Vehicle control apparatus and control method thereof
AssigneesToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSyuzo Hashimoto, Morio Sakai
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Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus includes a drive unit that drives a mechanism provided in a vehicle, an operating portion that is operated by an occupant and instructs the drive unit to drive, a collision predicting portion that predicts a collision, and a control portion that controls the drive unit. The control portion controls the drive unit to place the mechanism in a predetermined state when the collision is predicted by the collision predicting portion, and controls the drive unit to vary a driving speed of the drive unit when the operating portion is operated while the drive unit is being controlled. The invention also relates to a control method of this vehicle control apparatus.
Claims13
1-12. (canceled)
A vehicle control apparatus comprising:
- a drive unit that drives a mechanism provided in a vehicle;
- an operating portion that is operated by an occupant and instructs the drive unit to drive;
- a collision predicting portion that predicts a collision;
- and
- a control portion that controls the drive unit,
- wherein the control portion controls the drive unit to place the mechanism in a predetermined state when the collision is predicted by the collision predicting portion, and controls the drive unit to vary a driving speed of the drive unit when the operating portion is operated while the drive unit is being controlled upon prediction of a collision.
A control method of a vehicle control apparatus, comprising:
- predicting a collision;
- driving a drive unit such that a mechanism provided in a vehicle is placed in a predetermined state when the collision is predicted;
- and
- varying a driving speed of the drive unit when an operating portion is operated while the drive unit is being controlled upon prediction of a collision.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.