Fujitsu Corporation

Shiroki Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Tachibana Eletech Co., Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Yazaki Corporation

Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

Nissan North America, Inc.

Masayuki Kato

Hirokazu Aritake

Manabu Ishimoto

Noriko Sato

Masato Nakashima

Fumio Yamagishi

Hiroyuki Ikeda

Akio Sugama

Koji Tsukamoto

Masatoshi Ishii

Takefumi Inagaki

Minoru Tanaka

Yasuo Yamagishi

Tsuyoshi Aoki

Takao Koba

Hiroki Nishida

Kazushi Hirose

Yoshihiro Fujimura

Satoshi Maeda

Motoyuki Nishizawa

Tsuyoshi Matsumoto

Takashi Inoue

Satoshi Inoue

Tomohisa Shingai

Junji Tomita

Shigenori Aoki

Hiroyasu Ito

Akira Iwaishi

Shinya Sasaki

Shin-ya Hasegawa

Shunji Kitagawa

Yukiko Ikarashi

Kozo Yamazaki

Kenji Kato

Kishio Yokouchi

Takashi Shinzaki

Daisuke Mizutani

Aiichiro Inoue

Toshiyuki Ichikawa

Iwao Yamazaki

Masateru Koide

Shin Eguchi

Yuji Yoshida

Jun Kodama

Hideo Yamashita

Tomoyuki Akahoshi

Masao Suzuki

Nawalage Florence Cooray

Kazuyuki Imamura

Seiji Ueno

Seigo Igaki

Ichiro Sebata

Mamoru Kurashina

David Coakley

Masaya Sugita

Koichi Oikawa

Kazuki Ogawa

Jordan Renn

Kaneyuki Kurokawa

Shuichi Okada

Toshiaki Fujiwara

Yasutsune Terashima

Syu Hashimoto

Masahiro Nagai

Akihiko Ueda

Hirokuni Monzen

Hirokazu Arikate

Koichi Takoa

Naoki Sumiya

Ryosuke Yabu

Isao Mizobuchi

Shin-Ya Hasegawa

A vehicle frame structure has a front side member that extends forward from a dashwall. An engine cradle is attached to the front side member with a lateral side portion of the engine cradle being located beneath and spaced apart from a lower surface of the front side member. An engine is installed to the engine cradle with a portion of the engine extending upward from the engine cradle adjacent to the inboard surface of the front side member. An inboard push structure has an inboard surface, an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion is attached to an inboard surface of the front side member. The lower portion extends downward below a lower surface of the front side member. The inboard surface faces the engine proximate the lateral portion of the lateral side portion of the engine cradle.

Vehicle front end assembly

A contact detection apparatus that allows faster detection and a pinch prevention apparatus equipped with such a detection apparatus are provided. The contact detection apparatus includes a first electrode () made of a flexible conductive material and extending throughout a contact detection range, a second electrode () apart from the first electrode and extending on the back side of the first electrode, and detection means for detecting contact of an object with the first electrode based on the capacitance of the first electrode. The first electrode is made of a conductive resin containing an embedded conductor.

Contact detection apparatus and pinch prevention apparatus

A multi-chip module includes: a board; a wiring board disposed on the board and including a wiring pattern; and a plurality of chips disposed on the wiring board. Each of the plurality of chips is connected with at least one of the other chips, and the plurality of chips and the board are electrically connected with each other via a portion other than the wiring pattern of the wiring board.

Multi-chip module

An opening/closing control method for a window regulator, which is a method of performing opening/closing control with a pinching prevention function while determining a detection signal from a sensor based on a threshold value. The method includes setting the threshold value as a value offset from a reference value for control, and updating the reference value in correspondence to a value of the detection signal from the sensor in an initial stage of control, and each time when the value of the detection signal from the sensor continuously changes in a certain time within a range where the value of the detection signal from the sensor does not exceed the threshold value, the reference value is modified by a value corresponding to such a changed value.

Safety device for power window, opening/closing control method and plate-glass processing method

It is intended to realize a signal input method which makes it possible to add another method to an existing method later in a simple manner as well as an opening/closing controller which employs two methods and can be constructed by adding another method to an existing method in a simple manner. A signal processing circuit () is inserted in an auto signal path of a control circuit () which performs opening/closing control with a pinch preventing function on the basis of an auto signal (AUTO), a close signal (UP), and an open signal (DOWN) which are input via respective signal paths. The auto signal and a detection signal of an additional pinch sensor are input to the control circuit via the signal processing circuit in the form of serial signals.

Signal input method and opening/closing controller

A safety device for power window comprises a storage unit for storing the pulse width change rate of continuous pulses detected by a pulse width detector during a window glass raising operation at a reference timing, a calculation unit for calculating the pulse width change rate of continuous pulses detected by the pulse width detector during a window glass raising operation at an operational timing and a control unit for comparing the stored value of a pulse width change rate with the calculated value of a pulse width change rate and driving a motor for raising/lowering window glass in a window opening direction when a total of differences between the both pulse change rates exceeds an allowable value.

Safety device for power window

An optical module includes a substrate, one or a plurality of planar optical devices mounted on the substrate, and a waveguide block including one or a plurality of curved waveguides formed on a plane. The waveguide block is mounted on the substrate such that the plane on which the curved waveguides are formed is perpendicular to the substrate and the curved waveguides and an incidence face or an emitting face of the planar optical device are opposed to each other on one end face of the waveguide block. Further, the waveguide block is configured so that an optical fiber can be connected to the other end face of the waveguide block which is orthogonal to the one end face.

Optical module, optical transmission system, and fabrication method for optical module

In a semiconductor chip module, a transmission optical waveguide device to be mounted in the proximity of the side face of a semiconductor chip on a circuit board includes an input optical waveguide to which light from an external light source is inputted, an output optical waveguide provided at a position displaced in a vertical direction to the surface of the circuit board in a mounted state on the circuit with respect to the input optical waveguide for outputting an optical signal to a different device, an optical path changeover structure for guiding light guided through the input optical waveguide to the output optical waveguide, and an optical modulator provided on the input optical waveguide or the output optical waveguide for modulating light from the external light source based on an electric signal from the semiconductor chip.

Semiconductor chip module

An apparatus for controlling outputting of web data including: a receiving section () for receiving direction information of a direction to output web data, which direction information has been issued by a user; a web data obtaining section () for obtaining the web data that is processed into a web page which the user wishes to output on the basis of said direction information received in said receiving section (); an output data creating section () for creating output data by extracting beneficial web data that is of benefit to the user from the obtained web data; and an output controlling section () for controlling the output device () to output the output data created by said output data creating section. With this apparatus for controlling outputting of web data, when web data processed into a web page provided on the Internet is to be output from the output device, it is possible for a user to obtain the output data in the convenient form to the user.

Apparatus for controlling outputting of web data and method for outputting web data

An optical waveguide structure capable of optically coupling a surface type optical device, such as a surface emitting laser diode or a photodiode, and a transmission medium, such as an optical fiber, located so that their light output surface and light input surface will form an angle of about 90&#xb0; with each other simply and easily. The optical waveguide structure comprises a first clad section having a curved surface for gradually turning the direction in which light travels almost squarely and a groove formed in the curved surface along the direction in which light travels, a core section which is made from a transparent material with a refractive index higher than the refractive index of the first clad section and with which the groove is filled in, and a second clad section which covers an exposed surface of the core section and the curved surface of the first clad section and which is integrated with the first clad section.

Optical waveguide structure and optical module

An optical transceiver module for transmission or receipt of optical signals to and from an external optical path has a frame body having a structure for determining the position thereof relative to the external optical path, a substrate for mounting the optical elements thereon, and a light transmission window having a light guiding structure in light transmission direction in correspondence with the optical elements and the external optical path. The optical elements are formed so as to be sealed by the substrate, frame body, and light transmission window, and the frame body is formed so that the position thereof can be adjusted by fine moving the substrate and the light transmission window.

Optical transmission module and manufacturing method therefor

An optoelectronic component is mounted at a precise position on a waveguide substrate so as to reduce loss in propagating light, and electrically connect electrodes on the waveguide substrate and the optoelectronic component. The waveguide substrate has an optical waveguide and a recessed portion for mounting the optoelectronic component, and electrodes are arranged on the recessed portion. A great number of globular elastic conductive particles are distributed on the bottom surface of the recessed portion. Thereafter, the optoelectronic component is placed in the recessed portion so as to press the globular elastic conductive particles, and alignment between the optical waveguide in the waveguide substrate and an optical waveguide in the optoelectronic component is adjusted. Then, the optoelectronic component is fixed to the waveguide substrate with an optical adhesive while the alignment is precisely adjusted.

Method for production of optical module and optical module

An optical waveguide and a first lens are formed on an underlying surface. The optical waveguide guides light along a first direction. The first lens is continuous with one end of the waveguide and converges light radiated from the end plane of the optical waveguide and diverging along directions parallel to the underlying surface. A second lens converges light transmitted through the first lens and diverging along directions perpendicular to the underlying surface. A support member supports the first and second lenses. It is possible to prevent a shift of positions of the optical waveguide and lens to be caused by a temperature change and to prevent a light coupling efficiency from being lowered.

Optical transmission device with optical waveguide coupled to optical device

An optical element comprising a transparent bodyincluding a first end facea second end faceforming a prescribed angle to the first end face; and a third end facehaving a plurality of light reflection partsformed on, which respectively reflect a plurality of light signals entering one of the first end face and the second end face to cause to exit at the other of the first end face and the second end face, a pitch of the plurality of light reflecting parts formed on the third end face, which are projected on the first end face being a first pitch, and a pitch of the plurality of light reflecting parts formed on the third end face, which are projected on the second end face being a second pitch which is different from the first pitch. The light emitting element array, etc. including the light emitting elements, etc. arranged at the first pitch in an array, and the optical waveguide array including the optical waveguides arranged at the second pitch in an array can be easily connected optically with each other.

Optical element, optical transmission unit and optical transmission system

An optical wiring substrate provides a slab optical waveguide having a refractive index different from a refractive index of other surrounding portions and a planar convex lens being provided continuously to a tip portion of an optical path of an optical wave guide including a core and cladding and formed on a substrate. The optical path of light passing through the planar convex lens is converted approximately by 90&#xb0; with a mirror. The light reflected with the mirror is made as parallel light rays by use of a cylindrical lens.

Optical wiring substrate, method of manufacturing optical wiring substrate and multilayer optical wiring

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Masayuki Kato