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Compressor, Refrigeration Cycle Device, and Air Conditioner
16 Nov 23
A compressor includes: a compression mechanism to compress a refrigerant; an electric motor to drive the compression mechanism; and a container to contain the compression mechanism, the electric motor, the refrigerant, and the lubricating oil.
Kazuhiko BABA
Filed: 30 Nov 20
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Radar Device and In-vehicle Device Including Radar Device
16 Nov 23
A radar device according to a technique of the present disclosure includes a radar signal generator that intermittently and repeatedly outputs a chirp as a radar signal; a transmitting and receiving antenna that transmits the radar signal and receives, as a reflected wave, the radar signal reflected from an observation target; a beat signal generator that generates a beat signal from the radar signal and the reflected wave; an analog-to-digital converter that converts the beat signal into digital data; and a signal processor that detects range to the observation target and relative velocity with respect to the observation target, using the digital data.
Yusuke KITSUKAWA, Noriyuki FUKUI
Filed: 25 Jul 23
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Heat Exchanger and Refrigeration Cycle Apparatus
16 Nov 23
A heat exchanger includes: a fin extending in a widthwise direction along an air flow direction and extending in a longitudinal direction crossing the air flow direction; and a heat transfer tubepassing through the fin.
Satoru YANACHI, Tsuyoshi MAEDA, Akira YATSUYANAGI
Filed: 27 Nov 20
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Optical Measurement Device
16 Nov 23
An optical measurement device is a measurement device that measures a distance to a target using light, and includes: a split unit to split light into reference light and measurement light; an adjustment unit to split the reference light into a plurality of beams of reference light having respective different light path lengths; an interference unit to multiplex two of reflection light obtained by reflection when a target is irradiated with the measurement light, and the plurality of beams of reference light to obtain interference light; and a processing unit to calculate a light path length difference on a basis of a frequency of the interference light, and the optical measurement device calculates light path length differences of the plurality of beams of reference light, so that it is possible to measure the distance to the target even when the distance to the target significantly fluctuates.
Takanori YAMAUCHI, Junya NISHIOKA, Hiroki GOTO, Naoki SUZUKI
Filed: 24 Jul 23
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System and Method for Controlling Motion of One or More Devices
16 Nov 23
The present disclosure provides a system and a method for controlling a motion of a device from an initial state to a target state in an environment having obstacles that form constraints on the motion of the device.
Abraham Puthuvana Vinod, Sleiman Safaoui, Ankush Chakrabarty, Rien Quirynen, Nobuyuki Yoshikawa, Stefano Di Cairano
Filed: 25 Oct 22
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Calculation Circuit, Communication Device, Control Circuit, Storage Medium, and Calculation Method
16 Nov 23
A calculation circuit includes: processing circuitry that divides a quantized signal into a first bit string and a second bit string, and converts the first bit string into a sequence including two or more bits and representing a numerical value by a ratio of 1 present therein; calculates the sequence converted by the conversion unit by stochastic signal processing using a combinational circuit; and adds a ratio of 1 present in a sequence after calculation and a value obtained by multiplying the second bit string by a number represented by the first bit string, and performs reconversion into a quantized signal.
Shigenori TANI, Yasutaka YAMASHITA
Filed: 25 Jul 23
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Update Management System and Update Management Method
16 Nov 23
Whether or not the state of update failure on the vehicle side matches the SW versions in any of existing vehicle versions on the OTA server side is searched, and when there is a match, rollback is not executed and the matched vehicle version is maintained.
Tsubasa MORITA, Takuya KONO
Filed: 20 Apr 23
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Equipment Management Server, Terminal Device, Information Processing System, Information Processing Method, Storage Medium Storing Information Processing Program, Image Display Method, Storage Medium Storing Image Display Program, and Product Management Server
16 Nov 23
An equipment management server includes: an equipment information acquiring unit that acquires, from a first terminal device that registers equipment owned by a user, equipment information indicating the equipment; a demand determination unit that acquires the transaction result of the equipment indicated by the equipment information acquired by the equipment information acquiring unit in a secondhand products trading market, and determines whether or not there is a demand for the equipment in the secondhand products trading market on the basis of the transaction result; and a solicitation notice transmitting unit that transmits, to the first terminal device, a listing solicitation notice prompting listing of the equipment on the secondhand products trading market when the demand determination unit determines that there is a demand.
Daisuke NAKAMURA, Mayu KAMAMOTO, Sara ITO, Kensho MOTOE
Filed: 26 Jul 23
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Device, Method, and Non-transitory Computer-readable Medium for Preparing Single-line Diagram
16 Nov 23
A device generating a single-line diagram of each power system by diverting a part of a configuration common to the power systems is provided when a plurality of power systems having similar configurations exist.
Yuta YAMAGUCHI, Wataru KOSHI
Filed: 17 Sep 20
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Manufacturing Method for Semiconductor Device
16 Nov 23
A semiconductor device includes: a drift layer of a first conduction type provided in a semiconductor substrate having a first principal plane and a second principal plane opposed to the first principal plane; a first semiconductor layer of a second conduction type provided between the first principal plane of the semiconductor substrate and the drift layer and having impurity concentration higher than impurity concentration of the drift layer; a first buffer layer of a first conduction type provided between the second principal plane of the semiconductor substrate and the drift layer and having hydrogen-induced donors with impurity concentration higher than impurity concentration of the drift layer; and a second semiconductor layer of a first conduction type or a second conduction type provided between the second principal plane of the semiconductor substrate and the first buffer layer and having impurity concentration higher than impurity concentration of the drift layer, wherein the first buffer layer includes a complex defect of interstice carbon and interstice oxygen having density decreasing from the second principal plane side toward the first principal plane side.
Kakeru OTSUKA, Hayato OKAMOTO, Katsumi NAKAMURA, Koji TANAKA, Koichi NISHI
Filed: 27 Jul 23
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Power Semiconductor Device and Method of Manufacturing Power Semiconductor Device
16 Nov 23
In a power semiconductor device, the present disclosure is intended to control tradeoff characteristics while realizing operation in a high-speed side range of the tradeoff characteristics without depending on a carrier lifetime control technique.
Katsumi NAKAMURA
Filed: 10 Feb 23
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Control Arithmetic Device
16 Nov 23
A control arithmetic device comprises a mixed state equation generation unit to generate a plurality of vehicle state equations each including one or more first state variables that are acquisition targets of one or more internal sensors installed in a vehicle, and generate a first mixed state equation by weighting each of the vehicle state equations using a first weighting function, a vehicle state acquisition unit to acquire a current value of each first state variable by the one or more internal sensors, a target route generation unit to generate a target route of the vehicle based on peripheral information acquired by one or more external sensors installed in the vehicle, and a target value arithmetic unit to calculate a target control value for the vehicle to travel along the target route based on the first mixed state equation and the current value of each first state variable, and output the target control value to a control unit that controls the vehicle.
Tomoki UNO, Rin ITO, Shota KAMEOKA, Ryota OKAMOTO
Filed: 27 Nov 20
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Vehicle Control Apparatus and Vehicle Control Method
16 Nov 23
To provide a vehicle control apparatus and a vehicle control method which can suppress that vehicle control is performed using a slope which may be wrong, when there is a possibility that the acquired road slope is wrong.
Michihiro OGATA, Tomoki UNO, Kazuo HITOSUGI
Filed: 1 Mar 23
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Non-transitory Computer Readable Storage Medium Storing Operation Improvement Assistance Program, Operation Improvement Assistance Device, and Operation Improvement Assistance Method
16 Nov 23
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores an operation improvement assistance program that is a program for causing a computer to function as an operation improvement assistance device that assists improvement of an operation status of a device or improvement of an outcome by operation of the device.
Shota NAKANO
Filed: 18 Mar 21
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Outdoor Heat Exchanger and Air Conditioner
16 Nov 23
An outdoor heat exchanger includes a plurality of fins, a blower mechanism, a plurality of heat transfer pipes arranged side by side in a vertical direction, and a first flow divider connected to the plurality of heat transfer pipes.
Faming SUN
Filed: 10 Feb 21
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Delivery Management Device, Delivery System, Delivery Management Method, and Storage Medium Storing Delivery Management Program
16 Nov 23
A delivery management device includes a communication unit and a control unit.
Kentaro ISHIKAWA, Yoshie IMAI, Masato TSUCHIYA, Nobuaki MOTOYAMA, Masahiro ABUKAWA, Satoru FURUTA
Filed: 26 Jul 23
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Cold Source Unit and Refrigeration Cycle Apparatus
16 Nov 23
A cold source unit is connectable to an indoor heat exchanger and is provided for a refrigerant circuit.
Ryuichi NAGATA
Filed: 21 Oct 20
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Semiconductor Module
16 Nov 23
A semiconductor module includes: a plurality of semiconductor switching elements; a resin mold having a side surface and surrounding the plurality of the semiconductor switching elements; a terminal member having a plurality of inner terminals electrically connected to the plurality of the semiconductor switching elements inside the resin mold and a plurality of outer terminals protruding from the side surface of the resin mold; and a support member disposed at a position apart from the side surface of the resin mold, the support member extending in a direction in which the plurality of the outer terminals are arrayed, the support member covering a part of an outer-periphery of each of the plurality of the outer terminals, the support member fixing the plurality of the outer terminals such that the plurality of the outer terminals are spaced from each other.
Kensuke TAKEUCHI
Filed: 5 Mar 21
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Location Estimation Apparatus, Facility Device System, Location Estimation Method, and Recording Medium
16 Nov 23
In a second facility device whose installation location is unknown, a relative location estimator measures a wireless signal transmitted by a first facility device whose installation location is known and estimates a relative location between the first facility device and the second facility device.
Takeru KUROIWA
Filed: 24 Nov 20
Utility
Power Conversion Device
16 Nov 23
A power conversion device includes a self-commutated power converter that performs power conversion between an AC circuit and a DC circuit, and a control device that controls switching operation of a switching element included in the self-commutated power converter.
Fuminori NAKAMURA, Takeshi KIKUCHI, Daisuke YAMANAKA
Filed: 29 Sep 20