US 11,813,984 B2
Alighting support device
Koji Takeuchi, Toyota (JP); Noriyuki Saitoh, Nisshin (JP); Iwao Izumikawa, Toyota (JP); and Junya Fukuta, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jun. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/358,488.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-154367 (JP), filed on Sep. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0080886 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); B60R 21/01 (2006.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC B60Q 9/008 (2013.01) [B60R 21/01 (2013.01); G08G 1/166 (2013.01); G08G 1/167 (2013.01); B60R 2021/01197 (2013.01); B60R 2225/00 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An alighting support device comprising a control unit that performs warning to notify an occupant of a vehicle of presence of a moving body approaching the vehicle and having a possibility to come into contact with a right door or a left door of the vehicle, wherein the control unit is configured such that
when the control unit determines that a predetermined warning condition is satisfied, the control unit performs the warning,
when the control unit determines that the warning condition is not satisfied, the control unit does not perform the warning,
when the right door is opened or is about to be opened while the moving body is moving in a right warning area extending on a right side of the vehicle along a front-rear direction of the vehicle in a vicinity of the vehicle, the control unit determines that the warning condition is satisfied,
when the moving body enters the right warning area with the right door being open to a degree that is equal to or more than a predetermined degree set for the right door, the control unit determines that the warning condition is not satisfied,
when the left door is opened or is about to be opened while the moving body is moving in a left warning area extending on a left side of the vehicle along the front-rear direction of the vehicle in the vicinity of the vehicle, the control unit determines that the warning condition is satisfied,
when the moving body enters the left warning area with the left door being open to a degree that is equal to or more than a predetermined degree set for the left door, the control unit determines that the warning condition is not satisfied,
wherein the predetermined degree set for the right door is set to a degree larger than zero, and
wherein the predetermined degree set for the left door is set to a degree larger than zero.