Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Boshoku Corporation

Yasuhiro Saito

Motoichi Murakami

Hideto Morishita

Ippei Fukutomi

Katsuichi Miyasaka

Haruaki Sakata

Toshiaki Mori

Koji Morita

Masatoshi Hiyoshi

Keigo Ikeda

Daiki Yokoyama

Hiroaki Kiyokami

Masashi Takagi

Mamoru Tohyama

Toshihiro Takahara

Takuya Kodama

Narihito Tatsuda

Kazushi Hosomi

Hiroki Izu

Hiroshi Moritani

Yasuhiro Ohmiya

Junichi Ohashi

Mitsutaka Matsumura

Mitsuyoshi Yokokawa

Kazuo Yaegashi

A remote controller includes: an acquisition unit; a detection unit; a control value generation unit; and a transmission unit. The control value generation unit generates a retreat control value if at least either one of a first case and a second case applies. The first case includes two or more moving objects overlapping each other in the sensor information. The second case includes establishing an expectation before sensor information acquisition that the two or more moving objects overlap each other when the sensor information is acquired. The retreat control value defines the running motion of at least any of the moving objects establishing a locational relationship allowing a detection subject moving object of the moving objects as a subject of detection using the sensor information to be detected by the detection unit without causing an overlap of the detection subject moving object with a different one of the moving objects.

Remote controller, remote control system, and remote control method

A remote control device includes, at least one processer configured to perform processes including, acquiring three-dimensional point cloud data measured using a distance measuring device, estimating at least one of a position and an orientation of a moving object in the three-dimensional point cloud data by matching a template point cloud indicating the moving object with the three-dimensional point cloud data, determining a start position to start matching of the template point cloud with the three-dimensional point cloud data; and generating a control command for remotely controlling the moving object using at least one of the estimated position and the estimated orientation of the moving object and transmit the control command to the moving object.

Remote control device

An EGR device includes an inlet portion into which EGR gas is introduced, a first outlet portion, a second outlet portion, and a passage portion. The first outlet portion and the second outlet portion each conduct, to the corresponding branch passage portion, the EGR gas that has been introduced through the inlet portion. The passage portion allows gas to flow between the inlet portion and the first outlet portion and between the inlet portion and the second outlet portion. The passage portion includes: a main passage that connects the inlet portion to the first outlet portion and to the second outlet portion; and an expansion chamber that is expanded outward from the main passage. The main passage includes a connecting portion. The connecting portion is connected to the second outlet portion and extends in a first direction. The expansion chamber is expanded outward from the connecting portion.

EGR device

An oil deterioration suppressing apparatus is provided. The apparatus may include a filtering portion including a filter element for filtering oil, and a deterioration suppressing portion including a powdery deterioration retarder which suppresses deterioration of oil. The deterioration suppressing portion may include a flow passage wall which holds the powdery deterioration retarder and defines an oil flow passage, and the powdery deterioration retarder includes mesoporous inorganic material.

Oil deterioration suppressing apparatus

An oil deterioration prevention device is provided that can prevent an increase in pressure loss by reducing oilflow resistance. The oil deterioration prevention device may include a filtering unit with a filter element that filters oil, and a deterioration prevention unit having a powdery deterioration prevention agent that prevents deterioration of oil, wherein out of oil fed from an oil containing unit, oil filtered by the filtering unit is fed to a part to be lubricated, and oil that is prevented from being deteriorated by the deterioration prevention unit is returned to the oil containing unit or sent to the part to be lubricated.

Oil deterioration prevention device

An oil degradation suppressor according to one aspect of the present invention contains a reactant having an ability to adsorb a given component in an oil such as an acidic anion, and a gel-like material to hold the reactant. The reactant is preferably a hydrotalcite-like compound. The gel-like material contains a highly heat resistive gel and an amphiphilic solvent. A gel-like member containing the reactant and the gel-like material is disposed in a casing, and thereby an oil filter is provided. The gel-like material can work for supporting the reactant suitably.

Oil degradation suppressor

An oil additive includes a hydrotalcite-like compound, and a radical trapping agent having a melting point of 130&#xb0; C. or higher.

Oil additive and oil filter

An electric motor includes a rotor shaft, and the rotor shaft has a shaft-core oil passage and radial oil passages. The shaft-core oil passage includes an inner wall facing radially inward. The radial oil passages are provided toward a radial outer side of the rotor shaft from the shaft-core oil passage. The radial oil passages penetrate through the rotor shaft. The radial oil passages have corresponding one of first connection openings connected to the shaft-core oil passage, so that oil that is not discharged from the first connection openings to the radial oil passage is supplied to other supply destinations. A distance of the first connection openings from the shaft core is shorter than a distance, from the shaft core, of that part of the inner wall which is not provided with the first connection openings.

Electric motor

An oil deterioration prevention device is provided that can prevent an increase in pressure loss by reducing oilflow resistance. The oil deterioration prevention device may include a filtering unit including a filter element that filters oil, and a deterioration prevention unit including a powdery deterioration prevention agent that prevents deterioration of oil, wherein the deterioration prevention unit includes a passage wall that retains the deterioration prevention agent and forms an oil passage.

A fluid filter including: an upper case provided with an outlet hole; a lower case provided with an inlet hole; and a filter element held between the upper case and lower case, wherein the outlet hole and the inlet hole are arranged opposite to each other. The filter element includes a first filter material which is folded and arranged in a communication part connecting the outlet hole and the inlet hole, and a second filter material which is folded and spaced apart from the communication part, and the retention interval Lof the first filter material in the fold line direction is smaller than the retention interval Lof the second filter material in the fold line direction.

Fluid filter

A fluid filter including: an upper case member having a flow outlet; a lower case member having a flow inlet; a filter element having a folded filter material and a holding frame which holds the circumferential part of the filter material and is sandwiched between the upper case member and the lower case member; and a reinforcing member provided to extend in a direction crossing the ridge line direction of the folds of the filter material, the reinforcing member is provided in such a manner that, when the height of the folds is defined as h, the lower end thereof is positioned above a position of 0.6 hfrom the upper end of the folds.

The present apparatus includes an oil container (an oil pan); an oil path connecting the oil container to lubricated parts; an oil pump provided in the oil path and supplying the lubricating oil from the oil container to the lubricated parts; a bypass path having a first end side thereof connected to a downstream side of the oil pump of the oil path and a second end side thereof connected to an upstream side of the oil pump of the oil path; a fuel separator provided in the bypass path and separating fuel from the lubricating oil flowing in the bypass path; and an open/close valve provided in the bypass path and opening and closing the bypass path based on a temperature of the lubricating oil or a physical quantity the lubricating oil having a correlation with the temperature.

Diluting fuel-in-oil treating apparatus of internal combustion engine

The present apparatus includes a cross-flow filtration fuel separator having a separation membrane separating by permeation, fuel from lubricating oil flowing in an oil circuit of an internal combustion engine; a vapor-liquid separator separating the fuel separated by the fuel separator, into a gas component and a liquid component; and a fuel collector (canister) collecting the gas component of the fuel separated by the vapor-liquid separator.

An object of the present invention is to provide an oil tank structure capable of cooling oil flowing into the oil tank to properly adjust the oil temperature, and also capable of preventing overcooling. The oil tank structure includes a tank portion; an oil introducing portion that is provided in a sidewall of the tank portion and introduces oil in a direction tangential to the sidewall; at least one groove-like passage portion that is formed along a circumference of the sidewall so to allow the introduced oil to flow in and out; an oil cooling portion that is provided on the sidewall and cools the groove-like passage portion; and an outlet formed in a bottom of the tank portion. By such an oil tank structure, oil having a high temperature easily flows into the groove-like passage portion due to its low viscosity, and is cooled by the oil cooling portion. On the other hand, oil having a low temperature is prevented from flowing into the groove-like passage portion, and is less likely to be cooled by the oil cooling portion. Accordingly, overcooling of the oil can be suppressed.

Oil tank structure

The automatic transmission fluid filter includes a plastic upper case having an outlet port, a plastic lower case having an inlet port, and a filter element including a filter medium and a plastic holder frame holding the periphery of the filter medium and held between the upper case and lower case, at least one of the upper case and lower case including a pair of joint portions respectively joined to opposite walls a of the holder frame, and a connecting wall connecting the pair of joint portions and having a circular arc longitudinal cross section protruding outward of one case.

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Tokoname, Japan

Yasuhiro Saito