Ngk Insulators, Inc.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company

Satoshi Yamazaki

Kenji Morimoto

Toru Hayase

Takanori Ueda

Kazuhiro Akihama

Shinji Kawasaki

Walter Weissman

Bhupender S Minhas

Yoshihiro Iwashita

Yukihisa Takeuchi

Guido Sartori

Yuji Katsuda

Satoshi Iguchi

Takeshi Okumura

Randall David Partridge

Yohei Ono

Shuichi Kubo

Shinobu Okuma

Masahiro Taki

Shinya Yamamoto

Masatomo Niihara

Naoki Sakoda

Takashi Shimazu

Shigeki Nakayama

Satoshi Aoyama

Yasuo Saito

Satoshi Taniguchi

Takao Fukuma

Atsushi Watanabe

Ken Ohsumi

Koichi Numata

Yoshiyuki Sasada

Shuji Ueda

Tomomi Onishi

Kenji Ono

Masanori Kubota

Tomoaki Ihara

Takehiko Watanabe

Hitoshi Andoh

Kazuhisa Kunitake

Shigeo Furuno

Hiroto Usui

Takeshi Nishikawa

Naoto Hasegawa

Shunsuke Miyagawa

Yoshiki Takatori

An induction heating apparatus of a plate-like member for arranging a plate-like member having a three-dimensional structure so that it is interposed between a pair of plate-like coils and inductively heating the plate-like member, the pair of plate-like coils having a three-dimensional structure that corresponds to the plate-like member and being arranged to be opposed to each other. The plate-like member arranged between the pair of plate-like coils includes a plurality of surfaces in a predetermined cross section perpendicular to a current that flows through the plate-like coil pair, and each of the coils of the plate-like coil pair is divided into a plurality of turns along the direction in which the current flows for at least each of the plurality of surfaces of the plate-like member.

Induction heating apparatus and induction heating method of plate-like member

A heating method capable of changing thermal hysteresis for each part of the center pillar for the vehicle is provided. A heating method includes heating, when the center pillar for the vehicle is annealed, the center pillar by induction heating so that: a strength of a part of the first part other than the flange part becomes higher than that of the flange part of the first part, and the strength of the flange part of the first part becomes higher than that of the second part; and toughness of the second part becomes higher than that of the flange part of the first part, and the toughness of the flange part of the first part becomes higher than that of the part of the first part other than the flange part.

Heating method and heating apparatus for center pillar for vehicle

A panel member for an automobile has: a first plate member; a second plate member joined to the first plate member via a first joining portion in a state of being adjacent to the first plate member, a tensile strength of the second plate member is lower than a tensile strength of the first plate member; one or more third plate members joined to the first plate member and the second plate member via a second joining portion that intersects the first joining portion in a state of being adjacent to the first plate member and the second plate member; and a high strength portion that is provided at the second plate member, and that includes a peak portion including the first joining portion and the second joining portion, a tensile strength of the high strength portion being higher than the tensile strength of the second plate member.

Panel member for automobile

The honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure body made of a zeolite material containing at least a coarse particle zeolite having a large average particle diameter (coarse zeolite particles). A fine particle zeolite having an average particle diameter smaller than that of the coarse particle zeolite (fine zeolite particles), and an inorganic bonding material, the coarse particle zeolite (the coarse zeolite particles) is a chabazite type zeolite in which an average particle diameter of primary particles is 2 &#x3bc;m or more and 6 &#x3bc;m or less, and in the fine particle zeolite (the fine zeolite particles), an average particle diameter of primary particles is 0.02 &#x3bc;m or more and smaller than 2 &#x3bc;m, and in the zeolite material which is comprised the honeycomb structure body, a ratio of a volume of pores having pore diameters of 0.02 to 0.15 &#x3bc;m to a volume of all pores is 42% or less.

Honeycomb structure

The manufacturing method includes a step of mixing a coarse particle zeolite, a fine particle zeolite, and a raw material of an inorganic bonding material to prepare a zeolite raw material; a step of forming the prepared zeolite raw material into a honeycomb shape to prepare a honeycomb formed body; and a step of firing the prepared honeycomb formed body to prepare the honeycomb structure. In the step of preparing the zeolite raw material, as the coarse particle zeolite, a chabazite type zeolite having a specific average particle diameter, the fine particle zeolite having a specific average particle diameter, the raw material of the inorganic bonding material which includes at least basic aluminum lactate is used.

Manufacturing method of honeycomb structure

To provide a stereo camera device capable of maintaining performance and reliability, while realizing thickness reduction, provided are a first image pickup device, a first communication connection unit to output a first image captured with the first image pickup device, a first image pickup substrate where the first image pickup device and the first communication connection unit are provided, a second image pickup device, a second communication connection unit to output a second image captured with the second image pickup device, a second image pickup substrate where the second image pickup device and the second communication connection unit are provided, and a housing where the first image pickup substrate is provided at one end and the second image pickup substrate is provided at another end. In the first image pickup substrate, the first image pickup device and the first communication connection unit are provided in parallel with each other in a lengthwise direction of the housing. In the second image pickup substrate, the second image pickup device and the second communication connection unit are provided in parallel with each other in the lengthwise direction of the housing. The first image pickup substrate and the second image pickup substrate are symmetrically provided.

Stereo camera device

The voltage nonlinear resistive element includes a resistor containing a joined body in which a zinc oxide ceramic layer composed mainly of zinc oxide and having a volume resistivity of less than 1.0&#xd7;10&#x3a9;cm is joined to a rare-earth metal oxide layer composed mainly of a rare-earth metal oxide, and a pair of electrodes disposed on the resistor such that an electrically conductive path passes through a junction between the zinc oxide ceramic layer and the rare-earth metal oxide layer. In this element, the zinc oxide ceramic layer of the joined body has a lower volume resistivity than before. This can result in a lower clamping voltage in a high electric current region than before.

Voltage nonlinear resistive element and method for manufacturing the same

A voltage nonlinear resistive element includes a resistor containing a joined body in which a zinc oxide ceramic layer composed mainly of zinc oxide and having a volume resistivity of 1.0&#xd7;10&#x3a9;cm or less is joined to a bismuth oxide layer composed mainly of bismuth oxide, and a pair of electrodes disposed on the resistor such that an electrically conductive path passes through a joint surface between the zinc oxide ceramic layer and the bismuth oxide layer. In this element, the zinc oxide ceramic layer of the joined body has a lower volume resistivity than before. This can result in a lower clamping voltage in a high-current region than before.

The invention relates to an automotive control device and a period measurement method for measuring a period of a pulse signal input from outside. The automotive control device processes the pulse signal input from outside using an analog filter in parallel with a digital filter. When a difference between a measured value of a period of an output signal of analog filter and a measured value of a period of an output signal of digital filter is less than a threshold value, the automotive control device selects the measured value of the period of the output signal of analog filter as the period of the pulse signal. Meanwhile, when the difference between the measured values is greater than the threshold value, the automotive control device selects the measured value of the period of the output signal of digital filter as the period of the pulse signal.

Automotive control device and period measurement method for the same

The present invention provides a voltage nonlinear resistor containing zinc oxide as a major component, wherein the degree of orientation f(100) of the (100) plane of zinc oxide is 0.40 or more and is represented by the following equation: f(100)=I(100)/(I(100)+I(002)+I(101)), where I(hkl) represents the peak intensity (integral) of a (hkl) plane.

Voltage nonlinear resistor

A method of producing cordierite ceramic where the degree of stacking faults and the particle diameter of kaolinite used as a component of a cordierite-forming raw material are appropriately adjusted so that microcracks having an average width of 0.3 &#x3bc;m or more are introduced into the resulting cordierite ceramic to produce a high-quality cordierite ceramic that includes a cordierite crystal oriented in a specific direction and has a porosity of 25% or more and a coefficient of thermal expansion of 0.30&#xd7;10/&#xb0; C. or less.

Cordierite ceramic and method of producing the same

A soot generation amount estimation apparatus obtains a generation speed of a precursor of soot (accordingly, the concentration of the precursor) in consideration of formation of the precursor from fuel, thermal decomposition of the formed precursor, and formation of soot from the formed precursor, and estimates a generation speed of soot (accordingly, the concentration of soot (the generation amount of soot)) in consideration of formation of soot from the precursor, which depends on the concentration of the precursor, and oxidation of the formed soot. The apparatus employs a reaction model in which the reaction process in which soot is generated from fuel is divided into two steps; i.e., a reaction process in which a precursor is generated from fuel and a reaction process in which soot is generated from the precursor. Thus, phenomena, such as a 'delay in soot generation' in the reaction process in which soot is generated from fuel, can be accurately simulated.

Soot generation amount estimation apparatus for internal combustion engine

A cordierite ceramic is provided, which includes at least zirconium oxide or hafnium oxide, and also includes titanium oxide. The molar ratio of zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf) and titanium (Ti) in terms of the moles in the form of the dioxides, respectively which is given by the formula [(ZrO+HfO)/TiO] is in a range of 0.1 to 5. In this cordierite ceramic, the phases of the components are contained mainly as zirconium titanate or hafnium titanate, and no heterogeneity in appearance, caused by change in color and generation of spots occurs. A honeycomb structure made of the cordierite ceramic is also provided.

Cordierite ceramic and method for manufacturing the same

A fuel system for on-board vehicle fuel separation to supply engine fuel compositions formulated as a function of driving cycle conditions. The invention results in improvements in one or more of feed efficiency and combustion emissions.

Fuel composition supply means for spark ignition engines

In a fuel cell system , a cracking unit is provided upstream of a reformer . When the cracking unit is supplied with oxygen and gasoline as a hydrocarbon-based fuel, the gasoline is partially oxidized and decomposed using oxidation-generated heat to give a hydrocarbon with a lower carbon number. The hydrocarbon with the lower carbon number obtained by such gasoline pyrolysis is fed to the reformer and supplied to a reforming reaction zone.

Fuel reforming apparatus

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Nagoya, Japan

Satoshi Yamazaki