Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Plotkin & Kahn PLLC
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Patent number: 6369615Abstract: The present invention is intended to realize reduction of time for supplying the pulse signal to the internal circuit. The setup time for latching (holding) the signal can be eliminated by generating a pulse signal without latching (holding) the input signal. A semiconductor integrated circuit is provided, which has a signal input circuit for receiving an input signal and outputting an address signal as a function of the input signal without holding the output signal. A pulse signal generating circuit is coupled to the signal input circuit for generating a pulse signal based on the output signal and a first clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Hideo Akiyoshi
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Patent number: 6369531Abstract: A control system controls a hybrid vehicle having an engine for rotating a drive axle, an electric motor for assisting the engine in rotating the drive axle and converting kinetic energy of the drive axle into electric energy in a regenerative mode, and an electric energy storage unit connected through a drive control circuit to the electric motor, for storing electric energy. The control system has a regenerative quantity determining unit which includes first, second, and third first regenerative quantity establishing units. The first regenerative quantity establishing unit establishes a first regenerative quantity for the electric motor based on a vehicle speed of the hybrid vehicle when the supply of fuel to the engine is stopped upon deceleration of the hybrid vehicle. The second regenerative quantity establishing unit establishes a second regenerative quantity for the electric motor based on a remaining capacity of the electric energy storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshikazu Oshima, Yusuke Tatara, Motoshi Ishikawa, Yutaka Tamagawa, Tetsu Sugiyama, Toru Yano
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Patent number: 6369633Abstract: A quadrature signal generation system which has a pair of input terminals for receiving a first A.C. signal and a second A.C. signal. The first A.C. signal and the second A.C. signal have a predetermined frequency and a phase relation of approximate 90° with each other. The system also has a multiplier circuit for providing a product of the first A.C. signal and the second A.C. signal, resulting in a third A.C. signal. Furthermore, the system has a square-difference circuit for providing a difference of a square of the first A.C. signal and a square of the second A.C. signal, the difference being a fourth A.C. signal. The frequency of the third A.C. signal, and the fourth A.C. signal are equal to twice the frequency of the first A.C. signal and the second A.C. signal, and the third A.C. signal and the fourth A.C. signal have a fine phase relation of 90° with each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventor: Tsuneo Tsukahara
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Patent number: 6367437Abstract: There is provided a valve timing control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of suitably controlling a hydraulic pressure control valve 10 for control of a cam phase irrespective of a temperature condition of a coil 100 of the control valve 10, thereby enhancing the accuracy of feedback control of the cam phase. The control valve 10 drives a cam phase change mechanism 8 according to an amount of current flowing through the coil 100. An ECU 2 feedback-controls a provisional duty factor DOUTVT for controlling the amount of current such that an actual cam phase CAIN becomes equal to a desired cam phase CAINCMD. The ECU 2 sets a desired current amount VTCIOBJ based on the provisional duty factor obtained by the feedback control. The ECU 2 feedback-controls an output duty factor DDOUT for control of the amount of current supplied to the control valve 10 such that an actual current amount VTCIACT becomes equal to a desired current amount VTCIOBJ.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2001Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Yoshiharu Sudani
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Patent number: 6368052Abstract: A spindle device can prevent a drive fluid for a turbine rotor from being leaked to a gap between a fixed housing and a spindle which is rotatably supported on the housing as much as possible and hence, the spindle device can efficiently make use of the supplied drive fluid and can increase the rotational torque of the spindle. The spindle device rotatably drives the spindle using the turbine rotor. The rotation of the spindle to the housing is supported using a radial dynamic pressure bearing. Further, supply holes and receiving holes for the drive fluid for the turbine rotor are formed such that these holes penetrate the radial dynamic pressure bearing in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2001Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: THK Co. Ltd.Inventors: Masakazu Uesugi, Shoutarou Mizobuchi
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Patent number: 6367303Abstract: To readily perform a repairing work for a deformed portion of a rim without any adverse effects given by a rim shape of a wheel or a kind of the wheel, and to enhance the precision of the repairing work and the simplification of the apparatus by devising a receiver for a reactive force of a pressing jack, a wheel repairing apparatus includes a base (2) on which the wheel H is to be mounted with its axis vertical, a support frame (3) provided on the base, supporting means (A) provided between the support frame and the base for rotatably supporting the wheel about the vertical axis and pressurizing means (B) for pressurizing the deformed portion of the rim (R).Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Tsubasa System Co., LTDInventor: Toshihiro Hizono
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Patent number: 6369627Abstract: A delay circuit including a plurality of interpolators connected in cascade. Each of the interpolators receives a reference clock signal and a clock signal output from the preceding interpolator. One of the interpolators generates a clock signal whose transition edge is between the transition edge of the reference clock signal and the transition edge of the clock signal. The subsequent interpolators operate as delay stages, thereby generating a delayed clock signal delaying from the reference clock signal by a predetermined time. It is possible to make smaller the minimum unit of a delay adjustment to the delayed clock signal by using the interpolators.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Hiroyoshi Tomita
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Patent number: 6367721Abstract: The fuel injection valve of the present invention is constituted such that a needle valve 5 and a movable core 4 are movably disposed in an axial direction in the inside of a body 1. Here, a fixed member 8 which the movable core 4 approaches at the time of closing the valve is disposed in the body 1, and a gap is formed between the movable core 4 and the fixed member 8 at the time of closing the valve. When fuel remaining in the gap between the movable core 4 and the fixed member 8 is pressurized according to the movement of the movable core 4 to the valve closing side, a squeezing portion SB1 is disposed at a portion which constitutes a passage for the fuel extruded from the gap. At the time of closing the valve, a squeezing reaction force (reaction force against the squeezing-out force or pushing-out force generated at the time of pressurizing a liquid and squeezing a liquid through the gap) is generated on the movable core 4.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaki Ikeya, Sumito Takeda
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Patent number: 6367280Abstract: In a structure in which a refrigerator including a compressor and a condenser each constituting a portion of a refrigerating unit and mounted to an outer surface of a rear wall of a refrigerator body is mounted to a stationary support wall in such a manner that the refrigerator body is accommodated in an accommodating recess provided in the support wall, an intake passage into which air can be drawn through a front end thereof, an exhaust passage from which the air can be discharged through a front end thereof, and a communication passage connecting rear ends of the intake passage and the exhaust passage to each other and having the compressor and the condenser accommodated therein, are defined between an inner surface of the accommodating recess and the refrigerator body. A fan for drawing air from the intake passage and discharging the air into the exhaust passage is mounted to the rear wall of the refrigerator body and accommodated in the communication passage.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Sawafuji Electric Co., LTDInventors: Hideo Funabasama, Daikichiro Motegi, Yoshiaki Fujisawa
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Patent number: 6370473Abstract: An exhaust system is regarded as being equivalent to a system for generating an output of an O2 sensor or exhaust gas sensor from a combined air-fuel ratio that is produced by combining outputs of air-fuel ratio sensors associated with respective cylinder groups according to a filtering process of the mixed model type. With the equivalent system as an object to be controlled, an exhaust system controller determines a target value for the combined air-fuel ratio, and determines a target air-fuel ratio for the cylinder groups from the target combined air-fuel ratio. The outputs of the air-fuel ratio sensors are converted to the target combined air-fuel ratio under feedback control.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuji Yasui, Shusuke Akazaki, Yoshihisa Iwaki
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Patent number: 6367824Abstract: A tricycle includes left and right front wheel support members which rotatably support left and right front wheels, respectively, and which are disposed on laterally opposite sides of a handle post and pivotally supported on left and right leg members which are supported by the handle post, a steering shaft which is connected to the front wheel support members to steer the front wheels in response to the turning operation of the steering shaft, and a driven wheel supported at a rear portion of a vehicle body frame structure. In this tricycle, a banking travel is possible, leading to an enhanced steering travelability. The handle post 21 and the left leg member 29L are connected to each other through a pair of left upper and lower links 38L, 39L to form a left parallel link arrangement 37L, while the handle post 21 and the right leg member 29R are connected to each other through a pair of right upper and lower links 38R, 39R to form a right parallel link arrangement 37R, 94R.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignees: Avantec Corporation, K Design Co., Ltd., Dox CorporationInventor: Masayasu Hayashi
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Patent number: 6369407Abstract: A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate, an internal circuit formed on the semiconductor substrate, a connection pad formed on the semiconductor substrate and connected to the internal circuit, and a test pad formed on the semiconductor substrate so as to be connected to the connection pad and used for functional testing of the internal circuit. The semiconductor substrate has a bonding region provided on the surface thereof so as to allow another semiconductor substrate to be superposed thereon by being bonded thereto, with the connection pad formed inside the bonding region and the test pad formed outside the bonding region.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Hikita, Hiroo Mochida, Kazutaka Shibata
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Patent number: 6369782Abstract: A frame of a video signal is divided into a plurality of sub-frames. Each of the sub-frames is composed by an address period for selecting light emitting pixels or light non-emitting pixels at every scanning line in accordance with a pixel data, and a discharge sustaining period for causing a light emitting pixel to emit at a number of times in accordance with weighting of each sub-frame. A plurality of sub-frames are adjacently disposed to form a sub-frame block. A reset period is provided in a first sub-frame of the sub-frame block so as to initialize all pixels prior to the address period.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1998Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Pioneer Electric CorporationInventor: Tetsuya Shigeta
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Patent number: 6363807Abstract: A variable speed gearing system includes two clutch units 30, 50 placed side by side in the axial direction and provides a plurality of transmission gear ratios in response to the state of engagement of clutches 31, 51 of the two clutch units 30, 50. Axially movable members 26a, 48a of the two clutch units 30, 50 are arranged in such a manner as to confront each other. A damper mechanism 60 is constituted by the combination of a piston member 62 provided on one of the confronting axially movable members 26a, 48a and a cylinder member 61 provided on the other thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsukasa Takahashi, Eiichiro Kawahara, Tetsuo Naraki
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Patent number: 6367080Abstract: An Internet information displaying apparatus, comprising: a video intermediate frequency detector (11) for extracting a first picture signal from a video signal and outputting it; a gate array (36) for converting the digital data taken in from the Internet into a second picture signal, and for compressing the second picture signal in the horizontal direction of the screen of a CRT (17); a TV picture horizontal compression unit (18) for compressing the first picture signal in the horizontal direction of the screen of the CRT (17); the gate array (36) for compressing the second picture signal in the horizontal direction of the screen of the CRT (17); a picture right and left composing unit (19) for composing the picture signals compressed by the unit (18) and the gate array (36), respectively, in a row; and switching units (14, 23) for switching the picture signal to be displayed on the screen of the CRT (17) into any of the first picture signal, the second picture signal, and the picture signal composed by theType: GrantFiled: August 1, 1997Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsunobu Enomoto, Nobuo Kuchiki, Yuji Hase
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Patent number: 6364801Abstract: A control system for an automatic transmission comprises a forward/reverse selection hydraulic servomechanism 70, a D inhibitor valve, which controls the supply of a line pressure to the servo-oil chambers of this servomechanism, and a plurality of solenoid valves 81˜85, which are used for controlling the actuation of the shift valves and the D inhibitor valve. This control system comprises a first neutral mode and a second neutral mode for a neutral range. In the first neutral mode, the D inhibitor valve is switched to a forward drive position, and the forward drive servo-oil chamber is connected to a drain. In the second neutral mode, the D inhibitor valve is switched to a reverse drive position, and the forward drive and reverse drive servo-oil chambers are both connected to the drain.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shoji Asatsuke, Tatsuyuki Ohashi, Hideki Wakamatsu, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Tomonari Shirai
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Patent number: 6364650Abstract: An injection apparatus comprises a cylinder member, an injection member, a first support member, a drive unit, a transmission shaft, a second support member, and load detection unit. The injection member is disposed within the cylinder member such that the injection member can advance and retract. The first support member supports the injection member such that the injection member can rotate. The transmission shaft is connected to the injection member such that the transmission shaft can rotate relative to the injection member and has a rotation transmission portion, to which rotation of the drive unit is transmitted, as well as a motion conversion portion for converting rotational motion to linear motion. The second support member is adapted to allow relative rotation between the injection member and the transmission shaft. The load detection unit is disposed between the first support member and the second support member.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1999Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Atsushi Emoto
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Patent number: 6363903Abstract: A common intake port 10 is branched into a pair of branch intake ports 12, 24, which are separated through a partition wall 11, at the downstream end thereof. A pair of intake valves 16, 17 adapted to independently open and close the pair of branch intake ports 12, 14, respectively, are provided. In a four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine 1 adapted so that one 16 of the pair of intake valves 16, 17 opens and closes in a low intake air operating range, while the other intake valve 17 is in a resting condition, and that both the pair of intake valves 16, 17 open and close in a high intake air operating range, a cutout 57 is formed in a laterally central portion of the partition wall 11 in such a way as to extend from the edge of the upstream end of the partition wall 11 toward the downstream end thereof and to separate the pair of branch intake ports 12, 14 from each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Aruto Hayashi, Takeshi Fujimura, Seiji Mori
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Patent number: 6363077Abstract: A communications network switch includes a plurality of network ports for transmitting and receiving packets to and from network nodes via network links, each of the packets having a destination address and a source address, the switch being operative to communicate with at least one trunking network device via at least one trunk formed by a plurality of aggregated network links. The communications network switch provides a method and apparatus for balancing the loading of aggregated network links of the trunk, thereby increasing the data transmission rate through the trunk.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1999Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: David Wong, Cheng-chung Shih, Jun Cao, William Dai
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Patent number: D455375Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2001Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Inventor: Kevin Johnson