Denso Corporation

Kabushikikaisha Taiheiseisakusho

Shinji Kamiya

Mitsumasa Narita

Osamu Naito

Kenji Banno

Isao Kondo

Eizo Shibata

A charge control apparatus includes a main control unit and a power source control unit. The main control unit acquires time-divided temperature information, which corresponds to a predetermined period covering the present time, based on present time information and the time-divided temperature information indicating a location temperature of a backup battery in each predetermined period. The main control unit determines a charge/discharge amount of the backup battery based on the time-divided temperature information and a residual charge amount of the backup battery. The power source control unit controls the backup battery by charging and discharging in accordance with the determined charge/discharge amount.

Vehicular electric charge control apparatus and emergency notification system

An in-vehicle emergency report apparatus is so constructed that the operating power source is switched from a vehicle battery to an auxiliary battery only when a pre-crash safety ECU determines that a vehicle will collide with something. That is, the operating power source is switched from the vehicle battery to the auxiliary battery only when there is a possibility that the vehicle will collide with something to thereby perform emergency report operation. This makes it possible to effectively switch the operating power source from the vehicle battery to the auxiliary battery and to prevent the capacity of the auxiliary battery from being uselessly consumed.

In-vehicle emergency report apparatus

An improper-control detection system for driving support consists of an in-vehicle detection system that is mounted in a vehicle and a center device that is in a center and communicates with the in-vehicle detection system. When the in-vehicle detection system detects an improper-control operation that a driver conducts during an automatic control that supports driving of the driver based on an algorithm of a driving support system so as to change to a manual control contrary to the automatic control, the in-vehicle detection system sends to the center device improper-control information that includes at least one of a time, a position, a version of the driving support system, and a determination value. The center device collects and analyzes the improper-control information sent from the in-vehicle detection system to then designate a cause of the improper-control operation.

Improper-control detection system for driving support

A method and apparatus for rotary-cutting a timber to peel off a veneer by a cutting knife from the outer periphery of a timber while rotating the timber around its longitudinal axis. The timber is gripped at its two end faces by means of chucking pawls which are driven in rotation. The chucking pawls comprise a plurality of chucks which are different in radial position. The chucks grip the timber at the end faces thereof adjacent to the outer peripheral surface of the timber, and as the timber is cut by the knife and reduced in diameter so that the knife comes close to a presently outermost chuck, the outermost chuck is retracted axially away from the end face of the timber, and the next outermost chuck continues to grip the timber adjacent to the presently outer peripheral surface of the timber. For this reason, the gripping force by the chuck pawls, resisting the cutting force moment, can be made small, and the timber gripping is made reliable.

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Kariya, Japan

Shinji Kamiya