Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

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Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.

Tokiwa Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Toyo Gomu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Harada

Naoki Taki

Masaaki Uechi

Kumiko Kondo

Masahiro Ishigaki

Yoji Mizoguchi

Michihiro Kawada

Atsutoshi Sakaguchi

Toshifumi Kawasaki

Hideaki Hayashi

Akio Kimura

Tomohiko Futatsugi

Yoshihiro Nunotaki

Yasuo Hojo

Hiroshi Suzuki

Kazuhiko Mori

Makoto Adachi

Kiyotaka Ise

Kenji Shimoda

Tsutomu Ochi

Kenji Murase

Masaaki Nishiwaki

Yasuhiro Morita

Masaru Takeda

Yasukuni Wakita

Taketo Matoba

Harumasa Minegishi

Yutaka Matsuno

Yasunori Hatanaka

Noritoshi Arai

Noritoshi Oka

Hirokazu Shimizu

Makoto Ichikawa

Hiroki Kitoh

Yu Ashitaka

Nobutaka Funahara

Shogo Ohmori

Hisanori Kaneko

Toshiaki Kenmotsu

A fuel cell includes: a membrane electrode assembly of a flat plate shape including an electrolyte membrane and an electrode catalyst layer, the membrane electrode assembly having a first side intersecting a flow pathway of a reactive gas on a surface of the fuel cell and a second side differing from the first side; a frame member of a flat plate shape including an opening part for arrangement of the membrane electrode assembly, the opening part having a first frame side corresponding to the first side and a second frame side corresponding to the second side; and an adhesive member for bonding between an outer periphery of the membrane electrode assembly and an inner periphery of the frame member. The thickness of the adhesive member in an area from an inner peripheral edge at the second frame side toward a center of the frame member may be greater than the thickness of the adhesive member in an area from an inner peripheral edge at the first frame side toward the center of the frame member.

Fuel cell and method of manufacturing fuel cell

A vehicle driving assist apparatus comprises at least one surrounding sensor and at least one vehicle element. The surrounding sensor memorizes at least one axis difference adjustment value which adjusts at least one axis difference of a detection axis of the surrounding sensor relative to a predetermined base detection axis and provides the vehicle element with information on the axis difference adjustment value memorized in the surrounding sensor as adjustment value information. The vehicle element memorizes the axis difference adjustment value included in the adjustment value information provided from the surrounding sensor and provides the surrounding sensor with information on the axis difference adjustment value memorized in the vehicle element as the adjustment value information. The surrounding sensor memorizes the axis difference adjustment value included in the adjustment value information provided from the vehicle element when the axis difference adjustment value is not memorized in the surrounding sensor.

Vehicle driving assist apparatus

A vehicle control method of performing automatic braking for automatically braking a vehicle or alarm output, depending on a possibility of a collision between the vehicle and an obstacle, includes: cancelling the automatic braking or the alarm output, when an accelerator operation amount is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, during the automatic braking or the alarm output, and cancelling the automatic braking or the alarm output, when a given cancellation condition is satisfied under a situation where the accelerator operation amount of the vehicle is smaller than the predetermined threshold value, during the automatic braking or the alarm output.

Vehicle control method and vehicle control system

A vehicular braking/driving-force control apparatus includes an accelerator operation detection part configured to detect an accelerator operation; a driving-force limiting apparatus configured to carry out driving-force limiting control of limiting driving force of an own vehicle in such a manner that an upper-limit speed that is set will not be exceeded; an automatic braking control apparatus configured to carry out automatic braking control of automatically generating braking force in the own vehicle based on a relative distance or a relative speed between an obstacle in front of the own vehicle and the own vehicle, and have a cancellation function of inhibiting a start of the automatic braking control based on the accelerator operation; and a control part configured to inhibit the cancellation function from being executed when the driving-force limiting apparatus is in an activated state where the driving-force limiting apparatus is allowed to carry out the driving-force limiting control.

Vehicular braking/driving-force control apparatus

In an manufacturing apparatus, a belt-shaped electrolyte polymer is conveyed in a state disposed to a back sheet. A first reinforcement membrane is conveyed in a state disposed to a back sheet, and, in a first sticking section, stuck with the belt-shaped electrolyte polymer. In a first thermocompression bonding section, the belt-shaped electrolyte polymer and the first reinforcement membrane are thermally compressed. At this time, a molten electrolyte polymer reaches between the first reinforcement membrane and the back sheet thereof, and the first adhesiveness between the first reinforcement membrane and the back sheet thereof becomes higher than the second adhesiveness between the belt-shaped electrolyte polymer and the back sheet thereof. A first peel section peels, in this state, the back sheet from the belt-shaped electrolyte polymer.

Manufacturing method for reinforced electrolyte membrane and manufacturing apparatus of manufacturing the same

A vehicle forward information acquiring device includes a bracket fixed to a windshield, a cover mounted to the bracket by being moved along the bracket in one direction, and a vehicle forward information acquiring sensor accommodated between the bracket and the cover. The cover is mounted to the bracket while being pressed against the bracket by a first elastic force and a second elastic force generated when a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion formed on the cover are respectively engaged with a first engaged portion and a second engaged portion formed on the bracket. A position of the cover on the bracket when the first elastic force becomes a maximum value is different from a position of the cover on the bracket when the second elastic force becomes a maximum value.

Vehicle forward information acquiring device

An in-vehicle control device includes a first sensor that acquires obstacle information in a first detection range, a second sensor that acquires obstacle information in a second detection range, the second detection range is nearer to a host vehicle than the first detection range, and a processor configured to perform predetermined control for preventing collision with an obstacle or for reducing damage at collision time based on the obstacle information received from the first sensor and the second sensor and, when the obstacle is not detected by the first sensor and the second sensor after starting the predetermined control based on the obstacle information received from the first sensor, uses positional relation information to determine whether the predetermined control is to be continued wherein the positional relation information indicates a height-direction positional relation between a predetermined part of the obstacle and the first detection range or the second detection range.

In-vehicle control device

According to the present invention, a porous material for a fuel cell electrolyte membrane, wherein at least one strength auxiliary layer is provided inside and/or on the surface of a high porosity layer, the high porosity layer and the strength auxiliary layer constitute a multilayer structure, and the average diameter of pores of the high porosity layer is different from the average diameter of pores of the strength auxiliary layer, is provided. Also, a porous material having high porosity and high strength, which is suitable as a base material for an electrolyte membrane of a solid polymer fuel cell, is provided and a high-performance fuel cell using such material is realized.

Porous material for fuel cell electrolyte membrane, method for producing the same, electrolyte membrane for solid polymer fuel cell, membrane electrode assembly (MEA), and fuel cell

A film stretcher that transports a film material in a predetermined transport direction while holding an end of the film material in a width direction of the film material to stretch the film material in the width direction includes a holding unit that includes a stretching roll having an annular groove formed on an outer periphery of the stretching roll and an endless wire fitted in the annular groove over a predetermined rotation angle range of the annular groove in a circular arc shape so that the end of the film material in the width direction of the film material is pinched. The stretching roll is inclined so as to open toward a downstream side in the transport direction of the film material. The holding unit transports the film material in the transport direction while pinching the film material using the stretching roll and the endless wire, whereby the film material is stretched in the width direction.

Film stretcher

A vehicle control apparatus for controlling at least one running condition of a vehicle, including an intended-target-position determining device which determines an intended target position of the vehicle based on a steering angle of the vehicle; a running-state detector which detects a running state of the vehicle; an estimated-target-position determining device which determines an estimated target position of the vehicle based on the running state of the vehicle detected by the running-state detector; a vehicle-condition changing device which changes the at least one running condition of the vehicle; and a vehicle-condition control device which controls the vehicle-condition changing device based on a difference between the intended target position of the vehicle determined by the intended-target-position determining device and the estimated target position of the vehicle determined by the estimated-target-position determining device, thereby controlling the at least one running condition of the vehicle.

Vehicle control apparatus

In order to effect thermal spraying of an inner surface at an optimal thermal spray distance depending upon thermal spray conditions, a method for thermal spraying of the inner surface includes the steps of inserting a thermal spray material bending member 3 having an inclined guide plane 8 at its tip face into the opening so as to face a thermal spray gun 1, moving the thermal spray gun 1 and the thermal spray material bending member 3 in synchronization with each other while maintaining the distance between the thermal spray gun 1 and the thermal spray material bending member 3 at a predetermined value and changing the direction of a thermal spray jet 4 jetted straight from the thermal spray gun 1 by the thermal spray material bending member 3 to spray the thermal spray jet 4 on the inner surface of the opening.

Method for thermal spraying of an inner surface

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Hiroshi Harada