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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185341 | Surface temperature profile Thermometric apparatus includes one or more temperature sensors, which are configured to provide respective temperature-dependent readings at two or more locations on a surface in a vicinity of a sub-surface heal source. A processing unit is configured to process th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185310 | Navigation server and navigation system A navigation device and the like capable of appropriately alleviating an amount of communicating information between the navigation server and a navigation device, from the viewpoint of guiding a user to a destination point via the navigation device, on the basis of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8178256 | Fuel cell system A casing of a fuel cell system is divided into a module area, a first fluid supply area, a second fluid supply area, and an electric parts area. The first fluid supply area is provided on a first side surface of the module area, and an electric parts area is provide... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175858 | Machining simulation apparatus A machining simulation apparatus (1) includes a model storage (4) for storing information about machining models (11) that define mechanical elements, such as spindle heads and tables, jig models (12) that define jigs, such as chucks and ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174241 | Method of protecting electricity storage device in hybrid DC power supply system A method protects a battery in a fuel cell vehicle, in which an inverter-driven motor is supplied with electric power from the battery and a fuel cell. If a battery voltage of the battery falls outside of a prescribed range, a primary current and a secondary current... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173316 | Fuel cell system A fuel cell system which includes: a fuel cell having a fuel gas flow path and an oxidant gas flow path and generating electricity by being supplied a fuel gas to the fuel gas flow path and an oxidant gas to the oxidant gas flow path; fuel gas supplying means; a dis... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8168341 | Fuel cell and fuel cell stack A fuel cell includes a plurality of electrolyte electrode assemblies and a pair of separators sandwiching the electrolyte electrode assemblies. A fuel gas supply channel formed by a channel member fixed to the separator is connected to a fuel gas inlet formed in an ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167144 | Water separation membrane Provided is a water separation membrane capable of effectively separating water from a water solution of ethanol, saccharide or the like. The water separation membrane is composed of polypyrrole doped with a sulfonate ion. The sulfonate ion may be an aromatic or ali... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164344 | Electric vehicle with ground fault detecting system An electric vehicle incorporates a ground fault detecting system for preventing a ground fault detector from detecting a ground fault in error. First and second ground fault detectors are associated respectively with first and second ungrounded power supplies which ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160816 | Vehicular behavior determination device and vehicular behavior determination method According to a vehicular behavior determination device (100) of the present invention, an angular velocity vector ω(k) which represents an angular velocity around each of 3 axes of a vehicle (1) can be determined in high accuracy on the basis of a tem... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160807 | Information processing device, information processing supporting server and information processing system In information processing device or the like is provided to output a suitable form of information from a view point of user's non-feeling of trouble. In the information processing system, whether a user issues an output instruction or not is confirmed only with resp... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159823 | Electric vehicle and method of cooling vehicular DC/DC converter The present invention relates to an electric vehicle and a method of cooling a vehicular DC/DC converter. A fuel cell vehicle, as one example of an electric vehicle, includes a DC/DC converter connected between an electricity storage device and a fuel cell for conve... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158286 | Energy stations An energy station includes a generating unit and a separate remotely located dispensing unit. The generating unit includes a housing having an electrolyzer for generating hydrogen and a storage unit for storing hydrogen from the electrolyzer. The dispensing unit inc... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154243 | Fuel cell potential measuring apparatus and manufacturing method therefor A fuel cell potential measuring apparatus includes a first sheet member which is arranged on an anode side, and a second sheet member which is arranged on a cathode side. On the first sheet member, an anode potential-applying electrode and an anode potential-measuri... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154152 | Method of controlling DC/DC converter, fuel cell vehicle for carrying out such method A triangular-wave current flows through a reactor of a DC/DC converter for converting voltages between increased and reduced levels. Surges are reduced, which are developed in an output voltage serving as a control voltage when the triangular-wave current changes ac... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153333 | Fuel cell with protruded gas diffusion layer An assembling operation of a fuel cell is effectively simplified. With the simple and economical structure, the desired sealing function is achieved. The fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly and first and second metal separators sandwiching the membrane ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153330 | Fuel cell separator stacked on an electrolyte electrode assembly A fuel cell separator has a sandwiching section. The sandwiching section is connected to a fuel gas manifold through a bridge, and connected to an oxygen-containing gas manifold through a bridge. The circumferential length R of the sandwiching section, the width H o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153325 | Fuel cell A first separator has an outlet side first connection channel connecting a first fuel gas flow field and a fuel gas discharge passage, and a second separator includes an outlet side second connection channel connecting a second fuel gas flow field and the fuel gas d... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153319 | System and method for purging condensate from an electrochemical cell stack prior to operation A system and technique for purging condensate from an electrochemical cell stack prior to operating the stack in one of a power producing mode of operation and an electrochemical pumping mode of operation is provided. The system and technique include storing hydroge... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153288 | Fuel cell and fuel cell stack A fuel cell is formed by stacking a membrane electrode assembly and separators alternately. Each of the separators includes first and second metal plates. A coolant flow field is formed between the first metal plate of the fuel cell and the second metal plate of the... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148033 | Fuel cell system with suppressed noise and vibration An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel cell system in which a noise and a vibration of a compressor can be suppressed. In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a fuel cell system including a fuel cell; a compressor for su... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148032 | Fuel cell and fuel cell stack A fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly and first and second metal plates sandwiching the membrane electrode assembly. The first metal plate has positioning ribs for positioning the outer region of the membrane electrode assembly. The first and second met... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148023 | Regulating an oxidizer in an electrochemical cell pumping system A technique includes operating an electrochemical cell as a pump, including providing a current to the cell and providing a fuel flow to an anode chamber of the cell. The technique includes communicating an anode exhaust flow from the anode chamber to an oxidizer an... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143835 | Method of driving DC/DC converter, method of controlling DC/DC converter apparatus, method of controlling driving operation of vehicle, and method of driving fuel cell system Under the same target voltage, a basic duty ratio depending on a target ON time is set, and prior and subsequent duty ratios before and after upper arm switching devices or lower arm switching devices are driven with the basic duty ratio are set as a basic duty rati... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142947 | Start-up method for fuel cell A start-up method for a fuel cell system that includes a fuel cell that carries out power generation by the electrochemical reaction between a fuel gas and the oxygen gas in the air; a fuel gas discharge path and a fuel gas supply path that are connected to the fuel... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142724 | Hydrogen sensor mounting structure for fuel cell vehicle A hydrogen sensor mounting structure applicable to a fuel cell vehicle that includes a fuel cell system installed under a floor panel, and a hydrogen sensor located above the fuel cell system is provided. The floor panel includes a floor tunnel portion protruding in... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8137864 | Fuel cell formed with metal separators A fuel cell according to the present invention includes a power generation cell. The power generation cell is formed by sandwiching a membrane electrode assembly between a first metal separator and a second metal separator. An oxygen-containing gas flow field is for... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137851 | Fuel cell and fuel cell module Separators of a fuel cell include sandwiching sections which sandwich electrolyte electrode assemblies and have fuel gas channels, first bridges each having a fuel gas supply channel, and a fuel gas supply unit. A fuel gas supply passage extends through the fuel gas... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136354 | Adsorption-enhanced compressed air energy storage In an embodiment of the present disclosure, an energy storage device is presented. The energy storage device includes a porous material that adsorbs air and a compressor. The compressor converts mechanical energy into pressurized air and heat, and the pressurized ai... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8133628 | Fuel cell system A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a heat exchanger for heating an oxygen-containing gas using a heat medium before the oxygen-containing gas is supplied to the fuel cell stack, a reformer for reforming a raw fuel chiefly containing hydrocarbon to produc... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8129068 | Fuel cell and fuel cell stack A first separator and a second separator make up separator bodies having the same shape, which are oriented 180° opposite to each other. The first separator has first sandwiching sections sandwiching electrolyte electrode assemblies therebetween, along with fuel ga... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129067 | Fuel cell A fuel cell includes electrolyte electrode assembly and separators. An exhaust gas separation member is provided between the separators. The exhaust gas separation member includes an annular portion formed around an outer circumferential portion of the electrolyte e... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129057 | High efficiency fuel cell system A technique includes operating a fuel cell, which produces an effluent flow. The technique includes routing the effluent flow through an electrochemical pump to extract fuel from the effluent flow and providing the extracted fuel to the fuel cell. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129044 | Fuel cell system and method for operating the same A fuel cell system including: a fuel cell including a fuel gas channel and an oxidant gas channel, which is configured to generate electricity using a fuel gas and an oxidant gas; a diluting unit configured to dilute gas discharged from the fuel gas channel by mixin... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8117998 | Hot water supplying system The present invention relates to a hot water supplying system that includes a preheating-circulating system, which heats water to maximally reduce the time to attain a temperature set by a user, and is designed to use a portion of preheating energy for heating, prev... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117997 | Dual pipe heat exchanger of boiler for house heating and hot water Disclosed is a double pipe heat exchanger for a boiler supplying heating water and hot water, which can prevent water from being condensed even if cold heating water or cold water is introduced into an inlet of the heat exchanger in the boiler for supplying heating ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117023 | Language understanding apparatus, language understanding method, and computer program This language understanding apparatus includes a storage section, a phrase interpreter, and a bidding section. The bidding section reads information on a slot of a semantic frame corresponding to a concept indicated by an information read by the phrase interpreter a... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116967 | Control system for internal combustion engine A control system for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. In the control system, an engine state parameter is calculated using a self-organizing map for calculating a predetermined output parameter according to at least one engine operating parameter which in... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115641 | Automatic fall detection system A system and a method for detecting if a person has fallen down is provided. The system includes at least two sensors which remotely detect energy in at least two zones. The output of the sensors are analyzed and compared to characteristics which are determined to b... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8114511 | Composite porous membrane and method for producing the same A composite porous membrane comprises a porous matrix and a polymer. The porous matrix contains a fiber woven fabric, a fiber nonwoven fabric, a porous metal material, or a porous inorganic material, and the polymer forms a three-dimensional network structure in the... | 02/14/2012 |
