Patent ID: 7425042
Filing Date: 2008-09-16
Classification: B60T

Abstract:
1. An electric operating apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: an operational member operated in accordance with an electrically-controlled traveling request or an electrically-controlled braking request of a driver; a reaction force adjuster that can electrically adjust a reaction force applied to the operational member; an operational information detecting device for detecting operational information concerning a requested operation applied to the operational member by the driver; an environmental information detecting device for detecting environmental information concerning a driving environment of the vehicle; a target pattern setting means for setting a target pattern determined as a variable pattern of the operational information and concerning the requested operation of the operational member based on the environmental information; and a driving support means for controlling the reaction force adjusted by the reaction force adjuster based on the operational information detected by the operational information detecting device so that the requested operation of the operational member is performed in accordance with the target pattern.