Vehicle information notification device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12409848-B2
Application number	US-202118036906-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 18, 2021
Priority date	Nov 19, 2020
Publication date	Sep 9, 2025
Grant date	Sep 9, 2025

Abstract

This vehicle information notification device includes: a pair of left and right grips which are formed on a steering handle; and a vibration device (which is disposed on at least one of the pair of left and right grips to notify a driver of predetermined information, wherein a plurality of the vibration devices are provided on one of the left and right grips. Both of the pair of left and right grips are respectively provided with a plurality of vibration devices.

First claim

What is claim is:

1. A vehicle information notification device comprising: a pair of left and right grips which are formed on a steering handle; and a vibration device which is an actuator disposed on at least one of the pair of left and right grips to notify a driver by giving predetermined vibration information,
wherein a plurality of vibration devices are provided on one of the left and right grips,
wherein an operation intervention function is provided to intervene in an operation performed by the driver based on an object information detected by a camera or a radar,
wherein the operation intervention function includes at least one of a steering intervention function that assists the steering handle by applying an assist torque and a breaking intervention function that assist a breaking of vehicle wheel by generating an assist braking force,
wherein the vibration device is vibrated while being interlocked with the operation intervention function,
wherein the vibration device is vibrated in a vibration mode different from that when the operation intervention function is operated in a standby state in which a system of the operation intervention function is activated and the operation intervention function is not operated yet, and
wherein the vibration device is vibrated intermittently at a predetermined first time interval in the standby state and is vibrated intermittently at a second time interval shorter than the first time interval or is vibrated continuously without any time interval when the operation intervention function is operated.

2. The vehicle information notification device according to claim 1 ,
wherein both of the pair of left and right grips are respectively provided with the plurality of vibration devices.

3. The vehicle information notification device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of vibration devices provided on one of the left and right grips are arranged side by side in an axial direction which is elongated in a vehicle width direction of the grip, and
wherein the vibration device which is disposed on an outside of the grip in the vehicle width direction in the plurality of vibration devices is vibrated while being interlocked with the steering intervention function.

4. The vehicle information notification device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of vibration devices provided on one of the left and right grips are arranged side by side in the axial direction which is elongated in the vehicle width direction of the grip, and
wherein the vibration device which is disposed on an inside of the grip in the vehicle width direction in the plurality of vibration devices is vibrated while being interlocked with the braking intervention function.

5. The vehicle information notification device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the vibration device is vibrated at a first frequency higher than a second frequency of the standby state when the operation intervention function is operated.

6. The vehicle information notification device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the vibration device starts vibrating at a timing earlier than a timing of starting the operation of the operation intervention function when the operation intervention function is operated.

7. The vehicle information notification device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a display device which displays the predetermined vibration information for the driver while being interlocked with a vibration of the vibration device.

8. The vehicle information notification device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the operation intervention function includes both of the automatic steering intervention function and the automatic braking intervention function,
wherein the vibration device is vibrated intermittently at predetermined first time interval in the standby state and is vibrated intermittently at a second time interval shorter than the first time interval when the automatic steering intervention function is operated, and
wherein the vibration device is vibrated continuously without any time interval when the automatic braking intervention function is operated.

9. The vehicle information notification device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the vehicle is a motorcycle or the like, and steering intervention function steers the steered wheel in the opposite direction to a side on which a course a vehicle is to be changed, and
wherein only one side of the vibration device on the course change direction of the vehicle is vibrated when the steering intervention function is operated.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nakabayashi Shunichi
• Nakata Masato
• Tomoda Akihiko
• Hosokawa Ko

Classifications

• B60W2050/146

  Display means · CPC title

• B60W10/20

  including control of steering systems · CPC title

• B60W10/18

  including control of braking systems · CPC title

• B62J50/22 Primary

  electronic, e.g. displays · CPC title

• B60W2300/36

  Cycles; Motorcycles; Scooters · CPC title