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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7095199 | Automatic vehicle wiper system An automatic vehicle wiper system including a wiper, a speed sensor which measures vehicle speed, a rainfall measuring device which measures amount of rainfall during predetermined intervals, a calculating device which calculates a wiping action frequency of the wip... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7053573 | Motor drive apparatus, integrated circuit, and motor drive method A motor drive apparatus which drives a motor by controlling conduction/non-conduction of a drive transistor for causing a current to flow through a drive coil of the motor based on a pulse signal indicating a relative position between the rotor and stator of the mot... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6930867 | Thermally suppressing circuit for restarting a locked motor A thermally suppressing circuit includes a restart-charging drive member, a coil set, a restart-charging capacitor, and a charging switch set. The restart-charging drive member is electrically connected to the coil set and the restart-charging capacitor while the ch... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6788017 | Period adjustment circuit of disconnection and restart IC A period adjustment circuit of disconnection and restart IC comprises a second capacitor, which is connected to a resistor and a transistor connected in parallel. One end of the resistor is connected between the disconnection and restart IC and the first capacitor. ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6541929 | Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle power windows A power window control apparatus for controlling vehicle power windows (12-18) includes window control switches (52-58) for controlling power window control motors (20-26). When two window control switches (52-58) are simultaneously and momentarily actuat... | 04/01/2003 |
| 4527653 | Road load insensitive electric power steering system The torque gain of an electric motor assisted power steering system is modified as a function of the estimated level of road load friction such that the relationship between the operator exerted steering torque and the resulting rate of steer is substanti... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4455517 | Door activating control circuitry An improvement in door activating control apparatus including a short delay between the time the door is stopped during its closing direction of travel and starts moving in the opening direction when any one of any switch or button for opening the door is... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4350337 | Energy saving arrangement for bowling apparatus An energy saving arrangement in which motors performing mechanical work in automatic pin spotters are disconnected from power lines when a bowling play is discontinued after a predetermined time interval. A time delay relay is repeatedly actuated by a cir... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4079432 | Motor restart limiter A motor is electrically coupled to a power source through a motor starter. The motor is selectively operated by a relay to connect and disconnect the power source to the motor. A counter accumulates a count of motor failures and produces an inhibit signal... | 03/14/1978 |
| 3965401 | Textile card crush roll operating system and method A textile card crush roll operating system is driven by a two-speed electric motor completely independent of the main card cylinder driving motor and is provided with starting control means for operating the crush roll motor at slow speed for a pre-determ... | 06/22/1976 |
| 3959699 | Bi-directional motor drive system Two electric motors are coupled to each other and to a device which is to be bi-directionally actuated. An associated electrical control circuit comprises switches and delay timers, for energizing the first motor to drive the device in one direction and c... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3942082 | Multi-line chemical injection system A multi-line chemical injection system for injecting chemicals into two or more independent systems including a pressure tank, a pump to supply chemicals to the pressure tank, a pressure control switch to regulate the pressure within the pressure tank and... | 03/02/1976 |
