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20130148262 | ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE - The invention provides a compact, electrical energy storage device which has large capacity and can produce a high electrical energy. In accordance with the electrical energy storage device of the invention, the electrical energy storage device | 06-13-2013 |
20130154580 | APPARATUS FOR CHARGING THIN-FILM CAPACITORS - It is possible to prevent overcurrent from flowing at the time of initially charging thin-film capacitors with an inexpensive configuration. There are provided a direct current power supply DC supplying direct current to plural thin-film capacitors, resistors connected in series to the respective thin-film capacitors for limiting the current value of the direct current to be supplied from the direct current power supply DC to the thin-film capacitors, and series-parallel system changeover switches SW connected in series to the respective thin-film capacitors and having one contacts establishing, when selected, a series connection short-circuiting both ends of each thin-film capacitor and other contacts establishing, when selected, parallel connections supplying direct current through the resistors to the thin-film capacitors. A charging operation switch SW1 and a discharge operation switch SW2 are switched so that, at the time of charging, current supplied to the thin-film capacitors C is suppressed by the resistors by the parallel connections, and, at the time of discharging, discharging is permitted by the series connection, irrespective of the resistors. | 06-20-2013 |
20130169240 | THIN-FILM CAPACITOR DISCHARGING APPARATUS - The invention provides a thin-film capacitor discharging apparatus with an inexpensive configuration that can stably produce a constant voltage upon discharging a thin-film capacitor. The thin-film capacitor discharging apparatus is featured by discharging a thin-film capacitor for use in a direct current circuit, and including a discharging function serving as a hybrid such that direct current is received from the thin-film capacitor with voltage becoming lowered to temporarily store electric charge to supply the direct current to a DC/DC inverter while a basic voltage remains until the thin-film capacitor becomes completely empty of electric charge. | 07-04-2013 |
20130171519 | ELECTRODE COLLECTOR MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention provides a method and so on for manufacturing an electrode collector which enables rapid charge and discharge and can be used in battery or capacitor electrodes. The invention is directed to an electrode collector that has fine titanium oxide particles having a large specific surface and surface-modified by means of an organic liquid metal such as vanadium, and to a method for manufacturing the same. This electrode collector can implement a collector with excellent rapid charge and discharge for use in batteries and capacitors. The fine titanium oxide particles may have an anatase-type crystal structure. These electrode collectors can be used as electrodes, lithium-ion batteries and capacitors. | 07-04-2013 |
20140300327 | THIN-FILM CAPACITOR DEVICE - The present invention provides a thin-film capacitor device having a charging circuit and a discharge circuit and capable of stably producing a constant voltage during discharging a thin-film capacitor by an inexpensive configuration. | 10-09-2014 |
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20110290269 | Non-Combustion Smoking Tool - In order to use a commercially available cigarette or cigar as it is, vaporize nicotine from the tobacco leaves, and enable inhalation of the vaporized nicotine without burning the product, a non-combustion smoking tool comprises a slender heater | 12-01-2011 |
20120234821 | Non-Combustion Smoking Tool - A non-combustion smoking tool is usable with a commercial cigarette or cigar as it is, the tool vaporizes nicotine from the tobacco leaves and enables inhalation of the vaporized nicotine without burning the product. The non-combustion smoking tool has a heater to be used which includes a coil part and a linear part to be inserted into a commercial cigarette or cigar, wherein the linear part preheats the tobacco leaves, and the coil part heats air around the coil part so that, when a smoker inhales, the heated air around the coil part passes through the tobacco leaves so as to vaporize nicotine contained in the tobacco leaves and enable inhalation of the vaporized nicotine. | 09-20-2012 |
20130333709 | Mouthpiece - A non-combustion smoking tool, which uses a real filter cigarette as it is, and which vaporizes nicotine from the tobacco leaves without lighting the product to enable inhalation of the vaporized nicotine, has a problem that a smoker cannot take in 100% of the vaporized nicotine. Thus, a mouthpiece is designed to have an air flow control structure or an air flow control element, or to be combined with a cigarette guide tube, so as to enable the mouthpiece to vary the rate at which the nicotine vaporized from the tobacco leaves is taken in. | 12-19-2013 |
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20120153638 | ENGINE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE, AND ENGINE CONTROL METHOD - Engine control device includes a delay unit which delays or cuts off a flow of current from a first current system, which directs current to a coil, to a second current system, which directs current to a starter motor. When a starter switch, which turns the flow of current from the power source to the first current system on or off, is turned on and electricity flows to the first current system, the delay unit delays the current flowing from the first current system to the second current system. When electricity flows to the first current system as a result of a controller having turned a first switch on, the delay unit cuts off the flow of electricity from the first current system to the second current system. | 06-21-2012 |
20120221229 | IDLING STOP APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISABLING IDLING STOP FUNCTION - An idling stop apparatus is provided which can prevent a voltage of a battery from being lowered even when a microcomputer is reset. In an idling stop apparatus when a reset condition is established, reset information indicating that the reset condition is established is stored in a latch circuit and a microcomputer disables an idling stop function when the reset information is stored. The reset information is stored in the latch circuit even when the microcomputer is being reset or even after the microcomputer is reset. Accordingly, the microcomputer after the reset can disable the idling stop function. As a result, it is possible to prevent the voltage of the battery from being lowered due to the idling stop function. | 08-30-2012 |
20130006491 | IDLING STOP DEVICE AND IDLING STOP CONTROL METHOD - An idling stop device installed in a vehicle includes a microcomputer, a detector, a storage, and a controller. The microcomputer automatically stops an engine of the vehicle when a prescribed stopping condition is satisfied, and automatically activates a starter motor of the engine when a prescribed activating condition is satisfied. The detector detects whether a drive voltage of the microcomputer, which is obtained by dropping a voltage of a battery of the vehicle is less than a threshold value. The storage stores, irrespective of a state of the microcomputer, information indicating that the detector has detected that the drive voltage is less than the threshold value. The controller drops an increasing speed of a current for driving the starter motor when the microcomputer activates the stator motor under the condition that the information is stored in the storage. | 01-03-2013 |
20130285635 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT - There is provided a power supply circuit. A switching regulator is configured to drop a battery voltage to a first specific voltage. A series regulator includes a switching element and a capacitor connected at an output stage of the switching element. The series regulator is configured to drop the first specific voltage to a second specific voltage and output the second specific voltage. A control circuit is configured to adjust an amount of electric charge to be accumulated in the capacitor according to a voltage value of the first specific voltage. | 10-31-2013 |