Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Clarion Co

Nec Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

International Business Machines Corporation

Gree, Inc.

Palo Alto Research Center Inc.

Jfe Steel Corporation

Fujitsu Corporation

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Tokyo Electron Limited

Mitsumi Electric Company Ltd.

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Denso Corporation

Takashi Matsumoto

Yasushi Nagai

Atsushi Shimizu

Toshiaki Yoshikawa

Hiroshi Yamada

Shintaro Watanabe

Hirotoshi Yano

Wei Zhang

Hiroyuki Morimoto

Masamichi Sato

Shigeyoshi Matsui

Yuki Ugajin

James M A Begole

Ryota Akaiwa

Hitoshi Saito

Daisuke Ito

Akira Ishibashi

Takeshi Mori

Satoshi Yoshida

Yutaka Yoshida

Mark Leonard O'Neill

Kazunori Hatakeyama

Naofumi Takenaka

Noriyuki Abe

Keisuke Suzuki

Shinichi Suzuki

Yasuhiro Yoshida

Osamu Morimoto

Yoji Onaka

Raymond Nicholas Vrtis

Shinichi Obata

Keisuke Uemura

Koji Maeda

Takeshi Hatomura

Hiromu Hasegawa

Yosuke Shinomoto

Shin Nakamura

Fumitake Unezaki

Shinichi Ito

Juan Liu

Jacques Faguet

Shoji Yamada

Yohei Kato

Mamoru Hamada

Maurice Kyojin Chu

Akira Okamoto

Hiroki Murakami

Takao Okazaki

Tatsuaki Osafune

Hirofumi Koge

Akihiro Kondo

Rihito Adachi

Hiroshi Kage

Haruhiko Sawajiri

Masataka Shirozono

Hiroyoshi Endo

Satoshi Ueoka

Mitsuhiro Shirota

Tsuneo Sobue

Wataru Takeuchi

Yuki Nakao

Ryo Shimizu

Yuta Tamura

Hiroyuki Okano

Maribeth Joy Back

Mitsugu Kusunoki

Satoshi Ueyama

Eric M Lee

Tomoya Fukui

Takanori Koike

Kunihiko Kaga

Masayuki Oishi

Takahisa Aoyagi

Norikazu Nara

Mitsuo Kashima

Yasuo Nagashima

Susumu Yoshimura

Takumi Nishiyama

Mizuo Sakai

Takaaki Sekiguchi

Tetsuji Saikusa

Toshihiro Mochizuki

Kiichi Hamamoto

Kenichi Sakoda

Katsuyuki Umezawa

Shinichiro Minami

Kazukiyo Tamada

Kosuke Miyawaki

Satoshi Ajiki

Satoshi Michihata

Norihiro Yoneda

Takeo Nakada

Kazuhiro Miya

Takamasa Uemura

Hideki Takahara

Yusuke Wachi

Kenji Inagaki

Takashi Sekiya

Akira Takamori

An information display system including a status determination unit configured to acquire a distribution status based on a detection result of positions of objects to be avoided in a target area, the objects including one or more obstacles, one or more vehicles, one or more persons, one or more groups of persons, or combinations thereof, the distribution status of the objects capable of varying based on movement of the objects, a route generation unit configured to determine a gap between the plurality of objects through which a vehicle is capable of passing based on the distribution status of the plurality of objects as acquired, the route generation unit further configured to generate a scheduled route on which the vehicle is capable of traveling based on the gap between the plurality of objects as determined, and a device configured to display the scheduled route on a floor of the target area.

Information display system and information display method

A maintenance management system is provided with a management device that manages an air conditioner operated by an operation device and provided with a maintenance support device that supports maintenance of the air conditioner. A candidate display unit of the management device selects based on lifestyle information that shows a lifestyle of a user, a type to be presented to the user from among a plurality of types of a consumable item used in the air conditioner. The candidate display unit displays the selected type on the operation device as purchase candidates. A selection reception unit of the management device receives a candidate selected by the user from the purchase candidates, as a purchase consumable item. A purchase support unit of the management device lets the user purchase the purchase consumable item through an electronic commerce environment.

Maintenance management system, maintenance management method, and computer readable medium

A heat exchanger includes flat pipes and a gas header. The gas header longitudinally extends in a Y-direction such that refrigerant flows in the Y-direction, the flat pipes are spaced from each other in the Y-direction, joints inserted in the gas header in an X-direction are disposed at respective ends of the flat pipes, and gaps between the joints include a narrow gap and a wide gap, where the X-direction and the Y-direction are directions perpendicular to each other in a space.

Heat exchanger and refrigeration cycle apparatus

An object recognition device having a distance measurement sensor mounted on an own vehicle and detects the distance to the object an own vehicle location detector that detects an own vehicle position an object detector that detects the object position based on the distance data and the own vehicle position, and an object distinguisher that distinguishes whether the object is a static object or a moving object based on a distance data, a vehicle position, and an object position wherein the static object distinguished by the object distinguisher is recognized as a static object to be detected, it is possible to reduce the annoyance given to a human such as a driver before guiding the vehicle to the target parking position without erroneously recognizing the target parking space.

Object recognition device, path planning device, parking support device, object recognition system, path planning system and parking support system

A refrigerant distributor includes an outer pipe, an inner pipe, and a structural part. The refrigerant outflow hole is provided such that an angle θ between a lower end of the inner pipe on a vertical line passing through a center of the inner pipe and a position of presence of the refrigerant outflow hole as seen from the center of the inner pipe falls within a range of 10 degrees≤θ≤80 degrees. The refrigerant outflow hole comprises a sole refrigerant outflow hole provided in a vertical cross-section of the inner pipe at a position where the refrigerant outflow hole is provided.

Refrigerant distributor, heat exchanger, and air-conditioning apparatus

A heat exchanger includes: a heat exchange body having flat tubes arranged and spaced from each other in a horizontal direction; an upper header provided at an upper end of the heat exchange body; a lower header provided at a lower end of the heat exchange body; and a partition plate provided in at least one of the upper and lower headers to partition the heat exchange body into a plurality of regions in a horizontal direction. The partition plate is provided such that in each of the regions, refrigerant flows in the opposite direction to the flow direction of the refrigerant in an adjacent one of the region. The partition plate is also provided such that regarding the regions, the more downward the region relative to the flow of the refrigerant when the heat exchanger operates as a condenser, the smaller the region's flow passage cross-sectional area.

Heat exchanger, outdoor unit including heat exchanger, and air-conditioning apparatus including outdoor unit

An information management system includes: a first storage unit configured to store road information in which first information acquired by a first sensor and indicating that there is no stationary object on a road and second information acquired by a second sensor and indicating that there is a stationary object on the road are associated with each other; a second storage unit configured to store, for each of types of moving objects configured to move on the road, passage possibility information related to possibility of passage on the road; and a determination unit configured to determine, for each of the types, whether the road is usable for passage based on the road information and the passage possibility information.

Information management system, information management apparatus, and information management method

A heat exchanger includes: flat heat exchange tubes each having an elongated cross section and planar outer surfaces that face each other, and each including a fluid flow passage; and corrugated fins each formed in the shape of waves and provided between associated adjacent ones of the heat exchange tubes. The corrugated fins each having ridge portions that correspond to ridges of the waves and that are joined to the associated heat exchange tubes, the corrugated fin having fins that are located between the ridge portions and are arranged in a height direction. The fins include drain slits each of which allows drainage of water on an associated one of the fins, and end portions of the drain slits of adjacent ones of the fins in a horizontal direction are located at different positions in the drain slits, the adjacent fins being adjacent to each other in the height direction.

A heat exchanger includes a tubular refrigerant distributor having insertion holes spaced from each other in a first direction and into which ends of heat transfer tubes are inserted in a second direction. A first partition plate partitions the refrigerant distributor into a first space into which the ends of the heat transfer tubes are inserted and a second space, larger than the first space, into which the ends of the heat transfer tubes are not inserted; and an inflow pipe provided on a one side-surface side of the refrigerant distributor. The heat transfer tubes are located apart from the first partition plate in the first space. The first partition plate is provided with an orifice that is provided at a location corresponding to a space between adjacent ones of the heat transfer tubes, and that causes the first space and the second space to communicate with each other.

Heat exchanger and air-conditioning apparatus including the same

A heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat transfer tubes, a liquid header distributor, and a gas header distributor. The heat transfer tubes include U-shaped bent portions. The heat exchanger includes a heat exchanger core. A relationship between the liquid header distributor and the plurality of heat transfer tubes is established such that 9≤ζ is satisfied, where Lh [m] is the length of the liquid header distributor, Lb [m] is the length of the shortest one of the heat transfer tubes, and ζ is the ratio of the length Lb of the shortest heat transfer tube to the length Lh of the liquid header distributor and is expressed by ζ=Lb/Lh.

Outdoor unit and air-conditioning apparatus

A route generation device includes: a steering loaded state input unit to which a steering loaded state of a vehicle is inputted; a parking slot position input unit to which a position of a parking slot near the vehicle is inputted; a vehicle position input unit to which a position of the vehicle is inputted; a number-of-times-of-static-steering upper limit calculation unit configured to calculate, on the basis of the steering loaded state, a number-of-times-of-static-steering upper limit value up to which static steering of the vehicle can be performed between the position of the vehicle and the position of the parking slot; and a guidance route generation unit configured to generate a guidance route for guiding the vehicle to the parking slot, on the basis of the position of the vehicle, the position of the parking slot, and the number-of-times-of-static-steering upper limit value.

Route generation device, parking assist apparatus, route generation method, and parking assist method

Embodiments of the present invention provide a hollow cylindrical filter for removing efficiently foreign substances from fluids. This is performed by forming complicated passages including an axial direction and a radial direction in the filter. The hollow cylindrical filter is formed by winding a metal wire rod in a spiral and multilayered manner. The metal wire rod includes a recess formed throughout the entire length in a longitudinal direction, or recesses repeated along said longitudinal direction. Some wire rod layers extend in an axial direction of the hollow cylindrical filter while the adjacent wire rod layers extend in an intersecting direction, thereby forming a plurality of communication paths for communicating between the overlapping wire rod layers. Additionally, a space is formed between the recess of one wire rod layer and another adjacent wire rod layer, allowing the plurality of communication paths to communicate with each other.

Hollow cylindrical filter and manufacturing apparatus

A position of a user is recognized. A display unit () displays a content-display-frame (). A determination unit () determines whether the position of the user is within a predetermined range from a wall surface () or not. The display control unit () configured to display a content-display-frame on a floor surface () when the position of the user is farther than the predetermined range from the wall surface, and configured to display an operation input area () that receives an operation input from the user on the wall surface while displaying a content-display-frame to span from the floor surface to the wall surface when the position of the user is within the predetermined range from the wall surface.

A queue management device includes: a queue detection unit that, on the basis of a detection result of forming elements at a site subject to queue management, detects the state of the queue; a guidance position determination unit that, on the basis of the state of the queue detected by the queue detection unit, determines a guidance position where a guidance should be displayed; and a guidance display control unit that controls a display device such that the guidance is displayed at the guidance position determined by the guidance position determination unit.

Queue management device, queue management system, queue management method, and computer-readable storage medium

A refrigerating cycle apparatus includes a refrigerating cycle device having a refrigerating cycle, the refrigerating cycle in which a refrigerant is compressed in a compressor and made to circulate, and by a heat exchanger, heat is absorbed from a low temperature heat source and heat is exhausted to a high temperature heat source, and a control device that controls operation of the refrigerating cycle device. An obtaining unit obtains an operation operating request that controls the refrigerating cycle device arranged in a structure's interior to a target state. An operation control unit, when the operation operating request transmitted from an outside is obtained, controls the refrigerating cycle device to the target state with lower operation capacity than operation capacity of the refrigerating cycle device of a case where the operation operating request is transmitted from the structure's interior.

Refrigerating cycle apparatus, refrigerating cycle control system, and refrigerating cycle control method

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Takashi Matsumoto