Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nobuo Kondo

Kazukiyo Okada

Masanori Naganoma

Yutaka Okuda

Kunihiko Suzuki

Takashi Tsuchida

Hitoshi Hibi

Tetsuo Fujii

Katsunori Ito

Toshio Shinohara

Eiichi Senda

Nobuyoshi Ohta

A multiple signal transmitting apparatus for automobiles includes a plurality of switches mounted on the steering wheel of an automobile, a multiplexing circuit mounted on the steering wheel for multiplexing the output signals of the switches, at least one light-emitting device mounted on a moving part rotatable together with the steering wheel so as to be arranged on a circumference lying in a plane perpendicular to the central axis of rotation of the steering wheel and concentric with the central axis of rotation to generate a light signal in response to the multiplexed output signal of the multiplexing circuit, at least one light-sensitive device mounted on the surface of the steering wheel bearing portion facing the light-emitting device to receive the light signal from the light-emitting device and generate an output signal, and a decoder circuit mounted on the body portion of the automobile to decode the output signal of the light-sensitive device to generate signals corresponding to the output signals of the switches.

Multiple signal transmitting apparatus for automobiles

A method of and an apparatus for indicating a remaining fuel quantity for vehicles, designed to digitally indicate the quantity of fuel remaining in the fuel tank of a vehicle. The method of and the apparatus for repeating the operations of performing sampling detection of an amount of fuel remaining in the fuel tank of a vehicle, determining a center value for a plurality of remaining fuel quantity values detected by a microcomputer, determining limit values each thereof being apart from the center value by a predetermined amount, using any subsequent detected value exceeding the limit values as a new limit value, computing an average value of a predetermined number of detected sampling values, and indicating it on a display.

Method of and apparatus for indicating remaining fuel quantity for

An automotive abnormality forecasting and warning method and system for issuing a voice and visual alarm when a signal representing the condition of an automotive inspection item exceeds a predetermined value, which comprise steps of calculating the cooling water temperature change rate in variable cycles, determining a calculation cycle corresponding to the detected water temperature and the calculated change rate from a memory storing the cooling water temperature, water-temperature-change rate and calculation cycle in a predetermined relation, judging whether the detected water temperature and the calculated change rate are in a predetermined water overheat region, and issuing a voice alarm on an overheating trend in response to more than a predetermined number of the judging operations.

Method and system for forecasting and warning on automotive abnormalities

A vehicle air conditioner control method and apparatus for automatically controlling the air conditioning of the compartment of a vehicle in accordance with a predetermined automatic control pattern, uses a selector for selecting a desired air conditioning condition. In response to the command signal from the selector, changeover from the control parameters, such as, air flow rate and supply air temperature for an automatic control mode to the selected control parameters for a selected air conditioning mode is effected, thus making it possible to selectively control the air conditioning of the vehicle compartment in accordance with a predetermined automatic control mode and a selected air conditioning mode.

Air conditioner control method and apparatus

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Nobuo Kondo