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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182727 | Carbon-based material and method of producing the same, and composite material and method of producing the same A method of producing a carbon-based material includes steps (a), (b) and (c). In the step (a), an elastomer and at least a first carbon material is mixed and the first carbon material is dispersed by applying a shear force to obtain a composite elastomer. In the st... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182049 | Vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus A controller includes an initial current value calculation unit calculating an initial current value to open a normally open linear solenoid valve when a hydraulic pressure is shifted from a pressure reducing state or a pressure holding state to a pressure increasin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8167381 | Brake fluid pressure control device for bar handle vehicle A brake fluid pressure control device for a bar handle vehicle has a front wheel brake system which imparts a braking force to a front wheel and a rear wheel brake system which imparts a braking force to a rear wheel. At least one of the brake systems has a master c... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8141959 | Vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control unit A vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control unit including a base body including a brake fluid flow path and a mounting hole portion having a bottom sealing surface and an inner circumferential sealing surface and an assembled part which is assembled into the mountin... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141688 | Disk brake for vehicle A disk brake for a vehicle, includes: an electric motor which has a motor shaft provided with an armature and which is attached to a caliper body so as to exhibit a power for urging a friction pad toward a disk rotor; and a Hall IC for detecting a rotational angle o... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141616 | Gravity casting method A gravity casting method includes: situating a molding die having a feeder portion in communication with a cavity above the cavity to a horizontal state and pouring a molten metal from a runner in communication with the cavity; putting the molding die to a state inc... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8112196 | Electronic control unit and vehicle behavior control device An electronic control unit includes a sensor circuit board 30 which is mounted with sensors 33, 34 for detecting a predetermined physical quantity; a control circuit board 20 which controls an operation of an electric component on the basis of t... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8070236 | Vehicular brake hydraulic pressure control device A vehicular brake hydraulic pressure control device has a first operation unit T1 including a first brake operation element; a first brake system K1 for braking a first wheel brake R corresponding to the first operation unit T1; and a first cont... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8037975 | Piston seal member and disc brake using the piston seal member The piston seal member is formed of a crosslinked rubber composition, the rubber composition including 100 parts by weight of an ethylene-propylene rubber, 20 to 60 parts by weight of a first carbon black, 50 to 100 parts by weight of a second carbon black, and 5 to... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8020946 | Vehicle brake control unit base body and vehicle brake control unit A base body has flow path configuring portions, has inlet and outlet ports, a central mounting hole 31, a central flow path 51 penetrating the central mounting hole 31, first inner and outer mounting holes 32, 33 disposed upstream side of... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8007054 | Vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus A control unit 20 includes an initial current value calculation unit 22 for calculating an initial current value when a caliper pressure shifts to a pressure increasing state, a target current value setting unit 23 which, when no pressure increa... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7963113 | Cylinder device A cup seal 21 includes a base portion 21a, an inner circumferential lip 21b slidingly contactable with a plunger 19 and an outer circumferential lip 21c contactable with the bottom surface 26a of ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7942247 | Vehicle disc brake In a vehicle disk brake, a motor housing houses in a housing recess a case into which an end of an output shaft liquid-tightly protrudes, and is mounted to a caliper body. A reduction mechanism having an output rotating member is sealed in the case while part of the... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7938381 | Electromagnetic valve An electromagnetic valve has a fixed core, a movable core, a coil attract the fixed core and the movable core each other, a valve body and a valve seat member including a funnel-shaped valve seat surface and an inlet path. The flow path is closable by retreat/advanc... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7905558 | Vehicular brake hydraulic control device The vehicular brake hydraulic control device includes a plurality of electromagnetic valves arranged at regular intervals on a first attaching plane of a body, and coil assemblies fit over each of the electromagnetic valves, wherein the coil assemblies adjacent to o... | 03/15/2011 |
| D631411 | Friction pad of disk brakes for an automobile | 01/25/2011 |
| D631410 | Friction pad of disk brakes for an automobile | 01/25/2011 |
| 7866627 | Normally-closed electromagnetic valve and manufacturing method for the same A normally-closed electromagnetic valve has a body member having a receiving space, a fixed core, a valve seat, a moving core, a resilient member urging the moving core toward the valve seat, a valve element and a coil exciting the fixed core to produce an attractin... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7832707 | Normally open electromagnetic valve A normally open electromagnetic valve includes a fixed core, a movable core, a coil, a valve body, a valve seat member, a return spring, a raised portion formed at one of the fixed and movable core so as to project towards the other core and a recessed portion forme... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7823983 | Parking brake system A parking brake system is provided in which a parking brake state of a wheel brake is obtained by forward movement of a parking piston slidably fitted into a casing with the rear side of the parking piston facing a parking control fluid pressure chamber, a lock pist... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7802468 | Pressure sensor for vehicle and brake fluid pressure control apparatus for vehicle Disclosed is a pressure sensor 1 for a vehicle including a sensing element 10 for measuring the pressure of brake fluids in fluid passages, a sensor housing 20 for accommodating the sensing element 10, and contact probes 30 that ar... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7784883 | Vehicular brake hydraulic pressure controller A vehicular brake hydraulic pressure controller has a reference hydraulic pressure acquisition section 21a for acquiring hydraulic pressure achieved on the other side of an electromagnetic valve as reference hydraulic pressure, a differential pressure ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7779972 | Parking brake system A parking brake system is provided in which a parking brake state is obtained by forward movement of a parking piston in response to the action of a parking control fluid pressure, and a forward operating state of the parking piston is mechanically locked by a lock ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779971 | Vehicular disk brake A speed reducer 32 has an eccentric rotating member 56 which rotates along with a motor shaft 55 of an electric motor 11, an outer gear 57 which is rotatably supported by the outer circumference of the eccentric rotating member ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7758962 | Composite metal material and method of producing the same, caliper body, bracket, disk rotor, drum, and knuckle A composite metal material includes a carbon-based material in a matrix of a metal-based material. The carbon-based material has a first bonding structure in which an element X bonds to a carbon atom on a surface of a carbon material. The matrix includes an amorphou... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7614708 | Vehicular brake hydraulic control device A vehicular brake hydraulic pressure control device includes accumulators that are connected to a first brake pedal and store brake fluid with a first master cylinder at atmosphere. A first brake system is operable to apply interlock control to a front wheel brake F... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7607520 | Electric disk brake for vehicle An electric disk brake for a vehicle, includes an electric motor in which a brush coming into slide contact with a commutator provided on an output shaft rotatably supported in a motor housing is held by a brush holder secured to the motor housing, and a rotation an... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7607300 | Fluid pressure booster A fluid pressure booster includes: a control piston in which brake operation input acts in an advancing direction, and reaction based on fluid pressure of a booster fluid pressure generation chamber that generates fluid pressure for actuating a master piston acts in... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7551997 | Vehicle behavior control apparatus A control section includes a first turning direction estimating mechanism for estimating a first turning direction from a sign of the first yaw rate when an absolute value of the first yaw rate is a first threshold value or more, a second turning direction estimatin... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7478701 | Manufacturing method of supporting structure for vehicle A manufacturing method of a supporting structure for vehicle has steps of preparing a casting mold having: a first and a second casting mold, which are matched to each other at casting, and has forming faces which form at least sides of first and second fixing porti... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7438970 | Carbon fiber composite material and method of producing the same, carbon fiber-metal composite material and method of producing the same, and carbon fiber-nonmetal composite material and method of producing the same A carbon fiber composite material including: a thermoplastic resin; carbon nanofibers dispersed in the thermoplastic resin; and dispersing particles which promote dispersion of the carbon nanofibers in the thermoplastic resin. ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7413264 | Vehicle braking system A vehicle braking system having a hydraulic booster which applies output hydraulic pressure of a hydraulic power source to a boosted hydraulic pressure chamber after regulating the output hydraulic pressure as a control piston balances a reaction force generated by ... | 08/19/2008 |
