Denso Corporation

Yoshihide Itou

Satoshi Takeuchi

Kazuhiro Umetani

Soji Masui

Sho Okuda

Yoichi Kajino

Naoyuki Kurake

Shuntaro Iguro

A camera module is mountable to an inner side of a front windshield of a vehicle and is configured to capture an image of an external environment of the vehicle. The camera module includes an optical assembly, a camera casing, and an adhesive. The optical assembly includes an assembly reference surface for determining the position of an optical axis and captures an image of the external environment by forming an optical image incident along the optical axis from the external environment. The camera casing includes a casing reference surface to be positioned with respect to the front windshield on the outside of the camera casing and accommodates the optical assembly in a state separate from inner wall surfaces. The adhesive joins the optical assembly to the camera casing in a state in which the assembly reference surface is aligned with an imaginary plane extending along the casing reference surface.

Camera module

An induction heating apparatus includes: a core that has a pair of magnetic poles and transfers magnetic flux; a coil generating magnetic flux; conductors adjacently provided on both left and right sides of the magnetic poles; and lateral magnetic members formed of a magnetic material and arranged on an outer side of end portions of the object so as to extend along the end portions. The conductors shut off the magnetic flux that flows from a center portion of the heating object, taking a detour to the end portions, permit the magnetic flux to concentrate on the center portion, and accelerate temperature rise. The lateral magnetic members introduce the magnetic flux that propagates from one surface to the other surface, detouring around the end portions to thereby mitigate the magnetic flux density in the end portions and suppress overheating.

Induction heating apparatus

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Kariya, Japan

Yoshihide Itou