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| 20100148611 | ARMATURE CORE, MOTOR USING SAME, AND AXIAL GAP ELECTRICAL ROTATING MACHINE USING SAME - An armature core includes a core portion formed of a lamination of plural noncrystalline metallic foil bands and resin for bond-fixing the non-crystalline metallic foil bands, wherein the armature core is provided with at least two cut surfaces with respect to the lamination layers. Amorphous metal is used as the iron base of the non-crystalline metallic foil bands. The cut surfaces are perpendicular to the lamination-layers of the non-crystalline foil bands. For the amorphous core, a resin mold is formed. The contact portions between winding wires and amorphous are provided with edge roundness. Further, an axial gap motor using cut cores of amorphous lamination as stator cores is provided. Still further, the stator includes: a plurality of stator cores in a bar shape, the stator cores being disposed along circumferential direction, wherein the axial line of the rotor shaft is the central axis of the circumferential direction, and wherein an axial direction of the stator cores is along the axial line direction AX of the rotor shaft; a stator core holding member in a disc form, the stator having a plurality of holes or recessions that are substantially in the same shape as a cross-sectional shape of the stator cores and are arranged along the circumferential direction, wherein the axial line of the rotor shaft is the central axis of the circumferential direction; and coils wound around the stator cores, and wherein the stator cores are inserted in the holes or recessions of the stator core holding member and held by fixing in vicinities of respective central portions thereof, the central portions being with respect to the axial direction thereof. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110095628 | AXIAL GAP MOTOR, COMPRESSOR, MOTOR SYSTEM, AND POWER GENERATOR - The present invention provides a low-iron-loss (high-efficiency) and low-cost axial gap motor that includes a high-quality soft magnetic material placed at an appropriate position, reduces torque pulsation, keeps induced voltage in the shape of a sine wave, and increases the degree of freedom in design. The axial gap motor includes a stator having stator teeth; and a rotor being opposed to the stator with a gap in an axial direction of the stator. Each of the stator teeth includes a stator tooth body, a stator tooth end joined to at least one axial-direction end of the stator tooth body, and a stator coil disposed around the stator tooth body. The stator tooth body includes a wound core comprised of a multi-layered amorphous foil strip winding. The stator tooth end is formed by a compact made of a powder magnetic core, and includes an opposed surface to the rotor. A cross-sectional area of the stator tooth end perpendicular to an axis of the amorphous foil strip winding is larger than a cross-sectional area of the stator tooth body perpendicular to the axis of the amorphous foil strip winding. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110095642 | MAGNETIC IRON CORE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AXIAL-GAP ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE, AND STATIC ELECTRICAL MACHINE - The invention provides a high-quality magnetic iron core by concurrently satisfying requirements for enhancement in strength of a wound iron core, particularly, strength of a wound iron core made up of amorphous foil strips, reduction in manufacturing time, and manufacturing cost. The invention also provides an electromagnetic application product highly efficient and small in size as an application of the magnetic iron core. The magnetic iron core includes an amorphous foil strip being wound to form the magnetic iron core. The magnetic iron core is filled with resin, the resin being disposed in every plural turns of windings of the amorphous foil strip. Preferably, the magnetic iron core is filled with the resin, the resin being disposed by using a spacer in every plural turns of windings of the amorphous foil strip. Preferably, the magnetic iron core is covered with resin which is integrated with and continuous to the resin disposed in every plural turns of windings of the amorphous foil strip. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110156519 | AXIAL GAP ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE AND ROTOR USED THEREFOR - In the axial gap rotating electrical machine, the rotor includes a rotor yoke that is formed by wrapping amorphous ribbon wound toroidal core, which is obtained by winding an amorphous magnetic metal ribbon into a toroidal core. Magnets having plural poles are circumferentially disposed on a stator-facing surface of the amorphous ribbon wound toroidal core. | 06-30-2011 |
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| 20080286675 | METHOD OF PRODUCING POLYMERIZED TONER, METHOD OF PRODUCING BINDER RESIN FOR TONER, AND TONER - The method of producing polymerized toner, the method including: dispersing a polymerizable monomer composition containing at least a polymerizable monomer and a colorant in an aqueous medium; and polymerizing the polymerizable monomer in the aqueous medium with a polymerization initiator to produce toner particles, and is characterized in that a polymerization initiator which has a specific structure and the hydrogen bond dissociation energies of which satisfy specific relationships is used as the polymerization initiator. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090035688 | TONER, AND TONER PRODUCTION PROCESS - In a chart of molecular weight distribution measured of a toner, i) the toner has a main peak in the region of molecular weight of 16,000 to 60,000, and ii) where the molecular weight at the main peak is represented by M1, and where the height at the molecular weight M1 is represented by H(M1), the height at a molecular weight of 4,000 by H(4000) and the height at a molecular weight of 15,000 by H(15000), the H(4000), the H(15000) and the H(M1) satisfy a specific proportion. The toner has a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of 15,000 to 80,000, and, in an endothermic chart, i) the toner has an endothermic main peak in the range of 40 to 1300C, and ii) the calorimetric integral value represented by the peak area of the endothermic main peak is 10 to 35 J per 1 g of the toner. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20100119965 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYMERIZED TONER, POLYMERIZED TONER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING BINDER RESIN FOR TONER AND BINDER RESIN FOR TONER - The present invention provides a method for producing a toner that can suppress the production of the decomposition products derived from a polymerization initiator, and can suppress the remaining presence, in the toner particles, of the unreacted polymerizable monomer and decomposition product residues. On the basis of this method, the present invention provides a toner that is excellent in triboelectric charging stability and can yield stable images over a long term. The present invention provides a method for producing a polymerized toner including a step of producing a polymerized toner particle by dispersing in an aqueous medium a polymerizable monomer composition including at least a polymerizable monomer and a colorant and by polymerizing the polymerizable monomer by using a polymerization initiator in the aqueous medium, the method being characterized in that the polymerization initiator has a structure represented by the following General Formula: | 05-13-2010 |
| 20110159425 | TONER - To obtain a toner which has excellent charge rise and stability, tends to have a sharp charge distribution, has excellent pigment dispersion properties, exhibits no disarray in an image even during a high-speed copying operation, and can stably output high-resolution images. A toner comprising toner particle containing a binder resin, a colorant, resin PA, and resin PB, wherein the resin PA has unit A represented by Formula (1), the resin PB has unit B represented by Formula (2), a content “a” of the unit A in the toner particle is 2.00 μmol/g or more, and a molar ratio b/a of the content “a” and a content “b” of the unit B in the toner particle is 0.10 or more and 10.00 or less. | 06-30-2011 |
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| 20100241305 | VEHICLE VIBRATION DAMPING CONTROL DEVICE - There is provided a vibration damping control device which suppresses pitching and bouncing vibration of a vehicle through a drive output control based on a wheel torque estimated value estimated with a wheel speed, etc., which device uses the estimated value of a wheel torque while taking into account conditions where no good estimation of the wheel torque is executable. The vibration damping control device comprises a wheel torque estimated value acquisition portion which acquires a wheel torque estimated value; and a driving torque control portion which controls a driving torque of the vehicle to suppress pitching or bouncing vibrational amplitudes based on the wheel torque estimated value, wherein the absolute value or the sign of the wheel torque estimated value is corrected in accordance with the degree of a slip of the wheel or the direction of movement of the vehicle. Further, there is provided a torque estimating device suitable for a vibration damping control and other running, motional or braking-driving force controls for a vehicle, etc. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110137514 | DRIVING FORCE CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF DRIVING FORCE CONTROLLING APPARATUS - A driving force controlling apparatus includes a sprung vibration-damping control unit that suppresses a vibration, including a component in a pitch direction or a bounce direction, generated on a vehicle due to an input from a road surface to wheels by controlling a driving force of the vehicle. The change in the fuel injection amount by the sprung vibration-damping control unit is performed before the change in the fuel injection amount by a high-frequency vibration-damping control unit (jerk vibration-damping control unit, cylinder-to-cylinder correction control unit). The change in the fuel injection amount by the sprung vibration-damping control unit is performed after the change in the fuel injection amount by a vehicle behavior control unit (slowing-down control unit, assist control unit, brake control device). Accordingly, a vibration of a vehicle can effectively be suppressed. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110266760 | VIBRATION-DAMPING CONTROLLING APPARATUS OF VEHICLE - A vibration-damping controlling apparatus of a vehicle for suppressing vibration including a component in a pitch direction or in a bounce direction occurring in the vehicle by an input from a road surface to wheels of the vehicle by controlling driving force of the vehicle is provided with a setting means that sets a vibration-damping control compensation amount by feedback control based on a wheel speed of the wheels of the vehicle and a driving force controlling means that controls driving force of a power source for travel of the vehicle so as to suppress amplitude of the vibration based on the vibration-damping control compensation amount and changes the vibration-damping control compensation amount based on a state of the vehicle, so that the vibration-damping controlling apparatus of the vehicle can execute appropriate vibration-damping control corresponding to the state of the vehicle. | 11-03-2011 |
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| 20090165951 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SUPPRESSING VARIATION OF PROCESSING CHARACTERISTICS - A plasma processing apparatus includes a reaction container with the inner side wall thereof insulated, a sample rest and an antenna arranged in the reaction container. The high-frequency power is supplied to the antenna from a plasma generating power supply, the processing gas is introduced into the reaction container and converted to a plasma, and the sample placed on the sample rest is processed by the plasma. A matching unit for securing the impedance matching is inserted between the plasma generating power supply and a load circuit including the antenna. The matching unit includes a sensor for measuring the impedance characteristic on the load circuit side and a unit for changing the match point and the matching track leading to the match point on the input side of the matching unit in accordance with the measurement by the sensor. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20100282414 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A plasma processing apparatus including a chamber having an inner wall with a protective film thereon and a sample stage disposed in the chamber in which plasma is generated by supplying high-frequency wave energy to processing gas to conduct plasma processing for a sample on the sample stage using the plasma. The apparatus includes a control device which determines, based on monitor values of a wafer attracting current monitor (Ip) to monitor a current supplied from a wafer attracting power source, an impedance monitor (Zp) to monitor plasma impedance viewed from a plasma generating power source, and an impedance monitor (Zb) to monitor a plasma impedance viewed from a bias power supply, presence or absence of occurrence of an associated one of abnormal discharge in inner parts, deterioration in insulation of an insulating film of a wafer attracting electrode, and abnormal injection in a gas injection plate. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110139370 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A plasma processing apparatus including a chamber having an inner wall with a protective film thereon and a sample stage disposed in the chamber in which plasma is generated by supplying high-frequency wave energy to processing gas to conduct plasma processing for a sample on the sample stage using the plasma. The apparatus includes a control device which determines, based on monitor values of a wafer attracting current monitor (Ip) to monitor a current supplied from a wafer attracting power source, an impedance monitor (Zp) to monitor plasma impedance viewed from a plasma generating power source, and an impedance monitor (Zb) to monitor a plasma impedance viewed from a bias power supply, presence or absence of occurrence of an associated one of abnormal discharge in inner parts, deterioration in insulation of an insulating film of a wafer attracting electrode, and abnormal injection in a gas injection plate. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20120132368 | PLASMA TREATMENT APPARATUS - To improve durability of an electric discharge part of a dielectric barrier discharge system, a plasma treatment apparatus is configured so that a plasma source of a corona discharge system is installed in the vicinity of a plasma source of the dielectric barrier discharge system, a plasma generated by corona discharge is used as an auxiliary plasma, and a discharge sustaining voltage of a main plasma generated by the dielectric barrier discharge is reduced. | 05-31-2012 |
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| 20100143165 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR WITH INTEGRAL INVERTER - An electric compressor provided with an integral inverter, incorporated with a motor and provided in a compressor housing with a motor drive circuit that includes the inverter. At least some of electric parts including the motor drive circuit are coated at an assembly-completed state with a resin material at a predetermined thickness by, for example, pouring of a liquid resin and draining of excess resin. In the electric compressor, a resin coating structure of the motor drive circuit is simplified, is easily coated with resin, is reduced in weight by reducing the amount of resin, and is reduced in cost. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100143167 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR WITH INTEGRAL INVERTER - An electric compressor provided with an integral inverter, incorporated with a motor and provided in a receiving space surrounded by a compressor housing with a motor drive circuit that includes the inverter. At least some of electric parts including the motor drive circuit are coated at an assembly-completed state with a resin that is charged into the receiving space. The shape of the charged resin is defined in the receiving space by a jig used at the time of resin charging and defining a space to be charged with the resin. In the structure of a resin coating section for such a motor drive circuit, the amount of resin charged is significantly reduced, and the entire compressor is reduced in weight and cost. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100183458 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR WITH INTEGRAL INVERTER - An electric compressor provided with an integral inverter, incorporated with a motor and provided in a receiving space surrounded by a compressor housing with a motor drive circuit that includes the inverter. At least some of electric parts including the motor drive circuit are covered by a resin charged into the receiving space, and a part of a region which is in the receiving space and into which the resin can be charged is filled with a light-weight material different from the charged resin. In the structure of the resin covering section for such a motor drive circuit, the amount of resin charged is significantly reduced, and the entire compressor is reduced in weight and cost. | 07-22-2010 |
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| 20100043472 | LOW TEMPERATURE SHOWCASE - An object is to provide a low temperature showcase in which waste heat from a condenser and the like can be utilized by a simple constitution to effectively eliminate dew condensation on a middle pillar, particularly on gasket of upper part of a door. The low temperature showcase includes a middle pillar whose front surface abuts on the gasket of the door; a machine chamber disposed outside a main body under a display chamber and including the condenser, a fan for the condenser and the like, and the showcase further includes a middle pillar duct member which is vertically attached to the middle pillar and in which a middle pillar duct is defined, a leading portion which leads air from the machine chamber into the middle pillar duct, and exhaust holes which discharge the air flowing upwards through the duct to the outside of the gasket between the upper part of the door and the main body. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100058786 | LOW TEMPERATURE SHOWCASE - There is disclosed a highly safe low temperature showcase in which an insulating wall and insulating side panels constituting a main body are provided with continuity in respect of design, whereby appearance can be improved. The low temperature showcase has a constitution in which insulating side panels are attached to the left and right sides of a main body having a display chamber, each of the insulating side panels includes a see-through transparent wall, an insulating wall which holds upper and lower portions and a rear edge of this transparent wall and whose outer surface is positioned outside the outer surface of the transparent wall, a side panel rear cover which covers the insulating wall from the outside, and a side panel front cover which extends over the insulating wall and the transparent wall to cover the front edges of these walls. The side panel front cover has at least a front wall and a side wall, and the side wall is positioned outside the outer surface of the transparent wall. Moreover, the inner side of the side wall is provided with a plurality of ribs which reach the outer surface of the transparent wall. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100058787 | LOW TEMPERATURE SHOWCASE - An object is to prevent any gap from being generated in an abutment portion between an outer surface cover and a back surface plate or the like, whereby these components are provided with a sense of continuity, and the improvement of an appearance can be achieved. In a low temperature showcase in which insulating side panels are attached to the left and right sides of a main body having a display chamber, each of the insulating side panels includes a see-through transparent wall; an insulating wall which holds upper and lower portions and a rear edge of this transparent wall; a side panel rear cover which covers this insulating wall from the outside; and a side panel front cover which covers the front edges of the insulating wall and the transparent wall and which is attached to the front part of the side panel rear cover, and abutment portions of the side panel front cover and the side panel rear cover are provided with inclined surfaces directed outwards as the surfaces extend rearwards, respectively. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100058788 | LOW TEMPERATURE SHOWCASE - There is disclosed a low temperature showcase in which dew condensation occurring on transparent walls is efficiently decreased, whereby the lowering of visibility can be avoided, and a disadvantage that customer's clothes are made dirty can be suppressed. The low temperature showcase has a constitution in which insulating side panels are attached to the left and right sides of a main body having a display chamber and in which a machine chamber is disposed in the lower part of the main body outside the display chamber, each of the insulating side panels includes a see-through transparent wall and a side panel front cover which covers the front edge of this transparent wall, and this side panel front cover has a waste heat passage which communicates with the inside of the machine chamber and a space of the outer surface of the transparent wall. | 03-11-2010 |
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| 20090187314 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ON-VEHICLE DEVICES WHEN VEHICLE IS ABOUT TO BE SUBMERGED IN FLOODED AREA - An electric control apparatus, mounted on a vehicle, has a height direction and comprises an electronic circuit board, a submersion sensor, and a controller. The electric circuit board has a mounting surface and is mounted in the vehicle so that the mounting surface is along the height direction of the vehicle. The submersion sensor, which is mounted on the mounting surface of the circuit board, senses a condition that the vehicle is about to be submerged in a flooded area and outputs an electric signal showing the condition The controller, which is mounted on the mounting surface of the circuit board, performs control for securing safety of an occupant of the vehicle when the controller receives the electric signal from the submersion sensor. The submersion sensor is lower in a mounted position on the mounting surface of the circuit board than the controller along the height direction . | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090189583 | SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY WITH SWITCHING CIRCUITS - A switching power supply has first and second switching units and a control unit. Each switching unit has a switching element performing a switching operation to intermittently receive electric current from a battery while accumulating electric power in a coil and discharging this power to an output terminal. A resistor earthed is serially connected with each switching element. The resistance of the first resistor receiving the first current from the first switching element is lower than that of the second resistor receiving the second current from the second switching element. A maximum value of the first current is higher than that of the second current due to the difference between the resistors. The control unit controls the switching operations of the elements to boost the voltage of the battery and stops the switching operations in response to the first current exceeding an upper value. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090198407 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLES, WHICH IS PROVIDED WITH PLURAL MICROCOMPUTERS - An electric control apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The apparatus comprises at least two microcomputers, an external monitoring unit, and an internal monitoring means. The two microcomputers are composed of a first microcomputer and a second microcomputer, The first microcomputer is assigned to controlling travel functions of a vehicle. The external monitoring unit monitors whether or not the first microcomputer is in a normal operation and is placed outside the first and second microcomputers. The internal monitoring means monitors whether or not the first microcomputer is in a normal operation and is within the first microcomputer. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20100026265 | POWER SUPPLY UNIT HAVING CONFIGURABLE OUTPUT VOLTAGE RANGES - As a result of a path being connected to an input terminal to allow a first intermediate voltage from a power-side regulator or another external source that does not pass through the power-side regulator to be selectively inputted into any supply-side regulator, a supply voltage can be generated based on the inputted voltage. Therefore, as a result of the relevant supply-side regulator being connected to a path by which the other external source is inputted, a supply voltage having a voltage value differing from that when the first intermediate voltage is inputted can be generated. As a result of the voltage inputted into the supply-side regulator being changed, only the voltage value of the supply voltage generated by the supply-side regulator is changed. Therefore, the variation of the voltage value of the supply voltage that can be provided by a power supply unit can be changed. | 02-04-2010 |