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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2003
Applicants:
Kenta Kubota, Kanagawa, JP;
Masanori Kubota, Tochigi, JP;
Kenichi Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An adaptive cruise control system for a host vehicle is arranged to calculate a target vehicle speed, to calculate a target driving force based on the target vehicle speed, to limit a rate of increase of the target driving force when a direction of a wheel driving torque applied to driving wheels is changed from a decelerating direction to an accelerating direction, and to control a throttle opening of an engine based on the limited target driving force.