Mazda Motor Corporation

Delta Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Toyo Seat Co., Ltd.

Tomonori Ohtsubo

Daisuke Umetsu

Hiroki Uemura

Yoshito Hirata

Keisuke Iida

Yoshiaki Matsuba

Isao Hirashima

Takushi Ujimoto

Kengo Iwata

Yusaku Takeda

Toshimine Morino

Terumi Akazawa

Seishi Nakamura

Chieko Nakagami

Asami Iwamoto

Teiji Hiyori

Hiroaki Matsuda

Masahito Kashihara

Masato Maeda

Masaki Chiba

Naoki Yamada

Keiichi Sato

Kazuhiro Matsuhashi

Reiji Kikuchi

Toshihiko Tomita

Tomoo Taguchi

Shingo Kunihiro

Hirokazu Yamasaki

Manabu Yamaoka

Matsuhiro Tanaka

Keiichirou Yamamoto

Yukio Iwayama

Taro Oike

Tomoshi Mitsunari

Yukihito Itami

Kouji Tokunaga

Hiroshi Kushida

Eiji Yoshimura

Masanori Taguchi

Naotomo Hashimoto

Syogo Mizutani

Yoshinori Takeuchi

Akira Michinaga

Masayoshi Horiue

Daichi Sugawara

Koichi Murata

Erika Hori

Hiroaki Matsubara

Masaki Takemura

Kosuke Noguchi

Katsuya Sueishi

Yoji Yatsushiro

Hirotake Matsuki

Terumi c/o Hiroshima Plant Of Toyo Seat Co Ltd Akazawa

A seat control system for setting a driving posture and a seat control method is provided, in which body shape information indicating a body shape is input. Posture range information corresponding to the input body shape information is extracted from body shape posture range correspondence information, in which the body shape information and posture range information indicating a posture range of a vehicle seat corresponding to a driving posture range correspond to each other. A posture of the vehicle seat is controlled such that the posture of the vehicle seat falls within the posture range of the vehicle seat indicated by the extracted posture range information.

Seat control system and method for setting driving posture

A body-size class specification device of the present invention comprises a class feature-quantity information memorizing section to memorize class feature-quantity information to correlate plural classes for classifying a body size according to a dimension ratio of prescribed parts of a body with plural prescribed feature quantities for characterizing the plural classes, a first input section as an example of a feature-quantity acquiring section to acquire feature quantity of an object person to be specified for the class, an eye-height measuring section and an upper-body-length-ratio processing section, and a class specifying section to specify the class corresponding to the feature quantity of the object person acquired by the feature-quantity acquiring section based on the class feature-quantity information memorized by the class feature-quantity information memorizing section.

Body-size class specification device, body-size class specification method, driving-position setting device, and driving-position setting method

An alighting assistance device D of the present disclosure may be a device moving a driver seat rearward in a case where a determination may be made that an occupant seated on the driver seat of a vehicle alights. The device may include a height changer which changes a height of a steering wheel, a sitting height acquirer which acquires a sitting height of the occupant, and a steering wheel controlleras one example of a height controller which controls the height changer such that the height of the steering wheel becomes lower as the sitting height acquired by the sitting height acquirer may be higher in the case where a determination is made that the occupant alights.

Alighting assistance device and method

An alighting assistance device D of the present disclosure may be a device moving a driver seat rearward in a case where a determination is made that an occupant seated on the driver seat of a vehicle alights. The device may include a reclining mechanism as one example of an angle changer which changes an angle of a seat back of the driver seat with respect to a horizontal plane, a sitting height acquirer which acquires a sitting height of the occupant, and a seat controller as one example of an angle controller which controls the angle changer such that the angle of the seat back becomes closer to be perpendicular as the sitting height acquired by the sitting height acquirer is higher in the case where a determination is made that the occupant alights.

A vehicular display system shows a view image including a blind area with superior visibility. Embodiments include an imaging unit that captures an image of a surrounding area of a vehicle; an image processing unit that converts the image into a view image of the surrounding area of the vehicle seen from inside a cabin; and a display unit. The image processing unit generates a rear-view image acquired when an area behind the vehicle is seen from a first virtual viewpoint located in the cabin, and a front-view image acquired when an area in front of the vehicle is seen from a second virtual viewpoint located behind the first virtual viewpoint in the cabin. The display unit shows the rear-view image when the vehicle travels backward, the front-view image when the vehicle travels forward, and shows both of the view images at substantially the same angle of view.

Vehicular display system

Disclosed is an interior structure () for a vehicle, which comprises a vehicle interior structural component () arranged within a field-of-view of a driver, wherein at least one outline () of the vehicle interior structural component is approximately coincident with an axis line (Ab, Af, Ad) oriented toward a vehicle interior of the vehicle, among a plurality of axis lines radially extending from a vanishing point (P) defined when the driver visually views forwardly while being seated in a driver seat.

Vehicle interior structure

A shift device comprises a shift lever and a shift knob. A driver moves the shift knob in a longitudinal direction when a shift change is conducted between plural traveling positions. The driver moves the shift knob, in a lateral direction, toward a driver's side when the shift change is conducted from a R position to a P position. When viewed from a vehicle rear side, the shift lever located at the traveling positions takes a first position where the shift lever is inclined, relative to its upright state, in a direction of separating its upper end portion with the shift knob from a driver's seat, whereas the shift lever located at the P position takes a second position where the shift lever is in the upright state or in a state which is closer to the upright state than the first position.

Vehicle shift device with lateral and longitudinal motion

Disclosed is a vehicle display system () for displaying an image of surroundings of a vehicle. The vehicle display system () includes: a display () configured to display an image thereon; a camera () mounted on the vehicle and configured to image surroundings of the vehicle; and a display control unit () configured to subject an image captured by the camera to mask processing, using a mask image (MR, MF) including a semi-transparent portion (M, M, M, M) corresponding to a vehicle body, and a portion (M, M, M) corresponding to a window of the vehicle and having a transmittance lower than that of the portion corresponding to the vehicle body, to generate a masked image (D), and cause the masked image to be displayed on the display.

Vehicle display system

Disclosed is an in-vehicle image display device equipped in a vehicle to support driving of a driver. The in-vehicle image display system comprises: a side camera installed to a lateral portion of an exterior of the vehicle to face outwardly and configured to take an image of an area lateral to the vehicle by using a wide-angle lens; a processing unit configured to correct a wide-angle image taken by the side camera to generate a planar image, and process the planar image to generate a processed image; and a display unit configured to display the processed image transmitted from the processing unit on a screen, wherein the processing unit is operable to execute a secondary processing of the planar image so as not to include an image region located outward from the reachable position in a vehicle-width direction, in order to generate the processed image.

In-vehicle image display system and image processing method

In a seat for a vehicle which comprises a seat body, a slide mechanism, and a lift mechanism, the lift mechanism is configured such that a hip point of a specified physique occupant seated on the seat body draws a track which is approximated to a virtual rotational track of the hip point around a heel point when viewed from a vehicle side, whereby a change quantity of an ankle's angle is restricted below a first threshold and a change quantity of a knee's angle is restricted below a second threshold.

Seat for vehicle and designing method of the same

A switching device for a vehicle headlight of a vehicle having an Adaptive LED Headlight (ALH) mode. The switching device may include a steering column lever switch supported on a steering column of the vehicle so as to be movable between an initial position and a predetermined moved position by a moving operation input, an ALH switch configured to receive a switching operation input that sets the ALH mode, and a controller configured to change the irradiation mode of the headlight according to a position of the lever switch and the switching operation input received by the ALH switch.

Switching device for vehicle headlight

A slide rail is configured to have a specified front-upward slant angle within a range of 9-11 degrees relative to a floor panel such that a seat slides longitudinally with the specified front-upward slant angle and adjustably over a specified longitudinal range along the slide rail, a thigh support portion is provided at a front end portion of a seat cushion so as to swing vertically around its rear portion with an adjustable swing-angle range of 4 degrees or greater, and a seat device of a vehicle does not comprise any other lift mechanism for adjusting a height of the seat than the slide rail having the specified front-upward slant angle.

Seat device of vehicle

An acceleration pedal is arranged on one side, in a vehicle width direction, of a steering column cover covering a steering column so as to move forward or slant forward through a press operation of a press face thereof. A guide face is provided at a specified portion of a lower face of the steering column cover which is positioned in front of a lower-face rear end portion in a steering-shaft axis direction and on an acceleration-pedal-arrangement side, wherein the guide face is configured to project downward below an extension line extending from the lower-face rear end portion in the steering-shaft axis direction and extend forward. Accordingly, a passenger's foot can be properly restrained from moving, in the vehicle width direction, off the pedal in a vehicle head-on collision, ensuring an appropriate ingress-and-egress performance of a passenger.

Steering column cover structure of automotive vehicle

An armrest structure for a vehicle of the present invention comprises a first armrest to support an elbow of one of arms of a passenger seated in a seat and a second armrest to support an elbow of the other arm of the passenger. A horizontal distance Wbetween a vertically-extending seat center line of the seat and an elbow's support position at the first armrest is greater than a horizontal distance Wbetween the vertically-extending seat center line and an elbow's support position at the second armrest, and a height Hof the elbow's support position at the first armrest is greater than a height Hof the elbow's support position at the second armrest. Accordingly, the passenger's elbows can be properly supported at the armrests on both sides, in a seat width direction, of the seat.

Armrest structure for vehicle and setting method of armrest height for vehicle

A driving position adjusting apparatus for a vehicle comprises a driver's seat provided on a floor panel of a vehicle compartment, an operational pedal, such as an accelerator pedal, which is operated by a driver seated in the driver's seat, an incline-face portion which is provided on the floor panel, on which a heel of the driver operating the operational pedal is placed, the incline-face portion having an upper face which is inclined so that a front portion thereof is located at a higher position than a rear portion thereof, and a heel-placement height adjusting device which adjusts a height position of the driver's heel placed on the incline-face portion at least by moving up or down the incline-face portion.

Driving position adjusting apparatus for vehicle

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Hiroshima, Japan

Tomonori Ohtsubo