Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Subaru Corporation

Yosuke Kubota

Asao Sasaki

Nobusuke Nagaoka

Taiki Sakai

Yoshihiro Nakazato

Akira Furuya

Junichi Kato

Kentaro Hirota

Keiichi Kakizaki

Shigeki Tajima

A temperature control system to be installed in an electric vehicle includes a water circuit, a coolant circuit, a radiator, a heat exchanger, a water pump, and a controller. The water circuit circulates cooling water to cool an electric device. The coolant circuit circulates a coolant to control a temperature of a cabin or battery of the electric vehicle. The radiator is disposed in the water circuit. The heat exchanger is disposed in the coolant circuit and receives heat released from the radiator through cooling air delivered from the radiator. The water pump regulates a flow rate of the cooling water circulating in the water circuit. The controller increases the number of rotations of the water pump to a greater value in a condition where an increase in temperature of the cabin or the battery is requested than in a normal condition where the increase in temperature is not requested.

Temperature control system for electric vehicle and method of controlling temperature of electric vehicle

A vehicle control apparatus includes an inverter controller. The inverter controller holds a plurality of control maps for an inverter. The inverter supplies electric power to a drive motor. The drive motor drives a drive wheel of the vehicle. The inverter controller selects any one of the plurality of control maps on a basis of a notification instruction that instructs to notify a driver of information. The inverter controller controls an operation of the inverter on a basis of the control map selected.

Vehicle control apparatus

An engine is provided with an output shaft and a motor generator connection shaft of a crankshaft at ends of a crank case and adapted such that the output shaft can be connected with an external driven apparatus. A motor generator has stators relatively fixed to the crank case and a rotor coupled with the motor generator connection shaft and rotating relative to the stators. An external apparatus connection shaft is connected with the rotor and disposed at an end of the motor generator on the opposite side of the engine. A clutch is disposed between the motor generator connection shaft and the rotor. A power storage unit stores electric power generated by the motor generator and supplies the electric power to the motor generator. A controller switches between an electric power generation function and a motor function, and engages and disengages the clutch.

Hybrid system of engine and motor generator

An apparatus for guiding a vehicle autonomously to a target point by finding a current position based on radio waives from satellites and comparing the current position with the target point comprises a means for storing a reference position data of a reference point whose accurate position is known, a means for obtaining a position data of the vehicle when the vehicle is located on the reference point, a means for obtaining a correction data by calculating a difference between the reference position data and the position data, and a means for correcting the current position by using the correction data to obtain a real position of the vehicle.

Apparatus and method for guiding vehicle autonomously

An inside case made of rubber is mounted in an outside case, a substrate integrally provided with an engine stop switch circuit and a switch electrode of an engine stop switch unit is assembled in the inside case, and its lower side is filled with curable insulating base material to be sealed. Further, a switch contact opposed to the switch electrode is formed of pressure sensitive conductive rubber, and a reversal spring is further interposed on the pressure sensitive conductive rubber. As a result, wirings are eliminated, a decrease in the size of the entire apparatus and simplification can be realized, and a metal contact is eliminated to improve durability.

Stop switch apparatus for an engine

A warning system for warning a lack of a working fluid for an engine. The engine is provided with an ignition unit supplied with an ignition power supply from a magneto. A sensing unit senses the lack of the working fluid and produces a detection signal. A warning element, connected to the magneto, receives a power supply to give a warning indicating the lack of the working fluid. A controller is responsive to the detection signal from the sensing unit for actuating the warning element to provide the warning without deteriorating a performance of the ignition unit.

Warning system for an engine

An engine shut-down device is shown for an engine, having a magneto for generating an a.c. voltage in response to a speed of the engine, an ignition coil provided to ignite the engine, a driver responsive to the a.c. voltage for driving the ignition coil, and generator for generating an engine-stop signal. The device includes a trigger responsive to the engine-stop signal for flowing a forward current from magneto to a ground when the magneto produces a positive value of the a.c. voltage and a backward current for a predetermined period of time from the ground to the magneto when the magneto produces a negative value of the a.c. voltage, an engine-stop section responsive to the backward current for flowing a short-circuit current from ground to the magneto to disoperate the ignition coil, so as to stop the engine.

Engine shut-down device

An apparatus is disclosed for warning of the abnormality of an engine including a magneto generating an a.c. voltage and an ignition coil which includes a first signal generation section for generating a first signal including an electric quantity corresponding to the insulation resistance of lubricating oil, a temperature detecting section for producing temperature signal, a reference signal generation section for generating a reference signal in response to the temperature signal, an oil-shortage judging section for comparing the first signal and the reference signal to determine that the engine has a shortage of oil when the first signal is larger than the reference signal and generating a shortage signal, a control section for performing a short-circuit of a primary side of the ignition coil to produce a short-circuit current in response to the shortage signal and an oil-shortage display section for displaying the warning of the shortage of oil in response to the short-circuit current.

Apparatus for warning of engine oil abnormality

An oil level sensor has a cylindrical hollow sensor body and an elongated inner electrode provided in the sensor body at a distance from the inner wall of the sensor body. The sensor body and the inner electrode are made of conductive resin including carbon particles. An oil level detector circuit is provided in the sensor body.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yosuke Kubota