Abstract: A sunroof device includes a rear link that slides along a longitudinal direction of a guide rail in conjunction with a slide member and moves up and down a rear end side of a movable panel by tilting in conjunction with the sliding of the slide member. Further, the rear link is provided with an engaging protrusion protruding in a width direction of the guide rail, and the guide rail is provided with a link engaging portion that regulates, by arranging the engaging protrusion inside, tilting of the rear link in a rising direction. The link engaging portion includes an upwardly opened cutout portion provided in the guide rail, and a metallic engaging bracket having an upper wall portion covering a topside of the cutout portion by being fixed to the guide rail. The engaging protrusion includes a metallic shaft body, and a resin layer covering the shaft body.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, by way of example, a vehicle control device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire map data indicating an absolute azimuth of a linear road surface sign disposed on a road surface on which a vehicle travels, and image data obtained by imaging surroundings of the vehicle with a vehicle-mounted camera included in the vehicle; and a correction unit configured to detect the road surface sign from the acquired image data, calculate a relative azimuth of the road surface sign with respect to the vehicle on the image data, calculate a shift of an azimuth in which the vehicle moves based on the calculated relative azimuth and the absolute azimuth of the detected road surface sign indicated by the map data, and correct the azimuth in which the vehicle moves based on the calculated shift.

Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an internal combustion engine and a valve opening-closing timing control device. The valve opening-closing timing control device has a phase adjustment mechanism for setting a relative rotation phase of a driving-side rotator and a driven-side rotator. The phase adjustment mechanism overlaps a timing of opening an intake valve with a timing of opening an exhaust valve, by setting, in a predetermined period, the relative rotation phase such that the exhaust valve closes after a top dead center position has been reached, and a bypass passage is provided that connects an exhaust passage of one cylinder that is in an exhaust process to the exhaust passage of another cylinder that is in an intake process at the same time as the exhaust process.

Abstract: A movable spoiler device provided in a front part of a vehicle body, the movable spoiler device includes: a link mechanism in which a plurality of links are coupled and configured to operate by driving the links by an actuator; a spoiler member connected with one of the plurality of links and being deployable and retractable with respect to the vehicle body by operation of the link mechanism; and a clutch mechanism provided on a driving force transmission path between the actuator and the spoiler member, and configured to block transmission of a driving force when an external force equal to or greater than a predetermined value is applied to the spoiler member with the spoiler member being in a deployed state.

Abstract: An oil pump includes: an outer rotor including internal teeth; an inner rotor including external teeth meshing with the internal teeth; a drive shaft connected to the inner rotor and configured to rotationally drive the inner rotor; and a housing including a pump chamber accommodating the inner and outer rotors. In the housing, a suction port and a discharge port are formed. The discharge port includes a first discharge port and a second discharge port. The suction port includes first and second suction ports respectively disposed on the same side as the first and second discharge ports. A pressure reducing oil passage communicating with the second discharge port and configured to reduce pressure of oil in the second discharge port is formed on the side of the second discharge port.

Abstract: A vehicle step device includes: a movable step that is provided in a door opening of a vehicle; and a drive controller that drives the movable step so that the movable step operates in deployment and storage directions. The drive controller includes a sidewalk detection unit that detects a sidewalk provided in parallel with a traveling road surface of the vehicle, a separation distance detecting unit that detects a separation distance between a side edge portion of the vehicle in which the movable step is stored and the sidewalk, and a deployment amount setting unit that sets a deployment amount of the movable step extending in a width direction of the traveling road surface from the side edge portion of the vehicle based on the separation distance. The deployment amount setting unit sets a deployment amount of the movable step to be larger as the separation distance increases.

Abstract: This electrostatic sensor is provided with an upper electrode provided in a lower part of a vehicle, a lower electrode provided in the lower part of the vehicle so as to be positioned below the upper electrode, and a detection unit for detecting whether there has been an operation consisting of the moving in and out of a foot below the vehicle on the basis of capacitance variation in the upper electrode and lower electrode. The detection unit determines that the operation consisting of the moving in and out of a foot has occurred if the time when the peak capacitance of the upper electrode is reached and the time when the peak capacitance of the lower electrode is reached match.

Abstract: An object detection system includes plural first object detection apparatuses each including a transmitting portion configured to transmit a first wave motion of a first frequency included in plural first frequencies, the transmitting portion transmitting the first wave motion of the first frequency which is different from the other first object detection apparatus concurrently with the other first object detection apparatus. The system includes a receiving portion configured to receive a reception wave, a determination portion configured to determine a correspondence relationship between one or more second frequency of one or more second wave motion included in the reception wave and the plural first frequencies, and a detection portion configured to detect information related to the object.

Abstract: A display control device includes: an image data acquisition unit configured to acquire image data as a result of imaging by an imaging unit that images a situation around a vehicle; and a display processing unit configured to display, on a display unit, a peripheral image indicating the situation around the vehicle generated based on the image data and also display, on the peripheral image, a first vehicle image indicating a current state of the vehicle and a second vehicle image indicating a future state of the vehicle when the vehicle moves toward a target position and to change a display mode of at least one of the first vehicle image and the second vehicle image according to a remaining distance to the target position of the vehicle.

Abstract: A door device for a vehicle includes a latch drive device configured to unlatch a swing door by driving a latch mechanism, a door hold-open device configured to hold the swing door at an opened angle by applying a braking force to the swing door, a door open switch issuing an operation request of the latch drive device to open the swing door; a door stop switch issuing an operation request of the door hold-open device, and a grip portion including the door open switch and the door stop switch to issue the operation requests of the door open switch and the door stop switch in a state where an occupant of the vehicle holds the grip portion.

Abstract: A parking assist device includes: a storage unit that stores a position of a specific parking space which is one of parking spaces where a vehicle is capable of being parked; a detection unit that detects a parking space from a captured image obtained by imaging the vicinity of the vehicle by an imaging device; a determination unit that determines that the detected parking space is the specific parking space in a case where a distance between the position of the detected parking space and the position of the specific parking space is equal to or smaller than a first threshold value; and a display process unit that causes the detected parking space to be displayed on a display unit while being highlighted in a case where it is determined that the detected parking space is the specific parking space.

Abstract: An airbag includes plural bag portions respectively including two sheet members which are attached to each other, the plural bag portions arranged to be overlapped with each other in a thickness direction of the sheet member, and a welded portion at which the sheet members being in contact with each other are attached to each other. The welded portion includes a communication hole penetrating the sheet members which are in contact with each other to communicate the bag portions which are arranged to be overlapped with each other, and a rib portion arranged radially outward of the communication hole, the rib portion protruding in the thickness direction from a welded surface of the welded portion. The rib portion includes an annular rib surrounding the communication hole, and a cutout portion provided at the annular rib.

Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine including a stator including a plurality of stator pieces, a rotor being arranged inside the stator and rotating about a rotation axis, a housing holding the stator and the rotor, a lid member preventing the stator and the rotor from coming out of the housing, and a cylindrical frame forming the stator by containing the plurality of stator pieces and being internally mounted in the housing, in which a first fixing portion and a second fixing portion for fixing the frame to the housing are disposed at both end portions of the frame along an extending direction of the rotation axis.

Abstract: A vehicle seat device includes: an expansion and contraction pattern setting unit that sets an expansion and contraction pattern of each air bag for air bags which are expanded to press a seat skin from an inside; an adjustment position detection unit that detects an adjustment position of a seat element constituting a seat for the seat provided with each of the air bags; and a pressing operation reduction region estimation unit that estimates an existence of a pressing operation reduction region where a pressing operation of the seat skin due to the expansion of the air bag is reduced based on the adjustment position of the seat element. When the existence of the pressing operation reduction region is estimated, the expansion and contraction pattern setting unit sets the expansion and contraction pattern excluding the air bag located in the pressing operation reduction region among the respective air bags.

Abstract: Provided is a low-cost component attaching structure having a simple structure and enabling easy operation. The component attaching structure includes a female screw part formed on one of a fixed part provided on a vehicle side and a component attached to the fixed part, an opening for attachment provided on the other of the fixed part and the component, and a blind rivet engaged with the female screw part through the opening.

Abstract: An object detection device includes: a transmission unit transmitting a transmission wave substantially at the same time with another transmission unit in another object detection device; a reception unit receiving a reception wave including surges corresponding to a result of return of the transmission wave by the transmission unit and another transmission wave by the another transmission unit in accordance with reflection by an object; an identification unit identifying a transmission source of the surges included in the reception wave; and a detection unit detecting information related to the object based on a correspondence relationship between a first peak of a first waveform indicating a first surge transmitted by the another transmission unit and received by the reception unit and a second peak of a second waveform indicating a second surge transmitted by the transmission unit and received by another reception unit provided in the another object detection device.

Abstract: A valve timing controller includes: a driving-side rotation member synchronously rotating with respect to a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven-side rotation member disposed coaxially with a rotation axis of the driving-side rotation member, and rotating integrally with a camshaft of the engine; a phase setting mechanism setting a relative rotation phase between the driving-side and driven-side rotation members; a brushless motor driving the phase setting mechanism; a control portion controlling the brushless motor by electrifying an inverter having three sets of arm portions having high-side and low-side switching elements connected to each other in series between a first power supply line and a second power supply line connected to a potential lower than a potential of the first power supply line; and a command information acquisition section acquiring holding command information indicating a command for holding a rotor of the brushless motor in a non-rotating state.

Abstract: An object detection device includes: a transmission unit configured to transmit a transmission wave; a reception unit configured to receive a reception wave, which is the transmission wave reflected by and returned from an object, until a predetermined measurement time elapses after the transmission wave is transmitted; a detection unit configured to detect the object based on distance information based on the reception wave received by the reception unit; and a reception control unit configured to set the measurement time after the detection of the object to be shorter than the measurement time after a non-detection of the object.

Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a circulation circuit, a pump, a flow rate adjustment valve, and a controller. The flow rate adjustment valve includes a valve member that rotates to change an open degree of the flow rate adjustment valve and a stopper that moves between a restriction position and a retraction position. The controller is configured to execute, when maintaining the open degree of the flow rate adjustment, a preparatory process of moving the stopper to the restriction position after arranging the stopper at the retraction position and arranging the valve member further in the valve-closing direction than the stopper through control of the pump discharge amount.

Abstract: An airbag includes: a welding portion that bonds peripheral edges of a pair of sheet portions to each other to form a bag shape, in which the airbag is formed to have a pair of holding portions that holds a held body portion therebetween, and at least one of the two sheet portions is formed with a pair of melting portions extending in directions away from mutually facing portions of the two holding portions in the welding portion.