Equipment control apparatus for vehicle
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
InventorYuichi KANO
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Abstract
An equipment control apparatus for a vehicle has: a motor for vibrating that imparts, via a shift knob that contacts a vehicle occupant, vibrations as a stimulus that the vehicle occupant can feel by a somatic sensation; an electrostatic capacity sensor that detects electrostatic capacity as a state of contact of the vehicle occupant with the shift knob; and a control section that controls driving of the motor for vibrating so as to impart, to the vehicle occupant, vibrations of a strength that is determined in advance in accordance with the electrostatic capacity detected by the electrostatic capacity sensor.
Claims7
An equipment control apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- an imparting section that imparts, via a contacting portion that contacts a vehicle occupant, a stimulus that the vehicle occupant can feel by a somatic sensation;
- a detecting section that detects a state of contact of the vehicle occupant with the contacting portion;
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- a control section that controls driving of the imparting section so as to impart, to the vehicle occupant, a stimulus of a strength that is determined in advance in accordance with the state of contact detected by the detecting section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.