Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yosuke Shimizu

Takeyuki Suzuki

Motoaki Minowa

Yuki Takamura

Ryo Yamazaki

Takao Kanki

Yuki Aoki

Shota Yamaguchi

Tomoya Hagihara

Yuta Nakai

Arata Isobe

Takafumi Ozaki

Fuyuto Takeyama

To display information appropriately without making an occupant feel annoyed, a steering operation elementof a vehicleincludes a hub partprovided rotatably with respect to a vehicle body; an extending partextending radially outward from an outer circumference of the hub part; an outer edge partprovided on an outer edge of the extending part; a displayprovided on the hub part; at least one first light sourceA provided on the extending part; and an interface control deviceconfigured to control the display and the first light source, wherein the interface control device is configured to cause the display to display an image corresponding to at least one of vehicle state information indicating a state of the vehicle and environment information indicating a surrounding environment of the vehicle.

Steering wheel with display and light source

A vehicle control system is used for a vehicle in which steering control is executable. The vehicle control system includes an operation element configured to receive a driving operation by an occupant; a contact sensor configured to detect a contact operation on the operation element from either a first side or a second side in a vehicle width direction; and a travel control unit configured to change a travel position of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction within a travel path where the vehicle is traveling if the contact sensor detects the contact operation in a state where the steering control is executable.

Vehicle control system

A vehicle control system includes: an operation element configured to receive a driving operation by an occupant; a movement sensor configured to detect a movement of the operation element; a travel control unit configured to select a manual driving mode to control a steering device based on a signal from the movement sensor or an autonomous driving mode to control the steering device regardless of the signal from the movement sensor; a travel information acquiring unit configured to acquire travel information of a vehicle; a grip area setting unit configured to set at least one recommended grip area of the operation element based on the travel information of the vehicle; an indicator configured to turn on so as to illuminate the recommended grip area; and an indicator control unit configured to change a control mode of the indicator according to a driving mode selected by the travel control unit.

Automobile body and/or replica

Steering wheel pad for automobile

Steering wheel for automobile

A communication systemincludes a short-range wireless communication deviceinstalled in a vehicleThe short-range wireless communication deviceis a device capable of performing short-range wireless communication with a portable communication terminalThe short-range wireless communication deviceis provided in the vicinity of a surfaceof an instrument panelA first groove portionand a second groove portionare formed in the surfaceof the instrument panelin the vicinity of the short-range wireless communication device

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Wako, Japan

Yosuke Shimizu