Abstract: A balancer apparatus equipped with an oil pump includes a pump housing including a pump containing chamber provided therein, a pump forming member contained in the pump containing chamber and configured to discharge oil introduced from an intake portion from a discharge portion to an oil passage of the internal combustion engine when a rotational force is transmitted thereto, a control oil chamber provided between the pump containing chamber and the pump forming member in a radial direction with respect to a rotational axis of the pump forming member and configured to change a hydraulic pressure of the oil to be discharged from the pump forming member with the aid of the oil introduced therein after being discharged from the discharge portion, passing through an oil passage of the internal combustion engine, and being subjected to a pressure adjustment, and a balancer housing including a bearing retainer portion configured to transmit the rotational force from the internal combustion engine to the pump formin

Abstract: A relay (25) connects and disconnects an electrical circuit to which an inverter (16) and an electricity storage device (19) are connected. A BCU (22) controls the electricity storage device (19). An HC (27) controls an electric motor (15), the inverter (16) and the BCU (22). The HC (27) and the BCU (22) respectively have FET switches (30, 31) for controlling supply and stop of the excitation current in the relay (25). When the electricity storage device (19) is determined to be in an abnormal state, the BCU (22) transmits an abnormal signal to the HC (27), and when a predetermined time has elapsed, turns off (opens) the first FET switch (30) of the BCU (22). The HC (27) executes stop processing based upon the abnormal signal received from the BCU (22) and then turns off (opens) the second FET switch (31) of the HC (27).

Abstract: Disconnection of a circulation path through which a circulation current flows is detected while suppressing an increase in circuit scale. A battery monitoring device includes switching circuits that control currents flowing through coils of main contactors by being controlled to be turned on and off, freewheeling diodes that are connected to the coils of the main contactors to form circulation paths for circulating the currents, and a control unit. The control unit measures output voltages of the freewheeling diodes at an input terminal, and detects the disconnection of the circulation paths based on the output voltages of the freewheeling diodes.

Abstract: The present invention is an antenna provided with: a plurality of radiating parts formed on a base plate; a waveguide tube inside of which radio waves emitted from the radiating parts propagate; a lens having a plurality of curved surfaces having a substantially hyperbolic shape and disposed in an opening of the waveguide tube; and a protruding part formed in a tapered shape between the plurality of radiating parts. The tip of the protruding part is formed at a position lower than an opening surface.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electronically controlled throttle device having a structure in which a resin cover is separated into a cover body portion and a connector portion, and has improved watertightness without increasing the size of the device. The electronically controlled throttle device of the present invention includes a motor 2, a throttle valve 4, a chassis 1, a resin cover 12, and a circuit board 104. The resin cover 12 has a first cover portion 12-1, a second cover portion 12-2, and a conductive wire 22 provided at a connection portion between the first cover portion 12-1 and the second cover portion 12-2. The connection portion is joined by forming a molten portion 23 around the conductive wire 22.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a stator of a rotating electric machine that can reduce the size of a coil end. According to the invention, a method for manufacturing a stator, which includes a stator core and a stator coil to which ends of a plurality of substantially U-shaped segment coils inserted into slots of the stator core are connected, includes twisting the end of the segment coil using a twisting jig 600. In the twisting, in a state in which the end of the segment coil is inserted into a groove portion 610 of the twisting jig, an edge portion 620 forming a part of the groove portion 610 is used as a twisting fulcrum, and a load is applied to the segment coil to forma press trace of the edge portion on the segment coil.

Abstract: To provide a sensor control device capable of identifying a short circuit terminal with a simple configuration and whose identification operation is not easily affected by environmental conditions around the sensor. The sensor control device includes a short circuit detection unit that detects a short circuit of a sensor having a plurality of terminals, a resistance value control unit that increases a resistance value of an element between the terminals when the short circuit of the sensor is detected by the short circuit detection unit, and a short circuit terminal identification unit that identifies at which of the plurality of terminals a short circuit occurs when the resistance value control unit increases the resistance value of the element between the terminals to a set value or greater.

Abstract: Provided is a steering control device and a steering control method that can suppress the deterioration of the turning responsiveness at the initial stage of steering that may occur in a four-wheel steering vehicle and improve the steering stability when the front and rear wheels of the four-wheel steering vehicle are controlled in the same phase. A steering control device 1 of a vehicle that controls a rear wheel steering angle based on a front wheel steering angle includes a control unit 19 that controls an amount obtained by dividing an integrated value of a change in the rear wheel steering angle in a second steering section where an absolute value of the front wheel steering angle is constant and/or decreases by a time to be larger than an amount obtained by dividing an integrated value of a change in the rear wheel steering angle in a first steering section where the absolute value of the front wheel steering angle increases by a time.

Abstract: A parking support device is provided which, when calculating a parking route followed by a host vehicle, calculates the parking route based on the reliability of obstacle information acquired by a sensor mounted on the host vehicle, thereby improving the convenience of a driver of the host vehicle. A parking support device 10 includes an obstacle information analysis unit 303 that recognizes an external world from external world information detected by a camera 2 and a sonar 3 that acquire the external world information, and a parking route calculation unit 304 that calculates a parking route of a host vehicle 1 based on information on an obstacle in the external world recognized by the obstacle information analysis unit 303, and the parking route calculation unit 304 sets a distance between the obstacle and the host vehicle 1 in the parking route according to a degree of reliability of information on the obstacle.

Abstract: An object is to suppress a decrease in reliability due to peeling of an insulating layer and another member of a power semiconductor device. A power semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a power semiconductor element; a conductor portion that transmits a current to the power semiconductor element; an insulating layer in contact with a surface of the conductor portion on a side opposite to a side on which the power semiconductor element is arranged; a metallic heat dissipating portion that opposes the conductor portion while sandwiching the insulating layer; and an output terminal that is connected to the conductor layer and outputs a different signal depending on a contact state of the insulating portion, the insulating layer having an insulating portion and a conductor layer sandwiched between the conductor portion and the metallic heat dissipating portion via the insulating portion.

Abstract: Noise in measurement results of a laser distance measurement sensor is smoothed, and erroneous recognition of a position and a size of an object based on the measurement result is suppressed. An object recognition device according to the present invention recognizes the object by grouping the measurement results of the laser distance measurement sensor, calculates reliability of the recognition result thereof, and changes a time for continuously retaining the measurement result according to the reliability.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, combustion stability is improved while exhaust gas emission is suppressed. For this purpose, a control device (1) for controlling an injector (103) is configured to include a control unit (21) that controls the injector (103) to perform a first fuel injection (1001) for injecting fuel at a first fuel pressure from the injector (103) in an intake stroke (S1) in one combustion cycle of an internal combustion engine (100) and a second fuel injection (1002) for injecting fuel at a second fuel pressure higher than the first fuel pressure from the injector (103) after the first fuel injection (1001) in the same one combustion cycle in the intake stroke (S1).

Abstract: In the invention, in automatic parking, a route from a parking start position to a target parking position is calculated prior to the start of parking. However, there are cases where an external environment recognition device cannot detect an obstacle at a distant or blind spot. In such a case, smooth parking is hindered when the vehicle is actually automatically parked. In the invention, in Step S1101, the vehicle is virtually moved from a parking start position 1201 in the direction of a turning position, and a turning position 1206 is calculated on a parking route 1205. In Step S1103, a preliminary route to a target parking position 1207 when the vehicle is turned back at the turning position 1206 is calculated. In the next Step S1104, it is determined whether the preliminary route can be generated, and when the preliminary route satisfies a predetermined condition, the route calculated by a candidate route calculation unit 501 is adopted as an automatic parking route.

Abstract: Provided is a parking assistance device capable of reducing inconvenience felt by a driver experienced in automatic parking control during parking at a target vehicle speed corrected to a lower speed at a start of use of automatic parking control, for example. The parking assistance device controls a vehicle speed of the vehicle during parking to assist parking of the vehicle. The parking assistance device increases the vehicle speed of the vehicle during parking in accordance with a behavior during parking or from previous parking of the vehicle.

Abstract: A flow meter includes: a flat substrate; a housing that houses the substrate and has an open in at least one surface; a cover that covers the substrate and covers an open surface of the housing; a support that supports the substrate and is in contact with the cover and the substrate; and a fixing unit that connects the substrate and the housing, in which, in a first region and a second region formed by dividing the substrate into two parts at a center in a longitudinal direction, the support is disposed in the first region, and the fixing unit is disposed in the second region.

Abstract: To make it possible to enhance waterproofness of a vent hole when an electronic controller is mounted on an automobile. The electronic controller includes a waterproof case that accommodates a printed circuit board with electronic parts mounted thereon, and a connector that electrically connects the printed circuit board and an external apparatus to each other, the electronic controller being mounted on the automobile in a posture having the connector directed downward. The waterproof case has an inclined surface that is smaller as the distance from a bottom surface is more on the connector side, and the inclined surface is formed with a vent hole that is closed with the breathing filter.

Abstract: A problem of the present invention is to provide a road specifying device which estimates an appropriate own vehicle position even when autonomous driving maps are not prepared for all roads in a driving assisting function which can automate and assist part or all of a driving operation of a passenger, and correctly perform traveling control of the autonomous driving. The road specifying device according to the present invention specifies a road on which an own vehicle is traveling based on autonomous driving map data including road data, navigation map data including data which is the road data and whose contents partially overlaps that of the autonomous driving map data, and position information of the own vehicle whose position is measured by an external positioning system.

Abstract: Provided is an object detection system which enables detection of a body of interest without causing any disturbance outside a vehicle even if the body of interest is present in a restricted-illumination area. In accordance with the timing whereby an imaging module captures an image of an object in the restricted-illumination area and on the basis of the result of image processing by an image processing module, an illumination control module controls the start and end of illumination of the restricted-illumination area by an illumination module.

Abstract: An object is to reduce a current detection error of a current sensor while suppressing upsizing of a power conversion device equipped with the current sensor. A power conversion device includes a power conversion circuit; a conductor to transmit current to the circuit; and a coreless current sensor to detect the current. The coreless current sensor includes: a magnetic field detection portion; and a shield portion facing the magnetic field detection portion. The conductor includes: a first conductor portion that passes through a space between the magnetic field detection portion and shield portion; and a second conductor portion connected to the first conductor portion via a first bent portion, and the first bent portion is formed such that the space between the magnetic field detection portion and shield portion is not disposed in a direction perpendicular to a face of the second conductor portion closest to the shield portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control device in which it is possible to modify the travel trajectory of a vehicle in response to the presence of an obstruction in the vehicle perimeter. In the present invention, the vehicle control device 1 recognizes the surroundings of the vehicle, detects a first branching point in a first route that is preset on a road, and in cases in which a prescribed condition is met by the presence of an obstruction detected from the recognized surroundings when the vehicle is to move along a travel trajectory that is based on at least one second route from among a plurality of second routes that branch from the first branching point, generates a virtual route which branches from the first route at a second branching point differing from the first branching point toward the selected second route, and modifies the travel trajectory on the basis of the generated virtual route.