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Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Nec Corporation

Yazaki Corporation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Ngk Spark Plug Company, Limited

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroshi Kato

Satoru Kasuya

Hiroyasu Kikukawa

Masaaki Nishida

Masaru Morise

Shinji Oita

Toshihiko Aoki

Yuji Sato

Kazumasa Tsukamoto

Masahiro Hayabuchi

Shigeyuki Suzuki

Nobukazu Ike

Nobutada Sugiura

Shintaro Kitakata

Takashi Morimoto

Masahiro Otake

Takayoshi Kato

Takayuki Wani

Yasuhiro Uehara

Masashi Hotta

Yasushi Masuda

Masashi Kito

Kensaku Honda

Takuya Nakajima

Toru Souda

Atsushi Mikuni

Akitoshi Kato

Hitoshi Kawabe

Norihiro Tokunaga

Terufumi Miyazaki

Naoya Jinnai

Yasuhiro Kusumoto

Daiki Suyama

Minoru Todo

Hisashi Ono

Tatsuhiko Mizutani

Greg Rusch

Tomochika Inagaki

Osamu Shimasaki

Jeffrey A Kolde

Bamdad Bahar

Kazuhiko Ohashi

Atsushi Tabata

Mitsuyoshi Ohno

Yasuo Hojo

Kazunori Ishikawa

Kagenori Fukumura

Yoshio Hasegawa

Takao Taniguchi

Toshinori Tanase

Tomohito Ono

Yasuhiro Hara

Takashi Matsumoto

Kazuhisa Ozaki

Mikio Iwase

Takeyuki Suzuki

Tohru Inoue

Tsutomu Sakata

Hiroaki Sanji

Hisashi Sawada

Hideki Miyata

Yuichi Seki

Takeshi Torii

Masakazu Ishikawa

Kazuhiko Sugita

Yoshio Kanesawa

Kazumoto Konda

Masataka Sugiyama

Shinichi Ishida

Hiroto Hashimoto

Akihiko Ikeda

Hideki Nakayoshi

Tatsuya Kawahara

Kazuyoshi Ogasawara

Toshiya Sugiyama

Michiaki Yasuno

Masashi Kitou

Takuya Ishii

Yoshio Shoji

Eiichi Torikai

Fumio Yamamoto

Tomoaki Suzuki

Masayuki Ikemoto

Yuki Kozono

Shu Nakajima

Hideki Yamada

Tetsuo Nuruki

Masanao Shiomi

Takeshi Nawata

Yoshinari Nakagawa

Keizo Kobayashi

Kenji Gotou

Masanori Aimu

Kenji Fujimura

Atsushi Fujisawa

Yasuhiro Akita

Takuro Iwase

Kiminobu Terao

Takuya Komatsu

Shingo Uozumi

A transmission mechanism transmits rotation transmitted from a distribution differential gear mechanism to an output member. The distribution differential gear mechanism, a first distribution output gear, and a first engagement device are disposed on a first axis. A first rotary electric machine and a first rotary electric machine drive gear are disposed on a second axis. A transmission engagement device of the transmission mechanism is disposed on a third axis. An axial direction of the first rotary electric machine includes a first axial side where the first rotary electric machine is disposed with respect to the first rotary electric machine drive gear, and a second axial side opposite to the first axial side. The distribution differential gear mechanism is disposed on the second axial side of the first distribution output gear and the first engagement device.

Vehicle drive device

An operation input device including: a first detection section including a first detection surface that detects a position at which a detection target is touching or within a predetermined distance, the first detection section outputting a first signal representing the position; an operation control section that controls a first operation target based on the first signal; an operation determination section that outputs a second signal only when it has determined that the detection target has moved along the first detection surface; and a switching control section that switches the operation control section between an operation enabled state in which control of the first operation target is enabled, and an operation prevented state in which control of the first operation target is prevented, the switching control section switching from the operation prevented state to the operation enabled state in a case in which the second signal has been received.

Operation input device, operation input method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing operation input program

A counter gear mechanism includes: a fifth gear in mesh with a third gear; a sixth gear in mesh with a fourth gear; and a seventh gear in mesh with a differential input gear. The seventh gear is disposed between the fifth gear and the sixth gear in an axial direction. A switching mechanism is disposed between the third gear and the fourth gear in the axial direction. The switching mechanism makes switching among: a state in which the third gear is coupled to a second input member; a state in which the fourth gear is coupled to the second input member; and a state in which the third gear and the fourth gear are decoupled from the second input member. This structure is able to make an entirety of an apparatus compact in size in the axial direction when the apparatus includes the switching mechanism to change the speed ratio between the second input member, which is drivingly coupled to an internal combustion engine, and output members.

Vehicle drive transmission apparatus

A vehicle drive device is provided that can suppress the increase in dimension in the radial direction while ensuring a sufficient speed reduction ratio. Two driving force sources are arranged on a first axis, two output members are arranged on a second axis, two counter gear mechanisms are arranged on a third axis. A planetary gear mechanism is configured to transmit rotation from the two counter gear mechanisms to the output members, and is disposed so as to overlap with both of the two counter gear mechanisms as seen in an axial direction along and axial direction.

A head portion protection airbag device includes: an airbag, formed into a folded body being folded such that a lower edge side in an unfolded state approaches an upper edge side, wrapped with an unfoldment preventing tape material and attached to the upper edge side of the window, assembled with a twisting restriction member, which is configured to prevent twisting of the folded body, on an upper edge side of the airbag, and attached to the upper edge side of the window as a bag attachment body. A plurality of attachment piece portions, which are attached to a body side of the vehicle, are arranged side by side on the upper edge side of the airbag. The bag attachment body is wrapped with the tape material in a state where the twisting restriction member is assembled to the upper edge side of the airbag in the folded body.

Head portion protection airbag device

A first case portion includes an end wall portion disposed on a first axial side with respect to a transmission. A second case portion is disposed on the first axial side with respect to a rotor of a rotary electric machine, and includes a first support portion that supports a rotor shaft and a second support portion disposed on a second axial side with respect to the rotor of the rotary electric machine to support the rotor shaft. The second support portion includes a bearing attachment portion to which a rotor bearing for supporting the rotor shaft is attached, and radially extending portion that extends from bearing attachment portion toward an outer side in a radial direction. A speed reducer is disposed between the radially extending portion and the end wall portion in axial direction to face the radially extending portion and the end wall portion in the axial direction.

A vehicle drive system including: a rotating electric machine; an output drivingly coupled to a wheel; a differential gear device provided in a power transmission path between the rotating electric machine and the output, the differential gear device including at least a first rotating element drivingly coupled to the rotating electric machine, a second rotating element drivingly coupled to the output, and a third rotating element that is selectively fixed by a one-way clutch to a non-rotating member and that is selectively fixed by a friction brake to the non-rotating member; and a clutch that selectively couples together two of the first rotating element, the second rotating element, and the third rotating element.

Vehicle drive system

A structure for cooling a rotating electrical machine includes: an oil pump, a supply oil passage connected to a discharge port of the oil pump, and a first oil passage that is an oil passage located above a stator of the rotating electrical machine in a vertical direction and that has a supplied portion, a discharge hole, and a discharge portion. The supplied portion is connected to the supply oil passage. The discharge hole is formed on a first side in an axial direction, which is one side in the axial direction of the rotating electrical machine with respect to the supplied portion and is configured to discharge oil toward the stator. The discharge portion is formed on the first side with respect to the discharge hole. A second oil passage is formed inside a rotor shaft to which a rotor of the rotating electrical machine is fixed, and a third oil passage connects the discharge portion of the first oil passage and the second oil passage. The third oil passage is formed along a first wall of the case which is located on the first side with respect to the rotating electrical machine.

Structure for cooling rotating electrical machine and vehicle drive device

In a power transmitting system of a vehicle including a differential gear device including a differential shaft; a first oil pump; a first oil strainer connected to the first oil pump; a second oil pump; a second oil strainer connected to the second oil pump; and a casing within which the engine drive shaft, the differential gear device, the first and second oil pumps, and the first and second oil strainers are accommodated, such that the engine drive shaft and the differential shaft of the differential gear device are spaced apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, the first and the second oil strainers are disposed between the engine drive shaft and the differential shaft of the differential gear device in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and are spaced apart from each other in an axial direction of the engine drive shaft.

Vehicular power transmitting system

In an automatic transmission, an engagement oil chamber and a centrifugal oil pressure cancel chamber of a clutch corresponding to a third ring gear of a Ravigneaux type planetary gear mechanism are defined by a drum member, a piston, and a cancel plate that rotate integrally with the third ring gear. An engagement oil chamber and a centrifugal oil pressure cancel chamber of a clutch corresponding to a third sun gear of the Ravigneaux type planetary gear mechanism are defined by a shaft portion, a piston, and an oil-chamber defining member that rotate integrally with the third sun gear.

Multi-stage transmission

A brake of an automatic transmission includes: first and second recessed portions and formed in a center support; a first piston having a first pressure-receiving portion that is disposed in the first recessed portion and defines a first engagement oil chamber and having a plate-pressing portion that presses friction plates and separator plates; a second piston having a second pressure-receiving portion that is disposed in the second recessed portion and defines a second engagement oil chamber and a piston-pressing portion that presses the first piston by supply of oil pressure to the second engagement oil chamber; and a return spring that biases the first piston so that the first piston moves away from the friction plates and the separator plates.

An airbag of an occupant protection device as fully deployed includes a front panel section deployable in front of the head of an occupant for catching the head when the head moves forward, a left panel section deployable on a left side of the head for catching the head when the head moves towards the left, and a right panel section deployable on a right side of the head for catching the head when the head moves towards the right. The front panel section includes a main panel region that is deployable in such a manner as to be opposed to a front face of the head and an extended panel region that extends downwardly from the main panel region so as to catch at least an upper part of a thorax of the occupant.

Occupant protection device

A vehicle rear section structure includes: left and right rear side members disposed along a front-rear direction at width direction sides of a rear floor pan; a rear suspension member extending along the vehicle front-rear direction, and attached to front portions of left and right rear side members; a load bearing section projecting upwardly from the rear suspension member; left and right reinforcement members extending along the vehicle front-rear direction, and disposed at a vehicle width direction inner side of rear portions of the left and right rear side members and at a vehicle rear side of the rear suspension member, a rear end portion of the reinforcement member partially overlapping a rear bumper reinforcement in a vehicle front-rear direction view; and a rear cross member linking the left and right rear side members together and partially overlapping the load bearing section in the vehicle front-rear direction view.

Vehicle rear section structure

An occupant protection device configured as an integral bag body including an airbag, the airbag including: a frame duct that includes an upper duct inflated and deployed at a seat upper side of the head of an occupant with a seat front end of the upper duct reaching a seat front side of the head of the occupant in an inflated and deployed state; a front inflating portion that receives gas supplied from a portion of the frame duct that has reached in front of the head, and is that inflated and deployed at the seat front side of the head of the occupant; and a pair of lateral inflating portions that receive gas supplied from the frame duct or the front inflating portion, or both, and that are inflated and deployed at both seat width direction sides of the head of the occupant.

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Kariya, Japan

Hiroshi Kato