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US 7,291,095 B2Granted
Automatic start control apparatus of vehicle
AssigneeNissan Diesel Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsToshio Kitamura, Yuuichi Ichikawa, Akihisa Hayashi, Isao Okamoto, Osamu Isobe
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Abstract
An automatic start control apparatus of a vehicle having a function to automatically start the vehicle and not performing switching of a starting mode to a manual starting mode only by depression of a clutch pedal, but switching the starting mode to the manual starting mode upon operation of an accelerator pedal together with the clutch pedal thereby enhancing operability of automatic starting of the vehicle.
Claims2
An automatic start control apparatus of a vehicle comprising:
- an accelerator pedal provided for controlling the rotating number of an engine;
- a throttle opening sensor provided for detecting a throttle opening according to depression of the accelerator pedal;
- a clutch pedal arranged for being capable of manually starting the vehicle;
- a clutch pedal sensor provided for detecting depression of the clutch pedal;
- an automatic start controlling means provided for automatically starting the vehicle;
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- an automatic start interrupting means provided for interrupting automatic start controlling by the automatic start controlling means and for switching a starting mode to a manual starting mode when depression of the clutch pedal is detected by the clutch pedal sensor and depression of the accelerator pedal is detected by the throttle opening sensor.
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