Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Nec Corporation

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Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyo Microsystems Corporation

Mitsunori Ishii

Seiji Iino

Akihito Tokutsu

Osamu Kitazawa

Masakazu Iwamoto

Shinichi Miyakawa

Fujio Matsui

Kazunari Tezuka

Shinji Kamimaru

Tsutomu Takahashi

Saiichiro Oshita

Toyohiko Mouri

Seiichi Anzawa

Masato Sakurai

Naoki Shoji

Hiroshi Nishizawa

Hideaki Satoh

Tetsuo Kobayashi

Mikihiro Suzuki

Atsushi Horio

An information generating device generates data for use in a print processing device capable of printing in a state where sheets are connected to each other, and includes a memory, an input device, and a controller. The memory stores predetermined image data. The input device receives sheet information relating to the sheets which are to be connected to each other by a sheet print processor. The controller sets a magnification ratio indicating either an enlargement ratio or a reduction ratio of the image data, based on a length of the sheet in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which sheets are to be connected. In addition, the controller determines a connection length indicating a length of a connection region which is formed between sheets in the first direction, based on the set magnification ratio and the lengths of sheets in the first direction.

Information generating device, print processing device, and information generating method including setting a magnification ratio

A minimum remaining driving range estimated to be the distance which the vehicle can travel on the remaining battery power, in a case where a power load which accessories capable of receiving electric power from a battery place on the battery is the greatest within a variable range in accordance with input of operations, and a maximum remaining driving range estimated to be the distance which the vehicle can travel on the remaining battery power, in a case where the power load is the smallest within the variable range, are displayed on a display unit.

Onboard display device

A vehicle externally chargeable with electric power transmitted through a charging cable from an external power supply includes a chargeable power storage device, a charging device and a control device. The charging device supplies charge power to the power storage device using the electric power transmitted from the external power supply. The control device controls the charging device to limit the charge power based on the state of the power transmission path from the external power supply to the charging device. By this configuration, even when an extension cable is added by a user or when a failure occurs in the charging cable and the like, damage to the cable and influences upon surrounding devices due to excessive heat generation at the cable can be suppressed.

Vehicle and method of controlling vehicle

An auto document feeding device includes: a carrying member configured to carry an original from an original setting unit to an image scanning unit; a fixed guide unit configured to change a carrying direction of the original, at between the carrying member and the image scanning unit; a movable guide unit which is movable between the fixed guide unit and the carrying member; and a paper discharge unit configured to discharge the original which passed through the image scanning unit.

Auto document feeding device

A battery temperature control apparatus capable of controlling the temperature of a battery to reach a suitable condition is provided. Thermal capacity determining unit, based on the temperature of batterydetected by battery temperature detectorand a target temperature stored in storage unit, determines the thermal capacity necessary for setting the temperature of batteryto the target temperature. Temperature regulating ability determining unit, based on the temperature of batterydetected by battery temperature detectorand the temperature of the temperature regulating medium detected by medium temperature detector, determines the temperature regulating ability of fan. Flow rate controller, based on the thermal capacity determined by thermal capacity determining unitand the temperature regulating ability determined by temperature regulating ability determining unit, controls the flow rate of the temperature regulating medium sent by the fan. The temperature of batterybecomes close to the target temperature due to the temperature regulating medium sent from fan

Battery temperature control apparatus and battery temperature control method

An auto document feeding device causes an original document passing through an OUT path and an original document passing through an IN path to flow together with overlap a trailing edge of a preceding original document and a leading edge of a following original document. Before the original documents reach to a READ document glass, the auto document feeding device comprises a separating unit configured to separate an overlapping portion of the original documents. The auto document feeding device reduces a distance between the preceding original document and the following original document passing on the READ document glass to nearly 0 mm.

The lengths of an OUT path and an IN path are made longer than the length of a document of a main size in a traveling direction. The document of the main size stands by for conveyance in a direction of a READ document glass in a state where the entire document is contained in the OUT path or the IN path. The entrance speed of the document into the OUT path or the IN path is equal to the read speed of a scanner. The leading edge of a subsequent document is overlapped on the trailing edge of a preceding document, and the document is conveyed to the READ document glass.

Auto document feeding device and image scanning device

There is provided an insulation resistance detecting apparatus that accurately calculates an insulation resistance value in real time. The insulation resistance detecting apparatus includes: pulse generator, comparatorto which reference voltage Vis supplied as one input and an output from pulse generatoris supplied as the other input, comparatorthat outputs a low-level signal when the level of the other input exceeds reference voltage V, and that outputs a high-level signal when the level of the other input is lower than reference voltage V; resistance Rprovided on the output line of pulse generatorin series; coupling capacitor Cone end of which is connected to the other input line of comparatorand the other end of which is connected to the output line of high-voltage DC power supply; capacitor Cone end of which is connected to the other input line of comparatorand the other end of which is connected to a ground; and pulse width measuring devicethat calculates the value of insulation resistance on the output line of high-voltage DC power supplyfrom the duty ratio of an output waveform of comparator

Insulation resistance detecting apparatus

An internal impedance detecting apparatus for detecting the internal impedance of a secondary battery with high accuracy is provided. Processordivides the variation of each voltage detected by voltage change detectorby the variation of the current detected by current change detectorfor the same detecting time as that for the voltage variations to compute the internal impedances. Judging unitchecks the variations of the internal impedances computed by processorand judges from the check result whether or not the internal impedances have reliability. Only when judging unitjudges that the internal impedances have reliability, generatorgenerates output internal impedance according to the internal impedances.

Apparatus and method for detecting internal impedance of a battery and a degree of battery degradation based on detected internal impedance

An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyance motor for conveying paper; an image forming unit forms a toner image on the conveyed paper; and a fixing device having a heat roller including plural heat sources to cause the toner image to be fixed to the paper. The image forming apparatus also includes a control unit. The control unit generates a control signal that switches ON or OFF the heat sources and a signal controls the driving of the conveyance motor, and generates a mode signal that differs between a warm-up mode and a normal mode. The control unit switches ON the plural heat sources at the same time and prohibits the driving of the conveyance motor during the warm-up mode, and allows the driving of the conveyance motor and prohibits all of the plural heat sources from being switched ON at the same time during the normal mode.

Image forming apparatus having warm-up and normal modes and control method thereof

A communication bufferof a node has a plurality of storage areas for storing transmission data of other nodes. The plurality of nodes receive data transmitted by the token passing communication method and store the received data to the storage area corresponding to the transmission originator by a micro-sequencer. The node specified as a transmission destination informs a receiving acknowledgment.

Multiplex communication method, the device and the system thereof

In such a voltage equalizer circuit in which each of plural windings P to Pn electromagnetically coupled to each other, each of plural storage elements E to En series-connected to each other, and each of plural first switching elements S to Sn are connected to each other in a series connecting manner so as to constitute a plurality of closed circuits, this voltage equalizer apparatus is featured by that a reference voltage winding Pp electromagnetically coupled to the plurality of windings is provided; both a DC power supply Ep and a second switching element Sp are series-connected to the second winding; and all of the plural first switching elements and the second switching element are turned ON/OFF in a synchronous manner.

Voltage equalizer apparatus and method thereof

The system and method for controlling an electomagnetically operated valve driving mechanism comprises an actuator, an actuator drive circuit, a lift sensor, an actuator control apparatus, and a micro-computer. The actuator includes a valve opening solenoid and a valve closing solenoid. The actuator control apparatus generates signals for energizing and deenrgizing the valve opening solenoid and the valve closing solenoid based on control data supplied from the lift sensor and the micro-computer. The feature of this system is to control the elecromagnetically operated valve driving mechanism only by the actuator control apparatus but not by the micro-computer in a precise and sophisticated manner, thereby a burden on the micro-computer can be lightened.

Electromagnetically operated valve control system and the method thereof

A valve opening and closing time detecting apparatus and method of an elecromagnetically operated valve in an internal combustion engine comprises a vibration detecting means for detecting a vibration generated when the valve reaches a fully open position or when the valve reaches a valve seated position and a judging means for comparing a comparison data obtained from the vibration detecting means with a threshold value and for judging that the valve has reached the open position or the seated position when the comparison data exceeds the threshold value.

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Mitsunori Ishii