Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Jeco Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Arai

Akira Kuno

Yoshio Shinoda

Jun Ohta

Koichi Taniguchi

Akio Sugiura

Mamoru Mori

Hisatoshi Ohta

Atutoshi Okamoto

Hisato Wakamatsu

Yasuhiko Sakurai

Nobumasa Higo

Koichi Toyama

Yutaka Taga

Shigeyuki Akita

Akira Nakamura

Minoru Izawa

Tomohisa Yoshimi

Juichi Shibatani

Sei Iguchi

Takahiro Nogami

Hiroaki Sasaki

Hisashi Hirose

Hiroshi Iiyama

Shuichi Kosuge

Akira Kawahashi

Ikuya Kobayashi

Taketsugu Torii

Hirokazu Komiya

Toshio Nagara

Hajime Itoh

Yohei Watanabe

Kazunobu Fukushima

Toshikazu Ohtake

Kazuhide Makita

Yoshiharu Mineo

Testuya Inoue

Masahiro Inazu

Hiroshi Ogura

Hisatoshi Oota

Toshihiro Kamiya

Kogoro Nakagawa

Masanori Kuno

Jun Ota

An apparatus for housing electrical wiring extending between a vehicle door and a vehicle body. A first link is pivotally connected to the vehicle door and the vehicle body for pivoting the door away from the vehicle body. A second link is pivotally connected to the vehicle door and the vehicle body rearward of the first link along the length of the vehicle. The second link cooperates with the first link to pivot the vehicle door away from the vehicle body. The second link includes a pivotal support frame, a conduit section, and a clamping member for removably clamping the pivotal support frame and the conduit section together to enable the conduit section to be detached from the pivotal support frame. When clamped, the pivotal support frame and the conduit section define a conduit therebetween. Electrical wiring extends within the conduit for providing electrical wiring between the vehicle door and the vehicle body. Grommets are affixed at opposite ends of the wiring to secure each end of the wiring to the vehicle door and to the vehicle body, respectively.

Apparatus for housing electrical wiring extending between a vehicle door

An inclinometer of the type wherein a weight rotatable in accordance with the inclination of a vehicle is provided for a drive unit, and a torque of the drive unit is transmitted to a driven unit so as to display the inclination angle of the vehicle with an inclination indicator, there are provided a zero point adjusting spiral spring, the inner end thereof being affixed to a shaft of the driven unit, while an outer end is affixed to a rotary drive member, and a zero point adjusting knob for rotating the rotary drive member. According to this invention, after the zero point has been adjusted, the zero point display line of the indicators and the zero point scale line of the scale board can be aligned horizontally, thus improving the appearance of the zero point display.

Inclinometers

An azimuth determinating apparatus wherein the azimuth sensor is oriented to a specified direction, and the deviation of the two-component detection signals of the azimuth sensor from the pointing direction of the azimuth sensor are corrected by the adjustment of the two-component detection signals with the adjusting circuit in accordance with the indication on the amount of deviation indicated by the indicating circuit, whereby distortion of the output signals due to the residual magnetism of the azimuth sensor is corrected and the true azimuth can be determined.

Azimuth determinating apparatus

A method and apparatus for indicating mileage corresponding to remaining fuel for vehicles includes a microprocessor connected to receive input signals respectively indicating a traveled distance and a consumed fuel quantity in a predetermined short period. During such time when quantity of fuel remaining in the tank is above a certain threshold level, the mileage corresponding to the remaining fuel is calculated by multiplying the remaining fuel quantity by a fuel consumption (Km/l) which substantially corresponds to the average fuel consumption during a period between two recent successive fillings of the fuel tank. After the remaining quantity of fuel has reduced below the threshold level, the value of the fuel consumption is updated by increasing the weight of the momentary fuel consumption which reflects the actual running condition. The microprocessor repeatedly calculates the mileage at predetermined intervals and the numerical value of the calculated mileage corresponding to the remaining fuel is displayed on a display unit digitally.

Method and apparatus for indicating mileage corresponding to remaining

A device for producing a voice warning over a speaker which is also used with an entertainment sound production system such as a radio or cassette recorder. The voice warning device incorporates a switching device in the circuit between the speaker and a source of entertainment sound-bearing electric signals, and also incorporates a mechanism for selectively generating electric signals representing human voice sounds for conveying warnings. When a warning signal is being generated, the switching device is switched over from its state where it connects the speaker to the entertainment sound-bearing electric signals to its state where it connects the speaker to the warning signals. Optionally, several different speakers of an entertainment system may be selectively connected to said warning signals by several switching devices.

Voice warning device using entertainment speaker

A seat belt device for holding an occupant of a seat of a vehicle by the shoulder and the waist portions thereof by stringing a belt in a loop fashion, wherein the coupling ends of the shoulder belt and the lap belt portions of the belt are overlapped one on the other, thereby preventing the tongue plate from slipping down along the belt when the same is not in use.

Seat belt device for use in vehicle

A centralized warning system for a vehicle comprising a fault detecting sensor mounted at each of a plurality of check points of the vehicle, an indicator operating circuit responsive to each of the sensors to indicate the presence of a fault at the check point, a logical circuit responsive to at least one indication signal from the indicator operating circuits for generating a logical output, a pulse generating circuit responsive to the logical output, a timer circuit for actuating the pulse generating circuit for a predetermined period of time, a master warning device adapted to be operated by the pulse generating circuit, forced operation means for forcibly operating the indicator operating circuits and the master warning device and checking them for faults therein, and means for terminating the forced operation of the indicator operating circuits and the master warning device during the time between the actuation of the pulse generating circuit and the moment at which the normal centralized warning function is to be activated.

Centralized warning system for vehicle

A radiator cap composed of a cap body, a compression gasket assembly connected to the cap body and adapted to open and close in accordance with the pressure of the coolant in the radiator, a float engaged with the cap body so as to move up and down in accordance with the level of the coolant. The upper edge of the float is formed so that upon contact with a gasket assembly, a valve is formed with said gasket assembly. A reed switch secured to the cap body is opened or closed in response to movement of the float so that the reed switch actuates suitable warning means when the level of coolant falls over a predetermined line.

Radiator cap

A seat belt device for holding an occupant of a seat of a vehicle by the shoulder and the waist portions thereof by stringing a belt in a loop fashion, wherein a stopper is provided on a shoulder belt portion thereof between a sash guide and a tongue plate so that the position on said shoulder belt where said stopper is detained can be adjusted by shifting the belt in the longitudinal direction thereof and said stopper cannot pass through an opening in said tongue plate, thereby avoiding imparting a feeling of oppression by the shoulder belt portion to the occupant wearing the seat belt.

Method and apparatus for instantaneously measuring fuel consumption rate and indicating the instantaneously measuring distance traveled per unit fuel amount consumed, i.e., the instantaneous fuel consumption rate of a running vehicle. A signal representing the operating parameter of the internal combustion engine of the running vehicle measured in terms of the amount of fuel being consumed by the vehicle and another signal representing the running speed of the vehicle are separately integrated by first and second integrating circuits, whereby when the integrated value of the first integrating circuit reaches a predetermined value, the integrated value of the second integrating circuit is indicated.

Method and apparatus for instantaneously measuring and indicating fuel

Indication of possible vehicle running distance with remnant fuel is accomplished by measuring the fuel amount, the fuel consumption and the running distance and calculating the possible remaining running distance with remnant fuel. The indication is directly based on the current driving condition so that the driver can know the possible running distance with remnant fuel in continued driving under similar conditions. The indication can prevent fuel shortage and also teach a driver economic driving.

Possible vehicle running distance indication

An antiskid control device for vehicles, comprising a timer circuit for producing a timing signal in synchronism with the extinction of a release signal for a skid control, apparatus for rapidly increasing the braking pressure applied to the wheel in response to said timing signal coming from the timer circuit, and correcting apparatus for increasing the braking pressure increasing rate when a large amount of friction is present between the wheel and the road surface, said antiskid control device being able to hold the fluctuation of the braking pressure within a narrow range to prevent unnecessary vibrations of the vehicle at the time of braking due to the fact that the braking pressure increasing rate is changed when the braking pressure is reapplied to the wheel, and being able to control the braking operation at all times in a manner best suited to the various road surface conditions encountered so that a skid of the vehicle is prevented from occurring and the braking distance is reduced greatly, due to the fact that the braking pressure increasing rate is adjusted in accordance with the coefficients of friction between the wheel and the road surface.

Antiskid control device for vehicles

An electronic monitor system for automobiles warns the driver both by a flashing light or buzzer and by lighting an appropriate indicator light which tells the location if there is something wrong with any one of the functions located through the car, and includes circuitry which determines whether the function needs emergency care or not and manually-operated switch which triggers the circuitry to render the indication less bothersome if the defective function is one not requiring emergency care.

Electronic monitor system for automobiles

An anti-skid control system for preventing skidding of a vehicle caused by the braking of the vehicle while it is in motion in the system when a vehicle speed signal generated from vehicle speed detecting apparatus becomes lower than a predetermined value, discriminating apparatus generates a discrimination signal and the braking pressure applied to the wheel is modulated through limiting apparatus including a logical gate and controlled by the discrimination signal. On the other hand, when the vehicle body speed becomes lower than a predetermined value, the generation of the discrimination signal is prevented by a deceleration sensor, thus suitably controlling the braking pressure in accordance with the surface conditions of the road.

Anti-skid control system for vehicles

A fuel consumption measuring device for measuring the amount of fuel consumed by the internal combustion engine of an automobile in which the amount of air drawn into the engine is measured from a signal corresponding to the revolution speed of the engine and another signal corresponding to the amount of gas drawn into the engine whereby to accurately measure the amount of fuel drawn into the engine by virtue of the fact that the ratio between the intake air amount and the intake fuel amount is practically constant at all times.

Fuel consumption measuring device

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Hiroshi Arai