316 patents
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Utility
Vehicle with four wheel steering system
1 Aug 23
A vehicle includes first and second steering drivers that steer first and second wheel pairs, a lock that locks the first wheel pair to be non-steerable, a first steering controller that controls the first steering driver in accordance with a first steering angle, and a second steering controller that controls the second steering driver in accordance with a second steering angle.
Seiji Hidaka, Shin Kunieda
Filed: 1 Sep 17
Utility
Vehicle drive apparatus
1 Aug 23
A transmission mechanism is provided with an output gear drivingly coupled to at least one of a pair of output members and placed coaxially with the pair of output members.
Naoya Jinnai, Nozomu Takahashi, Hiroaki Sanji
Filed: 3 Mar 22
Utility
Vehicle drive apparatus
25 Jul 23
A transmission mechanism is provided with an output gear drivingly coupled to at least one of a pair of output members and placed coaxially with the pair of output members.
Naoya Jinnai, Nozomu Takahashi, Hiroaki Sanji
Filed: 3 Mar 22
Utility
Object detector
25 Jul 23
An object detector includes: a triangulation calculation unit that performs triangulation calculation for detecting a location of an object based on first distance information calculated based on direct waves in which transmitted waves transmitted from a first transmission and reception unit are reflected by an object and received by the first transmission and reception unit, and second distance information calculated based on indirect waves in which transmitted waves transmitted from a second transmission and reception unit arranged in a location different from the first transmission and reception unit are reflected by an object and received by the first transmission and reception unit; and a prohibition processing unit that prohibits triangulation calculation when a difference between first velocity information indicating a velocity of an object calculated based on the direct waves and second velocity information indicating a velocity of an object calculated based on the indirect waves exceeds a predetermined range.
Koichi Sassa, Ippei Sugae
Filed: 16 Mar 21
Utility
Vehicle operation detection device
18 Jul 23
A vehicle operation detection device includes sensors laid out in a vehicle along an axis in an opening-closing direction of a door of the vehicle.
Ayaka Shimizu, Takaya Aiyama, Koichi Hirota, Hiroshi Shingu, Kenichiro Kagawa, Toshihiro Kaneda, Makoto Ono, Satoshi Katayama
Filed: 3 Mar 20
Utility
Rotating electrical machine control system
18 Jul 23
A rotating electrical machine control system that controls an alternating-current rotating electrical machine having two coil sets of an N phase arranged on the same stator core includes a first inverter, a second inverter, and an inverter control device that individually controls the two inverters such that currents of different phases flow through the two coil sets.
Subrata Saha, Isao Fujiwara
Filed: 17 Jun 20
Utility
Capacitance sensor
11 Jul 23
A capacitance sensor includes a switch control unit that performs a first switching process that turns on a first switch and then repeatedly performs a second switching process that complementarily switches off and on second and third switches that are respectively connected to second and third capacitors; an obtaining unit that calculates, as a sensor output value, a number of times the second switching process is repeated until a magnitude relationship reverses between an intermediate potential and a reference potential; a calculation unit that calculates a sensor output corrected value obtained by correcting the sensor output value such that a resolution becomes uniform; and a determination unit that determines whether a detection target exists from a magnitude relationship between a sensor output difference value and a determination threshold value.
Satoshi Koda
Filed: 9 Dec 19
Utility
Object detection system
11 Jul 23
An object detection system includes: a transmission unit configured to sequentially transmit a plurality of transmission waves to which identification information different from one another is applied; a reception unit configured to sequentially receive a plurality of reception waves respectively corresponding to the plurality of transmission waves returned in response to reflection by an object after all the plurality of transmission waves are transmitted by the transmission unit; and a detection processing unit configured to detect information related to the object based on a relationship between the plurality of transmission waves and the plurality of reception waves.
Ippei Sugae, Koichi Sassa
Filed: 12 Mar 21
Utility
Shift device
11 Jul 23
A shift device includes: a shift switching member including valley portions corresponding to shift positions; a motor including a rotor and a stator and configured to drive the shift switching member; a first drive system including a first control unit configured to control a voltage for driving the motor; a second drive system provided separately from the first drive system and including a second control unit configured to control a voltage for driving the motor; and a positioning member configured to establish the shift positions in a state in which the positioning member is fitted into any one of the valley portions of the shift switching member.
Atsuto Ogino, Kota Ishikawa, Yutaka Uchida, Kentaro Baba
Filed: 8 Feb 22
Utility
Vehicle door window glass support structure
11 Jul 23
A vehicle door window glass support structure includes: a sash part protruding upward with respect to the door panel; and window glass that is elevated or lowered along the sash part, in which the sash part includes a glass position regulating means that determines the position of the window glass in both vehicle interior and exterior directions and an intersecting direction that intersects the vehicle interior and exterior directions at least at a position where the window glass is elevated most.
Katsuhisa Fukui
Filed: 9 Nov 18
Utility
Vehicle drive apparatus
11 Jul 23
A transmission mechanism is provided with an output gear drivingly coupled to at least one of a pair of output members and placed coaxially with the pair of output members.
Naoya Jinnai, Nozomu Takahashi, Hiroaki Sanji
Filed: 3 Mar 22
Utility
Vehicle drive apparatus
11 Jul 23
A transmission mechanism is provided with an output gear drivingly coupled to at least one of a pair of output members and placed coaxially with the pair of output members.
Naoya Jinnai, Nozomu Takahashi, Hiroaki Sanji
Filed: 29 Sep 20
Utility
Psychosomatic state adjustment support device, psychosomatic state adjustment support method, and psychosomatic state adjustment support program
4 Jul 23
A psychosomatic state adjustment support device includes: a storage section that stores a target psychosomatic state for each destination of a moving body; a specification section that specifies a current psychosomatic state of an occupant of the moving body; an acquisition section that acquires a destination of the moving body; a deciding section that decides a vibration pattern based on the target psychosomatic state according to the destination and the current psychosomatic state; and a control section that applies a vibration stimulation to the occupant by causing a vibration applying section provided in a seat on which the occupant is seated to vibrate based on the vibration pattern.
Hideaki Yamaguchi, Suzuka Yamaguchi, Takayuki Kodama
Filed: 19 Nov 19
Utility
Water intrusion detector for a touch sensor device
4 Jul 23
A touch sensor device includes a touch sensor unit having a sealed, tubular hollow member constituted by an elastically deformable insulator and first and second electrodes extending in a longitudinal direction of the hollow member and apart from each other in which the touch sensor unit is configured such that the first electrode and the second electrode are in contact with each other and electrically connected based on elastic deformation of the hollow member, and a water intrusion detection section is provided at a position located at a lower end portion of the touch sensor unit extending in a vertical direction and, in a case where water has intruded into the hollow member, the first electrode and the second electrode are electrically connected via the intruding water in the water intrusion detection section.
Wataru Hattori
Filed: 13 Dec 19
Utility
Actuator unit
4 Jul 23
An actuator unit that drives a switching mechanism for a shift range of an automatic transmission is provided.
Masashi Sasaki, Atsushi Kamada, Kota Fujii, Daisuke Kikukawa, Shinya Kuwahara, Keiji Suzumura
Filed: 25 Jan 22
Utility
Shift device
4 Jul 23
A shift device includes: a shift switching member including a plurality of valley portions corresponding to shift positions; a motor that includes a rotor and a stator and that is configured to drive the shift switching member; and a positioning member configured to establish the shift positions in a state in which the positioning member is fitted into any one of the plurality of valley portions of the shift switching member.
Atsuto Ogino, Kota Ishikawa, Kentaro Baba
Filed: 7 Feb 22
Utility
Load estimation device
27 Jun 23
A load estimation device includes: an air spring having a diaphragm that expands and contracts due to supply and exhaust of air, and configured to support a support body in a liftable manner; an auxiliary support portion configured to support the support body separately from the air spring; a displacement sensor configured to measure a length of the air spring; a pressure sensor configured to measure an internal pressure of the air spring; a temperature sensor disposed together with the air spring, and configured to measure a temperature of the air spring; and a calculation unit configured to calculate a spring load supported by the air spring based on measured results of the displacement sensor, the pressure sensor and the temperature sensor.
Masahito Kizu, Takanori Suzuki
Filed: 12 Feb 20
Utility
Sonar unit
27 Jun 23
A sonar unit includes: a circuit substrate on which a transducer, electronic components constituting a circuit configured to drive the transducer, and an input-output terminal for the circuit are mounted; and a shield unit.
Chiaki Sumi, Takaaki Nakamura, Toshihito Nagai, Gaoyang Hong
Filed: 15 Jun 20
Utility
Tiptoe position estimating device and fingertip position estimating device
27 Jun 23
A tiptoe position estimating device includes: a camera configured to capture an image of an interior of a vehicle; and a human body information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a person seated on a seat in the interior by the camera, position information of skeleton points at a plurality of positions of a body of the person.
Hiroyuki Fujii, Takahiro Izuno, Masahiro Takeuchi
Filed: 16 Oct 20
Utility
Shift device
27 Jun 23
A shift device includes: a shift switching member including valley parts corresponding to a shift position; a positioning member provided to establish the shift position in a state of being fitted into any one of the valley parts; a motor including a rotor and a stator and driving the shift switching member; a speed reduction mechanism section rotating the shift switching member in a state in which a rotation speed transmitted from the motor is reduced; a rotor rotational angle sensor detecting a rotational angle of the rotor; and an output shaft rotational angle sensor detecting a rotational angle of the shift switching member.
Yutaka Uchida, Atsuto Ogino
Filed: 13 Mar 20