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VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

  • US 20180209535A1
  • Filed: 09/05/2016
  • Published: 07/26/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A vehicle control device equipped with a shift sensor, which is to send a plurality of signals according to a shift position being a manipulated position of a vehicle shift lever, the vehicle control device comprising:

  • a drive control unit including a plurality of control circuits relevant to a control of a driving force of a vehicle and to determine the shift position according to an output signal of the shift sensor, whereinthe drive control unit includes;

    a retracting traveling control unit to perform a retracting traveling control, when a malfunction occurs in one control circuit among the plurality of control circuits, to control the driving force of the vehicle with an other control circuit other than the control circuit in which a malfunction occurs; and

    a determination control unitto perform a reduction determination during the retracting traveling control to determine the shift position according to the output signal of the shift sensor with the other control circuit andto reduce the shift position, which is to be determined, compared with a normal state,the drive control unit includes three control circuits as the plurality of control circuits and is connected with the shift sensor,one control circuit among the three control circuits is a control circuit for malfunction-state determination,the drive control unit isto cause two control circuits, which are other than the control circuit for malfunction-state determination, among the three control circuits to receive all signal corresponding to each shift position of the shift sensor andto cause the control circuit for malfunction-state determination to receive a signal, anda number of the signal received with the control circuit for malfunction-state determination is less than a number of the all signal received with the two control circuits.

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