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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To filter a pseudo-distance by estimating a pseudo-distance variation by another means without using a measurement result of a carrier wave phase of a satellite signal in a stopped state of a mobile body. SOLUTION: Mobile body position positioning devices 1, 2, 3 are equipped with pseudo-distance calculation means 20A, 20B for calculating the pseudo-distance ρ' between a satellite 10 and a vehicle 90, a stop determination means 70 for determining whether the mobile body is stopped or not, a satellite position calculation means 60 for calculating the satellite position, pseudo-distance variation estimation means 50A, 50B, 50C for estimating the pseudo-distance variation ▵ρ, and a positioning means 40 for positioning the position of the mobile body based on the pseudo-distance and the pseudo-distance variation. When determined stop of the mobile body by the stop determination means, the pseudo-distance variation estimation means estimates the pseudo-distance variation by using a change history of the satellite position calculated by the satellite position calculation means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positioning system and a car navigation system capable of positioning precisely a position of a moving object even when the number of receivable GPS satellites is not sufficient. SOLUTION: This positioning system 10 capable of controlling cooperatively the positioning using radio waves transmitted from the artificial satellites and the positioning by a self-contained navigation method to estimate the position of the moving object extracts a point with the minimum distance with respect to an inertia positioning position positioned by the self-contained navigation method, out of a range positioned using the radio waves, when the number of the captured satellites is less than three, and estimates the point as the satellite positioned position positioned using the radio wave. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a position estimation device for a moving body for estimating the position of the moving body highly accurately without being influenced by a road shape or a peripheral environment. SOLUTION: This position estimation device for the moving body loaded on the moving body for estimating the position of the moving body is equipped with the first estimation means for estimating the position of the moving body based on an output from an inertia navigation sensor group (an acceleration sensor, a yaw rate sensor or the like) loaded on the moving body; a storage means for storing map information including at least node information; the second estimation means for estimating the position of the moving body based on an anticipated moving locus of the moving body predicted from the node information; and a synthesis means for determining the final estimated position of the moving body by synthesizing the position of the moving body estimated by the first estimation means and the position of the moving body estimated by the second estimation means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell system which can secure a stable drive of a load by reducing deviation between an actually necessary load power amount and the power generation amount by forecasting the total power generation demand power corresponding to the load demand, taking varied running conditions into consideration. SOLUTION: The fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell 10 and a power storage device 31 and calculates power generation demand value based on a load demand, and controls the power generation of a fuel cell 10 based on the calculated power generation demand value. The power generation demand value is calculated based on a power generation demand rate of the fuel cell taking the generating efficiency of the fuel cell 10 into consideration. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device that perform the operation control of a fuel cell which responds to I-V characteristics varying every second. SOLUTION: The control device of the fuel cell predicts the I-V characteristics of the fuel cell (Step S101), computes a maximum current Imax outputted by the fuel cell based on a reactant gas flow rate supplied to the fuel cell (Step S102), obtains an output voltage Vmax of the fuel cell corresponding to the maximum current Imax and sets the output voltage Vmax as a target value of a mimimum cell voltage Vm (Step S103), and controls the output voltage of the fuel cell so that the minimum cell voltage Vm may correspond to the target voltage Vmax (Step S104). COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To operate a fuel cell with higher stability regardless of a moisture condition at starting the fuel cell. SOLUTION: When the starting of the fuel cell is directed, a hydrogen gas and air are supplied to the fuel cell, the humidification of the hydrogen gas and the air to be supplied is suspended, and a flow control valve mounted in an exhaust outlet duct path of hydrogen series and air series exhaust gases exhausted from the fuel cell is closed (S100). If a prescribed time passes after an open circuit voltage OCV between output terminals of the fuel cell reaches a threshold Vref or larger (S102 to S106), the flow control valve which has been closed is opened (S108), and after the hydrogen gas and air supplied to the fuel cell are humidified (S110), the fuel cell and a load are connected and the operation of the cell starts (S112). By pressure fluctuations due to the switching operation of the flow control valve, moisture in the fuel cell is once ejected, and after it is reset in the moisture state, the operation starts by humidifying the fuel cell, and thereby, the operation of the fuel cell can be stabilized regardless of the moisture condition before starting. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an entrance due to a wrong operation into an entrance prohibited area at a parking lot.SOLUTION: An ECU 16 comprises: an operation pattern storage section for learning to store an operation pattern of a driver before/after parking at the parking lot; an entrance prohibited area storage section for learning to store the entrance prohibited area at the parking lot; and a determination section for performing at least one of alarm generation or travel control, when a driver operation before/after parking after the learning deviates from the operation pattern stored in the operation pattern storage section and is determined to be an entrance into the entrance prohibited area stored in the entrance prohibited area storage section. For the operation pattern of the driver, time change of a vehicle speed for each parking pattern is used.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve fuel consumption, in a device for controlling vehicle running.SOLUTION: The device includes: a gradient-detecting unit 41 for detecting whether the vehicle is running in a preliminarily-set predetermined-road-gradient section; a running condition memory unit 42 for memorizing a running condition of the vehicle in the predetermined-road-gradient section; a gear-stage determining unit 43 for determining whether a current gear-stage is a suitable gear-stage on the basis of the running condition of the vehicle which runs in a memorized road-gradient section; and a gear-stage resetting unit 44 for resetting and memorizing a more suitable gear-stage when the current gear-stage is not the suitable gear-stage.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positioning device for a mobile body for precisely positioning a mobile body in a real time fashion. SOLUTION: This mobile body positioning device 100 is adapted to position a mobile body at the current time so as to output it for a predetermined output cycle. When the current time is in an updating time period of GPS operation data, an initial position of the mobile body is calculated out by using the GPS operation data, an inertia navigation positioning means 30, a speed detection means 40 and an error correction means 50, and a mobile body model operation means 60 operates a mobile body model until the current time by using a correction value calculated out during the calculation of the initial position so as to position the mobile body. When the current time is not in the updating time period of the GPS operation data, the initial position of the mobile body is calculated out by using the inertia navigation positioning means, the speed detection means and the error correction means, and the mobile body model operation means operates a mobile body model until the current time by using a correction value calculated out during the calculation of the initial position so as to position the mobile body. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a stable manufacturing of a metal sheet with high quality, in an apparatus for manufacturing a metal sheet from molten metal using a pair of cooling rollers. SOLUTION: A modeled zone 50 is set up in an aperture of the cooling rollers 12 and 14 and its vicinity. The modeled zone 50 includes a molten metal zone 28 and a part of the cooling roller 14. In the modeled zone 50, a solidification model to calculate solidifying state of the molten metal divided into a plurality of cells is formed. Sensors 31, 38, 39 measure designated physical quantities from the modeled zone 50. A controller 40 estimates the current solidifying state of the molten metal using the measured physical quantities. Then, according to the estimated solidifying state, rotation speed of the cooling rollers 12, 14, cooling capacity of the cooling rollers 12, 14, coating amount of a parting agent on the cooling rollers 12, 14, pressuring load of the cooling rollers 12, 14, temperature of the molten metal 28 and supplying amount of the molten metal 28 and so on are adjusted. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI