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20090105953 | HEADWAY DISTANCE MAINTENANCE ASSISTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A headway distance maintenance supporting system may include an obstacle detector, a controller configured for determining an operation reaction force to be generated in a driving operation equipment, and an operation reaction force generator for generating the operation reaction force in the driving operation equipment. The controller is configured for controlling the operation reaction force based on the status of a detected obstacle. The operation reaction force comprises a principal operation reaction force and an auxiliary operation reaction force, the auxiliary operation reaction force being no greater than the principal operation reaction force. The controller is configured for generating the auxiliary operation reaction force before a generation of the principal operation reaction force in the driving operation equipment. | 04-23-2009 |
20100030439 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AVOIDING CONTACT WITH OBSTACLE LOCATING BACKWARD - There is disclosed a vehicle control processing when a vehicle backs up. According to this vehicle control processing, a controller backs the vehicle toward an obstacle step by step by repeating execution of back control processing for backing the vehicle to a halt at a target stop position, which is set on the obstacle side of the vehicle, until a distance from the vehicle to the obstacle becomes equal to or less than a final target stop position. Thus, it prevents the vehicle driver from failing to park the vehicle at an appropriate position and feeling a lot of trouble during vehicle control as experienced by the vehicle driver in the conventional vehicle control apparatus. | 02-04-2010 |
20100318263 | VEHICLE DRIVING SUPPORT SYSTEM AND VEHICLE DRIVING SUPPORT METHOD - When an obstacle is sensed on a side of a vehicle, the future position of the vehicle after a prescribed time is predicted. When the predicted vehicle future position reaches a prescribed lateral position in the lane width direction, a decision to start a control is made, and the vehicle is controlled in a direction to prevent it from coming too close to the obstacle. If a state occurs in which the obstacle is sensed after not being sensed (i.e., it is first sensed), a decision to start the control is suppressed. | 12-16-2010 |
20100324823 | VEHICLE OPERATION SUPPORTING DEVICE AND VEHICLE OPERATION SUPPORTING METHOD - When an obstacle on either of the two sides of a vehicle is detected, the future position of the vehicle after a prescribed time is predicted. When the future predicted vehicle position reaches a prescribed lateral position in the width direction of the lane, control start is determined such that obstacle avoiding control is carried out to prevent the approach of the vehicle to the obstacle. When an intention of the driver to enter the lane of the obstacle is detected, the start timing for obstacle avoiding control is shortened. | 12-23-2010 |
20120265431 | DRIVING CONTROL DEVICE - A driving control device according to the present invention activates a control for suppressing sideways movement of a vehicle towards a side object, when the side object present to the side of the vehicle as well as towards the rear of the vehicle is detected. Also, the activation of the control is suppressed when, in the absence of detection of the side object, the vehicle starts entering an adjacent lane in order to change lanes. | 10-18-2012 |
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20100023218 | VEHICLE DRIVING CONTROL APPARATUS AND VEHICLE DRIVING CONTROL METHOD - A vehicle driving control apparatus is provided with an obstacle detecting device, a future position estimating device, an obstacle avoidance control device, and a lane change intent detecting device. The obstacle detecting device detects an existence of an obstacle positioned laterally of a host vehicle. The future position estimating device estimates a future position of the host vehicle after a prescribed amount of time. The obstacle avoidance control device executes an obstacle avoidance control. The lane change intent detecting device detects an intent of a driver to effect a lane change and a direction of the intended lane change. Therefore, when it is detected that the driver intends to move to an adjacent lane located on the opposite side of the vehicle as the side containing the obstacle, a control suppressing portion of the obstacle avoidance control device suppresses the obstacle avoidance control. | 01-28-2010 |
20100030430 | VEHICLE DRIVING CONTROL APPARATUS AND VEHICLE DRIVING CONTROL METHOD - A vehicle driving control apparatus is provided with a lane detecting device, a future position estimating device and a vehicle control device. The lane detecting device detects a lane marker of a lane. The future position estimating device estimates a future transverse position of a host vehicle after a prescribed amount of time. The vehicle control device executes a vehicle control such that a yaw moment is imparted to the host vehicle toward a middle of the lane. The yaw moment is imparted upon determining that the future transverse position is positioned laterally farther toward an outside of the lane from the middle of the lane than a prescribed widthwise lane position that is determined in advance using the lane marker as a reference. The vehicle control device suppresses an impartation of the yaw moment device when a recognition degree of the lane marker is lower than a prescribed value. | 02-04-2010 |
20120130595 | VEHICLE DRIVING SUPPORT DEVICE AND VEHICLE DRIVING SUPPORT METHOD - When a lane-width-direction lateral position (X | 05-24-2012 |
20120166017 | VEHICLE DRIVING ASSISTANT AND VEHICLE DRIVING ASSISTING METHOD - An overtaking state is detected which is at least one of a first state where an own vehicle (MM) is overtaking an obstacle (SM) in a posterolateral direction of the own vehicle (MM) and a second state where the own vehicle (MM) is estimated to overtake the obstacle (SM). In the implementation of an obstacle access prevention control for preventing the own vehicle (MM) from accessing the obstacle (SM) present in the posterolateral direction of the own vehicle (MM), when a determination that the overtaking state is established is made based on the detecting, the obstacle access prevention control with respect to the obstacle (SM) is suppressed compared with when the determination that the overtaking state is established is not made. | 06-28-2012 |
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20090161324 | SHIELDING CASE, WIRING BOARD AND ELECTRONIC MODULE - A shielding case for accommodating a wiring board includes a board mounting member with a fitting member formed at an outer frame thereof so that the wiring board is fixed and held to the board mounting member through fitting of the fitting member into a through hole formed at the wiring board. | 06-25-2009 |
20130003326 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a printed circuit board includes a plurality of circuit parts, a conductive shield case provided on the printed circuit board, a tuner provided on the printed circuit board and inside the shield case, a first ground portion provided on the printed circuit board and outside the shield case and a second ground portion provided on the printed circuit board and inside the shield case. The first ground portion is electrically connected to the second ground portion via the shield case. | 01-03-2013 |
20130335638 | TELEVISION RECEPTION APPARATUS, BOARD MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing, a board in the housing, an electrically conductive shield unit, a connector, and an extending portion. The housing includes an opening. The electrically conductive shield unit includes a first section and a second section intersecting the first section at an end portion of the first section and configured to be secured to the board. The connector is on the board, configured to be secured to the first section of the shield unit, and exposed through the opening of the housing. The extending portion extends from the end portion of the first section of the shield unit and is configured to be secured to the board. | 12-19-2013 |
20150029408 | UNIT WHICH HAS A CONNECTION TERMINAL AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a unit includes a casing and a connection terminal. The casing has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and an attachment hole. The connection terminal has a connection portion which is inserted through the attachment hole from the side of the second surface and thus protrudes on the side of the first surface, a flange which is provided at the proximal end of the connection portion and which has a size that does not allow the passage of the flange through the attachment hole, and a holding portion which holds the casing between this holding portion and the flange located on the side of the second surface opposite to the first surface. | 01-29-2015 |
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20110273748 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An image processing device for every frame of a moving or still image including an uptake device to take the image data of the pixel unit from the image which photographed a subject, a histogram generating device to generate the histogram of the brightness after having disintegrated the data in the particular color space, read out the image by a predetermined pattern according to color, and set the brightness of the pixel of the particular position of the pattern based on the mean histogram of a pixel removed (lifted) from a particular position in the pattern. | 11-10-2011 |
20130176464 | Image Processing Method - This invention provides an image processing method which for noise reduction and sensitization for an ordinary video camera. The noise reduction processing locates a bright pixel and averages brightness by adding the pixel accumulated by ratio in accordance with the geometric series, and to a dark pixel, carrying out the processing of noise reduction which averages brightness by adding the pixel accumulated by ratio in accordance with the geometric series and the processing of sensitization in the condition that a magnification of intensification is greater than 1, determine that the pixel moves or not, if the pixel is moving, it is used to carry out processing of sensitization only, and if the pixel is still, choose it is used to carry out the processing of sensitization and noise reduction. | 07-11-2013 |
20130308859 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An image processing device having a brightness adjustment unit having a unit processing the brightness of each pixel and a frame buffer unfolding each brightness before and after processing, and a color adjustment unit having a unit processing the color of each pixel and a frame buffer unfolding each pixel color before and after processing. The ratio (f) of the brightness of each pixel before and after adjusting is input. When the ratio (f) is equal or larger than a color emphasis parameter (ColorRate), calculates anti-numerical value that subtract the ColorRate from the ratio (f), adds the ColorRate to this anti-numerical value, and multiplies a coordinate value of the color space by the added value. When the ratio (f) is smaller than the ColorRate, multiplies the ColorRate by the coordinate value of the color space, and outputs the color of each pixel to the frame buffer. | 11-21-2013 |
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20120097492 | FRICTION PLATE AND WET-TYPE MULTI-PLATE CLUTCH HAVING SUCH FRICTION PLATE - The present invention provides a friction plate having a friction surface formed by sticking an annular friction material to a substantially annular core plate and wherein the friction surface is provided with a first oil groove having an opening portion opened to an inner peripheral edge of the friction plate and an end terminating at a point between the inner peripheral edge and an outer peripheral edge, and a second oil groove having an opening portion opened to the outer peripheral edge of the friction plate and an end terminating at a point between the inner peripheral edge and the outer peripheral edge. | 04-26-2012 |
20130056326 | FRICTION PLATE AND WET-TYPE MULTI-PLATE CLUTCH HAVING SUCH FRICTION PLATE - The present invention provides a friction plate having a friction surface formed by sticking an annular friction material to a substantially annular core plate and wherein the friction surface is provided with a first oil groove having an opening portion opened to an inner peripheral edge of the friction plate and an end terminating at a point between the inner peripheral edge and an outer peripheral edge, and a second oil groove having an opening portion opened to the outer peripheral edge of the friction plate and an end terminating at a point between the inner peripheral edge and the outer peripheral edge. | 03-07-2013 |
20150369302 | FRICTION PLATE AND WET-TYPE MULTIPLE-DISC CLUTCH WITH FRICTION PLATE - The present invention provides a friction plate that takes more air into a lubricating oil on a friction surface so as to reduce the shear resistance force of the lubricating oil interposed between friction materials, thereby achieving significantly reduced drag torque at the time of idling, as compared with a conventional friction plate, and a wet-type multiple-disc clutch provided with the friction plate. The friction plate has a plurality of friction material segments circularly fixed on an annular core plate, wherein each of the friction material segments includes an oil groove having an opening that opens in the direction of an outer circumferential edge of the friction plate and an end portion that ends between an inner circumferential edge and the outer circumferential edge, oil passages in communication in the direction of the inner and the outer circumferential edges of the friction plate are provided among the friction material segments, and at least some of the oil passages have a first shape, the width of which in a circumferential direction decreases from the inner circumferential edge of the friction plate toward the outer circumferential edge thereof. | 12-24-2015 |
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20140200799 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS - A vehicle control device basically includes a first risk computation unit, a second risk computing unit and a first risk adjustment unit. The first risk computation unit calculates a first risk with respect to a nearby obstacle located in a nearby detection region near a host vehicle. The second risk computing unit calculates a second risk with respect to a remote obstacle located further from the nearby detection region. The first risk adjustment unit adjusts at least one of the first and the second risks to preferentially execute a warning or vehicle control based on one of the first risk or the second risk versus a warning or vehicle control based on the other of the first risk or the second risk based on an entry state of the host vehicle of entering a planned parking place, or an exit state of the host vehicle of exiting from a parking place. | 07-17-2014 |
20150015714 | TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE AND TRAVEL CONTROL METHOD - A travel control device includes ultrasonic obstacle detection sensors detecting an obstacle entering a rear side of a vehicle and a distance to the obstacle, and an image obstacle detection unit detecting the obstacle entering the rear side of the vehicle by using an image of the rear side. If a distance to the obstacle detected by the sensors is equal to or less than an activation threshold for warning, the travel control device issues a warning, and sets the activation threshold larger as the vehicle speed of the vehicle becomes higher. If the vehicle is detected preparing to move rearward and the image obstacle detection unit detects the obstacle, the travel control device sets the activation threshold to a constant value regardless of the vehicle speed. | 01-15-2015 |
20150035663 | TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE AND TRAVEL CONTROL METHOD - A travel control device includes rear obstacle detection sensors; side obstacle detection sensors; a warning unit providing warning about an obstacle detected by the sensors; and a control unit controlling the warning unit so that the warning is provided if a distance to an obstacle detected by the rear obstacle detection sensors is equal to or less than a first risk, or if a parameter based on a distance to the obstacle detected by the sensors is equal to or less than a second risk. If the parameter based on the distance to the obstacle detected by the sensors is greater than the second risk, the control unit increases a first warning threshold until a hold time elapses after the sensors become unable to detect the obstacle. | 02-05-2015 |
20150057918 | TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE AND TRAVEL CONTROL METHOD - A travel control device includes a side obstacle detection unit which divides a range from a lateral side to a rear side of a vehicle into plural detection angle areas, and detects, for each of the plural detection angle areas, an obstacle entering the detection angle area; a rearward movement preparation detection unit which detects the vehicle preparing to move rearward; a warning control unit which provides warning about the obstacle if the distance to the obstacle is equal to or less than an activation threshold for the warning; and a threshold control unit which, if the obstacle is detected in one or more rear side areas among the plural detection angle areas, before being detected in the other detection angle areas, raises the activation threshold so that the timing of the warning becomes earlier. | 02-26-2015 |
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20150059878 | PRESSURE REGULATING VALVE - A pressure regulating valve includes a device body and an actuator. The device body includes a valve seat member, a valve, which is capable of closing the first opening of the valve seat member, an urging member, which urges the valve toward the valve seat member, a piston arranged opposite to the valve across the valve seat member, an actuator, which adjusts the position of the piston, and a protrusion provided on at least one of the piston and the valve. When the tip end of the protrusion comes into contact with the piston or the valve, the second opening of the second fluid passage is closed. When the tip end of the protrusion is not in contact with any of the piston and the valve and the second opening is opened, the second fluid passage is in communication with the pressure regulation chamber. | 03-05-2015 |
20150253783 | PRESSURE REDUCING VALVE AND PRESSURE REGULATING DEVICE - A pressure reducing valve includes a diaphragm substrate, a piezo-electric device, and a valve seat. The diaphragm substrate is arranged in a pressure regulating chamber into which CNG flows through an inflow passage. When the piezo-electric device is driven, the diaphragm substrate is deformed. The diaphragm substrate is seated on the valve seat. A portion of the valve seat that faces the diaphragm substrate is formed of an elastic material, and has elastic force greater than that of the diaphragm substrate. | 09-10-2015 |
20150337769 | FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM AND PRESSURE REDUCING DEVICE - A fuel supply system is configured to reduce the pressure of hydrogen gas delivered from a hydrogen cylinder by a high-pressure regulator arranged in series, regulate a flow rate of the pressure-reduced hydrogen gas by a hydrogen flow regulating device, and supply the hydrogen gas to a fuel cell. The high-pressure regulator includes a middle passage in which the hydrogen gas after being pressure-reduced by a first regulator and before being pressure-reduced by a second regulator enters, a rear passage in which the hydrogen gas after pressure-reduced by the second regulator enters, a communication passage allowing communication between the middle passage and the rear passage, and an internal air check valve provided in the communication passage and arranged to allow the hydrogen gas to flow in a direction from the middle passage toward the rear passage and block the hydrogen gas from flowing in a reverse direction thereto. | 11-26-2015 |