Vehicle control device and vehicle control method
AssigneeIsuzu Motors Limited
InventorsSatoshi HAYASHI, Masaichi TAKAHASHI
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Abstract
This vehicle control device includes: a distance measurement unit that measures the distance between a vehicle and a preceding vehicle; and an engine control unit that starts up an engine when, in comparison to a distance measured by the distance measurement unit once a host vehicle has stopped and an engine mounted in the host vehicle has stopped, a distance newly measured by the distance measurement unit increases by at least an offset amount that indicates the amount of increase in distance used to determine whether to start up the engine.
Claims6
A vehicle control device comprising:
- a distance measurement unit that measures a first forward distance, which is a distance between an own vehicle and a preceding vehicle;
- and
- an engine control unit that starts an engine installed in the own vehicle when a first forward distance newly measured by the distance measurement unit increases by at least an offset amount indicating an increase amount of the first forward distance used to determine whether to start the engine, compared to the first forward distance measured by the distance measuring unit, in a case where the own vehicle is stopped and the engine is stopped.
A vehicle control method, executed by a computer, comprising:
- a step of measuring a distance between an own vehicle and a preceding vehicle;
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- a step of starting an engine installed in the own vehicle when a newly-measured distance increases by at least an offset amount indicating an increase amount of the distance used to determine whether to start the engine, compared to the distance measured in a case where the own vehicle is stopped and the engine is stopped.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.