公开(公告)号：US11897537B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-13

申请号：US17614037

申请日：2020-06-17

Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION

Inventor： Yoshihiro Yamamoto ,  Yasuyuki Tonohara ,  Keiichi Yamasaki ,  Katsuhisa Maedo ,  Kenichi Nakamoto

IPC: B62D1/04 ,  B60K26/02 ,  B60K26/04

CPC classification number: B62D1/046 ,  B60K26/02 ,  B60K26/04 ,  B60K2026/046

Abstract: A driver assistance system is provided that allows a driver to easily perform an accelerator operation by a finger of his/her hand while grasping a steering holding section. The driver assistance system includes an operation member near a steering wheel held by a driver, which rotates about a rotation shaft in a vehicle front-rear direction and thereby steers the vehicle. The operation member has an operation section that the driver can manually operate to accelerate/decelerate the vehicle, and includes a support member on the steering wheel, the support member supporting the operation member in a slidingly displaceable manner along a steering axial direction. The operation section is disposed near a radially inner side of a rim section of the steering wheel, and the operation section and the rim section overlap in the steering axial direction within a movable range of the operation member along the steering axial direction.

公开(公告)号：US11755054B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-12

申请号：US17614104

申请日：2020-06-17

Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION

Inventor： Yoshihiro Yamamoto ,  Yasuyuki Tonohara ,  Keiichi Yamasaki ,  Katsuhisa Maedo ,  Kazutaka Aihara

IPC: G05G1/54 ,  B60K26/02 ,  B60T7/08 ,  G05G5/05 ,  G05G9/02

CPC classification number: G05G1/54 ,  B60K26/02 ,  B60T7/08 ,  G05G5/05 ,  G05G9/02 ,  G05G2505/00

Abstract: A driver assistance system enables brake and accelerator operation by an operation bar in a manner close to a sense of a driver of a vehicle, regardless of the degree of operation of the operation bar. Embodiments include an operation bar extending downward toward a vehicle floor panel from a manual operation area where a seated driver manually operates the operation bar, and whose lower portion is supported in a slidingly displaceable manner along an axial direction in a front-down, rear-up tilted state. The operation bar includes a brake actuation section, below the manual operation area, that actuates a brake mechanism by sliding displacement of the operation bar in a front-down direction; and an accelerator actuation section that actuates an acceleration mechanism by sliding displacement of the operation bar in a rear-up direction that is a reverse direction on the same axis from the sliding displacement in the front-down direction.

公开(公告)号：US11643056B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-09

申请号：US17546067

申请日：2021-12-09

Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation

Inventor： Yutaka Sakuragi ,  Masaaki Aoki ,  Keiichi Yamasaki ,  Katsuhisa Maedo ,  Shigeru Takenaka ,  Kenichi Nakamoto

IPC: B60T7/10 ,  B60K23/00 ,  B60Q1/00 ,  B60T7/08

CPC classification number: B60T7/105 ,  B60K23/00 ,  B60Q1/0076 ,  B60T7/085

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus that includes a brake operation portion that applies a brake to a vehicle, the brake operation portion allowing a manual brake operation by a hand of a driver of the vehicle, the brake operation portion including a brake operation body and a grip portion to be gripped by the hand of the driver, the grip portion being provided at an upper end of the brake operation body, and a shift-down switch that shifts-down the vehicle is provided on the grip portion, the shift-down switch allowing a manual shift-down operation by the hand of the driver.