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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11173916 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 12, 2018

Vehicle control apparatus

Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventor:

Kohei Dodo, Nisshin, JP;

Assignee:

TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;

Attorney:

Oliff PLC

Primary Examiner:

Adam D Tissot

Assistant Examiner:

Laura E Linhardt

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 23/00 (2006.01); B60W 30/14 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); B60W 30/188 (2012.01); B60W 10/06 (2006.01); B60W 30/182 (2020.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/188 (2013.01); B60W 10/06 (2013.01); B60W 30/182 (2013.01); B60W 30/18018 (2013.01); B60W 30/18072 (2013.01); G08G 1/0112 (2013.01); G08G 1/096725 (2013.01); B60W 2030/1809 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0073 (2013.01); B60W 2510/0604 (2013.01); B60W 2510/0609 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2540/215 (2020.02); B60W 2552/05 (2020.02); B60W 2552/15 (2020.02); B60W 2556/50 (2020.02); B60W 2556/65 (2020.02); B60W 2710/0644 (2013.01); B60W 2720/106 (2013.01); B60W 2756/10 (2020.02); Y02T 10/40 (2013.01); Y02T 10/60 (2013.01); Y02T 10/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

A control apparatus for a vehicle, which is provided with an engine and drive wheels, is configured, during an inertia running or stop of the vehicle, to execute a control for stopping the engine and/or disconnecting the engine from the drive wheels in each area, depending on whether a condition is satisfied or not. The condition is set based on an information transferred from other vehicle in which the control is executable during an inertia running or stop of the other vehicle. The information includes (a) a location information indicative of the each area and (b) an acceleration representative value representing a required acceleration of the other vehicle required by an operator of the other vehicle in the each area. The acceleration representative value is associated with the location information indicative of the each area.

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