Patents Assigned to Denso Corporation
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Publication number: 20100238067Abstract: The array antenna includes a feed line, and a plurality of radiating element sections arranged at a predetermined arranging interval in a first direction, each of the radiating element sections including at least one radiating element fed a traveling wave through the feed line. The inter-element line length as a length of the feed line between each succeeding two of the radiating element sections is longer than the arranging interval in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kento Nakabayashi, Kazuma Natsume, Yuu Watanabe, Takuya Kouya
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Publication number: 20100237968Abstract: An electromagnet switch has a metal contact for a switch terminal that projects from a case and is wired to one end of a coil. A male connector member surrounds an outer periphery of the metal contact. The male connector member is connected to a female connector member that is provided at a tip end of a cable used for supplying electric power to the coil. Such a penetrating hole is formed in a case that reaches the metal contact. A tester terminal can contact the metal contact through the penetrating hole for conducting conductive testing of the electromagnet switch, in a commercial field.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Tadahiro KURASAWA
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Publication number: 20100237269Abstract: An object of the invention for a valve device having an inclined valve body is to suppress pressure loss at a valve opened condition to a smaller amount. The valve body is composed of a disc shaped valve member for closing a fluid passage, a first supporting portion provided at an outer periphery of the valve member and connected to a first shaft member, and a second supporting portion provided at another outer periphery of the valve member and connected to a second shaft member. The valve body is formed of a press-molded metal plate and forms a Z-shape when viewed in a direction parallel to a surface of the valve member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Furukawa, Osamu Shimane, Shinsuke Miyazaki, Yuichiro Moritani
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Publication number: 20100238964Abstract: A semiconductor laser structure includes: a plurality of laser structure units, wherein each laser structure unit includes a N conductive type clad layer, a light emission layer and a P conductive type clad layer, which are stacked in this order; and a tunnel junction layer disposed between two adjacent laser structure units. The tunnel junction layer includes a P conductive type layer and a N conductive type layer. The P conductive type layer includes a dopant of zinc. The N conductive type layer includes a dopant of a group six element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki Matsushita, Hitoshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20100240299Abstract: A content data acquisition system is disclosed. The content data acquisition system includes a broadcasting center for providing content data divided into partial data by distributing the partial data in one-way communication; and multiple data acquisition apparatuses each mounted to a vehicle and each capable of individually acquiring the partial data from the broadcasting center. One data acquisition apparatus mounted to one vehicle determines whether an amount of the already acquired partial data is enough to reconstruct the content data. When the amount of the already acquired partial data is determined to be not enough to reconstruct the content data, the one data acquisition apparatus acquires a remaining part of the partial data from another data acquisition apparatus mounted to another vehicle in inter-vehicle communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Shuji Karino
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Patent number: 7800273Abstract: A stator coil includes a belt-shaped winding band and a same-layer bridging portion. The winding band makes one or more rounds, while turning back in the axial direction a plurality of conductor wires which are aligned in parallel at a pitch of electric angle ? (pi). The same-layer bridging portion connects a pair of the conductor wires which are of the same phase at the end portion of the winding and which are arranged in the same layer of the slot. Such arrangement enables forming a compact multi-phase stator coil.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Akiya Shichijoh, Shin Kusase, Takeshi Araki
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Patent number: 7801658Abstract: The output torque of an in-vehicle engine is controlled based on the larger one of a pedal torque set by a pedal torque setting section in accordance with an operation amount of an accelerator pedal and a cruise torque for cruise control set by a cruise torque setting section. At the time of starting the cruise control, an initial value of the cruise torque is set by an initial value setting section as the smaller one of the torque required for traveling a vehicle at a constant speed of a target vehicle speed and the pedal torque.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Keiji Ohshima
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Patent number: 7802141Abstract: A booster circuit is incorporated in a one-chip microcomputer. In a test mode, a burn-in test is performed by switching power supply systems so that a power supply voltage of 5V is supplied to a 3.3V-type circuit section that normally operates on a power supply voltage of 3.3V in an ordinary state and a boosted voltage of a 5V booster circuit is supplied to a 5V-type circuit section that normally operates on a power supply voltage of 5V in the ordinary state.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2005Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Akitaka Murata
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Patent number: 7801679Abstract: A vehicular display system includes an in-vehicle navigation device and a vehicular meter device. The in-vehicle navigation device includes a display, a navigation data producing device for producing first data that is to be displayed on the display, and a transmitting device for transmitting intermediate data to the vehicular meter device. The vehicular meter device includes a receiving device for receiving the intermediate data from the in-vehicle navigation device and a navigation data display area for displaying second data. A display size changing device for changing the first data into the second data is included in at least one of the in-vehicle navigation device and the vehicular meter device. A display size of the first data is different from the display size of the second data.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2006Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hidehiko Kawakami, Tetsuya Enokizaka, Akihiro Watanabe, Tsuneo Uchida, Kiyotaka Taguchi
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Patent number: 7800232Abstract: A metallic electrode forming method includes: forming a bed electrode on a substrate; forming a protective film with an opening on the bed electrode to expose the bed electrode from the opening; forming a metallic film covering the protective film and the opening; mounting the substrate on an adsorption stage, and measuring a surface shape of the metallic film by a surface shape measuring means; deforming the substrate by a deforming means so that a difference between the principal surface and a cutting surface is within a predetermined range; measuring a surface shape of the principal surface, and determining whether the difference is within a predetermined range; and cutting the substrate along with the cutting surface so that the metallic film is patterned to be a metallic electrode.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2008Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Tomisaka, Hisatoshi Kojima, Akihiro Niimi
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Patent number: 7801670Abstract: To avoid potentially erroneous results, monitoring the operation of an oxygen sensor of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle to detect a slow response of the oxygen sensor as indicative of an oxygen sensor fault is temporarily suspended in response to a brake operation transition of a braking system of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Peter Richardson, Kenichi Fujiki
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Patent number: 7800261Abstract: According to the present invention, a rotary electric machine includes a rotor with a rotary shaft, a stator surrounding an outer periphery of the rotor, and a frame supporting the rotor and the stator. Further, the stator has an outer surface at least part of which is exposed to outside of the frame, and a plurality of protrusions and recesses are formed on the exposed part of the outer surface of the stator, so as to enhance dissipation of heat generated by operation of the rotary electric machine. According to a further implementation of the present invention, the rotor includes at least one fan that works to create air flow, and the protrusions and the recesses are so formed that the recesses make up air flow paths, along which the air flow created by the fan passes over the outer surface of the stator, thereby cooling the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2006Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Shigenobu Nakamura, Seiji Kondoh
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Patent number: 7800230Abstract: A solder preform according to the present invention has a variation in the size of high melting point metal particles which is at most 20 micrometers when the metal particle diameter is 50 micrometers, and an alloy layer of the high melting point metal particles and the main component of solder is formed around the high melting point metal particles. In addition, no voids at all are present in the solder. An electronic component according to the present invention has a semiconductor element bonded to a substrate with the above-described solder preform and has excellent resistance to heat cycles.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naohiko Hirano, Yoshitsugu Sakamoto, Tomomi Okumura, Kaichi Tsuruta, Minoru Ueshima, Takashi Ishii
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Patent number: 7799259Abstract: A two-color molding method with a short cycle time and a multicolor molding method including that two-color molding method, whereby, by performing an elastomer molding step using a time Z from a time t2 to t7 in the range of the time Y needed for the shaped article takeout step (A and B) and mold closing step (C) in the time t1 to t9, it becomes possible to effectively use the time of the shaped article takeout step (A and B) and mold closing step (C) which could not be utilized at all for the molding process in the past for the molding process, whereby the cycle molding time X can be shortened.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi Sawada, Shuichi Tamaki, Yukinori Narita
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Patent number: 7798430Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle is formed with a nozzle hole group including at least two individual nozzle holes, which are disposed close to each other. Fuel is injected through the nozzle hole group. In at least one combination of two adjacent individual nozzle holes included in the same nozzle hole group, at least one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes is configured such that each of the at least one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes has a diameter, the diameter increasing only toward a corresponding adjacent one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes along a direction from an inside to an outside of the each of the at least one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes, and the diameter being maximized at an outer opening of the each of the at least one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Tokuji Kuronita, Satoru Sasaki
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Patent number: 7800479Abstract: A method of evaluating laser trimming of a semiconductor device having a thin film resistor is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing the thin film resistor and laser trimming the thin film resistor by creating a first trim cut. The first trim cut bisects the thin film resistor such that the thin film resistor is divided into a first portion and a second portion. Also, the method involves measuring the insulation resistance of the thin film resistor. In addition, the method involves evaluating the trim cut based on the measured insulation resistance.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Michio Yamashita
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Patent number: 7800174Abstract: A single semiconductor power module includes a power semiconductor chip including an embedded IGBT (the power semiconductor switching-device) and a control semiconductor chip. The power semiconductor chip also includes a gate series resistor integrated therein as a resistor through which the control semiconductor chip drives the power semiconductor chip. In such a configuration, a gate wire between the gate series resistor and a gate has a small lead inductance and a small parasitic capacitance with respect to the ground.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2005Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Motoo Yamaguchi, Naohito Kato, Yutaka Tomatsu
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Patent number: 7797924Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis apparatus is used for a secondary air supply system for an internal combustion engine. The system includes an air pump for supplying secondary air into an upstream of a catalyst in an exhaust gas passage of the internal combustion engine. A secondary air detecting means detects secondary air information. An abnormality diagnosis means performs an abnormality diagnosis of the secondary air supply system in accordance with the secondary air information detected using the secondary air detecting means. A temperature information determining means performs at least one of detection and estimation of air pump temperature information. A condition setting means performs at least one of setting and compensating a condition for evaluating normality and abnormality of the secondary air supply system in accordance with the air pump temperature information.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2005Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Keiji Wakahara, Masahiko Yamaguchi, Satoshi Kodo
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Patent number: 7800486Abstract: A safe driving support apparatus in a vehicle is used in a manner that prevents an over-reliance of a driver on a safety device by an application of a technique. That is, for example, an evaluation of driving operation is lowered when the vehicle has been under control of an avoidance control for avoiding an unsafe situation of the vehicle, and the lowered evaluation of driving operation is recorded on a memory medium as well as being notified for the driver after evaluation is being changed. A provision of the avoidance control may result in a suppression of a vehicular function that contributes to a comfort in the vehicle among functions provided by in-vehicle devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiyuki Kaneiwa
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Patent number: D624018Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2009Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Atsuo Ishizuka, Shinji Kouda, Shinichi Ogawa
