Provided is a compact and high-strength cab capable of securing an excellent field of view for work. The cab includes a guard protecting a cab body, and a wiper having a blade to wipe a front window member and a blade actuator for actuating the blade. The guard includes a pair of side pillars and an actuator housing beam interconnecting the side pillars and housing the blade actuator. The actuator housing beam includes a hollow beam body formed with a body opening and a front-rear partition plate partitioning the inside of the beam body into front and rear sections. The body opening allows the blade actuator to be assembled to the front-rear partition plate therethrough.

A wiper system for a machine is provided. The wiper system includes a first motor configured to operate a first wiper and a second motor configured to operate a second wiper wherein the first motor and the second motor are connected in a parallel configuration. The wiper system further includes a power source which is in electrical connection with the first and the second motors for energizing each motor to move the respective wipers. The wiper system includes a switch configured to simultaneously operate the first motor and the second motor in one of a high speed mode, a low speed mode, or a park mode. The wiper system includes an isolating circuit configured to isolate the first motor from the power source and allow the second motor to run independent of the first motor when the switch is set in the park mode and speed of the first motor is different from speed of the second motor.

In the cabin of an automatic driving vehicle, a touch panel for inputting a control instruction in relation to the automatic driving vehicle and a display for displaying information on the automatic driving vehicle are provided. The touch panel and the display are disposed in the front end area in the end area in the vehicle width direction inside the cabin of the automatic driving vehicle such that their display surfaces are directed rearward. The touch panel is disposed further outward in the vehicle width direction than the display.

This disclosure relates to techniques for implementing a windshield wiper system with an actively movable platform. The windshield wiper system can include a windshield wiper arm mechanically coupled to a platform and an actuator mechanically coupled to the platform. The windshield wiper arm can be configured to move through a planar range of motion that is substantially parallel to a surface of a vehicle when the platform is positioned at a first spatial location and the movable windshield wiper arm can be configured constrained from moving through the planar range when the platform is positioned at a second spatial location.

A vehicle wiper device is provided including a first motor that swings a wiper arm such that a wiper blade coupled to a leading end portion of the wiper arm wipes a windshield, a second motor that extends or retracts an extension and retraction mechanism provided to the wiper arm in order to change a wiping range of the wiper blade, and a controller that controls rotation of the first motor such that the first motor rotates at a rotation speed corresponding to a wiping speed, and that controls rotation of the second motor so as to extend or retract the extension and retraction mechanism by an extension or retraction amount corresponding to the wiping speed during a wiping operation.

A pedestrian protecting device according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a right air bag device including a right air bag configured to be deployed at a right region of the windshield; and a left air bag device including a left air bag configured to be deployed at a left region of the windshield. A wiper device includes a right wiper and a left wiper including a turning fulcrum located closer to a middle portion of a vehicle than a turning fulcrum of the right wiper. The right and left air bags and include respective tip end portions that vertically overlap each other at the middle portion of the vehicle. The right air bag of the air bag device is deployed before the left air bag of the air bag device is deployed.

A controller for a vehicle includes: a disaster determining section that determines presence or absence of damage caused by a disaster; and an activating section that activates a capturing section mounted on the vehicle. An information processing system is an information processing system that includes plural vehicles and a server. The vehicle activates the capturing section mounted on the vehicle at the time of the disaster, and sends a video image captured by the capturing section and location information to the server. The server accumulates the video images sent from the plural vehicles, and associates the video images with map information.

There is provided a wiper device a wiper device for wiping a surface of a window portion of a vehicle with an imaging device disposed adjacent to the window portion, wherein accuracy of image capturing by the imaging device can be improved. A semi-pantograph wiper assembly 2A on a driver's seat side and a wiper assembly 2B on a passenger's seat side are provided on a surface of the window portion 1 of the vehicle. Both of imaging areas 7A, 7B of the imaging device (camera) for driving assistance are disposed within an overlap area 6 in which a wiping area 5A of a wiper blade 3A of the wiper assembly 2A and a wiping area 5B of a wiper blade 3B of the wiper assembly 2B overlap.

A vehicle wiper control apparatus monitors whether warpage occurs in a wiper strip made of a rubber-elastic material that is provided in a wiper blade. When a wiper of a vehicle is turned off and the warpage occurs in the wiper strip, the control apparatus controls the wiper mechanism to move the wiper blade to a parking position thereby preventing deformation of the wiper strip and maintaining the performance thereof.

An agricultural harvesting machine, particularly a combine harvester or a forage harvester, has a supporting frame, a cutting mechanism, an inclined conveyor and a driver's cab. The cutting mechanism is arranged at the supporting frame by the inclined conveyor. The driver's cab is arranged at the supporting frame with the intermediary of at least one damper unit. At least one camera is arranged in an interior of the driver's cab. The camera is oriented to the cutting mechanism and/or to the inclined conveyor through a front windshield of the driver's cab. The camera is arranged in an operative area of a cleaning device of the front windshield so that a detection area of the camera can be optically acquired at least through a portion of the operative area of the cleaning device.