Abstract: A touch panel device includes a capacitance type touch panel having a plurality of electrodes arranged in directions intersecting each other, a capacitance measurement unit that measures capacitance of each electrode pair, a baseline value setting unit that sets the capacitance of each electrode pair in a state where an indicator is not in contact as a baseline value, a position detection unit that detects a contact position of the indicator by comparing the capacitance of each electrode pair measured by the capacitance measurement unit with the baseline value, and a baseline value correction unit that varies the baseline value in accordance with the variation when the capacitance of each electrode pair varies with the lapse of time. The baseline value correction unit sets the time X for varying the baseline value and/or the upper limit value Y thereof for each electrode pair according to the capacitance of each electrode pair.

Abstract: A tire position identification device is provided as a device that can identify the positions of wheels to which tires are attached by using information about other than air pressure. The tire position identification device has: deformation detection units, each of which can detect deformation of the relevant tire; a turn detection unit that can detect whether a vehicle having the tires and wheels has made a turn and can also detect the direction of the turn; a speed detection unit that can detect the speed of the vehicle, and a control unit that infers the positions of the wheels to which the tires are attached according to the deformation of the tires, the direction of the turn of the vehicle, and its speed.

Abstract: A door handle includes a door handle case and an electrostatic sensor provided in the door handle case. The electrostatic sensor includes a detection electrode that is formed of a flat conductor plate, or that is formed on a surface of a flat substrate or within a flat substrate. The detection electrode includes a middle portion in a longitudinal direction of the detection electrode and includes peripheral portions proximal to both end portions of the detection electrode in the longitudinal direction. For a width of the detection electrode in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, each peripheral portion is wider than the middle portion, and the width of the detection electrode gradually increases toward each end portion in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A soft magnetic powder according to the present disclosure comprises a particle which comprises a plurality of nanosized crystallites and an amorphous phase existing around the crystallites, wherein the crystallites have an average grain diameter of 30 nm or less, and the amorphous phase has an average thickness of 30 nm or less; and wherein when a minor axis of a cross section of the particle is determined as r, an average Fe concentration in the amorphous phase is lower than an average Fe concentration in the crystallites in a region where a depth from a surface of the particle is 0.2 r or more and 0.4 r or less.

Abstract: A USB power distribution unit according to an embodiment of the present invention has a function of distributing power supplied from a battery to a smartphone connected to a preferred port, and to a mobile battery connected to a non-preferred port. The USB power distribution unit includes a no-idling detection portion, an engine restart detection portion, a PD negotiation portion, and a step-up/down portion, and causes the PD negotiation portion to determine the amount of power supply to the mobile battery when a no-idling state is detected.

Abstract: An active noise control system includes an error adder that generates an error signal by adding an output of a left-seat left microphone and an output of a left-seat right microphone, an adaptive filter that generates a noise canceling sound from a reference signal by performing an adaptive operation using the reference signal and the error signal, a left channel gain adjustment section that adjusts a gain of the noise canceling sound to be output to a left-seat left speaker, and a right channel gain adjustment section that adjusts a gain of the noise canceling sound to be output to the left-seat right speaker. A ratio between the gains of the left channel gain adjustment section and the right channel gain adjustment section matches a ratio between loudness levels of noise transmitted to the output of the left-seat left microphone and the output of the left-seat right microphone.

Abstract: A method of molding a resin molded product, including: a first molding step of injecting a first resin molding material into a first molding die to form a first resin product, wherein a fixing protrusion is formed on at least one of an inner and an outer wall part of the first resin product, and has a shape in which a width increases in a direction extending from the gap; and, a second molding step of positioning the first resin product in a second molding die, and injecting a second resin molding material at least into the gap of the first resin product to form a second resin product, wherein the fixing protrusion is embedded into a fixing recess disposed on the second molding die, thereby limiting movement of the fixing protrusion in a direction towards the gap.

Abstract: A transparent electrode member includes a translucent base, and first transparent electrodes that are arranged side by side in a first direction on a first surface of the base. An insulating layer does not overlap partial regions PR when viewed in the direction of the normal to the first surface. A rectangular region in which a part other than the conductive portion is composed of the partial regions over the entire part is defined as a first rectangular region, a rectangular region in which at least the insulating layer is contained is defined as a second rectangular region, and a relationship between an area Sa of the part other than the conductive portion in the first rectangular region and an area Sb of a part other than the conductive portion in the second rectangular region satisfies Sa/Sb=1±0.3.

Abstract: A self-capacitance-system electrostatic-capacitance detection sensor includes a first electrode and a second electrode, one of the first and second electrodes being set as a sense electrode, and the other of the first and second electrodes being set as a drive electrode; a sense-signal generating unit that generates a sense signal to be applied to the sense electrode; a detecting unit that detects, as a detection value, an amount of charge movement corresponding to an electrostatic capacitance of the sense electrode; and a determining unit that determines whether or not a detection target is in close proximity to both the first and second electrodes, based on a subtraction difference between detection values detected by the detecting unit when a first drive signal is applied to the drive electrode and when a second drive signal having the same frequency and a different phase is applied to the drive electrode.

Abstract: A biometric authentication device of the present invention includes a light guide layer on which a light diffusion unit for displaying an aerial image representing a design of a living body at a height is formed, a light source that irradiates the light guide layer with light, a polarized beam splitter disposed on an upper surface side of the light guide layer, a retroreflective layer disposed on a bottom surface side of the light guide layer, and an imaging camera that captures an image of a living body superimposed on the aerial image through an opening formed in the retroreflective layer, and performs biometric authentication based on an image captured by an imaging camera.

Abstract: An assist band is set to a standard band when there is no large road noise, and is set to a treble band not including a low frequency band but including a high frequency band as compared with the standard band when there is a large road noise. In audio data of a front seat microphone, components outside the assist band are cut by an IIR filter, downsampled by a downsampling unit to a sampling frequency that is twice the upper limit of the assist band, processed by an echo canceller and a howling canceller, upsampled by an upsampling unit, and output to a rear seat speaker. When there is a large road noise, the operation of the howling canceller is invalidated, and the input is output as it is.

Abstract: One form of a display device includes: an on-screen display (OSD) video generation unit configured to execute synchronization processing of synchronizing an OSD video with a synchronization signal of an external video while outputting the OSD video when the external video and the OSD video are displayed in a superimposed manner; and an external video processing unit configured not to output the external video during execution of the synchronization processing and to output the external video after completion of the synchronization processing. The videos are prevented from being distorted by not displaying the external video while displaying only the OSD video until the synchronization processing between the OSD video and the external video is completed, and flickering of the video is prevented by continuously displaying the OSD video and preventing a non-displayed black screen from being inserted at a moment when the videos are switched.

Abstract: An operation device includes a lever configured to be tiltable; a substrate; a first resistor disposed on the substrate to extend in a first direction; a first actuator configured to rotate in accordance with tilting of the lever; and a first holder configured to hold a first slider and cause the first slider to slide on the first resistor by moving in the first direction via a first drive transmission part in accordance with rotation of the first actuator. The first drive transmission part includes a first protrusion integrated with the first holder and protruding in a second direction, and a first engagement portion integrated with the first actuator and including a pair of holding pieces configured to hold the first protrusion from both sides in the first direction. A first holding piece of the holding pieces is more elastic than a second holding piece of the holding pieces.

Abstract: A sound output by an i-th audio source device is adjusted by an i-th sound leakage reduction filter with a frequency transfer function set in the i-th sound leakage reduction filter and is output from an i-th speaker toward a user. The frequency transfer function relatively reduces the volume of the sound at a frequency where a first gain of a frequency transfer function from the speaker to one or multiple predetermined sound leakage reference positions outside the vehicle tends to be high relative to a second gain of a frequency transfer function from the speaker to the user, and relatively increases the volume of the sound at a frequency where the first gain tends to be low relative to the second gain.

Abstract: An operation device includes a housing provided with a through hole; a cylinder-shaped lever inserted into the housing through the through hole of the housing, that can be operated to be tilted; an actuator contained in a cylinder-shaped opening of the lever; and an elastic member provided between the actuator and the lever. A step is provided in the opening of the lever on one side of the elastic member. A step is provided in the actuator on another side of the elastic member. A surface of the step of the actuator is inclined with respect to a surface of the step in the opening of the lever.

Abstract: An input device includes a display that displays buttons visible through an operation surface of a top panel, a detector that detects a center position of a finger facing the operation surface, and a distance from the operation surface to the finger, and a controller that controls the display based on a detector output and determines an input with respect to a button. The controller displays a cursor image on the display at a finger opposing position based on the finger center position, varies a cursor size according to the above described distance, determines a selected button based on the finger center position, and offsets a cursor center position from the finger center position, and surrounds the selected button with the cursor, in a case where the selected button protrudes from the cursor when the cursor center position is aligned to match the finger center position.

Abstract: Disclosed is a protection circuit of a vehicle-mounted device. Forms of a protection circuit may include a first substrate provided with a first circuit connected to a power line and a potential reference line; a second substrate provided with a second circuit connected to the power line and the potential reference line; a connecting part including a potential reference connecting line for connecting between the potential reference line of the first substrate and the potential reference line of the second substrate and a communication connecting line for connecting between a communication line of the first circuit and a communication line of the second circuit; and a current limiting unit disposed between a first node on the potential reference line of the first substrate at the connecting part side and a second node on the potential reference line of the first substrate at the first circuit side.

Abstract: A DC voltage conversion circuit includes: a switching circuit having a plurality of switching elements; and a controller that controls operations of the plurality of switching elements. The DC voltage conversion circuit can suppress variations in an output voltage even when an input voltage fluctuates. The controller can execute asymmetric PWM control and phase shift control, performs the phase shift control when a duty ratio is lower than a predetermined ratio, and performs the asymmetric PWM control when the duty ratio is higher than or equal to the predetermined ratio. When switching between the phase shift control and the asymmetric PWM control is performed with the step-down ratios being made to match each other, a control range of the duty ratio can be increased.

Abstract: An input device includes an manipulating part, a movable member fixed to the manipulating part and having a rotating shaft, a fixing member configured to rotatably support the rotating shaft so that the movable member is rotatable, a flex sensor disposed on the manipulating part and configured to detect flexing of the manipulating part, a switch disposed on the movable member or the fixing member, pressed by a rotating operation of the movable member, and configured to switch between an on state and an off state when a flexing amount of the manipulating part reaches a predetermined amount, and a signal processor configured to output a control signal, based on a first output signal of the flex sensor, and a second output signal of the switch.