Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Keisuke Ikari

Tomohiko Endo

Yasushi Makino

Yukiko Kawabata

Takuya Ito

Yuuichi Kubota

Akio Yoshihashi

Takashi Nonoyama

Takashi Ohira

Koichi Mizutani

To provide a parking support device for easily and quickly moving or rotating a target parking frame to an appropriate position. The parking support device includes a target parking position setting unit configured to set a target parking position at which a vehicle is to be parked with a target parking frame superimposed on an actual image displaying an area surrounding the vehicle. The parking support device guides the vehicle to the target parking position set by the target parking position setting unit. The target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame initially displayed on a touch display to a position indicated by a coordinate point determined by a touch operation.

Parking support device

An apparatus for detecting a malfunction in an intake pressure sensor of an engine includes a first detecting unit which detects a flow rate of intake air of the engine. A second detecting unit detects an engine speed of the engine. An intake pressure estimating unit determines an intake-air specific flow rate from the intake-air flow rate and the engine speed and determines characteristic values for the intake-air specific flow rate, the characteristic values being representative of an allowable range of intake pressure of the engine for the intake-air specific flow rate. A malfunction determining unit detects whether a malfunction in the intake pressure sensor has occurred, by comparing a signal output by the intake pressure sensor with the characteristic values determined by the intake pressure estimating unit.

Method and apparatus for detecting a malfunction in an intake pressure

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Keisuke Ikari