Mitsuba Corporation

Mitsuhiro Okada

Yasuhiro Orihara

Hideki Kubota

Minori Shoda

Yoshitaka Urano

Tatsuyuki Saito

Naruhito Ogino

Zentaro Yamaguchi

Akihiro Iino

Ryuichi Nakajima

Kei Nagai

Koji Yamauchi

Takabumi Oikawa

Kenta Onodera

Tatsuya Atomura

A first separator that prevents a pair of electrodes from short-circuiting each other is provided on end parts of the pair of electrodes in a longitudinal direction thereof, a first molded resin part that covers the first separator is provided on an end part of an insulation tube in a longitudinal direction thereof, a part of the first separator) on one side in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction and another part of the first separator on the other side in the direction intersecting the longitudinal direction are each exposed to outside. When the first separator is embedded in the first molded resin part through insert molding, the first separator can be supported by a lower mold and an upper mold, portions of the first separator supported by the pair of molds at this time are portions exposed to outside.

Touch sensor unit and manufacturing method thereof

In a touch sensor unit, a bracket body is provided with a first protruding portion which is disposed on a vehicle interior side of a base portion, a gap portion is provided between the first protruding portion and the base portion, the height from the bracket body to the distal end of the first protruding portion is smaller than the height from the bracket body to the sensor portion. Therefore, when the sensor portion and the base portion are elastically deformed by contact with a blockage, the elastically deformed sensor portion and base portion enter the gap portion, thereby preventing the sensor portion and the base portion from being pressed against the corner portion of the bracket without increasing the rigidity of the sensor portion and the base portion.

Touch sensor unit

In a touch sensor unit, since a base portion is provided with a hard resin portion for holding a curved state of a sensor portion deformed in conformity to a curved shape of a door frame of a tail gate, even when the base portion is not fixed to the tail gate, it is possible to hold the curved state of the base portion. Therefore, after the curved base portion is fixed to the tail gate with a double-sided adhesive tape, even if the double-sided adhesive tape is degraded with age, a restoring force of the sensor portion does not remove the double-sided adhesive tape.

Touch sensor unit and method of manufacturing the same

The disclosure makes an insulating component and a sensor bracket to be an integrally molded article, simplifies the manufacturing process and cuts down the cost. A sensor holder and a sensor bracket made of a resin are made to be an integrally molded article, wherein the sensor holder inside which a pair of electrodes are arranged, and the sensor bracket made of a resin which holds the sensor holder and is attached to a tailgate. During an operation of filling a molten resin to a cavity, a part of the sensor holder is melted by the molten resin, and thus integrating the sensor holder and the molten resin, therefore, the two components can be structurally and firmly integrated. Accordingly, a touch sensor unit which endures long-term use can be obtained.

A roller unit includes a base bracket () that supports a slide door, a cable holder () formed integrally with the base bracket () and that holds cable ends (and) of cables (and), and a cable guide () detachably installed at the cable holder () and that guides the cables (and), wherein the cable guide () is formed to separate the cables (and) from the base bracket (), and a load applied to the cable guide () by tensile forces of the cables (and) is received by the cable holder () and the base bracket ().

Roller unit and vehicular opening-closing body driving device

The disclosure provides a touch sensor unit. A conductive component is arranged between a pair of electrodes which are arranged inside an insulating tube, and the conductive component includes: a body section, which extends in a longitudinal direction of the insulating tube; and a convex section, which is arranged on an outer circumference of the body section, extends along the longitudinal direction of the body section, and sinks into the pair of electrodes. Short circuit or non-short circuit and so on of the electrodes can be detected by detecting the resistance value of the conductive component. Merely by inserting the conductive component into one end in the longitudinal direction of the electrodes, the pair of electrodes are electrically connected, and only the convex section sinks into the pair of electrodes, therefore the insertion load of the conductive component can be reduced, and the terminal treatment can be simplified.

First and second bridging portions (and) is disposed so as to form a shock absorbing space () between the sensor accommodating portion () and the fixing portion (), and elastically deformed by external force, and the paired bridging portions (the shock absorbing space ()) is caused to function as a shock absorbing portion (). Furthermore, the sensor accommodating portion () is thinner than each of the bridging portions (and), after the sensor accommodating portion () is elastically deformed and a contact of a blockage is detected, the first and second bridging portions (and) can be elastically deformed to absorb a shock. Therefore, it is possible to significantly reduce a load on the blockage in comparison with the conventional technique. Since the drive unit is reversely driven after shock absorption, it is possible to reduce the load on the drive unit and so forth, and to inhibit the occurrence of inconvenience such as burning.

A pulley apparatus has: a pulley case (CA) disposed on one side of a vehicle body panel () forming part of the vehicle; a pulley () disposed rotatable in the pulley case (CA); and a cable guide disposed in the pulley case (CA), wherein the cable guide is in sliding contact with a cable () which is led into an interior of the vehicle through the vehicle body panel (), and guides the cable () along vehicle body panel () to direct the cable () to the pulley (). As a result, when a load is applied to the cable (), a case body of the pulley case () is pressed against the vehicle body panel (), thereby suppressing rattling noise and vibration of the pulley case (CA).

Pulley apparatus

A hypocycloid reducerfor reducing rotation of a flat motorto output the speed-reduced rotation to a drum is provided between the drum and the flat motor, a rotor shalt memberwhich is rotated with the same rotation number as the flat motoris axially aligned with the drum is provided on the same side as the flat motor. An output rotation bodyfor outputting the speed-reduced rotation is axially aligned with the drum and provided on the same side as the drum. Since the rotor shaft memberand the output rotation bodyare axially aligned with the drum, turning force can be transmitted bi-directionally between the rotor shaft memberand the output rotation body. Therefore, it is possible to eliminate an electromagnetic clutch to reduce the driving apparatus in size and weight, and since wires and control logic of the electromagnetic clutch are not needed for the driving apparatus, the driving apparatus can be reduced in production cost.

Driving apparatus for opening and closing body for vehicle

An opening/closing apparatus for a vehicle, which has a door-lock mechanism, is provided. An output of a motor unit is transmitted to a drum having a planetary gear mechanism, and the slide door of the vehicle is driven by an open-side cable and a close-side cable wound around the drum. A closer cable of the door-lock mechanism is coupled to a carrier of the planetary gear mechanism, and coupled to a latch of the door-lock mechanism via a coupling link. The coupling link is constituted as a toggle mechanism so as to regulate the rotation of the latch by the traction force of the closer cable until the latch is rotated toward a full latch direction from an unlatch position. When the regulation of the latch by the toggle mechanism is released, the latch is rotationally driven toward the full latch direction due to the rotation of the carrier.

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Gunma, Japan

Mitsuhiro Okada