Abstract: A communication device may include: a memory configured to store management information in which, for each of a plurality of OIDs of a MIB, the OID and a setting value are associated with each other; and a controller, wherein the controller may be configured to: receive a setting command which conforms to TCP; write the setting value included in the setting command to the management information in association with the OID included in the setting command; and send a response command which conforms to the TCP. In a case where the setting command including a first OID and a first setting value is received, the controller may be configured to: write the first setting value to the management information in association with the first OID after the response command has been sent, and send the response command before the first setting value is written to the management information.

Abstract: A wire harness includes a wiring member, an exterior member through which the wiring member is inserted, and a protector that is fixed to a vehicle and holds the exterior member. The protector includes a holding member that holds the exterior member, a fixing member that is fixed to the vehicle, and a tubular member that is formed in a tubular shape and on which the holding member and the fixing member are disposed. At least one of the holding member or the fixing member includes a columnar structure that is formed in a columnar shape and is slidingly fittable into the tubular member.

Abstract: A vehicular steering device includes a turning shaft, a housing storing therein the turning shaft, a stopper provided at a shaft end of the turning shaft, and an annular elastic body. An opening of the housing is formed in a U-shaped cross-sectional shape and in an annular shape opened toward the stopper by an external cylinder portion and an internal cylinder portion. The elastic body includes a first elastic portion and a second elastic portion. The first elastic portion is supported by an inner circumferential surface of the external cylinder portion and the bottom surface, and is provided with a first clearance from an outer circumferential surface of the internal cylinder portion. The second elastic portion extends toward the stopper from the first elastic portion, and is provided with a second clearance larger than the first clearance from the inner circumferential surface of the external cylinder portion.

Abstract: An exterior material includes a bellows part that includes ridge parts annularly formed around a center axis along an axial direction and project toward one side in a radial direction intersecting the axial direction, and groove parts annularly formed around the center axis and are recessed toward another side in the radial direction, the ridge parts and the groove parts being alternately aligned along the axial direction, the bellows part being externally attached to a wiring material. The bellows part includes a first uneven region that has one first groove part and two first ridge parts, and a second uneven region that has one second groove part having an outer diameter relatively shorter than an inner diameter of the first groove part, and two second ridge parts having an outer diameter relatively shorter than an inner diameter of the first ridge part.

Abstract: An electric power steering device includes: an electric motor; a rack shaft configured to move axially; a conversion unit configured to convert rotational driving force of the moto into movement of the rack shaft; a first housing configured to cover a part of an outer surface of the rack shaft and including a first leg portion fixed to a vehicle; a second housing configured to cover a part of the outer surface of the rack shaft and including a fourth connecting portion covering the conversion unit and a second leg portion fixed to the vehicle; and an intermediate housing disposed between the first and second housings and configured to cover a part of the outer surface of the rack shaft 3 and including a motor support portion supporting the motor.

Abstract: A vehicular steering device includes a turning shaft, a housing storing therein the turning shaft, a stopper provided at a shaft end of the turning shaft, and an annular elastic body. An opening of the housing is formed in a U-shaped cross-sectional shape and in an annular shape opened toward the stopper by an external cylinder portion and an internal cylinder portion. The elastic body includes a first elastic portion and a second elastic portion. The first elastic portion is supported by an inner circumferential surface of the external cylinder portion and the bottom surface, and is provided with a first clearance from an outer circumferential surface of the internal cylinder portion. The second elastic portion extends toward the stopper from the first elastic portion, and is provided with a second clearance larger than the first clearance from the inner circumferential surface of the external cylinder portion.

Abstract: A steering apparatus includes a turning shaft movable in the vehicle widthwise direction, a pinion shaft meshed with the turning shaft, a first housing that retains therein the turning shaft and the pinion shaft, a ball screw that transmits drive force generated by a drive source to the turning shaft, and a second housing that retains therein the ball screw. A retaining portion capable of storing water is provided at an inner circumferential surface of the second housing. A lower end surface of the retaining portion is located below at least a lower end surface of the ball screw. A first end portion of the retaining portion in the axial direction of the turning shaft is located between a belt member that links the ball screw with the drive source and a rack end stopper at the drive-source side.

Abstract: A steering apparatus includes a turning shaft movable in a vehicle widthwise direction, a pinion shaft meshed with the turning shaft and a first housing that retains therein the turning shaft and the pinion shaft. An inner circumferential surface of the first housing facing with the turning shaft is provided with an inclined portion that continuously changes an internal diameter. When a portion where a tooth of the turning shaft and a tooth of the pinion shaft are meshed with each other is defined as a meshed portion, the inclined portion is formed below at least the meshed portion.

Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing system includes a conduction inspection device configured to inspect a conductive state at a position of other end of each of a plurality of sub-harnesses in a state that one end of each of the plurality of sub-harnesses is connected to a control box, and an information writing device configured to write terminal information of the plurality of sub-harnesses in a box side storage portion of the control box.

Abstract: A wire harness includes a wiring member, an exterior member through which the wiring member is inserted, and a protector that is fixed to a vehicle and holds the exterior member. The protector includes a holding member that holds the exterior member, a fixing member that is fixed to the vehicle, and a tubular member that is formed in a tubular shape and on which the holding member and the fixing member are disposed. At least one of the holding member or the fixing member includes a columnar structure that is formed in a columnar shape and is slidingly fittable into the tubular member.

Abstract: A power supply system includes a high voltage battery, a first DCDC converter connected to the high voltage battery, a low voltage lead battery configured to be charged from the high voltage battery via the first DCDC converter, a low voltage lithium battery connected to a low voltage power supply circuit, the low voltage lead battery, and a load, a second DCDC converter connected to the low voltage power supply circuit and disposed between the low voltage lead battery and the low voltage lithium battery, a bypass circuit connected to the low voltage power supply circuit to bypass the second DCDC converter, and a control device configured to watch the low voltage lithium battery and control on/off of a switch unit provided in the bypass circuit.

Abstract: A ball screw device includes a screw shaft, a plurality of balls, a nut, a pair of guide members, and a transmission member. The nut has a pair of large-diameter portions and a small-diameter part between the two large-diameter portions. The two guide members are attachable to and detachable from an outer circumferential surface of the small-diameter portion in a radial direction and are located with a certain gap in the outer circumferential direction of the small-diameter portion. A fitting portion of the transmission member fits over the two large-diameter portions such that the fitting portion covers the two guide members while restricting radially outward displacements thereof. The fitting portion works with the small-diameter portion and the two guide members to define a circulation passage through which the balls are circulated. The transmission member is coupled to the nut.

Abstract: A wire harness routing structure for a panel, includes: a panel member that includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a wire harness that is routed to the panel member. The first surface has a harness accommodating groove that accommodates a harness main body of the wire harness, the harness accommodating groove being recessed toward the second surface. A resin cured portion that holds the harness main body is formed in the harness accommodating groove. The resin cured portion is formed by a resin with which a predetermined range of the harness accommodating groove is filled and which is cured.

Abstract: A wire harness includes: a harness main body. The harness main body includes a plurality of electric wires and a binding portion. The biding portion is configured to bind the plurality of electric wires. The binding portion is formed by a cured photocurable resin.

Abstract: An onium salt and a composition having high sensitivity and excellent pattern characteristics such as LWR, which is preferably used for a resist composition for a lithography process using two active energy rays of a first active energy ray such as an electron beam or an extreme ultraviolet and a second active energy ray such as UV.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wire harness includes: disposing a trunk harness, a branch harness and control boxes on a workbench and attaching the trunk harness and the branch harness to the control boxes; connecting the control boxes to an external device via the branch harness; and switching operation mode of at least one of the control boxes to an information writing mode for inputting information for operating the electric component to be connected to the branch harness into the at least one of the control boxes and then inputting the information from the external device into the at least one of the control boxes via the branch harness.

Abstract: An in-vehicle system includes a power supply box provided in a vehicle, and having a plurality of device connectors and a controller that supplies, to the plurality of device connectors, power received from a power supply, and a switch that switches between a cut off and a permission of power supplied to the plurality of device connectors in the power supply box. When power supplied to the device connectors is permitted by the switch, the controller performs a connection target validation process of identifying a type of a connection target device connected to each of the device connectors and a position of the device connector to which the connection target device is connected.

Abstract: A wire harness includes some control boxes dispersedly arranged on the wire harness; a trunk harness connecting one of the control boxes to another of the control boxes; and a branch harness connecting the control boxes to the electric components. The control boxes are configured to be able to multiplex and demultiplex the communication signals. The trunk harness has a common internal wire structure separate from where the trunk harness is connected to the control box. At least one of the control boxes is integrated with a functional component to be a component module. The functional component is configured to be able to input and output information relating to at least one of the electric components.

Abstract: A circuit body for a vehicle is wired on a vehicle body of the vehicle for performing supply of electric power to an electrical component and communication of various communication signals with the electrical component. The circuit body includes: a plurality of control boxes separately disposed on the circuit body and capable of controlling input and output of at least one of the electric power and the communication signal; a trunk line harness connecting one of the plurality of control boxes and another of the plurality of control boxes; and a branch line harness connecting the control box and the electrical component. The trunk line harness includes a power line for transmitting electric power and a communication line for transmitting communication signals in a separated state. An end portion of the power line and an end portion of the communication line are connected to the control box.

Abstract: A power supply system includes a high voltage battery, a first DCDC converter connected to the high voltage battery, a low voltage lead battery configured to be charged from the high voltage battery via the first DCDC converter, a low voltage lithium battery connected to a low voltage power supply circuit, the low voltage lead battery, and a load, a second DCDC converter connected to the low voltage power supply circuit and disposed between the low voltage lead battery and the low voltage lithium battery, a bypass circuit connected to the low voltage power supply circuit to bypass the second DCDC converter, and a control device configured to watch the low voltage lithium battery and control on/off of a switch unit provided in the bypass circuit.