Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Toshio Tanahashi

Yoji Kanehara

Koshi Yamada

Keisuke Takeuchi

Shin Noumura

Kaiji Itabashi

Yoshimitsu Agata

Norihiko Nakamura

Ken Koibuchi

Toshio Ito

Toyokazu Baika

Katsuhiko Hirose

Hiroshi Noguchi

Hiroshi Tanaka

Kingo Horii

Hiroyuki Hanamura

Norimi Asahara

Nobuaki Kayanuma

Takatoshi Masui

Takaaki Ito

Toshiyasu Katsuno

Yoshiki Chujo

Masanobu Kanamaru

Hironori Bessho

Yoji Takanami

Koji Uranishi

Tomohide Kawasaki

Toshinari Nagai

Shuhei Toyoda

Toshio Itoh

Takaaki Itou

Kiyoshi Nakanishi

Kazuhiro Itoh

Takeshi Okumura

Katsuhiko Motosugi

Kenji Katoh

Hiroshi Takahashi

Hidemi Ohnaka

Yasushi Sato

Masakatsu Sanada

Takao Tate

Ryuichi Deguchi

Haruyuki Obata

Michiaki Ujihashi

Norikatsu Ishikawa

Yasuo Fujioka

Yushiro Yasuda

Kazuo Tsuruoka

Hiroki Kaneko

Kazuhiro Maeda

Keiso Takeda

Naoto Suzuki

Takashi Kato

Yoshihiko Tsuzuki

Hideo Nagaosa

Hideo Sobukawa

Koji Yokota

Tadashi Suzuki

Koushi Yamada

Hidemi Onaka

Kiyoshi Uchida

Junichi Sudo

Kenichiro Sakurai

Kazuhisa Kunitake

Nagataka Sassa

Shinichi Matsunaga

Shinji Ichikawa

Yukio Mori

Keiji Aoki

Kouji Yoshizaki

Yuta Oshiro

Tatsuo Kobayashi

Toshiaki Asada

Yukio Kinugasa

Motonobu Akagi

Masato Itakura

Yukio Sawada

Yasuhiko Ishida

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Masahiko Masubuchi

Teruo Kumai

Sumio Ito

Hideto Takeda

Hiromi Otsuki

Ryo Nagasaka

Akira Takata

Kenichi Nomura

Hiroshi Hirayama

Kichiro Kato

Toshimi Murai

Shougo Sanda

Hisashi Oki

Eishi Ohno

Tomoyuki Honda

Yoshinari Takakura

Takeshi Hayashi

Youji Kanehara

Kazuhiro Ito

Masaki Suzuki

Kohichi Hasegawa

A vehicle includes a cover member provided in a trunk compartment of a vehicle body, and a flannel cloth arranged between an outer surface of the cover member and a rear floor panel. The flannel cloth is arranged so as to cover an entire region of the rear floor panel that faces the outer surface of the cover member.

Suppression of accumulated electric charges of a vehicle body

A key system for an automobile according to the present disclosure includes an on-vehicle device configured to transmit and receive a radio signal to and from an electronic key, and a resin panel through which the on-vehicle device is fixed to and held by a body of the automobile. The on-vehicle device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a search signal to the electronic key, a receiver configured to receive a response signal transmitted from the electronic key in response to the search signal, a control unit configured to control the transmission of the search signal, and a resin case. The smart key system for the automobile according to the present disclosure removes electrostatic charging generated by the search signal transmitted from the transmitter in either or both of the resin case and the resin panel.

Smart key system for automobile

During traveling of a vehicle body, a vehicle is provided with a vehicular static eliminator including a self-discharge static eliminating device that is attached to an outer surface of a lid of a fuse box mounted to a front compartment with a front grill, and a coversheet overlapped with an external surface of the self-discharge static eliminating device, in which the fuse box is disposed close to a hood and the coversheet includes Japanese paper.

Vehicle and vehicular static eliminator

A vehicle is positively charged with static electricity due to an external factor. The vehicle includes a battery, a static eliminator sheet, and a holding member. The battery includes at least one cell, an electrolyte, a resin case, and negative and positive terminals. The resin case accommodates the components and electrolyte of each cell. The negative terminal is grounded to the vehicle body. The positive terminal is supplied with electric power from a charger. The static eliminator sheet is made of a material on a positive side of a triboelectric series with respect to a material of the resin case. The holding member holds the static eliminator sheet and the resin case in contact with each other. The holding member holds the battery at a predetermined location of the vehicle body in a state where the resin case and the static eliminator sheet are slidable due to vehicle body vibrations.

Vehicle

A neutralization device that neutralizes static electricity on a portion of a vehicle exposed to outside. The neutralization device causes corona discharge according to a positive potential thereof. The neutralization device is attached to a surface exposed outwardly widthwise of the vehicle in at least one of an inner circumferential portion of a tire and a predetermined point of an outer surface of tire wheel.

Neutralization device for vehicles

An intake system of a vehicle, includes an air cleaner case, an air filter that is arranged inside the air cleaner case and positively charged, and a self discharge type static eliminator that decreases an amount of electrification charge on a wall surface of the air cleaner case within a limited range about a location where the self discharge type static eliminator is installed, when the self discharge type static eliminator is installed on the wall surface of the air cleaner case. An peripheral edge part of the air filter is held by an air filter holding part of the air cleaner case. The self discharge type static eliminator is installed on an outer wall surface of the air filter holding part of the air cleaner case.

Intake system of vehicle

A vehicle is provided in which separation of positively charged airflow from a positively charged surface of a vehicle body can be prevented. A vehicle body is insulated from a road surface, and positive static charges accumulate on the vehicle body during propulsion. The vehicle comprises a self-discharge device adapted to decrease a positive potential of a window pane at which positively charged airflow flowing along a vehicle surface deviates therefrom during propulsion by discharging the static electricity through the airflow to produce negative ions according to the positive potential of the window pane.

Provided is a vehicle electrification charge reducing apparatus, including: a steering operating device, a steering actuator; and a displacement transmitting system configured to transmit a displacement of the steering operating device to the steering actuator. At least one of the steering operating device, the steering actuator, or the displacement transmitting system includes two members that are engaged with each other through intermediation of a viscous lubricant agent so as to move relatively when the steering operating device is operated. A self-discharge type charge eliminator is fixed to a surface of a specific member forming the displacement transmitting system and the like, and the self-discharge type charge eliminator diselectrifies the specific member through self-discharge so as to decrease a charge amount of the specific member, to thereby decrease a difference in charge amount between the two members.

Vehicle electrification charge reducing apparatus

A vehicle and a manufacturing method thereof is provided in which separation of positively charged airflow from a positively charged surface of a vehicle body can be prevented. A vehicle body is insulated from a road surface, and positive static charges accumulate on the vehicle body during propulsion. The vehicle comprises a self-discharge device that is adapted to decrease a positive potential of at least any one of specific points at which positively charged airflow flowing along a vehicle surface deviates therefrom, during propulsion of the vehicle, by discharging static electricity to produce negative ions according to the positive potential of the specific point.

Vehicle and manufacturing method thereof

A vehicle suspension in which joint devices are interposed in coupling parts between a vehicle body and links serving as suspension components and coupling parts between the links and a wheel support component. Self-discharge type charge eliminators are provided on a surface of a specific component, which is at least one of the vehicle body, the links, the wheel support component, or the joint devices. The charge eliminator is configured to diselectrify the specific component by changing air around the charge eliminator to a negative air ion and attracting the air ion to positive electric charge of the specific component to neutralize the specific component, to thereby decrease a charge amount of the specific component and decrease charge amounts of rubber bushes and grease in the joint devices.

Vehicular suspension

A vehicle includes a vehicle body, a tire held by the vehicle body, an electric power control unit including at least one of an inverter and a converter, a case housing the electric power control unit, a first predetermined member connected to the vehicle body in an insulated state, a self-discharge static eliminator configured to reduce the positive potential of the first predetermined member by elimination of static electricity, and a transfer member electrically connecting a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion to each other. Accordingly, static electricity charged to the electric power control unit is transferred to a portion, where static elimination is performed by the self-discharge static eliminator, of the first predetermined member via the case and the transfer member so as to be neutralized and eliminated.

Vehicle and manufacturing method for vehicle

A wheel support device for a vehicle includes a bearing that rotatably supports a wheel, and is lubricated by a lubricant, a bearing support member, and a self-discharge type charge eliminator provided on a surface of a particular member. The self-discharge type charge eliminator is configured to change air around the self-discharge type charge eliminator into negative air ions, and eliminate charge by causing the air ions to attract positive charges of the particular member for neutralization, so as to reduce the quantity of charge of the particular member, and thereby reduce the quantity of charge of the lubricant.

Wheel support device for vehicle

A vehicle in which separation of airflow from a vehicle surface can be prevented without causing disfigurement is provided. A vehicle body is insulated from a road surface, and positive static charges accumulate on the vehicle body during propulsion. The vehicle comprises a charge control device adapted to decrease the positive potential of a separation point at which positively charged airflow flowing along a vehicle surface deviates from the vehicle surface during propulsion by applying negative ions to an inner surface of the separation point.

A vehicle which can neutralize static electricity accumulating on a vehicle body, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The vehicle comprises: a vehicle body sustained by tires; a battery; an earth cable electrically connecting a negative terminal of the battery to the vehicle body; a predetermined member connected to the vehicle body while being insulted to the vehicle body; a main self-discharge device that neutralizes the predetermined member; and a conducting member that connects a neutralizing area of the predetermined member that is neutralized by the main self-discharge device to the negative terminal of the battery or the earth cable.

A vehicle engine exhaust system includes an exhaust component and a non-conductive support member. The exhaust component is supported by a vehicle body via the non-conductive support member. The vehicle body and the exhaust component are positively charged. The vehicle engine exhaust system further includes a self discharge type static electricity eliminator that reduces, in a state where the self discharge type static electricity eliminator is installed on a non-conductive wall surface, an amount of electrification charge on the non-conductive wall surface within a limited area around a location where the self discharge type static electricity eliminator is installed. The self discharge type static electricity eliminator is installed on the non-conductive support member such that static electricity elimination is performed for the exhaust component.

Vehicle engine exhaust system

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Susono, Japan

Toshio Tanahashi