Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha

Takahiro Nakamura

Koichi Sakata

Mariko Takii

Haruki Murata

Yoshihiro Murasawa

Masato Taikoji

Kei Niwayama

Yoshinori Yoshii

Akihisa Tominaga

Nobuya Ishikawa

A self-driving vehicle includes a plurality of operation members for the driver to operate and a controller. The plurality of operation members includes a steering operation member, a brake operation member, and an accelerating operation member. The controller has, as control modes thereof, an automatic operation mode and a manual operation mode. The operation member that is predefined as a trigger for the shift from the automatic operation mode to the manual operation mode differs depending on states of the vehicle in the automatic operation mode. The self-driving vehicle enables the driver to shift the control mode from the automatic operation mode to the manual operation mode with a simple operation.

Self-driving vehicle

A carrier includes a resin layer including Al and Sn and covering the surface of the carrier. A detectable amount of Al is from 1.0% to 12.1% by atom and a ratio (Al/Sn) of the detectable amount of Al to that of Sn is from 2.0 to 50.0 when the carrier is subjected to an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic (XPS) analysis.

Carrier and developer

Growing community of inventors

Shizuoka, Japan

Takahiro Nakamura