Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Bridgestone Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Rakuten Group, Inc.

Seiichi Kato

Masayasu Yoshida

Ryuichi Hata

Satoshi Koike

Naoyuki Kubo

Takayuki Sakata

Mitsuru Nonaka

Masanori Yoshihira

Zhengyou Zhang

Takashi Yamada

Takenobu Nakamura

Lu Yuan

Shigeki Okatake

Makoto Kataoka

Kanji Kaneko

Ivan Stojiljkovic

Jiangyu Liu

Kazuhiro Sakai

Aleksandar Tomic

Tadashi Hirakawa

Yasufumi Shiraishi

Daniel J Moffitt

Daniel Eduardo Martinez

Kenji Nikaido

Noboru Koumura

Masayuki Hashimoto

Takayuki Maruyama

Kazuya Murata

Satoshi Horie

Hisayuki Ochi

Hidenori Mochizuki

Noriaki Yukimura

Toshihiro Uchiyama

Naoto Kitamori

Satoru Noguchi

Yukinobu Nakanishi

Daisuke Ebihara

Kazuma Komatsu

Takanori Murakami

Shigeki Kamo

Daiki Hirashima

Rika Fukushima

Masaki Toyoda

Yutaka Takase

Takafumi Takayama

Kenji Inagaki

Masahiro Houjo

Nagatoshi Konno

Hideaki Kojima

Noritaka Kobayashi

Tomokatsu Ikuta

Julian Onyali

Ke Tian

Zhiqing Yi

Kiyohiko Kando

Aleksandar B Tomic

The present invention provides a vehicle body side structure in which a center pillar (pillar) which extends upward from a side sill having a hollow cross section forms a closed cross section with a pillar inner thereof and a stiffener joined to an outer side in a vehicle-width direction of the pillar inner, and the stiffener has a protruding shape which protrudes outward in the vehicle-width direction, wherein the stiffener has an insertion portion into a cross section of the side sill, and has a fragile portion above the side sill.

Vehicle body side structure

A route planning apparatus configured to create a travel plan that includes a planned travel route for a leading vehicle to electronically tow a following vehicle using inter-vehicle communication, the route planning apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a request to stop at a waypoint during traveling by the electronic towing, the stop-over request being input on a second information processing apparatus that is used by an occupant of the following vehicle: a searching unit configured to search, for a waypoint according to the request, the planned travel route and a surrounding region of the planned travel route; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit information regarding a found waypoint and a route to the waypoint to a first information processing apparatus that is used by an occupant of the leading vehicle.

Electronic towing system and method for controlling route planning apparatus

Provided is a magnetic field measuring apparatus for: acquiring the measurement data measured by a magnetic sensor array that is configured by arraying the plurality of magnetic sensor cells to form a surface covering at least a part of a target object to be measured; performing signal separation on a magnetic field spatial distribution indicated by the measurement data based on a position and magnetic sensitivity of each magnetic sensor; generating a calibration magnetic field at a position on a straight line that can be drawn without crossing the plurality of magnetic sensor cells from the measurement space outside the measurement space; and calibrating a sensor error for the magnetic sensor based on a separation error in a case where signal separation has been performed on a spatial distribution of the calibration magnetic field.

Magnetic field measuring apparatus, magnetic field measuring method and recording medium with magnetic field measuring program recorded thereon

A control device of a vehicle is configured to control travelling of the vehicle such that the vehicle follows a preceding vehicle based on information received from the preceding vehicle, and determine, based on information regarding a cargo space of the preceding vehicle, an inter-vehicle distance to the preceding vehicle when the vehicles stop. Upon the preceding vehicle having stopped, the device stops the vehicle such that a distance between the vehicle and the preceding vehicle becomes the inter-vehicle distance determined by the device.

Vehicle and control device of the same

A control device of a vehicle is provided. The device controls travelling of the vehicle such that the vehicle follows another vehicle based on information received from the other vehicle; and determines whether to allow the vehicle to start to follow another vehicle based on at least one of whether a user of the vehicle is inside the vehicle or an instruction from the user. The processor starts to follow another vehicle in a case where the travel control circuit is allowed to follow the other vehicle.

Provided are a surface stress sensor that enables deterioration in measurement precision to be suppressed and a method for manufacturing the same. A surface stress sensor includes: a membrane configured to be bent by applied surface stress; a frame member configured to surround the membrane with gaps interposed therebetween when viewed from the thickness direction of the membrane; at least a pair of coupling portions configured to couple the membrane and the frame member; a flexible resistor configured to be disposed on at least one of the coupling portions and have a resistance value that changes according to bending induced in the coupling portion; and a support base member configured to be connected to the frame member and overlap the frame member when viewed from the thickness direction of the membrane, in which a cavity portion is disposed between the membrane and the support base member.

Surface stress sensor, hollow structural element, and method for manufacturing same

Provided is a vehicle body front structure including a front hood () provided in a front part of a vehicle body (), and a port device () mounted to the vehicle body and positioned under the front hood. The front hood includes an outer panel (A) and an inner panel (B) attached to a back side of the outer panel, the outer panel and the inner panel defining a port opening () facing the port device and passed through the outer panel and the inner panel in a thicknesswise direction thereof, and being welded to each other along a peripheral edge () of the port opening, and a garnish () is provided on an outer surface of a peripheral part of the outer panel surrounding the port opening, and a lid () for selectively closing the port opening is provided on the vehicle body.

Vehicle body front structure

A vehicle body rear structure includes: left and right rear side frames extending in a fore-and-aft direction in a rear part of a vehicle; a rear subframe attached to the rear side frames; left and right rear wheels supported by the rear subframe via respective suspensions; and a driving source mounted to the rear subframe. The driving source is arranged such that a center of gravity thereof is positioned more rearward than a rotation axis of the rear wheels. The rear subframe includes left and right rear subframe longitudinal members extending in the fore-and-aft direction and a rear subframe cross member extending laterally and joined to the rear subframe longitudinal members. The rear subframe cross member includes a protrusion that protrudes rearward at a laterally central part thereof. A rear end of the protrusion is positioned more rearward than a rear end of the driving source.

Vehicle body rear structure

A vehicle body rear structure includes: a pair of left and right rear side frames extending in a fore-and-aft direction in a rear part of a vehicle; a rear subframe attached to the rear side frames; and a pair of left and right shock-absorbing structures respectively provided at rear ends of the rear side frames and extending rearward. The rear subframe includes a pair of left and right rear subframe longitudinal members extending in the fore-and-aft direction and a rear subframe cross member extending laterally and joined to the left and right rear subframe longitudinal members. The rear subframe cross member includes a protrusion that protrudes rearward in a laterally central part thereof. A rear end of the protrusion is positioned more rearward than the rear ends of the rear side frames and more forward than rear ends of the shock-absorbing structures.

As a rubber composition excellent in fatigue resistance and a method for producing the same, this disclosure provides a rubber composition containing a zinc oxide, wherein: a total volume of aggregates of the zinc oxide with a diameter of 20 &#x3bc;m or more is 0.008 or less in the rubber composition by volume fraction; and a method for producing the rubber composition, comprising: preparing a wet masterbatch by using a carbon black with a surface average acidic functional group amount (&#x3bc;eq/m) of 0.15 or more and less than 3.00, preferably 0.40 or more and less than 1.50; and compounding a zinc oxide with the wet masterbatch.

Rubber composition and method for producing same, crosslinked rubber composition, and tire

Image processing for productivity applications is provided. An image may be received by a computing device. The computing device may detect the edges comprising the received image and adjust the image based on a skew state of the detected edges. The computing device may then process the adjusted image to correct imbalances. The computing device may then assign an image classification to the processed image. The computing device may then adjust the processed image based on the assigned image classification.

Image processing for productivity applications

A structure for a side portion of a vehicle, the structure having a bulkhead provided within a closed cross-section of a center pillar. The bulkhead is disposed so as to be superposed on the lapping section of a lower door beam in the width direction of the vehicle and has a movement restriction section capable of supporting the lapping section. When the lower door beam is moved by a load inputted in the lower door beam from a side of the vehicle, the movement restriction section supports the lapping section of the lower door beam to restrict the movement of the lapping section in the vertical direction.

Structure for side portion of vehicle

An object of the present invention is to provide a rubber composition for a tire, which is, when it is used as a rubber composition for a tire, capable of exhibiting good dry grip properties and excellent grip properties in both a relatively low temperature range and a relatively high temperature range, as well as a tire produced by using the rubber composition. The rubber composition of the present invention contains: a rubber component made of at least one type of diene-based polymer; and a copolymer resin obtained by copolymerizing &#x3b1;-methylstyrene based monomer and aromatic vinyl monomer.

Rubber composition and tire using the same

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Seiichi Kato