Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nifco Inc.

Mikihiro Amano

Hiroyuki Hayashi

Hiroshi Mizobata

Hideki Kobayashi

Ken Hayashi

Shunsuke Okabayashi

Yusuke Takeuchi

Katsuhito Kurachi

Kihiro Kato

Akinori Shin

Tsutomu Onagi

Kazuhiro Matsui

Tomomi Ogawa

A vehicle cabin control device includes: a plurality of seating surface changing devices; a determination unit; and an output unit. The seating surface changing devices is configured to change orientations of seating surfaces of a plurality of vehicle seats. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing devices so as to change orientations of bodies of the occupants to such orientations that the occupants easily communicate with each other. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is not desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing device so as to change an orientation of the body of the occupant to such an orientation that the occupant does not easily communicates with the other occupants.

Vehicle cabin control device

A position-finding assist system includes a glasses-type wearable terminal worn by a user; a terminal position information acquisition unit that acquires position information relating to the wearable terminal; a terminal orientation information acquisition unit that acquires orientation information relating to the wearable terminal; a gaze information acquisition unit that acquires gaze information relating to the user; a target parking position information acquisition unit that acquires target parking position information relating to an occupant-carrier vehicle; and a control unit that displays the target parking position information on a lens section of the wearable terminal so as to be overlaid on an actual scene viewed by the user through the lens section, to assist the user in finding a target parking position, based on the position information, the orientation information, the gaze information, and the target parking position information.

Position-finding assist system

A damper unit includes a gear having a core member projecting at a shaft core portion thereof and rotatably housed in a case, a string wound around the core member, a rotary damper engaging the gear for damping a rotational force of the gear, and a spring. One end of the spring is fixed to the case and the other end thereof is fixed to the core member so that an elastic force is accumulated when the string is pulled out.

Damper unit and glove box device using the same

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Mikihiro Amano