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US 12,415,585 B2Granted
Vehicle information notification device
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsShunichi Nakabayashi, Masato Nakata, Akihiko Tomoda, Ko Hosokawa
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Abstract
This vehicle information notification device includes: movable portions which are provided in at least one of a pair of left and right vehicle body outer portions in a vehicle body, steerably supporting a steering system component, to be operated by actuators, wherein the movable portions include outer surfaces which are able to contact a driver's body, and wherein the movable portions notify the driver of predetermined information by operating the outer surfaces in a predetermined motion.
Claims10
A motorcycle information notification device comprising:
- movable portions which are provided in at least one of a pair of left and right vehicle body outer portions in a vehicle body and are operated by movable portion actuators, steerably supporting a steering system component;
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- an operation intervention function capable of intervening in operations performed by a driver,
- wherein the movable portion actuators are connected to the movable portions through a link member,
- wherein the movable portions include outer surfaces which are able to contact driver's legs,
- wherein the movable portions notify the driver of predetermined information by operating the outer surfaces in a predetermined motion,
- wherein the movable portions are operated while being interlocked with the operation intervention function, and
- wherein, when the operation intervention function is operated, the outer surfaces protrude outward in a vehicle width direction from remaining general surfaces of the vehicle body outer portions at a timing earlier than a timing of starting the operation of the operation intervention function.
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