Accelerator controller
AssigneeHino Jidousha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKeiichi Kitazawa, Hirofumi Yasui
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Abstract
Fuel consumption due to abrupt acceleration is reduced. An auto-cruising control is automatically started without intention of a driver and executes a control for gently and reasonably accelerating a vehicle even when an accelerator pedal is displaced abruptly. When a regular running state is detected, the auto-cruising control is started automatically. When the auto-cruising control is effective and the accelerator pedal is displaced substantially, fuel consumption is restricted by setting an aimed vehicle speed stepwise with small speed change, so that a large amount of fuel is not supplied.
Claims19
An acceleration control device including means for calculating an aimed accelerator opening Ac on a basis of an information of a displacement amount Am of an accelerator pedal and a vehicle speed V and means for outputting a control signal such that a difference Δ of an accelerator opening
- Δ=Am−Ac
- approaches zero, comprising actuation means for automatically starting a calculation of the aimed accelerator opening Ac when a running state of a vehicle is detected on the basis of an information including the vehicle speed V,
- wherein an input information of said actuation means for detecting the running state of said vehicle includes, in addition to the vehicle speed V, the displacement amount Am, a fuel flow rate F and a gear position Tm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.