Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuhiko Yamamoto

Masayuki Inoue

Goro Asai

Masahiro Kato

Takanori Ito

Hideyuki Ide

Takeshi Kotama

Hideo Kato

Shinsuke Nakashima

Mitsutoshi Tamari

Reiji Mikami

Takashi Yamagami

A push lifter is provided with a push-push mechanism. When a charger lid is positioned in a closed position to close a battery charging opening, the push-push mechanism holds a push rod in a standby state. When the charger lid, which is positioned in the closed position, is pressed so that the standby state of the push rod is cancelled, the push-push mechanism pushes the push rod with the urging force of a coil spring so that the charger lid opens. An illumination lamp turns off when a switch portion turns off due to the standby state of the push rod, and the lamp turns on when the switch portion turns on due to the standby state of the push rod being cancelled.

Device for detecting opening/closing of charger lid

A driving support apparatus includes an imaging member taking an image corresponding to a vehicle peripheral area; a steering angle detecting member detecting a steering-wheel steering angle; a display member disposed in a vehicle interior to display the image; and a control member predicting a driving course of the vehicle according to the detected steering-wheel angle. The control member synthesizes a predicted driving course image relating to the predicted driving course. The control member superposes the predicted driving course image at a corresponding position of the image. The control member displays on the display member the image where at least one image, on which an index is marked at least at one height position, is superposed at least on the predicted driving course image and onto a side of the predicted driving course image while the control member displays the superposed image on the display member.

Driving support apparatus

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Kariya, Japan

Yasuhiko Yamamoto