Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.

Nkk Corporation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Yoshio Sato

Mitsuo Shimotani

Satoru Inoue

Yuki Sakai

Tadashi Miyahara

Yuji Karita

Takashi Matsuda

Jun Tsutsumi

Junichi Kimura

Hirotaka Nakagawa

Kenji Inomata

Tabito Tanaka

Hiroshi Mihara

Sayu Takamatsu

Hiroshi Tsuneizumi

Eiji Morishige

Tokihiro Nishihara

Shinji Taniguchi

Kentaro Nakamura

Masafumi Iwaki

Hajime Nakajima

Keisuke Morita

Wataru Tsujita

Taisei Irieda

Hidetaro Nakazawa

Tomokazu Kai

Yohei Akashi

Kazuhiro Ikeda

Shigeyoshi Kosuge

Noriaki Yoshikawa

Masumi Kida

Akihiro Toyohara

Naoki Aizawa

Atsuhisa Nakanishi

Shuji Aizawa

Hitoshi Komagata

A vehicle information display control device includes: an automatic driving information obtaining unit obtaining automatic driving information including information indicating that each actuator of a vehicle is in a manual control mode or an automatic control mode; and a display controller causing a display to display an image based on the automatic driving information. The display controller causes the display to display: an image of a manual driving device corresponding to the actuator; a manual-operation recalling image that is superimposed on the image of the manual driving device corresponding to an actuator in the manual control mode and that recalls an operation performed by a person; and an automatic-operation recalling image that is superimposed on the image of the manual driving device corresponding to an actuator in the automatic control mode and that recalls an operation performed by a machine.

Vehicle information display control device, and method for displaying automatic driving information

An object is to provide a technique which enables a driver to intuitively select and determine a target object to which a vehicle is to travel. A driving assistance apparatus includes a candidate selection unit which selects a target object candidate when the candidate selection unit determines that a visual line position of a driver is included in any setting range of a plurality of target object candidates and a target object determination unit which determines the target object candidate selected by the candidate selection unit as a target object when a determination button which can be operated by the driver is operated after the candidate selection unit selects the target object candidate.

Driving assistance apparatus

A vehicle information display control device includes: an automatic driving information obtaining unit that obtains automatic driving information including information indicating whether each of actuators of a vehicle is in a manual control mode or an automatic control mode; and a display controller that causes a display to display an image based on the automatic driving information. The display controller simultaneously displays a first image and a second image representing the manual control mode and the automatic control mode, respectively, of each of the actuators, and displays (i) the first image of an actuator in the manual control mode closer than the second image of the actuator in the manual control mode and (ii) the second image of an actuator in the automatic control mode closer than the first image of the actuator in the automatic control mode.

A driving assistance device includes a driving operation pattern storage in which a predetermined driving operation pattern is stored, an automatic driving controller configured to perform automatic driving of a vehicle in accordance with the driving operation pattern, a notification sequence storage configured to store a notification sequence corresponding to the driving operation pattern, and a notification processor configured to perform notification to a driver of the vehicle in accordance with the notification sequence. The notification sequence storage stores a plurality of notification sequences different in detail level for one driving operation pattern. When the automatic driving in accordance with the driving operation pattern is performed, the notification processor selects one of the plurality of notification sequences, and performs notification to the driver in accordance with the selected notification sequence in conformity with a progress of the relevant driving operation pattern in the automatic driving.

Driving assistance device

An acoustic wave device includes: a Y-cut X-propagation lithium tantalate substrate having a cut angle of 20&#xb0; or more and 48&#xb0; or less; and a grating electrode that is composed of one or more metal films laminated on the substrate, and excites an acoustic wave, wherein when a density of each metal film in the one or more metal films is represented by &#x3c1;i, a Poisson's ratio of each metal film is represented by Pi, a film thickness of each metal film is represented by hi, a density of Cu is represented by &#x3c1;, a Poisson's ratio of Cu is represented by Pand a pitch is represented by &#x3bb;, a total value of '(hi/&#x3bb;)&#xd7;(&#x3c1;i/&#x3c1;)&#xd7;(Pi/P)' for each metal film with respect to the one or more metal films is more than 0.08.

Acoustic wave device

An acoustic wave filter includes: series resonators connected in series; and one or more parallel resonators connected in parallel, wherein at least two series resonators and a parallel resonator therebetween are divided into a first divided resonator, which includes a piezoelectric substance sandwiched between a pair of electrodes in a c-axis orientation direction, and a second divided resonator, which includes another piezoelectric substance sandwiched between another pair of electrodes so that the another pair of electrodes in the c-axis orientation direction has an electric potential opposite to that of the electrodes of the first divided resonator in the c-axis orientation direction, a first group including the first divided resonators and a second group including the second divided resonators are interconnected in parallel between two nodes, and the first divided resonators and the second divided resonators of the at least two series resonators are not electrically interconnected at the two nodes.

Acoustic wave filter, duplexer, and module

A vehicle information display control device includes: an automatic driving information obtaining unit that obtains automatic driving information including information indicating that each actuator of a vehicle is in a manual control mode or an automatic control mode; and a display controller that displays images on a first display area and a second display area of a display based on the automatic driving information. The display controller displays an image corresponding to an actuator in the manual control mode on the first display area and an image corresponding to an actuator in the automatic control mode on the second display area.

An acoustic wave device includes: a piezoelectric substrate; and an IDT formed on the piezoelectric substrate, wherein an anisotropy coefficient is positive, an overlap region where electrode fingers of the IDT overlap each other includes a center region and an edge region, the electrode fingers in the center and edge regions are continuously formed, the electrode finger in the edge region is inclined with respect to the electrode finger in the center region so that a pitch in a width direction of the electrode finger in the edge region is greater than a pitch in a width direction of the electrode finger in the center region, and an angle between the width direction in the center region and a crystal axis orientation of the piezoelectric substrate is less than an angle between the width direction in the edge region and the crystal axis orientation.

For one setting operator being able to readily adjust a threshold by oneself, by means of reporting units that issue a report to indicate the amount of variation in a received electric wave when an intruding object has intruded between a transmitting leaking transmission path and a receiving leaking transmission path, and a remote controller that generates a signal which changes a threshold in the table through the receiving leaking transmission path, the threshold is adjusted properly for each of the blocks with the remote controller based on the report issued from the reporting unit to indicate the amount of variation in the received electric wave caused by a trial intrusion between the two transmission paths by a threshold setting operator.

Intrusion detection system and intrusion detection apparatus

A monitoring system for a moving object including a leaking transmission device having a first and second leaking transmission paths extending substantially in parallel to each other, first equipment for transmitting a first transmission signal from one end side of both the ends of the leaking transmission device as a transmission medium to the other end side, second equipment for transmitting a second transmission signal from the other end side of both the ends of the leaking transmission device as the transmission medium to the one end side, and a detector for detecting a two-dimensional movement of a moving object as a monitoring target on the basis of a difference between variations of first and second reception signals based on the respective reflection waves of the first and second transmission signals from the moving object.

Monitoring system for moving object

An intruder detection system is provided in which a detection range can be set to a predetermined one so that false detection caused by a moving object outside the predetermined range can be diminished. The system includes a transmission-side leaky transmission line that radiates a detection signal for detecting an intruder and a reception-side leaky transmission line that receives a detection signal leaked from the transmission-side leaky transmission line, both of which are buried spaced apart from each other in a detection surveillance area, and detects the presence/absence of an intruder in the detection surveillance area based on variations in the detection signal received by the reception-side leaky transmission line, wherein at least part of either the transmission-side leaky transmission line or the reception-side leaky transmission line is made of a surface-wave-type leaky coaxial transmission line, and the other leaky transmission line, a radiation-type leaky coaxial transmission line.

Intruder detection system

The intruder detection device for deciding the occurrence of an invasion if an electric wave, which is received by a leakage transfer passage on the receiving side juxtaposed to a leakage transfer passage on the transmitting side for receiving a leakage electric wave from the transmitting leakage transfer passage, changes, and the intruder detection device comprises: a plurality of reference spectrum diffusion signal generating means; a plurality of correlating means configured together with the reference spectrum diffusion signal generating means on a common sensor card, for collating the output reference spectrum diffusion signal of the reference spectrum diffusion signal generating means with the received signal from the receiving leakage transfer passage; and setting means for adjusting the detection precision which is determined by the reference spectrum diffusion signal generating means and the correlating means.

Intruder detection device

A fuel cell comprises at least two cell members, each of which has a flat-plate solid electrolyte having a fuel electrode layer on one surface thereof and an air electrode layer on the other surface thereof, separators, each of which is arranged between the cell members and comprises frame materials and metallic sheets having concave and convex portions and being coupled to the frame materials, a fuel supply path for supplying fuel and an air supply path for supplying air, a fuel discharge path for disharging fuel and an air exhaust path for exhausting air and collector members mounted on the outer sides of the separators of the highest and lowest stages. Further, another fuel cell comprises at least two cell members, each of which has a flat-plate solid electrolyte layer on one surface thereof and an air electrode layer on the other surface thereof, metallic separators, each of which is arranged between the cell members and comprises a wave-form member, an upper flat-plate member and a lower flat-plate member, the wave-form member being put between the upper flat-plate member and the lower flat-plate member, a hole made in the upper flat-plate member for supplying fuel to the fuel electrode layer and a hole made in the lower flat-plate member for supplying air to the air cell member layer and a fuel supply path for supplying fuel and an air supply path for supplying air.

Fuel cell

A fuel cell comprises a stack of cell members, each cell member including a flat-plate separator, an air electrode, a solid electrolyte and a fuel electrode, spacers arranged along peripheries of the separators among the separators of the stack of cell members, air supply paths for supplying air to the air electrodes, air being sent to the air electrodes through grooves of the flat-plate separators and air supply paths, air exhaust paths for exhausting excessive air, fuel supply paths for sending fuel to the fuel electrodes and fuel discharge paths for discharging excessive fuel. The fuel cell has an oxidation-resistant coating layer on the surface of the separator on the side of the air electrode. The solid electrolyte is made by the use of one selected from the group of Laser Physical Vapor Deposition Method, Plasma Thermal Spraying Method, Electron Beam Vapor Deposition Method and Sputtering Method. The air electrode comprises a mixed powder of lanthanum manganese oxide doped with strontium oxide and yttria-stabilized zirconia.

A mobile telephone communication system is provided with a plurality of mobile units having a transmitter-receiver capable of being tuned to a plurality of radio channels. A plurality of base stations are provided with receivers capable of detecting carrier level drop-off and a control station is operable to command the given base station to transmit an instruction to the mobile unit commanding it to transmit its signal over a channel which is common to all of the base stations. The control station is then operable to detect an increased carrier level in a zone corresponding to a second base station, and to instruct each of the base stations to transmit a signal over the common channel commanding the mobile unit to switch channels to an idle channel corresponding to a second base station.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshio Sato