Sensor system for vehicle
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsSatoru Inoue, Yukio Nishimoto, Junya Tashiro
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Abstract
A sensor system has object detection sensors 4 which are mounted on door mirrors 2 and have a parking space search mode for searching for an object within ranges extending laterally from a vehicle 14, and a vehicle monitoring mode for searching for an object in rear lateral sides of the vehicle 14 by folding and retracting the door mirrors 2; and a control section 7 for causing the object detection sensors 4 to be driven when the vehicle 14 travels at a speed equal to or less than a prescribed value, and for making a search frequency of the object detection sensors 4 higher in the parking space search mode than in the vehicle monitoring mode.
Claims17
A sensor system for a vehicle comprising:
- an object detection sensor which is mounted on a door mirror, and has a first search mode for searching for an object using a range extending laterally from a vehicle as a detection area, and a second search mode for searching for an object using a rear lateral side of the vehicle as a detection area by folding and retracting the door mirror;
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- a control section for causing the object detection sensor to be driven when the vehicle travels at a speed equal to or less than a prescribed value, and for making a search frequency of the object detection sensor higher in the first search mode than in the second search mode.
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