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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 1984
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1981
Masahito Muto, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle speed control method for automatically maintaining the vehicle speed of an automobile at a desired speed without driver operation of the accelerator pedal includes a step of performing only the set operation for equalizing a reference speed to a detected actual vehicle speed irrespective of the actuation period of the set switch when the set switch is actuated under a condition in which the automatic vehicle speed control operation has not previously been executed. Thereafter, the desired vehicle speed can be correctly set to be higher, unchanged, or lower when the automatic vehicle speed control operation is initiated for less than a certain interval, within that interval, or longer than that interval.