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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2019
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tadashi Naruse, Wako, JP;
Assignee:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 28/10 (2006.01); B60W 10/20 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B60R 16/023 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0061 (2013.01); B60K 28/10 (2013.01); B60R 16/0231 (2013.01); B60W 10/20 (2013.01); B60K 2370/52 (2019.05); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01);
Abstract
If a vehicle controller makes a gripping request, a grip determination unit changes a determination level (voltage threshold) of a grip sensor that is positioned in a particular area of a disposed area where a steering wheel is disposed, in a manner that it becomes less easy to determine that the steering wheel is gripped and it becomes easier to determine that the steering wheel is not gripped, compared with a determination level (voltage threshold) of the grip sensor that is positioned in an area other than an area in a particular direction.