309 results about "Stopped periods" patented technology

When an engine restart request is given in an engine stopping period which begins at a point of fuel supply interruption and ends at a point of complete engine stop, an engine starting system judges whether TDC engine speed detected immediately before is equal to or lower than a specific value “A”, the counted number of reverse running motions of the engine is 0, and a piston in an expansion stroke cylinder is relatively close to TDC. If the judgment result is in the affirmative with all these conditions satisfied, the engine starting system injects fuel into the expansion stroke cylinder and then ignites and combusts a mixture produced therein. The engine starting system also injects the fuel into a compression stroke cylinder and then ignites and combusts a mixture produced therein when a piston in the compression stroke cylinder has gone beyond TDC.

A film forming apparatus for forming a film on an object includes: a processing container; gas supply means, having gas jet ports, respectively; a holding means for holding the object; a drive mechanism for moving the holding means relative to the gas jet ports; and a control means which, when repeating P times a cycle, consisting of a supply period for supplying a gas and a supply stop period during which the supply of the gas is stopped, performs control so that as viewed from the center of the object, a gas supply starting position is sequentially shifted in the circumferential direction of the object for every cycle in such a manner that the entire circumference of the object to be processed is divided into K segments (K=P), K being an arbitrary division number, and the gas supply starting position is shifted by one segment for every cycle.

The invention discloses a gait control method and a device for a dual-foot robot. The method comprises the steps of selecting gait control parameters for a starting period, a walking period and a stopping period; acquiring the motion trajectory of the mass center of the dual-foot robot during the walking period when the zero moment point of the dual-foot robot is within a stable area; obtaining the first value of each gait control parameter when the mass center is at the initial moment of the walking period and the second value of the gait control parameter when the mass center is at the ending moment of the walking period; setting a first constraint condition at the ending moment of the starting period by utilizing the first value, and setting a second constraint condition at the starting moment of the stopping period by utilizing the second value; based on the first constraint condition and the second constraint condition, calculating the motion trajectory of the mass center during the starting period and during the stopping period respectively; controlling the walking of the dual-foot robot to enable the motion trajectory of the mass center of the dual-foot robot during walking to meet the motion trajectory of the mass center during the starting period, the walking period and the stopping period respectively. According to the technical scheme of the invention, the stable cohesion of the dual-foot robot during the starting period, the walking period and the stopping period and the walking stability of the dual-foot robot can be ensured.

A fixing control device includes a power distribution controller that adjusts a power distribution time period when the power is distributed to plural heater elements per control cycle, a turn on time determining member that determines a time when each of the plural heater elements is turned on based on a duty ratio between the power distribution time period and the control cycle, and a soft operation controller that either gradually starts or stops heating each of the plural heater elements during a soft start or stop period, respectively. One of the soft start and stop periods for one of the plural heater elements is decreased not to overlap with another one of the plural heater elements.

In a vehicle incorporating an internal combustion engine having in-cylinder injectors and intake manifold injectors and performing engine intermittent operation control, at the end of vehicle operation, the fuel pressure is decreased in both a high-pressure delivery pipe and a low-pressure delivery pipe by actuation (opening) of an electromagnetic relief valve and by stop of operation of a low-pressure fuel pump. This prevents deterioration in emission performance at the next engine start attributable to fuel leakage due to degradation in oil tightness of the injectors during the operation stop period. When the engine is temporarily stopped by engine intermittent operation control, while the low-pressure fuel pump is stopped, actuation (opening) of the electromagnetic relief valve is prohibited. At the engine restart after temporary stop, the fuel in the high-pressure delivery pipe having its pressure secured at a certain level is injected to quickly start the engine.

In order to compensate the reduction of a developing activity during working and / or stopped period, a replenisher and / or a diluent is added to the developer according to predetermined replenishing conditions, and also in order to compensate the reduction of the developing activity caused by processing photosensitive materials, the replenisher and / or the diluent is added to the developer. Then, in cases where the electric conductivity of the thus replenished developer exceeds a predetermined target value, the diluent is replenished to the developer tank until the electric conductivity of the developer falls below the target value.

A catalyst recovery method is capable of maintaining NOx purification performance by efficiently releasing SOx occluded in a NOx catalyst in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine. The air fuel ratio of exhaust gas in a fuel supply period (Δt1) is made further richer (C2) than a predetermined rich air fuel ratio (C0) with increasing length of a set stop period (Δt2). Provided within a stop period (Δt2) is an excessively lean period (Δt3) in which the air fuel ratio of the exhaust gas becomes higher (C3) with increasing length of the stop period (Δt2), whereby an amount of reducing agent to be added is increased, thus making it possible to ensure a sufficient amount of SOx released from the NOx catalyst. As a result, the length of the stop period (Δt2′) is shortened, so the SOx occluded in the NOx catalyst can be efficiently released.

A charging operation controlling portion controls charging current or charging voltage when the battery pack 440 is charged with electric power generated by the solar panel 410. The current detecting portion 456 detects charging current of the battery pack. The voltage detecting portion 455 detects battery voltage of the battery pack. The charging operation controlling portion, when the battery pack 440 is brought close to the fully-charged state, cuts off the charging current at predetermined timing for a charging operation stop period, and compares the battery voltage of the battery pack 440 with a predetermined voltage value as a restart voltage value in the charging operation stop period. The charging operation controlling portion determines that the battery pack 440 is fully charged if the battery voltage of the battery pack 440 is not less than the predetermined voltage value as the restart voltage value, and cuts off the charging current.

The invention discloses a control method for a frequency conversion compressor. The method includes the steps that when the rotation speed of the compressor needs to be adjusted, the average value of start rates corresponding to all start and stop periods of the compressor is calculated before the rotation speed of the compressor is adjusted, and the average start rate is acquired; according to the average start rate and a preset compressor target start rate corresponding to the current environment temperature, the adjusting proportion of the rotation speed of the compressor is calculated; according to the adjusting proportion of the rotation speed of the compressor and the rotation speed of the compressor in the start and stop period before the rotation speed of the compressor is adjusted, the adjusted rotation speed of the compressor is calculated; and according to the adjusted rotation speed of the compressor, the compressor is controlled to operate. The invention further discloses a refrigerator adopting the control method for the frequency conversion compressor to achieve the frequency conversion function. Through the control over the rotation speed of the compressor, the start duration and the stop duration of the compressor can be effectively controlled, and the beneficial effects that noise is lowered and energy is saved can be achieved.

The invention relates to a non-stationery vibration signal instantaneous frequency estimation algorithm in a start and stop period of rotating machinery; firstly, an experiment table working model of a rotor of the rotating machinery is built, a non-stationery vibration signal sensor for measuring vibration signal, and a photo-electric sensor for measuring the rotating speed of a reference axis are arranged along the horizontal and vertical direction of the reference axis; after the obtained signal is analyzed by an order analysis software of an upper computer through a dynamic signal analyzer, STFT time-frequency spectrum containing multi-level component is obtained; the working frequency of the rotating machinery is used as an estimated starting frequency point, according to the requirements of sampling frequency and calculation accuracy, the frequency obtained by the STFT time-frequency analysis is equally divided into M groups, the start and stop period is equally divided into N time points for building grid meshes of N time points and M groups of frequency points; the route of minimum-deviation frequency point from the start point to the stop point is computed through Viterbi algorithm, after fitting is carried out, the instantaneous frequency estimation function value of the reference axis of the non-stationery vibration signal of the rotating machinery in the start and stop period is obtained.

A fuel cell system (100) comprising: a fuel cell (1) configured to generate electric power using an oxidizing gas and a fuel gas; a recovered water tank (3) configured to store water recovered from an exhaust gas discharged from the fuel cell; a water storage tank (4) configured to store water used as cooling water for cooling the fuel cell; a water feed flow path (g) through which the water stored in the recovered water tank is supplied to the water storage tank; a pump (8) configured to force water to flow from the recovered water tank to the water storage tank within the water feed flow path; a water purifier (7) configured to purify the water forcibly flowed by said pump in the water feed flow path by means of a built-in TOC absorber (7a) before the water is supplied to the water storage tank; and a controller (101), wherein the controller controls the pump so as to operate in a stop period of the fuel cell system such that water moves in the water feed flow path.

A lighting fixture that suppresses blinking and flickering phenomena even when operating at very low luminance levels includes: a light source including at least one solid state light-emitting element; and a lighting driver circuit controlling the light source in accordance with a control signal. The lighting driver circuit includes an isolating flyback circuit and a control circuit. The isolating flyback circuit switches power from a DC power source and smooths the output. The control circuit controls switching operation performed by a switching element of the isolating flyback circuit via PWM signal. The control circuit provides a frequency component in accordance with the control signal to a reference signal outputted by a reference signal generator. In accordance with results of detection of the reference signal and a current flowing through the light source, the control circuit provides a stop period during which a driver controller driving the switching element is stopped.

The invention discloses a vehicle idle-speed stopping and starting system and a vehicle idle-speed stopping and starting method without interrupting the work of an air-conditioner. The system comprises an air-conditioner compressor, an engine, a clutch, a start / generator, an automatic transmission, an idle-speed stop controller, and a clutch and various sensors and various engine ECUs, which are connected with the idle-speed stop controller. The air-conditioner compressor is connected with a hydraulic pump / motor by the clutch, the hydraulic pump / motor is connected with a hydraulic power accumulator, and the clutches, the hydraulic pump / motor and the hydraulic power accumulator are electrically connected with the idle-speed stop controller. The idle-speed stop controller sends signals to the various engine ECUs to stop the engine and is then connected with one clutch after the clutch is separated under the control. With the connection of the hydraulic pump / motor with the air-conditioner compressor, the hydraulic power accumulator supplies hydraulic pressure to the hydraulic pump / motor to drive the air-conditioner compressor. The invention can also operate the air-conditioner during the idle-speed stop period and improves the economy of the fuel oil for the idle-speed stop period without influencing the riding comfort; the operation is easy; and idle-speed stop can also be executed on various automobiles.

A hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine; a rotating electrical machine that rotates an output shaft of the internal combustion engine; and a control unit that performs automatic stop control for the internal combustion engine. The control unit causes the output shaft to rotate using the rotating electrical machine, when a stop period of the internal combustion engine according to the automatic stop control is equal to or longer than a first period.

An image heating apparatus comprising an endless belt for heating an image on a recording material; heating means for heating a part of the endless belt; driving means for rotating the belt; a first contact member for contacting an inner surface of the belt; stand-by control means operable in a stop period in which the heating means effects heating with the belt at rest and in a rotation period in which the belt is rotated; and drive stop control means for stopping, upon stoppage of rotation of the in the rotation period, the endless belt at such a position that contact member contacts at least a part of such a portion of the endless belt as has been opposed to the heating means in a previous stop period.

The invention provides a flexible control device for pneumatically conveying tobacco shreds and a control method, which starts a tobacco shred pneumatic conveying system in a soft start manner to reduce the break rate of the tobacco shreds when starting. After started, the device directly measures and controls the tobacco conveying speed, and combines the flexible control manner, to make the tobacco shreds in a horizontal pipeline to generate continuous and stable dense phase flow, thereby reducing the break rate in the pneumatic conveying process, and reducing the energy consumption of the pneumatic conveying system. In the dormant period and stopping period in the tobacco shred conveying process for a cigarette making machine, the wind complementing and regulating valve is controlled to complement wind by simulating the shred conveying condition for stabilizing the pressure and the wind amount in a dust removing pipe, and then the wind complementing and regulating valve is finely regulated by measuring the pressure in the dust removing pipe to increase or reduce the wind complementing flow amount for further stabilizing the pressure in the dust removing pipe, thereby greatly reducing the pressure fluctuation cased by intermittence, randomness and temporary stoppage in the tobacco shred conveying process in the tobacco shred pneumatic conveying system.

In a valve timing control apparatus configured to execute phase-control via a phase converter, a controller is configured to control a phase angle of a camshaft relative to a crankshaft during an engine stopping period to a target phase angle differing from a required phase angle suited for an engine operating condition. The controller is further configured to change the phase angle of the camshaft toward the required phase angle during a time period from a point of time when cranking starts to a point of time when detection of a rotational position of the camshaft initiates during an engine restarting period. The controller is still further configured to start feedback-control for the phase angle of the camshaft from the point of time of initiation of detection of the rotational position of the camshaft for bringing the phase angle of the camshaft closer to the required phase angle.

The invention discloses an automatic analytic device and a working method thereof. The automatic analytic device comprises a reaction tray, a reagent injection mechanism and a sample injection mechanism, wherein the reaction tray is used for bearing a reaction beaker and driving the reaction beaker to rotate or stop at the preset position; the reagent injection mechanism is positioned near the rotating track of the reaction tray and used for injecting a reagent into the reaction beaker; the sample injection mechanism is positioned near the rotating track of the reaction tray and used for injecting a sample into the reaction beaker; the reagent injection mechanism is provided with a reagent needle, and the sample injection mechanism is provided with a reagent needle; in each working period, the reaction tray is respectively started and stopped at least twice; and the reagent needle and the sample needle are used for respectively adding the reagent and the sample in different stop periods. The invention can realize the constant speed testing on one, two or more reagent projects at lower cost, and avoids the restriction on the relative position relationship between the reagent needle and the sample needle, thereby being beneficial to the structural layout design of the complete machine.

One kind of porous bacteriostatic polyelectrolyte material suitable for stopping bleeding and dressing wound is disclosed. The material features that it is prepared with chitosan solution in 1-5 wt% concentration and sodium alginate solution 1-5 wt% concentration in the weight ratio of 0.25-4 as material and through mixing and freeze drying. The chitosan solution is prepared through dissolving chitosan in water solution of acetic acid. The material includes also sulfadizine silver or PVP-iodine bacteriostatic agent in the amount of 3-10 wt% of chitosan and sodium alginate. The porous material has no toxicity, relatively great pores, high water absorption rate and short bleeding stopping period.

While directional communication using millimeter waves is realized, the number of communication stations through which simultaneous communication is possible is increased to increase the throughput of the entire system.A communication apparatus stores, as a stop setting person direction, a beam direction in which received electrical power when an RTS or a CTS destined for another station is received becomes a maximum and then sets a transmission stop period. Within the transmission stop period, only when the direction of a frame transmission destination is separate from the stop setting person direction, transmission of frames is performed by directing a transmission beam toward the frame transmission destination. Whereas a hidden terminal does not unnecessarily stop a frame transmission operation, the hidden terminal is not against the intention of requesting the setting of the transmission stop period.

A radar device includes: a receiving circuit mixing a transmission signal with reception signals; a first detecting unit detecting information on the rotation angle of a vehicle equipped with the radar device, on the basis of an output signal of a yaw rate sensor; a second detecting unit detecting the internal temperature of the radar device on the basis of an output signal from a temperature sensor; a power supply circuit supplying electric power to the receiving circuit and the yaw rate sensor; and a control unit repeatedly setting power supply periods and power supply stop periods of the receiving circuit, in which, in a case where the internal temperature is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature, the control unit performs control such that the power supply stop periods of the receiving circuit become shorter than those in a case where the internal temperature exceeds the predetermined temperature.

In a variable valve actuation system of an internal combustion engine employing a variable valve actuator capable of variably adjusting at least intake valve closure timing depending on engine operating conditions, a processor of a control unit is programmed to phase-advance the intake valve closure timing to a predetermined timing value after a piston top dead center position and before a piston bottom dead center position on intake stroke during at least one of an engine starting period and an engine stopping period. The variable valve actuator includes a biasing device by which the intake valve closure timing is permanently biased toward the predetermined timing value.

A DC / DC converter, a power converter and a control method thereof are disclosed, wherein the DC / DC converter includes an output circuit, a rectangular wave generator, a resonant tank, a detection unit and a control unit. The output circuit has a load. The rectangular wave generator converts an input voltage into driving pulses. The resonant tank provides a first voltage based on the driving pulses for the output circuit. The detection unit detects a signal related to a state of the load. When the state of the load is a light-load or a no-load, the control unit controls the rectangular wave generator in a hiccup mode to reduce a ratio of a work period to a stop period, or makes that number of the driving pulses within the current work period is less than the number of the driving pulses when a duty ratio is 50%.

While directional communication using millimeter waves is realized, the number of communication stations through which simultaneous communication is possible is increased to increase the throughput of the entire system.Beamforming of a transmission beam is performed not only on a data frame, but also on a CTS frame. In a case where the transmission / reception beam of a hidden terminal (STA_C) is in a direction different from that of a data transmission side (STA_A) with respect to a data receiving side (STA_B), the hidden terminal (STA_C) ceases to receive a CTS. Consequently, a transmission stop period is not set, and a communication operation with a communication party terminal (STA_D) thereof can be continued.

A suction muffler for a reciprocating hermetic compressor mounted inside a hermetic shell (1), said suction muffler comprising a hollow body (20) defining at least one acoustic chamber and provided with a gas inlet (22) connected to a suction line (9) by means of a tubular connector, and with a gas outlet (32) connected to a suction valve (8b) of the compressor, said equalizing chamber (60) being provided, on one side, with an opening (60a) to the interior of the hermetic shell (1) and, on the other side, with a fluid communication (61) with the acoustic chamber, said equalizing chamber (60) being dimensioned to minimize, simultaneously, the noises of the gas pulses inside the suction muffler, the mixture of said gas with that contained inside the hermetic shell (1), and the pressure differential between the interior of the latter and the suction line (9), upon operation of the compressor after a stop period.

A solar battery system includes a first electronic control unit disposed in a vehicle cabin of a vehicle, the first electronic control unit including a control unit repeating a charging period and a stop period during a period of time from ignition-off to ignition-on of the vehicle, the charging period being a period of charging the electric storage device with generated electric power of a solar battery, the stop period being a period of stopping the charging of the electric storage device with the generated electric power of the solar battery. The control unit sets a length of each of the charging periods shorter as the temperature in the vehicle cabin is higher at the time of starting each of the charging periods.