Abstract: A vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device includes first and second air jetting devices configured to remove adhered material (such as raindrops and mist particles) that has adhered to detector faces of sensors configured to detect information regarding surroundings of a vehicle, and a control ECU configured to operate air pumps of the first and second air jetting devices when a wiper device of the vehicle has been actuated.

Abstract: An imaging device images rearward of a vehicle through a windshield from inside a cabin of the vehicle, and a vehicle washing device includes a wiping device and a controller. The wiping device is capable of reciprocatingly wiping a predetermined range of the windshield. The predetermined range of the windshield includes an imaging range for the imaging device. The controller switches operation of the wiping device to one of a first mode or a second mode in accordance with an input. In the first mode, the wiping device wipes the predetermined range of the windshield. In the second mode, the wiping device wipes the imaging range of the windshield preferentially compared to the first mode.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device includes first and second air jetting devices configured to remove adhered material (such as raindrops and mist particles) that has adhered to detector faces of sensors configured to detect information regarding surroundings of a vehicle, and a control ECU configured to operate air pumps of the first and second air jetting devices when a wiper device of the vehicle has been actuated.

Abstract: An imaging device images rearward of a vehicle through a windshield from inside a cabin of the vehicle, and a vehicle washing device includes a wiping device and a controller. The wiping device is capable of reciprocatingly wiping a predetermined range of the windshield. The predetermined range of the windshield includes an imaging range for the imaging device. The controller switches operation of the wiping device to one of a first mode or a second mode in accordance with an input. In the first mode, the wiping device wipes the predetermined range of the windshield. In the second mode, the wiping device wipes the imaging range of the windshield preferentially compared to the first mode.

Abstract: An endoscope of the invention includes: an insertion portion; a distal end portion; a pair of first observation image acquiring sections; a second observation image acquiring section; a pair of nozzles, each of which includes a spouting port for spouting fluid toward each of the pair of first observation image acquiring sections; a pair of first protruding portions, each of which is located close to the front surface of the distal end portion and has a maximum dimension in the radial direction larger than a dimension in the radial direction of each of the nozzles, and a pair of second protruding portions, each of which is located farther from the front surface of the distal end portion and has a maximum dimension in the radial direction larger than the dimension in the radial direction of each of the nozzles.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire, having in a ground contact surface of a tread a plurality of main grooves extending in the tread circumferential direction and a plurality of land portions demarcated by the main grooves and tread ends, wherein, provided that two land portions adjacent to the central land portion on the respective sides in the tread width direction of the central land portion each represent an adjacent land portion, rigidity in the tread circumferential direction of the central land portion is lower than rigidity in the tread circumferential direction of the adjacent land portion.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire that can greatly improve the steering stability on dry and wet road surfaces without worsening of the rolling resistance. A rubber composition used in a tread of the pneumatic tire includes a rubber component (A) including 50 mass % or more of isoprene-based rubber, a specific amount of a thermoplastic resin (B), and a filler (C) including 70 mass % or more of silica. In the rubber composition, tan ? at 0° C. is 0.5 or less, the difference between tan ? at 30° C. and tan ? at 60° C. is 0.070 or less, and the storage modulus at a dynamic strain of 1% and 0° C. is 20 MPa or less. In the pneumatic tire, a tread edge component ratio defined as (sum of tire widthwise extending length of lug grooves and tire widthwise extending length of widthwise sipes on the tread surface)/(tire circumferential length) is 6.0 to 8.0.

Abstract: A tire in which a reinforcement layer and a tread section are laminated in this order from the inside toward the outside in a radial direction of the tire. The tread section includes an inner base layer, an outer base layer, and a cap layer that are laminated in this order from the inside toward the outside in the radial direction of the tire. The cap layer is made of a material of which a modulus of elasticity and a loss tangent are lower than those of a material of the outer base layer. The inner base layer is made of a material of which a modulus of elasticity is lower than that of a material of the cap layer.

Abstract: In a pneumatic tire 10 according to the present invention, as an average sipe interval h is defined by an average interval of sipes adjacent to each other in a tire circumferential direction and an average pitch length L is defined by an average length of a repeating unit of blocks in the tire circumferential direction, a relation of 0.130?(h/L)?0.400 is fulfilled.

Abstract: An endoscope of the invention includes: an insertion portion; a distal end portion; a pair of first observation image acquiring sections; a second observation image acquiring section; a pair of nozzles, each of which includes a spouting port for spouting fluid toward each of the pair of first observation image acquiring sections; a pair of first protruding portions, each of which is located close to the front surface of the distal end portion and has a maximum dimension in the radial direction larger than a dimension in the radial direction of each of the nozzles, and a pair of second protruding portions, each of which is located farther from the front surface of the distal end portion and has a maximum dimension in the radial direction larger than the dimension in the radial direction of each of the nozzles.

Abstract: An endoscope includes: a first image acquisition portion configured to acquire a first object image from a first direction; a second image acquisition portion configured to acquire a second object image from a second direction different from the first direction; first illumination light emission portions provided on a straight line with the first image acquisition portion, the first image acquisition portion being interposed between the first illumination light emission portions, and arranged along a line orthogonal to an optical axis of the first image acquisition portion; and second illumination light emission portions lined up and arranged on a plane where the second image acquisition portion is arranged at the insertion portion, and a lining direction of the first illumination light emission portions and a lining direction of the second illumination light emission portions are arranged at positions to be a twisted relation.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes an insertion portion, an objective optical system provided on the insertion portion and configured to form an object image, an image pickup unit configured to pick up the object image, a bending portion configured to cause a distal end portion of the insertion portion to bend, an image processing portion configured to perform cutout processing on the image picked up by the image pickup unit, such that an area of field of view expands in a bending direction of the distal end of the insertion portion by the bending portion, and an exposure control portion configured to perform exposure control based on a brightness of the cutout image.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes an insertion portion, a support portion, a first subject image acquisition portion, a second subject image acquisition portion, a third subject image acquisition portion, an image generation section, and an image processing section. The image processing section can switch between a first mode of arranging lateral images around a forward image in a continuously connected state and a second mode of arranging the lateral images and the forward image in a separated. The image processing section continuously connects a third image in a non-display region to the forward image in the first mode, and arranges the lateral images side by side with both sides of the forward image and arranges the third image adjacent to the forward image in the second mode.

Abstract: A tire in which a reinforcement layer and a tread section are laminated in this order from the inside toward the outside in a radial direction of the tire. The tread section includes an inner base layer, an outer base layer, and a cap layer that are laminated in this order from the inside toward the outside in the radial direction of the tire. The cap layer is made of a material of which a modulus of elasticity and a loss tangent are lower than those of a material of the outer base layer. The inner base layer is made of a material of which a modulus of elasticity is lower than that of a material of the cap layer.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire according to the present invention includes, one or more main grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction, and a plurality of lateral grooves extending in the tire width direction, the main grooves and the lateral grooves defining a block row formed by a plurality of blocks, at least one sipe being disposed in each block. Each block has a first cutaway groove with one end opening into a lateral groove located on one side of the block and the other end terminating within the block, a second cutaway groove with one end opening into a lateral groove located on the other side of the block and the other end terminating within the block, and a connecting narrow groove having a groove width narrower than that of the first and the second cutaway groove and connecting the first and the second cutaway groove.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire is disclosed, adapted to highly effectively combine on-ice and on-snow performances. The pneumatic tire includes block groups (G) formed by polygonal blocks (10), which are arranged closely in a tread portion (1). The polygonal blocks (10) are formed by grooves (9) including first groove (9a) with a groove width (W9a) between the polygonal blocks 10 neighboring with each other in the tire circumferential direction. The groove width (W9a) of the first grooves (9a) is larger than a groove width (W9b) of second grooves (9b) between the polygonal blocks 10 neighboring with each other with a zigzag pattern.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire, having in a ground contact surface of a tread a plurality of main grooves extending in the tread circumferential direction and a plurality of land portions demarcated by the main grooves and tread ends, wherein, provided that two land portions adjacent to the central land portion on the respective sides in the tread width direction of the central land portion each represent an adjacent land portion, rigidity in the tread circumferential direction of the central land portion is lower than rigidity in the tread circumferential direction of the adjacent land portion.

Abstract: This tire (1) has, in a tread part (2), a plurality of land parts (70A)-(70C) sectioned by circumferential direction grooves (50) extending in the tire circumferential direction (L) and width direction grooves (60) extending in the tire width direction (W). The tire (1) is configured so that the length (W2) of the tread part (2) in the tire width direction (W) is 60 to 95% of the length (W1) of the tire (1) in the tire width direction (W). In the tire (1), the sipe density in the land part (70A) is greater than the sipe density in the land parts (7B)/(70C) that are disposed farther out in the tire width direction (W) than the land parts (70A).

Abstract: A tire with a tread to which foamed rubber is applied that stably exhibits excellent on-ice performance, which is a combination of braking performance and driving performance of a tire, on the ice road surface from the beginning of its use is provided. The tire includes, in a tread thereof, a surface rubber layer forming at least a ground contact surface of the tread and an inner rubber layer that is adjacent to the inward of the surface rubber layer in the tire radial direction and is formed of foamed rubber, and the elastic modulus of rubber of the surface rubber layer Ms is lower than the elastic modulus of rubber of the inner rubber layer Mi.