Denso Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshio Hayashi

Toshiaki Nakayama

Hiroyuki Kado

Masao Ino

Yasushi Kawano

Hiroyoshi Murakami

Tetsuji Yamanaka

Shoji Yokoyama

Akiyuki Sudou

Shunsuke Rikitake

Kazushige Maruyama

Hitoshi Yoshimura

Suminobu Otsubo

Masakazu Ozawa

Junichi Fukumoto

Masumi Shibata

Takashi Chaya

An air cleaner has a body, an intake part to take air into the body, an exhaust pipe to exhaust the air from the body, a mounting section to mount an air flow meter to the exhaust pipe, a rib disposed on an inner surface of the body, and a straightening element disposed on an inner surface of the exhaust pipe. The rib extends toward the exhaust pipe and the straightening element extends in a same direction where the rib extends. The straightening element is located closer to the body than the mounting section.

Air cleaner

A vehicle existence informing device is configured to inform existence of a vehicle by using a warning sound at a frequency in an audible range. A speaker array includes at least two speakers arranged so that oscillation directions of oscillators of the at least two speakers substantially coincide with each other. The speaker array is configured to radiate a warning sound in air on a carrier wave, which is at a frequency in an ultrasonic range. A phase control unit is configured to advance and delay a phase of a sound wave radiated from one of the at least two speakers with respect to a phase of a sound wave radiated from another of the at least two speakers.

Vehicle existence informing device and method for informing existence of a vehicle

An electromagnetic alarm device includes a current interrupter to interrupt an electricity supply to a coil on application of a self-excited voltage to oscillate a diaphragm with a moving core to generate a first alarm sound including a fundamental tone at a first predetermined frequency, when a switch is manipulated by an occupant. A proximity notification device includes an ultrasonic speaker to emit an ultrasonic wave, which is generated by implementing ultrasonic modulation on a proximity notification sound, to an outside of the vehicle for notifying a pedestrian of proximity of the vehicle, according to a traveling state of the vehicle and/or when a sensor detects a pedestrian. The ultrasonic speaker emits an ultrasonic wave, which is generated by implementing ultrasonic modulation on a second alarm sound including a fundamental tone at a second frequency, when the switch is manipulated.

Vehicular annunciation device and method for notifying proximity of a vehicle having an ultrasonic speaker

A housing has an intake passage extending substantially in a vertical direction of a vehicle. A valve is configured to open and dose the intake passage. A shaft supports the valve. A bearing supports the shaft. A hose is connected with an upper side of the housing in the vertical direction and configured to lead intake air into the intake passage. A communication passage configured to communicate an inside of an internal combustion engine of the vehicle with the hose. The communication passage has an opening in the vicinity of a point directly above the bearing. The hose has a wall surface defining a condensate passage, which connects the opening with a target location from which condensate is to be dropped.

Air intake apparatus for internal combustion engine

A housing has an intake passage extending substantially in a vertical direction of a vehicle. A valve is configured to open and close the intake passage. A shaft supports the valve. A bearing supports the shaft. A hose is connected with an upper side of the housing in the vertical direction and configured to lead intake air into the intake passage. A communication passage configured to communicate an inside of an internal combustion engine of the vehicle with the hose. The communication passage has an opening in the vicinity of a point directly above the bearing. The hose has a wall surface defining a condensate passage, which connects the opening with a target location from which condensate is to be dropped.

A vehicle presence alert apparatus for alerting a target object to a presence of the vehicle via an alert sound with a frequency in an audible range is disclosed. The vehicle presence alert apparatus includes: a sound emitter configured to (i) cause a carrier wave with a frequency in an ultrasonic range to carry the alert sound, and (ii) emit the carrier wave carrying the alert sound as a radiation wave toward the target object; a sound receiver configured to receive a reflected wave, the reflected wave being generated due to reflection of the radiation wave by the target object; and relative velocity calculation means for calculating a relative velocity of the target object with respect to the vehicle based on a frequency of the radiation wave and a frequency of the reflected wave.

Vehicle presence alert apparatus

A vehicle presence notification apparatus generates a notice sound by emitting an ultrasonic wave in mid air based on an ultrasonic signal modulated according to an audible sound. During proceeding in mid air, the modulated ultrasonic wave is self-demodulating to become an audible sound. The audible sound posterior to the self-demodulation has a significant directionality like the ultrasonic wave. The notice sound is thus conveyed mainly to a pedestrian who is present in a dangerous area range where a danger needs to be taught. In addition, the vehicle presence notification apparatus includes a sensor-use ultrasonic transducer device having a transducers. The transducer device serves as a vehicle velocity sensor by transmitting an ultrasonic wave towards a road surface based on an ultrasonic wave signal or modulated ultrasonic wave, thereby enabling the vehicle presence notification apparatus to acquire vehicle velocity information by itself.

Vehicle presence notification apparatus

A swirl generator is arranged in a duct through which air is sent from the exterior to an air cleaner. The swirl generator has a plurality of guide vanes, which change the flow direction of an air flow. Each of the guide vanes has a guide fin that adjusts the air flow and a deflecting fin that applies swirl force to the air flow. The deflecting fin is configured by an upstream portion and a downstream portion, which are connected together at a predetermined angle. The upstream portion and the downstream portion each have a cross section extending linearly along a cylindrical plane coaxial with a nose cone.

Swirl generator

A bearing support device includes a rotor, a bearing member, and a bearing holding member. The rotor rotates about a rotation center axis. The bearing member rotatably supports the rotor within a bearing hole passing through the bearing member. The bearing holding member holds the bearing member in a secure manner within a fitting hole that passes through the bearing holding member along the center axis of the rotor via an engagement force produced by tightly fitting the bearing member. The rotor and bearing member are made of a resin. An engagement section is provided for tightly fitting the bearing member into the fitting hole relative to the bearing hole to enable an engagement force produced by the tight fitting to act in a direction that does not affect an inner diameter dimension of the bearing hole.

Bearing support device

An intermediate resin molded body is put between two outer resin molded bodies, and a molten resin is injected substantially simultaneously into a first interface between one outer resin molded body of the two outer resin molded bodies and the intermediate resin molded body and a second interface between the other outer resin molded body and the intermediate resin body, so that the two outer resin molded bodies and the intermediate resin molded body are welded together.

Intake system and method for producing the same

A suction device used for an internal combustion engine includes a throttle passage, which is arranged on the upstream side, and also includes an air connector, a surge tank and suction manifolds which are arranged on the downstream side of the throttle passage. An opening section of the air connector arranged in the longitudinal direction on a side wall face of the surge tank is provided on a wall face corresponding to a position which becomes a substantial center of the suction manifold which is open to the surge tank. Due to the foregoing, intake air can be evenly distributed to the suction manifold, and lengths of the passages can be made equal to each other. Accordingly, the generation of a rumbling noise can be suppressed. Further, the suction manifold substantially encircles the outer circumferential wall faces of the surge tank and others. Therefore, it is possible to ensure a preferable passage length for obtaining the air charging efficiency corresponding to a running state of the internal combustion engine, and the engine output can be enhanced.

Suction device used for internal combustion engine

An alarm device of an anti-theft system for a vehicle is composed of a microcomputer ordinary connected by a power-supply wire to a vehicle battery, an electric-sound-generator driven by the microcomputer, a wire-disconnection-detecting-circuit for detecting disconnection of the power-supply-wire of the alarm device from a vehicle battery, an integrated auxiliary battery connected to the microcomputer and the sound-generator, a transistor for cutting power supply to the microcomputer from the auxiliary battery when the anti-theft system is not on the watch, sensors for detecting access to the vehicle compartment and an outside controller connected to the sensors to turn on the transistor when the system is on the watch and turns off the transistor when the system is not on the watch. If the access to the vehicle compartment or wire-disconnection is detected while the anti-theft system is on the watch, the microcomputer drives the sound-generator to give the alarm.

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Obu, Japan

Toshio Hayashi