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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2000
Akihiko Takiguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Kubota, Tokyo, JP;
Naoya Noguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Moteki, Tokyo, JP;
Harutada Ooya, Tokyo, JP;
Hideaki Murakami, Kyoto, JP;
Masaya Yamada, Osaka, JP;
Hiroshi Takahashi, Yokohama, JP;
Akira Kuno, Kariya, JP;
Hisashi Ezure, Kawasaki, JP;
Tetsuaki Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Ryoji Matsubara, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuyuki Ohira, Kawasaki, JP;
Kenichi Ohtani, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Mashimo, Tokyo, JP;
Takao Inobe, Kadoma, JP;
Kazumasa Miyamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Kazutaka Kawahara, Tokyo, JP;
Public Works Research Institute, Ministry of Construction, Ibaraki-Ken, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a collision in right/left turn prevention system which can automatically stop a vehicle even when a driver of the vehicle can not correctly grasp a course of a vehicle running in the counter direction because of the road line form or because the counter vehicle is hid behind other vehicles, or when a velocity of the counter vehicle is faster than that estimated by the driver. This system comprises a vehicle running in the counter direction detection means; road surface conditions detection means; database means; vehicle position detection means; vehicles state detection means; determination processing means for selecting any of provision of information to the driver, generation of an alarm, and provision of controls over the vehicle based on information concerning vehicles from the vehicle running in the counter direction detection means, information concerning road line forms from the database means, information concerning a position of the vehicle from the vehicle position detection means, and other information concerning the vehicle itself from the vehicle state detection means, an information output section for providing information or generating an alarm to the driver, and vehicle control means for automatically controlling the vehicle.