Hitachi, Ltd.

Keiichi Tokuyama

Osamu Igarashi

Mitsuhiro Masuda

Shotaro Naito

Seiji Suda

Hirohisa Yamamura

Shizuhisa Watanabe

Masaru Kugo

Kouzou Katogi

Hiroshi Kimura

Masahiko Ibamoto

Kazuhiko Sato

Takanori Shibata

Kozo Katogi

Taiji Hasegawa

Hiroshi Ito

Junichi Takahashi

Hideyuki Ouchi

Kouzo Katogi

Hiroyuki Ohiwa

There are disclosed an automatic gear change control apparatus for an automobile and a method of controlling such apparatus. A rotational output of an internal combustion engine is connected to drive wheels of the automobile and a load device. When a gear shifting-up of an automatic transmission is to be effected, the load applied by the load device is increased, or the load is connected to an output rotation shaft of the engine via a selectively-connecting device, thereby reducing the rotational speed of the output rotation shaft of the engine to a required level.

Automatic gear change control apparatus for automobile and method of

In a color liquid crystal type electronic instrument panel, the quantity of light to be radiated from a background light source is changed in accordance with a color to be displayed. The color liquid crystal type electronic instrument panel is of the type that a plurality of plural-primary-color stripe filters are disposed on each segment of a display element in the longitudinal direction of the segment; a voltage is applied to electrodes corresponding to the stripe filters having a color selected based on the contents to be displayed, and the background light source is positioned at the back of the display element to enable color-displaying. A device for detecting the brightness of outdoor light is further provided in the liquid crystal display type electronic instrument panel, wherein the quantity of light to be radiated from the background light source is changed in accordance with a detected signal by the detecting device.

Electronic instrument panel

A liquid crystal display panel including transparent electrode pairs confronting each other with liquid crystal substance disposed therebetween. At least one of each electrode pair is split into thin line electrode strips with color filters of several kinds of color being disposed thereon or on corresponding positions on the opposite electrode. The panel produces a display in an arbitrary color through the application of a certain combination of color signals between the electrodes selectively.

Multi-color liquid crystal display system

In a segment display type multi-color liquid crystal display device, the area of the display surface of the display device except the areas of segment electrodes is formed so as to present a color identical or similar to a color presented by the segment electrodes in an unselected state. Selected segments can be clearly recognized.

Liquid crystal display device

An apparatus for adjusting height of a motor vehicle have functions of detecting abnormality of sensors for detecting the vehicle height, driving a compressor independent of outputs of the sensors when pressure within a suspension is lower than a predetermined value, enabling actuation of the compressor after lapse of a predetermined time since turning-on of an ignition switch, enabling decreasing of the vehicle height for a predetermined time after turning-off of the ignition switch, and a self-diagnosing function for preventing runaway of the control.

Height adjusting apparatus for motor vehicle

A liquid crystal panel device comprises a liquid crystal panel having a relatively large area particularly while in use with an automobile dashboard and having a plurality of display sections, a diffusion plate disposed opposing the rear face of the liquid crystal panel for diffusing receiving light rays, a printed circuit board disposed opposing the rear face of the diffusion plate, and a plurality of light emitting members disposed in equally spaced relation to each other on the printed circuit board over the whole region of the liquid crystal panel. A reflection plate is provided between the diffusion plate and the board, and a partition plate corresponding to the display section of the liquid crystal panel is provided. Within a space defined by the diffusion plate, board, reflection plate, and partition plate, the light emitting members consisting of three or four incandescent lamps are disposed.

Liquid crystal panel display device

A display apparatus for a vehicle comprising arithmetic unit for processing outputs of different sensors in accordance with a given process program so as to provide display signals adapted to be displayed on different display units, a memory for storing predetermined process programs corresponding to different display standards, and a program selecting device for selecting one of the process programs stored in the memory in accordance with a desired one of the display standards and supplying the selected process program to the arithmetic unit, whereby the display units can display signals to meet any one of the different display standards.

Display apparatus for vehicle

A vehicle height adjusting device comprises a vehicle height sensor for sensing the height of a vehicle, means for controlling the vehicle height which produces a vehicle height adjusting signal in response to the signal from the vehicle height sensor, driving means for adjusting the vehicle height in response to the vehicle height adjusting signal, constant voltage conversion means for converting a power supply voltage into a constant voltage and supplying the constant voltage to the means for controlling the vehicle height, and power supply control means for on-off controlling the supply of the power supply voltage in accordance with the turn-on and turn-off of an ignition switch. The vehicle height adjusting device further comprises means for stopping the power supply by a power supply stopping signal from the vehicle height control means when a predetermined time elapses after the ignition switch is turned off, and low voltage detecting means for stopping the operation of the means for controlling the vehicle height when the power supply is stopped and the output voltage from the constant voltage conversion means becomes lower than a predetermined reference voltage An integrating circuit can be used in place of the low voltage detecting means. The vehicle height adjusting device performs an assured self-cut-off operation.

Vehicle height adjusting device

A vehicle trip computer for detecting the distance traveled by a vehicle and the amount of fuel remaining in the fuel tank and computing and displaying the capable travel distance of the vehicle through the desired computational operations in accordance with the detected data. During the initial period following the connection of the trip computer to the power source, the capable travel distance of the vehicle is computed by using a predetermined initial gas mileage in place of the computed gas mileage. Also, the trip computer does not replace the initial gas mileage with the computed actual gas mileage until the distance traveled by the vehicle exceeds a predetermined distance.

Trip computer for vehicles

Power source system for vehicular electronic device

A skid control device employs a wheel speed sensor and the control circuit which includes a microcomputer. The microcomputer computes wheel speed on the basis of a pulse signal derived from the wheel speed sensor and delivers a break releasing signal when the wheels slip. A brake control apparatus for controlling the pressure of oil for applying the brakes to the wheels responds to the outputs of the microcomputer. The microcomputer contains a free-running counter which counts clock pulses and a memory containing a sequence of storage locations. This sequence of storage locations stores count values of the free-running counter. A pulse signal from the wheel speed sensor is employed to produce an interrupt request for the microcomputer. The contents of successively adjacent locations in memory are employed by the microcomputer for carrying out the necessary calculations and computing wheel speed.

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Katsuta, Japan

Keiichi Tokuyama