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US 2006/0217887 A1Published application
Lane departure prevention system
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorTakeshi Iwasaka
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Abstract
The present lane departure prevention system can prevent a vehicle from departing from a lane of travel, even when the vehicle tows a towed vehicle. When the towed vehicle is detected, the lane departure prevention system changes a target yaw moment which is used in normal departure avoidance control operation, based on a force input to the vehicle from the towed vehicle, which is caused by carrying out departure avoidance control, thereby controlling the vehicle so as not to depart from the lane by corrected yaw moment.
Claims6
A lane departure prevention system comprising:
- a departure determining unit for determining whether a first vehicle is tending to depart from a lane of travel;
- a tow detecting unit for detecting whether the first vehicle tows a second vehicle;
- a departure avoidance control unit for controlling the first vehicle to avoid a lane departure when said departure determining unit determines that the vehicle is tending to depart from the lane of travel;
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- a correcting unit for correcting an extent of control necessary to avoid the lane departure, which is carried out by said departure avoidance control unit, when said tow detecting unit detects that the first vehicle tows the second vehicle.
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