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US 11,440,547 B2Granted
Vehicle travel assistance device
AssigneeAdvics Co., Ltd.
InventorMako Noguchi
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Abstract
A parking assistance unit comprises: a step determination unit that executes a first determination process for determining whether a step that a vehicle wheel has contacted is a step for stopping the vehicle; and a braking/drive force setting unit that executes a stop request control for requesting stopping of a vehicle by increasing the braking force of the vehicle, when a step has been determined by the first determination process to be a step for stopping the vehicle.
Claims13
A vehicle travel assistance device configured to assist vehicle travel, the vehicle travel assistance device comprising:
- a step determination unit that, when a step for stopping a vehicle of steps for which it is possible to detect that a vehicle wheel has contacted is set as a step for stopping a vehicle, executes a determination process for determining whether the step that the vehicle wheel has contacted is the step for stopping a vehicle;
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- a braking/drive force setting unit that, when it is determined by the determination process that the step is the step for stopping a vehicle, executes a stop request control for requesting stopping of a vehicle by increasing a braking force of the vehicle,
- wherein the step determination unit is configured to execute the determination process, based on a drive force of the vehicle at the time when the vehicle wheel has contacted the step.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.