Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Honda Elesys Co., Ltd.

Takahiro Azuma

Yu Ishiwata

Hidetoshi Yamamoto

Shinya Hirai

Tetsuya Morinaga

Yasushi Saito

Yasuhiro Nakata

Takahiro Aoki

Yoshie Nishikawa

Yoshihiro Fukuda

Yoshimasa Goto

Toshimi Kaneko

Masatoshi Okutomi

Hiromichi Tokuda

Tadahiro Nakagawa

Shigekatsu Yamamoto

Shigeki Sugimoto

Tomohiro Sasaki

Takashi Tomohiro

Noriko Shimizu

Takashi Ichimura

Ko Yamanaga

Kunio Okumura

A ground conductor film is formed at an insulating substrate. A floating conductor film capacitively couples to the ground conductor film. A radiating element is connected to the floating conductor film. A shielding film shields an electromagnetic wave radiated from the radiating element. By applying such a configuration to a printed circuit board, noise reduction can be achieved.

Printed circuit board

A noise reducing electronic component is used as mounted on a circuit board. The noise reducing electronic component includes: a floating electrode disposed so as to be capacitively coupled to a ground conductor of the circuit board; a radiation element connected to the floating electrode; and a shielding member to shield electromagnetic waves radiated from the radiation element. With this noise reducing electronic component, noise in a printed circuit board and the like can be reduced.

Noise reducing electronic component

A detector of a magnetic field probe includes a first wiring pattern formed on a first surface of a multilayer substrate and having a predetermined inclination with respect to an axial line direction of the magnetic field probe, a second wiring pattern formed on a second surface and having the predetermined inclination with respect to the axial line direction, and a first penetrating via penetrating through the multilayer substrate in the thickness direction and connecting a front end portion of the first wiring pattern and a front end portion of the second wiring pattern. A rear end portion of the first wiring pattern is connected to a conductor pattern configuring a strip line and a rear end portion of the second wiring pattern is connected to ground patterns configuring the strip line.

Magnetic field probe

A gradient estimation apparatus includes a feature point extracting unit configured to extract feature points on an image captured by an imaging unit, an object detecting unit configured to detect image regions indicating objects from the image captured by the imaging unit, and a gradient calculating unit configured to calculate a gradient of the road surface on which the objects are located, based on the coordinates of the feature points extracted by the feature point extracting unit in the image regions indicating the objects detected by the object detecting unit and the amounts of movements of the coordinates of the feature points over a predetermined time.

Gradient estimation apparatus, gradient estimation method, and gradient estimation program

A motion calculation device includes an image-capturing unit configured to capture an image of a range including a plane and outputs the captured image, an extraction unit configured to extract a region of the plane from the image, a detection unit configured to detect feature points and motion vectors of the feature points from a plurality of images captured by the image-capturing unit at a predetermined time interval; and a calculation unit configured to calculate the motion of the host device based on both of an epipolar constraint relating to the feature points and a homography relating to the region.

Motion calculation device and motion calculation method

A frontal view imaging and control device installed on a movable object, includes: an image input unit receiving an image taken by an image device that captures a region of a road surface in a predetermined direction; a projection transformation unit linking each pixel of the image onto a virtual two-dimensional plane of a road surface through coordinate transformation so as to form a virtual projection image on the two-dimensional plane; a projection likelihood calculation unit dividing the virtual projection image into a distant view section and a close view section, and calculating similarity defined between a projection of the distant view section and a projection of the close view section; and an attitude angle calculation unit determining an angle of depression and a panning angle that maximize the similarity as a measured attitude angle that indicates an image capturing direction of the imaging device.

Frontal view imaging and control device installed on movable object

A common-mode choke coil includes a core, external electrodes, a pair of wires, and a top plate. The core includes a winding core portion and a pair of flanges at both ends of the winding core portion. The upper surface of the winding core portion and the upper surfaces of the flanges are covered with a metal film. The external electrodes are provided on lower portions of the flanges. A pair of wires are wound on the winding core portion of the core, and the ends of the wires are connected to the external electrodes. The top plate is bonded to the upper surfaces of the flanges preferably via an adhesive.

Common-mode choke coil

Second and third ports of a network analyzer are individually connected via cables to predetermined connection points on a differential transmission circuit on an object to be measured. A differential cable is connected to the differential transmission circuit. An antenna for receiving an electromagnetic wave radiated from the differential cable is connected to a first port of the network analyzer via a first cable. The network analyzer measures a three-port S parameter of the first, second, and third ports and calculates common-mode and normal-mode components of noise radiated from the differential cable. As a result, the source of noise in an electronic apparatus can be determined, and common-mode noise and normal-mode noise can be separately measured.

Electronic apparatus noise measurement method

A lane recognition apparatus that recognizes a lane from an input image sequence captured from a visual sensor mounted on a vehicle at a fixed time interval, includes a time series smoothing part for generating a smoothed feature image based on a feature image extracted from the input image sequence so that a dotted line lane boundary describes a linear locus over time, a gradient image generation part for generating a gradient image by estimating a feature value gradient at each pixel position of the smoothed feature image, and a Hough transform part for performing Hough transform on the gradient image and detecting lines of edges in the smoothed feature image.

Lane recognition apparatus

A common-mode choke coil has induction immunity characteristics that are improved by a coil structure preventing a transmitter IC and a receiver IC from malfunctioning during an induction immunity test and which controls a decrease in ESD resistance and a decrease in self-resonance frequency. The common-mode choke coil includes a core, external electrodes, a pair of coils, and a top plate. The core includes a core section and a pair of flange sections. The pair of coils are wound around the core section of the core, and the ends of the coils are connected to the external electrodes, respectively. An underside and a side surface of the top plate are plated with a metal film, and bonded to the top surfaces of the flange sections preferably by an adhesive agent. The metal film is segmented into two separate portions so as to define two separate metal sections with a gap therebetween so that the metal sections are electrically disconnected.

A common mode choke coil includes a core, external electrodes, a pair of windings, and a top plate. The core includes a winding core portion and a pair of flanges disposed at respective ends thereof. The external electrodes are provided at lower portions of the flanges. The pair of the windings is wound around the winding core portion of the core, and ends thereof are connected to the external electrodes, respectively. A lower surface and a side surface of the top plate are covered with a metal film and are adhered to upper surfaces of the flanges with an adhesive. Preferably, magnetic powder is mixed in the adhesive.

Common mode choke coil

A multilayer LC composite component includes a coil unit including a stack of coil conductors, two adjacent coil conductors being separated by an insulating layer (dielectric layer) and being electrically connected to each other and a capacitor unit including a ground-side capacitor electrode and a signal-side capacitor electrode which oppose each other with an insulating layer disposed therebetween, the ground-side capacitor electrode having an electrode-free area at a central region thereof and the signal-side capacitor electrode being electrically connected to the coil unit via the electrode-free area. The ground-side capacitor electrode extends to at least two opposing sides of the insulating layer (dielectric layer) and has a cut portion (cross-shaped cut portion) which extends continuously from the electrode-free area.

Multilayer LC composite component

A mounting structure for a two-terminal capacitor or a three-terminal capacitor includes a hot conductor pattern, to which first external terminals of two-terminal capacitors are electrically connected, and grounding conductor patterns, to which second external terminals are electrically connected, which are provided on the surface of a circuit board. The two-terminal capacitors are mounted so that the capacitors may be positioned to be symmetrical with respect to the hot conductor pattern. A grounding conductor pattern is also provided inside the circuit board and electrically connected to the grounding conductor patterns by the through-holes provided in the circuit board. A common through-hole is disposed in the grounding conductor pattern G so as to be substantially the same distance from the through-holes.

Mounting structure for two-terminal capacitor and three-terminal capacitor

A multilayered LC composite component includes a main body having a pair of side surfaces, a pair of end surfaces, and an upper surface and a lower surface. Ground-side terminal electrodes are disposed at the center of the side surfaces and hot-side terminal electrodes are disposed along edges of the side surfaces. Each of the hot-side terminal electrodes includes an end surface extended portion extending to each of the end surfaces. The end-surface extended portion is arranged so that at least the approximate center of each of the end surfaces is exposed.

Multilayered LC composite component and method for manufacturing the same

A laminated LC component has no directivity in terms of mounting and characteristics. A first set of coil conductors are electrically connected in series so as to define a first helical coil. A second set of coil conductors are also electrically connected in series so as to define a second helical coil. Capacitor electrodes are disposed such that they face each other with an insulating sheet disposed between the capacitor electrodes thereby forming a capacitor. The capacitor electrode at the ground side has a substantially cross shape and four ends of the substantially cross-shaped capacitor electrode are exposed at four respective sides of the insulating sheet. The insulating sheets are stacked on one another and fired so as to define a single unitary laminated block. Input/output electrodes are provided on the two respective ends of the laminated block and an external ground electrode is formed, at the center of the four side surfaces, in the shape of a band extending along a circumference of the laminated block. The four ends of the capacitor ground electrode are electrically connected, at the four side surfaces of the laminated block, to the external ground electrode.

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Yokohama, Japan

Takahiro Azuma