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Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasushi Azuma

Ayaka Kagami

Tsuyoshi Abe

Soshiro Murata

Yasuhide Matsuo

Haruki Nakamura

Akira Matsuura

Stéphane Boursier

Laurent Takejiro Pascal Ochiai Bonneville

Philippe Frin

Tom Teriierooiterai

Tatsuya Ishikawa

Wenhan Zhang

Makoto Kukihara

A vehicle member join structure includes a sheet-shaped first member made of a lightweight metal, a sheet-shaped second member made of a ferrous metal, a rivet made of a ferrous metal and including a shaft that penetrates the first member and a head that remains at an outer surface of the first member, the shaft being welded to the second member so as to connect the first member and the second member together, and a waterproof section that prevents water ingress by covering a region where the rivet and the first member contact each other.

Vehicle member join structure

A windscreen wiper control system controls a drive mechanism for at least one windscreen wiper arm to effect a reciprocating movement of the at least one windscreen wiper arm within a wiping range between a first position and a second position. The control system includes a detector that detects, upon activation of the control system, an uncertain position of the windscreen wiper arm within the wiping range but different from the first position. Upon detection of such an uncertain position, the control system returns the windscreen wiper arm to the first position at a predetermined reduced speed, the reduced speed being applied at least in a sub-range of the wiping range in the vicinity of the first position.

Windscreen wiper control system and method

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Yasushi Azuma