Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Aisin Corporation

Koichi Hirota

Toshihiro Kaneda

Hiroshi Shingu

Kenichiro Kagawa

Makoto Ono

Ayaka Shimizu

Takaya Aiyama

Satoshi Katayama

A vehicle operation detection device includes sensors laid out in a vehicle along an axis in an opening-closing direction of a door of the vehicle. When the user moves a part of a body toward the sensors and a motion of moving the part of the body along the axis is detected, the sensors detect an opening-closing operation for the door. The vehicle operation detection device further includes light-emitting members laid out in the vehicle along the axis in the opening-closing direction and an operation direction indicator configured to drive the light-emitting members in sequence in a first direction in a fully-closed state of the door and drives the light-emitting members in sequence in a second direction in a fully-open state of the door.

Vehicle operation detection device

Growing community of inventors

Kariya, Japan

Koichi Hirota