Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Naoto Kitagawa

Kunihiko Masaki

Kenji Mori

Ichiro Suzuki

Shogo Tanaka

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Nobuo Hiraiwa

Yasushi Nakagawa

Mitsuo Kawase

Kiyokatsu Miura

Simon D Humphries

Akihiro Inukai

Kosaku Yamada

Hisaomi Kumai

Hajime Naruse

A vehicle expression operation control system and vehicle communication system for performing an expression operation to generate an easily understood expression and a vehicle for performing an expression operation. Condition and other information about a vehicle is detected by an operation information collecting section ( ) and detected data collection section ( ), and supplied to a reaction formulating section ( ). Based on current status information of the vehicle held in a state recognizing section ( ), the reaction formulating section ( ) formulates a reaction and controls performance of an expression operation corresponding to the formulated reaction. Further, based on the reaction formulated, an operation control section ( ) controls operation of respective devices equipped to the vehicle, including lights, antennae, and the like, so that the vehicle performs such expression operation.

Vehicle expression operation control system, vehicle communication system, and vehicle which performs expression operation

A suspension of a vehicle includes a set of suspension arms each supporting a wheel, a subframe pivotably connected on its left and right sides with the respective suspension arms, the subframe having on its each side portions forward and rearward of a rotary axis of the wheel and six elastic mounts. The subframe is coupled on each side thereof with a car body through two of the elastic mounts disposed at lateral interval in one of the portion and one elastic mount disposed in the other of the portions.

Suspension of vehicle

A steering assembly supporting device comprising a steering assembly supporting body spaced from and extending in parallel to the cowl inner panel. The steering assembly supporting body comprises a hollow tubular portion and a hollow expanding portion having a cross-sectional area which is larger than that of the hollow tubular portion. The inner ends of the hollow tubular portion and the hollow extending portion are interconnected to each other. The other ends of the hollow tubular portion and the hollow expanding portion are fixed onto the corresponding cowl side panels. The steering assembly is supported by the hollow expanding portion.

Steering assembly supporting device of a motor vehicle

A steering assembly supporting device of a motor vehicle comprising a horizontally extending base portion and a vertically extending leg portion. The base portion extends in parallel to the cowl inner panel at a position which is arranged in the rear of and remote from the cowl inner panel. The opposite ends of the base portion are fixed onto the corresponding cowl side panels and the lower end of the leg portion is fixed onto the floor. The base portion is fixed onto the cowl inner panel via a bracket. The steering tube of the steering assembly is supported by the base portion.

A steering assembly supporting device of a motor vehicle comprising a horizontally extending base portion and a vertically extending leg portion. The base portion extends in parallel to the cowl inner panel at a position which is arranged in the rear of and remote from the cowl inner panel. The outer end of the base portion is fixed onto the cowl side panel and the lower end of the leg portion is fixed onto the floor. The intermediate portion of the base portion is fixed onto the cowl inner panel via a bracket. The steering tube of the steering assembly is supported by the intermediate portion of the base portion.

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Toyota, Japan

Naoto Kitagawa