Object detection apparatus
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11087149B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-10

    申请号:US16317296

    申请日:2017-07-11

    Abstract: An ECU is applied to a vehicle system that is provided with lateral sensors which acquire distance information expressing a distance to an object that is located at a position on a lateral side of a vehicle. When distance information on the object is acquired by the lateral sensors, a judgement is made by the ECU as to whether or not the object is a predetermined moving object that moves relative to the vehicle. The ECU determines that the object is a target to be subjected to contact avoidance processing for avoiding contact with the object, based on a result of judging whether or not the object for which the distance information is acquired is a moving object.

    Parking assistance device and parking assistance method

    公开(公告)号:US10576967B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-03

    申请号:US16305230

    申请日:2017-05-25

    Abstract: A parking assistance device is applied to a vehicle equipped with a camera for capturing an image of an area in front of the vehicle and is configured to assist forward parking of the vehicle in a parking space. The parking assistance device includes: a position estimation unit which, in a situation where the vehicle is advancing toward the parking space in a lateral passage of the parking space, estimates, based on an image captured by the camera, at least one of a first corner position, which is a near-side corner position at a vehicle entrance part of the parking space, and a second corner position, which is a far-side corner position at the vehicle entrance part, before the vehicle passes by the parking space; and a space recognition unit which recognizes the parking space for forward parking based on the at least one estimated corner position.

    SENSOR SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND SENSOR
    3.
    发明申请
    SENSOR SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND SENSOR 审中-公开
    传感器系统,控制装置和传感器

    公开(公告)号:US20160245914A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-08-25

    申请号:US15033029

    申请日:2014-10-22

    Abstract: In a sensor system, a monitoring ECU includes a result-transmission-instruction transmission section that transmits through a signal line a measurement result transmission instruction for transmitting distance data. The result-transmission-instruction transmission section transmits, during a new detection operation, the measurement result transmission instruction to at least one of the ultrasonic sensors engaged in a last detection operation. Upon receipt of the measurement result transmission instruction, a communication section of the ultrasonic sensors transmits a detection result during the new detection operation.

    Abstract translation: 在传感器系统中,监视ECU包括:结果发送指示发送部,其通过信号线发送用于发送距离数据的测量结果发送指示。 结果发送指示发送部在新的检测动作期间将测量结果发送指示发送到参与最后检测动作的超声波传感器中的至少一个。 在接收到测量结果传输指令时,超声波传感器的通信部分在新的检测操作期间发送检测结果。

    Protective cover and on-vehicle device

    公开(公告)号:US11923635B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-05

    申请号:US17315092

    申请日:2021-05-07

    Abstract: A protective cover protects a connector coupling portion which is an electrical connection between an on-vehicle sensor to be mounted on a vehicle body component and a wiring. This protective cover includes a protection portion and a fixing portion. The protection portion covers the connector coupling portion at which a sensor-side connector which is provided on the on-vehicle sensor side and which extends in an extending direction is coupled to a wiring-side connector which is provided on the wiring side and which is to be coupled to the sensor-side connector while moving relatively with respect to the sensor-side connector in a coupling direction opposite to the extending direction. The fixing portion is integrally provided with the protection portion so as to be fixed on the on-vehicle sensor side.

    Retainer member
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11807180B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-07

    申请号:US17181967

    申请日:2021-02-22

    Abstract: A retainer member is equipped with a microphone facing portion, a drain path, and a stamped wall portion. The microphone facing portion is formed in a cylindrical shape matching an ultrasonic microphone is disposed outside the ultrasonic microphone in a radial direction extending radially from a longitudinal center line. The microphone facing portion extends from a body retaining portion toward a base side in an axial direction. The drain path extends through the microphone facing portion in the radial direction and is capable of discharging water from an inner space in the microphone facing portion. The stamped wall portion is formed in the microphone facing portion and faces the drain path through the longitudinal center line.

    Object detection device
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11726203B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-15

    申请号:US16698240

    申请日:2019-11-27

    CPC classification number: G01S15/878 G01S15/04 G01S15/32

    Abstract: An object detection device includes: a wave receiver that receives a reflected wave generated by reflection, by an object, of a transmission wave incident on the object; a determination section that determines whether, in a change over time in an amplitude of the reflected wave received by the wave receiver, an amplitude of a falling portion is greater than a predetermined criterion, the amplitude of the falling portion being decreased after the amplitude has reached a maximum value; and a processing section that, on the basis of a determination by the determination section that the amplitude of the falling portion is greater than the predetermined criterion, performs a process in which the object is treated as an object to be avoided.

    Ultrasonic object detection device
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11353568B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US16737074

    申请日:2020-01-08

    Abstract: An object detector includes: an acquiring unit that acquires an oscillation signal corresponding to an oscillation of a microphone, the microphone transmitting a transmission wave, which is an ultrasonic wave, on a basis of a driving signal, and being caused to oscillate by a reflected wave generated as a result of the transmission wave being reflected from an object; a fall identifying unit that identifies a fall time point of a first drop from a value more than a threshold to the threshold or less after termination of the driving signal; a rise estimating unit that estimates a rise-in-reverberation time point of the reflected wave, the rise-in-reverberation time point being before the fall time point and after a time point of start of the driving signal; and a distance determining unit that determines a distance to the object on a basis of the rise-in-reverberation time point.

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