Patents Issued in April 24, 2008
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Publication number: 20080097662Abstract: Method for detecting faults in a device comprising the steps of receiving a plurality of performance parameters, applying the plurality of performance parameters to a first model to produce a plurality of estimated performance parameters, applying the plurality of performance parameters to a second model to produce a plurality of estimated device parameters, computing a plurality of residuals from the plurality of estimated device parameters, computing a plurality of distance measuring from the plurality of residuals, detecting at least one parameter deviation using the plurality of residuals and the plurality of estimated performance parameters, and setting at least one detection flag if the detected at least one parameter deviation is persistent.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2004Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventor: Allan J. Volponi
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Publication number: 20080097663Abstract: A client managing database for storing information on the diagnosis request record, the diagnosis result needing a dealer check for repair or adjustment of the mobile body, the inspection result, the inspecting dealer, and the inspection report for each client receiving a mobile object diagnosis service. The dealer having implemented an inspection on the mobile object registers the information on the inspection report in the client managing database, and the client having received the inspection can refer to the information on the inspection report.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Yasuaki Morimoto
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Publication number: 20080097664Abstract: A vehicle power supply apparatus has first and second engine-driven electrical generators and first and second storage batteries, the first generator supplying a stable voltage to the first battery and a first set of loads, and the second generator supplying the second battery and a second set of loads, which can tolerate supply voltage variations. Operation of the second generator and charging/discharging of the second battery are controlled to maintain the total engine torque applied to the generators at a level whereby fuel consumption is reduced, while the supply voltage of the variation-tolerant loads is allowed to vary substantially.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoshi Aoyama, Hiroshi Tamura, Akira Kato
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Publication number: 20080097665Abstract: A method for the management of application data of a vehicle component of a motor vehicle includes acquiring relevant application data for the vehicle component, an electronic control unit being associated with the vehicle component, wherein the relevant application data includes parameterization data of the electronic control unit and general data about the vehicle component. The method also includes storing the relevant application data in a binary file of the electronic control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Helmut Bentele, Rainer Roehrle, Bayram Keser, Siegibert Fleischer
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Publication number: 20080097666Abstract: In a configuration in which a control is performed for actuating the steering cylinder 17 so that the steering angle of the front wheel 11a (steering wheel), which is detected by the steering angle detector 62, becomes a target steering angle which is set in accordance with an operational state of the steering dial 42, the target steering angle of the front wheel 11a (steering wheel), which is set in accordance with an operational state of the steering dial 42, is compared with a detected steering angle of the front wheel 11a, which is detected by the steering detector 62, and when the difference between the target steering angle and the detected steering angle is a predetermined value or higher, the traveling speed of the vehicle 10 is regulated so that the traveling speed of the vehicle 10 becomes a predetermined speed or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2006Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA AICHI CORPORATIONInventors: Takaaki Oba, Shunichi Nakazawa, Futoshi Kobayashi, Yukio Yoshida
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Publication number: 20080097667Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for determining a steering angle of a motor vehicle. The systems make it possible to detect an elastokinematic angle on at least one steering pivoting joint (10) in correlation with a wheel offset.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2005Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Peter Brenner, Gerd Reimann, Wolfgang Reinelt, Thoma Achim, Andreas Gartner
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Publication number: 20080097668Abstract: The operations of an electric power steering system and a wheel slip control system such as a traction control system or an anti-lock brake system are co-related so as not to undesirably affect one another, by the target assisting steering force for the electric power steering system being modified differently according to whether or not the wheel slip control system is in operation. In doing so, the target value of assisting steering force according to an increase of the steering torque of the steering wheel is increased by a degree increased along with increase of a time based differential of the steering torque of the steering wheel, or the degree of increasing the target value of assisting steering force according to an increase of the steering torque of the steering wheel is decreased along with increase of a time based differential of steering angle of the steering wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2005Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiaki Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20080097669Abstract: The method consists in the following when the instantaneous speed of the vehicle is greater than a pre-determined threshold speed: identifying that the vehicle travels in a straight line during a minimum pre-determined period without torque exerted on the steering wheel by the driver of the vehicle; if the prior condition is met, an average residual torque (tm) is determined for the steering wheel, particularly by calculating a sliding scale of measures of torque on the steering wheel; if the average residual torque (tm) on the steering wheel is greater than a pre-determined minimum torque, a correction, which is particularly proportional to the average residual torque (tm), e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2005Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: KOYO STEERING EUROPE (K.S.E.) Z.I. DU BROTEAUInventors: Jean-Marc Kasbarian, Chritophe Ravier
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Publication number: 20080097670Abstract: A vehicular steering system can suppress, even upon a change in a neutral position of a steering wheel, a right and left difference in the behavior of a vehicle by keeping neutral positions of steerable road wheels from the start of control. The system includes a steering mechanism that steers the steerable road wheels of the vehicle through the steering wheel and an auxiliary steering angle superposition mechanism. A steered angle of the steerable road wheels is detected as an absolute angle. The auxiliary steering angle superposition mechanism is controlled by a target auxiliary steering angle. An activation angle setting section sets, at the start of control, the initial values of a steering wheel angle and an auxiliary steering angle as an activation steering wheel angle and an activation auxiliary steering angle by the steered angle and a transmission characteristic between the steering wheel angle and the steered angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Ogawa, Takayuki Kifuku
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Publication number: 20080097671Abstract: In view of the matter that an abnormality occurred in an operating portion of a control system comes out in an early stage as a result of the control, while it takes a time for an abnormality occurred in the generation of a controlling amount for controlling the operation of an operating portion to come out, in ceasing the control when an abnormality has occurred in the control system the controlling amount is decreased at a higher speed when the abnormality of the controlling amount was judged than a speed at which the operation of the operating device is decreased when the abnormality of the operating device was judged.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2005Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Kojo, Masato Suzumura, Yoshiaki Tsuchiya, Kenji Asano
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Publication number: 20080097672Abstract: A method and machine with an automated digging cycle is provided. The method includes moving an implement system of the machine through a work cycle, including interacting with a material. The method further includes sensing values associated with a bucket velocity parameter, such as bucket tip velocity, during interacting with the material, and controlling the velocity parameter via commands which control a sequence of bucket orientations whereby an implement system of the machine interacts with the material, responsive to the sensed values. The machine includes an electronic controller configured via a control algorithm to execute the automated digging cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Megan Clark, Chad Magstadt, Gregory Mettlach, Robert J. Price, Bassam J. Alshaer
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Publication number: 20080097673Abstract: A construction machine includes: a work arm rotatably mounted at a construction machine main body; a work tool mounted at the work arm; an attitude decision device that decides an attitude of the work arm or the work tool relative to the construction machine main body; a follow-up enabling device that allows the work armor the work tool to follow a displacement of a contacting object that comes into contact with the work tool and applies an external force to the work tool, by adjusting the attitude of the work arm or the work tool decided by the attitude decision device; and a switching device that selects whether or not to allow the work arm or the work tool to follow the displacement of the contacting object via the follow-up enabling device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kunitsugu TOMITA, Kazuo Fujishima, Akinori Ishii
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Publication number: 20080097674Abstract: An ECU executes a program that includes the steps of i) calculating a sporty running counting SC based on a state of a vehicle according to an operation of a driver; ii) changing a condition for executing sporty running in which an upshift is inhibited when an accelerator is suddenly released and in which a downshift is promoted during sudden braking such that the condition is easier to satisfy and changing a condition for returning from sporty running so that it is more difficult to satisfy when the sporty running count SC is equal to or greater than a threshold value; and iii) changing the condition for executing sporty running so that it is more difficult to satisfy and changing the condition for returning from sporty running so that it is easier to satisfy when the sporty running count SC is not equal to or greater than the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Seiji KUWAHARA, Toshihiro Fukumasu, Masami Kondo, Hideki Kubonoya, Naoto Moriya, Masato Kaigawa
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Publication number: 20080097675Abstract: An electric braking control apparatus for controlling an electric braking apparatus which includes a brake pad, a motor which generates a rotational torque, and a rotation/linear motion conversion mechanism which causes the brake pad to generate a pressing force based on the torque. The braking control apparatus includes an inverter which converts and outputs an electric current supplied from a power supply to the motor, and a microcomputer that receives power from the power supply, detects the value of a voltage applied from the power supply to the inverter, and controls the electric current output from the inverter depending on a result of the detection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yasufumi Konishi, Toshiyuki Innami, Satoru Kuragaki, Takafumi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20080097676Abstract: A method is provided for controlling a drive system and/or a wheel braking system of a vehicle, in which a total braking power to be exerted on the wheels of a motor vehicle is composed of a drive braking power and/or a wheel braking power. The instantaneously set drive braking power is frozen when, starting from a stationary operating mode, the gradient of the required total braking power exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Andreas PFEIFFER, Peter Wanner
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Publication number: 20080097677Abstract: A driving force control apparatus has an electronically-controlled throttle valve for regulating an intake air mass of an engine, and an ECU for controlling this electronically-controlled throttle valve. The ECU keeps an opening of the electronically-controlled throttle valve constant to restrain increase of engine output, in a region where a position of an accelerator pedal (accelerator travel) is not less than a predetermined travel AC1. The ECU relaxes the restraint on the output of the engine when a predetermined output restraint relaxation condition is satisfied, e.g., when a speed of a vehicle becomes higher than a predetermined speed (e.g., 20 km/h), or when the shift position is a predetermined position (e.g., D1 (first gear fixed), or D2 (second gear fixed) position).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Seiji Kawakami
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Publication number: 20080097678Abstract: A process for determining particle input into a particle filter arranged in the exhaust fume stream of an internal combustion engine makes it possible to determine the mass of deposited particles by taking into account particle and nitrogen oxide emission.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2005Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: AVL LIST GMBHInventors: Holger Huelser, Manfred Krickler
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Publication number: 20080097679Abstract: An internal combustion system and a water injection nozzle to position a water mist within an internal chamber of an internal combustion engine. In one form, the apical cone of the injection is altered with respect to the position of the piston within the interior chamber. In another form, the air fuel mixture is charged at an opposing charge to the water mist to create a water droplet gaseous fuel mixture for combustion within the anterior chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventor: Steven Keays
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Publication number: 20080097680Abstract: A fuel injection control device performs fuel injection only once corresponding to an over-rich air/fuel ratio immediately after the end of F/C as rich air/fuel ratio control after F/C. Such fuel injection is performed with a fuel amount which is the sum of a fuel amount corresponding to a shallow rich air/fuel ratio AFrich and a predetermined increment. Immediately after this operation, fuel injection is performed with a fuel amount corresponding to the shallow rich air/fuel ratio AFrich. This adjusts the air/fuel ratio of the engine to the over-rich air/fuel ratio for an extremely short period of time immediately after the end of F/C, following which the air/fuel ratio is immediately switched to the shallow rich air/fuel ratio AFrich.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2005Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Mamoru Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20080097681Abstract: An engine controller performs low opening degree control during a first intake stroke period since an engine start is commenced until first intake strokes of respective cylinders end. Thus, an opening degree of an intake throttle valve is controlled to a fully closed position or proximity of the fully closed position such that intake pressure downstream of the intake throttle valve becomes equal to or lower than critical pressure with respect to intake pressure upstream of the intake throttle valve during an intake stroke of each cylinder. The controller calculates a leak air quantity at the time when the intake throttle valve is fully closed based on an intake air quantity sensed during the low opening degree control. The controller corrects a feedback gain of idle speed control in accordance with the leak air quantity of the intake throttle valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki Nakano, Hideki Suzuki
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Publication number: 20080097682Abstract: A method is provided for determining whether an injection parameter correction for fuel quality is required in an internal combustion engine, the engine comprising a plurality of cylinders, each one of the cylinders comprising a combustion chamber into which fuel is injected by an associated fuel injector and within which, in use, combustion events repeatedly occur to define a combustion cycle of the cylinder between successive combustion events. The method comprises observing the speed of the combustion cycles of at least two of the cylinders and analysing the at least two speeds to determine if an injection parameter correction for fuel quality is required. The invention also extends to an injector control unit arranged to determine an injection parameter correction for fuel quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Ludovic Peron, Guillaume Meissonnier
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Publication number: 20080097683Abstract: A control apparatus which is capable of compensating for a control error properly and quickly even under a condition where the control error is temporarily increased e.g. by degradation of reliability of the detection results of reference parameters other than controlled variables, thereby making it possible to ensure a high accuracy of control. An air-fuel ratio controller of the control apparatus calculates modified errors by multiplying e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Ikue Kawasumi, Kosuke Higashitani
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Publication number: 20080097684Abstract: A rule-based fuzzy gain-scheduling proportional integral (PI) controller is provided to control desired engine power and speed behavior in a power-split HEV. The controller includes a fuzzy logic gain-scheduler and a modified PI controller that operates to improve on the control of engine power and speed in a power-split HEV versus using conventional PI control methods. The controller improves the engine power and speed behavior of a power-split HEV by eliminating overshoots, and by providing enhanced and uncompromised rise-time and settling-time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2006Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Fazal Syed, Ming Kuang, Shunsuke Okubo, Matt Smith, John Czubay
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Publication number: 20080097685Abstract: A start control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes first and second control mechanisms which are individually arranged to vary at least one of a compression ratio and an expansion ratio of a cylinder of the internal combustion engine. The start control apparatus measures a state of the internal combustion engine before cranking the internal combustion engine, wherein the state includes a state of the second control mechanism; sets a first control signal in accordance with the measured state of the internal combustion engine; and outputs the set first control signal to the first control mechanism before cranking the internal combustion engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventor: Makoto Nakamura
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Publication number: 20080097686Abstract: Disclosed is a travel-time prediction apparatus that is capable of making a mid-term prediction of travel time accurately by combining present conditions and statistical information. The apparatus includes a travel-time transition pattern database storing travel-time transition patterns obtained by statistically processing past time-series data of each road link according to type of data. Upon accepting a travel-time transition pattern corresponding to a specified link and day type from the database, the apparatus calculates conversion parameters of a travel-time transition pattern for which an error between the travel-time transition pattern and a sequentially input travel-time time-series data will be reduced, and then makes a prediction using a prediction function obtained by converting the travel-time transition pattern by the calculated conversion parameters. The calculated predicted value and the conversion parameters are distributed as traffic information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Junichi Takeuchi, Takayuki Nakata, Takashi Fujita, Yasuhiro Sugisaki
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Publication number: 20080097687Abstract: A device, method, and computer program product for monitoring and transmitting a location and a local status of a remote device using a simplex satellite transmitter. The monitoring device includes a position location unit, a simplex satellite transmitter, a power source, and a controller. The position location unit is configured to determine a location of the remote device. The simplex satellite transmitter is configured to transmit the location to one or more satellites in low earth orbit. The controller includes a power management unit configured to control a power state of the position location unit and the simplex satellite transmitter, and to periodically enable and disable power from the power source to the position location unit and the simplex satellite transmitter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Gary NADEN, Stephen SCHAMBER, Ronnie TANNER, Scott QUILLIN
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Publication number: 20080097688Abstract: A route can be optimized according to various constraints, specifically towards non-travel constraints. A number of community activities can take place such that the activities impact traffic. Thus, a route can be produces that lowers an influence the activities have upon a route. Moreover, a route can be produced that improves signal strength, such as strength of a signal used to communicate with a cellular telephone. In addition, a route can be enhanced by taking into account weather conditions, including real-time weather in addition to weather predictions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Ivan Tashev, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Neil Black, John Krumm, Ruston Panabaker, Michael Seltzer
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Publication number: 20080097689Abstract: An information system (1) including an input (2) for receiving data (5) indicative of one or more consecutive identifiers such a pair of consecutive identifiers (6) and (7) or an individual identifier (8). Each identifier (6) to (8) includes data (9) indicative of at least one geographical waypoint. A processor (10) is responsive to data (5) for defining for each identifier (6) to (9) a respective polygon indicative of a geographical region. This occurs such that any given geographical position within the polygon is associated with the defining identifier In the present embodiment, each polygon has one or more characteristics and the defining identifier includes data indicative of those characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2005Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Speedalert PTY LTDInventors: George Germanos, Henry Setiawan
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Publication number: 20080097690Abstract: A mobile computing device, including a main body, a processor and associated memory housed within the main body, a display screen housed within the main body and responsive to signals from the processor, an optical sensor fixed to the main body for capturing successive images and providing image signals representative of the captured images to the processor, and a navigation module associated with the processor for determining, based on the image signals, a relative movement between the main body and a reference surface and moving a pointer on the display screen based on the determined relative movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventor: ALEXEI SKARINE
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Publication number: 20080097691Abstract: A navigation system is provided in a vehicle. The navigation system operates using a dedicated operating mode for generating navigation information and outputting such information to the vehicle user when a relevant event has occurred. The navigation system includes a positioning device for determining the vehicle position with respect to a digital map representation and for generating a corresponding position data signal, a traffic monitoring device for receiving traffic information data and analyzing the traffic information data so as to detect a relevant event relating to a travel route on which the vehicle moves, where the traffic monitoring device generates a corresponding traffic monitoring data signal. The system includes a processing unit for generating navigation information based on the position data signal and/or the traffic monitoring data signal, and an output device for outputting the navigation information to a vehicle user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbHInventor: Kai Seifried
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Publication number: 20080097692Abstract: A navigation apparatus in a vehicle displays road names of cross roads that crosses a to-be-traveled road along the to-be-traveled road at positions that area adjacent to respective cross roads. In this manner, a user of the navigation apparatus easily recognizes the road names of the roads to be traveled by the vehicle in his/her view.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Motohiro Fukumoto, Tomoo Nomura
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Publication number: 20080097693Abstract: A method and apparatus for use with a satellite positioning system wherein the receive elements satellite positioning system receive antennas are maintained in an orientation with respect to the positioning system satellites in a way such that the strongest signals can be received from the greatest number of satellites. According to one embodiment, a housing of a positioning antenna is mounted in a gimbaled fashion onto a vehicle, such as an excavator. Such a gimbaled antenna maintains a horizontal orientation relative to a predetermined axis and, as a result, remains in a position to receive signals from positioning system satellites even during instances of high angular deflection of the antenna support, such as may occur during earth-moving operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2006Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventor: Steven Daniel McCain
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Publication number: 20080097694Abstract: An intelligent electronic device broadcasts its own location information over an IRIG-B or similar network, avoiding the need for maintenance personnel to manually record the location of the installed device, and avoiding errors in tracking its location. The intelligent electronic device either is equipped with a GPS module, or receives location information from another device installed at the same site.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2006Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventor: Charles E. Petras
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Publication number: 20080097695Abstract: Disclosed is a portable navigation apparatus which positions a current position to display the position on a display section, including: an apparatus main body part in which the display section is disposed on a front side thereof; a planate GPS antenna section which is provided at an upper end of the apparatus main body part so as to be freely revolvable to receive a GPS signal transmitted from a GPS satellite; and an elevation angle adjusting mechanism which adjusts an elevation angle of the GPS antenna section, wherein the GPS antenna section is configured to switch between a state in which an entire display screen of the display section is exposed and covered, by revolving the GPS antenna section, and the GPS antenna section is freely slidable in a front and a back direction, being substantially perpendicular to the display screen of the display section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroto TANAKA, Haruki YAMADA
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Publication number: 20080097696Abstract: Provided is a network global positioning system (GPS) terminal. The network GPS terminal includes: a GPS receiver receiving GPS data; a GPS processor processing the received GPS data to a predetermined form; a network communication part communicating with an external apparatus through a network in order to receive a request for the GPS data from the external apparatus, and transmit the processed GPS data to the external apparatus in response to the request; a security access controller authenticating the external apparatus; and a network management part managing connection information and security information of the external apparatus, the network communication part simultaneously communicating with at least one external apparatus using a TCP/IP protocol. A method of providing GPS data using a network is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Mi Ryong Park, Tae Man Han, Man Seok Yang, Dong Sun Lim
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Publication number: 20080097697Abstract: A point-of-interest display system includes an updateable database which interfaces with a microprocessor which receives data from a GPS receiver providing the system with current vehicle location and direction of travel information. A display provides the operator textural and elemental graphic display information, and easily accessible control switches allow the operator to select upcoming highway exits, categories of points of interest, and points of interest and display directions to a selected entry.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2003Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Nisa M. Arnold-Huyser, Alan S. Hughes, John S. Bambini, Ian Milstead, Susan K. Sonday
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Publication number: 20080097698Abstract: A point of interest display system (20) includes an updatable database which interfaces with a microprocessor (50) which receives data from a GPS receiver (40) providing the system with current vehicle location and direction of travel information. A display (26) provides the operator graphic display data information and easily accessible control switches (24) allow the operator to select upcoming highway exits, categories of points of interests, and points of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2003Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Nisa M. Arnold-Huyser, John S. Bambini, Alan S. Hughes, Ian Milstead, Susan K. Sonday
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Publication number: 20080097699Abstract: The invention provides a vehicle motion control device capable of realizing optimum avoidance control in the case of an emergency. The vehicle motion control device includes an external environment detection unit for detecting external environment, and a travel state detection unit for detecting a travel state of a driver's vehicle. An obstruction is detected based on the external environment detected by the external environment detection unit, and an environment map indicating obstructions is created. A control device estimates a plurality of possible avoidance actions for avoiding an obstruction based on the environment map and the travel state of the driver's vehicle detected by the travel state detection unit. The control device estimates collision damage according to each avoidance action estimated by the avoidance action estimation unit, and selects an appropriate avoidance action based on the estimated collision damage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2005Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHOInventor: Eiichi ONO
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Publication number: 20080097700Abstract: A collision avoidance system adapted for use with a rearward traveling host vehicle, and by an operator, in a preferred embodiment includes an object locator sub-system configured to determine at least one condition for a plurality of objects, wherein the objects include infrastructure, appurtenances, and remotely traveling equipped vehicles, and pedestrians, a intra-vehicle condition sensor, and a control unit configured to assess collision threats based on the object and host vehicle condition data, and alert the operator or autonomously cause a braking mechanism to be actuated, when a collision is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2006Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.Inventor: Donald K. Grimm
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Publication number: 20080097701Abstract: The present invention provides a short term weather forecaster for nowcasting using a Numerical Weather Predictor (NWP). The system of the present invention tracks the evolution of differences between NWP and radar based precipitation patterns and adjusts the NWP forecast to account for theses differences. These differences are due to amplitude and phase errors of the NWP, such as model misses, false alarms, intensity errors and position errors. In presuming persistency in time of these errors and in estimating precipitation pattern time evolution due to other weather conditions such as wind motion, the present system corrects the NWP short term predicted patterns to compensate for these errors, thus enhancing nowcasting accuracy.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2006Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: MCGILL UNIVERSITYInventors: Isztar I. Zawadzki, Gyu Won Lee
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Publication number: 20080097702Abstract: A method for determining impedance coefficients of a seismic trace comprises determining reflection coefficients of the seismic trace, for example using a sparse spike inversion, integrating the reflection coefficients with respect to time to obtain impedance coefficients, and filtering the impedance coefficients by applying a low-cut window filter. The window size and/or shape may be defined by a variable parameter which may be either specified by a user or optimised on the basis of a lateral variability parameter calculated for different values of the window parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2006Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Michael Edwin Glinsky, Jerome Kalifa, Stephane Mallat
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Publication number: 20080097703Abstract: A method for doing an optimization of the performance envelope initially authorized for an existing rotorcraft engine (M) to enable the engine (M), to be used in an optimized performance envelope that is different from the performance envelope initially authorized for the engine, is remarquable in that this optimization is compensated by modifying the total service life of the engine (M).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2005Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventor: Daniel Francois
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Publication number: 20080097704Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for monitoring pressure within a battery cell, comprising: at least one battery cell, and at least one strain gauge for monitoring mechanical deformation of the battery cell. The invention also relates to a method of monitoring internal pressure of a battery cell, preferably by making use of such an arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2006Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.Inventors: Peter Notten, Georg Hetzendorf, Karl-Ragmar Riemschneider
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Publication number: 20080097705Abstract: A method of implementing vibration suppression at equipment residing at a local site is provided. The method comprises transmitting a prompt from a remote site to the local site, automatically sensing vibration response information from the equipment in response to the prompt, and transmitting the sensed vibration response information to the remote site. The method further comprises analyzing the sensed vibration response information at the remote site, and creating a vibration suppression algorithm based on the analyzed information. Another prompt is then transmitted from the remote site to the local site, and in response thereto, vibrations are induced within the equipment at the local site in accordance with the vibration suppression algorithm, and additional vibration response information from the equipment is sensed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: IPTRADE, INC.Inventors: Baruch Pletner, Gregory Zvonar
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Publication number: 20080097706Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of monitoring line faults in a medium voltage network (1) of the type comprising an electricity generating plant (3) supplying electricity to a plurality of customers over a network of medium voltage power lines (5), a control centre computer (9) and a plurality of measurement sensors (7) located remote from the electricity generating plant on the medium voltage power lines, each of the measurement sensors (7) further comprising three individual measurement units, each measurement unit mounted on a different phase of the medium voltage power line (5) with respect to the other measurement units of that measurement sensor, and each measurement sensor (7) having means to communicate with the control centre computer (9). The method includes the steps of synchronizing the measurement sensors (7) and thereafter calculating the out of balance current for the medium voltage line (5) on a cycle by cycle basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2005Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Michael Anthony McCormack, Charles Brendan O'Sullivan
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Publication number: 20080097707Abstract: An arrangement includes an A/D converter and a processing circuit. The A/D converter is configured to generate digital samples of voltage and current waveforms in a polyphase electrical system. The processing circuit is operably coupled to receive the digital samples from the A/D converter. The processing circuit is further configured to combine a value substantially equal to two times the magnitude of the phase A current sample with the phase C current sample to generate a first value, and generate a VA calculation using the first value and at least one other value. The processing circuit is further configured to provide information representative of the VA calculation to one of a group consisting of a display, a communication circuit, and a billing calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Landis+Gyr, Inc.Inventor: John Voisine
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Publication number: 20080097708Abstract: A system and method utilizing virtual switching in an electrical panel meter. The virtual switching enables the meter to be upgraded or downgraded through a switching signal, by activating or deactivating the metering functions that are to be performed in the meter. Accordingly, when the upgrade or downgrade is necessary, the meter does not have to be replaced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Electro Industries/Gauge Tech.Inventor: Erran Kagan
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Publication number: 20080097709Abstract: Apparatus and method for increasing the sensitivity in the detection of optical coherence tomography and low coherence interferometry (“LCI”) signals by detecting a parallel set of spectral bands, each band being a unique combination of optical frequencies. The LCI broad bandwidth source is split into N spectral bands. The N spectral bands are individually detected and processed to provide an increase in the signal-to-noise ratio by a factor of N. Each spectral band is detected by a separate photo detector and amplified. For each spectral band the signal is band pass filtered around the signal band by analog electronics and digitized, or, alternatively, the signal may be digitized and band pass filtered in software. As a consequence, the shot noise contribution to the signal is reduced by a factor equal to the number of spectral bands. The signal remains the same. The reduction of the shot noise increases the dynamic range and sensitivity of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: The General Hospital CorporationInventors: Johannes de Boer, Guillermo Tearney, Brett Bouma
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Publication number: 20080097710Abstract: In order to measure the phase jitter of a high-frequency signal, a spectrum analyzer is used. The high-frequency signal (HF) to be measured is either multiplied by M and/or the output frequency of the variable frequency oscillator of the spectrum analyzer is divided by N, and both signals are set to the same frequency and mixed in a mixer. The output signal of the mixer is then evaluated in the preferably digital evaluating device of the spectrum analyzer according to the Fast Fourier Transformation principle. To this end, the spectrum analyzer requires only one additional mixer, frequency divider and/or frequency multiplier.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2005Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Rhode &Schwarz GmbH & Co., KGInventor: Alexander Roth
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Publication number: 20080097711Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed. An analyzing section chronologically continuously analyzes sound data which chronologically continue in each of predetermined frequency bands. A continuous characteristic quantity extracting section which extracts a continuous characteristic quantity which is a characteristic quantity which chronologically continues from an analysis result of the analyzing section. A cutting section cuts the continuous characteristic quantity into regions each of which has a predetermined length. A regional characteristic quantity extracting section extracts a regional characteristic quantity which is a characteristic quantity represented by one scalar or vector from each of the regions into which the continuous characteristic quantity has been cut.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi