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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2022
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/30 (2006.01); B60G 17/0165 (2006.01); B60W 40/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/303 (2013.01); B60G 17/0165 (2013.01); B60G 2400/0512 (2013.01); B60G 2400/82 (2013.01); B60G 2401/21 (2013.01); B60W 40/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle includes: a vehicle body; front and rear wheels configured to move the vehicle body; and a road surface condition detector configured to detect road surface conditions in front of each of the front wheels, wherein the road surface condition detector is positioned in front of each of the front wheels, and a direction of radiating laser beams by the road surface condition detector for detecting a detection point on a road surface is inclined in a direction of a tangent to an arc, about a pitch center of the vehicle body and running through the detection point, at the detection point, when the vehicle body is viewed laterally.