Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Fujitsu Ten Limited

Hitachi Cable, Inc.

Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Toyota Jidoshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Motomi Iyoda

Yujiro Miyata

Katsuji Imai

Tomoki Nagao

Hiroyuki Takahashi

Ryotaro Kachu

Koichi Fujita

Akira Suzuki

Hisateru Asanuma

Tomoya Kawasaki

Jun Tsunekawa

Yukio Nakagawa

Tatsuhiro Okawa

Fumitoshi Akaike

Koichi Hirota

Takao Akatsuka

Yusuke Mase

Kiyoka Matsubayashi

Koichi Sugiyama

Takashi Inamoto

Shigenori Kobayashi

Masuji Oshima

Hiromichi Fujishima

Yasuyuki Hishida

Takahiro Saito

Masahito Muto

Toshiaki Ota

Koji Ohtaka

Tomokazu Sakaguchi

Masahiro Sakaguchi

Koji Ito

Yoshiyuki Hattori

Tomiya Abe

Morio Sakai

Makoto Sekizuka

Tetsuya Takafuji

Koji Aoki

Masahito Imai

Masaki Mori

Tiaki Mizuno

Seiya Ide

Seiya Nishimura

Toshitaka Yamada

Masao Sakurai

Takashi Kojima

Kenichi Ohue

Mitsuhiko Masegi

Toshio Hosokawa

Sotaro Narita

Akira Kondo

Toshiaki Matsuhashi

Takaya Aiyama

Kyojiro Suzuki

Yoshikazu Ohno

Hiroyoshi Takeuchi

Takumi Moriuchi

Masami Aga

Shuichi Ishimoto

Shunichi Katsumata

Hideyuki Usui

Masahito Mutoh

Motoharu Naitou

Yoshihiko Teguri

Naoki Ishii

Tatsuhiro Ookawa

Imai Katsuji

Hirohito Sioya

Suguru Taniguchi

Manabu Tsuruta

Yuujiro Obata

Yukihito Okada

Motohide Kinoshita

Naoki Ikuta

Satoru Okada

Haruyuki Ikeo

An information collection system includes an on-vehicle device and a server, wherein the on-vehicle device includes a first transmission signal transmitting part configured to transmit a first transmission signal to the server when the vehicle event is detected, and an upload executing part configured to transmit the vehicle event data to the server when the upload demand is received. The server includes a determining part configured to determine, based on the determination purposes information, when the first transmission is received, whether the information acquisition condition is met, an upload demanding part configured to transmit the upload demand to the on-vehicle device when it is determined that the information acquisition condition is met, and a vehicle event data receiving part configured to receive the vehicle event data transmitted from the on-vehicle device.

Information collection system, on-vehicle device and server

A collision detection apparatus that is mounted in a vehicle and that determines whether an object has collided with a side surface of the vehicle from outside the vehicle includes: an acceleration detection portion that detects acceleration in a transverse direction of the vehicle which is applied to a door portion of the vehicle from outside; an integration execution portion that starts integration of the acceleration detected by the acceleration detection portion and finds velocity by integrating the acceleration if the detected acceleration is greater than or equal to a pre-set positive first threshold value, or is less than or equal to a pre-set negative second threshold value; and a collision determination portion that determines whether an object has collided with a side surface of the vehicle based on the detected acceleration and the velocity found by the integration execution portion.

Collision detection apparatus, collision determination method, and activation control apparatus for occupant protection apparatus

A collision determination device for determining a collision occurrence against a door part of a vehicle has: a door acceleration detector that detects an acceleration generated on the door part of the vehicle and a direction of the acceleration; and a collision determination part that determines that a collision has occurred against the door part from the outside, when the direction of the acceleration detected by the door acceleration detector is a closing direction of the door part, and determines that no collision has occurred against the door part from the outside, when the direction of the acceleration detected by the door acceleration detector is an opening direction of the door part.

Collision determination device, collision determination method, and occupant protection device

A pressure sensor, which detects a pressure in a space close to an inner side of an exterior member of a vehicle, and an occupant protecting device, which protects an occupant inside a vehicle are provided. An electronic control unit determines an occurrence of collision in the case where the pressure and a change per unit time of the pressure each satisfy a collision condition, and then makes the occupant protecting device operate. At this time, the collision condition is set to restrict the determination indicative of an occurrence of collision unless the change per unit time of the pressure is larger with lowering the pressure.

Collision sensing device and occupant protecting system

In a passenger protection device, an object detection unit detects a relative position of an object in a circumference of a vehicle to the vehicle. A side collision prediction unit predicts that the object is about to collide with a side face of the vehicle, based on the relative position detected by the object detection unit. An impact detection unit detects an impact of the object on the vehicle side face. A side collision judgment unit determines whether the object has collided with the vehicle side face, based on the impact detected by the impact detection unit. A passenger protection unit protects a passenger in the vehicle. When the side collision prediction unit predicts that the object is about to collide with the vehicle side face and the side collision judgment unit determines that the object has collided with the vehicle side face, the passenger protection unit is initiated.

Passenger protection device

A vehicle occupant protection apparatus includes a first collision detection mechanism provided for a vehicle and that detects a collision of the vehicle; a second collision detection mechanism provided closer to a middle of the vehicle than the first collision detection mechanism and that detects a collision of the vehicle; a first protection mechanism that protects an occupant from a collision of the vehicle; a controller that activates the first protection mechanism at the time when the first and second collision detection mechanisms detect a collision of the vehicle; and a collision prediction mechanism that predicts a collision of the vehicle. Every time the collision prediction mechanism predicts a collision of the vehicle in a direction from the first collision detection mechanism toward the middle of the vehicle, the controller activates the first protection mechanism at the time when the first collision detection mechanism detects the collision of the vehicle.

Vehicle occupant protection apparatus

A reflected wave that a transmitted wave is reflected by targets including a stationary target and a moving target is received as receiving signals of at least two reception antennas. A phase difference between beat signals at respective peak frequencies, generated from a transmitting signal and the receiving signals, is calculated. Directions of the targets are calculated in such a manner that the calculated phase difference of the targets is stored in a storage area in advance, it is predicted whether peak frequencies of the plurality of targets overlap each other, a predicted phase difference of the stationary target at the time when the peak frequencies overlap each other is calculated on the basis of the stored phase difference, and a predicted phase difference of the moving target is calculated on the basis of the calculated phase difference and the predicted phase difference of the stationary target.

Radar system and direction detecting method

A vehicular data recording apparatus includes crash detection portion () for detecting a crash of a vehicle, and recording process portion () for recording and retaining output data of various vehicle-mounted sensors () mounted in the vehicle, in a non-volatile memory (). If a crash is detected by the crash detection portion (), a data recording/retaining process relevant to the crash is performed by the recording process portion. If a plurality of crashes different in the crash form are detected continually in a short time by the crash detection portion, the recording process portion performs the data recording/retaining process relevant to each crash in accordance with a predetermined order of priority based on the crash form of each crash.

Vehicular data recording apparatus

A radar device has a plurality of receiving antennas which receive, as a reception wave, a radar wave sent in a predetermined reference direction and reflected by a target; a phase difference detection unit which detects a first phase difference of the reception wave received by a first receiving antenna pair that is spaced by a first gap, and a second phase difference of the reception wave received by a second receiving antenna pair that is spaced by a second gap smaller than the first gap; and an angle detection unit which performs a first process of determining, as a detection angle, an angle of the target relative to the reference direction being a mutually coincident angle from among a plurality of first angles corresponding to the first phase difference and a plurality of second angles corresponding to the second phase difference. The radar device allows expanding an angle detection range without reducing the resolution of the angle corresponding to the second phase difference.

Radar device and target angle detection method

When moving a head rest front portion in a full-open position direction, an ECU determines that the head rest front portion comes close to an occupant head portion on the basis of a detection result of an electrostatic capacitance sensor so as to stop the head rest front portion, and determines that the head rest front portion comes close to the occupant head portion on the basis of an absolute capacitance change with respect to a reference electrostatic capacitance value of the electrostatic capacitance sensor. Alternatively, the ECU determines that the head rest front portion comes close to the occupant head portion on the basis of a change amount of the electrostatic capacitance value of the electrostatic capacitance sensor.

Head rest device for vehicle

A collision detection device is provided with a load detection memberfor detecting a collision load in a collision, and a mold memberwhich is molded to be integral with the load detection memberThe mold membercovers at least the surface of a collision side of the load detection memberto absorb at least a part of impact energy in the collision by a resilient deformation of the mold memberThus, the collision detection device is substantially resistant to an impact in the collision, while being simply manufactured.

Collision detection device and method of manufacturing the same

A target position is estimated in such a manner to maintain target position continuity, with high accuracy, even when the X coordinate displacement of the target is large. On a scan in which the target position is not detected, when a trajectory of the target in the past is within a predetermined region in the vicinity of the Y-axis, a position for estimate is a position having an X coordinate resulting from shifting, by a first displacement, the X coordinate estimated according to the trajectory, on a basis of the X coordinate of a previous position, while when the trajectory is not within the predetermined region, the position for estimate is a position having an X coordinate resulting from shifting, by a second displacement that is larger than the first displacement, the X coordinate estimated according to the trajectory, on a basis of the X coordinate of a previous position.

Radar device and target detection method

A vehicle occupant protection device comprising a headrest configured to be movable forward with respect to a vehicle, and an actuator configured to implement the forward movement is disclosed. The device is configured to protect a vehicle occupant by operating the actuator to move the headrest forward in a pre-crash stage in the course of an object crashing into the vehicle from backside of the vehicle. The headrest is provided with an electrical capacitance sensor. The device is configured to control an amount of the forward movement of the headrest according to a variation manner of electrical capacitance, which electrical capacitance is detected by the electrical capacitance sensor when the headrest moves forward.

Occupant protection device

A colliding object determination device for a vehicle having a bumper reinforcement member () includes a sensor () and a determination circuit (). The sensor () is located in a front portion of a vehicle for measuring a collision state quantity correlating with a collision load generated in a collision of a colliding body with the vehicle. The determination circuit () determines whether the colliding body is a pedestrian based on the measured collision state quantity. The sensor () is located on an upper half region of a front end face of the bumper reinforcement member (). Thus, accuracy of discriminating the pedestrian from other objects can be improved.

Colliding object determination device and collision information detector for vehicle

A head rest device that improves reliability of detecting a head on the basis of a change in capacitance without complicating a wiring structure. A head rest device is provided with a head rest rear portion configured to be supported to a seat back, and a head rest front portion freely moving forward and backward between a fully-closed position coming close to the head rest rear portion and a fully-open position separated from the head rest rear portion. The head rest front portion is moved by an actuator. The head rest front portion has a sensor electrode structured such that its capacitance is changed as a head of an occupant approaches, and an ECU controlling the actuator so as to move the head rest front portion and detecting the approach of the head of the occupant on the basis of a change of the capacitance of the sensor electrode thereon.

Head rest device

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Seto, Japan

Motomi Iyoda