Yazaki Corporation

Yazaki Corportion

Masayuki Ogawa

Ichiro Kataoka

Koji Ishii

Yoshihide Takada

Tomohiro Miyazawa

Yoshiyuki Furuya

Takeyuki Amari

Kunimitsu Aoki

Masao Suzuki

Takeshi Harada

A safety confirmation assist device is equipped with a presenting unit which presents visible information at a position that a driver of a vehicle can recognize it visually, an object detection unit which detects an object approaching the vehicle; and a control unit which controls the presenting unit, if the object detection unit detects the object, to present the visible information moving in a same direction as a left-right component of a direction in which the object is approaching the vehicle while moving the visible information. The control unit controls the presenting unit so that a movement range of the visible information is located on only the left side or the right side, which is the same side of the vehicle as the object is located, of a boundary that defines the left side and the right side for the driver.

Safety confirmation assist device

To provide an inexpensive indicator member which can prevent a dark area from being formed at a location above a reflection part, an indicator unit having the indicator member and an indicator instrument having the indicator unit. A hollow reflection part provided to an indicator part of an indicator main body of a light-emitting indicator includes a plurality of partial reflection parts having at least an pointing direction reflection face, a rear end direction reflection face and a corner formed at an intersection of the pointing direction reflection face and the rear end direction reflection face and arranged at a location opposed to the base part. The corners of the respective partial reflection parts adjacent to each other are displaced in a pointing direction or in a rear end direction.

Indicator member, indicator unit and indicator instrument

An illumination device for an indicating needle includes a plurality of light sources, an indicating needle, a guiding member, and a luminance control unit. The indicating needle includes a needle body and a needle base. The base has an entrance surface and a reflection surface. A luminance control unit controls luminance of the light sources in response to turning of the indicating needle such that the luminance is lowest when a light emitted perpendicularly from a center of an emitting surface of the light source is reflected off a reflection surface's region which a longitudinal central line of the needle body intersects with, and that the luminance gradually increases as the light emitted by the light source from the center of the emitting surface thereof is reflected off a region that is more distant from the region which the longitudinal central line of the needle body intersects with.

Illumination device for an indicating needle

An in-vehicle image correcting device for correcting an image picked up by a near-infrared camera ahead of one's own vehicle in which an obstacle is difficult for a driver to visually recognize captures the image picked up by the near-infrared camera; and corrects the image captured by the image capturing means so that a density of a pixel having a higher density than an obstacle density representative of the density of a pixel corresponding to the obstacle becomes lower than the obstacle density. In this configuration, the image picked up by the near-infrared camera is corrected so that the obstacle can be easily recognized.

In-vehicle image correcting device and night driving view field supporting device

For displaying a virtual image without hindering from seeing a front view, a display apparatus for a vehicle includes a storage device for storing a distance information of superimposed viewing, the distance information indicating a distance between an obstacle in the view ahead a vehicle and the vehicle when the obstacle and, a virtual image of a picture projected on a windshield are viewed as a superimposed front view; distance measuring means for measuring a distance between the vehicle and the obstacle; judging means for judging whether or not the virtual image is superimposed on the obstacle; and control means for stopping the projection of the virtual image when it is judged that the virtual image is superimposed on the obstacle.

Display apparatus for a vehicle

A system switch comprises an operation switch constituted by a mode switch and low-ranking switches of the mode switch; a display unit; and a control unit. The control unit makes the display unit display the operation switch, interprets the function of the operation switch at that time, and outputs a control signal for executing the function of the operation switch at that time when the operation switch is operated.

System switch

A multifunction switch device with a display function is provided, which displays a function of a switch presently selected on a switch operating section and simultaneously displays a next selectable function. On a display device , which constitutes a MF switch employing a pushing switch, an equipment (function) to be selected next by operating the switch, for example a MD (miniature disc), is simultaneously displayed adjacently to a letter indicating a CD (compact disc) in a different displaying manner from that of the letter indicating the CD, together with an equipment presently selected, for example, an icon indicating the CD and the letter indicating the CD.

Multifunction switch device with display function

In a multi-function switch, while a first level screen inclusive of images representative of a plurality of object appliances viewed at operation buttons is displayed on a display means, an image of a selected appliance is selected by pressing any one of the operation buttons. Next, a second level screen inclusive of a plurality of functions of the selected appliance is displayed on the display means. In this configuration, not only the number of the operation buttons but also the space required for displaying the selected appliance can be reduced. When an air conditioner mode is selected from the first level screen, by pressing one by one a operation button for air drafting, in accordance with the number of times of pressing, the symbol representative of drafting mode is changed in a sequence of six patterns of &ldquo;no drafting&rdquo;, &ldquo;only head&rdquo;, &ldquo;both head and leg&rdquo;, &ldquo;only leg&rdquo; &ldquo;only leg with defogger&rdquo; and &ldquo;head and leg with defogger&rdquo;. In this configuration, the multi-function of a operation button for stepwise setting an operation of the air conditioner can be also realized.

Multi-function switch device

The names of a plurality of instruments connected to a bus are displayed on a screen. An operator presses a mode selection switch, so that one of the names of the plurality of electrical instruments displayed on the screen of the monitor can be selected. A controller selectively displays the name on the screen selected by the mode selection switch. The operator can operate the instrument corresponding to the name on the screen selected by the mode selection switch with using a direction key.

Apparatus for operating instruments for vehicle

When an operational unit is inclined in an X- or Y-direction, an universal support mechanism and a rotation angle detection mechanism are used to detect the inclined direction and angle. The detection results are supplied to a computer system (not shown). When the operational unit is pushed down at the neutral position, a push detection switch detects it. The detection result is also supplied to the computer system. In addition, a rotation angle detection switch 10 detects rotation of the operational unit about a Z-axis. The detection result is supplied to the computer system.

Joystick type multifunctional controller

A video monitor displaying a plurality of menu screens three-dimensionally is provided. Each of the screens corresponds to a particular mode/amenity of the vehicle. Each of the screens is displayed as a collection of switches corresponding to various functions of the corresponding amenity. An input device is provided to enable the driver to select a screen, i.e., an amenity, and then select a particular switch. In the preferred embodiment the input device is formed as two joysticks commonly structured on a single lever, so that selection of a particular screen and a particular switch within that screen can be done in a single operation.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Masayuki Ogawa