Device for detecting slope of vehicle or the like

• US 20050078000A1
• Filed: 10/08/2003
• Published: 04/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Macnica Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Macnica Incorporated
• Inventors: Ouchi, Junichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,019,627 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/440
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 9/08 Means for compensating acceleration forces due to movement of instrument
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/00 Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration

Abstract

The slope detecting device includes means for detecting a horizontal acceleration of the vehicle; means for detecting perpendicular acceleration to the running direction of the horizontal detecting means; and means for detecting, attaching relatively to the horizontal detecting means and perpendicular detecting means, detecting the acceleration-deceleration the moving object by whether the sum of squares respectively which the acceleration detected by the horizontal detecting means and the acceleration detected by the perpendicular detecting means is equal to the second power of gravity acceleration, and calculating the slope of the vehicle in acceleration-deceleration so that it can detect the slope of vehicle in acceleration-deceleration as well as during running the vehicles at a constant speed.

Claims

1. A device for detecting slope of the vehicles or the like comprising:

means for detecting a horizontal acceleration, mounting on a moving object, detecting the acceleration of the running direction of the moving object;

means for detecting perpendicular acceleration to the running direction of the horizontal detecting means; and

means for detecting, attaching relatively to the horizontal detecting means and perpendicular detecting means, detecting the acceleration-deceleration the moving object by whether the sum of squares respectively which the acceleration detected by the horizontal detecting means and the acceleration detected by the perpendicular detecting means is equal to the second power of gravity acceleration, and calculating the slope of the moving object in acceleration-deceleration.

2. A device for detecting slope of the vehicles or the like comprising:

means for detecting including a means for detecting a horizontal acceleration of the moving object and means for detecting perpendicular acceleration to the running direction of the horizontal detecting means, provided at the horizontal detecting means integrally; and

means for detecting, attaching relatively to the detecting means, detecting the acceleration-deceleration the moving object by whether the sum of squares respectively which the acceleration detected by the horizontal detecting means and the acceleration detected by the perpendicular detecting means is equal to the second power of gravity acceleration, and calculating the slope of the moving object in acceleration-deceleration.