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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:
Oct. 24, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1998
Takaaki Sekine, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshiyuki Ando, Yokohama, JP;
Akira Itoh, Wako, JP;
Naoto Sen, Wako, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cruising control apparatus to be mounted in the motor vehicle for automatically controlling vehicle speed at desired constant speed, which is provided with a speed sensor, an actuator, a set-coast switch for generating a coast command signal or a tap-down command signal in response to the operation duration the cruising control, a resume-acceleration switch for generating a resume-command signal or a tap-up command signal in response to the operation during the cruising control, a memory means, a calculation means, a speed increase means, a speed decrease means, an acceleration control means for deciding a signal generated from the resume-acceleration switch to be the tap-up command signal or the acceleration command signal and a deceleration control means for deciding a signal generated from the set-coast switch to be the tap-down command signal or the coast command signal by comparing the vehicle speed at the time of generation and disappearance of the signal.
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