Drive assist control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9428221-B2
Application number	US-201214402961-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 23, 2012
Priority date	May 23, 2012
Publication date	Aug 30, 2016
Grant date	Aug 30, 2016

Abstract

A drive assist control device includes a steering determination unit 21 that determines a steering state of a vehicle, a curved state estimation unit 22 that estimates a curved state of a traveling road where the vehicle is traveling, a threshold value setting unit 23 that, in a case where it is determined by the steering determination unit 21 that a steering occurs after a steering wheel stationary state, sets a determination threshold value at the time of steering ts based on the curved state estimated during a period ts to ts+Tc from the time of steering ts to the set time Tc after the time of steering ts or a period ts−Tc to ts from the set time Tc before the time of steering ts to the time of steering ts and which is sharper than the curved state estimated at the time of steering ts, and a warning control unit 25 that actuates a warning in a case where the steering speed at the time of steering ts exceeds the determination threshold value.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A drive assist control device, comprising:
a steering determination unit that determines a steering state of a vehicle;
a curved state estimation unit that estimates a curved state of a traveling road where the vehicle is traveling;
a threshold value determination unit that, in a case where it is determined by the steering determination unit that a steering occurs after a steering wheel stationary state, sets a determination threshold value at a time of steering to be a value larger than a determination threshold value set based on a curved state estimated at the time of steering, based on the curved state estimated during a period from the time of steering to the set time after the time of steering or a period from the set time before the time of steering to the time of steering, the estimated curved state being sharper than the curved state estimated at the time of steering; and
a warning control unit that actuates a warning in a case where the steering speed at the time of steering exceeds the determination threshold value.

2. The drive assist control device according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in a case where it is determined that the steering occurs, the threshold value determination unit sets the determination threshold value at the time of steering based on the curved state estimated during a period from the set time before the time of steering to the set time after the time of steering and which is sharper than the curved state estimated at the time of steering.

3. The drive assist control device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the threshold value determination unit sets the determination threshold value at the time of steering based on the sharpest curved state estimated during the period.

4. The drive assist control device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the threshold value determination unit estimates a radius of curvature or curvature of the traveling road as the curved state of the traveling road.

Assignees

• HANITA Kiyoto
• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• HANITA Kiyoto

Classifications

• B62D15/029 Primary

  Steering assistants using warnings or proposing actions to the driver without influencing the steering system · CPC title

• B60W2540/18

  Steering angle · CPC title

• B62D15/0245

  Means or methods for determination of the central position of the steering system, e.g. straight ahead position · CPC title

• B60K28/066 Primary

  actuating a signalling device (B60K28/063 takes precedence) · CPC title