Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Subaru Corporation

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation

Adient US LLC

Nec Corporation

Asahi Rubber Inc.

Hiroyuki Yasui

Motofumi Tanaka

Toshiki Osako

Hisashi Matsuda

Naohiko Shimura

Shohei Goshima

Masahiro Asayama

Yutaka Ishiwata

Kunihiko Wada

Tamon Ozaki

Susumu Kinoshita

Kazuo Hayashi

Amane Majima

Shinichi Noda

Masahiro Katayama

Sueyoshi Mizuno

Takayuki Asakura

Akihide Onodera

Satoshi Obara

Abhinav Chaubey

Ajeet Tasagave

Nilesh Firke

Hiroshi Eguchi

Hideaki Sato

Tomonao Takamatsu

Akio Ui

Masato Akita

Yosuke Sato

Kenichi Yamazaki

Naoto Shinohara

Yutaka Watanabe

Yutaka Uchida

Toshimasa Yamada

Shinya Matsuda

Katsuya Okamura

Nobuyoshi Watanabe

Masaru Okamoto

Hiroki Murayama

Choji Yamazaki

Shotaro Oka

A vehicle seat includes a seat back and a cushion seat. The cushion seat includes a seat frame, a cushion pad portion above the seat frame, a first submarining suppression portion below the cushion pad portion, and a second submarining suppression portion below the cushion pad portion, the second submarining suppression portion arranged on a side of the first submarining suppression portion closer to the seat back.

Vehicle seat

A connection bar mounting structure includes: link members, each including a first hole part in a middle part; vehicle members, each configured to rotatably support each link member at a first fixation part of each link member; side frames, each configured to rotatably support each link member at a second fixation part of each link member opposite to the first fixation part across the first hole part; and a connection bar, each end thereof fixed to the first hole part of each link member. Each link member has a first bending rigidity reduced section between the middle part and the first fixation part and a second bending rigidity reduced section between the middle part and the second fixation part, the first and second bending rigidity reduced sections having bending rigidity smaller than those of the middle part, the first fixation part, and the second fixation part.

Connection bar mounting structure and vehicle seat

A dielectric barrier discharge electrode of an embodiment has: a dielectric; a first electrode provided to be exposed on the dielectric; a second electrode provided to be covered by the dielectric; and a third electrode provided to be covered by the dielectric in a neighborhood of the first electrode.

Dielectric barrier discharge electrode and dielectric barrier discharge device

An airflow generation device having a first dielectric substrate made from a rubber elastic material, a first electrode on or near by a first surface of the first dielectric substrate, a second electrode on a second surface, and a second dielectric substrate made from a rubber elastic material covering the second electrode. It makes the airflows generated by plasma caused from partial gas near by the first surface through applied voltage into the first electrode and the second electrode, and bonding portions between the first electrode and the second electrode and the first dielectric substrate, bonding portions between the second electrode and the second dielectric substrate, and bonding portions between the first dielectric substrate and the second dielectric substrate are bonded by chemical bonds with chemically crosslinking.

Airflow generation device and manufacturing method for same

A creeping discharge element drive device of an embodiment includes a switching element, a current detector, a zero-cross detection circuit, a storage, and a controller. The current detector detects alternating currents flowing through the switching element. The zero-cross point detection circuit detects a zero-cross point of the alternating currents. The storage stores a first threshold value of a resonant period. The controller drives the switching element to apply a test voltage to the creeping discharge element, determines a resonant period of the alternating currents from the detected zero-cross points of the alternating currents, and restricts or stops the driving of the switching element in response to the resonant period exceeding the first threshold value.

Creeping discharge element drive device and creeping discharge element drive method

A voltage application device of an embodiment applies a voltage between a first and second electrode disposed separately from each other in an airflow generation device, which is disposed on a rotation blade of a rotation apparatus, in which a rotation shaft of the rotation blade is held rotatably by a holding part. In the voltage application device of the embodiment, a voltage output unit outputs a voltage. Then, a sliding type transmission unit having electrodes disposed respectively on the rotation blade side and the holding part side of the rotation shaft transmits a voltage outputted from the voltage output unit from the holding part side to the rotation blade side. Then, a transformation unit disposed on the rotation blade side increases the voltage transmitted by the sliding type transmission unit and outputs the voltage to the airflow generation device.

Voltage application device, rotation apparatus and voltage application method

An airflow control devicein an embodiment includes: a vortex shedding structure portiondischarging an airflow flowing on a surface in a flow direction as a vortex flow; and a first electrodeand a second electrodedisposed on a downstream side of the vortex shedding structure portionvia a dielectric. By applying a voltage between the first electrodeand the second electrode, flow of the airflow on the downstream side of the vortex shedding structure portionis controlled.

Airflow control device and airflow control method

A wind power generation systemof an embodiment includes a rotorhaving a huband blades, a nacellepivotally supporting the rotor, a towersupporting the nacelle, an airflow generation deviceprovided in a leading edge of each of the bladesand having a first electrodeand a second electrodewhich are separated via a dielectric, and a discharge power supplycapable of applying a voltage between the electrodes of the airflow generation device. Further, the system includes a measurement device detecting information related to at least one of output in the wind power generation system, torque in the rotorand a rotation speed of the blades, and a control unitcontrolling the discharge power supplybased on an output from the measurement device.

Wind power generation system and control method for the same

A wind power generation systemof an embodiment includes a rotorhaving blades, an airflow generation deviceprovided in a leading edge of each of the bladesand having a first electrodeand a second electrodewhich are separated via a dielectric, a discharge power supplyapplying a voltage between the electrodes of the airflow generation device, and a control unitcontrolling the discharge power supply. The control unitcontrols the voltage to perform pulse modulation so that the value of a relational expression fC/U is 0.1 or larger and 9 or smaller where f is a pulse modulation frequency of the voltage, C is a chord length of the blades, and U is a relative velocity combining a peripheral velocity of the bladesand a wind velocity, so as to generate plasma induced flow.

In one embodiment, an air current generating apparatus includes: a dielectric substrate exposed to gas: a first electrode disposed inside the dielectric substrate; a second electrode disposed near a surface of the dielectric so as to correspond the first electrode and having a sharp shape; and a power source applying a voltage between the first and second electrodes and plasmatizing part of the gas to generate an air current.

Air current generating apparatus and method for manufacturing same

In one embodiment, a wind-power generating systemincludes: a lightning protecting device including a receptorprovided on a blade surface and a lightning conductorgrounding the receptor; an airflow generating deviceprovided on the blade surface and including first and second electrodesseparated via a dielectric; a discharge power sourceincluding switchesable to connect the first and second electrodesto output terminalsrespectively and a switchable to connect the first or second electrodeto a grounding conductor; and a thundercloud detecting device detecting information regarding thundercloud approach. When the information regarding the thundercloud approach is detected, the second electrodeis connected to the grounding conductorand the first and second electrodesare disconnected from the output terminals

Wind power generation system

In an exhaust gas processing apparatus for an internal combustion engine, supply power is fed to a corona discharge tube via a short-pulse high-repetition switching element to produce a corona. A harmful substance in exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine is removed by the corona. An MAGT (MOS Assisted Gate-Triggered Thyristor) is used as the short-pulse high-repetition switching element. Thus, the life of the switching element is increased and a high purification performance is achieved even at the time of start of operation when the temperature of exhaust gas is low.

Exhaust gas processing apparatus

A burst frame phase synchronizing circuit is disclosed, whereby the generation of erroneous synchronization caused by the phase fluctuation of received data or a bit error is prevented. A transmission error monitoring circuit 15 monitors a transmission error and outputs error information, and a transmission error statistical circuit 14 outputs protection information obtained by summing up the statistics of transmission errors. A frame synchronizing pattern comparator circuit 11 makes a comparison for bit strings between burst data at the time of transmission and a specified synchronizing pattern and outputs comparison information obtained based on the production state of a noncoincidence bit. A synchronization protective circuit 13 selects a permissible noncoincidence bit number and outputs a frame synchronizing signal satisfying a specified protection condition. Thus, since the strength of synchronization protection is flexibly switched according to a transmission line error, a synchronous bit length can be controlled without taking any unnecessarily strong synchronization protecting measures, and transmission efficiency can be improved by controlling a frame synchronous bit length.

Burst frame phase synchronizing circuit and burst frame phase

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Hiroyuki Yasui