Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Subaru Corporation

Ihi Corporation

Ihi Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Carrier Corporation

Shinya Kudo

Kazuhiko Katsumata

Takahisa Shimada

Ami Ueda

Junji Inoue

Hajime Oyama

Toru Saito

Shinji Yamamoto

Akio Atsuta

Makoto Shihoh

Akira Akimoto

Ryo Furukawa

Takeshi Terazawa

A surrounding environment information acquisition device acquires surrounding environment information. A map information acquisition device acquires road information. A traveling control unit causes the vehicle to travel along a preset target traveling route. When recognizing an intersection in which U-turn traveling control for performing a U-turn travel to an oncoming lane is scheduled to be performed on the target traveling route and in front of the vehicle, the traveling control unit performs one or both of: setting a traveling course laterally shifted by a predetermined distance in a direction opposite to the oncoming lane within a traveling lane of the vehicle; and setting a steering start point in the U-turn travel at a position farther from the vehicle in the traveling direction than a steering start point to be set when left/right turn traveling control to cross the oncoming lane at the intersection to enter a cross road.

Traveling control apparatus for vehicle

A vehicle drive assist apparatus for a vehicle includes a surrounding-condition-information acquiring unit that acquires surrounding condition information, a vehicle-state-information acquiring unit that acquires vehicle state information, a traveling control processor that executes traveling control in accordance with traffic lane designation, a DDI detector, and a control switch. The DDI detector detects a DDI in a front region of the vehicle on the basis of the surrounding condition information and determines whether the vehicle is entering or exiting from the DDI on the basis of the surrounding condition information and the vehicle state information. The control switch switches the traveling control from standard traveling control to non-standard traveling control when the vehicle entering the DDI is detected, and from the non-standard traveling control to the standard traveling control when the vehicle exiting from the DDI is detected on the basis of the result of the DDI determination.

Vehicle drive assist apparatus

A vehicle drive assist apparatus includes a surrounding-condition-information acquiring unit that acquires surrounding condition information, a vehicle-state-information acquiring unit that acquires vehicle state information, a light-distribution control processor that executes light distribution control, a traveling control processor that executes traveling control in accordance with traffic lane designation, a DDI detector that detects a DDI in a front region based on the surrounding condition information and determines whether the vehicle is entering or exiting from the DDI based on the surrounding condition information and the vehicle state information, and a control switch. When the vehicle entering the DDI is detected, the control switch switches the traveling control and the light distribution control from standard traveling control to non-standard traveling control. When the vehicle exiting from the DDI is detected, the control switch switches the traveling control and the light distribution control from the non-standard traveling control to the standard traveling control.

A vehicle driving control apparatus applied to a vehicle includes a surrounding environment information obtaining device, a vehicle situation information obtaining device, an external information receiving device, a velocity value setter, and a driving control unit. The driving control unit adjusts a velocity of the vehicle by considering surrounding vehicles and various information and performs driving control based on the adjusted velocity. If a leading vehicle is recognized, the velocity of the vehicle exceeds a speed limit or a predetermined velocity, a driver set velocity is not lower than a velocity of the leading vehicle, and a following vehicle is not recognized for a predetermined time or longer, the driving control unit sets a temporary velocity as the velocity of the vehicle and performs driving control by using the temporary velocity. The temporary velocity is lower than the velocity of the leading vehicle by a preset value.

Vehicle driving control apparatus

A control apparatus for a vehicle includes a preceding vehicle detector, a course change predictor, an oncoming vehicle detector, an oncoming-vehicle arrival-time calculator, a crossing predictor, and a following-control corrector. The course change predictor predicts a course change of a preceding vehicle detected by the preceding vehicle detector in a direction crossing an oncoming lane. When the course change is predicted, the oncoming-vehicle arrival-time calculator calculates an estimated arrival time of an oncoming vehicle detected by the oncoming vehicle detector to the preceding vehicle. The crossing predictor compares the estimated arrival time with a necessary crossing time, and predicts, when the estimated arrival time is shorter than the necessary crossing time, that the preceding vehicle will not travel across the oncoming lane. When it is predicted that the preceding vehicle will not travel across the oncoming lane, the following-control corrector lowers a deceleration or acceleration rate of the vehicle.

An engine idle reduction control apparatus includes a first data acquiring unit, a detecting unit, a first determining unit, a control unit, and a second determining unit. The detecting unit is configured to detect a traffic circle, on the basis of traveling environment data acquired by the first data acquiring unit. The control unit is configured to execute an idle reduction, in a case where the first determining unit determines that a control condition for a pre-stop idle reduction control is satisfied. The second determining unit is configured to determine whether a prohibition condition for the pre-stop idle reduction control is satisfied, in a case where the traffic circle is detected. The control unit is configured to prohibit the idle reduction even in a case where the control condition is determined to be satisfied, on a condition that the prohibition condition is determined to be satisfied.

Engine idle reduction control apparatus

According to one embodiment, a compressor includes cylinders, a rotating shaft, bearings, and discharge valve mechanisms. Each of the discharge valve mechanisms includes a discharge valve and a valve presser. Regarding the valve pressers, each of the valve pressers includes a main body part lengthwise along the longitudinal direction of the discharge valve, and at least one of the valve pressers includes a fixed part extending in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction of the discharge valve relatively to the main body part and fixed to the bearing.

Compressor and air conditioner

A vehicle controlling apparatus includes a setting unit and an acquiring unit. The setting unit is configured to set a target inter-vehicle distance. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire position information of a temporary stopping location on a traveling route on which an own vehicle travels. The setting unit is configured to, on a condition that the own vehicle travels to follow a preceding vehicle, and that the acquiring unit has acquired the position information of the temporary stopping location, make a setting change to make the target inter-vehicle distance greater than a normal setting value when a distance from the own vehicle to the temporary stopping location reaches a predetermined distance, and make a setting change to bring the target inter-vehicle distance closer to the normal setting value in accordance with the distance until the own vehicle reaches the temporary stopping location.

Vehicle controlling apparatus

Provided is a control apparatus of a vibration-type actuator for generating an elliptical motion of contact portions by a common alternating current including a frequency determining unit for setting a frequency of the alternating current. The frequency determining unit sets the frequency of the alternating current for changing an ellipticity of the elliptical motion, within a frequency range such that ellipticity changing frequency ranges set for the vibrators are overlapped, and the ellipticity changing frequency ranges are set for the vibrators as frequency ranges between an upper limit and a lower limit, such that the lower limit is a maximum resonant frequency at a time of changing the ellipticity, and the upper limit is larger than the lower limit and is a maximum frequency for the relative movement of the driving member.

Control apparatus of vibration-type actuator and control method of vibration-type actuator

A device is provided with a measurement window, which is provided in a heat treat furnace and which permits direct visual observation of a surface to be measured of a heat-treated workpiece, and a temperature sensor, which is provided outside the measurement window and which is capable of carrying out noncontact measurement of the surface temperature of the surface to be measured through the measurement window. The temperature sensor has a measurement wavelength range in which the absorptivity by water is low (e.g., 1.95 &#x3bc;m to 2.5 &#x3bc;m). Further, the measurement window is composed of a window material having a high transmittance in the measurement wavelength range (e.g., germanium).

Device and method for measuring temperature of heat-treated workpiece

The mist cooling apparatus () includes: a cooling system () which includes a nozzle (A) that sprays cooling liquid in a form of a mist onto a treatment object which has been heated and provided in a cooling furnace (), and a pump () that is driven by a drive source and thereby makes the cooling liquid flow toward the nozzle (A); and a second cooling system () which operates in response to a stoppage of the drive source, and thereby cools the treatment object.

Mist cooling apparatus and heat treatment apparatus

A correcting optical device according to an aspect of the present invention in which, when image shake is not corrected, a restricting member is caused to engage an engaging portion, to restrict translational movement of a movable member, and in which, when the image shake is corrected, the restricting member is caused to disengage the engaging portion, to cause the movable member to be in a state capable of the translational movement, the restricting member being provided at the rotary member, the engaging portion being provided at the movable member. A driving unit drives the movable member in a direction in which the movable member moves translationally with respect to a fixed member in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of a correcting lens, so that the correcting lens corrects the image shake, and drives the rotary member in a direction in which the rotary member rotates around the optical axis.

Correcting optical device and image pickup apparatus

The invention adopts a mist cooling apparatus () that cools a heated treated subject M by spraying a cooling mist thereto, the mist cooling apparatus including: a first nozzle () that sprays a cooling mist; and a second nozzle () that sprays a cooling mist having a particle diameter smaller than the particle diameter of the cooling mist sprayed from the first nozzle.

Mist cooling apparatus, heat treatment apparatus, and mist cooling method

In a driving device, a distance from a guide member to a vibrator is less than that from the guide member to a permanent magnet in a plane perpendicular to a guiding direction of a guide member. An attraction force between the permanent magnet and a magnetic body acts as a force to rotate (i.e., a rotating force) a holding member about an axis of the guide member, and the vibrator is pressed against a contact member by the rotating force.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shinya Kudo