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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1989
Giichi Shioyama, Isezaki, JP;
Abstract
A system and method for automatically controlling a vehicle speed to a desired cruise speed are disclosed in which an operation of the automatic vehicle speed controlling system is inhibited when any one of the following conditions is established. That is to say, (1) the vehicle speed is below a predetermined speed value; (2) a gear position of a vehicular transmission is in a low-speed gear range or reverse gear range; (3) an opening angle of a throttle valve is below a predetermined angle value; (4) a time for which the vehicle speed is above the predetermined speed value is continued within a predetermined time; (5) a time is within a predetermined time from a time at which the gear position is placed in a neutral position to a time at which the gear position is placed in a drive range; (6) it is within a predetermined time upon the drive to produce the operating variable of the engine speed adjusting mechanism; and (7) with no operation of the mechanism linked to the engine speed adjusting mechanism and with the operation of the brake mechanism, the operating variable of the engine speed adjusting mechanism is above the predetermined value.