Abstract: A lithium polymer battery is provided. The lithium polymer battery includes a laminate film as an exterior material including a metal foil. The lithium polymer battery further includes a first electrode including the metal foil and a first electrode active material layer provided on the metal foil; a second electrode including a second electrode current collector and a second electrode active material layer provided on the second electrode current collector, and a polymer electrolyte provided at an interface between the metal foil 11 and the first electrode active material layer.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a first electrically conductive member, a second electrically conductive member, a battery device, and a sealing member. The second electrically conductive member is opposed to the first electrically conductive member. The battery device is provided between the first electrically conductive member and the second electrically conductive member. The battery device includes two or more electrodes stacked on each other in an opposing direction with a separator interposed therebetween. The electrodes include a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is adjacent to the first electrically conductive member. The second electrode is adjacent to the second electrically conductive member. The sealing member is disposed in at least a portion of a region surrounding the battery device between the first electrically conductive member and the second electrically conductive member.

Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery in which a sealing edge of a battery exterior body is formed by a combination of a first exterior body portion and a second exterior body portion of an exterior body that accommodate an electrode assembly. The second exterior body portion is folded so as to sandwich the first exterior body portion at the sealing edge, and a folded bonding portion is having a folded form in a sectional view of the sealing edge is provided in a metal interlayer region between a metal layer of the first exterior body portion and a folded metal layer of the second exterior body portion.

Abstract: A lithium polymer battery is provided. The lithium polymer battery includes a laminate film as an exterior material including a metal foil. The lithium polymer battery further includes a first electrode including the metal foil and a first electrode active material layer provided on the metal foil; a second electrode including a second electrode current collector and a second electrode active material layer provided on the second electrode current collector, and a polymer electrolyte provided at an interface between the metal foil 11 and the first electrode active material layer.

Abstract: A vehicle controller or a portable controller has a memory that stores an inside data group having information on the intensity of request signals transmitted from a plurality of transmitting antennas when a position of a portable device is the inside of a vehicle, and an outside data group having information on the intensity of request signals transmitted from the plurality of transmitting antennas when the position of the portable device is the outside of the vehicle. The vehicle controller determines whether the information on the intensity of request signals is closer to the inside data group or the outside data group stored in the memory.

Abstract: There is provided a passive keyless entry system transmitting a request signal at a predetermined time period from a vehicle-side device, transmitting an answer signal when a portable device has received the request signal, and comprising a control unit that performs predetermined control if the answer signal is received or not received by the vehicle-side device. The portable device includes a portable device control unit that detects the intensity of the request signal transmitted from the vehicle-side device, and is adapted such that, if the intensity of a request signal has changed by a predetermined value or more compared with the intensity of a previously received request signal, a normal answer signal is transmitted as the answer signal, and that, if the intensity of the request signal has changed by less than a predetermined value, a simple answer signal that is shorter than the normal answer signal is transmitted as the answer signal.

Abstract: An on-vehicle control unit includes a memory storing a first data group having signal strength information of a plurality of request signals transmitted from a plurality of transmitting antennas before and after movement of a movable object when a portable device is placed along an inner surface of a vehicle and a second data group having signal strength information of the plurality of request signals transmitted from the plurality of transmitting antennas before and after the movement of the movable object when the portable device is placed along an outer surface of the vehicle. The on-vehicle control unit determines which of the first and second data groups request signal strength information received from the portable device closely resembles.

Abstract: A vehicle controller or a portable controller has a memory that stores an inside data group having information on the intensity of request signals transmitted from a plurality of transmitting antennas when a position of a portable device is the inside of a vehicle, and an outside data group having information on the intensity of request signals transmitted from the plurality of transmitting antennas when the position of the portable device is the outside of the vehicle. The vehicle controller determines whether the information on the intensity of request signals is closer to the inside data group or the outside data group stored in the memory.

Abstract: A force-applying input device includes a mechanical section including a tilting shaft, an operation section mounted to an end of the tilting shaft, first to fourth pressure sensors disposed between the tilting shaft and the operation section, first and second direct-current motors for applying a force to the operation section, first and second position sensors for detecting the direction and amount of rotation of the first and second direct-current motors, and a controller. The first to fourth pressure sensors detect a torque ripple of the first and second direct-current motors in order for the controller to output a correction signal for eliminating the torque ripple.

Abstract: When an operation switch of a motor control circuit is switched on or when the operation switch and an automatic operation switch are simultaneously switched on, a switching device is switched on to energize a relay winding and a contact in the relay is switched to drive a motor. When an overcurrent is passed to a current detecting resistor and a temperature rise in the current detecting resistor is detected by the temperature dependent resistor and/or when a rise in a voltage across terminals of the current detecting resistor is detected by an overvoltage detecting circuit, the switching device is switched off via the bias circuit to thereby stop the driving of the motor.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a motor, a motor driver, a pulse generator, an MCU incorporating a memory, and an open/close switch. The MCU compares the motor load torque detected at the time of opening or closing the window, with a reference value stored in the memory; when the torque considerably exceeds the reference value, it concludes that there is a foreign object caught in the window and stops or reverses the motor and inactivates the function of foreign object detection until there is no transitional torque fluctuation in the transitional period from a start of the motor. The MCU compares the torque variation per unit time with a permissible variation range stored in the memory; when the number of successive torques which fall within the permissible variation range reaches a maximum permissible number of such successive torques stored in the memory, it activates the function of foreign object detection.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a motor, a motor driver, a pulse generator, an MCU incorporating a memory, and an open/close switch. The MCU compares the motor load torque detected at the time of opening or closing the window, with a reference value stored in the memory; when the torque considerably exceeds the reference value, it concludes that there is a foreign object caught in the window and stops or reverses the motor and inactivates the function of foreign object detection until there is no transitional torque fluctuation in the transitional period from a start of the motor. The MCU compares the torque variation per unit time with a permissible variation range stored in the memory; when the number of successive torques which fall within the permissible variation range reaches a maximum permissible number of such successive torques stored in the memory, it activates the function of foreign object detection.

Abstract: Disclosed is a motor control circuit having a motor protective circuit of a simple configuration having a small number of cheap component parts. A motor control circuit has: a current detecting resistor connected to a motor in series; a series circuit of an operation switch, a switching device, and a relay winding connected between a power source and a reference potential point; a bias circuit including a temperature dependent resistor for supplying a bias voltage to the switching device; a switching state self-holding circuit including an automatic operation switch; and an overvoltage detecting circuit. When the operation switch is switched on or when the operation switch and the automatic operation switch are simultaneously switched on, the switching device is switched on to energize the relay winding and a contact in the relay is switched to drive the motor.

Abstract: In a method of detecting a foreign matter caught by a window in a power window device which includes a window opening/closing motor, a motor drive unit, a pulse generator for generating pulses corresponding to the rotation of the motor, an MCU for executing overall control and drive processing and manually-operated switch unit, the MCU detects a parameter value indicating a motor load imposed on a window when the window is opened and closed through the motor drive unit, compares the parameter value with a preset reference median, determines that a foreign matter is caught by the window when the parameter value falls outside the reference median in a considerable amount and stops the drive of the motor or reverses the motor, wherein the reference median that is preset in the range where a foreign matter is detected within the entire moving region of the window is successively changed stepwise by the same displacement value.

Abstract: A power window device which uses a driving source such as a motor and the like for opening and closing a window, and a controlling device used for the same, have a submersion detecting element for detecting intrusion of water in the event that the automobile is submerged in water and a switching device (including a first switch for manually instructing the opening operation of the window, a second switch for manually instructing the closing operation of the window, a first driving unit comprised of a relay and the like for connecting the power source to the driving source such that the driving source is driven in the direction of opening the window, based on the operation of the first switch, a second driving unit comprised of a relay and the like for connecting the power source to the driving source such that the driving source is driven in the direction of closing the window, based on the operation of the second switch, and a control unit), so that the control unit can execute control for realizing opening

Abstract: A keyboard having an encoder in the form of a microcomputer includes an automatic reset circuit and a key matrix circuit. The microcomputer constantly feeds a key scanning signal to the key matrix and to the automatic reset circuit. If a program used in the microcomputer gets out of control as by external noise, the key scanning signal is ceased. The automatic control circuit detects such stoppage of the key scanning signal that extends over a given period of time, and the circuit then supplies a reset signal to the microcomputer to automatically restart it from the beginning of the program.