AISIN Exhibit at 11th World Congress on ITS Nagoya, Aichi 2004, Japan (October 13, 2004)

Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (President: Kanshiro Toyoda; Headquarters: Kariya, Aichi) and Aisin AW Co., Ltd. (President: Takao Taniguchi; Headquarters: Anjo, Aichi), will present a joint exhibition booth at the 11th World Congress on ITS Nagoya, Aichi 2004, Japan to be held from October 19 through 24 at Nagoya International Exhibition Hall in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture.

AISIN groupês cutting-edge technologies on ITS aimed at enhancing –safety” and ”convenience”, will be intelligibly presented using displayed images and demonstration vehicles which are integrated with the cutting-edge ITS related products as well as presenting the technical papers.

AISIN Seiki, providing parking assist systems using rear view images and voice guidances such as –Parking Assist System” and –Intelligent Parking Assist” to Japanese and foreign automobile manufacturers, will present its cutting-edge technologies for –Future Parking Assist System”, and –Intersection Obstacle Notification System” and others using a demonstration vehicle at the booth. The former employs sensors to automatically search for a parking space in addition to the functions of the current –Intelligent Parking Assist”. The latter employs a system for displaying obstacles in the intersection and giving a warning to the driver.

Aisin AW, providing navigation systems to 11 Japanese and foreign automobile manufacturers and car audio system manufacturers based on OEM agreement, has attained the unit sales of 710,000 car navigation systems in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004. At the booth, 8 new models of car navigation system will be exhibited, and the future navigation system will be presented with video footage. In addition, Aisin AW, also as an expert automatic transmission (AT) manufacturer, will present –NAVI-MATIC” (Navigation System-Coordinated Shift Control System) which controls the automatic transmission according to the anticipated road information given from the car navigation systems. A demonstration vehicle will let the visitors experience the comfortable shift changes with –NAVI-MATIC” comparing to those without –NAVI-MATIC” functions.

Reference: List of exhibited products and technical paper themes

1. Exhibited Products

List of exhibited products (PDF file)

2. Technical paper themes

Aisin Seiki: four reports will be presented
*3D parking assist system (coauthored with IMRA Europe)
*Lane keep assist system using rear view camera
*Digital processing technology for improving signal receiving quality (coauthored with IMRA Europe)
*Analog TV signal ghost cancellation technology (coauthored with IMRA Europe)
Aisin AW: two reports will be presented
*Information indication system for driver adaptations
*Driving pattern prediction technology for hybrid electric vehicles (coauthored with Equos Research)