Abstract: A binding machine includes: a wire feeding unit; a curl forming unit; a butting part; a cutting unit; and a binding unit. The binding unit includes: a rotary shaft; a wire engaging body configured to move in an axis direction of the rotary shaft and to engage the wire in a first operation area in the axis direction, and to move in the axis direction and to twist the wire in a second operation area in the axis direction; a rotation regulation part; and a tension applying part configured to perform, in the second operation area, an operation of applying tension on the wire engaged by the wire engaging body in the first operation area. The tension applied to the wire is equal to or larger than 10% and equal to or smaller than 50% with respect to a maximum tensile load of the wire.

Abstract: A front suspension device comprises a suspension arm, one end of which has a front-wheel support portion to support a front wheel of a vehicle and the other end of which is positioned on an inward side, in a vehicle width direction, of the front-wheel support portion and has a vehicle-body attachment portion to be attached to a vehicle-body member of the vehicle and a damper supported at a damper support portion which is provided at a portion of the suspension arm which is positioned in the vicinity of the front-wheel support portion at a lower portion thereof and connected to the vehicle-body member at an upper portion thereof. The damper support portion of the suspension arm has a breakage ease portion to cause breakage of the suspension arm.

Abstract: A hazard prediction and a hazard avoidance procedure are performed based on a predetermined hazard avoidance condition during an autonomous driving operation of a vehicle. User-input information about a driving operation of the vehicle; is received, and area or object information is checked to determine the area or the object as a monitoring target. The monitoring target is tracked. At least one additional hazard avoidance procedure for the monitoring target is set, and the at least one additional hazard avoidance procedure is performed in addition to the hazard avoidance procedure when the monitoring target approaches the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicular device includes: an eye opening degree determiner that determines a driver eye opening degree; a line-of-sight movement determiner that determines frequency of a driver line-of-sight movement; an operation determiner that determines a driver operation state for a driving operation instrument; a deviation determiner that determines a possibility that a driving state of a subject vehicle driver deviates from a safe driving state; a vehicle inside notification controller that performs a notification operation for a vehicle inside; and a vehicle outside notification controller that performs a notification operation for a vehicle outside.

Abstract: A driving-mode switch control system determines whether an arousal level of a driver of a vehicle is a level at which a manual driving is possible, acquires, as operation amount information, an operation amount that is input by the driver into an operation device, sets an operation guide amount to be input into the operation device with respect to the driver determined to have the arousal level at which the manual driving is possible, and determines whether to permit a switching from an automatic driving to the manual driving based on a comparison between the operation amount acquired as the operation amount information and the operation guide amount.

Abstract: A vehicular notification apparatus detects an emotion of a driver based on a line-of-sight detection result and a brain activity detection result, and performs control to suppress notification in response to that the detected emotion of the driver is uncomfortable.

Abstract: A wireless power supply system is provided to include a headset and a vehicle-side system. The headset, which is attached to a head of a driver of a vehicle, is configured (i) to generate an electric power by using a received electromagnetic wave, (ii) to actuate a sensor with the generated electric power to measure an activity of the driver, and (iii) to transmit activity measurement data indicating a measurement result. The vehicle-side system, which is provided to the vehicle, is configured (i) to transmit the electromagnetic wave, (ii) to receive the activity measurement data from the headset, and (iii) to monitor the activity of the driver based on the received measurement data. The transmitting or receiving state of the electromagnetic wave is monitored to provide a monitoring result, which is to be notified.

Abstract: A vehicle device monitors a physical condition of a driver, executes an awakening operation when detecting abnormal physical condition of the driver, determines whether the abnormal physical condition of the driver is resolved by the awakening operation, executes an emergency autonomous travelling when the abnormal physical condition of the driver being determined to be not resolved, notifies the emergency autonomous travelling toward vehicle surrounding, executes a rescue request in travelling state toward the vehicle surrounding during the emergency autonomous travelling, searches for a facility capable of treating the abnormal physical condition of the driver and sets the facility as a destination, sets another facility as a destination when no facility capable of treating the abnormal physical condition of the driver being specified, and executes a rescue request after arrival toward the vehicle surrounding in response to the vehicle arriving at another facility.

Abstract: An automatic brake control apparatus controls a braking device of a vehicle to execute a brake operation at a brake operating timing. The automatic brake control apparatus includes a brain activity state acquirer unit configured to acquire an activity state of a brain of a driver of the vehicle; a change determiner unit configured to use the activity state of the brain of the driver acquired after the braking device has executed a brake operation at a brake operating timing to determine whether changing the brake operating timing is necessary or unnecessary; and a change controller configured to change the brake operating timing in response to that changing the brake operating timing is determined to be necessary.

Abstract: In an electronic information processing system, a brain activity detection unit detects an activity of a user's brain. A change determination part determines whether a character input mode presently set needs to be changed to a different character input mode based on a detection result of the brain activity detection unit after a character input under the character input mode presently set is displayed on a display unit. When the change determination part determines that the character input mode presently set needs to be changed to the different character input mode, the character input mode setting part sets the different character input mode instead of the character input mode presently set.

Abstract: In a vehicular display apparatus, in response to that a rotation operation is detected, a view of a plurality of items displayed on a circular ring-shaped second display area is rotated along the outer periphery of a circle-shaped first display area. An item displayed at a predetermined position among the plurality of items displayed on the second display area is determined as a processing target item. Processing is executed for inputting a character on a character input screen on the first display area according to the determined processing target item.

Abstract: A hazard prediction and a hazard avoidance procedure are performed based on a predetermined hazard avoidance condition during an autonomous driving operation of a vehicle. User-input information about a driving operation of the vehicle; is received, and area or object information is checked to determine the area or the object as a monitoring target. The monitoring target is tracked. At least one additional hazard avoidance procedure for the monitoring target is set, and the at least one additional hazard avoidance procedure is performed in addition to the hazard avoidance procedure when the monitoring target approaches the vehicle.

Abstract: In an electronic information processing system, a brain activity detection unit detects an activity of a user's brain. A change determination part determines whether a character input mode presently set needs to be changed to a different character input mode based on a detection result of the brain activity detection unit after a character input under the character input mode presently set is displayed on a display unit. When the change determination part determines that the character input mode presently set needs to be changed to the different character input mode, the character input mode setting part sets the different character input mode instead of the character input mode presently set.

Abstract: A system for a vehicle is provided with a controller and detecting devices detecting information on driver state and/or vehicle state. The controller determines whether driver information matches a notification condition for transmitting the driver information to a communication terminal provided to a watcher via a communication network. The driver information includes information acquired from any one of the devices. In response to the driver information matching the notification condition, the driver information is transmitted to the communication terminal, and a stimulus is provided to the driver with a stimulus provision device according to an operation by the watcher via the communication terminal.

Abstract: A vehicular device includes: an eye opening degree determiner that determines a driver eye opening degree; a line-of-sight movement determiner that determines frequency of a driver line-of-sight movement; an operation determiner that determines a driver operation state for a driving operation instrument; a deviation determiner that determines a possibility that a driving state of a subject vehicle driver deviates from a safe driving state; a vehicle inside notification controller that performs a notification operation for a vehicle inside; and a vehicle outside notification controller that performs a notification operation for a vehicle outside.

Abstract: In a vehicle, a sleepiness degree of a driver is detected based on an eye opening degree and an eye opening time of an eye of the driver. A process corresponding to one of a plurality of levels of the detected sleepiness degree is selected and executed from among a plurality of processes to awaken the driver.

Abstract: A route calculation system includes: a route calculation data storage unit storing route calculation data; a route calculation unit calculating a route using the route calculation data and recalculating the route using the route calculation data when a predetermined recalculation condition is satisfied; a notification information output unit outputting notification information informing recalculation of the route; a brain activity detection unit detecting brain activity of a user; a brain activity determination unit determining detection result of the brain activity detection unit; a notification determination unit determining whether notification information output is necessary according to determination result of the brain activity determination unit after the route is recalculated; and a notification control unit enabling notification information output when notification information output is determined to be necessary and disabling notification information output when notification information output is de

Abstract: A driving-mode switch control system determines whether an arousal level of a driver of a vehicle is a level at which a manual driving is possible, acquires, as operation amount information, an operation amount that is input by the driver into an operation device, sets an operation guide amount to be input into the operation device with respect to the driver determined to have the arousal level at which the manual driving is possible, and determines whether to permit a switching from an automatic driving to the manual driving based on a comparison between the operation amount acquired as the operation amount information and the operation guide amount.

Abstract: A vehicular notification apparatus detects an emotion of a driver based on a line-of-sight detection result and a brain activity detection result, and performs control to suppress notification in response to that the detected emotion of the driver is uncomfortable.

Abstract: An electronic information process system that includes: an operation acceptance section that accepts an character input operation; a brain activity detection section that detects a brain activity; a gaze direction detection section that detects a gaze direction; a first display controller that displays an accepted character as an input character in a character display field; a presentation necessity determination section that determines whether a presentation of at least one of exchange candidate characters in accordance with the input character is necessary; a second display controller that displays the exchange candidate characters in at least one of exchange candidate display fields; an exchange necessity detection section that determines whether an exchange of the input character for the exchange candidate character is necessary, and selects an exchange target character from the exchange candidate characters; and a character confirmation section that confirms the selected exchange target character as a co