Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Satoru Takizawa

Kazuhito Oshita

Takeshi Masaki

Masahiro Takata

Hiroaki Takahashi

Masaru Komatsu

Manabu Tenjin

A control system includes a contact sensor configured to detect entry of an operation body into a recess formed between a door handle of a door handle apparatus and a body of the door handle apparatus by detecting contact between the operation body and an back face of the door handle, a force sensor configured to detect a force applied by the operation body to the door handle, and a controller configured to control operation of a door when the contact is detected by the contact sensor and the force is detected by the force sensor.

Control system, control apparatus, and control method

In a door handle sensor system, a door handle device includes an electrostatic sensor to detect the user with respect to a door handle, and a pressure sensor to detect the operating force applied to the door handle. A control device determines whether the position of an operation is in a first end section, a second end section, or a center section of the door handle, and controls an unlatched state based on the determination result and the value detected by the pressure sensor. The electrostatic sensor includes a first electrode including multiple first electrode parts and a second electrode including multiple second electrode parts arranged alternately with the first electrode parts. The first electrode part other than the endmost first electrode part in the first direction and the second electrode part other than the endmost second electrode part in the first direction are arranged in the center section.

Electrostatic input device and door handle sensor system

The electrostatic capacitance detecting device includes a first substrate; a detection electrode provided on a front-side surface of the first substrate to detect a proximity of an operating body to an operating face; a stray capacitance coupling conductor provided in a direction with respect to the first substrate, the direction being opposite to a direction of the detection electrode with respect to the first substrate; a first peripheral electrode provided on the front-side surface of the first substrate to surround the detection electrode; and a plurality of lateral electrodes provided side by side to surround the detection electrode, the plurality of lateral electrodes extending along a thickness direction of the first substrate and connected to each of the first peripheral electrode and the stray capacitance coupling conductor.

Detecting device and manufacturing method

A control system includes a contact sensor configured to detect contact between an operation body and a door handle, a force sensor configured to detect a force applied by the operation body to the door handle, and a controller configured to control opening or closing of a door when the contact is detected by the contact sensor and the force is detected by the force sensor.

A connector includes an external housing having cavities, internal housings, and terminals to be accommodated in the internal housings, wherein retainers extending in an insertion direction of internal housings into the cavities are formed on inner wall surfaces of the cavities, groove parts for receiving the retainers are formed on outer wall surfaces of the internal housings, the retainers are configured to achieve secondary locking of the plurality of terminals accommodated in the internal housings, the retainers of the cavities have different shapes from one another, and the groove parts of the internal housings have shapes complementary to the shapes of the retainers of the corresponding cavities.

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Miyagi, Japan

Satoru Takizawa