Denso Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Denso Corpora Tion

Takuya Nomura

Mitsuyasu Matsuura

Taketo Harada

Motonari Ohbayashi

Yu Koyama

Keiu Kanada

Hironobu Ishijima

Shinya Sano

Masaaki Ito

Kazuaki Haga

Satoru Noro

Toshimitsu Takahashi

Yasuhide Yagyu

Hisanori Koma

Takeshi Tomonaga

Mayumi Takazawa

Tetsuya Aoyama

Kensuke Komori

Tatsuhiko Hirano

Taiki Yoshida

Hiroaki Wakimoto

Akihiro Kida

Motoki Hiraoka

Motonari Obayashi

Daisuke Ichigozaki

Masakazu Takeichi

Hidenori Tanaka

Yohei Suzuki

Syoya Ishida

Dai Kondo

Reimi Sakaguchi

Ukyo Tanikawa

Mitsutoshi Akita

Fumihiko Matsushita

Yasushi Suehisa

Sakiko Nishino

Kenzo Kano

Shunsuke Nakano

Shotaro Tanaka

An ultrasonic sensor (), that transmits probe waves which are ultrasonic waves and acquires detection waves including reflected waves which have been reflected from surrounding objects, includes a transmitter/receiver () that transmits the probe waves and acquires the detection waves, a detection wave processing section () that executes processing for passing a predetermined frequency band which includes the frequency of the probe waves, an amplitude measurement section () which measures the amplitude of the detection waves, and a judgement section () which judges whether there is adherence of foreign matter on the transmitter/receiver, based on a relationship between a time axis and values of the amplitude of the detection waves during a reverberation interval following the termination of transmitting the probe waves.

Ultrasonic sensor

An object detection device includes a drive signal generation unit provided to generate a drive signal for driving a transmitter configured to transmit a search wave to the outside, and a control unit provided to control output of the drive signal from the drive signal generation unit to the transmitter. The drive signal generation unit generates a first drive signal corresponding to a first search wave and a second drive signal corresponding to a second search wave having an encoding scheme that is different from the encoding scheme of the first search wave. The control unit causes the drive signal generation unit to output the first drive signal and the second drive signal to the transmitter at different timings so that one of the first and second search waves is transmitted in a transmission interval between transmissions of the other search wave.

Object detection device

An object detection device for detecting an object by transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves, includes a transmitter that transmits an ultrasonic wave, two or more receivers, each of which receives an ultrasonic wave and outputs an reception signal according to the received ultrasonic wave, a comparator that compares the plurality of reception signals output from the two or more receivers and calculates a degree of similarity between the plurality of reception signals, and a determiner that makes a determination as to whether there is an object to be detected, based on the degree of similarity.

In an axial gap motor, a rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores fixed in a circumferential direction of a rotor base, and a stator includes a plurality of stator cores fixed in a circumferential direction of a stator base, and coils wound around the stator cores. End faces of each of the rotor cores and end faces of the corresponding stator core are opposed to each other while being exposed to each other.

Axial gap motor with curved rotor and stator cores

An image recognizer is enabled to appropriately recognize a traffic signal applicable to an own vehicle. A traffic signal detector is configured to detect traffic signals based on an image of a front view of the own vehicle captured from the own vehicle. A calculator is configured to calculate a degree by which a front of the traffic signal faces the own vehicle based on the image. The traffic signal identifier is configured to identify a traffic signal applicable to the own vehicle based on the degree.

Image recognizer and image recognition method

A plurality of ultrasonic sensors are configured such that search ultrasonic waves transmitted from the respective ultrasonic sensors have mutually different characteristics that are mutually distinguishable. A transmission timing setting unit is configured to set a transmission timing of transmitting the search ultrasonic wave for each of the ultrasonic sensors, such that the plurality of ultrasonic sensors transmit the respective search ultrasonic waves at respective transmission timings that are mutually different. The transmission timing setting unit is configured to set a delay time between a first transmission timing, which is a transmission timing of the first ultrasonic sensor, and a second transmission timing, which is a transmission timing of the second ultrasonic sensor, with the delay time being determined based on a positional relationship between the first ultrasonic sensor and the second ultrasonic sensor.

Object detection device, object detection method, and control device

A motor includes a rotor fixed to a rotary shaft, a stator arranged so as to surround the rotor with a gap from the rotor in a radial direction orthogonal to an axis direction of the rotary shaft, and a case accommodating the rotor and the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores made from a soft magnetic material, and a rotor fixing member that fixes the rotor cores. The stator includes a plurality of stator cores made from a soft magnetic material, a stator fixing member that fixes the stator cores, and coils wound around the stator cores, respectively. The motor includes at least two sets of the rotor and the stator, and the sets are stacked in an axis direction of the rotary shaft.

Motor

The method for manufacturing the Halbach magnet array includes the steps of: (a) magnetizing at least two first magnetic material pieces in a direction parallel to a first direction, and (b) magnetizing at least one second magnetic material piece in a direction parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, in this order. In the step (a), the first magnetic material pieces and the second magnetic material piece are alternately arranged in the second direction with the first magnetic material pieces being each adhered to the adjacent second magnetic material piece, and the magnetization is performed under a condition in which a residual magnetization ratio rof the first magnetic material pieces is higher than a residual magnetization ratio rof the second magnetic material piece.

Method for manufacturing Halbach magnet array

An object detection device includes: a wave receiver that receives a reflected wave generated by reflection, by an object, of a transmission wave incident on the object; a determination section that determines whether, in a change over time in an amplitude of the reflected wave received by the wave receiver, an amplitude of a falling portion is greater than a predetermined criterion, the amplitude of the falling portion being decreased after the amplitude has reached a maximum value; and a processing section that, on the basis of a determination by the determination section that the amplitude of the falling portion is greater than the predetermined criterion, performs a process in which the object is treated as an object to be avoided.

An ultrasonic sensor includes: a first electrode that is provided in an ultrasonic microphone including a vibration element having a function of performing conversion between mechanical vibration and an electrical signal; a second electrode that is provided at a position different from the first electrode in an in-plane direction intersecting a directional axis of the ultrasonic microphone; and a detection section that is provided to detect the presence or absence of attached matter attached to the ultrasonic sensor on the basis of a change in capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode.

An object detection device is applied to an object detection system which includes an object detection sensor installed in a vehicle so as to be oriented outward to detect an object around the vehicle. The object detection device includes: an error-handling control section that notifies a user of a detection error, if any, occurring in the object detection sensor, and brings the object detection system into an error-handling state; an action determination section that determines whether an error correction action has been performed by a user to correct the detection error, under conditions where the user has been notified of the detection error occurring in the object detection sensor; and a cancellation control section that relaxes predetermined cancellation conditions for cancelling the error-handling state when the error correction action is determined to have been performed, compared to when not performed.

An ultrasonic type object detection apparatus sequentially detects a distance between an ultrasonic sensor and an object in a coverage of a transmission wave at a predetermined detection cycle based on a time taken for the ultrasonic sensor to transmit the transmission wave and then to receive a reflection wave. The apparatus includes: a storage storing the distance to the object; a vehicle information acquisition device acquiring vehicle information for calculating a movement distance; a detection distance predictor predicting a next detected distance to the object based on a past detection result and the vehicle information; and a short range determinator determining whether the object is present in a short range area in which the distance between the object and the ultrasonic sensor is equal to or shorter than a short range threshold.

Ultrasonic type object detection apparatus

An object detection apparatus applied to a vehicle having a sensor unit mounted on a predetermined member provided to the vehicle, the sensor unit being provided with an object detection sensor that detects position information of an object present around the vehicle and a tilt sensor that detects a tilt angle as inclination with respect to a predetermined direction, and performing a process of detecting the object based on the position information of the object detected by the object detection sensor, the object detection apparatus comprising a detachment state determination section that determines a detachment state of the predetermined member based on the tilt angle detected by the tilt sensor.

Object detection apparatus

An object detection device which determines an amplitude Aof an ultrasonic wave received by a receiving unit, detects a frequency fof the ultrasonic wave, sweeps a frequency fof a pulse signal after a predetermined time has elapsed from start of generation of the pulse signal, and determines that the received ultrasonic wave is a reflected wave of the probe wave when the frequency fafter the amplitude Abecomes a predetermined reference value or more from start of transmission of the probe wave makes the same change as the frequency f. When an ultrasonic wave received by a receiver is determined to be a reflected wave of the probe wave, the object detection unit calculates a distance to an object based on a time from transmission of the probe wave to reception of the ultrasonic wave.

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Kariya, Japan

Takuya Nomura