Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Takashi Kawato

Takashi Kikuta

Nobuyasu Bessho

Daisuke Yuasa

Morio Sakai

Koji Aoki

Koichi Hirota

Toshiro Maeda

Hitoshi Takayanagi

Yoshimasa Asano

Shunsuke Hayakawa

Masato Saita

A vehicle sunroof apparatus includes: a pair of first and second opening and closing drive units arranged in a widthwise direction, the pair of first and second opening and closing drive units each including: a rail extending in a fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle; a movable body provided so as to be movable on the rail; and a coupling mechanism configured to couple the movable body to a movable panel provided in a roof opening portion, and arranged at widthwise both end portions of the roof opening portion so as to be capable of opening and closing the movable panel; and a control device configured to control operations of the opening and closing drive units.

Vehicle sunroof apparatus

A vehicle sunroof apparatus includes: a pair of first and second opening and closing drive units provided in a widthwise direction, the pair of first and second opening and closing drive units each including: a rail extending in a fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle; a movable body provided so as to be movable on the rail; and a coupling mechanism configured to couple the movable body to a movable panel provided in a roof opening portion, and arranged at widthwise both end portions of the roof opening portion so as to be capable of opening and closing the movable panel; and a control device configured to control operations of the opening and closing drive units.

An open/close actuating mechanism control device for a vehicle includes: an actuating mechanism () that is exposed to outside air and that opens or closes on the basis of whether a predetermined condition is satisfied; an open/close failure determining unit () that determines whether an open/close failure of the actuating mechanism (), in which the actuating mechanism () fails to open or close, has occurred; an outside air temperature detecting unit () that detects an outside air temperature; and a determination timing changing unit () that changes timing, at which the open/close failure determining unit () determines that the open/close failure of the actuating mechanism () has occurred, on the basis of the outside air temperature detected by the outside air temperature detecting unit ().

Open/close actuating mechanism control device and open/close actuating mechanism control method for vehicle

A grille control mechanism for a vehicle includes a movable member being switchable between opened and closed positions, an electric motor actuating the movable member, and a control device controlling a supply of electric current until detecting a lock current value to execute an opening operation or a closing operation, wherein the control device executes a checking operation for returning the movable member to an initial position and executing once again the opening or closing operation in a case where a detecting time of the lock current value since the opening or closing operation is started exceeds a predetermined time, and the control device determines that the movable member is in an abnormal state in a case where a detecting time of the lock current value after the operation is started from the initial position in the checking operation exceeds the predetermined time for a predetermined number of times.

Grille control mechanism for vehicle

An occupant protection apparatus for a vehicle includes a first power source means, a second power source means for supplying power of higher voltage than that of the first power source means, a collision-predicting means for predicting a collision, a driving means for driving an actuation mechanism of the vehicle on the basis of an output from the collision-predicting means, and a switching means for switching over from the first power source means to the second power source means for supplying power to the driving means when a collision is predicted to occur by the collision-predicting means.

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Takashi Kawato