Vehicle driving device
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorDaisuke Tamaru
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Abstract
A vehicle driving device includes: a clutch that is provided between a driving shaft of an engine and an input shaft of a manual transmission and that connects the driving shaft and the input shaft to each other or disconnects the driving shaft and the input shaft from each other; a detection unit that detects an obstacle that is an obstacle to traveling of a host vehicle; a collision possibility determination unit that determines a possibility of collision between the obstacle and the host vehicle based on obstacle detection information detected by the detection unit; and a collision avoidance unit that, when the collision possibility determination unit determines that there is a possibility of collision with the obstacle, performs a fuel cut of the engine even if a rotation speed of the engine is less than an idling rotation speed.
Claims6
A vehicle driving device comprising:
- a clutch that is provided between a driving shaft of an engine and an input shaft of a manual transmission and that connects the driving shaft and the input shaft to each other or disconnects the driving shaft and the input shaft from each other;
- a detection unit that detects an obstacle that is an obstacle to traveling of a host vehicle;
- a collision possibility determination unit that determines a possibility of collision between the obstacle and the host vehicle based on obstacle detection information detected by the detection unit;
- a collision avoidance unit that, when the collision possibility determination unit determines that there is a possibility of collision with the obstacle, performs a fuel cut of the engine even if a rotation speed of the engine is less than an idling rotation speed;
- a speed detection unit that detects a speed of the vehicle;
- a clutch torque changing unit that changes clutch torque between the driving shaft and the input shaft;
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- an engine restart unit that restarts the engine after disengaging the clutch by the clutch torque changing unit when the engine is stopped by the fuel cut.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.