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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Takeshi Hamaguchi, Seto, JP;
Shusaku Sugamoto, Toyota, JP;
Satoshi Handa, Kariya, JP;
Satoshi Inoue, Anjo, JP;
Shintaro Saigo, Nisshin, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle steering control device includes a control device. The control device is configured to control a steering reaction force to be applied to a steering operation performed by a driver of a driver's vehicle, acquire information on a curved road ahead of the driver's vehicle in a traveling direction, set a guide steering operation amount based on the information on the curved road, predict a time at which the driver starts an actual steering operation for driving the driver's vehicle along the curved road as a steering operation start time, and set, based on a difference between the guide steering operation amount and an actual amount of the steering operation, the steering reaction force at a time earlier by a predetermined period than the steering operation start time.