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20100048352 | SHIFT CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - When the driver makes a request for switching the shift range to the P range despite that the vehicle has not yet stopped completely, the wheel cylinder pressure is maintained at a brake hold pressure Ph for a while, rather than switching the shift range to the P range immediately. At this time, more specifically, the wheel cylinder pressure is maintained at the brake hold pressure Ph for a brake hold duration Δt within which the vehicle is estimated to stop, and when the brake hold duration Δt has passed, the shift range is switched to the P range. After the lock mechanism is actuated to establish the P range, the wheel cylinder pressure is gradually reduced from the brake hold pressure Ph at a given pressure reducing gradient. | 02-25-2010 |
20100198476 | BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEM AND BRAKE CONTROL METHOD - A brake control system includes a first wheel cylinder that applies braking force to a first wheel according to hydraulic pressure; a second wheel cylinder that applies braking force to a second wheel according to hydraulic pressure; a brake actuator that receives current and individually controls the hydraulic pressure of the first wheel cylinder and the hydraulic pressure of the second wheel cylinder; a power supply that supplies the current to the brake actuator; and a control portion which sets a braking force distribution between the first wheel and the second wheel based on the state-of-charge of the power supply, and controls the brake actuator according to the braking force distribution. | 08-05-2010 |
20100301667 | BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEM - In a brake control system ( | 12-02-2010 |
20110175437 | BRAKE CONTROL APPARATUS - A brake control apparatus is equipped with a plurality of fluid pressure adjusting valves that have opening degrees thereof adjusted through energization control to adjust the fluid pressures, a plurality of valves that are provided in series with at least two of the fluid pressure adjusting valves are closed during stoppage of energization to hold the fluid pressures, and a brake ECU. The brake ECU controls fluid pressure adjustment achieved by supplying the fluid pressures to the wheel cylinders respectively, opening the communication valves and adjusting the opening degrees of the fluid pressure adjusting valves to adjust the fluid pressures respectively, and fluid pressure holding achieved by closing the communication valves opening the fluid pressure adjusting valves and holding the fluid pressures by means of the communication valves respectively. | 07-21-2011 |
20110210604 | BRAKING CONTROL APPARATUS - In a braking control apparatus, a plurality of pumps are driven by a common first motor. A brake supplies operating fluid to pipelines by operating the first motor, and controls opening/closing of a fluid pressure regulating valve so as to make the wheel cylinder pressure in the right front wheel approach the right front wheel target pressure, and controls opening closing of a fluid pressure regulating valve so as to make the wheel cylinder pressure in the left rear wheel approach the left rear wheel target pressure. In the case where the right front wheel target pressure is zero when the fluid pressure regulating valve is to be opened so as to make the wheel cylinder pressure in the left rear wheel approach the left rear wheel target pressure, the brake turns off the first motor. | 09-01-2011 |
20110241417 | BRAKING APPARATUS - A braking apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a fluid pressure circuit that is provided between a master cylinder and a wheel cylinder, and that includes both a first system flow channel connecting a reservoir and at least one of the plurality of wheel cylinders, and a second system flow channel connecting at least one of the plurality of wheel cylinders and the master cylinder, and that forms a flow channel for supplying operating fluid to each of the wheel cylinders; and a pump provided in the first system flow channel and driven by the motor to increase the fluid pressure of the operating fluid to be supplied from the reservoir to the wheel cylinders. A control unit controls the driving state of the pump in order to drive, when a predetermined fail standard for braking control has been satisfied, the motor in accordance with the information detected by an operating state detection means, and executes fail-safe control for providing braking force by supplying the operating fluid discharged from the pump to the fluid pressure chamber in the master cylinder. | 10-06-2011 |
20110316326 | BRAKE SYSTEM - A brake system including: (i) hydraulic brakes provided for respective wheels of a vehicle, and configured to be activated by hydraulic pressures of respective brake cylinders so as to restrain rotations of the respective wheels; (ii) a power hydraulic pressure source including a drive source that is activatable by supply of electric energy, and configured to generate hydraulic pressure by activation of the drive source; and (iii) a common passage to which the power hydraulic pressure source and the brake cylinders of the hydraulic brakes are connected. The brake cylinders include a first brake cylinder connected to the common passage via a first individual passage that is provided with a normally-close electromagnetic valve as a first individual control valve. The brake cylinders include a second brake cylinder connected to the common passage via a second individual passage that is provided with a normally-open electromagnetic valve as a second individual control valve. | 12-29-2011 |
20120038209 | BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEM AND BRAKE CONTROL METHOD - A fluid level detecting apparatus detects the level of fluid in a reservoir. When the fluid level detecting apparatus detects that the fluid level has reached a minimum fluid level, an ECU issues a warning. If, after the warning has been issued, the fluid level detecting apparatus detects that the fluid level has reached a failsafe mode operation fluid level, which is lower than the minimum fluid level, the switches a normal control mode to a failsafe mode, and performs brake control using the failsafe mode. | 02-16-2012 |
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20100143633 | SURFACE PROTECTION SHEET - A surface protection sheet including a base layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer which have been formed by coextrusion. The surface protection sheet has satisfactory suitability for unwinding from a roll, etc., and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a smooth surface and satisfactory adhesion to rough surfaces, is free from release ingredient transfer thereto, and hence poses no problem concerning contamination. The surface protection sheet comprises: a base layer comprising a thermoplastic resin; a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on one side of the base layer; and a back treatment layer formed on the other side and comprising a polyethylene resin. The surface protection sheet is characterized in that the base layer, pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and back treatment layer have been integrally formed by coextrusion molding and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains a noncrystalline polyolefin elastomer in an amount of 50 wt. % or larger. | 06-10-2010 |
20100178488 | THERMOPLASTIC RESIN FOAM AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Disclosed is a thermoplastic resin foam which excels typically in strength, flexibility, cushioning properties, and strain recovery and is especially resistant to cell structure shrinkage caused by the restoring force of resin. | 07-15-2010 |
20110275727 | CROSS-LINKED RESIN FOAM AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Disclosed is a resin foam which excels in properties such as strength, flexibility, cushioning properties, and strain recovery, particularly has a cell structure resistant to shrinkage caused by the restoring force of the resin, and has a high expansion ratio. | 11-10-2011 |
20160068690 | CARBON NANOTUBE COATING COMPOSITION - The present invention relates to a composition comprising carbon nanotubes and a surfactant for forming a thin film on a substrate, and a method of manufacturing a thin film on a substrate by using an aqueous dispersion of the composition comprising carbon nanotubes and a surfactant. | 03-10-2016 |
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20110214408 | LIQUID PROPELLANT TANK AND VAPOR JET EMITTING DEVICE INCLUDING SAME - A liquid propellant tank for storing a liquid propellant A and supplying vapor produced by evaporation of part of the liquid propellant A to an external location comprises a tank body for storing the liquid propellant A, and a plurality of holder plates arranged inside the tank body, around an axis L of the tank body. The holder plates cause the liquid propellant A to adhere to them by surface tension, thereby establishing, inside the tank body, a liquid propellant holding area LA in which the liquid propellant A is held and a gas accumulation area GA in which vapor produced by evaporation of part of the liquid propellant A accumulates. The tank body has a propellant inlet open into the liquid propellant holding area LA and a gas outlet open into the gas accumulation area GA. | 09-08-2011 |
20110214410 | PROPELLANT TANK AND VAPOR JET EMITTING DEVICE INCLUDING SAME - A propellant tank for storing a liquid propellant A and supplying vapor produced by evaporation of part of the liquid propellant A to an external location comprises a tank body for storing the liquid propellant A, a mesh member arranged inside the tank body to cover a liquid surface of the liquid propellant A to divide an interior of the tank body into a liquid propellant storing area LA and a gas storing area GA by utilizing surface tension of the liquid propellant, and a heater arranged to a gas storing area GA side of the tank body to keep the gas storing area GA at higher temperature than temperature in the liquid propellant storing area LA. The tank body has a propellant inlet open into the liquid propellant storing area LA and a gas outlet open into the gas storing area GA. | 09-08-2011 |
20120167552 | ROCKET ENGINE SYSTEM FOR REALIZING HIGH-SPEED RESPONSE - Disclosed is a turbo pump in which a pump impeller is connected to one end of a rotary shaft and a turbine is connected to the other end of the rotary shaft. The turbo pump is designed such that an equivalent region, between a turbine efficiency curve obtained on the basis of a conditional expression where the number of rotations of the rotary shaft is maintained constant regardless of a pump flow rate and a turbine efficiency curve of an actual machine, becomes an operation region. | 07-05-2012 |
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20110164360 | OPTICAL DISC REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - An optical disc reproduction apparatus includes a main body, a display unit, a two-axis hinge, and a battery pack. The two-axis hinge has a joint member to connect the two-axis hinge to the main body. The main body has not only a hinge mounting-housing portion to attach and house the joint member of the two-axis hinge but also a housing recess to house a battery housing of the battery pack on right and left sides of the hinge mounting-housing portion on a back end. The battery pack has a U-shaped recess in a center. The recess is located in a position corresponding to the hinge mounting-housing portion in the main body and has a width larger than that of the hinge mounting-housing portion in a rightward-leftward direction. | 07-07-2011 |
20110164369 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An optical disc reproduction apparatus as an electronic apparatus comprises a display unit mounted on a main body unit via a hinge unit. The main body unit comprises a main body case and a hinge connecting portion provided in a hinge housing portion formed in the main body unit. The hinge housing portion is recessed downward from its periphery in the main body case, and has an opening facing outward from the main body case. A main body-side joint member of the hinge unit is introduced into the hinge housing portion from outside the main body case in a state where upper and lower cases of the main body case are connected to each other (state where the main body unit is already assembled). The main body-side joint member, while housed in the hinge housing portion, is connected to the hinge connecting portion. | 07-07-2011 |
20110209163 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An optical disc reproduction apparatus as an electronic apparatus comprises a display unit which is mounted on a main body unit via a hinge unit, and electrically connected to the main body by electrical wirings. The main body unit comprises a main body case, a hinge connecting portion and a control board which has connectors provided thereon. The hinge connecting portion and the connectors are placed in a housing portion formed in the main body unit, while the housing portion is open facing outward from the main body case. In a state where the main body unit is already assembled, the main body-side joint member of the hinge unit and the electrical wirings are housed into the housing portion to connect the main body-side joint member to the hinge connecting portion, and to connect the electrical wirings to the connectors. This structure increases assembling efficiency of the electronic apparatus. | 08-25-2011 |
20110249542 | Electronic Apparatus - An optical disc reproduction apparatus as electronic apparatus has a display unit mounted via a hinge unit on a main body unit which has a main body case having lower and upper cases for housing a control board and a hinge connecting portion connected to a main body-side joint member of the hinge unit. The hinge connecting portion is formed of a part of the main body case, and has upper and lower connecting members formed of a part of the upper case and a part of the lower case, respectively. The lower connecting member is overlaid on a lower surface of the upper connecting member. The main body-side joint member is attached to the upper connecting member, and connected to both the upper and lower connecting members with hinge mounting screws so as to be connected to the hinge connecting portion. | 10-13-2011 |
20120039031 | Electronic Apparatus - An optical disc reproduction apparatus as electronic apparatus comprises a lock lever for keeping a battery pack attached to a case. The lock lever comprises a lever body and a tongue portion extending from the lever body in a length direction of the lever body. A tongue portion of the lock lever is inserted into the case through an operation opening of the case. The tongue portion is allowed to temporarily escape to a tongue portion escape section of the case, and the entire lever body is housed in the case through the operation opening, so as to assemble the lock lever to the case. This prevents ends of the lever body from being exposed to the operation opening in any position of the lock lever assembled to the case, making it possible to easily assemble the lock lever, and preventing the assembled lock lever from easily falling off. | 02-16-2012 |
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20120235469 | HYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEM - A hydraulic brake system including: (a) a first hydraulic-pressure generating device including a manual hydraulic pressure source; (b) a second hydraulic-pressure generating device including a power hydraulic pressure source; (c) a manual-operation-associated brake line including a communicating device that is to be brought into communication with the manual hydraulic pressure source and brake cylinder or cylinders of the plurality of hydraulic brakes; (d) an output hydraulic-pressure control device and a flow restraining device disposed in parallel with each other between the manual-operation-associated brake line and the second hydraulic-pressure generating device; and (e) a power hydraulic pressure source control device for activating the power hydraulic pressure source such that the hydraulic pressure is supplied to the manual-operation-associated brake line via the flow restraining device, when the output hydraulic-pressure control device cannot control the hydraulic pressure outputted by the second hydraulic-pressure generating device. | 09-20-2012 |
20120256477 | BRAKE SYSTEM - A brake system including: (a) a manual hydraulic pressure source; (b) a power hydraulic pressure source; (c) a high pressure generator for generating high pressure, by utilizing pressure of the power hydraulic pressure source; (d) a common passage to which first and second brake cylinders and the high pressure generator are connected; (e) a high-pressure-generator cut-off valve disposed between the common passage and the high pressure generator; (f) a first manual-pressure-source passage connecting a first individual passage and the manual hydraulic pressure source; (g) a first manual-pressure-source cut-off valve provided in the first manual-pressure-source passage; (h) a first valve provided between the second brake cylinder and a connected portion of the first individual passage which is connected to the first manual-pressure-source passage; and (i) a pressure-supply control device for controlling supply of pressure to the brake cylinders, by controlling the high-pressure-generator cut-off valve, first valve and first manual-pressure-source cut-off valve. | 10-11-2012 |
20130207451 | HYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEM - A hydraulic brake system includes: a hydraulic pressure source provided for a vehicle, and including a hydraulic-pressure generating device and a reservoir; a plurality of hydraulic brakes provided for respective wheels of the vehicle, and configured to restrain rotations of the respective wheels; and a control valve device including at least one hydraulic-pressure control valve group disposed between the hydraulic-pressure generating device and at least one of brake cylinders of the hydraulic brakes and/or between the reservoir and the at least one of the brake cylinders. Each of the at least one hydraulic-pressure control valve group includes (a) at least one ON/OFF control valve and (b) at least one linear control valve that are disposed in parallel with each other. | 08-15-2013 |
20130241275 | HYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEM - A mechanical pressurization device is connected to a common passage, and brake cylinders provided respectively for front left and right and rear left and right wheels are connected to the common passage respectively via pressure holding valves. Each of the pressure holding valves in the front is a normally open valve, and each of the pressure holding valves in the rear is a normally closed valve. In the event of an abnormality in which a hydraulic pressure in the common passage cannot be controlled using a hydraulic pressure produced by a power hydraulic pressure source, a hydraulic pressure in the mechanical pressurization device is supplied to the front brake cylinders provided respectively for the front left and right wheels. | 09-19-2013 |
20130249274 | HYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEM - Two pressure chambers of the master cylinder and brake cylinders provided respectively for front left and right wheels are respectively connected directly to each other by master passages. Provided respectively in the master passages are master cut-off valves each as a normally-closed electromagnetic open/close valve. As a result, when the brake pedal is not operated and when no current is supplied to solenoids of the respective master cut-off valves, the pressure chambers and the brake cylinders are respectively disconnected to each other, preventing an outflow of the working fluid from the pressure chambers, i.e., fluid chambers of a master reservoir to the brake cylinders. | 09-26-2013 |
20140131150 | BRAKE SYSTEM AND ACTUATOR CONTROL DEVICE - A brake system includes: (a) a first brake device including a first actuator and a first brake that utilizes an output of the first actuator; (b) a second brake device including a second actuator and a second brake that utilizes an output of the second actuator; (c) a regenerative-electric-energy obtaining device configured to obtain a regenerative electric energy that is returned to a power source device; and (d) an actuator control device configured to reduce a total consumed electric energy, by controlling the first actuator and/or the second actuator in a manner that maintains a state in which a required braking force is satisfied by a braking force of the first brake and/or a braking force of the second brake, such that the total consumed electric energy is made smaller when a regenerative electric energy is small, than when the regenerative electric energy is large. | 05-15-2014 |
20140305751 | BRAKE APPARATUS AND BRAKING CONTROL APPARATUS - A brake apparatus includes: a displacement member which is displaced with respect to a disk rotor; a friction member which presses the disk rotor by being pressed by the displacement member thus displaced so as to generate braking force; a hydraulic braking apparatus which displaces the displacement member using hydraulic pressure; an electric-powered braking apparatus which displaces the displacement member using a force that differs from the hydraulic pressure; and a brake ECU which controls the hydraulic braking apparatus based on information acquired from a detection unit which detects information having a correlation with the hydraulic pressure applied to the displacement member. When the electric-powered braking apparatus operates in a state in which braking is being performed by the hydraulic braking apparatus, the brake ECU controls the hydraulic braking apparatus or otherwise the electric-powered braking apparatus so as to suppress hydraulic pressure fluctuation. | 10-16-2014 |
20150102658 | HYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEM - A hydraulic brake system includes: a hydraulic pressure source provided for a vehicle, and including a hydraulic-pressure generating device and a reservoir; a plurality of hydraulic brakes provided for respective wheels of the vehicle, and configured to restrain rotations of the respective wheels; and a control valve device including at least one hydraulic-pressure control valve group disposed between the hydraulic-pressure generating device and at least one of brake cylinders of the hydraulic brakes and/or between the reservoir and the at least one of the brake cylinders. Each of the at least one hydraulic-pressure control valve group includes (a) at least one ON/OFF control valve and (b) at least one linear control valve that are disposed in parallel with each other. | 04-16-2015 |
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20120302655 | THERMOPLASTIC RESIN FOAM AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - There is provided a thermoplastic resin foam being excellent in strength, flexibility, cushioning properties, strain recovery and the like, particularly being low in the shrinkage of the cell structure due to the resilience of the resin, and being good in productivity. There is also provided a process for producing a thermoplastic resin foam which can produce, with good productivity, the thermoplastic resin foam being excellent in strength, flexibility, cushioning properties, strain recovery and the like, particularly being low in the shrinkage of the cell structure due to the resilience of the resin. The thermoplastic resin foam according to the present invention is obtained from a thermoplastic resin composition containing a thermoplastic elastomer, an active energy-ray curable compound and a radical trapping agent. The thermoplastic resin foam according to the present invention is also obtained from a thermoplastic resin composition containing a thermoplastic elastomer, an active energy-ray curable compound, a thermal crosslinking agent and a radical trapping agent. | 11-29-2012 |
20130267623 | THERMOPLASTIC RESIN FOAM AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Disclosed is a thermoplastic resin foam which is obtained by subjecting a thermoplastic resin composition containing a thermoplastic elastomer and an active-energy-ray-curable resin to foam molding to give a foamed structure, and irradiating the foamed structure with an active energy ray to allow the active-energy-ray-curable resin to form a cross-linked structure in the foamed structure. Also disclosed is a thermoplastic resin foam which is obtained by subjecting a thermoplastic resin composition containing a thermoplastic elastomer, an active-energy-ray-curable resin, and a thermal cross-linking agent to foam molding to give a foamed structure, irradiating the foamed structure with an active energy ray to allow the active-energy-ray-curable resin to form a cross-linked structure in the foamed structure, and heating the resulting foamed structure bearing the cross-linked structure to thereby allow the thermal cross-linking agent to form another cross-linked structure in the foamed structure. | 10-10-2013 |
20130324629 | RESIN FOAM AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is a resin foam which has satisfactory strain recovery, is particularly resistant to shrinkage of its cell structure caused by the resinous restitutive force at high temperatures, and exhibits superior high-temperature strain recovery. The resin foam according to the present invention is obtained from a resin composition including an elastomer and an active-energy-ray-curable compound. The resin composition gives an unfoamed measurement sample having a glass transition temperature of 30° C. or lower and a storage elastic modulus (E′) at 20° C. of 1.0×10 | 12-05-2013 |
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20130060360 | CONTROL SERVER AND CONTROL METHOD - In a control server, a storing section accumulates request data received from a terminal and used for remotely operating, via a control apparatus, a home electric appliance provided in a home. A generating section generates schedule data on the basis of at least one of the request data and the inquiry. The schedule data is data concerning a frequency of an inquiry about the request data by the control apparatus and data transmitted to the control apparatus. A transmitting section transmits the request data stored in the storing section to the control apparatus in response to the inquiry transmitted from the control apparatus at a frequency indicated by the schedule data. | 03-07-2013 |
20140039700 | HOME ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CONTROL APPARATUS, HOME ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CONTROL SYSTEM, AND HOME ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CONTROL METHOD - A home electric appliance control apparatus communicates with a server that manages information about electric appliances in the home, and includes a detecting unit configured to detect whether a power supply source that supplies power to the electric appliances in the home is an external power transmission network or a backup power supply, a first communication unit configured to access an external network via a network connecting apparatus that receives power from the external power transmission network, a second communication unit configured to access the external network via a terminal that can operate without receiving the power, a selecting unit configured to select the first communication unit or the second communication unit according to the detected power supply source, and a control unit configured to control the first communication unit or second communication unit as selected to transmit information about the home electric appliance to the server. | 02-06-2014 |
20150347863 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including an image information acquiring unit that acquires image information of an image, a position information acquiring unit that acquires position information of a containing region input by a user so as to contain a designated region that is a specific image region in the image, a first representative position setting unit that sets a first representative position that is a representative position of the designated region based on the position information of the containing region, a second representative position setting unit that sets a second representative position that is a representative position of a region-outside-designated-region that is a region outside the designated region, and a region detection unit that detects the designated region based on the first representative position and the second representative position. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348249 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including an acquisition section that acquires an object image which is an editing object, a feature quantity acquisition section that acquires a feature quantity of a reference image which is referred to when the object image is edited, a feature-reflected image generation section that reflects a feature of the reference image on the object image by using the feature quantity acquired by the feature quantity acquisition section, and generates a feature-reflected image which is the object image on which the feature is reflected, and a reflection degree changing section that changes a degree of reflection of the feature in the feature-reflected image by using an adjustment value which is input by a user. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348298 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a composite image generation unit that composes a first image that is an attachment target image and a second image to be attached to the first image to generate a composite image in which the second image is included in the first image, a feature quantity acquisition unit that acquires a feature quantity of the first image, and a reflection unit that reflects a feature of the first image into the second image using the feature quantity of the first image acquired by the feature quantity acquisition unit. | 12-03-2015 |