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| 20090025690 | FUEL SUPPLY DEVICE - A fuel supply device includes a subtank in a fuel tank, a fuel pump in the subtank having a first pump unit suctioning fuel in the subtank to supply fuel to an external equipment and a second pump unit suctioning fuel outside the subtank to pump fuel into the subtank, and a filter connected to a first suction port of the first unit and a second suction port of the second unit and filtering supply fuel supplied to the equipment and pump fuel pumped into the subtank. The filter includes a case, a first filter, and a second filter. The first filter in a first passage of the case directing fuel in the subtank into the first port filters the supply fuel. The second filter in a second passage of the case directing fuel outside the subtank into the second port filters the pump fuel. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090028690 | FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A fuel supply system supplies fuel in a fuel tank to a fuel consumption apparatus. The system includes a subtank, a pump unit, and an urging device. The subtank is received in the fuel tank and has a communicating hole at a bottom of the subtank. Part of fuel, which is stored in the fuel tank, is stored in the subtank. The outside and inside of the subtank communicate through the hole. The pump unit is received in the subtank and has a supply pump part, which supplies fuel in the subtank to the apparatus, and a pumping part, which pumps up fuel outside the subtank into the subtank. The pumping part has a suction part, which suctions fuel outside the subtank through the hole. The urging device urges the pump unit directly or indirectly toward the bottom of the subtank. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090095264 | FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A fuel supply system includes a fuel pump, a filter element, a pressure regulating valve, and a filter case. The filter case is configured to cover radially inner and outer surfaces of the filter element. The filter case has a receiving portion. A bottom portion of the receiving portion and an end portion of the filter element defines therebetween an outflow chamber for storing fuel. The outflow chamber includes a partitioning member that partitions the outflow chamber into first and second outflow chamber sections. The second outflow chamber section is communicated with an inlet portion of the pressure regulating valve. The partitioning member has a communication portion that provides communication between the first and second outflow chamber sections. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20110139278 | FUEL PUMP - A filter device is connected to a fuel pump for supplying filtered fuel to an internal combustion engine. The filter device has a bag-shaped filter element forming therein a fuel passage, wherein fuel passes through the filter element to enter into the fuel passage. The filter element further forms a vapor pooling chamber above the fuel passage, so that vapors separated from the filtered fuel in the fuel passage are moved toward the vapor pooling chamber. A valve device is provided at a portion of the filter device, which is close to the vapor pooling chamber, so that vapors are discharged from the vapor pooling chamber to an outside of the filter device. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110174704 | FUEL FILTER DEVICE - A suction filter has a filter member including multiple filter layers stacked in a thickness direction. The suction filter removes extraneous matters contained in fuel when the fuel passes through the filter member in the thickness direction. The filter member has gaps among the filter layers adjacent to each other in the thickness direction. An opening area variable section is formed in at least one of the filter layers. The opening area variable section enlarges and opens when the filter layer bends. The opening area variable section enlarges and opens to form a through hole penetrating through the filter layer if the filter layer bends to a downstream filter layer side due to flow pressure caused when the fuel flows. | 07-21-2011 |
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| 20080221708 | DATA PROCESSOR AND CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided are a data processor, and a control system, in which an interrupt controller and an event link controller are adopted. The event link controller responds to a generated event signal to output a start control signal for controlling start of an operation of a circuit module. The circuit module is able to generate an event signal. The event link controller generates the start control signal according to the correspondences between event signals and start control signals which are defined by event control information. The links between the event signals and start control signals can be prescribed by the event control information. Therefore, operations of circuit modules prescribed by such links can be controlled sequentially. The control neither involves save and return processes by CPU as in the interrupt processing, nor needs priority level control as executed on competing interrupt requests. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20110010479 | DATA PROCESSOR AND CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided are a data processor, and a control system, in which an interrupt controller and an event link controller are adopted. The event link controller responds to a generated event signal to output a start control signal for controlling start of an operation of a circuit module. The circuit module is able to generate an event signal. The event link controller generates the start control signal according to the correspondences between event signals and start control signals which are defined by event control information. The links between the event signals and start control signals can be prescribed by the event control information. Therefore, operations of circuit modules prescribed by such links can be controlled sequentially. The control neither involves save and return processes by CPU as in the interrupt processing, nor needs priority level control as executed on competing interrupt requests. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20120047301 | DATA PROCESSOR AND CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided are a data processor, and a control system, in which an interrupt controller and an event link controller are adopted. The event link controller responds to a generated event signal to output a start control signal for controlling start of an operation of a circuit module. The circuit module is able to generate an event signal. The event link controller generates the start control signal according to the correspondences between event signals and start control signals which are defined by event control information. The links between the event signals and start control signals can be prescribed by the event control information. Therefore, operations of circuit modules prescribed by such links can be controlled sequentially. The control neither involves save and return processes by CPU as in the interrupt processing, nor needs priority level control as executed on competing interrupt requests. | 02-23-2012 |
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| 20090249772 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION DEVICE - An exhaust gas purification device is provided. The device includes: in an exhaust gas passage for a combustion exhaust gas containing a nitrogen oxide, a hydrocarbon, and an oxygen in a larger amount than a theoretical reaction amount with respect to the hydrocarbon to flow therethrough, in order from upstream, a first catalyst part for selectively reducing a nitrogen oxide; a plasma discharge part for generating a plasma; a second catalyst part for selectively reducing a nitrogen oxide; and a purifying catalyst part for purifying a reducing agent. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20110167818 | EXHAUST HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM - In a case of a refrigerant amount being short when a Rankine cycle starts operating, because the pressure difference does not occur across a refrigerant pump, refrigerant cannot be injected from a bypass circuit to the Rankine cycle, and therefore super-cooling degree cannot be controlled. An exhaust heat recovery system is provided that can adjust the super-cooling degree even in the case of the pressure difference not occurring across the refrigerant pump. The system includes a refrigerant tank, for storing refrigerant, which is connected by pipes to the low-pressure circuit side and the high-pressure circuit side of the Rankine cycle through a low-pressure-side valve and a high-pressure-side valve, respectively, and a temperature adjuster for adjusting internal temperature of the refrigerant tank. | 07-14-2011 |
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| 20080294845 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus includes a connection unit configured to connect a detachably attachable external storage device, a program storage unit configured to store a first program, a first memory control unit configured to store identification information used to identify the information processing apparatus in the external storage device in association with the first program stored in the program storage unit, a program acquisition unit configured to acquire a second program from the external storage device, and a second memory control unit configured to store the second program acquired by the program acquisition unit in the program storage unit. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090106757 | WORKFLOW SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA APPROVAL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An electronic approval system which is capable of improving reliability of approval in a workflow. The electronic approval system comprises a server and a plurality of multifunction peripherals (MFPs). The server manages a status of data to be handled in the workflow. An MFP performs a visual output of the data to be handled in the workflow, and transmits configuration information containing output configuration for the visual output of the data by the MFP and/or information for identifying the MFP, to the server. The server manages approval permitting conditions as information indicative of conditions for making the data approvable, in association with the workflow, and determines whether or not to manage the data as approvable, based on the configuration information transmitted from the MFP and the approval permitting conditions. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090300070 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An information processing apparatus connectable with a client apparatus via a network includes a normal operation mode and a first sleep mode for restricting power supply to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a first storing unit configured to store a plurality of files, wherein the power supply to the first storing unit is restricted in the first sleep mode, a second storing unit configured to store file information about the plurality of files stored in the first storing unit, a receiving unit configured to receive a data acquisition request from the client apparatus, a first reading unit configured to read a file from the first storing unit in response to the receiving unit receiving the data acquisition request from the client apparatus when the information processing apparatus is in the normal operation mode, a second reading unit configured to read the file information from the second storing unit in response to the receiving unit receiving the data acquisition request from the client apparatus when the information processing apparatus is in the first sleep mode, and a transmission unit configured to transmit one of the data read by the first reading unit and the data read by the second reading unit to the client apparatus. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100271659 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In accordance with the acceptance of an output instruction to output a single file containing a plurality of images from a user, at least one of the images contained in the file specified to be output based on the output instruction is output. At that time, control is performed so that at least one image is selected from among images associated with each other of the images contained in the file specified to be output based on the output instruction and the selected image is output. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110305466 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SAME - A controller unit detects that a toner cartridge is rotationally moving to the replacement position, and acquires the state (first state) of a device that is currently being displayed on a PC and the state (second state) of a device that transits after the toner cartridge moves to the replacement position. Then, a controller unit determines whether or not the in-motion status should be reported to a user based on the first state and the second state, and determines the state of a device that is to replace the in-motion status and should be reported to a user when it is determined that the in-motion status should not be reported to a user. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120033256 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, JOB PROCESSING SYSTEM, JOB TRANSMISSION PATH CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An information processing apparatus that is capable of determining a transmission path of a job when a job processing apparatus executes the job that is transmitted from a server. The information processing apparatus is connected to the server by a first connection configuration. A determination unit determines whether a connection configuration between the information processing apparatus and the job processing apparatus is a second connection configuration that is different from the first connection configuration. A check unit checks whether the job processing apparatus is connected to the server by the first connection configuration when the connection configuration between the information processing apparatus and the job processing apparatus is the second connection configuration. An instruction unit instructs the server on either of first transmission that transmits the job to the job processing apparatus and second transmission that transmits the job to the information processing apparatus according to the check result. | 02-09-2012 |
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| 20090064792 | LOAD DETECTING APPARATUS - A load detecting apparatus includes a strain member, a supporting member, a load input member and a strain detecting element. The supporting member is employed for supporting the strain member at a supporting portion thereof The load input member is supported by the strain member and strains the strain member when an external load is applied thereon. The strain detecting element is provided at at least a surface of the strain member for detecting the strain generated by the load input member. Further, an outer end of the supporting portion located outwardly relative to the load input member is fixed to the strain member. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090126500 | LOAD DETECTION DEVICE - A load detection device includes a strain generating body having first and second holes at first and second ends of the strain generating body, a strain gauge attached on the strain generating body, first and second fixing members having first and second middle shaft portion press-fitted into the first and second holes, respectively, and having first and second end shaft portions protruding from the first and second middle shaft portions, respectively, a bracket member having first fixing portion including a first fixing hole into which the first end shaft portion is press-fitted, and a second fixing portion, integrally connected to the first fixing portion and including a second fixing hole into which the second end shaft portion is inserted with a clearance therebetween, a press-fit fixing member press-fitted onto the second end shaft portion, and a connecting shaft integrally connected to the strain generating body. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20100122854 | LOAD DETECTION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE SEAT - A load detection device for a vehicle seat mounted between a floor side mounting mechanism and a seat side mounting mechanism and measuring a load applied by an occupant seated on the vehicle seat, includes a shaft member adapted to be fixed to one of the floor side mounting mechanism and the seat side mounting mechanism, a strain generating member fixed to the shaft member and including a hole into which the shaft member is press-fitted, a strain gauge attached to the strain generating member, the shaft member of which surface hardness is specified to be lower than a surface hardness of the hole and including a scraping projecting portion scraped off by means of the hole in a case where the shaft member is press-fitted to the hole, and an inter space formed between the strain generating member and the shaft member and positioned next to the scraping projecting portion. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100127552 | SEAT APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A seat apparatus for a vehicle, includes a seat-side fixing member, a slide rail, a load detecting device disposed between the seat-side fixing member and the slide rail and arranged at an end portion of the slide rail on a rear side of the vehicle, and a bracket arranged at an end portion of the slide rail on a front side of the vehicle, the bracket supporting the seat-side fixing member. The bracket includes a lower attachment portion attached to the slide rail, a supporting portion extending from the lower attachment portion toward an upper side of the vehicle, and an upper attachment portion connected to the supporting portion so as to extend from the supporting portion toward the rear side of the vehicle, thereby being cantilever-supported by the supporting portion, and attached to the seat-side fixing member at a free-end side of the upper attachment portion. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100133017 | LOAD DETECTION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE SEAT - A load detection device for a vehicle seat mounted between a floor side mounting mechanism made of metal and a seat side mounting mechanism made of metal and measuring a load applied by an occupant seated on the vehicle seat includes a strain generating body adapted to be fixed via both end portions to a fitting surface formed at one of the floor side mounting mechanism and the seat side mounting mechanism while having a predetermined clearance from the fitting surface, a strain gauge attached to the strain generating body, a bracket made of metal and including an attachment portion that extends laterally relative to the strain generating body, and an amplifier substrate mounted on the attachment portion while being arranged in parallel to the strain generating body, both surfaces of the amplifier substrate being covered by one of or more of the bracket, the floor side mounting mechanism and the seat side mounting mechanism, the amplifier substrate amplifying a signal output from the strain gauge. | 06-03-2010 |
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| 20090073740 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - An object of this invention is to provide a rewritable nonvolatile memory cell that can have a wide reading margin, and can control both a word line and a bit line by changing the level of Vcc. As a solution, a flip-flop is formed by cross (loop) connect of inverters comprising memory transistors that can control a threshold voltage by charge injection into the side spacer of the transistors. In the case of writing data to one memory transistor, a high voltage is supplied to a source of the memory transistor through a source line and a high voltage is supplied to a gate of the memory transistor through a load transistor of the other side inverter. In the case of erasing the written data, a high voltage is supplied to the source of the memory transistor through the source line. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090175083 | Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory Device - The present invention relates to a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, and more specifically relates to a nonvolatile semiconductor memory with increased program throughput. The present invention provides a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device with a plurality of block source lines corresponding to the memory blocks, arranged in parallel to the word lines, a plurality of global source lines arranged in perpendicular to the block source lines; and a plurality of switches for selectively connecting corresponding ones of the block source lines and the global source lines. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100149875 | Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory Device - The present invention relates to a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, and more specifically relates to a nonvolatile semiconductor memory with increased program throughput. The present invention provides a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device with a plurality of block source lines corresponding to the memory blocks, arranged in parallel to the word lines, a plurality of global source lines arranged in perpendicular to the block source lines; and a plurality of switches for selectively connecting corresponding ones of the block source lines and the global source lines. | 06-17-2010 |
