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US 2001/0054956 A1Published application
Vehicle travel safety apparatus
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShoji Ichikawa, Yoshihiro Urai, Kenji Kodaka
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AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShoji Ichikawa, Yoshihiro Urai, Kenji Kodaka
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When a turning state of a subject vehicle is detected, the action timing of the contact avoidance support device is slower than when the turning state is not detected. When an action timing determining part 22 estimates that there is the possibility of the subject vehicle coming into contact with the vehicle in front and a turning state of the subject vehicle is detected based on the output from a transversal acceleration sensor S4, a changing rate of the steering angle sensor S5, and a yaw rate sensor S3, a compensation interval calculating part 23 calculates a compensation interval depending on the size of the detected turning state (the amount of the steering angle, the changing rate of the steering angle, and the transversal acceleration). And the action timing of the break actuator 12 is slowed by this compensation interval.
A vehicle travel safety apparatus providing a object detecting device that detects an object in front of the subject vehicle, a relative velocity calculating device that finds the relative velocity between the subject vehicle and the object based on the result of the detection of said object detecting device, a contact possibility estimating device that estimates the possibility that said object and the subject vehicle will come into contact based on the result of the calculation of said relative velocity calculating device, and a contact avoidance support device that automatically acts in a predetermined interval before contact when it is estimated that there is the possibility of contact by said contact possibility estimation device, and supports contact avoidance between said object and the subject vehicle, wherein said vehicle travel safety apparatus provides:
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