Nippon Soken, Inc.

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Denso Corporation

Yoshiyuki Kago

Shigeyuki Akita

Sigeyuki Akita

Atsushi Watanabe

Hiroaki Hayashi

Hisanori Uda

Michio Shamoto

Manabu Matsumoto

Toshihide Ando

Hiroyuki Sakakibara

Yukiomi Tanaka

Tomoaki Mizuno

Masao Kotera

Hitoshi Kamiya

Mutsushi Yamashita

Kazuhiko Endo

Tokutaro Murase

Yoichi Yoshikura

Eiji Nakada

Yoshihiko Inukai

Ichiro Yoshida

Hajime Akado

Koji Numata

Yoshio Shinoda

Masaei Nozawa

Michinaga Nagura

Fumio Asakura

Yasuhisa Yoshino

Naoki Tokitsu

Taisei Katoh

Osamu Eguchi

Sotoo Kitamura

Tatsuya Hirata

Kazuo Mizuno

Ryu Kimura

Takahiro Shibakawa

Yusuke Morioka

Taisei Kato

Mitsuo Taniguchi

Katsuhisa Fujikawa

Koichi Mizuno

Hideharu Kato

In a handover control apparatus, a terminal is wirelessly connected with one of base stations to establish a wireless data communications connection. The terminal executes a handover process using a handover process section when an electric wave state becomes lower than a threshold value, which is variable. The threshold value can be adjusted according to a moving speed of the terminal. Furthermore, the threshold value is corrected according to the past electric wave state. The threshold value is corrected according to a difference of (i) a minimum electric wave state in a preceding handover process, and (ii) a lower limit. The correction is executed so as to reduce an excessive decline of an electric wave state in a succeeding handover process. Deterioration of a communications quality during a handover process can be thereby suppressed.

Handover control apparatus, handover control method, and program product

A handover control apparatus selects, as a target station, an adjacent station having an upturn and stable transition trend of reception level of a radio wave received by a radio, when necessity to carry out handover is determined, and performs handover for switching from a serving station to the target station when the transition trend of the reception level of the received radio wave from the serving station is in a downturn trend and a calculation value of a serving station approximation equation is smaller than a calculation value of an adjacent station approximation equation at a determination timing.

Handover control apparatus

With a capacitor C inserted in an interstage portion of multiple stages of amplifier circuits, a high pass filter is generated by the capacitor C and an input impedance |Z| of an amplifier circuit in the next stage. Accordingly, frequency components lower than a cutoff frequency fc are cut off, and therefore are not transferred to the subsequent stage. However, radio frequency components higher than or equal to a fundamental wave component determined by an envelope of a radio frequency signal intermittently transmitted can be transferred. Consequently, transfer of DC offset potentials can be cut off, and noise, such as flicker noise, having great power in a DC or near-DC zone can be effectively cut off. Thereby, the S/N ratio, detection sensitivity, and detection accuracy can be improved.

Activation signal output circuit having multiple amplifier circuits

A start signal output circuit having an RF/DC conversion circuit to which radio frequency power (RF) of specified frequency is inputted and from which a direct current potential (DC) is outputted, comprises a detection/amplification circuitwhich includes a voltage doubler wave-detector circuitconfigured including a sensing diode Q(Tr) for sensing the RF power, a differential amplifier including differential pair transistors Trand Tr, and a current mirror circuit. A base current of one Trof the differential pair transistors is brought into substantial agreement with a DC component of a current flowing through the sensing diode Q(Tr). A total of currents flowing through the differential pair transistors Trand Tris regulated to a substantially constant value by the current mirror circuit. Thus, the start signal output circuit which is small in size, high in sensitivity and low in power consumption can be realized.

Activation signal output circuit and determination circuit

A communication system for vehicles, which obtains exact communication processing with responders mounted on vehicles running on a road having a plurality of traffic lanes, is disclosed. An expressway has three traffic lanes. A gantry is disposed in a specified position on the expressway. On the gantry are disposed antenna units to counter the traffic lanes respectively. The antenna units are provided with communication areas by means of a pair of antenna elements respectively. The antenna element is composed of a microstrip array antenna disposed with eight pieces of patches laid out in two rows with four pieces in each row. The antenna units controls communication processing to communicate with vehicles adjoining each other. When response signals are sent from a vehicle mounted responder, the vehicle mounted responder is fixed and communication processing for toll collection is performed. As a result, communication processing with responders mounted on vehicles respectively which are running in the respective traffic lanes can exactly be performed.

Communication system for vehicles

The present invention provides an automobile toll system which may determine accurately whether a device mounted on a vehicle has a mismatch even when a small automobile is running just behind a large automobile and therefore blocked from communicating with the toll system. In the system, a vehicle type discriminator determines the type of a vehicle passing therethrough based on its shape and weight and transmits determination data to a lane controller. A controller for a reading antenna continuously transmits vehicle type data retrieved from a response signal from the vehicle-mounted device when vehicles stay in the antenna communication area. The lane controller compares type discrimination data and vehicle type data for each vehicle in the order of vehicles leaving the communication area to recognize a mismatch if the data are different.

Toll collection system

An electronic device intended for use as a tag to be attached to identify contents of the container to which it is attached. In particular, the present invention relates to an electronic tag which has a facility for storing delivery information and is equipped with a responding means for transmitting the delivery information stored therein in response to a query signal received from an interrogating apparatus. Codes, including items such as the names and addresses of the destination and the sender, and a sorting code are written into predetermined blanks of a delivery label, and into a memory. The memory responds to a query by transmitting the sorting information to allow automated sorting. The tag may be initiated only when torn, to extend battery shelf life.

Multiple sheet electronic delivery tag

Mobile object identification system

Information storage medium with electronic and visual areas

A movable-object identification system includes an interrogator for transmitting an interrogation signal, and a responder mounted on a movable object for transmitting a reply signal in response to the interrogation signal. The reply signal contains identification information. The responder includes an antenna for receiving the interrogation signal from the interrogator and for radiating the reply signal; and an input device connected to the antenna for receiving an electric power of the interrogation signal received by the antenna. The input device includes a receiving element for dividing the received electric power into a first separation electric power and a second separation electric power corresponding to a traveling and reflected wave of the interrogation signal, respectively. The receiving element has an impedance. The responder further includes a generating device for generating predetermined identification information using the first separation electric power; and a modulating device, connected in parallel with the input device and connected to the antenna, for varying the impedance of the receiving element in accordance with the generated identification information, for modulating the second separation electric power of the interrogation signal in accordance with the identification information to generate the reply signal, and for feeding the reply signal to the antenna.

Responder in movable-object identification system

A device for detecting a transmissivity of a substance utilizing a transmitted light value, which comprises a light emitting element and a photo detecting element. The light emitting element and the photo detecting element are spaced from each other at a predetermined distance so that a transmitted light value of a substance passing through the space is detected as an amount of light transmitted therethrough. The photo detecting element further comprises a photo oscillator circuit including the photo detecting element as one component thereof and outputs a signal having characteristics selected from a cycle and a frequency corresponding to the transmitted light value, and when the condition of a substance exceeds a predetermined reference level, such information is displayed at a display unit. Further, the device carries out a detecting and discriminating operation when a temperature of a substance is at a level lower than a maximum temperature at which each component of the detecting circuit will not work effectively. The device is also provided with a detecting unit in which the light emitting element and the photo detecting element are kept firmly in contact with each other, with a spacer placed therebetween, by an external force caused by a spring, to make the space provided therebetween constant regardless of any deformation of any component of the device caused by heat or aging.

Device for detecting a transmissivity of a substance

A speed control system for a motor vehicle automatically controls a throttle valve so as to allow the vehicle to run at a desired velocity at all times. The system includes a laser radar for detecting a preceding vehicle and measuring the distance therefrom, and a control computer in which a proper distance responsive to a vehicle velocity is set. The control computer discriminates proximity to the preceding vehicle through change in the distance at a certain interval. When the distance exceeds the proper distance, the control computer reduces the desired velocity in case proximity to the preceding vehicle is discriminated at a plurality of times continuously and increases the desired velocity in case no such proximity is discriminated, and when the distance is below the proper distance, the computer decelerates the vehicle by directly controlling the throttle valve in the closing direction, allowing tracing running with the proper distance from the preceding vehicle.

Speed control system for a motor vehicle

A vehicle speedometer is disclosed which accurately measures vehicle velocity despite significant vehicle vibration, which causes variation of the angle of incidence of the measuring wave. Two transceivers are mounted on the vehicle, along with means to determine a frequency difference and an angle variation, both being used in an accurate velocity determination.

Vehicle speedometer

A device for unlocking a lid provided in a vehicle includes an unlocking actuator unit, a magnetic sensor unit, a signal processing unit, and a controller means. A transmitter unit with a power source generates and transmits a specific magnetic unlocking signal which is received by the magnetic sensor unit, hence, the unlocking actuator is controlled through the signal processing means and the controller means and, hence, the lid is unlocked.

Unlocking device for a vehicle lid

In a zigzag running warning system for automotive vehicles which detects and gives a warning of zigzag running of a vehicle, a terrestrial magnetism sensor generates an electric signal having an amplitude varying in dependence on the direction of travel of the vehicle with respect to the direction of the terrestrial magnetism. An electronic unit in the system discriminates that vehicle is running in a zigzag direction when the amplitude of the electric signals changes in excess of a predetermined value at a period which is less than a predetermined time, and informs the driver of the zigzag running by a speaker, lamp or the like.

Zigzag running warning system for automotive vehicles

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Nishio, Japan

Yoshiyuki Kago