Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd.

Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.

Takeo Mizukoshi

Masahiko Shimada

Ryuichi Nakano

Manabu Shimada

Masahiro Imamura

Koji Mori

Takuya Eguchi

Toshiyuki Yasuhara

Takashi Hori

Naoaki Kunisada

Yoshitaka Yamada

Hayato Kawakami

Satoru Minowa

Hiroki Ue

A vehicular light switch can change the mode of an exterior-illuminating light by rotating to different positions including an auto setting and a SMALL setting. If the position of the vehicular light switch is rotated to the SMALL setting, a momentary mechanism returns the position to the auto setting. If extravehicular brightness is less than a prescribed value and the position is rotated to the SMALL setting whilst the vehicle is stationary, a first light controller turns off a low-beam light, and turns on the low-beam light if the vehicle runs afterwards. If extravehicular brightness is less than a prescribed value and the position is rotated to the SMALL setting while the vehicle is running, a second light controller keeps the low-beam light turned on.

Vehicular light switch and vehicular light system

A meter ECU changes a display color of a meter display item without changing a luminance of a first backlight of a first display and a display color of a first lamp display item, between when an illuminance detected by an optical sensor is higher than a certain threshold value (step S, step S) and when the illuminance is lower than the certain threshold value (step S, step S).

Meter display device

An instrument device which enhances a texture while creating a sense of depth by superimposing and stereoscopically disposing a light-guiding member on an indicator panel, and which has a good appearance and visibility when illuminated, is provided. The instrument device includes an indicator panel, an instrument main part, an indicator needle provided to the instrument main part, a transparent light-guiding member disposed on the indicator panel, and a light source that emits a light beam into the light-guiding member. The light-guiding member is provided with a light-guiding portion provided at the outer circumferential portion of the light-guiding member and which reflects the light beam from the light source in the direction toward the rotation center of the indicator needle, so that portions of the indicator panel shine like strips, and the indicator panel and the light-guiding member are illuminated in a stereoscopic manner.

Instrument device

In the switch device including the case in which switches are accommodated, tube portions provided on an upper surface of the case, operation knobs swingably provided to the tube portions, operation rods for transmitting movement of the operation knobs to the switches, and the cover covering the upper surface of the case while exposing the operation knobs, projections protruding on the side of the cover are provided on the upper surface of the case, projections protruding on the side of the case are provided on a back surface of the cover, and the projections are arranged in a space between the cover and the case formed when the case is covered by the cover so as to be overlapped with each other when seen from the front and back direction.

Switch device

A control unit including a switch for regulating the temperature of a passenger compartment and/or the temperature of a vehicle seat. The switch is of a unit type with a control member, a switch member, a light-emitting member, and an indicator member housed in a single case, and can be disposed anywhere near a driver.

Vehicle temperature regulation control unit

A structure for mounting a switch case, having at least one press button, to a steering wheel. The switch case has two arms extending therefrom in vertically and circumferentially spaced relation to each other. One arm is attached to an attaching part formed on a hub of the steering wheel, while the other arm abuts on one of spokes of the steering wheel.

Switch case mounting structure

In an in-vehicle monitor support structure of the present invention, a rotation support section which rotates about a vertical axis is provided on one of seats and positioned on the left and right of a vehicle with space provided therebetween, and a monitor is supported by the rotation support section in a state in which one side of the monitor is adjacent to the aforementioned axis and the other side is positioned laterally from the axis. Consequently, movement between the front and rear seats is easily achieved.

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Wako, Japan

Takeo Mizukoshi