Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Cable, Inc.

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Nissan Motor Company Limited

Xanavi Informatics Corporation

Shigeru Oho

Takeshi Hirayama

Fumio Hamano

Akira Hasegawa

Hisao Sonobe

Hiroshi Kajioka

Tatsuya Kumagai

Masahiro Matsumoto

Takao Sasayama

Takanori Shibata

Satoshi Shimada

Masahiro Komachiya

Junichi Makino

Hiroshi Araki

Munehiro Akiyama

Tatsuya Yoshida

Minoru Maeda

Katsuyuki Imoto

Yasuhiro Gunji

Seiko Suzuki

Atsushi Kanke

Masayoshi Kameyama

Masahiro Kurita

Yasushi Ikuta

Akira Endo

Hiroshi Kuroda

Masatoshi Hoshino

Minoru Takahashi

Kazuji Yamada

Kaoru Uchiyama

Atsushi Sakagami

Shigeki Tsuchitani

Mikihiko Onari

Terumi Nakazawa

Shizuhisa Watanabe

Kouji Kitano

Tatsunori Sakaguchi

Kazumasa Sugiura

Takayuki Fumino

Osamu Kobayashi

Keiji Abe

Kenji Takano

Yoshimasa Nagashima

A navigation system which can enhance the position determining accuracy of a mobile object without employing any high precision measuring instrument. The navigation system comprises a GPS range measuring device, an angular velocity measuring device, a velocity measuring device and an azimuth measuring device, which measure the motion of the mobile object; a GPS range error estimating device, an angular velocity error estimating device, a velocity error estimating device and an azimuth error estimating device, which estimate errors involved in the respectively corresponding measuring devices; and a position calculating device which calculates the position of the mobile object from the outputs of the error estimating devices. The error estimating devices are implemented by Kalman filters and averaging processes. The factors of the errors of the individual measuring devices are assumed, and the outputs thereof are corrected, so that the position of the mobile object can always be determined at a high accuracy without employing any high precision sensor.

Navigation system furnished with means for estimating error of mounted

In a data transmission system having a data processing unit (MPU) and a communication control unit (CIM) and capable of transmitting a data to a local control unit (LCU) in a half duplex mode, the data processing unit receives the data by an interruption based on an end of data reception signal supplied from the communication control unit.

Data transmission system having a communication control computer for

An in-cylinder pressure sensing apparatus for a multi-cylinder engine has a plurality of sensing parts packaged between a cylinder head and a cylinder block of an engine having a plurality of cylinders and being operative to detect a signal indicative of an internal pressure of each of the plurality of cylinders. A detection circuit is provided for connecting the sensing parts in series and for overlapping detection signals obtained from the individual sensing parts to take out a resulting overlapped signal. A reference signal generator operates to supply a reference signal for separating detection signals corresponding to the individual cylinders from the overlapped signal. A unit is also provided for separating the detection signals, detected in accordance with pressures of the individual cylinders, from the overlapped signal on the basis of the reference signal.

In-cylinder pressure sensing apparatus for multi-cylinder engine

An integrated wiring system for controlling multiple vehicle systems comprising a plurality of terminal control units having different information processing speed and a central control unit. A communications interface is provided in the central control unit in the form of a dedicated programmable input/output processor for performing data communication based on a plurality of communication protocols.

Integrated wiring systems for a vehicle control system

An optical fiber pressure sensor for measuring a pressure on the basis of an optical power loss depending on a configuration change of an optical fiber comprising a luminescence device optically connected with at least an optical fiber which is constructed with a main part for propagating a light protective coating member for protecting the main part. A light intercepting device detects a light passing through the optical reflected light from the optical fiber. A bending device bends at least a part of the optical fiber according to a measured pressure. The optical fiber pressure sensor is characterized by being used when a normalization frequency V value of the optical fiber is smaller than 90% of a normalization cut-off frequency defining a single transmission mode condition of the optical fiber.

Optical fiber pressure sensor

A phase modulated light is propagated through an optical fiber sensing loop, from which a propagated light is obtained. The propagated light is converted to an electric signal, from which a fundamental wave component and even number harmonic wave components of a phase modulating signal for the phase modulated signal are detected. In accordance with the changes of the fundamental and even number harmonic wave components, fault is detected. On the other hand, the electric signal may be integrated to provide an integrated signal. In accordance with the comparison between the integrated signal and a fault reference voltage, the fault may be detected.

Method for detecting fault of optical fiber gyro and apparatus for

A physical quantity detecting apparatus comprises at least one optical fiber, at least one light emitting means for emitting an incident light beam on the optical fiber, at least one light receiving means for detecting an outgoing light beam from the optical fiber, physical quantity applied position information generating means for providing information indicative of a position of a portion at which a physical quantity is applied to the optical fiber, and operation means for receiving signals from the light receiving means and physical quantities applied position information generating means and calculating a change with time in physical quantity at respective positions on the optical fiber.

Physical quantity detecting apparatus and internal combustion engine

The invention provides an apparatus for measuring intake air for an internal combustion engine by means of a detecting unit including a heat generating resistor, and a flow amount arithmetic unit for calculating an air flow amount on the basis of the output from the detecting unit. The measuring apparatus further includes an equalizer circuit for regulating the amplitude or phase of the output signal from the detecting unit, between the detecting unit and the flow amount arithmetic unit.

Intake air amount measuring apparatus for internal combustion engines

A photodetector generates an electric signal by receiving a light signal which is obtained by coupling lights having propagated through an optical fiber sensing loop in clock-wise and counter clock-wise directions, and modulated in a phase modulator. The electric signal is detected in a synchronous detection circuit to generate a fundamental wave component of the phase modulation signal, a duplicate harmonic wave component, a quadruple harmonic wave component, and an orthogonal component which is obtained in accordance with a phase shift of the quadruple harmonic wave component by one quarter period.

Phase adjustable optical fiber gyro using both even order harmonics and

A signal processing circuit of an optical fiber gyro comprises a memory for storing data measured in the signal processing circuit in accordance with angular velocities applied to an optical fiber sensing loop at preparatory stage, and the applied angular velocities. In operation, the memory is accessed in accordance with data obtained in the signal processing circuit at an operation stage, so that an angular velocity is read from the memory without complicated calculation.

Optical fiber gyro with memory storing data measured under application

An integrated wiring system having a plurality of terminal control units and a central controlling unit (including computational processing means) for transferring information to and from the terminal control units. An input/output control unit is provided for executing communication control based on plural communication protocols with a plurality of different information processing speeds for communicating with the terminal control units. In a preferred embodiment, the input/output control units have a plurality of transmission controlling programs corresponding to the plurality of terminal control units, and the frequencies of execution of the respective terminal controlling programs are different from one another.

Integrated wiring system

A collective wiring system for an automobile provides a central control unit which communicates with a plurality of terminal control units each connected to one or more input or output devices, such as switches, sensors, motors and the like. The control over output devices in response to the status of input devices is performed by the central control unit on the basis of tables of data stored in memory. A scan table controls the order in which data communications are made to the terminal control units to obtain their status and provide them with control commands. A monitor table stores the current status of the terminal control units and a control table stores the control data for the terminal control units. A connection table stores the relationship between the terminal control unit for an input device and the terminal control unit for the output device to be controlled thereby. Thus, connection control between input and output devices is effected by software.

Collective wiring system and method of control thereof

In an automobile multiplex data communication system (1000), a fail-safe function is established without providing a specific function switch. The automobile multiplex data communication system (1000) includes: transmission means (3:11:101:901) for transmitting operation data about a plurality of operation units (2a:106:204:704) provided with a plurality of terminal units (1a:202:602:902) corresponding thereto, which are required to operate an automobile; drive means (4:420) for driving a relevant terminal unit (1a:202:602:902) in response to said operation data; detecting means (5:410) for detecting an extraordinary state concerning transmission/reception operations of said operation data to produce an extraordinary-state detection signal; and control means (6:12) for independently controlling the operation of said relevant terminal unit (1a:202:602:902) by AND-gating said extraordinary-state detection signal and each of operation outputs derived from said operation units.

Automobile multiplex data communication system including fail-safe

An interference sensor passes radiation from a source and a polariser to a loop of optical fiber so that radiation beams circulate in opposite directions around the loop and interfere. The loop contains an optical phase modulator which imposes an optical modulator on the radiation beams circulating on the loop. A converter detects the interfering and modulated beams and generates an interference signal which is then processed by an analyser. The interference in the loop is dependent on rotation of the loop and therefore analysis of the interference signal permits that rotation to be measured. In the present invention, the interference signal is (i) sampled at a frequency different from that of the optical modulation, or (ii) electronically modulated in the analyser at a frequency different from that of the optical modulation, or (iii) optically modulated in the loop at a second optical modulation frequency. The analysis in the analyser may be in the frequency domain (i.e. consideration being given to the frequency of the interference signal) or in the time domain (i.e. independent of frequency).

Interference sensor and method utilizing extracted alliasing frequency

Data transmission system

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Hitachinaka, Japan

Shigeru Oho