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Apparatus for reducing impact of vehicle crash

  • US 20070112516A1
  • Filed: 05/09/2006
  • Published: 05/17/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An apparatus for reducing an impact of a vehicle crash, comprising:

  • obstacle detecting means for detecting an obstacle located in front of a driver'"'"'s own vehicle and detecting a relative distance and a relative speed of the obstacle;

    crash judgment means for judging whether or not the driver'"'"'s own vehicle will crash against the obstacle detected by the obstacle detecting means; and

    an obstacle handling device for reducing an impact caused at a time of a crash against the obstacle when the crash judgment means has judged that the driver'"'"'s own vehicle will crash against the obstacle, wherein the crash judgment means makes a crash judgment according to a limit distance enabling avoidance of the crash only through braking, when the obstacle detecting means has detected a first obstacle in an area in front of the driver'"'"'s own vehicle and a second obstacle in an area that is supposed to be entered by the driver'"'"'s own vehicle afterward as a result of a steering operation for avoiding a crash against the first obstacle.

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