Abstract: Warning information that facilitates grasping an obstacle located in rear of a vehicle is provided. A driving assistance system including: a first detection section that detects an obstacle from a plurality of captured images of a rear side of a driver of a vehicle; a second detection section that detects the obstacle by analyzing a reflected wave of a measurement wave transmitted to the rear side; and an information output section that determines a direction in which the obstacle is located with respect to the vehicle on the basis of detection results of the first detection section and the second detection section, and that outputs warning information indicating the direction.

Abstract: A light transmissive element includes a light transmissive area. The element includes transparent substrates including respective transparent conductive films on respective surfaces thereof. The element has a structure in which the transparent substrates are disposed so as to face each other across a gap with the transparent conductive films facing each other and the gap is filled with an electrolyte. The electrolyte contains a metal ion and is prepared so as to allow the metal ion to be reversibly deposited on a surface of a transparent conductive film via electrodeposition according to a state of applied voltage between the transparent conductive film and the transparent conductive film. In the light transmissive area, a dividing line is formed in the transparent conductive film. The transparent conductive film includes divisional areas in the light transmissive area, the divisional areas being electrically insulated from each other by the dividing line.

Abstract: An aerial display apparatus according to one embodiment is an aerial display apparatus displaying a virtual image in the air. The aerial display apparatus includes: a display apparatus irradiating with light to display information; a retroreflective member reflecting the light from the display apparatus multiple times to display a virtual image in the air; an infrared-ray transmission/reception unit transmitting and receiving infrared rays used as data through the retroreflective member; a control unit transmitting and receiving a control signal to and from each of the display apparatus and the infrared-ray transmission/reception unit; and a housing accommodating the display apparatus and the infrared-ray transmission/reception unit. The retroreflective member is mounted on an opening formed in the housing, and the display apparatus and the infrared-ray transmission/reception unit are arranged inside the housing.

Abstract: A tire air filling device according to one embodiment includes: a cylinder; a weight which has an air flow hole and which receives a centrifugal force to move and cause air to be supplied to an inside of a tire; a first sealing member; a first spring; a first support portion; and a backflow prevention valve. The backflow prevention valve includes a slide member that slides in the air flow hole in an axial direction, a second spring that biases the slide member to a side opposite the tire, a second support portion that supports an end portion of the second spring in the axial direction; and a second sealing member interposed between an inner surface of the air flow hole and the slide member. The slide member, the second spring, and the second support portion are disposed inside the weight.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle safety assistance system enabling perception of a state of passengers. A vehicle safety assistance system according to the present invention assists safety of at least one passenger on board a vehicle, and includes: a monitoring unit capable of monitoring the passenger in the vehicle; a recognition unit recognizing a state of the passenger by monitoring information from the monitoring unit; and a control unit carrying out control of operation of the vehicle or notification to the passenger on basis of recognition information from the recognition unit, in which the monitoring unit includes a monitoring camera.

Abstract: A mounting base is mounted to a windshield surface. A support stay is mounted to the mounting base via a support stay mounting leaf spring by being rotated in a direction around a rotation axis. A support stay mounting surface of the mounting base and a mounted surface of the support stay include abutment support structures. The abutment support structures bring the support stay mounting surface and the mounted surface into abutment with each other via a plurality of abutment support portions surrounding the rotation axis to make the support stay be supported on the mounting base. The abutment support portions include a first abutment support portion disposed in an angle direction toward a lower side of a circumference around the rotation axis with the rotation axis as a center.

Abstract: A heating apparatus for a washer fluid according to an embodiment includes a container having an accommodation space in which a washer fluid is accommodated, an inlet part configured to charge the washer fluid into the accommodation space, an outlet part configured to discharge the washer fluid from the accommodation space, a heater provided in the accommodation space, the heater being configured to heat the washer fluid, and coils wound around the heater. The coils are in a spiral shape extending about the axis of the coils and are formed of wires in contact with the heater. The coils have close contact parts at which a plurality of wires is in close contact to each other in an extending direction of an axis.

Abstract: A reference position setting method includes: a process of displaying at least three markers on an operation surface; a process of acquiring coordinate values of a sensor coordinate system; a process of transforming the acquired coordinate value into coordinate values of a temporary coordinate system; and a process of transforming the transformed coordinate values into coordinate values of a screen coordinate system. At least one of parallel movement and rotation is performed with respect to the sensor coordinate system to transform the sensor coordinate system into the temporary coordinate system. Movement of the temporary coordinate system in a direction parallel to a plane including a second X-axis and a second Y-axis, and enlargement or reduction of the temporary coordinate system are performed to transform the temporary coordinate system into the screen coordinate system.

Abstract: An operation input device according to one embodiment includes: a display device that emits light to display information; an aerial image forming device that reflects the light from the display device a plurality of times to display a display plane with a switch in an air as a virtual image; a sensor that detects a position of a target object approaching the switch; and a determination unit that determines whether or not the switch has been operated, based on the position of the target object detected by the sensor. An eyepoint position where eyes of an operator that operates the switch are located is set in advance. The aerial image forming device is disposed on a straight line connecting the eyepoint position and the display plane.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing, two lamp bodies, and two external cameras. The first housing and the second housing are formed separately from each other, joined to be adjacent in the front-rear direction, and arranged to cover a portion of the upper portion of a vehicle interior. The first housing includes a box portion. The second housing includes a wall portion closing a second opening portion of the box portion. An upper first end portion and a lower second end portion at the peripheral edge of the second opening portion of the box portion are joined to an upper third end portion and a lower fourth end portion of the wall portion. The first end portion and the third end portion are arranged relatively closer to the first housing side than the second end portion and the fourth end portion in the front-rear direction.

Abstract: A virtual image display device according to an embodiment is a virtual image display device that displays information to a passenger on a vehicle. The virtual image display device includes a first virtual image display unit that displays a virtual image as information. The first virtual image display unit has a virtual image display portion that displays a virtual image and a rotating unit that rotates the virtual image display portion in a range in which the virtual image is visually recognizable by the passenger.

Abstract: A cleaning device according to an embodiment is a cleaning device that cleans a light transmission member provided on a camera. The cleaning device includes a filamentary member configured to contact the light transmission member and a rotation member configured to rotate the filamentary member such that the filamentary member moves along the surface of the light transmission member with the filamentary member in contact with the light transmission member.

Abstract: A BSM unit according to an embodiment is attached to a side surface facing the vehicle body of a visor of an outer mirror provided to a vehicle body of a vehicle. The BSM unit includes a light source; a housing configured to accommodate the light source; and a lens configured to be attached to the housing and emit light from the light source to the outside of the housing, in which at least a portion of the lens protrudes from the side surface of the visor in an out-of-plane direction of the side surface.

Abstract: A tilting mechanism of a view device for a vehicle has a configuration in which a rotating section is rotatably supported on a shaft of a fixed portion. A helical compression spring is fitted onto the shaft. A plate is attached to the free-end side of the shaft via a washer. An outer circumferential surface of the shaft and a center hole of the washer include respective different diameter portions. A gap g in a radial direction is formed between the outer circumferential surface of the shaft and an inner circumferential surface of the center hole of the washer. The tilting mechanism includes a deviation mechanism. The deviation mechanism makes the gap g become narrow or zero at the different diameter portions at at least one place, the different diameter portions facing each other, by making the washer move relative to the shaft in the radial direction.

Abstract: An actuator device includes a locking displaceable element and a manual operation element that are displaceably disposed in a fixed portion. The locking displaceable element is displaceable to locked/unlocked positions. The manual operation element engages with the locking displaceable element and displaces the locking displaceable element to lock/unlocked positions via manual operation. The fixed portion includes locking displaceable element stoppers and manual operation element stoppers. The locking displaceable element includes locking displaceable element stopper abutment surfaces. The manual operation element includes manual operation element stopper abutment surfaces. When the manual operation element is operated, the manual operation element stopper abutment surfaces abut against the manual operation element stoppers by to stop displacement of the manual operation element before the locking displaceable element stopper abutment surfaces abutting against the locking displaceable element stoppers.

Abstract: To shorten a time required to predict collision with other vehicles, a collision prediction device includes: a detection unit configured to detect each of a front, a rear, and a side of other vehicles located around a vehicle from a captured image of one frame in which surroundings of the vehicle are imaged; and a determination unit configured to determine a likelihood of collision with the other vehicles based on a detection result of the detection unit. The determination unit determines that the likelihood of collision with the other vehicle of which only the front or only the rear is detected is high in the other vehicles of which one or more of the front, the rear, and the side are detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: A lamp unit according to an embodiment is a lamp unit that irradiates with light from a light source, and includes: a circuit board on which the light source is mounted; a housing configured to have an internal space for accommodating the circuit board; a lens configured to be attached to the housing and emit the light from the light source to the outside of the housing, wherein the housing include an insertion hole for inserting the circuit board into the internal space from the outside of the housing to which the lens is attached.

Abstract: A locking pin driving mechanism includes a motor, a preceding gear, a round gear, a feed screw and a slider. The feed screw is coaxially fixed to the round gear. A locking pin is mounted in the slider. A center axis of the locking pin and a center axis of the feed screw are each disposed in parallel with a center axis of a vehicle inlet. An interaxial distance between the center axis of the vehicle inlet and the center axis of the feed screw is set to be larger than an interaxial distance between the center axis of the vehicle inlet and the center axis of the locking pin.

Abstract: An operation detection device according to an embodiment is an operation detection device that detects an object approaching an operation unit. The operation detection device includes: a sensor that detects a distance from the object as a plurality of pixels; and an object detection unit that detects the object. The object detection unit specifies a first pixel corresponding to the distance that is the shortest among the plurality of pixels, scans a plurality of second pixels located around the first pixel, and detects the object when the number of second pixels for which a difference between a distance corresponding to each of the second pixels and the shortest distance is equal to or less than a predetermined value, among the plurality of second pixels, is equal to or greater than a predetermined number.

Abstract: A BSM unit according to an embodiment is attached to a side surface facing the vehicle body of a visor of an outer mirror provided to a vehicle body of a vehicle. The BSM unit includes: a light source; a housing; and a lens configured to be attached to the housing and emit light from the light source to the outside of the housing. The visor has an edge portion which is positioned on a rear side of the vehicle on the side surface and is surrounding a mirror of the outer mirror, at least a portion of the lens is exposed on the side surface of the visor, and a shape of the exposure portion of the lens includes a center of the exposure portion and the edge portion and is bilateral-symmetrical with respect to a cross section orthogonal to the side surface of the visor.