Ebara Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Sony Corporation

Hitachi Information & Telecommunication Engineering, Ltd.

Thk Gmbh

Renault S.a.s.

Katsumi Kimura

Kazuhiko Sugiyama

Hironori Saito

Hideo Yoshino

Tsuyoshi Kanuma

Hiroshi Ogata

Kazuo Hattori

Toshiyuki Yamamoto

Yuji Watanabe

Norifumi Zushi

Toshio Miwa

Michio Takashima

Yuko Kudo

Shinya Kataoka

Michio Otsuka

Tetsuya Yamamoto

Youji Shimizu

Takeshi Usami

Seiko Kawai

Ryusuke Ueki

Ken Usami

Yoshinori Kataya

Kiyoshi Inoue

Kaoru Hoshide

Takeo Nishijima

Masataka Mukai

Masao Naito

Michio Ohtsuka

Ryuji Sakai

Takumi Nakada

Yoshiro Tateishi

Masahiko Ebisui

Shigeru Kato

Yoshiaki Ogino

Kenji Maekawa

Hiroaki Nishihara

Yasuhiro Iida

Kazuhiro Soga

A surrounding vehicle display device includes: a surrounding information detection device that obtains information on surroundings of a host vehicle; and a vehicle speed sensor that detects a vehicle speed of the host vehicle. The surrounding vehicle display device includes a controller that uses the information obtained by the surrounding information detection device to generate a virtual image that indicates the surroundings of the host vehicle as being viewed from above the host vehicle and a display displays the virtual image. The controller makes a display region of at least a rear region around the host vehicle on the virtual image wide when the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed sensor is higher than a low vehicle speed.

Surrounding vehicle display method and surrounding vehicle display device

A surrounding vehicle display device includes: a surrounding information detection device that obtains information on surroundings of a host vehicle; a virtual image generation unit that uses the information obtained by the surrounding information detection device to generate a virtual image that indicates the surroundings of the host vehicle as being viewed from above the host vehicle; and a controller that starts examination of whether to perform the auto lane change before performing the auto lane change. The controller starts the examination of whether to perform the auto lane change before performing the auto lane change and then makes a display region of the surroundings of the host vehicle on the virtual image wider than a display region before the examination is started.

Provided is a precise alignment method for an optical component that positions a slider to X-axis and Y-axis coordinates of maximal intensity in a manner such that frame images of a laser beam passing through an optical waveguide are captured while relatively moving the slider and a semiconductor laser device at a uniform speed in the X and Y directions, the X-axis coordinate of the maximal intensity is calculated by performing a fitting calculation only in the X direction, frame images of a laser beam passing through the optical waveguide are captured by relatively moving the slider and the semiconductor laser device at a uniform speed only in the Y direction while the X-axis coordinate is fixed, and the Y-axis coordinate of the target maximal intensity is calculated by performing a fitting calculation only in the Y direction.

Precise alignment method and precise alignment apparatus for optical component

A vehicle notification sound emitting apparatus is basically provided with a first sound emitting device, a second sound emitting device and a notification sound control device. The first sound emitting device emits a first intermittent notification sound inside a cabin interior of a vehicle. The second sound emitting device emits a second intermittent notification sound outside of the cabin interior of the vehicle. The notification sound control device operates the first and second sound emitting devices to separately emit the first and second intermittent notification sounds in at least a partially overlapping pattern in response to occurrence of a vehicle condition to convey a same type of vehicle information to both inside and outside of the cabin interior of the vehicle. The notification sound control device includes a cabin interior-exterior notification sound synchronizing section that is configured to synchronize the first and second intermittent notification sounds.

Vehicle notification sound emitting apparatus

A vehicle notification sound emitting apparatus is basically provided with a sound emitting device and a notification sound control device. The sound emitting device emits a movement notification sound to outside of a vehicle to inform a person in an area surrounding the vehicle that the vehicle is moving at a low speed. The notification sound control device operates the sound emitting device to selectively emit the movement notification sound. The notification sound control device includes a notification sound prohibiting section and a prohibition cancelling section. The notification sound prohibiting section prohibits an emission of the movement notification sound by the sound emitting device. The prohibition cancelling section cancels a notification sound emission prohibition imposed by the notification sound prohibiting section either upon a vehicle speed of the vehicle exceeding a prescribed vehicle speed or based on position information of the vehicle.

A vehicle notification sound emitting apparatus is basically provided with a sound emitting device and a notification sound control device. The sound emitting device emits a starting movement notification sound to outside of a vehicle to inform a person in an outside area surrounding the vehicle that the vehicle will transition from a stopped state to a moving state, and emits a moving notification sound to outside of the vehicle to inform a person in the outside area surrounding the vehicle that the vehicle is moving. The notification sound control device operates the sound emitting device to selectively emit the starting movement notification sound. The notification sound control device includes a notification sound emission timing section that sets a start timing of the starting movement notification sound in response to a shift operation having been performed and an additional start movement preparation operation of the vehicle having been performed.

A vehicle notification sound emitting apparatus is basically provided with a sound emitting device and a notification sound control device. The sound emitting device is configured to emit a movement notification sound to an outside of a vehicle to inform a person in an area surrounding the vehicle that the vehicle will move. The notification sound control device is configured to operate the sound emitting device in response to occurrence of a vehicle condition. The notification sound control device setting the movement notification sound of the sound emitting device to a frequency in a range of 1.5 kHz to 6 kHz.

A vehicle notification sound emitting apparatus is basically provided with a sound emitting device and a notification sound control device. The sound emitting device emits forward and reverse advancement notification sounds outside of a vehicle to inform a person in an area surrounding the vehicle that the vehicle will move. The notification sound control device operates the sound emitting device to selectively emit the forward and reverse movement notifications. The notification sound control device includes forward and reverse advancement notification sound emission timing sections. A start timing of the forward advancement notification sound is set in response to both a forward movement shift operation having been performed and an additional start movement preparation operation of the vehicle having been performed. A start timing of the reverse movement notification sound is set to be emitted immediately in response to the reverse movement shift operation having been performed.

To project a rectangular laser spot having a predetermined size and a high laser power density onto the surface of an object, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus comprises a control unit for controlling power of a laser light source, an optical waveguide unit () including a core section () transmitting laser light and a clad section () covering the core section (), and a lens () for forming the laser light output through the optical waveguide unit () into a laser spot having a predetermined shape, an output end surface () of the core section () has a rectangular shape with one side length of 1 &#x3bc;m to 20 &#x3bc;m and the other side length of 1 mm to 60 mm, and the laser source is set to make the power density of the laser spot output from the core section () to be 0.1 mW/&#x3bc;mor more.

Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus

A vehicle notification sound emitting apparatus is basically provided with a sound emitting device and a notification sound control device. The sound emitting device is configured to emit a movement notification sound to outside of a vehicle to inform a person in an area surrounding the vehicle that the vehicle will move. The notification sound control device is configured to operate the sound emitting device to emit a movement notification during a period from when a vehicle speed becomes equal to or smaller than a prescribed value until a prescribed amount of time has elapsed in a situation where the vehicle speed becomes equal to or smaller than the prescribed value while the forward movement notification sound is being emitted.

The present invention relates to a transmission apparatus () including at least one of a dividing unit () and a differential planetary gear unit (), and a joint unit (). A rotational power, which has been input to the transmission apparatus (), is transmitted to the joint unit () via the dividing unit () or the differential planetary gear unit (). A rotational power to be input to the joint unit () is smaller than the rotational power which has been input to the transmission apparatus (), and the joint unit comprises a fluid coupling.

Transmission apparatus

A differential planetary gear apparatus has a single-pinion-type structure in which one planetary gear () is arranged in a radial direction and one or more planetary gears () are arranged in a circumferential direction in a region between a sun gear () and a ring gear (), a drive source (), a speed-change motive source (), and a driven unit () are disposed at any one of an input side (I), an output side (O), and a speed-change side (T), respectively, and the speed-change motive source () includes an electric motor.

Starting apparatus for differential planetary gear apparatus

A differential planetary gear apparatus has a single-pinion-type structure in which one planetary gear () is arranged in a radial direction and one or more planetary gears () are arranged in a circumferential direction in a region between a sun gear () and a ring gear (), a drive source (), a speed-change motive source (), and a driven unit () are disposed at any one of an input side (I), an output side (O), and a speed-change side (T). The speed-change motive source () includes an electric motor.

Differential planetary gear device, and differential planetary gear device starting device and starting method

A fluid coupling transmits power from a drive side to a driven side by utilizing kinetic energy of fluid such as oil. The fluid coupling comprises a pump impeller () provided on a drive shaft (), a turbine impeller () provided on a driven shaft (), a housing () fixed to the pump impeller () and surrounding the turbine impeller, and a multiple disc clutch provided between a drive shaft side and a driven shaft side. The multiple disc clutch is operated to couple the drive shaft () and the driven shaft () mechanically so that the drive shaft and the driven shaft are rotated at the same rotational speed. Thus, the fluid coupling can improve a power transmitting efficiency because of no slip between the rotational speed of the drive shaft and the rotational speed of the driven shaft.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Katsumi Kimura