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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2021
Applicant:
Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/165 (2020.01); B60W 10/18 (2012.01); B60W 40/072 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/165 (2013.01); B60W 10/18 (2013.01); B60W 40/072 (2013.01); B60W 2520/14 (2013.01); B60W 2720/106 (2013.01);
Abstract
A lead vehicle () in an adaptive cruise control system that non-mechanically connects a following vehicle () to the lead vehicle () sequentially and that causes the following vehicle () to follow its immediately preceding vehicle calculates vehicle velocity limit (V) for limiting a velocity of the lead vehicle () based on maximum allowable vehicle velocity (V) of the following vehicle (), maximum allowable vehicle velocity (V) satisfying a turning performance of the following vehicle (), and controls a brake apparatus and a drive apparatus such that the velocity of the lead vehicle () will not exceed vehicle velocity limit (V).