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VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL APPARATUS, AND VEHICLE

  • US 20160339912A1
  • Filed: 04/13/2016
  • Published: 11/24/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A vehicle speed control apparatus, comprising one or more processors configured to carry out:

  • generating a speed command value to control a vehicle speed according to a detected treading amount of an accelerator pedal;

    determining an upper-limit speed of the vehicle according to a determined speed limit of a road;

    generating a limit command value to control the vehicle speed to be the upper-limit speed determined by the determining; and

    adjusting the vehicle speed according to one of the speed command value and the limit command value to cause the lower vehicle speed,whereinif the determining updates the upper-limit speed due to a change in the speed limit of the road while the adjusting is adjusting the vehicle speed according to the limit command value, the adjusting limits a rate of change of the vehicle speed continuously until a predetermined timing.

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