Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroshi Mizobata

Fumitoshi Akaike

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Shuuhei Miyake

Kazuma Uchibori

Yasuhiro Kato

Hiroyuki Mita

Hirofumi Watanabe

Tsuyoshi Hattori

Hisato Konai

Hideki Kobayashi

Takahiro Ishijima

Kihiro Kato

Mikihiro Amano

Kazuhiro Matsui

Satoshi Akiba

Kouji Takiya

Jun Fukami

Hideyuki Abe

A vehicle door opening/closing control system that sets a communication range inside a vehicle cabin of a vehicle, and detects whether or not a specific mobile terminal is positioned within the communication range; opens and closes a door of the vehicle; and transitions the door to either an open state or a closed state in a case in which the mobile terminal has been detected as being positioned within the communication range.

Vehicle door opening/closing control system, vehicle door opening/closing method and recording medium recorded with door opening/closing program

A vehicle display device includes: a forward image acquiring section that acquires images of a region ahead of a vehicle; a vehicle information acquiring section that acquires vehicle information relating to traveling of the vehicle; a path predicting section that, based on the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle information acquiring section, predicts an own vehicle traveling line that is a traveling path of the vehicle; an ideal path deriving section that, based on the images of the region ahead of the vehicle acquired by the forward image acquiring section, derives an ideal traveling line that is a proper traveling path; and a display control section that displays the own vehicle traveling line and the ideal traveling line so as to be superposed on a view in front of a driver's seat.

Vehicle display device

A portable terminal holding device for a vehicle includes: a table configured to be stored in a storing portion provided at one end side, in a seat width direction, of a seat cushion, and that, in a state of usage, is configured to extend from the storing portion toward another end side, in the seat width direction, of the seat cushion; and a terminal holding portion that, in the state of usage of the table, is provided at a distal end side of the table and is configured to hold a portable terminal, and that, in a stored state in which the table is stored in the storing portion, projects out from the storing portion toward the other end side in the seat width direction.

Portable terminal holding device for vehicle

A vehicle in-cabin lighting system includes: an outward gaze guiding section that is provided inside a vehicle cabin at a vehicle front side and at a vehicle width direction outer side of a vehicle seat, and that becomes brighter than its surroundings on activation of an outer side lighting device; and a control section that is configured to determine whether or not an occupant sifting on the vehicle seat has an interest in interacting with another occupant inside the vehicle cabin based on detection of operation of an operation section by the occupant or based on detection of a state of the occupant, and to activate the outer side lighting device so as to make the outward gaze guiding section brighter in a case in which determination is made that there is no interest in interacting.

Vehicle in-cabin lighting system, method for actuating vehicle in-cabin lighting system, and storage medium

A vehicle armrest that is provided at a seat transverse direction end portion of a vehicle seat and that extends in a seat front-rear direction, the vehicle armrest including: a front-side supporting portion that is provided at a seat front-side end portion, and that is configured to support a wrist end portion of a forearm of a vehicle occupant; a rear-side supporting portion that is provided at a seat rear-side end portion, and that is configured to support an elbow end portion of the forearm; and a terminal accommodating portion that is provided between the front-side supporting portion and the rear-side supporting portion, a seat upper side of the terminal accommodating portion being open, and the terminal accommodating portion being positioned at a seat lower side of the forearm that is placed on the vehicle armrest, and the terminal accommodating portion being able to accommodate a portable terminal.

Vehicle armrest and vehicle seat

A vehicle cabin control device includes: a plurality of seating surface changing devices; a determination unit; and an output unit. The seating surface changing devices is configured to change orientations of seating surfaces of a plurality of vehicle seats. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing devices so as to change orientations of bodies of the occupants to such orientations that the occupants easily communicate with each other. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is not desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing device so as to change an orientation of the body of the occupant to such an orientation that the occupant does not easily communicates with the other occupants.

Vehicle cabin control device

A vehicle cabin lighting system includes: a lighting device that is provided inside a vehicle cabin and that is configured to move a position of light; and a control section that is configured to determine whether or not an occupant sitting on a vehicle seat has an interest in interacting with another occupant inside the vehicle cabin based on operation of an operation section by the occupant or based on a state of the occupant sitting on the vehicle seat, and to control the lighting device so as to move the position of the light in order to direct a gaze direction of the occupant toward a vehicle width direction outer side in a case in which no interest in interacting has been determined.

Vehicle cabin lighting system

A method of manufacturing a headrest including a stay, a skin material, a cushion material, and a dynamic damper is provided. The method includes arranging the skin material in a molding die, arranging the stay, to which an air bag is attached in such a manner as to cover the dynamic damper, inside the skin material, and injecting a foamable synthetic resin raw material into the skin material to foam-mold the injected foamable synthetic resin raw material integrally with the stay.

Headrest and method of manufacturing the headrest

A vehicle seat includes a back frame mounted on a cushion frame via a recliner in a pivotally movable manner. The back frame has a support member connected to the recliner, and a seat back shell supported by the support member. The support member has a side plate portion and a rear plate portion facing a side surface and a rear surface of the seat back shell, respectively, and the side plate portion has a base portion fixed to the recliner, and an extension portion provided to extend more upward than the base portion. The side plate portion is fixed at the extension portion to the side surface of the seat back shell, and the rear plate portion is at least fixed in a region to the rear surface of the seat back shell, the region provided to rise from a lower position of the side plate portion.

Vehicle seat

A different material welded joint in which a first member made of a first material and a second member made of a second material having a melting point lower than that of the first material are joined to each other by welded parts, wherein the first member has a plurality of through-holes and a filler material made of the second material is filled in the plurality of through-holes, and wherein an interval between the through-holes is made wider and/or an area of the through-hole is made smaller at a welding end-side than at a welding start-side with respect to progress of welding.

Different material welded joint and welding method

A different material welded joint in which a first member made of a first material and a second member made of a second material having a melting point lower than that of the first material are joined to each other by welded parts at a plurality of welding sections, wherein the first member has a plurality of through-holes respectively corresponding to the plurality of welding sections and a filler material made of the second material is filled in the plurality of through-holes, and wherein apexes of welding beads of the welded parts, which are deposited and formed on a surface of the second member facing the through-holes, are formed independently of each other at each of the welding sections.

A back frame structure for a vehicle seat includes: a pair of right and left side frames extending in an up-down direction; and a lower frame configured to connect a lower end side of the right side frame and a lower end side of the left side frame, wherein: at least one side frame out of the pair of right and left side frames is fitted to one connection portion, which is a connection portion of the lower frame with respect to the one side frame, so as to form one fitting portion; and the one fitting portion is configured such that a geometrical-moment of inertia along an axis extending to a predetermined first direction gradually increases from an upper part of the one fitting portion to a lower part of the one fitting portion.

Back frame structure for vehicle seat

A seat frame including: a cushion frame including: a pair of side frames having a cross section that is a closed section; a front frame; a rear frame; and a plate-shaped panel member disposed between the front frame and the rear frame; and a back frame; wherein the panel member is formed of a material having at least one of a higher specific strength and a higher specific modulus than those of the pair of side frames, the front frame, and the rear frame, a rear end side of the panel member is attached to a lower side of the rear frame and lower sides of the pair of side frames, and a front end side of the panel member is attached to an upper side of the front frame and upper sides of the pair of side frames.

Seat frame of vehicle seat

A vehicle seat includes a lower anchorage that serves as an attachment member for a child safety seat; a bracket; and a base frame that is provided on or above a vehicle body. The lower anchorage is fixed to the base frame via the bracket; and the lower anchorage is integrally assembled to the bracket, with contours of the lower anchorage and the bracket being in contact with each other in a front-rear direction.

A back frame structure of a vehicle seat including: first and second side frames; and an upper frame that connects the first and second side frames, wherein the first side frame has a constant cross section and the second side frame has a constant cross section, wherein an outline shape of the cross section of the first side frame and an outline shape of the cross section of the second side frame are in line symmetry with respect to a centerline of the back frame in a left and right direction, and wherein a geometrical moment of inertia of the cross section of the first side frame is larger than a geometrical moment of inertia of the cross section of the second side frame.

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Hiroshi Mizobata