Denso Corporation

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Denso International America, Inc.

Jeffrey Edward Angeliu

Yoshihisa Sato

Justin McBride

Hirohiko Yanagawa

Michael Wiegand

Christian Arthur Trager

Thomas J Keeling

Masato Okuda

Toshihiro Wakamatsu

Christopher M Kurpinski

Tanemichi Chiba

Lisa Marie Brown

A system for assisting the alignment of a hitch pin mounted on the rear of a vehicle with a hitch socket mounted on the front of a trailer. The system includes a camera mounted to the vehicle and positioned to capture an image rearwardly of the vehicle. A video display is contained within the vehicle which displays the image captured by the camera. A processor is also contained in the vehicle which calculates a preferred path of travel of the vehicle to position the hitch pin in alignment with the hitch socket. The processor is programmed to provide instructions to an operator of the vehicle of the required steering to maintain the vehicle on the preferred path of travel. The processor recalculates the preferred path of travel whenever the vehicle veers from the preferred path of travel by a preset threshold.

System for assisting the attachment of a trailer to a vehicle

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Farmington, MI, United States of America

Jeffrey Edward Angeliu