641 patents
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Utility
Drive device for vehicles
14 Jun 22
A drive device for vehicles includes a transmission device including a transmission mechanism that changes a speed of inputted rotation of a drive source of a vehicle and outputs the rotation and that is provided on an axis of rotation orthogonal to a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and a casing that holds the transmission mechanism; and a control device that performs electronic control of the transmission device, at least a part of the control device being installed on an outside of the casing, and the control device is installed at either one of a front side portion and a rear side portion of the casing in the front-rear direction of the vehicle.
Ryohei Takahashi, Jun Takamatsu, Toshihiro Okada
Filed: 19 Sep 18
Utility
Airbag and seat apparatus for vehicle
14 Jun 22
An airbag includes plural bag portions respectively including two sheet members attached to each other, and a welded portion at which the sheet members being in contact with each other are attached to each other.
Yasuhito Kurematsu, Satoshi Masuda, Tomokazu Seki, Masaaki Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Ryosuke Mizuno, Makoto Sakai
Filed: 15 Dec 20
Utility
Parking assist apparatus
14 Jun 22
A parking assist apparatus according to an embodiment includes a memory and a hardware processor coupled to the memory.
Hironori Hirata, Masahiro Ishihara
Filed: 22 Feb 18
Utility
Stator and stator coil having lead wires arranged to secure interphase insulation performance
14 Jun 22
A stator wherein the lead wire portion includes a root portion connected to the slot housed portion, disposed in a same-phase region which overlaps the coil end portion of the coil of a same phase as seen in the center axis direction, and disposed on an axially inner side with respect to the coil end portion, and a draw-out portion that projects in the center axis direction from a power source portion-side end portion of the root portion toward an axially outer side with respect to the coil end portion in the same-phase region.
Toru Kuroyanagi, Takahiko Hobo, Hiroo Hayashi, Ko Kajita
Filed: 19 Sep 18
Utility
Sunroof apparatus
14 Jun 22
A front link shifts, based on power transmitted from a first guide shaft of a front shoe, among a full-close corresponding position that allows a movable panel to be arranged in a full-close position, a front-up corresponding position that allows the movable panel to be arranged in a front-up position, and a full-open corresponding position that allows the movable panel to be arranged in a full-open position.
Shinichi Hiramatsu
Filed: 26 Feb 20
Utility
Periphery Monitoring Apparatus
9 Jun 22
A periphery monitoring apparatus includes: a display processing unit configured to display, on a display, a peripheral image representing a virtual gaze area including a virtual gaze point viewed from a virtual viewpoint in a virtual space in which a situation in a periphery of a vehicle is reflected, based on a captured image acquired by capturing an image of the periphery of the vehicle; and a change processing unit configured to change a viewpoint radius corresponding to a distance between the virtual gaze point and the virtual viewpoint and a viewing angle corresponding to a range of the virtual gaze area viewed from the virtual viewpoint in accordance with a change in a situation on a left side or a right side in a traveling direction of the vehicle.
Kinji Yamamoto, Kazuya Watanabe
Filed: 2 Dec 21
Utility
Image Processing Device and Image Processing Program
9 Jun 22
An image processing device can use a calculation formula based on an ellipse to approximate a base function of a reference GMM.
Hideo YAMADA, Masatoshi SHIBATA, Hakaru TAMUKOH, Shuichi ENOKIDA, Kazuki YOSHIHIRO
Filed: 30 Mar 20
Utility
Obstacle Detection Device, Method, and Program
2 Jun 22
An obstacle detection device includes: an ultrasonic sensor signal processing unit detecting, of a distance to an obstacle and a shape of the obstacle, at least the distance based on an output of an ultrasonic sensor disposed in a door of a vehicle, the ultrasonic sensor detecting the distance within a predetermined detection range by ultrasonic waves; a camera image processing unit detecting at least one of the distance and the shape based on an output of a camera of the vehicle, the camera imaging an area including a trajectory range of the door when being opened and a detection range of the ultrasonic sensor; and a controller performing an opening operation control of opening the door to a pop-up position based on detection results of the ultrasonic sensor signal processing unit and the camera image processing unit when the distance is less than a predetermined distance.
Kota Katahara, Ryu Miyashiro
Filed: 29 Nov 21
Utility
Shade device
31 May 22
A shade device includes: guide rails extending in parallel to each other in a first direction as one direction; a winding shaft extending in a second direction as a direction orthogonal to the first direction on one end side of both of the guide rails in the first direction; a light-shielding sheet having one end portion coupled to the winding shaft; a rod extending in the second direction and coupled to the other end portion of the light-shielding sheet; sliding members attached to both of the end portions of the rod in a longitudinal direction and slidably supported by both of the guide rails; and guide members are attached to both of the end portions of the rod in the longitudinal direction, slidably supported by both of the guide rails, and fixed in a state where both of the side edges of the light-shielding sheet are folded.
Shinichi Hiramatsu
Filed: 11 Apr 19
Utility
Capacitance detection device
31 May 22
A capacitance detection device includes: a capacitor array having parallel-connected capacitors having different capacitances, and whose combined capacitance is changed by selectively switching the capacitors; a detection capacitor connected in series to the capacitor array; a switching control unit selectively switching the capacitors; a detection unit detecting an intermediate potential that is a potential of a capacitive voltage division of a power supply; an acquisition unit acquiring, as a reference combined capacitance, any of the combined capacitances in a vicinity where a magnitude relationship between the intermediate potential and a predetermined reference potential is inverted; a determination unit determining whether or not a detection target is present; a capacitance change unit controlling the switching control unit to change the reference combined capacitance; and a setting unit setting the determination threshold based on a difference between the intermediate potentials in the reference combined capacitance and in the changed reference combined capacitance.
Hideya Kurachi
Filed: 11 Mar 20
Utility
Position Estimation Method for Mobile Terminal, Position Estimation Device for Mobile Terminal and Position Estimation System for Mobile Terminal
26 May 22
A position estimation method for estimating a position of a mobile terminal includes: an acquisition step of acquiring distance values and radio wave intensity values between a plurality of communication devices provided in a vehicle and the mobile terminal by communicating the communication devices with the mobile terminal; a communication availability determination step of determining that a corresponding communication device is communicable when the distance value is equal to or less than a first predetermined value and the intensity value is equal to or more than a second predetermined value; and an estimation step of narrowing down a search range of the mobile terminal based on a distance value from the communication device having the smallest distance value of at least three of communication devices determined to be communicable in the communication availability determination step, and estimating the position of the mobile terminal.
Hideaki HIROSE, Takahiro KAKO, Michihiro OGURA, Hiroaki YAMAMOTO, Kenichi TAGUCHI, Nobuyasu MIWA
Filed: 17 Nov 21
Utility
Shift Device
26 May 22
A shift device includes: a shift switching member including plural valleys corresponding to shift positions; a driving unit including a motor, the motor including a rotor and a stator, and configured to drive the shift switching member; a temperature detecting unit configured to detect a temperature of the motor; and a control unit configured to adjust a control gain based on the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit.
Atsuto OGINO, Kota ISHIKAWA, Kentaro BABA
Filed: 17 Nov 21
Utility
Rotor Manufacturing Method and Rotor Manufacturing Apparatus
26 May 22
This rotor manufacturing method includes the steps of: pressing a rotor core in a central axis direction by using a core pressing member; and fixing a shaft to the rotor core by performing, with the rotor core pressed, hydroforming that involves pressure-welding the shaft to an inner peripheral surface of a shaft insertion hole.
Takaaki KAWASHIMA, Yutaka HARA, Mariko SAITO
Filed: 21 May 20
Utility
Position Estimation Method for Mobile Terminal, Position Estimation Device for Mobile Terminal and Position Estimation System for Mobile Terminal
26 May 22
A position estimation method for estimating a position of a mobile terminal includes: an acquisition step of acquiring distance values and radio wave intensity values between communication devices provided in a vehicle and the mobile terminal by communicating the communication devices with the mobile terminal; a communication availability determination step of determining that a corresponding communication device is communicable when the distance value is not more than a first value and the intensity value is not less than a second value; an area determination step of, based on a result of the communication availability determination step and communication maps mapping communicable ranges of the communication devices, determining an area where the mobile terminal exists by superimposing the communication maps; and an estimation step of estimating the position of the mobile terminal based on a result of the area determination step.
Hideaki HIROSE, Takahiro Kako, Michihiro Ogura, Hiroaki Yamamoto, Kenichi Taguchi, Nobuyasu Miwa
Filed: 17 Nov 21
Utility
Method for manufacturing a rotor
24 May 22
In a method for manufacturing a rotor, each of adhesive placement portions that are provided between a surface of a permanent magnet on the radially inner side and grooves is formed so as to cover a part of an adhesive applied to the permanent magnet on the radially inner side and parts of the adhesive on both sides in the circumferential direction.
Hideharu Ushida, Tetsuya Matsubara, Tetsuya Takahashi
Filed: 1 Sep 17
Utility
Region guidance system and region guidance program
17 May 22
Region guidance systems and programs obtain a spot with which guidance information is associated.
Hiroyuki Kozakai, Koji Ogawa, Hiroyuki Tamba, Hajime Morikawa, Xin Jin
Filed: 9 Aug 16
Utility
Fluid pump with cam geometry to reduce pulsations
17 May 22
A fluid pump includes: three or more volume chambers that suction and discharge a fluid sequentially; moving elements that are respectively provided in the volume chambers, move relative to the volume chamber, and suction and discharge the fluid from and to the volume chamber; a cam that abuts against and drives the moving elements; and a driving section that drives at least one of the moving elements and the cam and relatively rotates the moving elements and the cam to discharge the fluid one time from each of the volume chambers in one cycle of the relative rotation, in which, when suctioning and discharging the fluid, regarding a discharge rotation angle α, α=(Z/M)×N is satisfied, where the number of volume chambers is M and any integer from 2 to (M−1) is N.
Hisashi Ono, Katsuhiko Takasu, Koji Nunami
Filed: 21 Nov 18
Utility
Lane guidance system and lane guidance program
17 May 22
Provided is lane guidance system for decreasing the possibility that a user is misled including: a proposed travel route acquisition unit that acquires a proposed travel route of a vehicle; a successive intersection determination unit that determines whether a distance between a first intersection that is a guidance intersection on the proposed travel route and a second intersection that follows the first intersection is within a prescribed distance.
Kenji Sasaki, Xin Jin
Filed: 29 Oct 18
Utility
Manufacturing method of rotor
17 May 22
The manufacturing method of a rotor includes: a step of preparing a plate that is composed of an austenitic material and that has a projected portion and a part with a width in a rotational axis direction smaller than a width of the projected portion in the rotational axis direction; and a step of forming a welded portion across the projected portion of the plate and a rotation transmitting member by emitting an energy beam on at least a part of the projected portion to melt at least a part of the projected portion.
Susumu Kato, Hideharu Ushida, Shohei Ohashi
Filed: 11 Jan 19
Utility
Circuit module and power supply chip module
17 May 22
Provided is a circuit module including a power supply chip module, a load chip module, and a system board.
Takashi Kusano, Takanobu Naruse
Filed: 27 May 19