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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2021
Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Akitoshi Miyazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Masashi Seimiya, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to improve convenience of parking assistance. A control deviceof a driving assistance devicecontrols an emergency brake device that actuates an emergency brake based on a distance to an obstacle detected by a sonarconstituting the detection device mounted on a vehicleand a parking assistance device that provides parking assistance for the vehicle. In the sonarconstituting the detection device, an upper limit value and a lower limit value that define a range of the distance in which an obstacle can be detected are determined in advance. The control deviceinvalidates the operation of the emergency brake device when the distance between the vehicleand the obstacle at a target vehicle stop position which is a target position for stopping the vehiclein the parking assistance is smaller than the lower limit value.