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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ; B60T / ; G08G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356375 ; 180169 ; 340988 ;
Abstract
A position control system for a moving vehicle comprising a light beam source for scanning a light beam in all the different azimuthal directions around the moving vehicle; a beam receiver mounted on the moving vehicle and receiving light reflected from a plurality of light-reflectors; a detector for detecting each distance between the moving vehicle and each of the light-reflectors; a detector for detecting differential azimuths between the adjoining two light-reflectors; and a calculator for calculating coordinates of the respective light-relectors on a coordinate system wherein a position of the moving vehicle is fixed as the origin.