Nissan Patent Applications

CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE

Granted: February 24, 2022
Application Number: 20220055601
A controller includes a control unit configured to perform stepwise shift that upshifts a CVT in a stepped manner to accelerate a vehicle. The control unit performs a downshift control configured to downshift the continuously variable transmission in a case in which an accelerator pedal is continuously stepped on from before prohibition of the stepwise shift to after prohibition of the stepwise shift.

FUNCTIONAL COMPLEX POLYSACCHARIDE PARTICLE

Granted: February 24, 2022
Application Number: 20220054367
The invention provides a particle having an uneven structure on a surface thereof, and containing cellulose or a cellulose derivative and a clay mineral as main components, and a method for producing the same. Such a particle is soft and excellent in light scattering properties, and in particular, is excellent in a defocusing effect when it is formulated in cosmetics such as foundations, so that it is useful as cosmetics.

FUEL CELL SYSTEM

Granted: February 17, 2022
Application Number: 20220052359
A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell configured to be supplied with a fuel and air to generate an electric power; a combustor configured to combust an off-gas discharged from the fuel cell to produce a combustion discharged gas; a fuel heating part configured to heat the fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell by the combustion discharged gas; an air heating part configured to heat the air to be supplied to the fuel cell by the combustion discharged gas; an anode-side distribution…

CATION-CONTAINING POLISHING COMPOSITION FOR ELIMINATING PROTRUSIONS AROUND LASER MARK

Granted: February 17, 2022
Application Number: 20220049126
A polishing composition eliminating protrusions around a laser mark in wafer polishing processes, the manufacturing method therefor and a polishing method using the composition. The polishing composition including silica particles and water, wherein: the composition includes a tetraalkylammonium ion such that the mass ratio of the ion to SiO2 of the silica particles is 0.400 to 1.500:1, and the mass ratio of SiO2 dissolved in the polishing composition to SiO2 is 0.100 to 1.500:1; the…

POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

Granted: February 17, 2022
Application Number: 20220048494
A power transmission device of the present invention is a power transmission device for a vehicle, including: a generator configured to be driven by power of an internal combustion engine; a travel motor configured to be driven by electric power generated by the generator and to drive a drive wheels; and the drive wheels configured to be driven by the power of the internal combustion engine or power of the travel motor. The power transmission device includes: a first power transmission…

VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD AND VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: February 10, 2022
Application Number: 20220041164
A vehicle control device controls a vehicle including a drive motor connected to a rotation shaft of wheels, a battery that supplies electricity to the drive motor, and an internal combustion engine connected to the drive motor. The vehicle is equipped with, as traveling modes, a normal mode, and an eco-mode having a larger regenerative braking force than the normal mode obtained such that rotational energy of the wheels is converted into electrical energy. A controller stops the…

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE

Granted: February 10, 2022
Application Number: 20220044980
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip provided inside with a p-n junction, an opaque sealing resin covering a surface of the semiconductor chip, and a functional region arranged between the semiconductor chip and the sealing resin and configured to prevent light, which is generated when a forward current flows through the p-n junction and has a particular wavelength causing deterioration of the sealing resin, from reaching the sealing resin.

VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE, CONTENT REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND CONTENT TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION SYSTEM

Granted: February 10, 2022
Application Number: 20220044691
A voice analyzer analyzes whether a voice signal input into a voice input unit includes a specific characteristic component. A voice recognizer recognizes a voice represented by the voice signal input into the voice input unit. A response instruction unit instructs a response to a response operation unit that operates in response to the voice recognized by the voice recognizer. A controller controls the voice recognizer not to execute voice recognition processing by the voice recognizer…

COATING METHOD

Granted: February 10, 2022
Application Number: 20220042177
When forming valve seat coats at opening portions (16a1 to 16a8) of intake ports (16) provided at a cylinder block mounting surface (12a) of a semimanufactured cylinder head (3), the nozzle of a cold spray apparatus moves along a nozzle movement path for air intake (Inp1) that is set between any two of the plurality of opening portions (16a1 to 16a8), while continuing to spray a raw material powder. When forming valve seat coats at opening portions (17a1 to 17a8) of exhaust ports (17),…

SEPARATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING TO-BE-SEPARATED MATERIAL USING SAME

Granted: February 10, 2022
Application Number: 20220041971
A separation device for separating a solid separation target contained in a suspension obtained by suspension culture of adherent cells by using a fine scaffold material, and a separation method. The separation device has a separation chamber having a first chamber and a second chamber, and the first chamber and the second chamber are divided by a mesh structure for separation. The mesh structure for separation has mesh-holes with a predetermined size to suppress passage of the…

VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD AND VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: February 10, 2022
Application Number: 20220041162
A vehicle control method including: setting a target acceleration based on a distance to a preceding vehicle or an obstacle and accelerating an own vehicle based on the target acceleration without relying on a driver's operation. Then, the vehicle control method including: calculating an acceleration limit which is an acceleration at which a relative distance to the preceding vehicle or the obstacle at a time when a preset acceleration limiting time has passed from a start of the…

POWER CONVERTING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR POWER CONVERTING DEVICE

Granted: February 3, 2022
Application Number: 20220038014
The present disclosure includes a conversion circuit (10) having a switching element and converting DC voltage into AC voltage by switching operation of the switching element, an isolation transformer (3) for which an input side is connected to the conversion circuit (10), a rectifier circuit (4) connected to an outside of the isolation transformer (3), a resonance circuit connected to the output side of the isolation transformer (3), and a control circuit (100) for controlling the…

METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A BOOST CONVERTER HAVING N SWITCHING CELLS

Granted: February 3, 2022
Application Number: 20220038007
A method controls a boost converter having N switching cells using synchronous pulse width modulation, in which N is a natural integer that does not equal zero. The method includes: measuring input voltages and output voltages of the boost converter; determining an output vector to define a representation of a linear state of the boost converter; calculating the variation in power of the electrical load; determining the N duty factors as a function of the second derivative of the output…

COMPOSITION FOR FORMING AN ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITE, AN ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITE, AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITE

Granted: February 3, 2022
Application Number: 20220037655
Provided is a composition for forming an active material composite that gives an active material composite that can be used for an electrode in a lithium ion secondary battery and the like and that can improve battery cycle and rate characteristics. A composition for forming an active material composite comprising at least one active material selected from a metal, a metalloid, a metal alloy, a metal oxide, a metalloid oxide, a metal phosphate, a metal sulfide, and a metal nitride, a…

RESERVED VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, RESERVED VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, AND RESERVED VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM

Granted: February 3, 2022
Application Number: 20220036736
A reserved vehicle control method includes a step of acquiring positional information of a terminal device, a step of acquiring positional information of a reserved vehicle, a step of determining whether a distance between the terminal device and the reserved vehicle is a predetermined value or less, in accordance with the positional information of the terminal device and the positional information of the reserved vehicle, and a step of outputting, to the terminal device, allowing…

INORGANIC OXIDE PARTICLE, INORGANIC OXIDE PARTICLE DISPERSION AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SURFACE MODIFIER

Granted: February 3, 2022
Application Number: 20220033268
Provided is an inorganic oxide dispersion (sol) in which inorganic oxide particles are dispersed in silicone oil.

CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE

Granted: February 3, 2022
Application Number: 20220032915
A controller includes a control unit which is configured to execute a coast stop control. The coast stop control is configured to perform automatic stopping of the drive source while the vehicle is traveling, when a permitting condition is satisfied, the permitting condition including a condition that a speed ratio R of the variator is lower than a first threshold R1 while the lock-up clutch is in an engaged phase. The control unit is configured to prohibit execution of the coast stop…

SILICA-BASED ADDITIVE FOR CEMENTING COMPOSITION, CEMENTING COMPOSITION, AND CEMENTING METHOD

Granted: January 27, 2022
Application Number: 20220025243
An additive capable of suppressing generation of free water from a cement slurry even under a high temperature environment of 150° C. or more and a silica-based additive that suppresses, in a cement slurry for cementing in oil fields and gas oil fields, free water under high temperature and high pressure environments of 100° C. or more, the silica-based additive containing an aqueous silica sol containing nanosilica particles with a true density of 2.15 g/cm3 or more and less than 2.30…

CONTAINER AND METHOD FOR STORING, PRETREATING, AND ANALYZING BIOMATERIAL

Granted: January 27, 2022
Application Number: 20220026440
The invention provides a container for storing a biomaterial in which adhesion of a minute amount of a biomarker(s) contained in the biomaterial to the surface of the container for storage can be suppressed, and sample loss is reduced, while enabling analysis with accuracy and highly precision. In particular, the container for storing a biomaterial for reducing sample loss of a biomarker(s) contained in the biomaterial has a coating containing a copolymer which contains a recurring unit…

TORQUE CONVERTER

Granted: January 27, 2022
Application Number: 20220025962
A torque converter has a torus. The torus has a size set based on a flatness ratio obtained by dividing a width of the torus in an axial direction by a width of the torus in a radial direction, a thinness ratio obtained by dividing the width of the torus in the axial direction by an outer diameter of the torus, and an inner diameter ratio obtained by dividing an inner diameter of the torus by the outer diameter of the torus.