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 (56 and 57) which are provided in at least one of a pair of left and right vehicle body outer portions (1L and 1R) in a vehicle body (1A), steerably supporting a steering system component (10A), to be operated by actuators (105L and 105R), wherein the movable portions (56 and 57) include outer surfaces (56e and 57e) which are able to contact a driver's body, and wherein the movable portions (56 and 57) notify the driver of predetermined information by operating the outer surfaces (56e and 57e) in a predetermined motion.
Claims11
-12. (canceled)
A vehicle 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, steerably supporting a steering system component, to be operated by actuators;
- and
- an operation intervention function capable of intervening in operations performed by a driver,
- wherein the movable portions include outer surfaces which are able to contact a driver's body,
- 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 movable portions start to be operated at a timing earlier than a timing of starting the operation of the operation intervention function.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.