Denso Corporation

Takashi Matsuoka

Hideki Seki

Takuya Kataoka

Masaru Kakizaki

Taiji Kawachi

Yuuki Shimizu

A heating and cooling stimulation device includes a stimulation supply unit configured to supply hot stimulation and cold stimulation to a subject; an estimation unit configured to estimate a fatigue level of the subject; and a control unit configured to control an operation of the stimulation supply unit so as to supply the hot stimulation and the cold stimulation alternately to the subject in accordance with the fatigue level estimated by the estimation unit. The control unit controls the operation of the stimulation supply unit such that an amount of the cold stimulation received by the subject increases as the fatigue level estimated by the estimation unit becomes higher.

Heating and cooling stimulation device

An alertness maintenance apparatus includes a stimulation controller that is configured to cause a stimulation device to generate multiple types of temperature stimuli maintaining an alert state of a subject person, the temperature stimuli including a temperature stimulus to a hand of the subject person and also including a temperature stimulus to a face of the subject person or a temperature stimulus to a torso of the subject person via a seat on which the subject person sits.

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Kariya, Japan

Takashi Matsuoka