Yazaki

About: Yazaki is a company organization based out in Canton, Michigan, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Terminal (electronics) & Cable harness. The organization has 5530 authors who have published 9153 publications receiving 71959 citations. The organization is also known as: Yazaki Sōgyō K.K. & Yazaki Sogyo K.K..

Method of applying gel coating to plant seeds

Abstract: A new method of processing a plant seed wherein a coating treatment is applied to a plant seed with an aqueous alkali salt solution of an aqueous gel to form a coating layer thereon and said coating layer is reacted with an aqueous solution of a divalent or trivalent metal salt to render the coating layer insoluble to water. Particularly, the improvement is accomplished by encapsulating the plant seed in the above mentioned gel coating together with an air bubble. This encapsulation is performed by means of a nozzle having a telescopic structure, in which a plant seed and air is supplied through the inner passage while the gel is supplied the surrounding annular passage. The nozzle is used in a vertical orientation and the lower end performs a valve function to control the gel supply.

Vehicular collision avoidance system

Abstract: A collision avoidance system for use in a vehicle. The system facilitates the avoidance of other vehicles and other potential hazards or obstacles. A sensor subsystem is used to capture sensor data relating to one or more areas outside the vehicle. Sensor data is sent from the sensor subsystem to a threat assessment subsystem for generating a threat assessment from the sensor data. The threat assessment is then sent to a feedback subsystem so that if appropriate, a response is generated by the system. The response can take the form of a visual, audio, and/or haptic warning. The response can also take the form of changes with respect to the vehicle itself, such as an automatic reduction in speed. The system can incorporate user-based attributes, vehicle-based attributes, and environment-based attributes in evaluating potential threats and contemplating system responses to those threats. A wide variety of different heuristics can be applied by the system. The system can be configured to minimize nuisance alarms and accommodate distinctions between users based on user preferences, user history, and other factors.

Side-monitoring apparatus for motor vehicle

Abstract: An image pick-up means mounted in the motor vehicle picks up a side direction of a driver's own vehicle. An approaching object detecting means detects an approaching degree of an approaching object which approaches his own vehicle from a side direction road crossing his own vehicle on the basis of two images picked up at two timings apart by a prescribed interval by the image pick-up means. A danger decision means decides a danger on the basis of the approaching degree. In such a configuration, a side-monitoring apparatus for a motor vehicle can accurately know the danger of collision with the object approaching from the side direction road.

Distance measuring apparatus of a target tracking type

Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus of the target tracking type which reduces the amount of data to be processed to allow high rate processing on the real time basis so that a distance to a moving object such as an automobile can be measured while tracking the object. The distance measuring apparatus comprises a plurality of frame memories for storing quantized density data of an image for one frame obtained at a fixed interval of time by imaging a travelling road in a matrix of columns and rows. The quantized data is compared at the same coordinate points to produce density difference data. The density difference data is accumulated for the individual columns and rows in the direction of each column and row, respectively. A preceding vehicle is tracked in accordance with the accumulated column data, the distance to the vehicle in front is measured in accordance with the accumulated row data. A rear-end collision preventing alarming apparatus incorporates the distance measuring apparatus and sets off an alarm to warn of a possible collision between the vehicles.

Automotive reflection type display apparatus

Abstract: The prism reflector installed immediately above an indicator's display surface consists of a prism and a flange portion that is flush with one surface of the prism and which extends from the periphery of that surface. The surface of the prism and the flange portion form a reflecting surface. A reflector plate is arranged to face the reflecting surface of the prism reflector and has a concave surface, whose light axis is inclined with respect to the reflecting surface of the prism reflector toward the thicker side of the prism. Light from the indicator's display enters the prism, is refracted as it leaves the reflecting surface, and travels toward the reflector plate's concave surface, which reflects the incident light back toward the reflecting surface of the prism reflector, which then reflects it toward the driver's viewing point. Because the light travels back and forth between the reflecting surface and the reflector plate, a long light path is obtained for effective remote display while keeping the apparatus compact. The reflector plate's concave surface enlarges the indicator display image, so that a large virtual image can be formed at a remote location from the driver.