Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Terumasa Endo

Satoshi Inoue

Shuhei Manabe

Takeshi Hamaguchi

Shusaku Sugamoto

Heishiro Toyoda

Shintaro Saigo

Yoji Matsumoto

Hiroshi Naruse

Hideo Nagaya

Isamu Koyama

Hideaki Tsushima

A driving assistance apparatus predicts an appropriate operation amount which is an operation amount performed by a driver in correspondence with the external environment, and sets the appropriate operation amount range including the appropriate operation amount, an appropriate operation amount range including the appropriate operation amount, and changes the reaction force characteristics of the operation device when it is determined that the operation amount of the driver corresponding to the prediction time point of the appropriate operation amount is not included in the appropriate operation amount range.

Driving assistance apparatus

A seat control apparatus controls a seat of a vehicle in which an occupant of the vehicle sits. The seat control apparatus includes an occupant weight recognition unit; an occupant sitting state recognition unit configured to recognize an occupant sitting state including at least either of a grip force of the occupant and a load applied to the occupant; a lateral acceleration estimation unit configured to estimate a subsequent lateral acceleration of the vehicle; and a seat controller configured to control the seat. The seat has an occupant support adjustment portion including at least one of a first adjustment portion, a second adjustment portion, and a third adjustment portion. The seat controller calculates an adjustment amount of the occupant support adjustment portion and controls the occupant support adjustment portion in response to the calculated adjustment amount.

Seat control apparatus

System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to providing collaborative controls for a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to receiving manual inputs and autonomous inputs for controlling the vehicle, determining a difference between the manual inputs and the autonomous inputs. The method includes blending the manual inputs and the autonomous inputs together into the collaborative controls as a function of at least the difference, and feedback parameters to control the vehicle to proceed along a route. The method includes generating feedback according to at least the difference to adapt how the vehicle is controlled.

Systems and methods for providing collaborative control of a vehicle

A suspension member mounting structure for mounting on a vehicle body a suspension member, with which left and right suspension arms each supporting a wheel are connected, through a front cushion group and a rear cushion group. The front cushion group has two cushion mounts attached to two positions of the suspension member in front of a rotary axis of the wheels and the rear cushion group has two cushion mounts attached to two positions of the suspension member behind the rotary axis of the wheels. Each cushion mount of the front cushion group is disposed to have a hole first, through which a bolt extends, extending vertically of the vehicle body and each cushion mount of the rear cushion group is disposed to have a second hole, through which a bolt extends, extending longitudinally of the vehicle body.

Suspension member mounting structure

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Miyoshi, Japan

Terumasa Endo