Vehicle control apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKeisuke Oyama
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Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus changes its activation state to an activated state and execute an automatic pulling-out control of automatically pulling a vehicle out of a parking space to a designated place and automatically stopping the vehicle at a designated place when receiving an automatic pulling-out request command of requesting executing the automatic pulling-out control from an outside by wireless. The vehicle control apparatus holds a driver's seat at a designated backed position without displacing the driver's seat forward when changing its activation state to the activated state in response to receiving the automatic pulling-out request command.
Claims6
A vehicle control apparatus installed to a vehicle and comprising an electronic control unit which executes an activation control of controlling activations of a driving apparatus, a braking apparatus, and a steering apparatus of the vehicle,
- wherein the electronic control unit is configured to:
- change its activation state to an activated state that the electronic control unit executes the activation control when the electronic control unit receives an activation command;
- change its activation state to a deactivated state that the electronic control unit does not execute the activation control when the electronic control unit receives a deactivation command;
- displace a driver's seat for a driver of the vehicle forward to a designated advanced position when the electronic control unit changes its activation state to the activated state;
- and
- displace the driver's seat rearward to a designated backed position located at the rear of the designated advanced position when the electronic control unit changes its activation state to the deactivation state,
- wherein the electronic control unit is configured to:
- change its activation state to the activated state and execute an automatic pulling-out control of automatically pulling the vehicle out of a parking space to a designated place and automatically stopping the vehicle at the designated place when the electronic control unit receives an automatic pulling-out request command of requesting the electronic control unit to execute the automatic pulling-out control from an outside by wireless;
- and
- hold the driver's seat at the designated backed position without displacing the driver's seat forward when the electronic control unit changes its activation state to the activated state in response to receiving the automatic pulling-out request command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.