Alpha Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Nhk Spring Co., Ltd.

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Suzuki Motor Corporation

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Nissan Jidosha Kabushiki-kaisha

Takashi Ono

Masahiro Suzuki

Wataru Hirai

Yoshiaki Kisaka

Masahito Tomizawa

Yutaka Miyamoto

Takuya Ohara

Takao Toyama

Masanori Ikeda

Shigeki Aisawa

Mitsuo Nishizuka

Hiroshi Kamo

Kazuya Tanaka

Masaaki Yoshimi

Atsushi Kageyama

Hisashi Matsuoka

Makoto Igeta

Hirotsugu Hosoda

Kazumasa Nitta

Hiromu Toba

Shun Rai

Takefumi Mitsugi

Isamu Uemura

Masaya Onoda

Shingo Kuga

Jun Endo

A handle device for a vehicle includes a handle base fixed to a vehicle, and a handle main body connected to the handle base and configured to be able to be pulled out from an initial position. The handle base is provided with an adjustment portion. The adjustment portion is configured to be operable by being exposed to outside when the handle main body is pulled out from the initial position, and to adjust a position of the handle main body at the initial position.

Handle device for vehicle

A door opening/closing device includes an operation handle, a detection unit provided in the operation handle and configured to detect a contact state of a user with the operation handle, a door driving unit configured to open or close a door, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine that a first operation involving a direction is a user operation in which a user comes into contact with the operation handle, when the detection unit detects the first operation and a second operation. The control unit is configured to control the door driving unit and open or close the door based on the user operation.

Door opening/closing device and operation detection device, and door opening/closing method and operation detection method

A handle device for a vehicle in which an operating member linked to a base fixed to a door of a vehicle to be rotatably operable is operated so as to displace an output portion and operate a door lock device in the door linked to the output portion. A displacement amount in the output portion per unit operation angle of the operating member changes according to a rotation position of the operating member.

A seat cover, comprising: a cover main body that is formed by stitching together a plurality of covering pieces at a plurality of seam allowances, and that covers a padding material of a vehicle seat, with a portion of the plurality of seam allowances disposed at a back face side of the cover main body facing the padding material being turned over to lie along a surface of the padding material; and a low friction cloth that is attached to the back face side of the cover main body in a state straddling across the portion of the plurality of seam allowances, and that is interposed between the cover main body and the padding material, with a surface of the low friction cloth that contacts the portion of the plurality of seam allowances having a lower coefficient of friction than a coefficient of friction of the surface of the padding material.

Seat cover and vehicle seat

The purpose of this invention is to provide a vehicular reflective optical sensor that has improved control reliability. Said vehicular reflective optical sensor is provided with a control unit () that: emits detection light () at prescribed intervals from a light-emitting unit () on an exterior panel of a vehicle towards a detection region () set outside said vehicle; tests for a threshold-exceeded state in which the amount of light in a light reflection () received from the detection region () by a light-receiving unit () exceeds a prescribed detection threshold; and, if it is detected that a detection target has entered the detection region (), outputs a detection-confirmation signal. The control unit () uses, as the aforementioned detection threshold, the sum of a predetermined fixed value and an adjustment value comprising a summary statistic for the amounts of light in an appropriate number of light reflections () preceding the light reflection () on which the comparison is being performed.

Vehicular reflective optical sensor

An object of the present invention is to provide a photosensor unit with a structure which is simple and also does not cause decrease in detection accuracy. Provided is a photosensor unit including a light emitting elementand a light receiving elementhoused in a unit caseand configured such that reflected light of detection light emitted from the light emitting elementto the outside of the unit caseis received with the light receiving elementthe reflected light being reflected from the outside of the unit caseA plurality of the light emitting elementsare disposed around the light receiving elementand a passage space for the reflected light inside the unit caseis separated from a passage space for the detection light inside the unit caseby an appropriate partition

Photosensor unit with a condensing lens including a plurality of light-emitting convex lens

An object of the present invention is to provide a photosensor lens which, in the case of using a plurality of light emitting elements to form a reflective photosensor, can maximize the efficiency of light irradiation of the light emitting elements with a simple structure. Provided is a photosensor lens configured to condense irradiation light from a plurality of light emitting elementshoused in a unit casein a detection regionoutside the unit case, and to condense reflected light from the detection regionat a light receiving elementin the unit case. A single convex lens surfaceis formed on one side of the photosensor lens, and a light-receiving convex lens surfacesharing an optical axis with the single convex lens surface, and a plurality of light-emitting convex lens surfaceseach having an optical axis in parallel with the optical axis of the light-receiving convex lens surfaceare integrally formed on the opposite side of the photosensor lens.

Photosensor lens including a purality of convex lens surfaces

A seat back locking device for an automobile for a seat backconfigured so as to be capable of being changed from an upright position to a folded-down position and vice versa, including a locking mechanismfor locking the seat backin the upright position, a locking knobfor unlocking the locking mechanism, and a key cylindercapable of locking and unlocking the locking knob. In the locking device, a contact partthat comes into contact with a contacted partprovided on the locking knobis connectingly provided integrally with a cylinder bodyof the key cylinderso that the key cylindercan be changed over between a locked state in which the contact partcomes into contact with the contacted partto inhibit the rotation of the locking knoband an unlocked state in which the contact partdoes not come into contact with the contacted partto allow the rotation of the locking knob

Seat back locking device for automobile

A multiplexing and transmission apparatus including a transmitter and a receiver is provided. The transmitter includes a control pulses generating circuit generating control pulses having different phases; channel-frame generating circuits each outputting low-speed frame signal in synchronization with the control pulse; and a multiplexing circuit multiplexing the low-speed frame signals into the high-speed serial signal. The receiver includes a demultiplexer demultiplexing high-speed serial signal into low-speed frame signals; channel-frame synchronization circuits each generating a frame pulse corresponding to the low-speed frame signal; a switching circuit switching each of the low-speed frame signals to an appropriate port of the channel; and a switch controller circuit controlling the switching circuit.

Multiplexing and transmission apparatus

A signal transport system and a transport method are provided. A whole lowspeed signal containing a client overhead received from a client network is transparently subjected to time division multiplexing and an additional overhead is inserted in the whole signal and further subjected to wavelength division multiplexing, so that the digital signal having the addition overhead is transported in the wavelength division mode represented by one wavelength to a receiving equipment.

Transport system and transport method

A method of controlling an operation of a mobile base station that is linked to a mobile communication system via a wireless relay channel includes an information acquiring step of acquiring estimation-purpose base information for estimating a condition of radio interference between the mobile base station and one or more other base stations, the acquisition of the estimation-purpose base information being made by the mobile base station and involving measurement of a physical property responsive to a current position of the mobile base station, an estimation step of estimating the condition of radio interference based on the acquired estimation-purpose base information, and a control step of controlling an operation of the mobile base station based on the estimated condition of radio interference.

Controlling operation of mobile base station so as to avoid radio interference

Resin composition

An image processing apparatus includes an input unit for inputting image data having a plurality of pixels and representing whether each pixel is a white/black pixel, and a processing unit for performing a smoothing process for the image data to convert the input data into image data having a higher resolution than the input image data. The processing unit performs the smoothing process by performing interpolation processing for white pixels of the input image data.

Image processing method and apparatus

A reader for a facsimile apparatus comprises a line buffer capable of storing at least one line of read raw data and an image buffer for storing encoded image data, for reading an image in synchronism with a line sync signal. The image is continuously read at a period of the line sync signal until the image buffer becomes full, and after the image buffer has become full, the image is read at a period of at least two line sync signals, and when a vacent area of the image buffer subsequently exceeds a predetermined volume, the image is again read continuously at the period of the line sync signal.

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Yokohama, Japan

Takashi Ono