Denso Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Anden Co., Ltd.

So-ken Corporation

Subaru Corporation

Hitachi-kokusai Electric Inc.

Hayashi Telempu Corporation

Yagi Antenna Inc.

Ken Tanaka

Toshiro Suzuki

Shigetoshi Fukaya

Satoru Jinno

Tomoaki Tanaka

Shota Iguchi

Yoshitaka Nishiguchi

Yasuhiro Fukagawa

Osamu Daitoku

Yasuhiro Ito

Masaru Touge

Kiyonari Kojima

Masashi Kawamoto

Shingo Shimizu

Kenji Takeda

Takashi Ito

Hisamatsu Nakano

Tetsuo Nagami

Tsutomu Nakamura

Hiroshi Tamura

Masanao Sugisawa

Akira Kaneko

Masayuki Tado

Kensuke Kobayashi

Tomoya Katoh

Shigeru Kido

Iichi Wako

Marie Sakata

Hiroaki Murakami

Yuichi Yagishita

Naoko Iwata

Makoto Yuasa

Seiken Fujita

Toshihito Umegaki

Kenichi Oyaizu

Kenji Narumi

Aritomo Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Ikkanda

Yuichi Iai

Yuichi Kondo

Masakuni Yamamoto

Hidetaka Nishikoori

Yusuke Nishizaki

Masakatsu Horiguchi

Satoshi Inuzuka

Keisuke Uchida

A rotation angle detection device includes a first detection unit, a second detection unit, and a calculation unit. The first detection unit detects a first rotation angle of a steering shaft that rotates with a steering wheel. The second detection unit detects a second rotation angle of a motor shaft coupled to the steering shaft via a speed reduction mechanism. The calculation unit receives the first rotation angle from the first detection unit and the second rotation angle from the second detection unit, and calculates the steering angle of the steering shaft based on a difference angle between the first rotation angle and the second rotation angle.

Rotation angle detection device for detecting steering angle of steering shaft of vehicle with wheels

A vehicle includes an instrument panel reinforcement that extends in a vehicle width direction inside an instrument panel, a steering wheel located behind the instrument panel reinforcement, and an air duct that is disposed inside the instrument panel and passes between the instrument panel reinforcement and the steering wheel.

Vehicle

A magnetic sensor includes a magnetic sensing device, a sensor housing and a pair of magnetic flux guide members. The sensor housing includes a base body and a flange. The base body holds the magnetic sensing device at one end portion of the base body. The flange is fixed to the base body and is configured to be placed in contact with a receiving wall that receives a first magnetic circuit portion and a second magnetic circuit portion. The flange is made of a material having a higher rigidity than the base body.

Magnetic sensor, torque sensing device and steering apparatus

A sensor housing has a receiving recess at one end portion of the sensor housing located at one end of the sensor housing. The one end portion of the sensor housing faces first and second magnetic circuit portions. A circuit board is received in the receiving recess and has an opening, a front-side region and a rear-side region. The front-side region is located on a side of the opening where the one end of the sensor housing is placed. The rear-side region is located on an opposite side of the opening. A main body of a magnetic sensing device overlaps the opening such that terminals projecting from one of a pair of side walls of the main body are located at the front-side region, and terminals projecting from another one of the pair of side walls is located at the rear-side region.

Magnetic sensor and torque sensing device having the same

A magnetic detection module is provided so as to be selectively mountable in any of housings having a plurality of specifications having different shapes or sizes of mounting portions, and detects magnetic flux generated in the housing. The magnetic detection module includes one or more magnetic sensors that detect magnetic flux, a case in which the magnetic sensors are housed, and a cap that can be attached to an end of the case and is provided with a sealing member. The magnetic detection module can be attached to the housing of the first specification with the cap not attached to the case, and can be attached to the housing of the second specification through a sealing member with the cap attached to the case.

Detection device

An instrument panel mounted on a vehicle and covering an airbag may include: a panel body including a first slit at a position opposing the airbag; a decorative sheet constituted of at least one of cloth and leather, the decorative sheet covering an area of the panel body including the first slit, and the decorative sheet including at least one second slit arranged along the first slit; and a fastener fastening the decorative sheet on the panel body. The fastener may include: a cover plate covering the at least one second slit; and at least one anchor extending from a back surface of the cover plate and passing through the first slit and the at least one second slit, the at least one anchor being fixed to the panel body.

Instrument panel

Magnetic detection module, detection device, case assembly, and production method for magnetic detection module

A torsion bar of a torque detection device converts torque applied between an input shaft and an output shaft to a torsional displacement. A pair of yokes is secured to the output shaft, and forms a magnetic circuit in a magnetic field of a multipolar magnet secured to the input shaft. A magnetic flux guide member has a main body facing the yoke to guide magnetic flux of the magnetic circuit. A magnetic sensor is placed at an extension, and detects magnetic flux guided by the magnetic flux guide member. The magnetic flux guide member is configured to allow magnetic permeance per unit area between the magnetic flux guide member and the yoke to be greater at a location in the main body from which the extension is branched, than at a circumferential end portion of the main body.

Torque detection device and magnetic sensor module

A vehicle lower portion structure is provided with electromagnetic wave emitting components that are disposed at a rear surface side of a floor panel provided in a lower portion of a vehicle, and a carpet component that has a backing layer in which is dispersed a magnetic material, and a carpet pile that is provided on a front surface side of the backing layer, and that is disposed at a front surface side of the floor panel.

Vehicle lower portion structure

A vehicle pillar structure is provided including a pillar frame that configures framework of a pillar and that includes a flange portion configuring an attachment counterpart for a weather strip at a vehicle front-rear direction rear end portion of the pillar frame, a garnish that is attached to a vehicle width direction inner side of the pillar frame and that configures a styling face of a vehicle cabin interior, and plural ribs that are integrally formed to a face of the garnish on the pillar frame side, that are supported by the flange portion through the weather strip, and that are arrayed in a pillar length direction.

Vehicle pillar structure

A torque detection device includes a first magnetic circuit part, a second magnetic circuit part, a circuit board module, and a sensor housing. The first magnetic circuit part is disposed on one side of a multipolar magnet in an axial direction. The second magnetic circuit part is disposed on the other side of the multipolar magnet in the axial direction. The circuit board module includes plural magnetic sensors mounted thereon and facing the magnetic circuit on one end side in a width direction being included in the plane and intersecting the arrangement direction. The sensor housing is coupled to one end side in the arrangement direction of the circuit board module so as to support the circuit board module on the one end side in the arrangement direction of the circuit board module.

Torque detection device and sensor module

A torque detecting device detects a torsional torque between a first shaft and a second shaft based on a torsional displacement of a resilient member linking the first shaft and the second shaft coaxially. The torque detecting device is provided with: a magnet fixed to the first shaft; a first yoke fixed to the second shaft and arranged to be rotatable with respect to the magnet; a second yoke fixed to the second shaft and arranged to be rotatable together with the first yoke with respect to the magnet; a magnetic flux collector which collects magnetic flux; and a magnetic sensor which detects magnetic flux density. The magnetic flux collector is located to face both the first yoke and the second yoke. The magnetic sensor is located between the first yoke, from among the first yoke and the second yoke, and the magnetic flux collector, and detects the magnetic flux density between the first yoke and the magnetic flux collector.

Torque detecting device

A torque sensor is provided with a torsion bar which converts torque applied between a first shaft and a second shaft into a torsional displacement. A multipole magnet is fixed to one end side of either the first shaft or the torsion bar and in which N poles and S poles are magnetized alternately in a circumferential direction. A plurality of first yokes is provided in the circumferential direction on a radially outer side of the multipole magnet. A plurality of second yokes is provided in the circumferential direction on the radially outer side of the multipole magnet in such a way that each second yoke is sandwiched between two first yokes. A set of magnetic flux collecting members includes a first main body portion and a second main body portion, and forms a magnetic circuit in conjunction with the plurality of first yokes and the plurality of second yokes in a magnetic field generated by the multipole magnet. A magnetic sensor is provided radially outside the first main body portion and the second main body portion to detect a magnetic flux density generated in the magnetic circuit.

Torque sensor

A torque sensor includes: a torsion bar coaxially connecting a first shaft and a second shaft; a multipole magnet; a pair of magnetic yokes; and a magnetic sensor capable of detecting a density of magnetic flux formed by the pair of the magnetic yokes and having an inner magnetosensitive surface facing inward in a radial direction and an outer magnetosensitive surface facing outward in the radial direction when viewed along a central axis of the torsion bar. The torque sensor includes: a magnetic flux guiding member capable of magnetically coupling the magnetic yoke and the outer magnetosensitive surface of the magnetic sensor; and a water blocking portion capable of housing the magnetic sensor and the magnetic flux guiding member to restrict the magnetic sensor from coming into contact with water.

A torque detector detects a torsional torque between a first shaft and a second shaft based on a torsional displacement of an elastic member coaxially connecting the first shaft and the second shaft. The torque detector includes a magnetic flux generation unit and a magnetic sensor. The magnetic flux generation unit rotates with rotation of the first shaft and includes a first pole and a second pole into and out of which lines of magnetic force enter and exit. The magnetic sensor rotates with rotation of the second shaft and includes a detection surface for detecting a magnetic flux or a magnetic flux density. The first pole and the second pole are arranged to face each other across the magnetic sensor.

Magnetic torque detector

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Nishio, Japan

Ken Tanaka