Denso Corporation

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Yoko Ichikawa

Yuji Sugimoto

Shigetoshi Fukaya

Naoki Nakane

Toshihiro Hattori

Koji Numata

Toru Yamazaki

Masaaki Hisada

Syuichi Kono

In a mobile antenna, an electrically conductive antenna element has a first portion with one end and the other end extending therefrom. The one end of the first portion is arranged at least adjacent to any one of a first support portion, a second support portion, and a corner portion of a body of a vehicle. The one end of the first portion is electrically connected to a feeding point. The other end of the first portion is arranged along a surface of the window such that polarized surfaces formed by the antenna element are non-orthogonal to a polarized surface of each of a vertically polarized wave and a horizontally polarized wave in radio waves.

Mobile antenna mounted on a vehicle body

An angular position determining apparatus is provided which includes a magnet affixed to a rotary shaft and a plurality of magnetic sensor elements and works to determine an angular position of the rotary shaft using outputs of the magnetic sensor elements. The apparatus also includes a malfunction detector which specifies which of the magnetic sensor elements is now malfunctioning and takes an action required to determine the angular position of the rotary shaft correctly in the event of such a malfunction.

Angular position determining apparatus with malfunction detector

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Yoko Ichikawa