Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080249668 | IN-VEHICLE EQUIPMENT CONTROL DEVICE - An in-vehicle equipment control device includes a force sense imparting type input device mounted on a steering of a vehicle, for remotely operating an in-vehicle equipment mounted on the vehicle according to a predetermined operation route while imparting a force sense, a storage unit for storing an operation route data to conduct an input operation of the force sense imparting type input device with a predetermined operation route, and a control unit for conducting an arithmetic process to transform the predetermined operation route of the force sense imparting type input device based on a rotation angle detection signal which is output in accordance with the rotation of the steering of the vehicle and the operation route data stored in the storage unit, to impart the force sense to the force sense imparting type input device based on a result of the arithmetic process. | 10-09-2008 |
20080257707 | TOUCH SENSOR SWITCH - A touch sensor switch for easily taking out an output of a touch sensor with high reliability. Push-type switching elements | 10-23-2008 |
20080258853 | Automotive stop lamp switch - A moving element, which is situated on an exterior of a closed case which accommodates therein a fixed contact, a movable contact and a magnetic material and is adapted to be activated in response to a depressing operation of a brake pedal of a vehicle, is provided relative to the closed case, and a magnet is integrated into this moving element, whereby the magnetic material is attracted from the outside of the closed case by the magnet moving together with the magnet, so as to cause the movable contact to move relative to the fixed contact. | 10-23-2008 |
20090072936 | Switching device - Magnetic attractive force of a magnet exerted on a movable contact in a sealing case through yokes changes as a result of movement of a magnetic shunt element induced by movement of a movable element located outside the sealing case. As a result, the movable contact can be brought into or out of contact with a stationary contact without involvement of entry of the movable element into the sealing case. | 03-19-2009 |
20130054079 | VALVE ID REGISTRATION SYSTEM - A valve ID registration system includes a sudden pressure decrease detector that detects a sudden pressure decrease in the tire and a transmission unit that transmits a valve signal. When the detector detects a sudden pressure decrease, the transmission unit transmits the valve signal, which includes sudden pressure decrease information, with more frames than normal. A sudden pressure decrease monitoring unit monitors the received valve signal for sudden pressure decrease information. After the valve signal including the sudden pressure decrease information is received with more frames than normal, when a new valve signal is received including the same valve ID as that in the valve signal including the sudden pressure decrease information and the new valve signal indicates an increase in air pressure, a registration unit determines that the valve signals were transmitted from the tire of the vehicle and registers the valve ID. | 02-28-2013 |
20130321140 | MULTIFUNCTION RECEIVER - A multifunction receiver shared by an electronic key system and a tire pressure monitoring system. The electronic key system verifies an electronic key with a verification control unit of a vehicle body through wireless communication, and the tire pressure monitoring system monitors tire pressure of a tire by transmitting a tire pressure signal from a sensor arranged on the tire to the vehicle body through wireless communication. The multifunction receiver includes a trigger signal generation unit that generates a trigger signal when a level shift occurs in at least one of a first operation mode switch signal and a second operation mode switch signal from the verification control unit. A mode setting unit sets an operation mode based on the first operation mode switch signal and the second operation mode switch signal in response to the trigger signal received from the trigger signal generation unit. | 12-05-2013 |
20140035785 | ANTENNA DEVICE - An antenna device includes an antenna. The antenna includes a plurality of plate-like legs, coupled to a base plate, and a plurality of plate-like arms, supported by the legs. Adjacent ones of the arms are continuous with each other. At least two of the legs have thicknesses in different thickness-wise directions. | 02-06-2014 |
20140184403 | TIRE POSITION DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND TIRE PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM - Each tire pressure detector detects a characteristic point in a detection signal of an acceleration sensor indicating that the tire pressure detector is located at a certain rotation position. When detecting the characteristic point, the tire pressure detector transmits a notification signal including the detector ID. Whenever a receiver receives a notification signal, the receiver acquires an axle rotation amount of a representative wheel and stores the axle rotation amount in a memory in association with the detector ID in the notification signal. After acquiring axle rotation amounts associated with the detector IDs of all of the tire pressure detectors, the receiver determines mounting positions of tires from the angle each tire pressure detector rotated and the angle each axle rotated between a first determination timing and a second determination timing. | 07-03-2014 |
20140354421 | TIRE POSITION DETERMINATION SYSTEM - A tire position determination system including tire pressure detectors respectively attached to tires, axle rotation detectors respectively corresponding to axles, and a receiver located on a vehicle body. Each tire pressure detector detects when reaching a specific position on a rotation trajectory of the corresponding tire and transmits a radio wave including the tire ID. An ID temporary registration unit temporarily registers tire IDs to the memory that are received from the tire pressure detectors existing in a signal receivable area of the receiver. An ID registration acquires axle rotation information from each axle rotation detector whenever receiving the radio wave from each tire pressure detector, and specifies a tire ID of a tire that rotates in synchronism with rotation of each axle to determine the tire position of the tire. | 12-04-2014 |
20150077238 | TIRE IDENTIFICATION CODE REGISTRATION SYSTEM - A tire identification code registration system for use with tire pressure detectors and a tire pressure monitoring system (TMPS) receiver. Each tire pressure detector, which includes a unique tire identification code, is coupled to a tire to detect the pressure of the tire and transmit a tire pressure signal. The receiver receives the tire pressure signal and monitors the pressure of the tire. The tire identification code registration system includes a storage manager that stores, in a memory, tire identification codes included in wireless signals received during a predetermined storage period as candidate tire identification codes. A registration unit registers the candidate tire identification codes in the memory as formal tire identification codes after the storage performed by the storage manager when the number of the candidate tire identification codes in the memory is equal to a predetermined storage number. | 03-19-2015 |