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20100008321 | Base-Station Apparatus, Mobile Machine, Communication System, And Channel Allocation Method - A base-station apparatus measures a frequency variation and time variation based on a signal transmitted from a mobile machine. Then, based on the measured frequency variation and time variation, the base-station apparatus allocates either an adjacent sub-channel or a distributed sub-channel to the mobile machine. With this, the base-station apparatus allocates a sub-channel according to the wireless propagation environment where the mobile machine is located. | 01-14-2010 |
20100128627 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, UPLINK SINR MEASURING METHOD, UPLINK SCHEDULING METHOD, AND RECEPTION-QUALITY MEASURING METHOD - A base station apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a control signal having predetermined patterns for performing communication control processing at the base station; and a measuring unit that measures SINR of reception data that is obtained from the control signal received by the receiving unit. | 05-27-2010 |
20100222051 | Mobile Communication System Using Adaptive Multi-Antenna - A mobile communication system using an adaptive multiantenna realizes improvement of reception characteristics, effective use of the band, and optimization of the throughput in comparison with a system in which application of the same multiantenna communication method is continued irrespective of a variation of the number of radio relay stations. The mobile communication system comprises a radio base station, a radio relay station, and mobile terminal stations for communicating with the radio base station through a radio relay station. The radio base station has a multiantenna and is characterized in that the radio base station judges if there is any variation of the number of radio relay stations when the radio base station carries out transmission through a radio relay station, and the radio base station communicates with the mobile terminal station by switching the multiantenna communication method using the multiantenna depending on the delay time of the feedback signal from the mobile terminal station if there is a variation of the number of radio relay stations. | 09-02-2010 |
20100322170 | BASE STATION AND MOBILE STATION - A base station includes an identifying unit that identifies a group to which a mobile station that is to start communication belongs; a determining unit that determines a second pilot signal, which is allocated to the group identified by the identifying unit, to be a pilot signal for communication with the mobile station; and a transmitting unit that transmits information for identifying the second pilot signal to the mobile station by using a first pilot signal determined beforehand for each group as a pilot signal for notifying the information. | 12-23-2010 |
20100323732 | Radio Communication Method, Radio Communication Base Station Apparatus, Radio Communication Mobile Station Apparatus, And Radio Communication System - A radio communication method in a radio communication system in which radio communication is performed between a radio communication base station apparatus and a radio communication mobile station apparatus, including: transmitting, by the radio communication mobile station apparatus, an implementation loss value of the radio communication mobile station apparatus to the radio communication base station apparatus. | 12-23-2010 |
20100330902 | Radio Relay Method, Base Station Apparatus, And Relay Station Apparatus - A radio relay method for relaying signal transmitted and received between a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus, the radio relay method including: selecting a first relay method amplifying and transmitting reception signal, or a second relay method decoding, error correcting, re-encoding, and transmitting the reception signal, based on each reception quality between the relay station apparatus and the base station apparatus and between the relay station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus; and relaying the signal based on the selected first relay method or the selected second relay method. | 12-30-2010 |
20110074731 | INPUT DEVICE, INPUT PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INPUT CONTROL METHOD - An input device and input control method including: a capacitance measurement unit to measure capacitances of a plurality of electrodes arranged on a touch panel; a deflection determination unit to determine a presence or absence of a deflection occurring in the touch panel based on a distribution of results of the capacitances of the electrodes; and a coordinate output unit to output coordinate data of an operation input on the touch panel based on the distribution of results. | 03-31-2011 |
20110158099 | COMMUNICATING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMMUNICATING DEVICE - A communicating device capable of transmitting packets to a destination device via any of a plurality of adjacent devices, has a first measuring unit for measuring a first quality of a link between the communicating device and the destination device for a first period of time, a second measuring unit for measuring a second quality of a link from the communicating device to the destination device for a second period of time shorter than the first period of time, a first selector for selecting an adjacent device from the plurality of adjacent devices based on the measured first quality when transmitting a new packet to the destination device, and a second selector for selecting an adjacent device from the plurality of adjacent devices based on the measured second quality upon failure of transmitting the new packet. | 06-30-2011 |
20110216649 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, GATEWAY APPARATUS, AND RADIO STATION - A radio communication system includes a gateway apparatus and a plurality of radio stations performing radio communication. The gateway apparatus includes, a generation unit that generates allocation information on one or more individual channels each allocated individually to one of a plurality of radio stations; and a transmission unit that transmits the generated allocation information, and the plurality of radio stations each of which comprising, a receiving unit that receives the allocation information; and a data transmission unit that performs data transmission through the one or more individual channels when information indicating an own station is included in the received allocation information, and performs data transmission by random access through a channel other than the one or more individual channels in a radio frame when information indicating the own station is not included in the received allocation information. | 09-08-2011 |
20110244789 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND DATA RELAY METHOD - An optimum path storage unit stores optimum paths on all wireless communication devices that can be destinations of data. A reception unit receives relay data as a relay target. A QoS judgment unit reads out an optimum path corresponding to a QoS requirement of relay data from the optimum path storage unit and judges whether or not the QoS requirement of data is satisfied by the optimum path. The QoS judgment unit outputs relay data to a transmission unit when it is determined that the QoS requirement is satisfied. The transmission unit transmits the relay data to the next node on the optimum path. When the QoS requirement of the relay data is not satisfied by the optimum path, a NACK information generation unit generates NACK information that includes the fact that transmission of the relay data has been interrupted and transmits the NACK information to neighboring wireless communication devices. | 10-06-2011 |
20110268030 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND PACKET FORWARDING METHOD - A radio communication apparatus including: a radio communication interface; and a processor; the processor being configured to detect a first radio communication apparatus and a second radio communication apparatus based on a piece of address information received by the radio communication interface; and to select one of a first layer and a second layer as a forwarding layer, in which a packet is forwarded to a next forwarding address according to the radio communication apparatus of the next forwarding address corresponding to a destination address of the packet. | 11-03-2011 |
20130301572 | RADIO RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD AND TELECOMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A radio resource allocation method for use in a radio telecommunication system for a first radio telecommunication apparatus and a second telecommunication apparatus carrying out a radio telecommunication by using an allocated radio resource, comprising selecting a resource allocation pattern identifying a combination of radio resources allocatable within a resource management space from among a pre-prepared plurality of resource allocation patterns, and notifying the second radio telecommunication apparatus of pattern identifier information identifying the selected resource allocation pattern and of startup position information thereof within the resource management space. | 11-14-2013 |
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20090057942 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SHEET MOLDED BODY AND INSERT MOLDED BODY - A manufacturing method for a sheet molded body having a desired three dimensional shape and an excellent quality of the design, which has no crease, by uniformly expanding a decorated sheet prior to molding, and closely contacting the decorate sheet to the surface of a male die. In the manufacturing method, the pressure at the front side of the decorated sheet is lowered relative to that at the back side. An arm means is then moved towards the decorated sheet from the back side of the decorated sheet so that the decorated sheet is inverted by increasing the pressure at the front side relative to that at the back side. The decorated sheet is then three dimensionally formed along the surface of the male die by, while pressing the male die from the back side and moving the arm means backwards, increasing the pressure at the front side. | 03-05-2009 |
20100041071 | METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF HYALURONIC ACID - A method of measuring a molecular weight of hyaluronic acid, comprising at least reacting hyaluronic acid in a sample containing the hyaluronic acid with a hyaluronic acid-binding protein to measure an amount of the hyaluronic acid-binding protein that is bound to the hyaluronic acid in the sample or a value that reflects the amount. | 02-18-2010 |
20110151492 | METHOD OF DETECTING ARTICULAR CARTILAGE DEGENERATION OR DAMAGE - An object of the present invention is to provide a detection method capable of detecting articular cartilage degeneration or damage in which the abnormality cannot be detected in a radiograph in a simple method and with high accuracy, a method of evaluating the rate of progression of articular cartilage degeneration or damage, and the like. | 06-23-2011 |
20110174177 | SHEET CHUCK, AND MICROCONTACT PRINTING PROCESS USING THE SAME - The objects of the invention are to provide a sheet chuck that enables a flexible sheet substrate to come in uniform contact with a stamp, and a microcontact printing process of using that sheet chuck to form a high-precision pattern. The sheet chuck of the invention comprises a base having a sheet substrate carrying surface defined by an upper surface thereof, a suck-in/suck-out port positioned on the carrying surface, and a holder positioned on the carrying surface in such a way as to surround the suck-in/suck-out port, and the suck-in/suck-out port is an area capable of sucking in or sucking out gas. | 07-21-2011 |
20110318759 | METHOD FOR ASSAYING KERATAN SULFATE, ASSAY KIT THEREFOR AND METHOD FOR DETECTING JOINT DISEASE BY USING THE SAME - The inventions provides a method for immunologically determining a keratan sulfate level which method includes bringing an anti-keratan sulfate monoclonal antibody into contact with a biological sample, the anti-keratan sulfate monoclonal antibody exhibiting a relative reaction specificity between keratan sulfate-I and keratan sulfate-II represented by IC50 | 12-29-2011 |
20120223454 | MOLD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The object of the invention is to provide a mold that is capable of high-precision, stable patterning, and improved in terms of handleability as well, and a manufacturing method thereof. The mold of the invention has a pattern-formation surface defined by one surface, wherein the pattern-formation layer has a projection-and-depression structure area for patterning, and a base surface defined by another surface. At least the pattern-formation layer and the base surface each comprise a polydimethylsiloxane layer. Given a low-molecular-weight siloxane of a cyclic structure represented by [—Si(CH | 09-06-2012 |
20120224264 | POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE SHEET, OPTICAL ELEMENT INCORPORATING THE SAME, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A PDMS sheet that ensures good adhesion, handleability and stability to metal thin films or metal patterns of any desired shape, an optical element that is kept against de-bonding or exfoliation of metal patterns and has high reliability as well as good handleability and stability, and manufacturing methods thereof. The inventive optical element comprises a polydimethyl-siloxane sheet having a pattern-formation surface defined by one surface and a base surface defined by another surface, and a plurality of metal patterns positioned on the pattern-formation surface. Given a low-molecular-weight siloxane of a cyclic structure represented by [—Si(CH | 09-06-2012 |
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20080214019 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OXIDE FILM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of manufacturing an oxide film includes jetting onto a substrate a high-pressure solution containing an oxygen source and having a pressure of 5 MPa, and forming an oxide film on the substrate using the jetted high-pressure solution. | 09-04-2008 |
20090044829 | ULTRASONIC-WAVE WASHING UNIT, ULTRASONIC-WAVE WASHING APPARATUS, ULTRASONIC-WAVE WASHING METHOD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - An ultrasonic-wave washing unit comprising an ultrasonic-wave vibrating plate to which an ultrasonic-wave vibrator is fixed by adhesive bonding, an ultrasonic-wave transmission plate opposed to the vibrating plate, a liquid supply means which supplies a liquid to a space defined between the vibrating plate and the transmission plate, and a liquid discharge means for discharging the liquid from the space. | 02-19-2009 |
20090044844 | ULTRASONIC CLEANING APPARATUS - An ultrasonic cleaning apparatus which cleans a material at a surface by supplying an ultrasonic wave from an ultrasonic wave application head to a cleaning liquid on the surface, and cleans the surface, wherein the ultrasonic wave application head has an ultrasonic wave transmission member which is provided opposite the surface, and has a curved portion on a first plane placed close to the surface, an ultrasonic transducer which is provided on a second plane placed opposite the first plane of the ultrasonic wave transmission member, and generates and applies an ultrasonic wave to a cleaning liquid on the surface through the ultrasonic wave transmission member, and a preventive portion which is provided in the ultrasonic wave transmission member, and prevents the ultrasonic wave applied to the cleaning liquid and reflected on the surface from entering the ultrasonic transducer through the ultrasonic wave transmission member. | 02-19-2009 |
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20120252509 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication method includes starting, at a first wireless communication apparatus and a second wireless communication apparatus respectively, transmission of a wireless signal, when received power of a wireless signal transmitted from another wireless communication apparatus is smaller than or equal to a carrier sense threshold value, transmitting, from the first wireless communication apparatus, a wireless signal, and determining, at the second wireless communication apparatus, whether or not to receive a data signal following a first signal included in the wireless signal received from the first wireless communication apparatus, based on at least one of received power of the first signal and a transmission destination included in the wireless signal. | 10-04-2012 |
20130077567 | WIRELESS TERMINAL, GATEWAY SELECTION METHOD, AND WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM - A wireless terminal includes a detection section that detects, from a packet received from a plurality of gateways, a control packet broadcast from the plurality of gateways, a candidate specifying section that specifies a plurality of gateways as candidates for connection from a sender gateway that sent the detected control packet, and a selection section that selects one of the specified gateways as a gateway for establishment of connection. | 03-28-2013 |
20130100937 | WIRELESS STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless station includes a receiver configured to receive a packet, a processor configured to set a retransmission start time of a packet transmitted to another wireless station based on the received packet, and a transmitter configured to control transmission of a packet that is the same as the transmitted packet in accordance with whether a response signal responsive to the transmitted packet is received before the set retransmission start time is reached. | 04-25-2013 |
20130148507 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA TO A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An apparatus estimates an influence rate at which transmission of data to a first wireless communication device is influenced by a second wireless communication device that is undetectable by means of carrier sense. The apparatus determines transmission quantity based on the estimated influence rate, and detects a congestion state of the first wireless communication device. The apparatus transmits data to the first wireless communication device according to the determined transmission quantity when congestion for the first wireless communication device is detected. | 06-13-2013 |
20130201970 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Each node transmits to a destination node a registration packet indicating that a local node is a node to request packet transmission. Each node transmits a packet to the destination node within a transmission time reported from the destination node. The destination node receives a registration packet from each node, and calculates a traffic amount to occur in each path for every path going through an adjacent node that enables direct communication with the destination node. The destination node assigns a transmission time to transmit the packet to the each path based on the calculated traffic amount of each path and reports the assigned transmission time to each node. | 08-08-2013 |
20130229907 | WIRELESS STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A second wireless station includes a communicating unit that transmits a packet to a first wireless station and retransmits the packet when a response signal for the packet is not received by a predetermined response time limit; an acquiring unit that acquires from the first wireless station, transmission prohibition period information indicating a transmission prohibition period during which transmission of a signal by the first wireless station is prohibited; and a postponing unit that postpones the response time limit in the transmission prohibition period indicated by the acquired transmission prohibition period information to be after the transmission prohibition period ends. | 09-05-2013 |
20130286870 | WIRELESS TERMINAL DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR WIRELESS TERMINAL DEVICE - A wireless terminal device includes: a processor connected to a memory, configured to: acquire an estimated reception sensitivity of the wireless terminal device based on reception powers from a plurality of other wireless terminal devices with which the wireless terminal device performs random access communication, notify the other wireless terminal devices of the estimated reception sensitivity of the wireless terminal device, and select a transmission destination from among the other wireless terminal devices based on requested reception powers of the other wireless terminal devices, the requested reception powers being calculated based on estimated reception sensitivities of the other wireless terminal devices notified from the other wireless terminal devices. | 10-31-2013 |
20130294244 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device includes: a packet receiving unit that receives, via a wireless ad hoc network, a packet transmitted from a node device; a congestion detection unit that detects, based on the packet received by the packet receiving unit, that congestion occurs in a communication path along which the packet reaches the packet receiving unit; a congestion control message generating unit that generates, when the congestion detection unit detects that the congestion occurs in the communication path, a congestion control message that instructs to take an action to avoid the congestion in the communication path; and a message transmitting unit that transmits the congestion control message generated by the congestion control message generating unit to the node device. | 11-07-2013 |
20140056129 | RADIO STATION, ROUTING METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio station includes a weighting factor determining unit that outputs a value larger than one as a weighting factor when a traffic amount of an adjacent radio station positioned in a communicable range of the radio station exceeds a certain threshold, and a cost calculating unit that calculates a radio quality cost based on radio quality for each link between the radio station and each adjacent radio station, regards a multiplication result of the obtained radio quality cost and the weighting factor as a link cost when there is an input of the weighting factor from the weighting factor determining unit, and regards the obtained radio quality cost as a link cost when there is no input of a weighting factor from the weighting factor determining unit. | 02-27-2014 |
20140140229 | MULTI-HOP COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, MULTI-HOP COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND MULTI-HOP COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a gateway (GW), when interference is detected by an interference detection unit, a frame generation unit sends an interference broadcast signal. A terminal receives the interference broadcast signal sent at a maximum transmission power from the GW to which the terminal belongs. The interference broadcast signal includes information on a planned transmission power value that is a transmission power value of a data signal in the GW and is smaller than the maximum transmission power value. The interference broadcast signal is sent at the maximum transmission power value. | 05-22-2014 |
20140140230 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, TRANSMITTING TERMINAL, AND RECEIVING TERMINAL - A wireless communication system constitutes a wireless ad hoc network. A plurality of wireless terminals include a receiving terminal and a plurality of the transmitting terminals. Each of the transmitting terminals executes direct communication or indirect communication. The wireless communication system includes a first obtainer that obtains a reception side terminal number which is the number of the wireless terminals with which the receiving terminal is able to communicate directly, a second obtainer that obtains a transmission side terminal number which is the number of the wireless terminals with which a target transmitting terminal, which is one of the plurality of transmitting terminals, is able to communicate directly, and a setter that selects one of the direct communication and the indirect communication based on the reception side terminal number and the transmission side terminal number, and sets the target transmitting terminal so as to execute the selected communication. | 05-22-2014 |
20140140272 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND TRANSMITTING TERMINAL - A wireless communication system includes a plurality of wireless terminals. Each of transmitting terminals executes direct communication or indirect communication. The wireless communication system includes a first obtainer that obtains a reception side terminal number which is the number of the wireless terminals with which the receiving terminal is able to communicate directly, a second obtainer that obtains a transmission side terminal number which is the number of the wireless terminals with which the transmitting terminal is able to communicate directly for each of a target transmitting terminal and a neighboring transmitting terminal, and a setter that selects one of the direct communication and the indirect communication based on the reception side terminal number, the transmission side terminal number for the target transmitting terminal, and the transmission side terminal number for the neighboring transmitting terminal, and executes the selected communication. | 05-22-2014 |
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20130099556 | BICYCLE WHEEL RIM STRUCTURE - A bicycle wheel rim structure is provided with a rim, a cap and a tape. The rim includes a first annular side portion, a second annular side portion and an annular bridge portion extending between the first and second annular side portions. The bridge portion has at least one opening. The cap includes a base plate and a projection. The base plate overlies an outer rim surface of the annular bridge portion. The projection extends from the base plate into the at least one opening. The tape is attached to the outer rim surface of the annular bridge portion and overlying the base plate of the cap. The tape is dimensioned to cover an interface between a peripheral edge of the base plate of the cap and the outer rim surface of the annular bridge portion. | 04-25-2013 |
20130229048 | BICYCLE HUB AXLE ADAPTER - A bicycle hub axle adapter basically includes a hub axle adapter main body and at least one retaining member. The hub axle adapter main body is configured to be inserted into a bicycle hub having a hollow hub axle. The at least one retaining member is disposed on an external surface of the hub axle adapter main body for contacting an internal surface of the hollow hub axle. | 09-05-2013 |
20140070602 | BICYCLE HUB ASSEMBLY - A bicycle hub assembly includes a hub axle, a hub shell, a bearing unit, a retaining member, a lock member and an intermediate member. The bearing unit has a first ring that is coupled to the hub axle, a second ring that is coupled to the hub shell, and a plurality of rollers that is disposed between the first and second rings. The retaining member is coupled to the first ring and retains an axial position of the first ring with respect to the hub axle. The retaining member includes a first attachment face. The lock member is fixedly coupled to the hub axle. The lock member includes a second attachment face that faces the first attachment face of the retaining member. The intermediate member is disposed between the first attachment face of the retaining member and the second attachment face of the lock member. | 03-13-2014 |
20140091614 | BICYCLE HUB KIT - A bicycle hub kit includes a hub axle, a hub shell, a bearing unit, first and second end nuts, and a retaining member. The bearing unit has a first ring, a second ring, and a plurality of rollers. The first and second end nuts are interchangeably coupled to an axle end of the hub axle. The retaining member retains an axial position of the first ring of the bearing unit with respect to the hub axle. The retaining member is disposed between the first ring of the bearing unit and one of the first and second end nuts. The first and second end nuts have first and second through holes, respectively. The second through hole of the second end nut has an inner diameter that is smaller than an inner diameter of the first through hole of the first end nut. | 04-03-2014 |
20140217897 | DRIVE CIRCUIT, ILLUMINATION LIGHT SOURCE, AND LIGHTING APPARATUS - A drive circuit is a drive circuit for turning on an LED and includes a self-excited inverter supplying power to the LED, wherein the self-excited inverter includes thermistors, and supplies, depending on temperature dependency of the thermistors, the first power value to the LED when a temperature is the first temperature, and the second power value to the LED when a temperature is the second temperature higher than the first temperature, and the second power value is smaller than the third power value that a circuit which is not provided with the thermistors and supplies the first power value to the LED when the temperature is a first temperature supplies to the LED when a temperature is the second temperature. | 08-07-2014 |
20140252946 | ILLUMINATION LIGHT SOURCE AND LIGHTING APPARATUS - A light bulb-shaped lamp according to the present invention includes: a board on which an LED is mounted; a circuit board on which a drive circuit that turns on the LED is mounted; output wires for supplying power for turning on the LED from the drive circuit to the LED; a pedestal; and a potential-stabilizing wire electrically connecting the pedestal to a circuit ground of the drive circuit. | 09-11-2014 |
20150113473 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device that increases both visibility and selectability of executable programs. The electronic device includes a touch panel display having an elongated shape, a memory storing programs, and a processor controlling program execution and the display. The touch panel includes a first display region and a second display region contiguous with and narrower than the first display region. The display displays an execution image of a first program in the first display region and an icon image of a second program in the second display region in a smaller display area than the execution image. When the processor detects contact at the icon image and detects that the contact moves towards the first display region, the processor causes the display to display an execution image of the second program in the first display region. | 04-23-2015 |
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20130234469 | FRONT PILLAR FOR AUTOMOBILE - A front pillar for an automobile includes a hollow member, an outer panel, and an inner panel. The inner panel has a restricting concave section receiving therein a part of the hollow member to restrict relative displacement of the hollow member in a vehicle width direction relative to the inner panel. | 09-12-2013 |
20130234470 | FRONT PILLAR FOR AUTOMOBILE - A front pillar for an automobile includes an outer panel, an inner panel, and a hollow member disposed between the outer and inner panels. Outer flanges of the outer and inner panels are overlapped with each other to form a closed void section and a seal attachment section. The seal attachment section includes a rear section reinforcing member and a front section reinforcing member sandwiched between the outer flanges of the outer and inner panels in a rear end section and a front end section, respectively, of the front pillar, and a gap channel formed to communicate with the closed void section by partially separating the outer flanges of the outer and inner panels at a central section of the front pillar. The reinforcing members are joined to an outer wall section of the hollow member. | 09-12-2013 |
20130234471 | FRONT PILLAR FOR AUTOMOBILE - A front pillar for an automobile includes an outer panel, an inner panel, a hollow member sandwiched between the outer and inner panels, and a reinforcing member. The outer panel has a glass attachment flange section extending along an edge of the windshield. The hollow member has a first concave section provided on an upper wall section at a terminal end of the hollow member. The first concave section is downwardly separated from the glass attachment flange section of the outer panel. The reinforcing member has a second concave section welded to the first concave section and downwardly separated from the glass attachment flange section of the outer panel. | 09-12-2013 |
20130241238 | FRONT PILLAR FOR AUTOMOBILE - A front pillar for an automobile includes an outer panel, an inner panel, and a hollow member disposed between the outer and inner panels. The outer panel has a roof-joining outer flange section projecting toward a roof skin flange section of a roof beyond the hollow member, and joined by spot welding to the roof skin flange section. A roof-joining extended flange section is joined by welding to at least two surfaces of the hollow member, extended to project toward the roof skin flange section beyond the hollow member and overlap the roof-joining outer flange section, and joined by spot welding to the roof skin flange section together with the roof-joining outer flange section. | 09-19-2013 |