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Method of manufacturing an electric optical device in which external connection terminals are formed
Patent number: 8339030Abstract: An electro-optical device includes an effective display region including a pixel, the pixel including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a wiring line connected to the second electrode at a position to the periphery of the effective display region, the wiring line including a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer that are electrically connected to each other and that overlap each other, the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer both extending in a direction in which an edge of the effective display region extends, the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer extending in the direction a distance that is longer than a distance in which the edge of the effective display region extends in the direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hayato Nakanishi, Masahiro Furusawa, Mitsuru Kuribayashi, Toshimitsu Hirai -
Patent number: 8337362Abstract: A control device includes a differential rotation obtaining unit; a direct-coupling control unit that decreases the differential rotation speed by increasing an engagement pressure of the direct-coupling clutch at a normal pressure increase rate determined depending on a traveling state of a vehicle so as to change the direct-coupling clutch from a released state to an engaged state; and a pressure increase control unit that changes to a rapid pressure increase rate larger than the normal pressure increase rate for increasing the engagement pressure by the direct-coupling control unit when the differential rotation speed becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined pressure increase permission threshold in a state that an accelerator opening of the vehicle decreases.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuaki Inagaki, Hiroya Ueno, Kohei Tsuda, Eiji Moriyama, Hiroshi Tsutsui
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Patent number: 8340850Abstract: In a hybrid vehicle in which a fixed speed change mode can be realized by the locking of a rotational element, the mislocking of the rotational element is prevented. A hybrid drive apparatus which has an engine, a MG1 and a MG2 and which functions as a power unit of a hybrid vehicle is provided with a brake mechanism of a cam-lock type which can control the MG1 in a lock state and a non-lock state by changing the state of a sun gear between the lock state and the non-lock state. In mislocking prevention control, an ECU calculates MG1 angular acceleration D?g, which is the absolute value of angular acceleration of the motor generator MG1, on the basis of a MG1 rotational speed Ngm1 and judges that the sun gear S1 is in a mislocking state if the MG1 angular acceleration D?g is greater than a criterion value D?gth.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichiro Muta, Hiroyuki Ogura, Naofumi Magarida
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Patent number: 8337747Abstract: In a process for manufacturing composite sintered machine components, the composite sintered machine component has an approximately cylindrical inner member and an approximately disk-shaped outer member, the inner member has pillars arranged in a circumferential direction at equal intervals and a center shaft hole surrounded by the pillars, and the outer member has holes corresponding to the pillars of the inner member and a center shaft hole corresponding to the center shaft hole of the inner member. The process comprises compacting the inner member and the outer member individually using an iron-based alloy powder or an iron-based mixed powder so as to obtain compacts of the inner member and the outer member, tightly fitting the pillars of the inner member into the holes of the outer member, and sintering the inner member and the outer member while maintaining the above condition so as to bond them together.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Hitachi Powdered Metals Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiromasa Imazato, Koichiro Yokoyama
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Patent number: 8340047Abstract: An integrated antenna device includes: a multiplexing processing portion for multiplexing received signals received at antennas of mutually different signal systems; a serial communication portion for outputting a multiplex signal to the outside and for receiving a control signal from the outside; a power-feeding switch for individually controlling power feeding of tuner units on the basis of the received control signal; and a pseudo-signal generating portion for generating a pseudo-signal that simulates a signal input to the multiplexing processing portion. The multiplexing processing portion uses the pseudo-signal generated at the pseudo-signal generating portion instead of a received signal corresponding to a tuner unit that is stopped from being fed power by the power-feeding switch.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu Ten LimitedInventors: Mansaku Nakano, Kohichi Tsutsui
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Patent number: 8339484Abstract: An image processing method for executing edge enhancement for an original image includes: extracting edge components based upon the original image; correcting the extracted edge components by attenuating the individual edge components so that a frequency distribution related to intensity of the edge components approximates a Gaussian distribution assuming a specific width; and executing edge enhancement for the original image based upon the corrected edge components.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Kenichi Ishiga
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Patent number: 8333386Abstract: A seal structure for connection sections, which facilitates installation and removal of a seal member from the connection sections. The seal member is placed in the connection sections between a first part and a second part. A first groove-ridge section is formed at the connection section of the first part, and a second groove-ridge section is formed at the connection section of the second part. The seal member has, on one face, a first fitting section fitting to the first groove-ridge section, and also has, on the other face, a second fitting section fitting to the second groove-ridge section. Press-fitting interferences in the wall-thickness direction are provided at the first and second fitting sections. The seal member has an extended section protruding radially outward from an annular body section where the first and second fitting sections are provided. The extended section protrudes to a position outside the connection sections of the first and second parts.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: CKD CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Takeda, Fumihito Tsuchiya, Tetsuya Ishihara
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Patent number: 8333290Abstract: A discharge cap for discharging a content liquid from a container body includes a cylinder assembly that can be tightly fitted to a mouth portion of the container body. The cylinder assembly includes a cap main body provided with a main discharge cylinder, a discharge cylinder body provided with an auxiliary discharge cylinder that is smaller in diameter than the main discharge cylinder, and a lid body for opening or closing the auxiliary discharge cylinder. Hinge-connections are provided between the cap main body and the discharge cylinder body, and between the discharge cylinder body and the lid body, for allowing a selective opening of the main discharge cylinder and the auxiliary discharge cylinder, thereby readily changing the discharge amount or discharge mode of the content liquid.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhito Kuwahara, Yoshiyuki Kakuta, Natsuo Shinozaki
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Patent number: 8333132Abstract: A cutting edge portion intermediate form that is a pre-sintered body of the cutting edge portion and a supporting portion intermediate form that is a fully sintered body of the supporting portion are manufactured separately. Full sintering is then performed where front end portion of the supporting portion intermediate form is inserted into an insertion hole of the cutting edge portion intermediate form. During sintering, cobalt particles in powdered materials are converted into a liquid phase, and contracting occurs. Because the supporting portion intermediate form has already been fully sintered, only the cutting edge portion intermediate form contracts. The front end portion of the supporting portion intermediate form is squeezed by the cutting edge portion intermediate form. The carbide tip is therefore created in which the cutting edge portion and the supporting portion are strongly bonded.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2007Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: OSG CorporationInventors: Youichiroh Shimoda, Mikio Fukuda
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Patent number: 8335603Abstract: Upon the occurrence of the abnormality that the inverter for driving the motor is in the one-phase short circuited state, this inverter is stopped in the three-phase short circuited state and sets the execution torque by subtracting the counter electromotive force application torque that is applied the driveshaft due to the counter electromotive force generated by rotation of the motor and the steering angle application torque corresponding to the steering angle from the torque demand according to the step-on amount of the accelerator pedal. The engine and the inverter for driving the motor is controlled so that the vehicle is driven with the set execution torque. This enables the driving force output to the driveshaft from the engine and the motor to be in accordance with the torque demand.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noritake Mitsutani, Wataru Shiraishi
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Patent number: 8335584Abstract: An embroidery data generating apparatus includes a thread color acquisition device that acquires available thread colors for an embroidery pattern, a line segment data generating device that generates line segment data, a dividing device that divides a whole area of an image into divided areas, a determining device that determines a representative color for each of the divided areas, an area thread color allocating device that allocates to the divided area at least one area thread color satisfying a predetermined condition, an associating device that associates the line segment data and the divided area, an embroidery thread color allocating device that allocates, from among the at least one area thread color, an embroidery thread color to each piece of the line segment data, a connecting line segment data generating device that generates connecting line segment data, and an embroidery data generating device that generates embroidery data.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenji Yamada
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Patent number: 8333064Abstract: In an exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine, reducing agent is diffused and the exhaust resistance is made small. The apparatus includes a reducing agent addition valve that injects reducing agent, a reducing agent addition valve mount portion that has a space in which the reducing agent addition valve injects the reducing agent outside a stream of exhaust gas flowing in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and on which the reducing agent addition valve is mounted, and an impingement portion that is provided in the reducing agent addition valve mount portion and on which the reducing agent injected through the reducing agent addition valve impinges, wherein the direction of injection of the reducing agent from the reducing agent addition valve is oriented toward the impingement portion, and toward downstream of the reducing agent addition valve with respect to the exhaust gas flow.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuki Bisaiji, Koichiro Fukuda, Mikio Inoue, Satoru Nitta, Kiyohiko Nagae
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Patent number: 8334890Abstract: A display control apparatus that receives information from remote controls and that controls a display device. The display control apparatus includes a remote control information obtaining device that obtains remote control information, a display data creation device that creates display data for displaying pointers corresponding to the remote controls based on the remote control information, a display data output device that outputs the display data, a distance determination device that calculates a relative distance between display positions of the pointers and determines whether the relative distance is larger than a predetermined distance, and a driving signal transmission device that transmits, to at least one of the remote controls corresponding to the pointers for which the relative distance is equal to or less than the predetermined distance, a driving signal to cause a notification device provided in the remote control to be driven.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomohiro Sato
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Patent number: 8333694Abstract: An illumination unit includes a distal end frame member having a through opening, a plurality of illumination sections, and a holding member which is arranged in the through opening and holds the illumination sections to incline the illumination sections at a desired angle with respect an opening surface of the through opening and to form a cascade along the axial direction of the through opening. The illumination unit includes a reflective member which is configured to reflect the illumination light emitted from the illumination sections toward the opening surface, the reflective member being held by the holding member to face the illumination sections and to apply the illumination light externally emitted from the illumination sections from the inside of the through opening via the opening surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventors: Akira Kudo, Takeshi Oue
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Patent number: 8334077Abstract: A fuel cell system capable of suppressing noise caused by backflow of air when a compressor stops. Also, there is provided a fuel cell vehicle provided with this fuel cell system. A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell and a compressor that compresses air taken in from outside and supplies compressed air to the fuel cell. Operation of the compressor is stopped after a pressure difference between an upstream side and a downstream side of the compressor has become equal to or smaller than a predetermined value by using a control unit. In this case, the predetermined value can be a pressure difference corresponding to a predetermined noise level.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2007Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuyuki Kitamura
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Patent number: 8335041Abstract: A head mounted display includes a display unit, a concave mirror, an optical unit that is arranged between the display unit and the concave mirror, transmits a part of incident light from the display unit and reflects the other part of the incident light from the display unit, a first optical system that guides light reflected by the concave mirror to the left eye, and a second optical system that guides light reflected by the optical unit to the right eye. In the head mounted display, on the concave mirror, a right end is closer to the display unit in comparison with a left end. Further, the curvature of the concave mirror at the right end is larger than the curvature of the concave mirror at the left end.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takehiko Kubota
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Patent number: 8333425Abstract: A vehicle front structure related to the invention includes a front side member having a kick section extending obliquely downward toward the rear, a member front half section, and a member rear half section. A sub-frame juxtaposed below the front side member abuts on the member rear half section. A rear end portion of the sub-frame is formed with a first inclination portion which extends obliquely downward toward the rear and abuts on the front side member. The front side member 1 is formed with a second inclination portion which abuts on the first inclination portion. The first inclination portion is held so as to be movable relative to the second inclination portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Koji Yoshida
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Patent number: 8333422Abstract: The representative sun visor for vehicles has a sun visor body which can slide in an axial direction of a support rod together with a guide member with respect to a movable element. The sun visor includes a friction mechanism which imposes a predetermined frictional resistance to the relative movement of the sun visor body with respect to the movable element. The friction mechanism has a sliding member and a biasing member. The sliding member is slidably held in contact with the guide member and imposes a frictional resistance to the guide member, and the biasing member applies a biasing force in a direction that holds the sliding member and the guide member in contact with each other. The guide member and the sliding member have a plurality of sliding contact portions on which the biasing force of the biasing member acts in different directions.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Kyowa Sangyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroto Ogawa, Ryo Tsushima
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Patent number: 8334215Abstract: A substrate can be appropriately oxidized, while oxidation of the substrate can be suppressed. The present invention includes a step of generating mixed plasma by causing a mixed gas of hydrogen (H2) gas and oxygen(O2) or oxygen/containing gas supplied to a processing chamber to form a plasma discharge, and processing the starting substrate by the mixed plasma; and a step of generating hydrogen plasma by causing hydrogen (H2) gas supplied to the processing chamber to form a plasma discharge, and processing the substrate by the hydrogen plasma.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.Inventors: Tatsushi Ueda, Tadashi Terasaki, Unryu Ogawa, Akito Hirano
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Patent number: 8334858Abstract: For the purpose of providing a display apparatus capable of improving display quality by expanding the light-emission area of pixels by improving the layout of pixels and common power-feed lines formed on a substrate, pixels (7A, 7B) including a light-emission element (40), such as an electroluminescence element or an LED element, are arranged on both sides of common power-feed lines (com) so that the number of common power-feed lines (com) is reduced. Further, the polarity of a driving current flowing between the pixels (7A, 7B) and the light-emission element (40) is inverted so that the amount of current flowing through the common power-supply lines “com” is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Tokuroh Ozawa