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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7973808 | Map display apparatus with scrolling text A map display apparatus includes a display unit, a data access unit accessible to map data, which includes a map image and character strings, and a control unit that allows the display unit to display the map data on a screen in such a manner that each character str... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973623 | Starter for engines and its starting circuit The starter has a system of pushing the pinion gear in the direction of the anti-motor side by using the attracting power of the electromagnetic switch via the shift lever. The switch coil of the electromagnetic switch is constituted of one coil that is electrically... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973507 | Raindrop detecting device and method of determining raindrop amount A raindrop detecting device includes a raindrop sensor, and a controller. The raindrop sensor is disposed in a wiping area of a wiper blade on a front windshield, and outputs a detection signal regarding a raindrop amount. The controller activates the wiper blade ba... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973438 | AC generator for vehicles AC generator for vehicles is provided with a frame that supports a rotor and a stator, a rectifier that rectifies an output of the stator and has an output terminal, and a rear cover that covers electric parts including the rectifier. The rear cover is provided with... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7972110 | Centrifugal blower A centrifugal blower having a fan including a blade. A scroll casing houses the fan and has a first axial wall portion, a second axial wall portion, and a side wall extending between the first and second axial wall portions. The scroll casing includes a suction port... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971849 | Recirculating valve A recirculating valve according to the present invention comprises a fuel supplying passage in fluid communication with a fuel tank and an engine, a return passage in fluid communication with the engine and the fuel tank, a communication passage in fluid communicati... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971574 | Backpressure valve and fuel system having the same A return fuel passage is configured to communicate an outlet of a low-pressure fuel pump with a back pressure side of a fuel injection device. The return fuel passage is configured to partially return fuel from the back pressure side to the fuel tank to control fuel... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971570 | Engine controller An engine controller for a vehicle equipped with an emission reduction apparatus determines whether the emission reduction apparatus has malfunction. When it is determined that the emission reduction apparatus has malfunction an execution of an idle shutdown control... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971482 | Humidity sensor A capacitive humidity sensor includes: a humidity sensing element with a humidity sensitive film and electrodes; and a processing circuit. The film has a dielectric constant variable in accordance with moisture. The electrodes detect capacitance of the film and outp... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971349 | Bump bonding method In a method of bonding a first bump on a surface of a first member and a second bump on a surface of a second member, a tip portion of the first bump is provided with a projection having a hardness greater than a hardness of each of the first and second bumps. The f... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971153 | Weather information display apparatus and program A weather information display apparatus comprising a map information retrieving device, a weather information retrieving device, a display device, a command receiving device, and a display controlling device. Each of weather information sets has a predetermined disp... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7971128 | Soft decision correction method, receiver using the same, and program therefor A soft decision value correction method can detect interference occurring in a desired wave and correct a soft decision value where a received power difference between the desired wave and an interference wave is small. A receiver and a program capable of performing... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970535 | Drive assist system When moving a vehicle forward to park, a swept path during a period of parking operation is stored in memory. The vehicle is parked as forward parking, in which the front of the vehicle faces the dead end of a parking space of a side-by-side parking lot. In starting... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970516 | Vehicle control system A vehicle control system estimates the vibration states of tires by using a vehicle vibration model that is separated into a vehicle body vibration model, a chassis vibration model, and a tire vibration model with high precision. The tire vibration model in the vehi... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970372 | Frequency converter circuit and satellite position signal receiving device A mixer mixes respective signals of L1, L2C, and L5-E5a with a local oscillation signal where the frequency of the L1 signal has an image relationship with the frequencies of the L2C and L5-E5a signals to conduct frequency conversion. An image removal mixer mixes th... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970173 | Object-detecting device and method of extracting operation object An object-detecting device detects an operation object for operating an operating apparatus. The object-detecting device includes an imaging portion for imaging the operation object and an image processor for extracting the operation object. The operation object has... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969412 | Display apparatus and method, program of controlling same A screen display apparatus includes an operation information reception unit that receives operation information regarding an inclination direction and an inclination angle of a joystick from the joystick, and a screen controller that performs a scroll process for sc... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969328 | Navigation apparatus and program of the same A navigation apparatus of a vehicle includes: storage means for storing information about the vehicle and a road area; and guide route calculating means for calculating a guide route on the basis of the information stored in the storage means. The navigation apparat... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969206 | Semiconductor element drive circuit A drive circuit for driving a semiconductor element according to an input signal includes an output stage, a clamp circuit, a comparator, and a clamp control circuit. The output stage includes a series circuit of two transistors. A node between the transistors is co... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969147 | Rotation angle detecting device including multiple magnetic sensor elements A rotation angle detecting device includes a signal generator, a magnetic rotor and a rotation angle calculating unit that calculates a rotation angle θ of the rotor based on the output signals of the signal generator. The signal generator includes a magnetic rotor... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969104 | Rotary electric system designed to utilize zero-phase circuit In a rotary electric system, a rotary electric machine is provided with an armature core and star-connected multiphase windings with a neutral point wound in the armature core. Each of the star-connected multiphase windings has a predetermined winding configuration ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969057 | Synchronous motor with rotor having suitably-arranged field coil, permanent magnets, and salient-pole structure A rotor of a synchronous motor includes a rotating shaft, a plurality of segments, a plurality of permanent magnets, and a field coil. The segments are located radially outward of the rotating shaft and arranged in the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968958 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same A semiconductor device includes: a sensor element having a plate shape with a surface and including a sensor structure disposed in a surface portion of the sensor element; and a plate-shaped cap element bonded to the surface of the sensor element. The cap element ha... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968953 | Semiconductor device including schottky barrier diode and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a plurality of first columns having a first conductivity type, a plurality of second columns having a second conductivity type, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first columns and the second columns are alter... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968892 | Silicon carbide semiconductor device A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a principal surface and a backside surface; a drift layer disposed on the principal surface; a base region disposed on the drift layer; a source region disposed on the base region; a s... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968432 | Laser processing apparatus and laser processing method A laser processing apparatus has one laser light source that simultaneously radiates laser beams with two wavelengths. Depth positions of focusing points for laser beams are gradually changed in a wafer. Three sets of modifying region groups, i.e., six layers of mod... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7967485 | Apparatus for automatically adjusting direction of light axis of vehicle headlight The apparatus for automatically adjusting horizontally a direction of a light axis of a vehicle headlight of the invention includes a steering angle sensor detecting a steering angle of a steering wheel of a vehicle, a swivel control unit performing a swivel control... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7967063 | Air conditioning apparatus for vehicle An air conditioning apparatus has a cool-side door device and a heating-side door device between an evaporator and a heater core. The cool-side door device is configured to open and close a cool air passage through which a cool air generated by the evaporator flows.... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7967032 | Entrance/exit piping structure for intercooler and intercooler The inventive entrance/exit piping structure 20 for an intercooler 10 is formed of a plurality of pipes 21 to 24, the pipe end portions 20a, 20b are bundled together to have a circular contour and, in a middle ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966903 | Shift range control apparatus A rod-lock mechanism is provided in an automatic transmission for a vehicle. The rod-lock mechanism has an engaging pin which will be engaged with a rod when the rod is in its initial position, so as to hold the rod in its initial position. The rod-lock mechanism fu... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966815 | Engine load estimation Engine load for a supercharged engine is estimated by determining airflow upstream of a throttle valve that is upstream of a supercharger, subtracting a value representative of a change in air mass between the throttle valve and the supercharger based on a measured ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966280 | Automotive air conditioner and method and apparatus for controlling automotive air conditioner An automotive air conditioner includes a storage unit which stores a plurality of pieces of state information as respective learned data; a learning unit which constructs a probabilistic model; a control information correcting unit which corrects setting information... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966157 | Signal processing circuit for rotation detector and method for detecting rotation of object A signal processing circuit for a rotation detector outputs accurate rotational information including a rotating direction of a rotor which rotates with an object. A phase difference compensation substantiating block decides whether a predetermined phase difference ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966123 | Display device and method for vehicle A display device for a vehicle has a display unit that has a meter display area and a navigation display area. The meter display area displays vehicle operation condition, and the navigation display area displays travel route guidance. When a display color changes i... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965508 | Cooling device for electronic component and power converter equipped with the same A cooling device for cooling an electronic component (semiconductor module) includes a cooling tube adapted to be disposed in contact with the electronic component and having an internal coolant flow channel for the passage therethrough of a cooling medium, and a hi... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965340 | Liquid crystal display apparatus A LCD apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel, a circuit board having a mounting surface and circuit elements mounted on the mounting surface to constitute a drive circuit for driving the LCD apparatus, and a case for holding the liquid crystal panel and the circu... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7964986 | Drive control apparatus, system and method A drive control apparatus automatically stops a drive power source operation of a vehicle under a predetermined operation condition. When a predetermined time period lapses after the automatic stop operation of the drive power source under a condition that a key swi... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7963656 | Vehicular meter unit and display device In a first display mode, a common image function component is displayed to occupy at least a part of a display region of a second specific image function component. In a second display mode, the common image function component is continuously displayed outside the s... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7963316 | Sealing structure of a rotation unit and air conditioning apparatus having the same An air conditioning apparatus has a case, a heat exchanger rotatable about a rotation axis in the case, and a pipe unit in communication with the heat exchanger. The pipe unit has a first section fixed to the case and a second section coaxially coupled to the first ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7963155 | Fuel pressure sensor/sensor mount assembly, fuel injection apparatus, and pressure sensing apparatus A fuel pressure sensor/sensor mount assembly in which a fuel pressure sensor is so mounted as to exposed to a high-pressure fuel path through which fuel is supplied to a fuel injector, a fuel injection apparatus equipped with a built-in fuel pressure sensor, and a p... | 06/21/2011 |
