Yazaki Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Denso Corpora Tion

Aoyama Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Yutaka Electronics Industry Co., Ltd.

Yusuke Matsumoto

Toshiko Masuda

Nobuyuki Sakamoto

Akihiro Tsuruta

Norio Matsumura

Norihiro Ohashi

Hisanori Nakamura

Takahiro Shiohama

Nobuyuki Mukoujima

Asahiko Hasebe

Takashi Sakui

Kenichi Morita

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Naoto Taguchi

Ryo Takaki

Tomohiko Shimizu

Yoshihisa Ogata

Takahisa Yokoyama

Shinya Onoda

Takeshi Nanami

Akira Isogai

Takayuki Watanabe

Jun Tsuchida

Youhei Masui

Motoya Hara

Toyoharu Katsukura

Takashi Nishida

Masahito Sakakibara

Tatsuya Aoki

Natsuhiko Katahira

Koichi Sato

Katsuya Maruyama

Shigehiro Muto

Ichiro Aizawa

Keitaro Niki

Yuichi Hirano

Miyuki Fukunaga

Tatsuro Mori

Hidenori Kibushi

Genki Kitahara

Naoki Inaba

Ryota Terada

Masao Iwata

Hirokazu Morishita

Maho Kimura

Daisei Taguchi

Yukio Morozumi

Noburo Osa

Tomoki Kinno

Yukinori Imamura

Hidenori Uno

A method for uploading a probe data, including coordinate information of a plurality of features disposed along a road, to a server, includes: acquiring at least one peripheral object data, representing a feature disposed around a vehicle, from a peripheral monitoring sensor mounted on the vehicle; analyzing the peripheral object data and calculate a position of the feature with respect to the road on which the vehicle travels; and generating the probe data including position information of the feature and uploading the probe data to the server. The uploading includes a first mode in which the probe data is uploaded to the server at a predetermined frequency, and a second mode in which the probe data is uploaded at a lower frequency than the first mode.

Method for uploading probe data

A map generation system provides to: acquire an image of the vehicle's environment from the imaging device; analyze the image to calculate the position of a feature on the road; upload map information including the position of the feature to a server; and statistically determines the coordinates of individual features in the uploaded map information. The features include a reference mark whose absolute coordinates are determined. The coordinates of the features other than the reference mark are corrected so as to match the observation coordinates of the reference mark corresponding to the absolute coordinates of the reference mark.

Map generation system, server, vehicle-side device, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for autonomously driving vehicle

A power supply system includes a plurality of batteries, a cooling portion through which a refrigerant for cooling the plurality of the batteries flows, a housing that has a bottom plate, a top plate, and side walls, the housing accommodating the plurality of the batteries and the cooling portion, and a compressor configured to pump the refrigerant to the cooling portion. In the housing, a strength member that extends in a direction in which the side walls face each other and reinforces the housing is mounted on the bottom plate or the top plate. The compressor is disposed in a position in which the compressor and the strength member are overlapped in the upright direction of the side walls.

Power supply system

A case having elasticity corresponding to expansion and contraction of a stacked body housed therein and a method for manufacturing the same, a method for inserting the stacked body into the case, and a cell stack using the case are provided. A case configured to house a stacked body includes two opposed contact parts in contact with the stacked body, and two spring structures connecting the two contact parts with each other.

Case and method for manufacturing the same, method for inserting stacked body, and cell stack

A console support device comprises a first bracket including a placement portion on which a console box is placed; and a second bracket fixed to the first bracket. The second bracket includes a joint portion joined to a lower surface of the placement portion, an inclined portion provided to obliquely bend downward from a rear end of the joint portion, and a base portion provided to bend from a lower end of the inclined portion. A cantilever region which is supported on the joint portion in a cantilever manner is provided on a rear end side of the placement portion. A connection part between the joint portion and the inclined portion forms a first bend portion. A connection part between the inclined portion and the base portion forms a second bend portion.

Console support structure

A detection ECU detects left and right lane lines that define a driving lane from an image captured by an in-vehicle camera, by detecting a roadside as a side of a road where the own vehicle travels, from information of reflected waves received from a radar device. The detection ECU determines whether an estimated width indicating the width of a detected roadside and a detected lane line on a roadside side is narrower than the predetermined width. When the detection ECU determines that the estimated width is narrower than the predetermined width, it sets the predetermined position to be a position distant from the lane line on a roadside side in the estimated driving lane, than when the estimated width is determined not to be narrower than the predetermined width.

Driving support apparatus

A detection ECU acquires the position of the preceding vehicle, based on image information captured by an imaging device, and generates the track of the preceding vehicle, based on the position of the preceding vehicle. The detection ECU then performs following travel control for following the preceding vehicle by calculating the amount of control for causing the own vehicle to travel along the track of the preceding vehicle, and by causing the own vehicle to travel, based on the calculated amount of control. During the following travel control, if the width of the preceding vehicle is narrower than a predetermined width, the detection ECU calculates the amount of control such that the curvature variation in the track of the own vehicle is smaller than in the case where the width of the preceding vehicle is not narrower than the predetermined width.

Cruise control device

Provided is a method for producing a molded body that is capable of effectively and accurately producing a molded body from a composite substrate made of a fiber-reinforced resin containing a thermosetting resin and reinforcing fibers. The method includes shaping the composite substrate with the a thermosetting resin in an uncured state into a three-dimensional shape at a site different from where a molding unit is located; conveying the composite substrate to the molding unit so as to maintain the three-dimensional shape thereof; then, placing the conveyed composite substrate on a molding surface of a lower die formed to suit the three-dimensional shape, so as to maintain the three-dimensional shape thereof; and pressing the composite substrate placed on the lower die with an upper die while heated, thereby curing the thermosetting resin and forming the molded body.

Method for producing molded body

Control unit estimates a curvature of an own lane based on a marking detected from an image captured by an imaging device. The control unit performs a steering control of the own vehicle in accordance with the estimated curvature of the own lane. When determining that only single side marking in both left and right markings is present and the road slope changes, the control unit apply restriction to the steering control performed in accordance with the curvature of the own lane.

Vehicle control apparatus

A vehicle control apparatus estimates a curvature of the own lane ahead of the own vehicle based on both left and right markings in a captured image and performs a steering control of the own vehicle based on the estimated curvature of the own lane. The control unit determines the direction of the own vehicle and determines whether a change in the road slope is present. When the vehicle control apparatus determines that the direction of the own vehicle changes and the road slope ahead of the own vehicle changes, the vehicle control apparatus applies a restriction to the steering control performed based on the curvature of the own lane.

A battery terminal includes: a main body unit; a penetration member that is arranged in a manner extending from an end side of the main body unit to the other end side of the main body unit across slits along a tightening direction Y, includes an abutting portion formed in the end side, and has a threaded hole and a taper forming end portion provided with first tapered surfaces formed in the other end side; a fastening member threadedly engaged with the threaded hole; and a pressing force converting member that converts fastening force in an axial direction X generated between the fastening member and the penetration member with rotation of the fastening member around the axial direction X into pressing force in the tightening direction Y pressing the main body unit between the abutting portion and the pressing force converting member along the tightening direction Y.

Battery terminal

A cruise control device has a white line recognition unit recognizing a white line defining a lane having the own vehicle, based on an image captured by an image capturing device and a lane entering and leaving determination unit carrying out lane entering determination and lane leaving determination of the own vehicle with respect to a preceding vehicle traveling ahead of the own vehicle based on the relative position of the own vehicle in the vehicle width direction with respect to the white line. In the lane entering determination and lane leaving determination, a preceding vehicle on the lane to which the own vehicle is moving is determined to be an entering lane vehicle whose lane the own vehicle is entering, and a preceding vehicle on the lane from which the own vehicle is moving is determined to be a leaving lane vehicle whose lane the own vehicle is leaving.

Cruise control device and cruise control method for vehicles

A vehicle as a moving body is provided with an imaging device as first object detecting means and a radar apparatus as second object detecting means. The object recognition apparatus is provided with axis displacement learning means for learning an axis displacement of the reference axis Xof the first object detecting means; axis displacement determining means for performing, based on an object detecting result of the first object detecting means and the second object detecting means, an axis displacement determination process for determining whether or not an axis displacement has occurred in the reference axis of the second object detecting means; and disabling means for disabling, based on a learning result of the axis displacement by the axis displacement learning means, information about an axis displacement of the second object detecting means acquired by the axis displacement determination process.

Object recognition apparatus using a plurality of object detecting means

An object recognition apparatus learns an axis displacement amount of a reference axis of first object detecting means, combines and integrates, as information belonging to a same object, a plurality of pieces of information present within a first combining area and a second combining area, when a positional relationship between the first combining area and the second combining area meets a predetermined combinable condition. The first combining area is set as an area in which pieces of information related to the object acquired by the first object detecting means are combined. The second combining area is set as an area in which pieces of information related to the object acquired by second object detecting means are combined. The object recognition apparatus variably sets sizes of the first combining area and the second combining area based on a learning state of the axis displacement amount of the reference axis.

Object recognition apparatus

A terminal-securing auxiliary member includes a terminal securing portion which is to be fastened to a battery post and which is to be secured to a battery terminal, the battery post disposed at a post disposing portion of a battery, the battery having a portion of irregular height on an upper surface thereof in a circumferential edge of the post disposing portion, the battery terminal to which a battery-direct-attached type fuse unit is to be fastened; a battery joining portion which engages with the portion of the irregular height to restrict movement in a direction along the upper surface of the battery; and a connecting portion which connects the terminal securing portion and the battery joining portion.

Terminal-securing auxiliary member

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Makinohara, Japan

Yusuke Matsumoto