Abstract: A door handle apparatus for a vehicle is assembled to a door panel of the vehicle. The door handle apparatus includes a base, a grip, and a switch device. The grip is supported by the base, rotates from a state in which an outer surface of the grip is located in a same plane as an outer surface of the door panel, and is transitionable to a state of protruding from the outer surface of the door panel. The switch device includes a switch body and a switch cover. The switch cover is supported by the base, rotates around the second shaft, enters an inner surface of the door panel, and engages with the switch body to switch ON and OFF states of a switch element.

Abstract: A culture method includes: (a) a step of providing a culture medium; (b) a step of supplying fine water from a fine water generation unit to the culture medium, the fine water generation unit being configured to change between a water adsorbing state in which an electrically conductive polymer membrane adsorbs water in air as a temperature decreases and a water releasing state in which the water adsorbed by the electrically conductive polymer membrane is released as fine water as the temperature increases; and (c) a step of inoculating the culture medium supplied with the fine water with a material to be cultured and culturing the material.

Abstract: An object detection device includes an acquisition unit that acquires intensity of a direct wave at a second transmission and reception unit among a plurality of transmission and reception units that allow transmission and reception of an ultrasonic wave, the direct wave directly received by the second transmission and reception unit and being an ultrasonic wave transmitted by a first transmission and reception unit among the plurality of transmission and reception units. An intensity of a reflected wave received by the transmission and reception unit, the reflected wave being a reflected wave obtained by the ultrasonic wave transmitted from the first transmission and reception unit reflected on an object, and a detection unit that calculates an air-absorption attenuation coefficient of the ultrasonic wave on the basis of the intensity of the direct wave to detects the object on the basis of the air-absorption attenuation coefficient and the intensity of the reflected wave.

Abstract: A window regulator has a guide rail extending in a drive direction of a window glass, and a slider supporting the window glass and supported on the guide rail so as to slide in the drive direction. In the window regulator, the guide rail has a grease application region extending in the drive direction, and the slider has multiple grease application portions provided along the drive direction to apply grease in a stepwise manner to the grease application region.

Abstract: A slide door driving device includes a support plate that is an elongated plate member, two driven pulleys supported respectively by opposite ends of the support plate in a longitudinal direction of the support plate; a belt wound around the two driven pulleys; a connector by which the belt is connected to the slide door; and a driving portion supported by the support plate and configured to drive the belt.

Abstract: A lock release control device for an opening and closing body configured to control an opening and closing body that opens and closes an opening portion of a vehicle. The opening and closing body comes into contact with a sealing member provided on a vehicle body side of the vehicle in a fully closed state. The vehicle includes a locking device and an opening and closing actuator. The locking device restrains the opening and closing body in a fully closed position. The opening and closing actuator displaces the opening and closing body by rotation of a motor to change the opening and closing body from one of two states including an open state and a closed state to another of the states. The lock release control device is configured to execute an open command acquisition process, a pull-in process, and a lock release process.

Abstract: A case (1) that houses a rotary electric machine (2) and an inverter device (INV) has an inlet (11) through which coolant flows, and a channel (4) along which the coolant flows. The channel (4) includes a first heat exchange portion (41) where heat is exchanged between the inverter device (INV) and the coolant, and a turbine disposition portion (43) where a turbine (7) is disposed. The turbine (7) is rotated by a flow of the coolant passing through the turbine disposition portion (43), and a pump rotor (88) of an oil pump (8) that discharges oil to be supplied to the rotary electric machine (2) is drivingly connected to the turbine (7).

Abstract: An opening-and-closing body driving device includes an extendable unit including a spindle, a nut, a rod, a bearing, and a guide tube; and a driving unit. The guide tube includes an insertion portion, and an inner tube configured to allow movement of the nut in the axial direction and restrict rotation of the nut. A surface of the bearing facing a direction opposite to an insertion direction, in which the insertion portion is inserted, is defined as a first reference surface, and a surface of the housing facing a direction opposite to the insertion direction is defined as a second reference surface. A distance from the first reference surface of the bearing to a distal end of the inner peripheral wall is longer than a distance from the second reference surface of the housing to a distal end of the outer peripheral wall in the axial direction.

Abstract: A driving support device of an embodiment is a driving support device that performs, based on surrounding information collected by a plurality of sensors provided in a vehicle, parking support for the vehicle. When the parking support is performed, a calculation module starts, when a width of a frontage of a parking area for the vehicle to enter the parking area is a certain threshold or less, closing of rear side checking parts by an opening-and-closing control unit at a position in front of the parking area based on the vehicle, the position being based on a distance obtained from a vehicle speed of the vehicle and a time required to close the rear side checking parts.

Abstract: A blade portion that rotates integrally with a target shaft portion is provided between a target outer peripheral surface that is an outer peripheral surface of the target shaft portion and a tubular inner peripheral surface of a case. A first opening that communicates with a first oil passage is located away, on a first axial side, from a second opening that communicates with a second oil passage. The first oil passage communicates with an oil reservoir. The second oil passage communicates with a target space to which oil is supplied. Assuming that a forward rotation state is a rotation state of each part when a wheel is rotating in a direction in which a vehicle moves forward, the blade portion force-feeds the oil to a second axial side when the target shaft portion is in the forward rotation state.

Abstract: An object detection device is mounted on a moving body and detects an object that exists around the moving body, the object detection device including a transceiver that transmits a transmission wave and receives a reception wave generated by the transmission wave being reflected by the object, and a deviation detector that detects a deviation of the transceiver from a normal position that is a predetermined mounting position of the transceiver on the basis of echo information indicating a temporal change in intensity of the reception wave and reference echo information stored in a storage device in advance.

Abstract: Connection terminals of a semiconductor module are disposed appropriately in accordance with the connection destination of the semiconductor module. A semiconductor module which includes at least one semiconductor element is mounted on a first surface of a main substrate, which has the first surface on which a first circuit element is mounted and a second surface on which a second circuit element is mounted. A plurality of connection terminals include a first connection terminal group composed of a plurality of first connection terminals to be connected to the first circuit element via the main substrate, and a second connection terminal group composed of a plurality of second connection terminals to be connected to the second circuit element via the main substrate. The first connection terminal group is disposed on the outer peripheral side with respect to the second connection terminal group.

Abstract: A control device that controls an internal combustion engine, a first rotary electric machine, a first engagement device, and a second engagement device performing first transition control when transition is performed from a first mode to a second mode. The first transition control includes first control, second control, and third control. The first control is control in which the second engagement device that connects and disconnects power transmission between two rotary elements selected from among three rotary elements of a distribution differential gear mechanism is changed from an engaged state to a disengaged state while a third engagement device of a transmission mechanism is maintained in an engaged state. The second control controls a rotational speed of the first rotary element to is changed from a disengaged state to an engaged state and the internal combustion engine is started by using drive power transmitted from the first rotary electric.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine is disposed coaxially with an input member more toward a first side in an axial direction than a first gear that meshes with a second gear. A third gear rotates integrally with second and fourth gears that mesh with third gear more toward second side in axial direction than first and second gears. An axis of a counter gear mechanism is below axis of rotary electric machine and axis of differential gear mechanism. An inverter device more toward first side in axial direction than fourth gear and above axis of differential gear mechanism while that inverter device overlaps fourth gear as seen in axial direction. A specific portion of inverter device is between rotary electric machine and fourth gear in axial direction, such hat specific portion overlaps counter gear mechanism as seen in up-down direction and overlaps rotary electric machine as seen in axial direction.

Abstract: A door control device is applied to a vehicle including a vehicle body having a first opening and a second opening adjacent to each other, a first door configured to open and close the first opening, a second door configured to open and close the second opening, a first drive unit configured to open and close the first door between a fully open position where the first opening is fully opened and a fully closed position where the first opening is fully closed, and a second drive unit configured to open and close the second door between a fully open position where the second opening is fully opened and a fully closed position where the second opening is fully closed. The door control device includes: a first control unit configured to control the first drive unit based on the operation command signal; and a second control unit configured to control the second drive unit based on the operation command signal, the operation command signal being a signal for operating both the first door and the second door.

Abstract: An object detection device includes a transmitting unit that transmits a transmission wave, a receiving unit that receives a reception wave produced by the reflection of the transmission wave off an object, a CFAR processing unit that acquires a difference value between a processing target value that is the value of a processing target signal corresponding to the reception wave received at a certain detection timing, and a reference value based on a moving average value of the values of reference signal groups corresponding to the reception wave received during predetermined periods before and after the detection timing, a detection processing unit that generates information about the object, based on the difference value, and a setting unit that selects the reference value suitable for a detection distance corresponding to the detection timing from a plurality of the reference values.

Abstract: An object detection system including a plurality of object detection devices arranged at predetermined intervals. Each objection detection device includes a transmitter transmitting a transmission wave of a predetermined frequency. Each devices also includes a receiver that receives a reception wave that has returned in response to reflection on the object. An acquisition part acquires a first Doppler shift amount between the transmission wave and the reception wave on the basis of a reception frequency as a result of frequency analysis on the reception wave and the transmission frequency of the transmission wave to estimate an arrival direction of the reception wave based on the first Doppler shift amount and a second Doppler shift amount returned from a front of the object and determines a processing mode of the reception wave on the basis of the arrival direction of the reception wave.

Abstract: The stator is provided with a first joint part provided so as to extend in a radial direction as viewed in a rotation axis line direction; and a second joint part provided at a location corresponding to a fastening member and provided so as to extend in the rotation axis line direction so as not to overlap the fastening member.

Abstract: An object detection device is mounted on a moving body and detects an object that exists around the moving body. An object detection device includes a transmitter that transmits a transmission wave, a receiver that receives a reception wave generated by the transmission wave being reflected by the object, a mode setting unit that switches, in accordance with a predetermined condition, a plurality of distance modes including a short distance mode targeting a short distance range determined in advance, and a controller that sets a driving time of the transmission wave in the short distance mode to be shorter than the driving time of the transmission wave in another distance mode targeting a range farther than the short distance range.

Abstract: An electric actuator includes an electric motor including a driving shaft; an input shaft coupled to the driving shaft; an input gear configured to rotate integrally with the input shaft; an output gear configured to rotate based on a power transmitted from the input gear; a bearing configured to rotatably support the input shaft; and a housing that houses the electric motor, the input shaft, the input gear, the output gear, and the bearing. The input shaft includes a first shaft portion that extends from the input gear toward the driving shaft of the electric motor, and a second shaft portion that extends from the input gear in a direction opposite to the first shaft portion and is supported by the bearing. The second shaft portion of the input shaft includes an outer peripheral groove that extends in a circumferential direction as advancing in the axial direction. The housing includes an exposure hole that exposes the second shaft portion of the input shaft to the outside.