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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
May. 15, 2014
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Masaki Koike, Wako, JP;
Kohei Akamine, Wako, JP;
Hisashi Ishikawa, Wako, JP;
Shinichiro Watanabe, Wako, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In order to enable a transmission to reliably perform a switching to a parking range thereof, a vehicle control device includes a shift-by-wire device which switches a shift range of a transmission mounted on a vehicle in accordance with a request by an electric signal, an acceptance unit which accepts a request for switching to a parking range of the transmission, a detection unit which detects that switching to the parking range of the transmission has been settled, and a braking device which generates a braking force when the acceptance unit accepts a request for switching to the parking range of the transmission, from the time of acceptance of the request for switching until the detection unit detects settlement of the switching to the parking range.