Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Fujikura Limited

Toyota Gosei Co., Ltd.

Shinko Nameplate Co., Ltd.

Hideto Maeda

Koji Okumura

Kimihiro Iimura

Daiichiro Kawashima

Tatsuya Oba

Hiroaki Ando

Akihiro Misawa

Tetsuo Yasuda

Seiya Tokunaga

Chiharu Totani

Tetsuya Fujii

Shintaro Okawa

Kozo Hirotani

Hiroyuki Yamada

Tohoru Matsunami

Mamoru Kato

Tatsuo Ito

Tadaoki Ichikawa

Koji Sakurai

Mitsuru Kamikatano

Takayasu Ido

Kazuhisa Takahashi

Risa Hirano

Kohki Ishikawa

Muneo Furutani

Norifumi Hattori

Tatsuya Sugiura

Kazuyoshi Fujimoto

Yoshinori Yoshizawa

Koji Kuno

Hiroko Shibakawa

Takashi Sekiya

Kazuki Takao

Yuhki Maji

Mitsuo Yoshida

Kenji Suzuki

Takahiro Suzuki

Kenji Isobe

Risa Suzuki

Yasuhito Takeuchi

Keisuke Nishioka

Yutaka Otsuka

A vehicle exterior part is configured to be arranged frontward of a millimeter wave radar device with respect to the transmission direction of millimeter waves. The vehicle exterior part includes an ornamental body, a light source that emits light, and a light diffuse reflection member. The light diffuse reflection member is millimeter wave-transmissive and diffuses and reflects light. The ornamental body includes a base and an ornamental layer. The base is millimeter wave-transmissive and diffuses and transmits the light. The ornamental layer is millimeter wave-transmissive and arranged frontward of the base with respect to the transmission direction. The light source, the ornamental body, and the light diffuse reflection member are arranged so that the light emitted from the light source is diffused and reflected by the light diffuse reflection member and directed toward the base.

Vehicle exterior part

A vehicle decorative part includes a decorative main body and a heater. The decorative main body is configured to be attached to a vehicle at a front side in a transmission direction of millimeter waves from a millimeter wave radar and has a millimeter wave transparency. The heater has a heating element that emits heat when energized. At least a part of the heating element is located in an irradiation region of the millimeter waves in the heater. As a millimeter wave attenuation reducing configuration that reduces attenuation of the millimeter waves passing through the heater, the heating element is incorporated in the heater in a condition where an area proportion of an area of a section of the heating element that occupies the irradiation region to an area of the irradiation region is set such that an attenuation amount of the millimeter waves is less than or equal to a permissible value.

Decorative part for vehicle and method for manufacturing same

An emblem () (vehicle decorative part) includes a decorative main body () and a heater (). The decorative main body () is configured to be attached to a vehicle at a front side in a transmission direction of millimeter waves from a millimeter wave radar to decorate the vehicle and has a millimeter wave transparency. The heater () has a heating element () that emits heat when energized. At least a part of the heating element () is located in a irradiation region (Z) of the millimeter waves in the heater (). As a millimeter wave attenuation reducing configuration that reduces attenuation of the millimeter waves passing through the heater (), the heating element () is incorporated in the heater () in a condition where an area proportion of an area of a section of the heating element () that occupies the irradiation region (Z) to an area of the irradiation region (Z) is set such that an attenuation amount of the millimeter waves is less than or equal to a permissible value.

A garnish includes a heating element, a base member, and a circuit board. The heating element is configured by stacking first and second sheet materials and interposing a heater wire in between. The circuit board includes a power source line and is fixed to a back surface of the base member. The heating element includes a main body portion and an extending portion. The extending portion includes a power source connection portion for connecting the heater wire to the power source line and extends to the back surface of the base member. The main body portion of the heating element is fixed to a laying surface of the base member by fixing the second sheet material to the base member. The heater wire is exposed in the power source connection portion without stacking the second sheet material on the first sheet material.

Decorative component for vehicle

A vehicle sensor unit includes a millimeter wave radar device, an infrared sensor that is arranged at a position adjacent to the millimeter wave radar device, and a cover having a first cover portion and a second cover portion. The first cover portion is located in front of the millimeter wave radar device in a transmission direction of the millimeter waves to conceal the millimeter wave radar device and has millimeter wave transparency. The second cover portion is located in front of the infrared sensor in a transmission direction of the infrared light to conceal the infrared sensor and has infrared light transparency. The millimeter wave radar device and the infrared sensor are attached to the cover so that the whole vehicle sensor unit is configured as a single unit.

Vehicle sensor unit

A decorative member includes: a transparent resin layer provided on a rear surface thereof with a general portion, a stepped portion recessed or protrudingly provided with respect to the general portion, and an inclination portion provided between the stepped portion and the general portion; and a decorative layer provided on the rear surface, wherein: an inclination angle of the inclination portion with respect to a normal line of the general portion is equal to or more than 25&#xb0; and is equal to or less than 40&#xb0;; a width of the inclination portion is large beyond 0.38 mm and is equal to or less than 1 mm; and the decorative layer includes: a first layer that covers the stepped portion of the rear surface; and a second layer that covers a part of the rear surface, which is not covered by at least the first layer.

Decorative member and manufacturing method thereof

The radio-wave transparent cover includes a plastic transparent layer, a decorative layer provided on the rear-side surface of the transparent layer, and a plastic base layer provided on the rear-side surface of the decorative layer. The transparent layer has a peripheral part having a protrusion extending rearward. The protrusion defines a peripheral edge of the transparent layer. The protrusion has an inner circumferential surface forming a part of an engaging end projecting rearward from the protrusion. The decorative layer is provided in a region of the rear-side surface of the transparent layer adjoining the inner circumferential surface of the engaging end.

Radio-wave transparent cover

A radio wave transparent cover is arranged in front of a radio wave radar device with a space in between in a radio wave emitting direction of the radio wave radar device such that radio waves emitted from the radio wave radar device pass through the inside of the radio wave transparent cover. A formation area, which includes the entire radio wave transparent area on the back side of the cover, is formed by an embossed uneven surface having an embossing depth of a range of 5 &#x3bc;m to 200 &#x3bc;m, inclusive.

Radio wave transparent cover

There is provided a near-infrared sensor cover to be applied to a near-infrared sensor including a transmitting unit that transmits near-infrared radiation and a receiving unit that receives near-infrared radiation reflected by an object. The near-infrared sensor cover includes a cover main body portion disposed with a thickness direction thereof to be coincide with a transmission and reception direction of the near-infrared radiation and covering the transmitting unit and the receiving unit, and a heater wire disposed on the cover main body portion to generate heat when energized. The heater wire includes plural straight line portions that extend in parallel to each other and plural connection portions that connect end portions of adjacent straight line portions. An interval between adjacent straight line portions ranges from 3 mm to 10 mm, and a diameter of the heater wire ranges from 0.01 mm to 0.2 mm.

Near-infrared sensor cover

A radio-wave transmitting cover is configured to be arranged in the path of the radio wave of a radio-wave radar device. The thickness of the cover is set to a reference thickness at a reference position where the incident angle of the radio wave from the radio-wave radar device is 0&#xb0;. The reference thickness is set to a value obtained by multiplying half of the wavelength of the radio wave by an integer. In the area around the reference position, the thickness of the cover is gradually changed such that the greater the distance from the reference position, the greater becomes the difference by which the thickness of the cover is larger than the reference thickness.

Radio-wave transmitting cover and method for setting thickness of radio-wave transmitting cover

A decorative component for a vehicle includes a decorative body portion having millimeter wave transmittance and a heating sheet. The decorative body portion is configured to decorate the vehicle by being attached to part of a vehicle on a leading side in a transmitting direction of millimeter waves from a millimeter wave radar device. The heating sheet includes a plastic sheet and a wire-shaped heater provided on the plastic sheet. At least a main portion of the heating sheet is provided integrally with the decorative body portion. The thickness in the front-rear direction is set uniform in at least a transmittance area of millimeter waves in the decorative body portion and the heating sheet.

A radio wave transmissive cover includes a cover body having a transparent first cover layer, a colored second cover layer, and a base material layer. The second cover layer is formed on the back surface of the first cover layer. The base material layer is formed on the back surface of the second cover layer. An opening is provided between the outer circumference and the center of the cover body. The opening extends through at least the base material layer and the second cover layer in the thickness direction, and the opening is open on the back surface of the base material layer. The base material layer and the second cover layer are joined together through a recess-protrusion relationship, thereby forming a sealing portion around the opening. The sealing portion seals the gap between the base material layer and the second cover layer.

Radio wave transmissive cover

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