Vehicle speed control apparatus
First Claim
1. A vehicle speed control apparatus comprising:
- vehicle-speed-maintenance requiring operation detecting means that detects a body-speed-maintenance requiring operation by a driver based upon the operation by the driver on an operation member for changing the vehicle speed that is operated for changing the vehicle body speed;
storing means that stores, as a required maintenance vehicle speed, the vehicle body speed at the point when the body-speed-maintenance requiring operation is detected by the vehicle-speed-maintenance requiring operation detecting means; and
vehicle speed automatic control means that automatically controls the vehicle body speed so as to be maintained at the required maintenance vehicle speed, in a case where the body-speed-maintenance requiring operation is detected by the vehicle-speed-maintenance requiring operation detecting means.
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Abstract
This apparatus determines that a driver demands the maintenance of a vehicle body speed from a cancel operation (ON→OFF) of an acceleration requiring operation by an accelerator pedal or a cancel operation (ON→OFF) of a deceleration requiring operation by a brake pedal BP, so that it detects a “body-speed-maintenance requiring operation” (at time t1), and stores the vehicle body speed Vso at the point of the detection as a “required maintenance vehicle speed Vref”. When the apparatus determines that the vehicle is on a downhill after the detection of the “body-speed-maintenance requiring operation” (time t2), it feedback-controls the brake hydraulic pressure Pw to thereby start and execute the automatic control (downhill speed control) of the vehicle body speed Vso such that the vehicle body speed Vso is maintained at the required maintenance vehicle speed Vref.
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14 Claims
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1. A vehicle speed control apparatus comprising:
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vehicle-speed-maintenance requiring operation detecting means that detects a body-speed-maintenance requiring operation by a driver based upon the operation by the driver on an operation member for changing the vehicle speed that is operated for changing the vehicle body speed;
storing means that stores, as a required maintenance vehicle speed, the vehicle body speed at the point when the body-speed-maintenance requiring operation is detected by the vehicle-speed-maintenance requiring operation detecting means; and
vehicle speed automatic control means that automatically controls the vehicle body speed so as to be maintained at the required maintenance vehicle speed, in a case where the body-speed-maintenance requiring operation is detected by the vehicle-speed-maintenance requiring operation detecting means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A vehicle speed control program comprising:
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a vehicle-speed-maintenance requiring operation detecting step that detects a body-speed-maintenance requiring operation by a driver based upon the operation by the driver on an operation member for changing the vehicle speed that is operated for changing the vehicle body speed;
a storing step that stores, as a required maintenance vehicle speed, the vehicle body speed at the point when the body-speed-maintenance requiring operation is detected by the vehicle-speed-maintenance requiring operation detecting step; and
a vehicle speed automatic control step that automatically controls the vehicle body speed so as to be maintained at the required maintenance vehicle speed, in a case where the body-speed-maintenance requiring operation is detected by the vehicle-speed-maintenance requiring operation detecting step.
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