| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20120074238 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - By employing a heat source control section that controls the operating state of an internal combustion engine mounted in a vehicle, a necessary heat calculating section that calculates the engine coolant temperature needed by a heater core, which consumes the heat supplied from the engine through engine coolant water, and the time at which this engine coolant temperature becomes necessary, a heat supply estimating section that estimates engine coolant temperature at the aforementioned time in a case in which the engine is operated continuously in the current operating state, and a heat generation increase requesting section that requests the heat source control section to increase heat generation quantity of the engine when the engine coolant temperature estimated by the heat supply estimating section is less than the engine coolant temperature calculated by the necessary heat calculating section the heat necessary for the heater core is supplied more efficiently and adequately. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120198869 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - An engine and an electronic control unit perform cooling capacity increase control for compensating for a insufficiency of the cooling capacity of a cooling device. The electronic control unit performs a variety of control for a vehicle, including control of the cooling device. At that time, the electronic control unit calculates the target value of the cooling capacity of the cooling device, calculates the estimate value of the cooling capacity that will be able to be exerted in the future under the current control, compares the target value and the estimate value, and when it is determined from the result of the comparison that the cooling capacity will be insufficient, performs the cooling capacity increase control. The electronic control unit changes the contents of the cooling capacity increase control according to the degree of insufficiency of the estimate value with respect to the target value. | 08-09-2012 |
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| 20090013705 | Refrigeration apparatus with exhaust heat recovery device - A refrigeration apparatus with an exhaust heat recovery device mounted on a vehicle includes a refrigeration cycle for allowing a refrigerant for refrigeration to circulate therethrough, and a Rankine cycle for allowing a refrigerant for the Rankine cycle to circulate therethrough. The Rankine-cycle condenser and the refrigeration-cycle condenser are disposed in predetermined positions of the vehicle in series with respect to a flow direction of external air for cooling, and the Rankine-cycle condenser is disposed on an upstream side of the external air with respect to the refrigeration-cycle condenser. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090031749 | Refrigeration apparatus with exhaust heat recovery device - A refrigeration apparatus with an exhaust heat recovery device mounted on a vehicle includes a refrigeration cycle for allowing a refrigerant for refrigeration to circulate therethrough, and a Rankine cycle for allowing a refrigerant for the Rankine cycle to circulate therethrough. The refrigeration-cycle condenser and the Rankine-cycle condenser are disposed in predetermined positions of the vehicle in series with respect to a flow direction of external air for cooling, and the refrigeration-cycle condenser is disposed on an upstream side of the external air with respect to the Rankine-cycle condenser. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090071156 | Waste heat recovery apparatus - A waste heat recovery apparatus including a Rankine cycle which includes a heater for heating an operation fluid by waste heat from a heat-generating device, an expansion unit for converting energy of expansion of the operation fluid flowing out from the heater into mechanical energy, and a condenser for condensing and liquefying the expanded operation fluid, a temperature detector for detecting the temperature of the operation fluid on the inlet side of the expansion unit, a pressure detector for detecting inlet-side pressure of the expansion unit, a pressure detector for detecting outlet-side pressure of the expansion unit, and a control unit. The control unit controls a command rotational speed of the expansion unit based on superheated degree information at the inlet of the expansion unit obtained from the operation fluid temperature and the inlet-side pressure, and pressure information in which the outlet-side pressure is considered. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100259121 | POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A power transmission device for transmitting a driving force from a vehicle-mounted driving source to a vehicle-mounted rotary device includes a driving rotor mechanically coupled to the vehicle-mounted driving source via a belt, and a driven rotor disposed coaxially with the driving rotor and mechanically coupled to a drive shaft of the vehicle-mounted rotary device. Furthermore, the power transmission device is provided with a magnetic join portion disposed in at least one of the driving rotor and the driven rotor, and the magnetic join portion is adapted to transmit a rotary driving force from the driving rotor to the driven rotor by a magnetic force, while keeping a predetermined clearance between the driving rotor and the driven rotor. Thus, in the power transmission device, a natural frequency can be made much lower than a frequency of vibration generated from the vehicle-mounted rotary device in idling of a vehicle. | 10-14-2010 |
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| 20090045741 | Photomultiplier - The present invention relates to a photomultiplier having a fine structure capable of realizing high detection accuracy by effectively suppressing cross talk among electron-multiplier channels. The photomultiplier comprises a housing whose inside is maintained vacuum, and, in the housing, a photocathode, an electron-multiplier section, and anodes are disposed. The electron-multiplier section has groove portions for cascade-multiplying photoelectrons as electron-multiplier channels, and the anodes are constituted by channel electrodes corresponding to the groove portions respectively defined by wall parts. In particular, at least parts of the respective channel electrodes are located in spaces sandwiched between pairs of wall parts defining the corresponding groove portions. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090236985 | Electron tube and method for manufacturing electron tube - A photomultiplier tube | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090305450 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERTING DEVICE - The present invention relates to a manufacturing method of obtaining a photoelectric converting device which can sufficiently maintain airtightness of a housing space for photocathode without degradation of the characteristics of the photocathode. In accordance with the manufacturing method, on the side wall end face of a lower frame and a bonding portion of an upper frame forming an envelope of the photoelectric converting device, a multilayered metal film of chromium and nickel is formed. In a vacuum space decompressed to a predetermined degree of vacuum and having a temperature not more than the melting point of indium, these upper and lower frames introduced therein are brought into close contact with each other with a predetermined pressure while sandwiching indium wire members, and accordingly, an envelope having a housing space whose airtightness is sufficiently maintained is obtained. | 12-10-2009 |
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| 20080289715 | Complex pipe and coating/development processing apparatus equipped with complex pipe - In a complex pipe, a plurality of pipe members containing at least a pipe member for liquid and a pipe member for electricity are fixed in parallel arrangement. One end of the complex pipe is connected to a stationary equipment and the other end is connected to a movable member. The plurality of pipe members are integrally combined by a cover member having flexibility. A liquid supply pipe is inserted with a space in the pipe member for liquid. A fluid for temperature adjustment is supplied to the space between the pipe member for liquid and the liquid supply pipe. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20110217473 | WET PROCESSING APPARATUS, WET PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A wet processing apparatus for wet-processing substrates can suppress the reduction of throughput when some component part thereof becomes unserviceable. The wet processing apparatus includes a first nozzle unit and a second nozzle unit. When the wet processing apparatus operates in a normal mode, a substrate carrying mechanism is controlled so as to deliver substrates alternately to processing units of a first group and those of a second group so that the substrates are processed sequentially in order. When the processing units of the first group (the second group) are unserviceable due to the inoperativeness of the substrate holders, a processing liquid supply system or a nozzle support mechanism, the nozzle unit for the processing units of the second group (the first group) is moved to process substrates by the serviceable ones of the first group (the second group). | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110220216 | LIQUID TREATMENT APPARATUS, MOUNTING AND DISMOUNTING METHOD OF A CUP BODY, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A liquid treatment apparatus treating a surface of a substrate held generally horizontally on a stage in a housing by supplying a treating liquid to said surface from a supply nozzle. The liquid treatment apparatus includes a cup body provided so as to surround the substrate held in the substrate holding part laterally, the cup body being mounted detachably to a base inside the housing from an upward direction thereof; a cup body holding part holding the cup body detachably; and an elevating mechanism moving the cup body holding part up and down between a first position at which the cup body is mounted upon the base body and a second position located above the first position. | 09-15-2011 |
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| 20100161083 | Control system, control apparatus, control method and computer readable medium - With utilizing a function of a selection unit | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100249953 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF PERFORMING OPERATION CONTROL OF ACTUATORS - In a microcomputer, by virtue of the function of one input signal judgment module in the application layer, with respect to whether the situation is such that operation is to be requested to a controlled object from each of a plurality of applications, judgment processing onto input signals representing status information of controlled objects or detection information from sensors or the like is made common. The object-oriented architecture is introduced into an embedded computer program so that the memory is saved and the apparatus is simplified. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100287563 | DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS AND DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM - A program of an application layer (upper layer) receives input information supplied from a platform layer (lower layer) and abstracts the information by an input information abstraction part. Based on the abstracted information, determination parts, a prioritized condition determination section and an information processing section make determinations and perform information processing, for example. A processing result obtained by the information processing section is converted into an information format suitable for the platform layer by an output information conversion section, and is outputted therefrom. When a format of information exchanged between the application layer and platform layer, for example, is changed, changes may be made to the input information abstraction part and the output information conversion section of the program of the application layer. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110078694 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A system management layer changes a current program with a program (door lock failure diagnosis judgment program, security judgment program, door lock judgment program, keyless entry judgment program or the like) to be executed by an application layer, in accordance with an operation mode of on-vehicle equipment. Priorities of programs are previously stored for each operation mode, and a priority judgment program contributes to judge the priority of operation request based on the operation mode. Thus, plural programs of each hierarchal layer are categorized into groups per operation mode, although complicating in the single hierarchal layer. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the priority judgment processing from complicating for the operation request output by each computer program | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110098875 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is a computer program and a control apparatus that can minimize a modification required for a part corresponding to scheduling of a program in response to a change of the program, even when the program is changed. A system monitoring program obtains operation conditions of each layer, to determine whether an operation mode should be changed or not, and selects an operation mode. A system configuration managing program notifies an operation mode to a configuration managing program of each layer. The configuration managing program determines an execution possibility of each program in accordance with the notified operation mode. A system scheduler performs scheduling of a scheduler included in each layer, in accordance with time passage and an event occurrence. The scheduler of each layer performs scheduling of programs allowed by the configuration managing program to be executed. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110107349 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A middleware layer based on a middleware program is provided between a platform layer and an application layer. In the middleware layer, an interface on the application layer side is selectable, and also an interface on the platform layer side is selected. Further, functions in the middleware layer are configured as functional modules so that they are selectable according to a function on the application layer side and a function on the platform layer side. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110126218 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Functions of platform layer based on platform program are separated into a resource manager layer that performs logical controls for hardware resources and a resource controller layer that performs physical controls for the hardware resources. The resource manager layer requires identifying a desired data based on an application program, but does not require knowing the actual address of the desired data in a storing unit. The resource controller layer knows the actual address, and physically reads out and replies the data instructed by the resource controller layer. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110131590 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A control apparatus, a control method and a computer program are provided that are capable of shortening the developmental process and reducing the developmental load by enabling control that flexibly handles various required specifications and improving the reusability of programs. Functions implemented in an application layer and a platform layer are implemented by constructing a function framework which is an aggregate of components that implement detailed functions related with attributes such as a function or a role. The attribute information may be provided in a plurality of pieces, and when a function framework is constructed, a function framework conforming to various specifications can be constructed according to the selection of the attribute information. | 06-02-2011 |