Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Masahiko Yanagihara

Kazuya Watanabe

Jun Kadowaki

Yu Tanaka

Yoichi Iwata

Tetsunori Haraguchi

Minoru Shibata

Takahiro Komori

Makoto Mimoto

Fumitake Kobayashi

Tsuyoshi Kuboyama

Hidekazu Otowa

A target parking position setting section () is adapted to temporarily set a target parking position (p, p, p) for the vehicle for each parking mode in a predetermined stop position. A parking mode determining section () is adapted to determine the parking mode and the target parking position corresponding to the parking mode based on an operation of a steering wheel performed by a driver after the target parking position (p, p, p) is set. A guiding section () is adapted to guide the vehicle () to the determined target parking position (P).

Parking assist apparatus

A parking assist apparatus () has: an identifying portion () that identifies a target parking position when the vehicle is at a temporary stop position having a predetermined positional relation with the target parking position; a parking-assisting portion () that assists steering operation of a driver of the vehicle based on the target parking position when parking the vehicle. For facilitating the driver to visually confirm a positional relation between a specific portion of the target parking position and the vehicle, the parking assist apparatus includes at least one of a polarizing film (), auxiliary mirror (), member () provided on a vehicle mirror and extending in the vehicle lateral direction, transparent portion () provided in a passenger-side door, adjusting device () that adjusts the direction of the lower edge of the vehicle mirror, irradiating device () that radiates a laser, optical-axis adjusting portion () that adjusts an optical axis of a headlight of the vehicle.

A defroster nozzle is provided inside an instrument panel below a front glass plate, and its length in the direction of vehicle width is gradually increased from a suck-in opening to a blow-out opening. The suck-in opening is connected to an air conditioning unit, and has a bent portion at the middle thereof. The inside of the defroster nozzle is divided by partition walls into a central chamber and side chambers. The length of the central chamber as viewed in the direction of vehicle width is gradually increased from the suck-in opening to the blow-out opening, and the opening areas of the suck-in opening and the blow-out opening of the central chamber are equal to each other. The central portion of the side wall of each of the side chambers has a bent portion. The length of each of the side chambers as viewed in the direction of vehicle width is increased gradually from the bent portion to the blow-out opening, and at each of the bent portion the cross-sectional area of the side chamber is smaller than the opening area on the side of the suck-in opening. At each of the side chambers, the opening area on the side of the blow-out opening is smaller than the opening area on the side of the suck-in opening.

Defroster nozzle

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Nissin, Japan

Masahiko Yanagihara