Nippon Soken, Inc.

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Denso Corporation

Nippondenso Soken, Inc.

Koji Numata

Muneaki Matsumoto

Akira Kuno

Yuji Sugimoto

Toshihiro Hattori

Toru Yamazaki

Masaaki Hisada

Syuichi Kono

Susumu Urano

Hiroaki Tanaka

Shigeyuki Akita

Minoru Nishida

Hajime Akado

Yoshiyuki Kago

Kazutoshi Nishizawa

Masaei Nozawa

Mitsuhiko Masegi

Fumio Asakura

Yasushi Hayashi

Takahiro Shibakawa

Yoko Ichikawa

Hideharu Kato

Toru Denso Corporation Yamazaki

An on-vehicle film antenna is constructed with a loop antenna and a monopole antenna and attached to a vehicle windshield. The loop antenna has a first element set in length to correspond to a first radio wave of a first frequency band. One end of the first element is connected to a power supply near a border section between a vehicle chassis and the vehicle windshield, and the other end of the first element is connected to the vehicle chassis. The monopole antenna has a second element set in length to correspond to a second radio wave of a second frequency band. One end of the second element is connected to the power supply near the border section in common with the one end of the first element, and the other end of the second element is disconnected from the vehicle chassis.

On-vehicle film antenna

An antenna is mounted in a vehicle for receiving a radio wave of a specified wavelength, and an electronic device such as a meter device is mounted in the vehicle. The electronic device tends to generate radiation noise when being operated. To reduce reception of the radiation noise by the antenna, a passive conductor element is located between the antenna and the electronic device to reflect a part of the radiation noise. The passive element is away from the electronic device by a distance that is about multiple times of one-quarter of the specified wavelength and is about multiple times of one-half of the specified wavelength in length.

Noise reception reducing arrangement

In a mobile antenna, an electrically conductive antenna element has a first portion with one end and the other end extending therefrom. The one end of the first portion is arranged at least adjacent to any one of a first support portion, a second support portion, and a corner portion of a body of a vehicle. The one end of the first portion is electrically connected to a feeding point. The other end of the first portion is arranged along a surface of the window such that polarized surfaces formed by the antenna element are non-orthogonal to a polarized surface of each of a vertically polarized wave and a horizontally polarized wave in radio waves.

Mobile antenna mounted on a vehicle body

A temperature measuring apparatus measures the temperature of a medium according to the propagation time of ultrasonic waves propagated for a predetermined distance through the medium. The apparatus has a transmitter 11, 12 for transmitting ultrasonic waves having a fixed frequency at predetermined timing and a receiver 13, 14, 15 for receiving the ultrasonic waves and providing a received signal. A delay time detector 24 detects, in response to the received signal, a delay time between the transmission and reception of the ultrasonic waves and a wave number calculator 21 calculates an integral wave number according to the delay time and a period of the ultrasonic waves. A phase difference detector 25 detects a phase difference between the transmitted and received ultrasonic waves modulating the received signal with a frequency that is sufficiently higher than the frequency of the ultrasonic waves. An operation unit 21 calculates the propagation time of the ultrasonic waves according to the wave number and phase difference, and according to the propagation time, the temperature of the medium. This apparatus has a wide range of measurable temperatures, and is capable of precisely measuring the temperature of a wide area of a medium.

Ultrasonic temperature measuring apparatus

A device for detecting a transmissivity of a substance utilizing a transmitted light value, which comprises a light emitting element and a photo detecting element. The light emitting element and the photo detecting element are spaced from each other at a predetermined distance so that a transmitted light value of a substance passing through the space is detected as an amount of light transmitted therethrough. The photo detecting element further comprises a photo oscillator circuit including the photo detecting element as one component thereof and outputs a signal having characteristics selected from a cycle and a frequency corresponding to the transmitted light value, and when the condition of a substance exceeds a predetermined reference level, such information is displayed at a display unit. Further, the device carries out a detecting and discriminating operation when a temperature of a substance is at a level lower than a maximum temperature at which each component of the detecting circuit will not work effectively. The device is also provided with a detecting unit in which the light emitting element and the photo detecting element are kept firmly in contact with each other, with a spacer placed therebetween, by an external force caused by a spring, to make the space provided therebetween constant regardless of any deformation of any component of the device caused by heat or aging.

Device for detecting a transmissivity of a substance

In an apparatus for controlling a headlight of a vehicle, a light from a preceding or oncoming vehicle can be detected without being disturbed by a light reflected on guardrails and the like, or light from a traffic signal, street lights and the like, and the illumination area of the headlight can be suitably adjusted without unnecessary switching of an illumination mode of the headlight. This control is carried out by receiving a light impinging on the front end of the vehicle by a light receiving member divided into a plurality of regions, by carrying out a comparison and discrimination between the light detection signals from the plurality of regions, and based on a result thereof, by selecting an appropriate illumination mode of the headlight.

Apparatus for controlling a headlight of a vehicle

A direction detecting system comprises a geomagnetic field sensor for detecting the direction of the earth magnetism by two perpendicular components and a computing circuit for computing a direction and producing a direction signal from the electrical signals associated with the two perpendicular components from the geomagnetic field sensor. The computing circuit detects maximum values of distortions according to the distortion characteristics of the electrical signals associated with the two perpendicular components from the geomagnetic field sensor. Distortion amounts are computed and stored by the maximum distortion values and are used to correct the electrical signals from the geomagnetic field sensor.

Direction detecting system for vehicles

A method for displaying positional relation between the present running position of an automobile and a destination, on the basis of the wheel rotation signals generated by detecting rotation of left and right wheels of the automobile, setting signals selected at a starting position to represent a distance to the destination from the starting position and a direction of the destination from the starting point, and a direction signal indicating a running direction of the automobile.

Method and apparatus for display of distance and direction to destination

A device for displaying information concerning the travel route of an automobile vehicle includes a calculation unit for continuously monitoring the changes in the travel direction of the vehicle on the basis of the direction detected by the direction detection unit, and successively storing change signals corresponding to the amount of change in the travel direction of the vehicle, when the amount of change in the vehicle direction exceeds a predetermined amount, and a distance signal corresponding to the change signal, on the outward travel route, and generating a travel direction signal approximately at a predetermined distance on the basis of the stored change signal and the stored distance signal, on the return travel route. The vehicle travel direction, the distance, and the direction toward the destination or the starting point, and the distance toward a vehicle travel direction change point are displayed on fluorescent indicator tubes.

Automobile route information display

A vehicle turn angle detecting device calculates an average value .DELTA..phi. of steering wheel rotation angle at every unit time together with a travelled distance .DELTA.L. And this device calculates a vehicle turn angle .DELTA..theta. at every unit time by using the equation shown below. By adding the calculated turn angles .DELTA..theta., the vehicle running direction to the standard direction can be detected.

Vehicle turn angle detecting device

A device for indicating information on the return route for an automotive vehicle includes a memory and control portion for successively storing the detected direction signals and the detected distance signals on the route to a destination and successively generating indication signals to the extent of a predetermined distance in the forward direction on the return route on the basis of the stored detected direction signals and the distance signals. The device also includes a circuit for correcting the difference between the distance of the vehicle travel on the route to the destination and the return route, so that the correct indication of information of the return route is displayed on a display device such as a CRT.

Return route indication device for automotive vehicles

A device and method for detecting the running direction of an automotive vehicle includes terrestrial magnetic field direction detection, vehicle steering angle detection, and response to the signals of these detectors for producing the vehicle running direction signal. In a computer, or equivalent circuitry, occurrence of abnormalities of the terrestrial magnetic field is decided when the relationship between the change in the vehicle running direction and the change in the steering angle does not satisfy a predetermined requirement.

Direction detection for a vehicle

A heading detecting apparatus of the type which is installed in a roof of a vehicle including a magnetic member (a steel body) capable of having a remanence and includes a heading sensor positioned near the magnetic member, whereby the apparatus detects the terrestrial magnetism and thereby detects the forward heading of the moving objects the apparatus includes a permeability member positioned between the magnetic member and the heading sensor so as to reduce the effect of the remanence of the magnetic member on the detection of the terrestrial magnetism by the heading sensor.

Heading detecting apparatus

A heading detecting apparatus is attached to a moving object and includes a geomagnetic field sensor for detecting the direction of the earth's magnetic field in terms of orthogonal first and second signals and a computing circuit responsive to orthogonal first and second electric signals from the geomagnetic field sensor. In the computing circuit, when any one of the orthogonal first and second electric signals from the geomagnetic field sensor is a predetermined value, the value of the other electric signal is detected so that in accordance with the detected value an offset value is computed and stored, and the electric signals from the geomagnetic field sensor is corrected in accordance with the offset values.

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Koji Numata