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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180537 | Engine control apparatus An engine control apparatus controls an engine rotational speed to a target rotational speed by using a detected input side transmission rotational speed of a manual transmission as the target rotational speed upon detecting a clutch pedal depression amount during s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177003 | Fuel cell electric vehicle A fuel cell electric vehicle includes a driving motor for driving a pair of wheels, a fuel cell for generating electricity used in the driving motor with the fuel cell being disposed above the driving motor, and supply/discharge manifolds. The supply/discharge manif... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170586 | Moving body communication system, moving body terminal, information providing apparatus, and information transmission method A moving body terminal is basically provided with a position information acquiring section, a receiving section and a control section. The position information acquiring section is configured to acquire position information indicating a current position of the movin... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168336 | Fuel cell housing structure A fuel cell housing structure includes a fuel cell, an electrically insulated housing and a vent gas port. The electrically insulated housing contains the fuel cell. The housing is arranged to provide a space within the housing surrounding the fuel cell. The vent ga... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8155883 | Current position information reporting system, information center apparatus, and method thereof An information center apparatus has a communication section, a motion information calculating section, a communication delay time calculating section, a communication cycle waiting time calculating section, an error estimating section and a correcting section. The c... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8146346 | NOtrapping catalytic converter diagnostic apparatus A NOx trapping catalytic converter diagnostic apparatus basically has a particulate matter accumulation estimating component, a particulate matter accumulation detecting component and a deterioration determining component. The particulate matter accumulation estimat... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145385 | Vehicle driving control apparatus and vehicle driving control method A vehicle driving control apparatus is provided with an obstacle detecting device, a future position estimating device, an obstacle avoidance control device, and a lane change intent detecting device. The obstacle detecting device detects an existence of an obstacle... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144033 | Vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus and image displaying method A vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus includes an image capturing device, a display device and an image processing device. The image capturing device is configured and arranged to capture a first original image of a region rearward of a vehicle and a second origi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141343 | Air-fuel ratio control apparatus An air-fuel ratio control apparatus is basically provided with an exhaust system, a pair of sensors and a controller. The exhaust system includes an exhaust channel having a main catalytic converter, a bypass channel having a bypass catalytic converter, and a valve ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140205 | Driving system for hybrid vehicle A hybrid-vehicle driving system includes an engine, a transmission, a first motor/generator provided between the engine and the transmission, and a battery that can charge and discharge the first motor/generator. When an estimated output voltage of the first motor/g... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136390 | Engine misfire diagnostic apparatus and method An engine misfire diagnostic apparatus measures an amount of time required for a crankshaft to pass through a prescribed crank angle range corresponding to a combustion stroke to obtain time measurement values on a per cylinder basis. A first misfire parameter is ob... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8127536 | Exhaust gas cleaning apparatus An exhaust gas cleaning apparatus is provided with an exhaust gas particulate filter, an oxidation catalytic converter and a regeneration control component. The exhaust gas particulate filter is arranged in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine for cap... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126609 | Vehicle driving assist system A vehicle driving assist system calculates a risk potential indicative of a degree of convergence between a host vehicle and a preceding obstacle. Then, the system performs a driver notification operation that produces a driver notification stimulus based on the ris... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122705 | Exhaust cleaning apparatus and method thereof An internal combustion engine of a vehicle is provided with an exhaust cleaning apparatus and control method. In the exhaust cleaning apparatus and method, exhaust from a combustion chamber is conducted to a main catalytic converter disposed in a main exhaust channe... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8109365 | Engine supercharger lubricating apparatus An engine supercharger lubricating apparatus is provided with an oil passage, a pump and an air introducing passage. The oil passage is configured and arranged to supply a lubricating oil to a supercharger of an engine and to return the lubricating oil from the supe... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8104845 | Vehicle braking apparatus A vehicle braking apparatus is provided with a brake operating element that is operated by a driver, and an actuator that generates a braking force in accordance with a braking operation of the brake operating element. A controller is operatively arranged to control... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104333 | Leak diagnostic method for an evaporative emission control system A leak diagnostic apparatus is provided for an evaporative emission control system that purges fuel vapor from an inside of a fuel tank to an intake passage of an internal combustion engine. The leak diagnostic apparatus is basically provided with a pressure detecti... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103381 | Laser processing robot control system, control method and control program medium A laser processing robot control system is provided with a robot, a laser beam scanning device and a robot controlling apparatus. The laser beam scanning device is movable in a three-dimensional direction with respect to the robot to scan a laser beam on a workpiece... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100098 | Multi-link engine A multi-link engine has a piston coupled to a crankshaft to move inside an engine cylinder. A piston pin connects the piston to an upper link, which is connected to a lower link by an upper link pin. A crank pin of the crankshaft rotatably supports the lower link th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100097 | Multi-link engine A multi-link engine has a piston coupled to a crankshaft to move inside an engine cylinder. A piston pin connects the piston to an upper link, which is connected to a lower link by an upper link pin. A crank pin of the crankshaft rotatably supports the lower link th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8096205 | Gear A gear comprised of a tooth surface and a hard carbon film formed on at least a part of the tooth surface. When the gear is used in lubricant including a specific component, a friction of a tooth surface of the gear is largely decreased, and therefore the gear perfo... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090537 | Obstacle avoidance path computing apparatus, obstacle avoidance path computing method, and obstacle avoidance control system equipped with obstacle avoidance path computing system An obstacle avoidance path computing apparatus is provided with a preceding object detecting section, a host vehicle information detecting section, a preceding object arrival region estimating section and a preceding object avoidance path setting section. The preced... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8087390 | Multi-link variable compression ratio engine A multi-link variable compression ratio engine is provided with a crankshaft, a piston, a control shaft, a linkage, a motor and a reduction mechanism. The crankshaft moves the piston within an engine cylinder. The control shaft has an eccentric axle eccentric relati... | 01/03/2012 |
| RE43034 | Intake control apparatus for an engine and method An engine intake control apparatus for an engine that comprises at least one combustion chamber operatively connected to an intake port and an intake valve associated with each intake port, wherein the intake valve is adapted to open and close the intake port is dis... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8060305 | Vehicle driving assist system A vehicle driving assist system is provided with a risk factor detection section, a first risk potential calculation section, a second risk potential calculation section and a risk potential notification section. The risk factor detection section detects a plurality... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060289 | Vehicle driving assist system A vehicle driving assist system is provided that calculates the risk potential of the host vehicle with respect to a preceding object existing in front of a host vehicle. A first driving assistance control system controls at least one of an actuation reaction force ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8058980 | Vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus and image displaying method A vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus includes an image capturing device, a display device, a blind spot determining section, and a processing section. The image capturing device is arranged to capture an image of a region rearward of a host vehicle and an image ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8057353 | Frictional drive transmission A frictional drive transmission basically comprises a transmission case, a drive roller unit, a driven roller unit, a gear shifting mechanism and an elastic member. Each of the roller units has a plurality of rollers with each of the driven rollers being associated ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054167 | Onboard vehicle information notifying apparatus, information providing system, and information notifying method An onboard vehicle information notifying apparatus is proved with a moving body position acquiring section, an information acquiring section, an information providing zone setting section and an information notifying section. The moving body position acquiring secti... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052573 | Vehicle shift control apparatus A vehicle shift control apparatus is basically provided with an engine, a drive wheel, a transmission and a controller. The transmission is operatively disposed between the engine and the drive wheel for shifting gears by executing a clutch switch operation so as to... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049383 | Integrated capacitor-type stator A motor is basically provided with a rotor and a stator. The stator includes a plurality of stacked magnetic entities, a dielectric material disposed between adjacent ones of the magnetic entities, a positive electrode part provided on at least one of the magnetic e... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8016723 | Vehicle engine control apparatus A vehicle engine control apparatus provides rotational speed synchronization control during a shift operation. A shift operation detecting component detects a shift position resulting from a manual shift operation of a manual transmission connected to an engine. A v... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8008805 | Power conversion apparatus and motor drive system A power conversion apparatus includes a plurality of power modules, a plurality of capacitors and a bus bar. Each of the power modules has a direct current terminal section and an alternating current terminal section. Each of the power modules is configured and arra... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006589 | Engine flywheel In a flywheel in which narrow portions to be engaged with a coil spring included in the flywheel are formed of recessed portions made by recessing the surface of a flywheel cover, the portions of a sensor plate welded to the front cover, which confront with the rece... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006533 | Flanged housing member, forming method and forming device A flanged housing member is formed using a forming method and a forming device from a forming material having a pre-flanged forming portion 2 is disposed at one end of a trunk portion 1. The entire external surface of the flanged housing member can be ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000874 | Vehicle headway maintenance assist system and method A vehicle headway maintenance assist system is configured to perform a haptic notification control of an accelerator to prompt the driver to release the accelerator when the accelerator is being operated and to perform a deceleration control of the vehicle based on ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7994676 | Reluctance motor rotor and reluctance motor equipped with the same A rotor is adapted to be used in a reluctance motor configured to generate a magnetic field around the rotor to form magnetic circuits passing through the rotor to produce a driving force corresponding to a torque generated by changes in magnetic reluctance in the m... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7980207 | Multi-link engine A multi-link engine has a piston that moves inside a cylinder. A piston pin connects the piston to an upper link, which is connected to a lower link. A crank pin of a crankshaft supports the lower link thereon. The lower link is pivotally connected to one end of a c... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7975791 | Hybrid vehicle drive control system A hybrid vehicle drive control system has a first clutch interposed between an engine and a motor/generator, a transmission including several gear position clutches arranged between the motor/generator and a drive wheel, and a controller. The controller selectively ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7971670 | Fuel cell electric vehicle A fuel cell electric vehicle includes a driving motor, a fuel cell and first and second supply/discharge manifolds. The driving motor is disposed between a pair of wheels. The fuel cell is disposed above the driving motor and has a plurality of unit cells stacked in... | 07/05/2011 |
