Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Jiro Tsuchiya

Hiroyuki Takahashi

Makoto Hamada

Makoto Imai

Tomoharu Maeda

Kazuya Sasaki

Hiromichi Fujishima

Torahiko Sasaki

Hideki Tojima

Tadakazu Harada

Tomoaki Mitsunaga

Masaaki Naito

A semiconductor module is disclosed that includes a semiconductor element, a capacitor configured to be electrically connected to the semiconductor element and a heat sink, wherein the semiconductor and the capacitor are stacked with each other via the heat sink, and wherein the semiconductor element is disposed in a position overlapping with the capacitor as viewed from a stack direction.

Semiconductor module

An obstacle detecting apparatus which detects the distance between an obstacle and a vehicle by two distance measuring sensors, comprising collision angle calculating device in which a plurality of positions of the obstacle is calculated by way of triangulation on the basis of the distance information from the two distance measuring sensors, and a collision angle, which is formed between the obstacle and the vehicle, is calculated by the locus of the obstacle which is calculated by the calculated plurality of positions of the obstacle.

Obstacle detecting apparatus and vehicle occupant protecting device

An air bag apparatus for a passenger seat includes: a first sensor for detecting an occupant seated in a passenger seat; a second sensor for detecting a state in which the occupant is approaching an instrument panel excluding a state in which the occupant put out his or her hand(s) on the instrument panel; and a deployment controller for changing the control of deployment of an air bag when the occupant is detected by the first sensor and the state in which the occupant is approaching the instrument panel is detected by the second sensor.

Air bag apparatus for passenger seat

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Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Jiro Tsuchiya