Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Keikinzoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Haruhiko Terada

Shinichi Haneda

Kazunari Azuchi

Yasuyuki Aoki

Masaki Kakihara

Kiyohito Gyobu

Yasuyuki Furuta

Kenji Ono

Shigeyuki Kawagoe

Koji Saeki

Takashi Yanagisawa

Kunio Ohashi

Shinya Takeda

Masataka Ohashi

Hirotake Nakao

Jyouichi Banjyo

Yasuyuki Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha Furuta

Yasuyuki 31-157 Aza Matahachiyama Aoki

Masaki Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha Kakihara

A system for charge processing tolls and the like. A vehicle mounted device detects the position of a vehicleusing GPS, and transmits position information via a wireless channel to a central station. The central station performs charge processing (calculation) for an area in which a charge is applied based on the position of the vehicle, and transmits the charge to the vehicle mounted device. The vehicle mounted device collects a toll from a prepaid card or IC card or the like on the basis of the received charge processing result.

Charge processing device charge processing system and charge processing card

A toll collection arrangement based on the position and travel of a vehicle. A charging area is defined with a buffer area surrounding it. Charges are made when a vehicle enters the charging area for the first time from the buffer area. Later excursions from the charging area into the buffer area and returns from the buffer area to the charging area are not double charged. Vehicle position information can be GPS based.

Charging device for transferring information relating to the collection of a toll on a moving body

A charging system which carries out position confirmation of a moving body at a place where there is a radio wave blocked facility, and which carries out automatic detection of GPS antenna blockage for avoiding charging. The charging system includes a GPS positioning device for recognizing a vehicle position, a vehicle speed pulse measuring device for dead reckoning navigating, a monitor device which generates information expressing a current position by using these, and a charging processing which judges whether or not a recognized current position is within a charge area and which carries out data processing for charging. The monitor includes a simple map database which includes positions of facilities or geographical features at which GPS positioning is impossible, and when GPS positioning is impossible, the facility or geographical feature corresponding to the current position is detected, and that position is made to be a current position.

Charging system which carries out data processing for fee payment

A method for manufacturing a sweeped tubular bumper reinforcement member having a rear wall formed with an inwardly indented portion in cross-section and a front wall formed in parallel with the rear wall and welded to the inwardly indented portion of the rear wall.

Manufacturing method of tubular bumper reinforcement member

A bumper assembly is effective to prevent stepped walls of a concave portion of a bumper cover from being sharply deformed. Cavities are formed at parts of an energy absorber facing to a bottom wall of the concave portion of the bumper cover to define spaces behind the bottom wall. The stepped walls are moved in the cavities of the energy absorber when the energy absorber is deformed elastically in collision.

Bumper assembly for vehicles

An energy absorbing member (12) is installed in a bumper reinforcement (4) so that one end of the energy absorbing member (12) faces the side member (3) of an automobile. During an accident, if a force is applied to the bumper apparatus (2), the energy absorbing member (12) collapses like a bellows in order to absorb this shock. The energy absorbing member (12) will reliably collapse in this desired manner under many conditions, for example, where the automobile is large and heavy or where the accident occurs under a high-speed condition. The energy absorbing member (12) is of a tubular shape with smooth and straight surfaces so that the energy absorbing member (12) can be easily produced by an extraction forming method or the like. Furthermore, the energy absorbing member (12) is installed within the bumper reinforcement (14) so that the bumper apparatus (2) projects less from an automobile body (1) in comparison to conventional bumpers.

Bumper apparatus for automobile

An automotive vehicle bumper assembly includes a pair of side members constituting part of a vehicle body, a bumper reinforcement supported on the side members and extending transversely of the vehicle body, and an energy absorber arranged on a front surface of the bumper reinforcement. The bumper reinforcement has a rectangular cross section, upper and lower walls, and an intermediate wall connecting the upper and lower walls.

A vehicular bumper reinforcement to which a rear portion of a bumper shell mounting a lamp is secured includes a vertical front wall having a cut-out portion through which a mounting portion of the lamp is passed, a vertical rear wall having a cut-out portion through which the lamp is capable of moving at the time of a collision, and flanges provided above and below the cut-out portions and spaced apart from each other by a distance somewhat greater than the height of the lamp mounting portion. At least one hollow portion formed integral with the reinforcement is provided above and below each of the flanges.

Bumper reinforcement for automotive vehicles

A side window for motor vehicle includes a window frame fixed to a longitudinal side of a motor vehicle body, a pair of guide rails mounted on the window frame in a longitudinal direction, a first windshield slidably mounted on the guide rails, a second windshield installed in the window frame and tiltable toward the exterior of the vehicle body around a pin supported at one end thereof by a preset angle, a slide-crank mechanism for freeing the slide path of the first windshield from the second windshield in response to sliding the first windshield and for arranging both first and second windshields in a same plane in closed position of both first and second windshields.

Side window for motor vehicle

A sealing device for a slidable window of a vehicle. The window includes a channel member which has a plurality of grooves in which a slidable glass member and a fixed glass member are held individually. The sealing device comprises a weather strip for sealing the slidable window glass being disposed in the groove of the channel member for holding the fixed window glass.

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Obu, Japan

Haruhiko Terada