Turn signal cancelling device for vehicle
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakashi Tetsuka, Mana Hayashi
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Abstract
A turn signal cancelling device for a motorcycle includes turn signal cancellation control unit configured to automatically deactivate a second turn signal after a second predetermined time has passed or after the motorcycle has travelled a second predetermined distance since an activation the second turn signal. The turn signal cancellation control unit is configured to automatically deactivate the second turn signal in a case where the activation of the second turn signal is performed before a first predetermined time has passed or before the motorcycle has travelled a first predetermined distance since an activation of a first turn signal is performed when a vehicle speed is equal to or higher than a predetermined speed.
Claims9
A turn signal cancelling device for a vehicle, the turn signal cancelling device comprising:
- a turn signal cancellation control unit configured to automatically deactivate a turn signal;
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- a vehicle speed detector configured to detect a vehicle speed;
- wherein in a case where one of a left turn signal and a right turn signal has been activated and where an operation for giving an instruction to activate another of a left turn signal and a right turn signal is performed before a first predetermined time has passed or before the vehicle has travelled a first predetermined distance since an operation for giving an instruction to activate the one of the left turn signal and the right turn signal is performed when the vehicle speed is equal to or higher than a predetermined speed, the turn signal cancellation control unit automatically deactivates the other of the left turn signal and the right turn signal after a second predetermined time has passed or after the vehicle has travelled a second predetermined distance since the operation for giving the instruction to activate the other of the left turn signal and the right turn signal.
A turn signal cancelling device for a vehicle, the turn signal cancelling device comprising:
- a vehicle speed detector configured to detect a vehicle speed;
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- a computer processing unit configured to automatically deactivate a turn signal, wherein in a case where a first turn signal has been activated and an activation of a second turn signal is performed before a first predetermined time has passed or before the vehicle has travelled a first predetermined distance since the activation of the first turn signal is performed when the vehicle speed is equal to or higher than a predetermined speed, the turn signal cancellation control unit automatically deactivates the second turn signal after a second predetermined time has passed or after the vehicle has travelled a second predetermined distance since the activation of the second turn signal.
A method for cancelling a turn signal of a vehicle by operation of an electronic control system, said method comprising the steps of:
- detecting the activation of a first turn signal;
- starting an electronic timer and initiating operation of a travel distance detector when the activation of the first turn signal is initially detected;
- detecting the activation of a second turn signal after the activation of the first turn signal has been detected;
- determining the vehicle speed using input from a wheel rotational speed sensor;
- determining that a necessary condition is met, which is that the activation of the second turn signal occurred either before a first predetermined time has passed or before the vehicle has travelled a first predetermined distance since the activation of the first turn signal, based on input received from the electronic timer and the travel distance detector at a time when the vehicle speed is equal to or higher than a predetermined speed;
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- after determining that the necessary condition is met, sending a signal from the electronic control system and thereby deactivating the second turn signal after a second predetermined time has passed or after the vehicle has travelled a second predetermined distance since the activation of the second turn signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.