Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Osamu Ito

Hidetoshi Nakamura

Masaki Umezawa

Hiroyuki Asanuma

Kenyu Okamura

Hiroki Tanaka

Makoto Katayama

Yasuaki Gunji

Hideo Kadowaki

Kenji Komori

Hiroshi Akaba

Masahiro Motoyoshi

Masato Sasaki

Hyejin Bae

Motoyuki Momii

Hirokazu Tokushima

Masakuni Murakami

Yasutomo Ueda

Jun Maeda

A vehicleas a host vehicle includes: detection unit that detects a translationally-moving two-wheeled vehicletraveling in front of or alongside the host vehicle; an on-board communication device capable of communicating with a communication device mounted on the vehicle; an ECU that determines whether the host vehicle is at either one of blind spots BR and BL of the vehicle, based on a detection result of the detection unit, and that transmits a warning notification from the on-board communication device to the communication device mounted on the vehiclewhen determining that the host vehicle is at the blind spot BR or BL. In this case, it is preferable that the ECU changes an actuation condition so that an automatic operation according to contact avoidance control is started more promptly than when the host vehicle is determined to be outside the blind spots BR, BL.

Vehicle, and method for controlling vehicle

An airbag apparatus includes: a first left chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front left pillar which is located on a left side with respect to a vehicle width direction of a vehicle; a second left chamber that is expandable on the first left chamber; a first right chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front right pillar which is located on a right side with respect to the vehicle width direction of the vehicle; a second right chamber that is expandable on the first right chamber; and a gas supply unit that supplies a gas for expansion selectively to the first left chamber, the second left chamber, the first right chamber, and the second right chamber.

Airbag apparatus and airbag system

An airbag system includes: a first left chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front left pillar which is located on a left side with respect to a vehicle width direction of a vehicle; a second left chamber that is expandable on the first left chamber; a first right chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front right pillar which is located on a right side with respect to the vehicle width direction of the vehicle; a second right chamber that is expandable on the first right chamber; a recognition portion that recognizes a risk object which is present in a vicinity of the vehicle; a prediction portion that predicts a collision between the risk object and the vehicle; and an expansion control portion that performs an expansion control of the first left chamber, the second left chamber, the first right chamber, and the second right chamber based on a prediction of the prediction portion.

Airbag system, object protection method, and program

The present disclosure provides a driving support device which can notify a driver of the existence of other vehicles, even in a case of a function of detecting the existence of the other vehicle temporarily not being useable. A driving support deviceincludes: a second vehicle detection unitwhich detects the other vehicle existing behind or ahead of the vehicle, based on the captured image, in a case of the vehicle detection function being determined as not normally operating, in which the notification control unitnotifies the driver of the vehicleof existence of the other vehicle, in a case of detecting the other vehicle by way of the second vehicle detection unit

Driving support device

The present disclosure provides a driving support device which can reduce injury during collision. A driving support deviceincludes: a peripheral information acquisition unitwhich acquires peripheral information of a vehicle; a moving body detection unitwhich detects a two-wheel vehiclein the periphery of the vehiclebased on the peripheral information; an overturn determination unitwhich determines whether the two-wheel vehiclehas overturned based on the peripheral information; an additional information acquisition unitwhich acquires the additional information indicating the overturn situation of the two-wheel vehicle, in the case of being determined that the two-wheel vehicleoverturned; and an emergency information sending unitwhich sends the additional information to the emergency call centertogether with the emergency call information for performing an emergency call for the two-wheel vehicle

The present invention is a vehicle control device including a restriction unit configured to restrict a change in an orientation of a vehicle seat, a vehicle information recognition unit configured to recognize information of a traveling environment of a vehicle, a risk evaluation unit configured to evaluate a risk of a collision which may occur in the vehicle on the basis of the traveling environment recognized by the vehicle information recognition unit, and a control unit configured to control the restriction unit and restrict the change in the orientation of the vehicle seat on the basis of a level of the risk of the collision evaluated by the risk evaluation unit.

Vehicle control device, vehicle control method and program

A pedestrian protecting device for vehicle comprises: a protection device which protects a protection target upon colliding with a vehicle; a measurement device which measures an image of the protection target and a distance from the vehicle to the protection target; and a control device which operates the protection device in a different manner depending on a size of the protection target.

Pedestrian protecting device for vehicle and vehicle including same

A vehicular protection device includes a protection device that protects a protection target that comes into collision with a vehicle, a measuring device that captures an image of the protection target and measures a distance between the protection target and the vehicle, and a controller that activates the protection device in different modes based on whether the protection target includes a predetermined vehicle on which to ride. The protection device includes an airbag device that deploys an airbag toward a front of the vehicle, and a pop-up device that moves a hood provided in a front upper section of the vehicle, and the controller activates the pop-up device without activating the airbag device if the protection target includes the vehicle on which to ride, and activates the airbag device and the pop-up device if the protection target does not include the vehicle on which to ride.

Vehicular protection device and vehicle

A vehicular protection system for protecting a protection target colliding with a vehicle is provided, which includes: a bulkhead having a bulkhead upper which extends in a vehicle widthwise direction and is arranged at an upper portion thereof; a hood arranged over the bulkhead upper; a bulkhead pop-up device configured to lift up the bulkhead upper and the hood; and a hood-moving device configured to be able to move forward the bulkhead upper and the hood. When the protection target colliding with the vehicle is protected, the bulkhead pop-up device is used to lift up the bulkhead upper and the hood and the hood-moving device is then used to move forward the bulkhead upper and the hood.

Vehicular protection system

A colliding object protection apparatus inflates and deploys an airbag when the apparatus detects or predicts a collision with a pedestrian. The airbag includes a first bag to be inflated and deployed in a vehicle width direction along a front edge part of a hood of a vehicle, and a second bag to be inflated and deployed on an upper surface of the hood. The second bag is continuous with a vehicle rear side portion of the first bag. An internal space of the first bag and an internal space of the second bag communicate with each other through a first vent mechanism. The first vent mechanism is opened when an internal pressure of the first bag reaches a predetermined pressure.

Colliding object protection apparatus

A colliding object protection apparatus inflates and deploys an airbag when the apparatus detects or predicts a collision with a pedestrian. The airbag includes a front bag to be inflated and deployed in a vehicle width direction along an upper part of a front grille of a vehicle. The internal space of the front bag is partitioned into a plurality of expansion chambers by a plurality of partitioning walls provided in parallel in the vehicle width direction. A vent mechanism of the expansion chamber is configured to be opened when an internal pressure of the expansion chamber reaches a predetermined pressure.

A shutter grill is provided for an air-intake opening formed on an outer surface of a vehicle and includes: a frame that has an opening portion and is fixed to a member forming the outer surface; and a fin capable of opening and closing the opening portion inside the frame. The frame includes an upper-lower displacement portion that allows the frame to be displaced in an upper-lower direction at the time of a vehicle collision.

Shutter grill

A hinge base member () and a hinge upper member () of a hinge () for an engine hood () are provided with main bodies () each having a laterally facing major plane, and link members () are connected between the main bodies of the hinge base member and the hinge upper member and overlies the main bodies of the hinge base member and the hinge upper member from a first lateral side. The hinge upper member is provided with an extension () fixedly attached to the side part of the hood and extending forward from the main body of the hinge upper member with an offset to a second lateral side opposite to the first lateral side with respect to the main body of the hinge base member.

Hood hinge

A vehicle control system includes: an automated driving control part that performs automated driving in which at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a vehicle is automatically controlled; a driving operation element that receives an operation of an occupant with respect to acceleration/deceleration and steering of the vehicle; an operation element state change part that makes the driving operation element disabled when the automated driving by the automated driving control part is performed; and an alternative operation reception part that receives an operation which is different from the operation with respect to the driving operation element by the occupant when the driving operation element is disabled by the operation element state change part, wherein the automated driving control part controls at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of the vehicle based on the operation by the alternative operation reception part.

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Osamu Ito