All The Claims

1. An electric double layer capacitor comprising:
a cell including
a positive electrode,
a negative electrode facing said positive electrode, and
a porous separator that is impregnated with an electrolytic solution and that is disposed between said positive and negative electrodes, said positive and negative electrodes expanding upon charging of said electric double layer capacitor and contracting upon discharging of said electric double layer capacitor;

a case containing said cell; and
a electrolytic solution reservoir having a porous structure and located in said case in contact with said separator and impregnable with said electrolytic solution so that, upon charging of said electric double layer capacitor, electrolytic solution moves from said electrolytic solution reservoir to said porous separator and, upon discharging of said electric double layer capacitor, electrolytic solution moves from said porous separator into said electrolytic solution reservoir.
2. The electric double layer capacitor according to claim 1, wherein said electrolytic solution reservoir and said separator have respective main surfaces and adhere to each other at the respective main surfaces.
3. The electric double layer capacitor according to claim 1, further comprising a release valve in said case, wherein said electrolytic solution reservoir extends between said release valve and said cell.
4. The electric double layer capacitor according to claim 1, wherein said electrolytic solution reservoir includes pores having an average diameter and said separator includes pores having an average diameter and the average diameter of the pores of said electrolytic solution reservoir is larger than the average diameter of the pores of said separator.
5. The electric double layer capacitor according to claim 4, wherein said electrolytic solution reservoir is impregnated with a predetermined amount of said electrolytic solution so that an occupation ratio of said electrolytic solution within the pores of said separator becomes at least 50% when said electric double layer capacitor is fully charged, and the occupation ratio of said electrolytic solution within the pores of said electrolytic solution reservoir does not exceed 100% when said electric double layer capacitor is fully discharged.
6. The electric double layer capacitor according to claim 1, wherein said electrolytic solution reservoir contracts when at least one of said positive electrode and said negative electrode expands, and expands when at least one of said positive electrode and said negative electrode contracts.
7. The electric double layer capacitor according to claim 6, wherein said electrolytic solution reservoir is located between an inner surface of said case and said cell.
8. The electric double layer capacitor according to claim 6, wherein said electrolytic solution reservoir is one of a porous fluorine-based rubber and a porous silicone-based rubber.
9. The electric double layer capacitor according to claim 6, wherein said electrolytic solution reservoir is a gel electrolyte.
10. The electric double layer capacitor according to claim 6, wherein said electrolytic solution reservoir comprises a metal cushion plate and a porous body of carbon fibers.
11. The electric double layer capacitor according to claim 6, wherein said electrolytic solution reservoir is a foamed plastic having both closed pores and open pores.
12. The electric double layer capacitor according to claim 6, wherein said electrolytic solution reservoir includes pores having an average diameter and said separator includes pores having an average diameter and the average diameter of the pores of said electrolytic solution reservoir is larger than the average diameter of the pores of said separator.
13. The electric double layer capacitor according to claim 12, wherein said electrolytic solution reservoir is impregnated with a predetermined amount of said electrolytic solution so that an occupation ratio of said electrolytic solution within the pores of said separator becomes at least 50% when said electric double layer capacitor is fully charged, and the occupation ratio of said electrolytic solution within the pores of said electrolytic solution reservoir does not exceed 100% when said electric double layer capacitor is fully discharged.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A method of managing a user database in a mobile terminal, the method comprising the steps of:
when communication using a telephone number registered in a phone book occurs, updating a communication time of the telephone number to the time when the communication is terminated;
searching for the communication time by a display request of phone book information including the telephone number;
calculating a time interval from a present time to the communication time and searching for a connection period to which the calculated time interval belongs among a plurality of connection periods having different predetermined time intervals; and
displaying a communication time mark corresponding to the searched connection period among a plurality of communication time marks corresponding to the plurality of connection periods with the requested phone book information.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the number of the plurality of connection periods and a time interval of each connection period is set by a user
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of communication time marks are formed with a figure having different colors.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of communication time marks are one of animal characters, plant characters, and constellation characters such as the signs of the zodiac corresponding to birth years or months, each having different countenances and shapes.
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:
if communication using the telephone number occurs again, updating communication time information of the telephone number to the time when the communication is terminated.
6. A method of managing a user database in a mobile terminal, the method comprising the steps of:
when communication using a telephone number registered in a phone book occurs, updating a communication time of the telephone number to the time when the communication is terminated by identifying a type of communication service;
searching for communication time information related to the telephone number by a display request of phone book information including the telephone number and detecting a communication termination time;
calculating a time interval from a present time to the communication termination time and searching for a connection period to which the calculated time interval belongs among a plurality of connection periods having different predetermined time intervals; and
displaying a communication time mark corresponding to the searched connection period among a plurality of communication time marks corresponding to the plurality of connection periods and a type of communication service related to the communication termination time with the requested phone book information.
7. The method of claims 6, wherein if the type of communication service is a message service, the communication time information is updated by changing the communication termination time to a message outgoing time.
8. The method of claim 6, wherein if a list of a plurality of users is included in the phone book information, when the phone book information is displayed, a communication time mark of a telephone number with which a most recent communication has been performed among one or more telephone numbers related to each user is displayed with the user list.
9. An apparatus for managing a user database in a mobile terminal, the apparatus comprising:
a phone book;
a memory module for storing communication time information corresponding to telephone numbers registered in the phone book, a plurality of connection periods having different time intervals, and a plurality of communication time marks corresponding to the plurality of connection periods by identifying types of communication services; and
a controller module for, when communication using an arbitrary telephone number registered in a phone book occurs, updating a communication time of the telephone number to the time when the communication is terminated; searching for the communication time by a display request of phone book information including the telephone number, calculating a time interval from a present time to the communication time and searching for a connection period to which the calculated time interval belongs, and displaying a communication time mark corresponding to the searched connection period with the requested phone book information.

1. A multi-function connector for vehicles, comprising:
a connector housing:
a plurality of terminals disposed in the connector housing, each of the terminals being connected at an end thereof to a wire;
a conductor having a plate shape and coupled to at least two terminals so as to electrically connect the terminals to each other, with an elastic locking part formed in the conductor by protruding and bending a part of the conductor;
a nonconductor surrounding the conductor, with a locking groove formed in the nonconductor and having a shape corresponding to the elastic locking part of the conductor, so that a coupling of the conductor to the nonconductor is maintained by insertion of the elastic locking part into the locking groove,
wherein the conductor is slitted at a predetermined position, and opposite sides of the slitted portion of the conductor are curvedly bent, so that, when a terminal is fitted into the slitted portion of the conductor, the fitted state is maintained by elasticity of the opposite sides of the slitted portion of the conductor.
2. (canceled)
3. The multi-function connector as defined in claim 1, further comprising:
a stop protrusion provided at a predetermined position on an outer surface of the nonconductor; and
a stop groove formed at a predetermined position in the connector housing, so that the stop protrusion of the nonconductor is inserted into the stop groove of the connector housing.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A motor generator comprising: a stator in which a winding is wound around each of a plurality of stator teeth provided on a stator core; and a rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets by the number larger than that of the stator teeth, arranged on a rotor core circumferentially at equal intervals,
wherein the stator teeth are formed of
a first stator teeth section having a plurality of groups of adjacent stator teeth around which a winding to which the same phase voltage is applied is wound and in which winding directions of the windings around the adjacent stator teeth are opposite to each other, and
a second stator teeth section formed of one or more stator teeth positioned between the stator teeth groups of the first stator teeth section each having a different phase, in which if the second stator teeth section has a plurality of stator teeth, winding directions of the adjacent stator teeth are opposite to each other, electric power being independently input and output with respect to each of the windings of the first and second stator teeth sections.
2. The motor generator according to claim 1, wherein
the width of a distal end of the stator teeth in a circumferential direction is substantially equal to or larger than the effective width of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction.
3. The motor generator according to claim 1, wherein
the total number T of the stator teeth satisfies the following equation
T=3\xd7s\xd7n,

and
the number of poles P of the rotor satisfies the following equation, and is set to a minimum value P larger than the total number T
P=2\xd7(s(\xb11+3k))

where t1 is the number of the stator teeth of the first stator teeth section, t2 is the number of the stator teeth of the second stator teeth section, T is the total number of the stator teeth, or (t1+t2), n is the total number of the stator teeth of one group of the first stator teeth section and the stator teeth of the second stator teeth section adjacent thereto, s is the number of winding groups one set of which is constituted by three stator teeth groups wound with windings at three U, V, and W phases, respectively, and k is a positive integer.
4. The motor generator according to claim 1, wherein
an arrangement angle \u03b8s of the stator teeth satisfies 360P<\u03b8s\u2266360T, where t1 is the number of the stator teeth of the first stator teeth section, t2 is the number of the stator teeth of the second stator teeth section, T is the total number of the stator teeth, or (t1+t2), and P is the number of pole.
5. The motor generator according to claim 1, wherein
a pitch between the stator teeth of the first stator teeth section is set to 360T where T is the total number of the stator teeth, and
a pitch between the stator teeth of the second stator teeth section is set to 360P where P is the number of poles of the rotor.
6. The motor generator according to claim 5, wherein a pitch between distal ends of the stator teeth of the second stator teeth section is set to 360T, and an open slot is made uniform.
7. The motor generator according to claim 1, wherein
when a pitch between the stator teeth of the first stator teeth section is not set to 360P, the sectional area of a winding portion of the stator teeth is varied such that the difference in the flux density owing to the difference in phase between the adjacent stator teeth of the same phase is eliminated to uniform the flux density.
8. The motor generator according to claim 1, wherein
when a pitch between the stator teeth of the first stator teeth section is not set to 360P, a skew at an arbitrary angle up to 360P is provided to the adjacent stator teeth of the same phase.
9. The motor generator according to claim 1, wherein the rotor is formed by stacking a magnet type rotor portion in which a permanent magnet is disposed in a rotor core and a reluctance type rotor portion in which a rotor core is provided with a magnetic stator teeth, in an axial direction.
10. The motor generator according to claim 1, wherein
a generated voltage is controlled by winding control windings around adjacent stator teeth of the same phase, in the same direction, connecting them in series, and supplying them with a direct current.
11. The motor generator according to claim 1, wherein
a division path is formed between adjacent stator teeth of the same phase to divide flux.
12. The motor generator according to claim 11, wherein
a2<a1 is satisfied where a1 is the width of the division path, and a2 is the width of winding for power generation.
13. The motor generator according to claim 1, wherein
at one or a plurality part of the stator teeth is provided with a short-circuit ring.
14. The motor generator according to claim 1, wherein a division path is formed between adjacent stator teeth of the same phase to divide flux, and a power generating winding is wound around the division path to output generated power.
15. A motor generator comprising: a stator in which a winding is wound around each of a plurality of stator teeth provided on a stator core; and a rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets by the number larger than that of the stator teeth, arranged on a rotor core circumferentially at equal intervals,
wherein the stator teeth are divided into a plurality of groups each having adjacent stator teeth around which a winding to which the same phase voltage is applied is wound and in which winding directions of the adjacent stator teeth are opposite to each other, the stator teeth of each group are further divided into a plurality of secondary stator teeth sections such that electric power is independently input and output with respect to each of the windings of the respective secondary stator teeth sections.
16. The motor generator according to claim 15, wherein
the total number T of the stator teeth satisfies the following equation
T=3\xd7s\xd7n,

and
the number of poles P of the rotor satisfies the following equation, and is set to a minimum value P larger than the total number T
P=2\xd7(s(\xb11+3k))

where n is the total number of the stator teeth of one stator teeth group, s is the number of winding groups one set of which is constituted by three stator teeth groups wound with windings at three U, V, and W phases, respectively, and k is a positive integer.
17. The motor generator according to claim 15, wherein
the width of the stator teeth is changed between the secondary stator teeth sections to vary the distribution of the electric power output and input between the respective secondary stator teeth sections.
18. The motor generator according to claim 15, wherein
a generated voltage is controlled by winding control windings around adjacent stator teeth of the same phase, in the same direction, connecting them in series, and supplying them with a direct current.
19. The motor generator according to claim 15, wherein
a division path is formed between adjacent stator teeth of the same phase to divide flux.
20. The motor generator according to claim 19, wherein
a2<a1 is satisfied where a1 is the width of the division path, and a2 is the width of winding for power generation.
21. The motor generator according to claim 15, wherein at one or a plurality part of the stator teeth is provided with a short-circuit ring.
22. The motor generator according to claim 15, wherein
a division path is formed between adjacent stator teeth of the same phase to divide flux, and a power generating winding is wound around the division path to output generated power.
23. A motor generator comprising: a stator in which a winding is wound around each of a plurality of stator teeth provided on a stator core; and a rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets by the number larger than that of the stator teeth, arranged on a rotor core circumferentially at equal intervals,
wherein the stator teeth are formed of
a first stator teeth section having a plurality of groups of adjacent stator teeth around which a winding to which the same phase voltage is applied is wound and in which winding directions of the adjacent stator teeth are opposite to each other, and
a second stator teeth section formed of at least one stator teeth positioned between the stator teeth groups of the first stator teeth section each having a different phase, in which if the second stator teeth section has a plurality of stator teeth, winding directions of the adjacent stator teeth are opposite to each other,
the stator teeth of one or more of the stator teeth groups of the first stator teeth section and the second stator teeth section are divided into a plurality of secondary stator teeth sections such that electric power is independently inputoutput with respect to each of the windings of the first and second stator teeth sections or each of the windings of the secondary stator teeth sections when they are divided into the secondary stator teeth sections.
24. The motor generator according to claim 23, wherein
the total number T of the stator teeth satisfies the following equation
T=3\xd7s\xd7n,

and
the number of poles P of the rotor satisfies the following equation, and is set to a minimum value P larger than the total number T
P=2\xd7(s(\xb11+3k))

where t1 is the number of the stator teeth of the first stator teeth section, t2 is the number of the stator teeth of the second stator teeth section, T is the total number of the stator teeth, or (t1+t2), n is the total number of the stator teeth of one group of the first stator teeth section and the stator teeth of one of the second stator teeth sections adjacent thereto, s is the number of winding groups one set of which is constituted by three stator teeth groups wound with windings at three U, V, and W phases, respectively, and k is a positive integer.
25. The motor generator according to claim 23, wherein
a generated voltage is controlled by winding control windings around adjacent stator teeth of the same phase, in the same direction, connecting them in series, and supplying them with a direct current.
26. The motor generator according to claim 23, wherein
a division path is formed between adjacent stator teeth of the same phase to divide flux.
27. The motor generator according to claim 26, wherein
a2<a1 is satisfied where a1 is the width of the division path, and a2 is the width of winding for power generation.
28. The motor generator according to claim 23, wherein
at one or a plurality part of the stator teeth is provided with a short-circuit ring.
29. The motor generator according to claim 23, wherein
a division path is formed between adjacent stator teeth of the same phase to divide flux, and a power generating winding is wound around the division path to output generated power.
30. A motor generator comprising: a stator in which a winding is wound around each of a plurality of stator teeth provided on a stator core; and a rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets by the number larger than that of the stator teeth arranged on a rotor core circumferentially at equal intervals,
wherein the stator teeth are divided into a plurality of groups of the stator teeth around which a winding to which the same phase voltage is applied is wound and in which winding directions of the adjacent stator teeth are opposite to each other to constitute a plurality of units, and
the plurality of units are stacked in an axial direction, and each thickness of the units or each diameter thereof is changed such that electric power is independently input and output with respect to each of the windings of the respective units.
31. The motor generator according to claim 30, wherein
the total number T of the stator teeth satisfies the following equation
T=3\xd7s\xd7n,

and
the number of poles P of the rotor satisfies the following equation, and is set to a minimum value P larger than the total number T
P=2\xd7(s(\xb11+3k))

where n is the total number of the stator teeth of one stator teeth group, s is the number of winding groups one set of which is constituted by three stator teeth groups wound with windings at three U, V, and W phases, respectively, and k is a positive integer.
32. The motor generator according to claim 30, wherein
at a stator of the unit which generates lower power is provided with no stator core.
33. The motor generator according to claim 30, wherein
a generated voltage is controlled by winding control windings around adjacent stator teeth of the same phase, in the same direction, connecting them in series, and supplying them with a direct current.
34. The motor generator according to claim 30, wherein
a division path is formed between adjacent stator teeth of the same phase to divide flux.
35. The motor generator according to claim 34, wherein
a2<a1 is satisfied where a1 is the width of the division path, and a2 is the width of winding for power generation.
36. The motor generator according to claim 30, wherein
at one of a plurality part of the stator teeth is provided with a short-circuit ring.
37. The motor generator according to claim 30, wherein
a division path is formed between adjacent stator teeth of the same phase to divide flux, and a power generating winding is wound around the division path to output generated power.
38. The motor generator according to claim 10, wherein
when the number of adjacent stator teeth for power generation is odd, the sum of the winding number of the control winding(s) wound around the stator teeth(s) of the same polarity is substantially made equal to the sum of the winding number of the control winding(s) wound around the stator teeth(s) of the opposite polarity.
39. The motor generator according to claim 1, wherein a control winding is wound over the adjacent stator teeth of the same phase and supplied with a direct current to control a generated voltage.
40. The motor generator according to claim 12, wherein
a bridge is formed between a stator yoke and the division path connecting the stator teeth of the stator to connect them.
41. The motor generator according to claim 11, wherein
a control winding is wound around the division path and is supplied with a current to control a generated voltage.
42. The motor generator according to claim 13, wherein
the stator teeth is divided by at one or more slit to provide a plurality of magnetic paths, and a short-circuit ring is provided to at one or more part of the magnetic paths.
43. The motor generator according to claim 14, wherein
a short-circuit ring is provided to the division path.
44. The motor generator according to claim 1, wherein
a plurality of power output lines are provided in opposite directions along an axis thereof.
45. An electric vehicle comprising the motor generator according to claim 1.
46. An aerogenerator comprising the motor generator according to claim 1.
47. A generator for an internal combustion engine or an external combustion engine comprising the motor generator according to claim 1.