Shiroki Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Tachibana Eletech Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Hiroki Nishida

Minoru Tanaka

Masayuki Kato

Takao Koba

Kazushi Hirose

Yoshihiro Fujimura

Takashi Inoue

Satoshi Inoue

Masaki Hayashi

Kenji Kato

Yoshiyuki Inoue

Yasuo Yoshimura

Masato Murayama

Tadashi Miki

Hiromi Toyota

Tatsuya Morishita

Naoki Sumiya

A device control apparatus periodically transmits a status confirmation signal to a control source device described in a cooperation control table and receives a response signal with respect to the status confirmation signal. Device control apparatus determines whether or not a status included in the response signal matches a status described in the cooperation control table. If they match, a control destination device, an operation and a control command corresponding to the operation are specified using the cooperation control table. A configuration for transmitting a control command with respect to the control destination device is provided. Therefore, even in a case where a communication protocol and the control command are different from one another in makers of devices, it is possible to realize cooperation control.

Device cooperation control system, device control apparatus, device, method for controlling devices of device cooperation control system, and program thereof

A contact detection apparatus that allows faster detection and a pinch prevention apparatus equipped with such a detection apparatus are provided. The contact detection apparatus includes a first electrode () made of a flexible conductive material and extending throughout a contact detection range, a second electrode () apart from the first electrode and extending on the back side of the first electrode, and detection means for detecting contact of an object with the first electrode based on the capacitance of the first electrode. The first electrode is made of a conductive resin containing an embedded conductor.

Contact detection apparatus and pinch prevention apparatus

An opening/closing control method for a window regulator, which is a method of performing opening/closing control with a pinching prevention function while determining a detection signal from a sensor based on a threshold value. The method includes setting the threshold value as a value offset from a reference value for control, and updating the reference value in correspondence to a value of the detection signal from the sensor in an initial stage of control, and each time when the value of the detection signal from the sensor continuously changes in a certain time within a range where the value of the detection signal from the sensor does not exceed the threshold value, the reference value is modified by a value corresponding to such a changed value.

Safety device for power window, opening/closing control method and plate-glass processing method

It is intended to realize a signal input method which makes it possible to add another method to an existing method later in a simple manner as well as an opening/closing controller which employs two methods and can be constructed by adding another method to an existing method in a simple manner. A signal processing circuit () is inserted in an auto signal path of a control circuit () which performs opening/closing control with a pinch preventing function on the basis of an auto signal (AUTO), a close signal (UP), and an open signal (DOWN) which are input via respective signal paths. The auto signal and a detection signal of an additional pinch sensor are input to the control circuit via the signal processing circuit in the form of serial signals.

Signal input method and opening/closing controller

A safety device for power window comprises a storage unit for storing the pulse width change rate of continuous pulses detected by a pulse width detector during a window glass raising operation at a reference timing, a calculation unit for calculating the pulse width change rate of continuous pulses detected by the pulse width detector during a window glass raising operation at an operational timing and a control unit for comparing the stored value of a pulse width change rate with the calculated value of a pulse width change rate and driving a motor for raising/lowering window glass in a window opening direction when a total of differences between the both pulse change rates exceeds an allowable value.

Safety device for power window

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Osaka, Japan

Hiroki Nishida