Tokai Corporation

Yazaki Corporation

Other

Masaki Saito

Toshihiro Ichikawa

Shinichi Okamoto

Tsutomu Shike

Toshihiko Eguchi

Kentaro Otomo

Atsushi Ishibashi

Yu Kawahara

Toshinori Morishita

Yoshiyuki Furuya

Naoto Ishikawa

Koji Ishii

Yosimitu Kaga

Antony Wambugu Ngahu

Kenjiro Uematsu

Yurie Takayama

In a vehicle control system, when an occupant visually recognizes a signboard and signboard course information is included in signboard information corresponding to the signboard, the signboard information is displayed on a display device. When the signboard course information out of the signboard information is visually recognized continuously, a control device generates course information based on the signboard course information. The generated course information is output to a vehicle control ECU, and course change processing based on the course information is performed by the vehicle control ECU.

Vehicle control system

A control device in a vehicle display system includes: a gazed image display output unit configured to display a normal gazed image in a part of each of main screen areas; a gazed image visual recognition determination unit configured to determine, based on a line-of-sight state, whether an occupant visually recognizes a normal gazed image in one of the main screen areas; and a main screen area selection unit configured to select, based on an input unit, the main screen area corresponding to the normal gazed image determined to be visually recognized by the occupant. Earlier selection display information displayed in an earlier selection main screen area selected earlier by the main screen area selection unit is displayed in a later selection main screen area selected later.

Vehicle display system using gaze interactions with multiple display areas

An in-vehicle monitoring module included in a monitoring system includes a detector, a service operator, a controller, and a housing. The detector detects conditions in an inside of a vehicle. The service operator is provided to the vehicle. The controller can perform processing of determining the type of an event occurring in the inside of the vehicle based on the conditions in the inside of the vehicle detected by the detector, controlling the service operator based on the determined type of the event, and causing the service operator to perform an operation corresponding to the type of the event. The housing is provided with the detector, the service operator, and the controller to serve as a unit and provided on a roof member of the vehicle.

In-vehicle monitoring module and monitoring system

A display system and an in-vehicle system include a display device provided at a vehicle and configured to display a person image indicating a person at a position visible from the outside of the vehicle; and a controller configured to acquire surrounding status information indicating a surrounding status of the vehicle and control the display device based on the acquired surrounding status information, thereby the executing external display processing of displaying the person image. As a result, the display system and the in-vehicle system provide an advantageous effect that easily-understandable displaying can be performed.

Display system and in-vehicle system

A construction for an igniter is provided that enables prevention of accidental ignition without the provision of a separate lock member. An igniter includes an igniter main body (); an expulsion nozzle for expelling gas; a gas tank () for storing fuel; a valve mechanism () for opening and closing a gas channel between the gas tank and the expulsion nozzle; an ignition device () for generating an ignition discharge voltage; and an operating member () for performing the ignition operation. At least one of the valve mechanism () and the ignition device () are provided so as to be movable in the direction that the operating member () is pressed, accompanying a pressing operation of the operating member (). Ignition is enabled by blocking the movement of the movable member from among the valve mechanism () and the ignition device () during the pressing operation of the operating member ().

Ignitor

A gas lighter in which the lighter is locked not to be accidentally ignited by preventing rotation of the side wheel and the lock can be released by an action which can be included in a series of the igniting actions of operating the side wheel to rotate the file wheel to generate a spark and depressing the actuator lever to eject the fuel gas so that even a large-handed person can be easily operate the gas lighter. The ignition means comprises a file wheel, a pair of side wheels fixed to the opposite faces of the file wheel to be rotated integrally therewith and a flint which is in abutment against a lower portion of the file wheel. The rotary shaft of the side wheels are supported for rotation and movement in a direction in which the flint is retracted. An engagement projection formed on the periphery of the side wheels is engaged with an engagement portion on a cap to prevent rotation of the file wheel, thereby locking the lighter not to be ignited. The engagement projection is disengaged from the engagement portion in response to movement of the side wheels in the direction in which the flint is retracted, thereby releasing lock of the lighter.

Gas lighter

The positions of an object on the sideward position of a vehicle are detected at prescribed time intervals. An expected locus of the object is computed on the basis of the positions of the object detected at the prescribed time intervals. An expected locus of the vehicle is also computed. It is determined whether or not there is a danger of collision on the basis of both the expected loci of the object and the vehicle. In this configuration, a periphery monitoring apparatus can be proposed which is capable of determining the danger of collision on the basis of the mutual movements of the vehicle and object.

Periphery monitoring device for motor vehicle and recording medium containing program for determining danger of collision for motor vehicle

A piezoelectric gas lighter includes a lighter body. The fuel gas in the lighter body is supplied to a nozzle through a valve mechanism which is opened and closed by an actuator lever and a piezoelectric unit ignites the fuel gas discharged from the nozzle. A depression member actuates the actuator lever and the piezoelectric unit to open the valve mechanism and ignite the fuel gas discharged from the nozzle in response to depression of the depression controller. The depression member includes a control cap operatively connected to a piezoelectric unit, a stopper member which is movable between a locking position where the control cap is prevented from being depressed and a releasing position where the control cap is permitted to be depressed and an urging member which urges the stopper member to the locking position. The stopper member is provided with a pair of sliding portions extending back and forth on opposite sides of the control cap and the sliding portions are slidably supported by the control cap so that the stopper member is movable downward together with the control cap and movable between the locking position and the releasing position. The urging member includes a pair of resilient pieces provided on opposite sides of the control cap so that they are engaged with the sliding portions of the stopper member to urge the stopper member to the locking position and the stopper member is moved to the releasing position by urging the stopper member toward the control cap.

Piezoelectric gas lighter

An igniting rod which ignites by the operation of an operating member comprises a lock member for locking said operating member during a non-use state. The igniting rod automatically returns to a locked state after ignition. The invention improves operability, simplifies assembly and reduces the number of parts by eliminating an urging member. A lock portion of said lock member, which interferes with a part of said operating member, is disposed such that it is displaceable as said lock member is elastically deformed from a fixed portion where the lock member is fixed to a main body portion. The elastic force returns the lock portion to a locked position. A protruding lock release portion is provided for releasing the lock portion, the lock release portion being provided with a smooth curvature on which a finger F for operating an operating portion of the operating member can simultaneously rest.

Firing rod

A flint-type ignition mechanism comprising a freely rotatable support member; a spark wheel combined with the supporting member so as to be integrally rotatable with same; an elastic member installed around the support member; a thumb wheel having a gear-type inner face installed around the elastic member so that it can idle, the thumb wheel switching between the concentric and eccentric position; and a disk-shaped engaging member which rotates together with the supporting member and has engagement stoppers on the peripheral surface of the exterior circumference thereof for engaging the gear type inner face of the thumb wheel. When the thumb wheel is switched to the eccentric position by a deformation of the elastic member, the stoppers engage together and the spark wheel rotates together with the thumb wheel, causing it to be in the ignite-state. In the ignite-state, rotation of the thumb wheel rotates the spark wheel for ignition.

Ignition mechanism for gas lighter

Igniter

A rubber component for a fire-lighting device to be disposed in a fuel supply passage between a fuel tank and a jetting nozzle for jetting fuel gas, where it is contacted by the fuel gas, is composed of a rubber material not blended with dioctyl phthalate or other plasticizer, thereby preventing obstruction of the fuel supply owing to clogging of the jetting nozzle and the like by DOP or other plasticizer eluted from the rubber component situated in the fuel gas supply passage.

Rubber component for fire-lighting device

A lighting rod is provided with a rod-like top end portion and a main body, the rod-like top end portion being provided with a jetting nozzle for jetting out a gas, the main body being provided with a gas tank, a valve mechanism for opening and closing a path through which the gas is supplied from the gas tank to the jetting nozzle, a piezo-electric unit for generating a discharge voltage for lighting the gas, and an operation member which drives the valve mechanism and the piezo-electric unit in order to carry out a lighting operation. A safety device for the lighting rod includes a locking member which is supported for rotation on the main body to be rotatable between a locking position where it prevents the lighting operation of the operation member and a lock release position where it permits the lighting operation of the operation member, and a spring which urges the locking means toward the locking position.

Safety device in lighting rods

A safety device in a lighting rod comprises a locking member having an engagement section, which interferes with a portion of an operation member and thereby locks the lighting operation of the operation member. The locking member can move in a direction, that intersects with the direction along which the operation member moves. An urging member urges the locking member to a locking direction. The locking member is provided with a lock releasing section, which can be operated in order to move the locking member in a direction, that acts against the urging force of the urging member. The lock releasing section is projected to a position, which stands facing the operating section of the operation member. The lock of the lighting operation is released by operating the lock releasing section of the locking member, and the lighting operation is carried out in this state by operating the operating section of the operation member. The locking member automatically returns to the state of the locking as the operation member returns to its original position.

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Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Masaki Saito