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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inverted pendulum type moving body which can prevent the inverted state of the moving body from becoming unstable when lowering an auxiliary wheel. SOLUTION: Auxiliary wheel devices 21, 22 having auxiliary legs 21b, 22b are arranged in the front and rear in an advancing direction of a carriage body 10, and respectively provided with motors 23, 24 for adjusting lifting angles of the auxiliary legs 21b, 22b and motors 29, 30 for adjusting the expanding and contracting quantity and/or expanding and contracting speed. In this way, the expanding and contracting quantity and/or expanding and contracting speed of respective auxiliary legs 21b, 22b can be independently adjusted. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell system capable of warming up a fuel cell while reducing generation of an inrush current. SOLUTION: A controller 90 switches over connection/disconnection between a fuel cell 40 and a short circuit 80 by means of a short-circuit relay 81. At the time of low-temperature startup, the controller 90 consumes oxide gas remaining in a cathode of a fuel cell 40 by driving auxiliary units or any other operation before switching the short-circuit relay 81 from disconnection to connection to generate an oxide gas deficiency state. Subsequently, the controller 90 completes preparation for providing the short-circuit current by switching an FC relay 61 from ON to OFF and switching the short-circuit relay 81 from OFF to ON. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell stack equipped with a cell laminate cover capable of simply detecting a very small amount of water leakage from a cell laminate from the outside and the cell laminate surrounded by it, a fuel cell stack case to house the fuel cell stack, and a water leakage detecting device to detect the water leakage from the cell laminate. SOLUTION: This cell laminate cover 30 has light transmissivity, and surrounds the cell laminate 9 with the cover adhering to the cell laminate 9. This water leakage detecting device 50 is equipped with a pair of terminals 52 provided along the outer surface of the cell laminate 9 and disposed apart from each other, a water absorbing material filled between a pair of the terminals 52 and the outer surface of the laminate 9, and a water leakage detecting means to detect water leakage from the cell laminate 9 in accordance with a resistance value between a pair of the terminals. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a robot capable of performing proper fail-safe control according to an abnormal joint and its timing when the abnormality occurs. SOLUTION: The robot has a joint actuator for changing an angle of the joint connecting a body side member and an end side member, a joint controller provided for every joint actuator, and a central controller for sequentially commanding to a joint controller group. The central controller is programmed so as to previously command an abnormality processing procedure to be executed by the joint controller of the abnormal joint when the abnormality occurs, where the joint angle is not changed according to the command. The joint controller is programmed so that the abnormality processing procedure already stored is updated to the abnormality processing procedure commanded by the central controller. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To independently control a turning angle and rigidity around a joint of a robot. SOLUTION: This robot has an end side member 18 rotatable in an ankle joint 26, at least two wires 66a, 66b, and 66c having an end part installed on both sides for sandwiching the rotational center of this end side member 18, at least two actuators connected to the other end part of the respective wires, and expanding the respective wires, and a controller for controlling this actuator group. This controller controls a working quantity of the respective actuators, by inputting information on the successively changing turning angle of the end side member 18 and information on successively changing wire tension; and make them follow the indicated turning angle and rigidity. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve ion conductivity and strength as for a polyelectrolyte in which an anionic group and a cationic group are introduced. SOLUTION: This polyelectrolyte has a polymer material containing a polymer compound which has the anionic group and the cationic group on the same and/or the different polymer molecules and an anionic compound nearly equivalent to the amount of the cationic group. In other words, the cationic group introduced in the polymer compound can be neutralized mostly because the anionic compound is added and ionic conductivity of the anionic group of the polymer compound can be improved as acidity of the polymer compound rises. Furthermore, flexibility and strength of the polyelectrolyte obtained by mostly neutralizing the cationic group are improved. As for the reason for that, it is assumed that the balance of electrons is improved after the electron distribution, which is made to be imbalanced because the anionic group and the cationic group coexist in the molecule, is ionically stabilized by the addition of the anionic compound. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bipedal walking robot including a copying control system adapted to correct a target trunk position vector corresponding to a deviation between a target ZMP and an actual ZMP, prevented from being out of control. SOLUTION: A joint angle is calculated on the basis of a target trunk position vector corrected corresponding to a deviation between the target ZMP and the actual ZMP. When the calculated joint angle is not within an allowable joint angle, the correction amount of the target trunk position vector is reduced to again calculate the joint angle. Finally, the correction amount (the correction amount of the target trunk position vector) for copying controlled variable is reduced until the calculated joint angle falls within the allowable joint angle. In the case of this robot, rotation of the joint above the limited angle is not required because of copying control, so that the robot is prevented from being out of control. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of a torque distribution clutch for a vehicle without slippage of transmission torque control corresponding to a rotational speed difference caused by an input output rotational speed difference of the torque distribution clutch due to a diametrical difference of wheels. SOLUTION: As transmission torque t r (=t ref ) of an electromagnetic clutch 30 is controlled in accordance with an actual rotational speed difference ▵N computed by a rotational speed difference computing means 124 and a rotational speed difference ▵N' after correction corrected by a rotational speed difference correcting means 132, the slippage of the transmission torque control corresponding to the rotational speed difference caused by a difference between the actual rotational speed difference ▵N of an input side rotor and an output side rotor of the electromagnetic clutch 30 and the rotational speed difference ▵N' after correction corrected by the rotational speed difference correcting means 132 is favorably eliminated and torque distribution controlling precision is further improved. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To further precisely calculate the internal resistance or electrostatic capacity of the capacitor bank of a drive source without having an influence on the operation of a power output device. SOLUTION: A control unit 30 switching controls the switching element of an inverter circuit 12 so that a prescribed wattless current for outputting no torque from a motor 16 is applied to each phase coil of the motor 16 when the torque command T* is 0, and capacitor banks 11a-11c are serially connected. At this time, taking the initial voltage V0 before starting of switching control, starting voltage V1 just after starting, terminal voltage V2 just before ending of switching control after the lapse of a prescribed time T, and discharge current I from a power source unit 11 in each capacitor bank 11a-11c as inputs, the internal resistance R (V0-V1/I) and the electrostatic capacity C (I.T/(V1-V2) are calculated on the basis of them.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique that suppresses degradation in exhaust emissions while preventing sticking of a nozzle vane in an internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: The internal combustion engine is provided with a variable displacement type turbocharger 15, a reducing agent supplying means 3 for supplying a reducing agent to exhaust from upstream of the variable displacement type turbocharger 15, a sticking estimating means 35 for estimating timing of sticking of the nozzle vanes 74 of the variable displacement type turbocharger 15, and a nozzle vane force-opening/closing means 35 for opening and closing the nozzle vanes 74 before the sticking timing of the nozzle vanes 74 estimated by the sticking estimating means 35 and except during the reducing agent supply by the reducing agent supplying means 3.