Denso : Technology Development toward 2035

Technology Development toward 2035

Yoshifumi Kato Senior Executive Officer & CTO

DENSO Corporation

December 15, 2022

Society envisioned by DENSO

Social issues		Factors that will shape society by 2035
Global warming, resource shortages,	•	Strong momentum toward a recycling-oriented society focusing on
population increase, aging, etc.		renewable energy to protect the global environment
	•	Advancement of cyber-physical systems based on ICT
	•	Public demand for resilient social systems after experiencing the
		pandemic, disasters, war, and deepening social divide
	•	Diversifying values due to the emergence of regional differences as the
		pendulum swings between globalization and localization

Society envisioned by DENSO in 2035

Approach

Create a recycling-oriented society which mainly uses renewable energy and realize safe and highly valuable mobility and manufacturing.

Place top priority on keeping social activities going and meeting diverse values and sense of well-being.

DENSO's expertise lies in the mobility of people and goods as a mobility company, optimization of energy and resources as a manufacturer, and data generation and management as an inventor of the QR Code.

We conduct analyses based on "The Five Flows" in line with the envisioned society, and create what is needed by developing technologies and finding new partners.

Free Movement of

People

		Energy Utilization
Flow of Goods

Minimization of

Resource

Requirements

Flow of

Data

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"The Five Flows" on which DENSO is working

Value proposition

Goal

Safe and valuable

Free Movement of

People

Achieve mobility that meets diverse values by eliminating negative aspects of mobility (traffic accident fatalities)

	Flow of Data
	Free Movement of
Flow of Goods	People

mobility

Environmentally

friendly

manufacturing

Connect the

flows to

maximize value

Flow of Goods

Energy Utilization

Minimization of

Resource

Requirements

Flow of Data

Achieve environmentally-friendly and people-friendly mobility of goods by eliminating waste and losses

Spread DENSO's carbon-neutral manufacturing to society and realize an energy recycling society

Achieve sustainable manufacturing of products using limited resources to minimize the environmental impact

Connect all the flows using detailed data Connect drivers with vehicles and infrastructure

Energy Utilization	Minimization of
	Resource
	Requirements

Connect all the flows by the flow of data to create a well- being cycle society

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Free Movement of People & Flow of Goods

Safe and valuable mobility

Advanced driver assistance/automated driving

• Development of GSP3* with enhanced safety performance
• Annual production of millimeter-wave radar sensor: 8.3 million units
• Annual production of vision sensors: 6.2 million units

Millimeter-

*Global Safety Package 3 wave radar Vision sensor sensor

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Electrification

• Annual production of inverters: 3.1 million units Cumulative global production exceeded 20 million units in December 2021.
• DENSO will collaborate with USJC on manufacturing automotive power semiconductors.

Power control unit	Power
(inverter)	semiconductor	Large-diameter wafer

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Free Movement of People: Safer mobility with greater peace of mind

Usual driving

Expansion of support

Traffic fatalities covered by the

system (1,755 cases)

44%

Efforts 56% toward 2035 To be

covered by 2025 by evolution of GSP

• Calculated based on ITARDA's analysis of accidents in
  2018
  Injury: deaths, principally implicated party: passenger cars (standard motor vehicles/light motor vehicles) only, excluding car-train accidents

Before crash	Immediately before crash During/immediately after crash	After crash
Active safety	Crash safety	Mitigation of damage	Emergency call
caused by crash

		GSP3
	Imp	rovement i	n
	safety performance
Efforts toward 2035	Usual driving:	Coordination between a driver
assistance system and HMI
Before crash/immediately before crash:		- Development of algorithms that integrate the situation
Development of high-performance sensors			around the vehicle with the driver's condition to
Recognition of hazards around the vehicle			improve safety by analyzing the driver's condition,
by increasing the distance and angle			skills, and tendencies
Imaging millimeter-wave radar, SPAD-LiDAR			・January 2023: Establishment of the Safety Systems Business
Old product		New product			Unit through integration of the AD&ADAS Business Unit and
			the Cockpit Systems Business Unit
						・October 2022: Commencement of collection of basic driving
						data from 3,000 drivers through a project funded by the
						Toyota Mobility Foundation
Development and demonstration of a vehicle-				×
infrastructure cooperative system
Recognition of hazards in blind spots that
cannot be detected by vehicle sensors			Situation around the vehicle		Driver's condition
Commencement of demonstration tests in collaboration
Fully automated driving:
with a local government.
		- Communication		Reinforcement of collaboration with a development
			manufacturer of Level 4 automated driving in
		device
			anticipation of the spread of ride-sharing services of
		- Sensor
		(camera, LiDAR, etc.)		automated driving cars
					April 2019: Equity participation in Uber-ATG (currently Aurora Innovation)

Increase safety by analyzing the driver's behavior and promote development toward fully automated driving

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