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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130634 | ROAD ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ROAD A road estimation device receives data including core points assigned along a road and assigned with attributes for identifying the road. An input unit inputs map data including links in a unit of a divided region being one of divided areas. When the core points cross a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130597 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE A control apparatus for a vehicle that is capable of enhancing fuel efficiency of an internal-combustion engine. The vehicle is provided with at least one electronically controllable vehicle-mounted accessory that can be driven by the engine, and energy storage means fo... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130596 | FUEL VAPOR TREATMENT APPARATUS A fuel vapor treatment apparatus includes a fuel tank, a canister, a passage forming member, a pressure-regulating valve, an acceleration detector, and a controller. The fuel tank is for a storage of fuel to be supplied to an internal combustion engine for a vehicle. Th... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129689 | PEROVSKITE CATALYST AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A method of manufacturing a perovskite catalyst composed of perovskite oxide includes mixing step, firing step and acid-treating step. In the mixing step, an A-site material and a B-site material are mixed at a stoichiometric ratio such that the A-site is increased, com... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129439 | AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE An air conditioning system for a vehicle includes a seat part having a seating surface and an air flow passage, an air conditioning unit, and a blower. The passage includes a suction port on the seating surface and an air outlet at a region of the seat part other than t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128217 | ROAD ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ROAD A road estimation device receives data including a core point being assigned along a road and being assigned with attributes including at least a shape-relevant attribute being relevant to a road shape for identifying the road. A map data input unit inputs map data incl... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128216 | ROAD ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ROAD A road estimation device receives data including a core point being assigned along a road and assigned with attributes for identifying the road. An input unit inputs map data including links having attributes corresponding to the attributes of the core point. An extract... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128215 | ROAD ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ROAD A road estimation device receives data including core points assigned along a road and assigned with attributes for identifying the road. An input unit inputs map data including links in a unit of a divided region. Each link has a termination point in a boundary of the ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128214 | ROAD ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ROAD A road estimation device receives data including core points assigned along a road and assigned with attributes for identifying the road. An input unit inputs map data including links in a unit of a divided region being one of divided areas. When the core points cross a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128213 | ROAD ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ROAD A road estimation device receives data including a core point assigned along a road and assigned with an attribute for identifying the road. An input unit inputs map data including links each having an attribute corresponding to the attribute of the core point. A search... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127482 | FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETER A Fabry-Perot interferometer includes a fixed mirror structure and a movable mirror structure. The fixed mirror structure has a fixed mirror in a spectral region. The movable mirror structure includes a membrane spaced from the fixed mirror structure. The membrane has a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127016 | RADAR DEVICE A signal processing unit in a radar device calculates a change amount Y (=log(P)−log(Pb)) between a power P of a current arrival echo and a power of a previous arrival echo arrived before an observation period TSW. A memory unit in the radar device stores, ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126965 | Information presentation apparatus and system An information presentation apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a stimulator device located on a steering wheel of the vehicle and configured to generate stimulation at multiple sites on the steering wheel to provide skin sensation to a driver ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126859 | LOAD DRIVER WITH CONSTANT CURRENT VARIABLE STRUCTURE A load driver includes a switching element connected to a load, a constant current generator that generates a constant current, and a driver circuit that turns on the switching element for an on-period, which depends on a value of the constant current and is shortened w... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126858 | LOAD DRIVING APPARATUS A load driving apparatus for driving a load with a constant current includes a shunt resistor and a driver circuit. A shunt current corresponding to the constant current flows though the shunt resistor. The driver circuit is connected to a first end of the shunt resisto... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126835 | FUEL SENSOR An outer electrode projects from an opening, which is formed in an upper inner wall of a fuel passage, into the fuel passage. The fuel passage is adapted to conduct fuel generally in a horizontal direction. The outer electrode includes a fuel chamber in an inside of the... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126158 | OIL PRESSURE REGULATION VALVE An oil pressure regulation valve includes a spool supported in a sleeve to be slidable in an axial direction, a solenoid actuator disposed to generate an electromagnetic force for driving the spool to one axial end side, and a biasing portion configured to bias the spoo... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125593 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE A cooler cools electric parts of a vehicle using heat medium. A radiator emits heat of the heat medium to air, and a valve changes a flow of the heat medium based on a temperature of the heat medium. The valve controls the heat medium to bypass the radiator when the tem... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125295 | ENGINE CONTROLLER An ECU detects a shaft torque in a specified torque detection range defined for each cylinder. The shaft torque is generated due to a combustion of the fuel and is applied to a crankshaft of the engine. The ECU computes a crank angle position as an actual peak position ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125105 | ACCELERATION AND ANGULAR VELOCITY DETECTION DEVICE An acceleration and angular velocity detection device includes a first oscillation element and a second oscillation element that are movable in a direction along a first axis and a direction along a second axis, an oscillating portion oscillating the first and second os... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110296 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS A diagnostic tool sends a request format designating a virtual address, which is different from a real address for an EEPROM. When a microcomputer determines that an address designated by the received request format is a virtual address assigned to the EEPROM, the micro... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109517 | MOBILE OBJECT POSITIONING DEVICE AND NAVIGATION APPARATUS A GPS receiver is used to receive a signal from GPS satellites, and a current vehicle position is detected based on the received signal. A control unit estimates the current vehicle position based on a travel speed of a vehicle from a vehicle speed sensor and a travel d... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109493 | EGR CONTROLLER FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE By means of an air model, an estimated quantity of an exhaust gas flowing into a cylinder and a target quantity of the exhaust gas are computed. A deviation between the estimated quantity and the target quantity is multiplied by a feedback gain to obtain a feedback corr... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109464 | MOMENTUM CONTROL APPARATUS The momentum control apparatus includes: an optimal feedback gain obtaining part for obtaining a plurality of optimal feedback gains used when each of the plurality of actuators is independently actuated to feedback control the momentum of the controlled object; and a f... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109461 | LATERAL MOTION CONTROL APPARATUS FOR A VEHICLE A lateral motion control apparatus includes a target value obtaining unit, a control amount calculation unit, a steering intent determination unit that determines whether a driver of the vehicle is steering with intent, and a control object control unit that controls th... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109460 | VEHICLE DYNAMIC CONTROL APPARATUS AND VEHICLE DYNAMIC CONTROL SYSTEM USING THE SAME A vehicle dynamic control apparatus is designed to control a plurality of controlled objects according to a request value of a first parameter from an application associated with motion of a vehicle in a same direction to fulfill the request value of the first parameter... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109422 | Keyless entry system for vehicle In a keyless entry system, when at least one proper portable unit is detected outside of a passenger compartment and the one is not detected inside of the passenger compartment, a door lock control is performed. Then, when it is determined that another proper portable u... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109416 | LATERAL MOTION CONTROL APPARATUS FOR A VEHICLE The lateral motion control apparatus calculates lateral motion control amounts for a plurality of control targets that operate cooperatively in order to change the lateral motion amount of the vehicle based on a target value for the lateral motion amount of the vehicle,... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109414 | VEHICLE DYNAMIC CONTROL PLATFORM BETWEEN APPLICATION AND CONTROLLED OBJECT In a vehicle dynamic control platform arranged between a controlled object and an application, an availability obtainer obtains an availability corresponding to a controllable range of a second parameter of the controlled object, and outputs the availability of the seco... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109411 | VEHICLE DYNAMIC CONTROL APPARATUS AND VEHICLE DYNAMIC CONTROL SYSTEM USING THE SAME A vehicle dynamic control apparatus is designed to control a plurality of controlled objects based on a first parameter associated with a motion of a vehicle in a same direction to fulfill a request value of a second parameter associated with the motion of the vehicle i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107994 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE In a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, a substrate including single crystalline silicon is prepared, a reformed layer that continuously extends is formed in the substrate, and the reformed layer is removed by etching. The forming the reformed layer include... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107164 | VARIABLE DISPLACEMENT SCROLL COMPRESSOR A stationary base plate includes a sub-bypass hole, which communicates between a suction chamber and a first compression chamber, and a main bypass hole, which communicates between the suction chamber and a second compression chamber. A rotational center of the orbiting... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106221 | ELECTRIC POWER CONVERTER APPARATUS An electric power converter apparatus includes an inverter circuit having a plurality of upper arm elements and a plurality of lower arm elements, a feedback controlling module calculating a voltage command value in order to control an output from the inverter circuit i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106220 | SWITCHING MODULE A switching module includes a series-connected unit of a first flowing restriction element and a second flowing restriction element, the first flowing restriction element having an opening and closing function of opening and closing a flowing path of current, and the se... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105300 | Radome incorporating partition wall for enhancing isolation between transmitted and received radar waves of radar apparatus A radome covers an antenna substrate of a millimeter-band radar apparatus, with a partition wall formed integrally in the radome separating the internal space of the radome into a first internal space, located in correspondence with a transmitting antenna section, and a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105271 | SATELLITE SIGNAL DETERMINATION APPARATUS A vehicle direction estimation section estimates an absolute direction of a heading direction of a vehicle based on GPS information and vehicle information. A satellite direction estimation section estimates an absolute direction of a target satellite of several satelli... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105270 | Observation signal processing apparatus An observation signal processing apparatus transmits a pulse signal as a search signal, generates an observation value based on a reflected signal against a target and a delay modulation pulse signal, and performs coherent integration on the observation value to output ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105198 | IN-VEHICLE DEVICE CONTROLLER An in-vehicle device controller includes: an in-vehicle unit for controlling an in-vehicle device; and a portable device. The in-vehicle unit includes a request signal transmitter for transmitting a request signal including random information to the portable device. The... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105196 | Vehicular keyless entry system and portable device therefor A vehicular keyless entry system is formed of an in-vehicle device and a plurality of portable devices. The portable device stores received checkup area identification information in a memory circuit. The portable device transmits a response signal including the stored ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105179 | ELECTROMAGNETIC SWITCH An electromagnetic switch includes an electromagnetic coil, a fixed core, a movable core, and a diode. The electromagnetic coil is configured to form an electromagnet when energized. The fixed core is arranged to be magnetized by the electromagnet. The movable core is a... | 05/03/2012 |
