Abstract: A valve device includes: a ball valve having a ball face shaped in a convex spherical surface; and a valve seat having a seat face shaped in a concave spherical surface. The seat face is pressed onto the ball face. The ball valve is rotated to open a valve by communicating a valve opening defined in the ball valve and a seat opening defined in the valve seat with each other, and to close the valve by stop the communication. A diameter of the seat opening ?2 is smaller than a diameter of the valve opening ?1. A curvature radius of the ball face R1 is smaller than or equal to a curvature radius of the seat face is R2.

Abstract: In an apparatus, each of light receiving elements outputs an intensity signal based on a corresponding intensity of return light from a measurement space. The return light includes reflected light reflected based on reflection of the measurement light by a target object. An identifying unit identifies a light receiving area in the light detection region as a function of the intensity signals of the respective light receiving elements. The light receiving area is based on specified light receiving elements in the plurality of light receiving elements. The specified light receiving elements are arranged to receive the reflected light. A distance measuring unit measures the distance of the target object in accordance with the intensity signals received by the specified light receiving elements.

Abstract: A rotary actuator includes a motor, an output shaft, and a speed reducer. The motor includes a motor shaft rotating about an axial direction. The output shaft is disposed in parallel with the motor shaft. The speed reducer reduces a rotational speed of the motor and transmits rotation of the motor at a reduced rotational speed to the output shaft. The speed reducer includes a parallel-shaft type reducer that has a drive gear on the motor shaft and a driven gear on the output shaft. One side and the other side in the axial direction are defined as a first side and a second side, respectively. The motor is located on the first side of the speed reducer in the axial direction. The driven gear includes a teeth portion having a gear end surface on the first side of the teeth portion. The motor includes a stator having a stator end surface on the second side of the stator. The gear end surface is located on the first side of the stator end surface in the axial direction.

Abstract: In a signal processing device, a branch section generates, from an input signal which is a current signal, a plurality of branch signals that are proportional to the input signal and have different signal intensities, and supplies the plurality of branch signals to respective different individual paths. A selection section selects one of the plurality of individual paths and outputs a signal supplied through the selected individual path. A determination section determines whether in each of the plurality of individual paths, a magnitude of a signal supplied to the selection section is in a preset allowable range. A control section causes the selection section to select the individual path having a highest gain among the individual paths in which the magnitude of the signal is determined by the determination section to be in the allowable range.

Abstract: A housing of a light emission/reception device includes a housing body and a window member. The housing body has an opening and accommodates a light emitting unit having one or more light emitting elements, and a light receiving unit having one or more light receiving elements. The window member covers the opening of the housing body, enables emitted light that is emitted from the light emitting unit to be transmitted therethrough toward the exterior of the housing, and enables incident light from the exterior of the housing to be transmitted therethrough, so that the incident light enters the light receiving unit. Also, the window member is provided with a propagation suppressing member configured to suppress propagation of light within the window member.

Abstract: A centrifugal blower includes an outer rotor, and a turbo fan. The turbo fan includes blades, an other end plate, and a cylinder portion. The cylinder portion is located inside the other end plate, and is fixed to the outer rotor. A surface of the outer rotor configures a rotor guide surface that guides an air flow toward a channel provided between adjacent blades. Each blade has a leading edge side portion located radially inside the cylinder portion. An outer end portion of the rotor guide surface in the radial direction is located at the same position in the axial direction as a one side cylinder end portion of the cylinder portion in the axial direction, in a state where a rotor contact portion of the outer rotor and a blade contact portion of the leading edge side portion are in contact with each other.

Abstract: A control device comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire a warning level indicating a warning measure related to an abnormality that has occurred in a vehicle, from a device installed externally to the vehicle; detect an abnormality that has occurred in the vehicle, from equipment mounted to the vehicle; perform thinning control on a detection result of the abnormality detected according to the warning level; and transmit the detection result resulting from thinning to the device.

Abstract: A speed reducer-equipped motor of the present disclosure includes a housing to which a motor is fixed and that has a speed reducer housing recess, and a helical gear and a locking gear that are accommodated in the speed reducer housing recess. A spring is provided between the helical gear and the locking gear, and reduces wobbling of the helical gear, the locking gear, and the like in the speed reducer housing recess.

Abstract: A power conversion device includes a cooler, a terminal block and a case. The cooler defines an internal space through which a refrigerant flows. The terminal block covers a conducive part. The case accommodates the cooler and the terminal block therein. The case has an opening on its lateral wall portion for allowing connection between the conductive part of the terminal block inside the case and an external load disposed outside the case. At least a part of the terminal block is located closer to the opening than the cooler in a first direction to which an inner surface and an outer surface of the lateral wall portion of the case defining the opening are opposed, and is located between the cooler and an upper end of the opening in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor is rotatably supported and includes a magnet. The stator is radially opposed to the rotor and includes a plurality of coils. Each of the coils is formed by winding an electrically-conductive conductor wire in a ring shape. The coils are arranged along a circumferential direction. Moreover, for each of the coils, the conductor wire forming the coil has a first end portion radially protruding from an inner peripheral portion of the coil and a second end portion radially protruding from an outer peripheral portion of the coil.

Abstract: An armature winding includes a plurality of winding segments each of which is made of a winding of a conductor wire member. The winding segments are arranged at a given interval away from each other in a circumferential direction of the armature winding and face a magnet unit. Each of the conductor wire members is made of a bundle of a plurality of wires. Each winding segment includes a pair of straight portions and link portions. The straight portions extend straight in an axial direction of a rotor. The link portion connect the straight portions together. Each of the straight portions is made of turns of the conductor wire member which are arranged in the form of multiple columns and layers. Each link portion is shaped to have a space factor lower than those in the straight portions of the winding segment.

Abstract: The vehicle seat includes: a seat cushion; a seat back; a lifter link mechanism wherein the seat cushion is displaced by a sector gear being displaced; and a speed reducer-equipped motor including a pinion gear engaging with the sector gear; and a first and second restriction portions that stop the rotation of the pinion gear to one side. The sector gear is displaced to one side by the pinion gear being rotated to one side. The displacement of the sector gear to one side is stopped by the rotation of the pinion gear to one side being stopped by the first and second restriction portions. The sector gear is displaced to the other side by the pinion gear being rotated to the other side. The rotation of the pinion gear to the other side is stopped by the displacement of the sector gear to the other side being restricted.

Abstract: A motor system of the present disclosure includes a permanent magnet motor including a stator having N-phase windings and a rotor having a permanent magnet, N being a natural number greater than or equal to three, an inverter that supplies N-phase drive currents for generating a rotating magnetic field to the stator, and a zero-phase current supply unit that supplies a zero-phase current to the N-phase windings of the stator. The motor system applies the zero-phase current to the N-phase windings in response to an inter-terminal voltage of the permanent magnet motor reaching a predetermined value of the inter-terminal voltage.

Abstract: A control apparatus (1) for vehicle headlight including a rear end detection unit (3, 7) that detects a rear end (117) of a preceding vehicle (111) and a light blocking area setting unit (7) that sets a light blocking area (123) that includes the rear end within a light illumination area of a headlight (101, 103) of an own vehicle (107), wherein the light blocking area setting unit sets the light blocking area such that a spreading extent (125, 127) of the light blocking area outside the rear end is wider on a side in which a front end of the preceding vehicle is present than on the opposite side with reference to the rear end as viewed from the own vehicle.

Abstract: A gas sensor includes a sensor element, and the sensor element includes a bottomed tubular solid electrolyte, a detection electrode provided on an outer surface of the solid electrolyte, a reference electrode provided on an inner surface of the solid electrolyte. The detection electrode of the sensor element includes a detection electrode section provided at a position on a tip side of an axial direction, an attachment electrode section provided at a position on a base end side of the axial direction, and a lead electrode section provided at a position where the detection electrode section is connected to the attachment electrode section. An insulating layer is provided between a tube of the solid electrolyte and each of the attachment electrode section and the lead electrode section.

Abstract: A travel path data generation apparatus for generating travel path data inside an intersections for automated driving includes a travel path data generator that generates the data of the travel path in such a way that, using an absolute trajectory of actual traveling of a vehicle inside the intersection, the travel path data generator fits an estimated trajectory of the actual traveling of the vehicle inside the intersection into data of lane network connected to the intersection.

Abstract: A shift range control apparatus controls a shift range switching system that switches shift ranges by controlling driving of a motor. This control apparatus calculates a motor angle based on a motor rotation angle signal, acquires an output shaft signal based on a rotation position of an output shaft from an output shaft sensor, sets a target rotation angle based on a target shift range and the output shaft signal, and controls driving of the motor such that the motor angle becomes the target rotation angle. The control apparatus sets the target rotation angle to a target limit value, in response to the target rotation angle that is set based on the output shaft signal being a value at which rotation occurs that is further toward a back side in a rotation direction than the target limit value that is set based on shift ranges before and after switching.

Abstract: A traveling control apparatus performs a target-following control process on a target to be followed detected by a target detecting unit. Further, the traveling control apparatus calculates a probability that the target to be followed is within an own lane, and determines whether a degree of recognition by the target detecting unit of the target to be followed is in a weakly recognized state where the degree of recognition is weaker than a predetermined degree. The apparatus sets a reliability of the target to be followed on the basis of the probability calculated by a probability calculating process and a determination result by a determining process, and controls acceleration of an own vehicle so that a jerk which is a differential value of the acceleration becomes smaller as the reliability of the target to be followed is lower while the target-following control process is performed.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a major surface and both an element-forming region and an outer peripheral voltage-withstanding region that are provided on the major surface side of the semiconductor substrate. The element-forming region includes both a cell region for forming a power element and a circuit element region for forming at least one circuit element. The circuit element region is interposed between the outer peripheral voltage-withstanding region and the cell region. The outer peripheral voltage-withstanding region includes a boundary region that adjoins the element-forming region. In the boundary region, there is provided one or more voltage-withstanding regions. At least one of the one or more voltage-withstanding regions has a withstand voltage lower than both the withstand voltages of the cell region and the circuit element region.

Abstract: A leakage diagnostic device diagnoses leakage of evaporated fuel in an evaporative fuel treatment device. The evaporative fuel treatment device purges evaporated fuel, which is generated in a fuel tank and adsorbed on a canister, to an intake passage. The leakage diagnostic device includes a vent valve that blocks a first atmospheric passage, which connects the canister with an atmospheric opening, and a pump that pressurizes and depressurizes a second atmospheric passage, which is a bypass passage of the first atmospheric passage. The malfunction diagnostic device diagnoses malfunction of the leakage diagnostic device based on an output value of a pressure sensor that detects pressure in a passage connected to the canister.