Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130056662 | ELECTROMAGNETICALLY ACTUATED VALVE - An electromagnetically actuated valve including a solenoid with a coil that generates a magnetic field upon being energized, a tubular member made of a non-magnetic material and disposed on an inner circumferential side of the coil, a movable valve body disposed within the tubular member and movable in an axial direction of the tubular member by an attraction force that is generated upon energizing the coil to thereby open and close a fluid passage, a first member made of a resin material and including a seat portion that is brought into contact with the movable valve body to close the fluid passage, and a first biasing member that biases the movable valve body toward the seat portion. | 03-07-2013 |
20130088076 | Automotive Hydraulic Brake System - An automotive hydraulic brake system is provided which exhibits an excellent pressure reduction performance to a low μ road while restraining an intake resistance of a fluid pump. For providing the hydraulic brake system, a gate-in valve is connected to an intake passage that connects a master cylinder to an intake side of the fluid pump. The gate-in valve selectively opens and closes the intake passage in accordance with a mutual relation between a master cylinder pressure and a pressure produced at an intake side of the fluid pump. | 04-11-2013 |
20130094976 | Water Pump of Internal Combustion Engine - A water pump of an internal combustion engine, including a pump housing having a cylindrical portion constructed so as to surround an outer peripheral side of a drive shaft, the cylindrical portion being integrally formed of an aluminum-based metal material, and a stepped portion provided on the outer peripheral side of the cylindrical portion. A bearing is provided having an outer race fixed to a pulley and an inner race made of an iron-based metal material and fixed to an outer periphery of the cylindrical portion. Additionally, a shielding member is provided having an inner peripheral side sandwiched between the inner race and the stepped portion, an outer peripheral side having a plate shape and extending to side of the outer race, and an end-face seal structure portion formed of an elastic material and formed on at least one of opposite surfaces of the sandwiched inner peripheral side. | 04-18-2013 |
20130100628 | Printed Circuit Board and Electronic Device Using Printed Circuit Board - An electronic device having a press-fit connection for connecting a connector and an electronic part mounted on a printed circuit board which is possible to enable high density mounting. Viewing the printed circuit board from an upper surface, between adjacent through holes on which a compressive force acts upon insertion of the press-fit terminal, among the large number of through holes, a land or a conductor film connected to the conductor film formed on the inner wall surface of the through hole or the conductor film not connected to the conductor film formed on the inner wall surface of the through hole, formed in the circuit board held between the top layer circuit board and the bottom layer circuit board, exists in a width equal to or wider than the diameter of the through hole. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103240 | Battery Temperature Control Device - A battery temperature control device for an electric vehicle is provided which is capable of maintaining both the range of the electric vehicle and the battery life at a high level without drastically reducing either of them. A recommended temperature range suitable for battery use and a usable temperature range in which a battery is usable and which is wider than the recommended temperature range are included, and while the battery temperature is basically controlled to converge to the recommended temperature range to maintain the battery life, in a situation where the power consumption necessary for controlling the battery temperature to converge to the recommended temperature is increased, making it difficult to travel a desired travelling distance, the recommended temperature range is switched to the usable temperature range and the battery temperature is controlled to converge to the usable temperature range, and the power consumption necessary for controlling the battery temperature is suppressed and the range of the vehicle is maintained. | 04-25-2013 |
20130112172 | Fuel Injection Control Device for Internal Combustion Engine - Disclosed is an fuel injection control device for an internal combustion engine, including a high-voltage generating circuit for generating a high voltage exceeding a battery voltage, which is a voltage for driving an injector, the battery voltage and high voltage being used to supply a hold current Ih, as well as a valve-opening current Ip as a driving current, to the injector, the control device allowing a fuel injection pulse signal to be output to one cylinder in a plurality of fuel injection timings during one combustion cycle, wherein, after the high voltage is consumed by driving the injector and decreases, a time required for the high-voltage generating circuit to restore high voltage to a predetermined value is calculated, and wherein, when driving control for any other injector is demanded during restoration time, injection is controlled by correcting at least one of fuel injection timing and fuel injection pulse width. | 05-09-2013 |
20130162010 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS - A vehicle control apparatus includes: first pistons which are first braking force generating sections that are arranged to be actuated by a hydraulic pressure, and that are provided, respectively, to wheel cylinders; a second braking force generating section provided to one of the wheels, and arranged to mechanically regulate a position of one of the first pistons, and thereby to provide the braking force to one of the wheels; a braking force control switching section configured to switch the first braking force generating section to a non-actuation state when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and then to switch the second braking force generating section from the non-actuation state to an actuation state; and a vehicle forward and backward movement suppressing section configured to suppress a movement of the vehicle in forward and backward directions at the switching of the braking force control section switching section. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173105 | Controller for Vehicle and Vehicle Including the Controller - Provided are a controller for vehicle controlling a temperature state of a storage device, especially enabling effective temperature rise of a storage device from a low-temperature state, and a vehicle including such a controller. The controller for vehicle includes: a driving motor, first storage device that exchanges electrical energy with the driving motor; temperature detection means that detects a temperature of the first storage device; second storage device that exchanges electrical energy with the first storage device; and an electric power converter that controls exchange of electrical energy between the first storage device and the second storage device. When the temperature detection means detects a temperature lower than or equal to a predetermined value and the driving motor performs a regenerating operation, the electric power converter supplies electrical energy of the second storage device to the first storage device. | 07-04-2013 |
20130175367 | Fuel Injection Valve - One passage for swirling is formed in an orifice plate fixed on a nozzle body. Two swirl chambers in which fuel is caused to swirl so that the fuel has swirling force are provided at an end of the one passage for swirling on the downstream side of the flow direction of fuel. Therefore, the collision between the swirling flow in the swirl chamber and the fuel flowing in the passage for swirling is mitigated, and the swirling flow can be smoothly produced to promote pulverization of sprays injected from fuel injection ports. | 07-11-2013 |
20130192937 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS - A vehicle control apparatus includes: a first braking force generating section configured to actuate, by a hydraulic pressure, wheel cylinders; a second braking force generating section configured to be mechanically regulated to provide the braking force to the one of the wheels; a braking force control switching section configured to automatically switch the second braking force generating section from a non-actuation state to an actuation state when a predetermined condition is satisfied in an actuation state of the first braking force generating section and in the non-actuation state of the second braking force generating section, and to switch the first braking force generating section to the non-actuation state; and a braking force characteristic control section configured to control a braking force characteristic generated by the first braking force generating section, and relating to the switching operation of the braking force control switching section. | 08-01-2013 |
20130200284 | Electromagnetic Valve and Fixing Structure - An electromagnetic valve has: a coil; a casing encircling the coil and having a cylinder portion and nail portions; a movable core moving axially in the wound coil; a fixed core set at an opening end of the casing; a valve body fixed to the opening end of the casing together with the fixed core by bending inwards the nail portions; and a spool valve body moving axially in the valve body. The nail portion is provided with a wide width portion at a root side, a narrow width portion at a top side and a stepped portion between the wide width portion and the narrow width portion. The stepped portion is positioned at a substantially same position as an outer edge of one end portion of the valve body, or positioned at a cylinder portion side with respect to the one end portion outer edge of the valve body. | 08-08-2013 |