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US 2024/0263697 A1Published application
Control device and control method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHidekazu HIRABAYASHI, Takayuki SHIMAUCHI, Yuta SAITO
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Abstract
The control device controls a vehicle towing a trailer. The control device is configured to determine whether or not a user is present in the trailer when a shift range is in the parking range. The control device is configured to ignore a shift range switching operation by a driver when the shift range switching operation is performed while a user is present in the trailer.
Claims4
A control device for controlling a vehicle towing a trailer, wherein
- the control device is configured to determine whether or not a person is present in the trailer when a shift range is in a parking range, and to ignore a shift range switching operation by a driver when the shift range switching operation is performed while a person is present in the trailer.
A control method for controlling a vehicle towing a trailer, the control method comprising the steps of:
- determining whether or not a person is present in the trailer when a shift range is in a parking range;
- and
- ignoring a shift range switching operation by a driver when the shift range switching operation is performed while a person is present in the trailer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.