Fujitsu Corporation

Jatco Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Yutaka Shimizu

Atsushi Tanaka

Keiichi Nagasaka

Yoshihiko Seyama

Reiko Kondo

Hirotaka Oshima

Hitoshi Kishi

Shusaku Katakura

Yukiyoshi Inuta

Tomoyuki Koike

Youko Yoshioka

Shin Eguchi

Yusuke Ota

Arata Jogo

Hitoshi Kanai

Takuya Uzumaki

Takahiko Sugawara

Junya Ikeda

Hirotaka Suzuki

Takahiro Ibusuki

Masayoshi Nakasaki

Shinya Iijima

Shintaro Ohshio

Keiichi Nakao

Yoshiaki Hara

Hiroshi Asida

Reiko Kondoh

Keiichi Nagasawa

Harumi Sakuma

A control device for a vehicle having a drive shaft, an engagement element, an engine connected to the drive shaft via the engagement element, and an electric motor connected to the drive shaft not via the engagement element includes a control portion adapted to stop the engine after a maintaining period in which the engine is maintained at predetermined rotation speed during travel of the vehicle. The a control portion gradually decreases an engagement volume of the engagement element while gradually increasing a power generation load of the electric motor during the maintaining period to disengage the engagement element, and stops the engine after disengagement of the engagement element.

Control device and control method for vehicle

An oil pressure control device has a mechanical oil pump (O/P) driven by a motor/generator (MG), an electric oil pump (M/O/P) driven by a sub motor (S/M) and a line pressure regulating valve (). In a case where a state is changed from a state in which the motor/generator (MG) is stopped and the electric oil pump (M/O/P) is driven to a state in which the motor/generator (MG) is started and the electric oil pump (M/O/P) is stopped, when a total flow amount of a working fluid discharge flow amount of the mechanical oil pump (O/P) and a working fluid discharge flow amount of the electric oil pump (M/O/P) is equal to or greater than a pressure regulation limit flow amount of the pressure regulating valve (), the working fluid discharge flow amount of the electric oil pump (M/O/P) is decreased.

Oil pressure control device for vehicle and oil pressure control method

An oil pressure control device for a vehicle is configured such that, when switching from an oil pressure supply by means of a mechanical oil pump driven by a motor/generator to an oil pressure supply by means of an electric oil pump driven by a sub-motor, a supply ratio of oil supplied from the mechanical oil pump and a supply ratio of oil supplied from the electric oil pump, are adjusted based on an oil pressure difference between a first oil pressure and a second oil pressure, via first and second flapper valves. When the first oil pressure becomes less than or equal to a pump drive threshold, an increase in the second oil pressure is initiated, and the first oil pressure and the second oil pressure are made to match at a predetermined equilibrium oil pressure higher than a required line pressure.

Oil pressure control device for vehicle and oil pressure control method for vehicle

A vehicle is provided with a mechanical oil pump (O/P) that is driven by a motor/generator (MG), an electric oil pump (M/O/P) that is driven by a sub-motor (S/M) and a second clutch (CL) that transmits the drive force of the motor/generator (MG) to left and right drive wheels (LT, RT). When an accelerator pedal is depressed while a brake pedal is still depressed, an integrated controller () drives the electric oil pump (M/O/P) before the brake pedal is released, and oil pressure supplied to the second clutch (CL) is increased.

Starting control device for vehicle and starting control method

A hydraulic control device includes: a mechanical oil pump (O/P) that is driven by a motor/generator (M/G) and that generates a first hydraulic pressure (P1); an electric oil pump (M/O/P) that is driven by a sub-motor (S/M) and that generates a second hydraulic pressure (P2); and a controller (). When a demanded drive force from a driver is generated while in a low-vehicle-speed region which is lower than a first vehicle speed (V1) at which the output of the mechanical oil pump (O/P) becomes unstable, the controller () controls the electric oil pump (M/O/P) such that the second hydraulic pressure (P2) becomes larger than a compensative hydraulic pressure (P&#x3b1;) found by subtracting the first hydraulic pressure (P1) from a necessary hydraulic pressure (Pne) determined in accordance with the demanded drive force.

Vehicular hydraulic control device and hydraulic control method

The present invention is configured such that: in a stopped state of an electric oil pump (M/O/P), control of the electric oil pump (M/O/P) is started such that, when a driver has the intention of demanding drive force, a discharge pressure takes on a target hydraulic pressure (P) determined in accordance with the demanded drive force from the driver; and a pressure regulation target value of a line pressure regulation valve () is set to a value that is higher than or equal to the target hydraulic pressure (P). Thus, it is possible to provide a vehicular hydraulic control device capable of suppressing hunting in line pressure (PL) when the line pressure (PL) is regulated so as to take on the target hydraulic pressure (P).

Vehicular hydraulic control device and vehicular hydraulic control method

A magneto-resistive element employs a CPP structure and includes an antiferromagnetic layer, a pinned magnetization layer, a nonmagnetic intermediate layer and a free magnetization layer that are successively stacked. The pinned magnetization layer includes a first pinned magnetization layer, a nonmagnetic coupling layer and a second pinned magnetization layer that are successively stacked on the antiferromagnetic layer, and the first and second pinned magnetization layers are antiferromagnetically exchange-coupled. One of the first and second pinned magnetization layer is formed by a ferromagnetic layer made of a ferromagnetic material at least including one element or alloy selected from a group consisting of Co, Fe, Ni and alloys thereof, and the other is formed by a resistance control layer made of a conductive ferromagnetic oxide.

Magneto-resistive element, magnetic head and magnetic storage apparatus

A magnetoresistive element of a CPP type configuration including a fixed magnetic layer, a first non-magnetic layer, a free magnetic layer, and a second non-magnetic layer is disclosed. The magnetoresistive element includes a first interface layer situated between the free magnetic layer and the first non-magnetic layer, and a second interface layer situated between the free magnetic layer and the second non-magnetic layer. The first interface layer and the second interface layer include a material mainly having CoNiFe.

Magnetoresistive element having current-perpendicular-to-plane structure, magnetic head, and magnetic memory apparatus thereof

A magnetoresistive element is disclosed that includes a magnetoresistive film; a cap film configured to cover the magnetoresistive film and include a three-layer structure in at least a part thereof, the three-layer structure being formed of a third protection layer, a second protection layer, and a first protection layer in order from the magnetoresistive film side; and upper and lower terminals for applying a sense current perpendicularly to the surface of the magnetoresistive film. The magnetoresistive film includes a first magnetic layer whose direction of magnetization is changed by an external magnetic field, a second magnetic layer whose direction of magnetization is fixed with respect to the external magnetic field, and a nonmagnetic layer magnetically separating the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer.

Magnetoresistive element and method of manufacturing the same

A CPP magnetoresistive effect element includes a free magnetization layer, a fixed magnetization layer, and a plurality of conductive non-magnetic intermediate layers formed between the free magnetization layer and the fixed magnetization layer. An insulating layer and a magnetic layer including magnetic atoms are provided between any two of the non-magnetic intermediate layers.

CPP magnetoresistive effect element and magnetic storage device having a CPP magnetoresistive effect element

A CPP-type magnetoresistive element including a fixed magnetization layer, a non-magnetic metal layer, and a free magnetization layer that are stacked, and a diffusion prevention layer is disclosed. The free magnetization layer includes CoMnAl. The diffusion prevention layer is provided between the non-magnetic metal layer and the free magnetization layer so as to prevent Mn included in the free magnetization layer from diffusing into the non-magnetic metal layer. CoMnAl has a composition within the area formed by connecting Point A (), Point B (), Point C (), Point D (), Point E (), Point F (), and Point A with straight lines in this order in a ternary composition diagram where coordinates of the composition are expressed as (Co content, Mn content, Al content) with each of the Co, Mn, and Al contents being expressed in atomic percentage.

Magnetoresistive element, magnetic head, magnetic storage unit, and magnetic memory unit

The magnetoresistive effect element comprises an electrode layerof a crystalline material; a base layerof a conductive amorphous material formed over the electrode layer, an antiferromagnetic layerof a crystalline material formed over the base layer, a ferromagnetic layerformed over the antiferromagnetic layerand having the magnetization direction defined by the antiferromagnetic layer, a nonmagnetic intermediate layerformed over the ferromagnetic layer, a ferromagnetic layerformed over the nonmagnetic intermediate layerand having the magnetization direction changed by an external magnetic field, and an electrode layerformed over the ferromagnetic layer

Magnetoresistive effect having multiple base layers between an electrode and an antiferromagnetic layer, magnetic head, and magnetic recording device

A current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) structure magnetoresistive element includes an electrode layer contacting a magnetoresistive film. A low resistance region is defined to extend rearward along the boundary of the magnetoresistive film from the front end exposed at the medium-opposed surface of the head slider. A high resistance region is defined to extend rearward along the boundary from the rear end of the low resistance region. The high resistance region has a resistivity higher than that of the low resistance region. The high resistance region serves to restrict the path of a sensing current nearest to the medium-opposed surface. The sensing current is allowed to concentrate at a position closest to the medium-opposed surface in the magnetoresistive film. Magnetization sufficiently rotates in the magnetoresistive film near the medium-opposed surface. The CPP structure magnetoresistive element maintains a sufficient variation in the resistance. A sufficient sensitivity can be maintained.

Current-perpendicular-to-the-plane structure magnetoresistive element having sufficient sensitivity

A magnetoresistive head includes a first magnetic shield, a first electrode terminal arranged on the first magnetic shield at an entry side of a magnetic field from a carrier, a third electrode terminal that is spaced from the first electrode terminal, and arranged on the first magnetic shield at a side opposite to the entry side of the magnetic field from the carrier, a magnetoresistive coating arranged on the first and third electrode terminals, a second electrode terminal that is arranged on the magnetoresistive coating, and opposed to the first electrode terminal, a second magnetic shield arranged on the second electrode terminal, and a sense current source connected to the first and second electrode terminals, which applies sense current in a direction perpendicular to a coating surface of the magnetoresistive coating.

Magnetoresistive head

A magnetoresistive element that detects a change of magnetoresistance by giving a sense current in the thickness direction of a magnetoresistive effect film including at least a base layer, a free layer, a non-magnetic layer, a pinned layer, a pinning layer, and a protection layer, includes a granular structure layer that includes conductive particles and an insulating matrix material in the form of a thin film containing the conductive particles in a dispersed state and having a smaller thickness than the particle diameter of the conductive particles, the granular structure layer being interposed between at least two adjacent layers among the base layer, the free layer, the non-magnetic layer, the pinned layer, the pinning layer, and the protection layer.

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