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20120304765 | MODULE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A module includes a sensor device, a mounting substrate that has a plurality of mounting faces, a portion between the mounting faces adjacent to each other being foldable, a supporting member having fixing faces, wherein the sensor device is mounted on at least one of the mounting faces, each of the mounting faces is disposed along each of the fixing faces, and the sensor device is disposed on the supporting member side. | 12-06-2012 |
20120304768 | MODULE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A module includes a first rigid substrate including an analog circuit; a second rigid substrate including a digital circuit; a third rigid substrate including an angular velocity sensor; a first connecting portion that connects the first rigid substrate and the second rigid substrate so as to electrically connect the analog circuit and the digital circuit, and that has flexibility; and a second connecting portion that connects the first rigid substrate and the third rigid substrate so as to electrically connect the analog circuit and the angular velocity sensor, and that has flexibility. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307459 | MAINTAINING MEMBER, MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A maintaining member includes alignment portions that determine a maintaining position of a module, in which each of the alignment portions has a mounting face to fix the module. When the maintaining member is partitioned into a first region to a fourth region by a first axis and a second axis that are orthogonal to each other in plan view with respect to the center of the maintaining member, the alignment portions are provided at the regions one by one. | 12-06-2012 |
20130014578 | SENSOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUSAANM SAKUMA; MasayasuAACI KamiinaAACO JPAAGP SAKUMA; Masayasu Kamiina JPAANM KOBAYASHI; YoshihiroAACI KomaganeAACO JPAAGP KOBAYASHI; Yoshihiro Komagane JPAANM KITAMURA; ShojiroAACI SuwaAACO JPAAGP KITAMURA; Shojiro Suwa JPAANM CHINO; TaketoAACI HokutoAACO JPAAGP CHINO; Taketo Hokuto JP - A sensor device includes a mounting member having fixation surfaces inside, and at least one electronic component directly or indirectly fixed to the fixation surfaces of the mounting member, and the mounting member constitutes a part of a casing for housing the electronic component. Further, the fixation surfaces are perpendicular to each other. | 01-17-2013 |
20130014581 | SENSOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUSAANM SAKUMA; MasayasuAACI KamiinaAACO JPAAGP SAKUMA; Masayasu Kamiina JPAANM KOBAYASHI; YoshihiroAACI KomaganeAACO JPAAGP KOBAYASHI; Yoshihiro Komagane JPAANM KITAMURA; ShojiroAACI SuwaAACO JPAAGP KITAMURA; Shojiro Suwa JPAANM CHINO; TaketoAACI HokutuAACO JPAAGP CHINO; Taketo Hokutu JPAANM IMAI; NobuyukiAACI ShiojiriAACO JPAAGP IMAI; Nobuyuki Shiojiri JP - A sensor device includes a mounting board having a first rigid board on which an angular velocity sensor is mounted and a third rigid board on which an angular velocity sensor is mounted, and a pedestal for fixing the mounting board. Further, the pedestal includes a base section having a first fixation surface along an x axis and a y axis, and projecting sections disposed on the base section, and having a second fixation surface along the x axis and a z axis, and a third fixation surface along the y axis and the z axis, each of the rigid boards is supported by at least two of the first fixation surface, the second fixation surface, and the third fixation surface, and the angular velocity sensors have respective detection axes intersecting with each other. | 01-17-2013 |
20150122020 | SENSOR DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A sensor device includes a mounting member having fixation surfaces inside, and at least one electronic component directly or indirectly fixed to the fixation surfaces of the mounting member, and the mounting member constitutes a part of a casing for housing the electronic component. Further, the fixation surfaces are perpendicular to each other. | 05-07-2015 |
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20120209453 | IN-VEHICLE DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING CENTER, AND DRIVING EVALUATION SYSTEM - A check point calculation unit evaluates the driving of a driver in a travel segment where a host vehicle has traveled and extracts a check point where the driving evaluation does not meet a predetermined evaluation standard, thereby obtaining data representing a point in the travel segment where the driving evaluation is lowered. An advice generation unit provides maneuver support to the driver on the basis of the check point. When there is the check point in the traveling direction host vehicle, the advice generation unit provides maneuver support at the check point such that the driving evaluation by the check point calculation unit meets a predetermined evaluation standard, thereby improving the driving evaluation at the check point where the driving evaluation is low and improving the driving evaluation as a whole. | 08-16-2012 |
20130288206 | DRIVING EVALUATION SYSTEM AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE - A driving evaluation system that divides a traveling route of a vehicle into a plurality of sections and evaluates the driving of a driver of the vehicle includes: a driving data acquiring unit that acquires driving data of the driver for each section; a determining unit that determines whether the driving data acquired by the driving data acquiring unit satisfies the evaluation conditions set to each section; and an upload unit that uploads the driving data to a center which evaluates driving when the determining unit determines that the driving data satisfies the evaluation conditions. | 10-31-2013 |
20130321465 | MAP INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS - A map information display apparatus includes: a display device that displays map information including a map and facility information; and a navigation device which, when a specific facility and a peripheral facility existing within a set distance of the specific facility are included in the map information displayed by the display device, displays specific facility information indicating the specific facility and peripheral facility information indicating the peripheral facility integrally on the map. | 12-05-2013 |
20140212849 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND METHOD - A driving skill in input driving data is acquired from driving skill classification unit, driving data, which includes a driving skill higher than the driving skill in the input driving data and of which a similarity to the input driving data is at least a predetermined similarity, is selected from among driving data stored in a driving data storage unit, a difference between the selected driving data and the input driving data is detected, and a notice on the detected difference is issued as driving advice. As a result, it is possible to present suitable advice to improve a driving skill taking into account the skill and type of a driver. | 07-31-2014 |
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20110093152 | FUEL-SAVING DRIVING DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE, IN-VEHICLE SYSTEM, DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE, AND FUEL-SAVING DRIVING DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM - A fuel-saving driving diagnostic device stores an external power amount which indicates an amount of power charged by an external device and an internal power amount which indicates an amount of power charged by vehicle driving. The fuel-saving driving diagnostic device calculates a driving power amount which indicates an amount of power required for vehicle driving based on the stored external power amount, stored internal power amount, and an amount of power a vehicle currently has, and makes a diagnosis of fuel-saving driving based on the calculated driving power amount and the stored external power amount. As a result, sufficient information is calculated for prompting the driver of a plug-in hybrid car to do the fuel-saving driving. | 04-21-2011 |
20110112749 | FUEL-SAVING DRIVING DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS, IN-VEHICLE SYSTEM, DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND FUEL-SAVING DRIVING DIAGNOSIS PROGRAM - A fuel-saving driving diagnosis apparatus detects that a vehicle stopped, counts the number of stops, and determines whether the vehicle raced after detection that the vehicle stopped. After that, in the case where it is determined that the stopped vehicle raced, the fuel-saving driving diagnosis apparatus calculates the number of times of stop followed by racing done by the vehicle. The fuel-saving driving diagnosis apparatus diagnoses fuel-saving driving of a driver based on the counted number of stops and the counted number of times of stop followed by racing. | 05-12-2011 |
20110125357 | FUEL-SAVING DRIVING DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE, FUEL-SAVING DRIVING DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE OF ELECTRIC DRIVE DEVICE, FUEL-SAVING DRIVING RATING DEVICE, AND FUEL-SAVING DRIVING DIAGNOSTIC METHOD - A vehicle power indication status quantity display unit displays on an indicator a vehicle power indication status quantity obtained by dividing the torque required for driving a hybrid vehicle by the upper limit value of the torque that does not excessively increase the fuel consumption. A HV eco zone of the vehicle power indication status quantity display unit is the zone that is determined by the upper limit value and the lower limit value of the HV eco zone that indicates the motor is being effectively used to drive the vehicle. A check is made to determine whether the vehicle power indication status quantity is within the HV eco zone, and, if it is determined to be within the HV eco zone, the driving being performed is diagnosed as fuel-saving driving. | 05-26-2011 |
20110137512 | FUEL-SAVING DRIVING DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE, FUEL-SAVING DRIVING DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE, FUEL-SAVING DRIVING RATING DEVICE, AND FUEL-SAVING DRIVING DIAGNOSTIC METHOD - A shift lever position determining unit ( | 06-09-2011 |
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20090204600 | MOBILE RECOMMENDATION AND RESERVATION SYSTEM - Apparatus and methods are described for assisting a requester to identify and reserve a resource that meets the need of the requestor's request. For example, a request can be augmented using augmentation data, such as current position and requester preferences, and resources are located and ranked according to their match against the augmented request. A person who is the requester may engage in another attention demanding task, such as driving a car, while resources well matched to preferences are located. Preference data may be determined from social network data, a preference file, and/or other sources. | 08-13-2009 |
20100026476 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DRIVING ADVICE - A driving advice provision apparatus generates an advice, based on diagnosis performed on multiple diagnosis items regarding the driving condition of the vehicle and based on the diagnosis results from those diagnosis items, and provides the generated advice to the driver. The multiple diagnosis items are classified into different categories according to the diagnosis methods. For the diagnosis items suitable to the comparative evaluation rather than the quantitative evaluation, a diagnosis result A for the previous evaluation section is compared with a diagnosis result B for the current evaluation section for yielding a comparative evaluation and for advice generation, thereby enabling an effective advice generation and provision in terms of diagnosis item category. | 02-04-2010 |
20100030419 | Information processing apparatus - When it is determined that a head light is turned on, the sunset time is calculated. Thus, the frequency of calculating the sunset time is significantly decreased as compared with that of continuously calculating the sunset time, thereby reducing the processing load. Further, as compared with the case where the sunset time is calculated regardless of the time of lighting on, the calculated sunset time can evaluate the time of lighting on appropriately. | 02-04-2010 |
20100030420 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADVICE PROVISION AND DRIVING CONDITION DIAGNOSIS - An advice provision apparatus calculates the driving condition of the vehicle for every predetermined travel section, for the purpose of comparison with the driving condition in the previous travel section. The driving condition of the current section is evaluated in a relative manner based on the comparison of at least two travel sections, even when the absolute assessment of the driving condition is difficult. Thus, the advice provision apparatus can accurately and precisely diagnose the driving condition of the driver. | 02-04-2010 |
20100185359 | DRIVING DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND DRIVING DIAGNOSIS SYTEM - A driving diagnosis apparatus temporarily records a diagnosis result of the user before changed when a user is switched, and starts to diagnose the user after changed. Accordingly, since driving status of each user is independently diagnosed, the diagnosis result is proper. Further, when a driving distance of the vehicle is smaller than a threshold, the diagnosis result of a driving interval is not recorded so that the driving interval is removed from an object of giving a point. Influence to environment is also considered in evaluation of the driving status. Accordingly, in the driving diagnosis apparatus and a driving diagnosis system for diagnosing driving status and for evaluating a driver based on the diagnosis result, the diagnosis and the evaluation are properly performed. | 07-22-2010 |
20110133921 | FUEL-SAVING DRIVING DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE, FUEL-SAVING DRIVING DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE OF PRIME MOVER, FUEL-SAVING DRIVING RATING DEVICE, AND FUEL-SAVING DRIVING DIAGNOSTIC METHOD - An accelerator-off, fuel-cut traveling determining unit determines whether the number of engine revolutions of a vehicle is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, whether an accelerator opening rate is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, and whether a traveling state is an accelerator-off, fuel-cut traveling state where a quantity of fuel injection to an engine is 0. When it is determined that the traveling state is the accelerator-off, fuel-cut traveling state, the traveling distance adding-up unit adds up accelerator-off, fuel-cut traveling distances. A fuel-saving driving rating unit rates driving by a driver based on each of the added-up values which were added up by the traveling distance adding-up unit. A fuel-saving driving advice generating unit notifies the driver of a fuel-saving driving advice together with a rating result in accordance with the rating result. Therefore, it is possible to encourage the driver to perform early engine operation by an engine braking, and to enhance the driver's awareness of fuel saving driving. | 06-09-2011 |
20110140874 | DRIVING DIAGNOSIS INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - A driving diagnosis information providing apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed. The driving diagnosis information providing apparatus acquires vehicle information indicative of a vehicle state, and makes a diagnosis of a driving state of the vehicle based on the vehicle information. The driving diagnosis information providing apparatus acquires, as useful information, one of announce information and helpful information. The announce information includes information to be reported to a driver of the vehicle. The helpful information includes information helpful for driving. The driving diagnosis information providing apparatus notifies the driver of diagnosis information indicative of a result of the diagnosis, and notifies the useful information in place of the diagnosis information under a predetermined condition. | 06-16-2011 |
20110196601 | TRAVEL ROUTE EVALUATION SYSTEM AND TRAVEL ROUTE EVALUATION PROGRAM - A travel route evaluation system is provided which is capable of enhancing the driver's consciousness of traveling on the a recommended route, in order to improve a degree of attainment of purposes, such as suppression of a fuel consumption and shortening of a required time, that would be obtained by presenting the recommended route. | 08-11-2011 |
20120232741 | DRIVING EVALUATION SYSTEM, VEHICLE-MOUNTED MACHINE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING CENTER - An eco-driving probability density estimation unit and an eco-driving awareness pre-learning unit resets an evaluation standard of driving of a driver of a host vehicle for each condition in which the host vehicle is driven for each driving evaluation. Therefore, it becomes possible to set the evaluation standard of the driving in accordance with an actual condition during evaluation compared to a case where the standard for uniformly evaluating the driving is set. An eco-driving capability/proficiency estimation unit and an eco-driving awareness estimation unit evaluate the driving of the driver of the host vehicle by the evaluation standard reset by the eco-driving probability density estimation unit and the eco-driving awareness pre-learning unit. Therefore, it becomes possible to perform driving evaluation more suitable for the actual condition. | 09-13-2012 |
20130173147 | SECTION SETTING METHOD, MILEAGE INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE, AND OPERATION ASSIST DEVICE - A section setting method calculates information relating to an attainable actual fuel efficiency under a vehicle operation performed in consideration of fuel efficiency. To that end, the section setting method collects fuel-efficiency information that is information relating to the fuel efficiency required for a movement from a start point to a destination point of the vehicle, which is obtained under a plurality of kinds of vehicle operations, along with positional information of the vehicle at each time. The section setting method compares change pattern parts of the collected fuel-efficiency information with each other, thereby sequentially connecting the change pattern parts of the fuel-efficiency information from the start point to the destination point. The section setting method sets, as a section used to calculate the actual fuel efficiency, a section obtained by sectioning at points corresponding to the connection points of the change pattern parts connected. | 07-04-2013 |
20130302756 | DRIVING SUPPORT SYSTEM AND DRIVING SUPPORT MANAGING DEVICE - A driving support system for giving a support to a driving operation of a vehicle includes a drive history database and a drive teaching unit for specifying a travel route of a vehicle subjected to a driving support. Vehicle information including information about vehicle operation is associated with pertinent route information and is registered as a drive history in the drive history database. The drive teaching unit is configured to extract a drive history corresponding to the specified travel route from the drive history database. The drive teaching unit is further configured as a guide for the driving support to teach information about the extracted drive history to a driver of the vehicle subjected to the driving support. | 11-14-2013 |
20140365029 | VEHICLE DATA ANALYSIS METHOD AND VEHICLE DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM - The invention provides a vehicle data analysis method that enables quantitative analysis of characteristics of vehicle data indicating transition in a driver's driving operation, and a vehicle data analysis system using this analysis method. A plurality of vehicle data are collected based a plurality of types of driving operations. Based on an evaluation criterion as an index for evaluating levels of the driving operations, the collected vehicle data are grouped into at least two groups. Characteristic values of the vehicle data differing between these groups are extracted. | 12-11-2014 |