Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Corporation

Dai Hidaka

Hideaki Kanasugi

Taiki Ishiguro

Masaaki Tanaka

Soshiro Murata

Takeshi Nishikibe

Hideki Maeda

Isao Honda

Yoshimasa Asano

Hirokazu Suzumura

Shunsuke Kanagai

Shuhei Uchida

Kazuki Ohtake

Tomoyuki Kato

Eisuke Sato

Takayuki Ueno

Masato Abe

An upper rail is located along an upper edge of a boarding opening. A center rail extends from a side edge of the boarding opening in a direction away from the boarding opening. A lower rail is located along a lower edge of a sliding door. An upper hinge that is guided by the upper rail and a center hinge that is guided by the center rail slide with the sliding door. A lower hinge that is guided by the lower rail is located at each of front and rear side edges of the boarding opening, and does not slide. A lower edge lock mechanism fixes the lower edge of the sliding door to a vehicle body side structure.

Vehicle side structure

A latch structure includes: a door that is changeable between a closed state in which the door covers a door opening provided on a peripheral wall of a vehicle and an opened state in which the door opens the door opening; a floor panel that constitutes a floor surface of an interior space; a door-side engaging portion mounted on the door; and a floor-side engaging portion mounted on the floor panel and engageable with the door-side engaging portion when the door is in the closed state.

In-vehicle door latch structure and vehicle

A ramp system for a vehicle includes a control device. Using an obstacle detection device, the control device determines whether an obstacle exists within a ramp extension area. Upon determining that an obstacle exists within the ramp extension area, the control device causes a vehicle to move to a location in which no obstacle exists within the ramp extension area.

Vehicle ramp system

A vehicular slope apparatus includes: a slope plate deploying to a lower end of a door opening portion; a guide rail extending in a deploying and storing direction of the slope plate; a drive shoe moving in an extending direction of the guide rail; a link member having a first connection point rotatably connected to a rear end portion of the slope plate and a second connection point rotatably connected to the drive shoe; a posture holding mechanism configured such that the slope plate moves in the extending direction of the guide rail in conjunction with the drive shoe; and a lift mechanism configured to form a rotation fulcrum of the link member between the first and second connection points and to rotate the link member by changing an interval between the rotation fulcrum and the second connection point to thereby lift the rear end portion of the slope plate.

Vehicular slope apparatus

A door check apparatus includes a base member configured to be attached to a vehicle door, a threaded rod rotatably held by the base member, a first tubular member including a distal end portion configured to be connected to a vehicle main body, and a base portion. The threaded rod is arranged inside the first tubular member. At least a part of the first tubular member threadedly engages with the threaded rod. The first tubular member performs a relative movement in an axial direction relative to the threaded rod such that the first tubular member causes the threaded rod to rotate. The door check apparatus includes a brake mechanism configured to restrict the threaded rod from rotating.

Door check apparatus

A grille shutter apparatus includes a shutter mechanism including plural of movable fins and at least one connection mechanism independently arranged to connect every two of the movable fins adjacent to one another. Accordingly, the shutter mechanism makes the movable fins operate in conjunction with one another. The grille shutter apparatus further includes a control portion controlling a flow rate of air flowing from a grille opening portion formed at a front portion of a vehicle body into the vehicle body on the basis of opening and closing operations of the shutter mechanism, and a detection device detecting an operational state of the shutter mechanism on the basis of an operation of the movable fins which correspond to a most downstream portion of a serially-arranged driving force transmission path formed at the shutter mechanism.

Grille shutter apparatus

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Kariya, Japan

Dai Hidaka