US 11,897,537 B2
Driver assistance system
Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Hiroshima (JP); Yasuyuki Tonohara, Hiroshima (JP); Keiichi Yamasaki, Hiroshima (JP); Katsuhisa Maedo, Hiroshima (JP); and Kenichi Nakamoto, Hiroshima (JP)
Assigned to MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
Appl. No. 17/614,037
Filed by MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
PCT Filed Jun. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/023821
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 24, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/256025, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 24, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-112728 (JP), filed on Jun. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0234644 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 1/04 (2006.01); B60K 26/02 (2006.01); B60K 26/04 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 1/046 (2013.01) [B60K 26/02 (2013.01); B60K 26/04 (2013.01); B60K 2026/046 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A driver assistance system for a vehicle having a steering holding section that is held by a driver who is seated on a driver's seat, rotates about a rotation shaft in a vehicle front-rear direction, and thereby steers a vehicle, the driver assistance system comprising:
an operation member having an operation section disposed such that the driver can manually operate the operation section to accelerate/decelerate the vehicle when the steering holding section is held by the driver; and
a support member that supports the operation member in a slidingly displaceable manner along a rotation shaft direction in which the rotation shaft extends; and
transmission means that mechanically or electrically transmits a sliding displacement amount in the rotation shaft direction of the operation member to an output control section of a drive source for the vehicle, wherein
when the steering holding section is seen from the driver side, the operation section is disposed along said steering holding section at a position proximal said steering holding section and between the steering holding section and the rotation shaft, and
a movable range of the operation member is such that, in the rotation shaft direction, the operation section is movable from a first position closest to the driver where the operation section is aligned with an end surface on the driver side of the steering holding section in a direction normal to the rotation shaft direction, to a second position farthest from the driver overlapping with the steering holding section.