Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Denso Corporation

Tyco Electronics Japan G.k.

Other

Panasonic Corporation

Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki

Seisakusho & Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki

Tomoyuki Funayama

Shigeki Nishiyama

Tomoo Kakegawa

Koji Iwamoto

Naoyuki Takada

Yuya Goto

Kiyokazu Ohtaki

Toshio Asahi

Yuuto Kameyama

Masaki Hayashi

Noboru Yamamoto

Toshinori Aoki

Toru Maeda

Toru Yoshihara

Yoshinori Fukuoka

Yuji Fukano

Tsugumi Matsumoto

Yo Ikeda

Daisuke Kawamura

Ryuichi Komiyama

Yasuhisa Ohta

Toshihiro Nagae

Shoichi Harada

Hiroko Murakami

Hiroyasu Hasegawa

Masaki Yoshino

Hisashi Kato

Takashi Yanatsubo

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Hiroki Okada

Kiyokazu Ieda

Masahiro Tanaka

Eiji Mushiake

Goichi Oda

Hiroaki Okuchi

Tetsuya Egawa

Shozo Kito

Hisashi Inaba

Takeo Tsuzuki

Noriyuki Suzuki

Taichi Yamaguchi

Kenichi Ohue

Masanari Okuno

Takehiro Tabata

Tomohiko Kobayashi

Seiji Ishigaki

Noriyasu Onishi

Takeo Endo

Yoshihito Mizuno

Koji Sakamoto

Shoji Kakinuma

Kenji Tanaka

Hiroshi Mori

Masashi Tateishi

Masashi Komeya

Takayuki Hiramitsu

Sho Ogawa

Yukio Kunieda

Yukio Iwasaki

Osamu Inagaki

Masayuki Kawamura

Teruya Tomiyasu

Toshimasa Takagi

Fumihiro Kasano

Mitsuo Mori

Hidehiko Fujikawa

Satoshi Nagao

Daigo Akutsu

Hironori Mitsubayashi

Kazushi Goto

Toru Mugiuda

Toshikazu Mizutani

Mikito Yagyu

Takanobu Sasaki

Yasushi Noyori

Mitsuru Ogawa

Masaki Kawashima

Kenji Hidaka

Ryuzo Uda

Hiroyuki Yamada

Toyohiro Tani

Motomu Imaizumi

Katsuhiro Kato

Susumu Katayama

A vehicle authentication apparatus includes first and second communication devices, first and second area determination devices, and a control execution device. The first communication device specifies a first area as a communication area. The second communication device specifies a second area as the communication area. The first area determination device determines whether the mobile devices are present at the first area based on a communication status of the first communication device with the mobile devices. The second area determination device determines whether at least one of mobile devices is present at the second area based on a communication status of the second communication device with the mobile devices. The control execution device executes predetermined vehicle control in response to determining no mobile devices being present at the first area; and determining at least one of the mobile devices being present at the second area.

Vehicle authentication apparatus

A start switch device includes a start button configured to send a command to start or stop a vehicle drive device, a biometric sensor arranged on the start button for reading a biometric information of an operator to operate an operating surface of the start button, a light source configured to emit an illuminating light from an inside of the start button toward the operating surface, and a design part arranged around the biometric sensor on the operating surface and configured to define a design on the operating surface by the illuminating light transmitted therethrough.

Start switch device

A switch device includes a substrate provided with at least one first contact and including at least one through hole, and a contact rubber, being an elastic sheet covering the substrate, provided with a dome-shaped cavity configured to make a second contact portion including a second contact corresponding to the first contact elastically deformable to be capable of contacting to and separating from the first contact, a vent cavity portion provided corresponding to the through hole, and an air groove communicating with the cavity and the vent cavity portion between the substrate and the elastic sheet. The through hole is an independent through hole being not electrically connected to a circuit of the substrate.

Elastic switch device having vent cavity

A terminal performs communication with an in-vehicle device to control a vehicle. The terminal includes a controller configured to switch and set a plurality of operation modes, and a vibration detection unit configured to detect vibration of the terminal. The operation modes include a first mode, a second mode different from the first mode, and a third mode where communication with the in-vehicle device is more restricted than in the first mode and the second mode. The controller is configured to, when the first mode is executed, in a case where vibration is not detected in the vibration detection unit for a predetermined time, switch the operation mode to the third mode, and when the second mode is executed, in a case where vibration is not detected in the vibration detection unit for a time longer than the predetermined time, switch the operation mode to the third mode.

Terminal, vehicle control system, and vehicle control method for switching an operation mode of the terminal based on detected vibration

A switch device includes a substrate provided with at least one first contact and including at least one through hole, and a contact rubber, being an elastic sheet covering the substrate, provided with a dome-shaped cavity configured to make a second contact portion including a second contact corresponding to the first contact elastically deformable to be capable of contacting to and separating from the first contact, a vent cavity portion provided corresponding to the through hole, and an air groove communicating with the cavity and the vent cavity portion between the substrate and the elastic sheet. The air groove includes a non-linear path.

Switch device

An electrical connector assembly comprises a first connector including a first housing having a mating opening, a second connector including a second housing configured to be mated with the mating opening of the first connector, and a drainage structure provided on and corresponding to a boundary portion between the first housing and the second housing. The boundary portion faces the mating opening. The drainage structure includes a convex region having a top at the boundary portion, a first concave region continuous with the convex region and formed in the first housing, and a second concave region continuous with the convex region and formed in the second housing.

Electrical connector assembly with a drainage structure

A portable device communicates with a vehicle, and the portable device includes: a motion sensor; a control unit configured to determine whether or not abnormality has occurred in the motion sensor, based on an output from the motion sensor; and an output unit configured to perform an output representing abnormality in the motion sensor, when the control unit determines that abnormality has occurred in the motion sensor.

Portable device and vehicle

A vehicle control device is configured to be connected to an antenna and to a sensor by a common wire. The vehicle control device includes an electronic control unit configured to perform a determination process of determining a vehicle operation corresponding to a signal received from the sensor, determine whether the determination process is completed, and transmit a drive signal to the antenna after determining that the determination process is completed and upon the vehicle operation being determined, the drive signal being transmitted to the antenna such that the antenna transmits a radio signal.

Vehicle control device

An in-vehicle communication device includes a transmission controller configured to perform control so that a first signal is transmitted from outside and a predetermined second signal is transmitted from outside and inside, after the transmission of the first signal, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the terminal device is present outside or inside based on a first response signal that is transmitted from the terminal device after the transmission of the second signal. When the determination unit is unable to determine whether the terminal device is present outside or inside, the transmission controller is configured to perform control so that a third signal is transmitted from inside, and the determination unit is configured to determine whether the terminal device is present outside or inside based on a second response signal that is transmitted from the terminal device after the transmission of the third signal.

In-vehicle communication device and communication method

A vehicle control system includes a first transmitter that transmits a predetermined first signal over a predetermined area, a first receiver and a second receiver that receive second and third signals, a detector that detects the field intensities of the received signals, a second transmitter that transmits a signal through an RF-band radio wave, and an electronic control unit that operates an in-vehicle device based on the third signal received by the first receiver and restrains or prohibits the in-vehicle device from being operated based on the third signal when the field intensity of the third signal is lower than the field intensity of the second signal by a value greater than a predetermined standard.

Vehicle control system and vehicle control device

Provided is a vehicle control system that performs detection and authentication of an electronic key being present in a detection range on a periphery of a vehicle, on the basis of polling performed by an on-vehicle apparatus. Any one of the on-vehicle apparatus and a first electronic key includes: a determination section configured to determine whether or not communication, between the on-vehicle apparatus and the first electronic key, in which the first electronic key returns a signal in response to a signal transmitted from the on-vehicle apparatus is continuously performed for not less than a predetermined time period; and a first processing section configured to restrict a response, by the first electronic key, to a first polling signal transmitted from the on-vehicle apparatus, when the determination section has determined that the communication is continuously performed for not less than the predetermined time period.

Vehicle control system

An electrical connector comprises a housing having a water stop groove and a region disposed between an end of the housing and the water stop groove. The water stop groove extends along a circumferential direction of the housing orthogonal to a mating direction of the electrical connector. The water stop groove is dimensioned to allow a surface tension to act on a quantity of water accumulated in the region.

Electrical connector and electrical connector assembly

A vehicle control device configured to perform transmission of a drive signal for driving an antenna and reception of a detection signal from a sensor detection unit configured to detect a user operation by common wire, and a controller configured to control the antenna driving unit to transmit the drive signal. The controller is configured to determine whether the determination process is being performed by the sensor detection signal determination unit each when the antenna driving unit transmits the drive signal. The controller is configured to cause the antenna driving unit to transmit the drive signal after the sensor detection signal determination unit finishes the determination process in a case where the controller determines that the determination process is being performed by the sensor detection signal determination unit.

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Tomoyuki Funayama