Nippon Soken, Inc.

Masao Kotera

Takeshi Matsui

Matatoyo Hinachi

Yoshiyuki Kago

Kazuo Oishi

Sigeyuki Akita

An apparatus for detecting displacements of existing movable bodies made of ferromagnetic materials and magnetized by external magnetic fields, comprising a magnetic sensor disposed in the vicinity of the movable body for detecting change in the magnetic field caused by the motion of the body, and a processor for converting the outputs of the magnetic sensor into pulse signals.

Apparatus for detecting rotations

A following distance measuring communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver which are mounted on the front part of a following automotive vehicle, a time measuring unit connected to the transmitter and the receiver provided on the following automobile, and an answering transmitter-receiver unit mounted on the rear part of a preceeding vehicle. A pulse modulated signal is transmitted from the transmitter on the following vehicle, and this signal is received by the answering transmitter-receiver unit on the preceeding vehicle. At the instant that the signal is received, the answering transmitter-receiver unit on the preceeding vehicle generates a reply signal which is in turn received by the receiver on the following vehicle. The time required for this process is measured by the time measuring unit connected to the following vehicle receiver to determine the distance between the following vehicle and the preceeding vehicle.

Following distance measuring communication system

A distance measuring apparatus installed in an automobile to measure with a high degree of accuracy a distance between a road surface and the axle of vehicle body of the automobile in motion. With this distance measuring apparatus, the distance between the point of its installation on the automobile and the road surface is measured by transmitting wave signals from the point of installation toward the road surface, selecting only the reflected wave signals of a predetermined intensity from the received reflected wave signals from the road surface and then integrating and averaging the data of the distance to the road surface derived from the selected reflected wave signals.

Automobile distance measuring apparatus

A pulse radar system which is designed for installation on a vehicle. A control pulse generating circuit is triggered by the trailing edge of a transmitting pulse to generate a pulse train consisting of 8 time-divided pulses which in turn are supplied to a distributor. Simultaneously, the echo of the transmitted pulse is demodulated and the resulting signal is applied to the distributor so that depending on which one of the 8 divided pulses corresponds to the applied demodulated signal, the distance to the target is displayed on the corresponding indicator.

Pulse radar method and system

There is provided a relative distance indicating speedometer for a vehicle comprising relative distance detecting means for measuring the relative distance of a vehicle carrying the speedometer with respect to an object such as the vehicle in front, and relative distance indicating means for indicating the measured relative distance in accordance with the output signal of the relative distance detecting means. The relative distance indicating means are arranged in the speedometer which indicates the speed of the vehicle, and therefore the apparatus of this invention is inexpensive to manufacture and simple in construction.

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Okazaki, Japan

Masao Kotera