station” depending on the value (monitoring period) of the no-traffic monitoring timer based on the information fed back. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090253430 | Base Station Controller and Method for Restricting Access - In a base station controller for controlling the operation of a base station for executing call control which permits a connection in response to a connecting request from a radio terminal, when a stop instruction of the call control of the base station is received, the number of radio terminals which can be connected to the base station is decreased and thereafter the call control is stopped, and when the call control of the base station is restarted, the number of radio terminals which can be connected to the base station is increased. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100322192 | BASE STATION CONTROLLER AND WIRELESS PACKET PROCESSING DEVICE - Call connection processing is performed and a message is processed in a different subnet without UATI reassignment and takeover of a wireless session. RANs that belong to different subnets and are adjacent to each other use messages to exchange ColorCode, IP addresses of base station controllers, wireless resource information of base station transceiver subsystems and the like. When the RAN receives, from an AT, a message having ColorCode that is different from ColorCode of the RAN, the RAN transfers the message to a base station controller included in the RAN having ColorCode that matches the ColorCode included in the message. | 12-23-2010 |
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| 20090317131 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE DRUM UNIT - A process cartridge usable with an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the process cartridge includes i) an electrophotographic photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis and having a photosensitive layer at its peripheral surface; ii) process means actable on the drum; iii) a coupling member for receiving an external force for rotating the drum, wherein the coupling member is capable of taking a first angular position for transmitting the external force to the drum, a second angular position inclined away from the axis of the drum from the first angular position, and a third angular position away from the axis of the drum from the first angle position; and iv) a regulating portion for regulating an inclination angle of the coupling member such that downward inclination angle of the coupling member is smaller than an inclination angle of the coupling member when the coupling member is at the second angular position. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090317132 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND ELECTROGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE DRUM UNIT - A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including a driving shaft having a rotational force applying portion by moving in a direction substantially perpendicular to an axis of the driving shaft. The cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a coupler engageable with the rotational force applying portion to receive a rotational force for rotating the drum and taking transmitting, pre-engagement, and disengaging positions, and a regulator regulating an inclination angle of the coupler. During cartridge mounting, the coupler moves from the pre-engagement to the transmitting position to oppose the driving shaft, and during cartridge dismounting, the coupler moves from the transmitting to the disengaging position to disengage from the driving shaft. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100028039 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a developer accommodator including two frames two end portion members, supporting the roller, a first member providing an electrostatic capacity between itself and the roller when a developing bias voltage is applied to the developing roller, and a second member including a contact portion elastically contacting to a bent portion of the accommodator, and a first electrical contact portion, electrically connected to the contact portion, for transmitting, to the main assembly, an electric signal corresponding to a value of the electrostatic capacity provided between the developing roller and the first member. The second member is mounted to one end portion member such that the contact portion is inside the one end portion member and the first electrical contact portion is outside the one end portion member. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100028042 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND METHOD FOR REMOVING PROCESSING MEANS FROM PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum; a charging roller for electrically charging the electrophotographic photosensitive drum; a drum frame rotatably supporting one and the other longitudinal end of the charging roller through bearings and rotatably supporting one longitudinal end of the electrophotographic photosensitive drum; a drum bearing member rotatably supporting the other longitudinal end of the electrophotographic photosensitive drum and connected to the other longitudinal end of the drum frame by an adhesive; a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the electrophotographic photosensitive drum; a magnet roller provided inside the developing roller, wherein the magnet roller is movable in the longitudinal direction; a first side member supporting one longitudinal end of the magnet roller and connected to one longitudinal end of a developing device frame; and a second side member supporting the other longitudinal end of the magnet roller and connected to the other longitudinal end of the developing device frame. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100028050 | DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a developing roller of a developing portion for developing an electrostatic latent image on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a developer accommodator, a supply opening, between the developing portion and the accommodator, and a stirring member including a support rotatably provided on the accommodator and a stirrer on the support. The stirrer's length is longer than the opening's length in a longitudinal direction of a mount mounted to the support and the length of the stirrer's end portion is shorter than the supply opening's length. When the stirrer is rotated, an end thereof enters the opening to feed the developer from the accommodator through the opening to the developing portion and then through the supply opening back to the developer accommodating portion. | 02-04-2010 |
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| 20110250094 | HONEYCOMB STRUCTURAL BODY AND EXHAUST GAS CONVERSION APPARATUS - A honeycomb structural body includes a plurality of honeycomb units, first and second electrodes, and first and second conductive members. The plurality of honeycomb units are adhered to each other by interposing an adhesive layer. Each of the plurality of honeycomb units contains a conductive ceramic material. Each of the plurality of honeycomb units includes cell walls extending along a longitudinal direction of each of the plurality of honeycomb units to define a plurality of through-holes. The first and second electrodes are provided on an outer peripheral surface of each of the plurality of honeycomb units. The first and second conductive members are electrically connected to the first and second electrodes, respectively. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110250095 | HONEYCOMB STRUCTURAL BODY AND EXHAUST GAS CONVERSION APPARATUS - A honeycomb structural body includes a plurality of honeycomb units adhered to each other by interposing an adhesive layer. Each of the honeycomb units has a substantially fan shaped cross section or a substantially elliptical fan shaped cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of each of the honeycomb units. First and second electrodes are provided at a part of an outer peripheral surface of each of the honeycomb units that does not face the adhesive layer and are provided at a first area between each of the honeycomb units and the adhesive layer. And/or the first and second electrodes are provided at a second area between the outer peripheral surface of each of the honeycomb units and the adhesive layer and are provided at a third area including a center of the substantially fan shaped cross section or the substantially elliptical fan shaped cross section. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110250096 | HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE - A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit. The at least one honeycomb unit includes a pair of electrodes and cell walls. The cell walls extend along a longitudinal direction of the at least one honeycomb unit to define a plurality of through holes. The cell walls have pores filled with a substance under a formation region of the pair of electrodes. The substance has an electrical resistivity lower than an electrical resistivity of a material to form the at least one honeycomb unit. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110250097 | HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE - A honeycomb structure has a substantially circular-pillar-shape. The honeycomb structure includes at least one electrically conductive honeycomb unit, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The at least one electrically conductive honeycomb unit includes walls extending along a longitudinal direction of the at least one electrically conductive honeycomb unit to define a plurality of through holes. The first electrode is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the honeycomb structure. The second electrode is provided in a vicinity of a central axis of the honeycomb structure extending along the longitudinal direction. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110250382 | HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE - A honeycomb structure includes at least one pillar-shaped honeycomb unit and a pair of electrodes. The pillar-shaped honeycomb unit includes an outer peripheral wall and cell walls. The cell walls extend along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit to define cells. The cell walls are composed of a ceramic aggregate having pores. The cell walls contain a substance having an electrical resistivity lower than an electrical resistivity of ceramic forming the ceramic aggregate. The pair of electrodes is arranged at the cell walls and/or the outer peripheral wall. | 10-13-2011 |
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| 20080205857 | RECORDING CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - To select a recording device for recording a program in a digital television receiver to which a plurality of recorders (recording devices) are connected, control is performed to acquire image quality information about the program to be recorded and to compare the program image quality to be recorded with the recording image quality of a recording medium for each connected recording device. Based on the result of this comparison, a recorder is selected that can secondarily record the program onto a recording medium without compromising the program image quality. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080226257 | RECORDING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RECORDING CONTROL APPARATUS - A recording control apparatus is connected to and in communication with a recording apparatus capable of recording a broadcasting video image on a storage unit and has two or more operating state levels that differ in power consumption. The recording control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire program information about a program currently being viewed, a determination unit configured to determine a user's recording tendency level as to a program currently being viewed based on the program information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a control unit configured to issue a command to control the operating state level of the recording apparatus based on the recording tendency level determined by the determination unit. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080226258 | RECORDER CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A recorder control apparatus which controls execution of broadcast program recording in a plurality of recorders connected thereto, comprises an acceptance unit configured to accept a request to execute broadcast program recording, an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from each recorder, reservation information related to reserved program recording to be executed by the recorder after a point at which the execution request is accepted, a selection unit configured to select, from the plurality of recorders, a recorder capable of executing broadcast program recording corresponding to the execution request for a longest duration, based on the reservation information, and a request unit configured to request the recorder selected by the selection unit to execute broadcast program recording corresponding to the execution request. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090059282 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A digital broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving a digital broadcast signal including print information, the apparatus being configured to communicate with a printing apparatus and to receive a print request, is provided. The apparatus comprises: a first obtaining unit configured to obtain first information regarding a period of duration of a print process that is being executed by the printing apparatus; a second obtaining unit configured to obtain second information regarding an existing period during which print information that corresponds to the print request is included in the digital broadcast signal that is being received; a determination unit operable to determine whether or not the existing period ends earlier than the period of duration based on the first information and the second information; and a controller configured to control issuance of an instruction to suspend the print process that is being executed based on a determination result by the determination unit. | 03-05-2009 |
