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Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 11, 2016
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;

Inventors:

Go Inoue, Gotenba, JP;

Yoshitaka Fujita, Susono, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 8/86 (2006.01); B60T 8/171 (2006.01); B60T 8/1761 (2006.01); B60T 7/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 8/1761 (2013.01); B60T 7/22 (2013.01); B60T 8/171 (2013.01); B60T 8/17616 (2013.01); B60T 8/86 (2013.01); B60T 2201/10 (2013.01); B60T 2250/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle control apparatus which performs a travel control of a vehicle during a traffic jam, includes a wheel setting unit configured to set at least one wheel to be a brake wheel to be applied with a braking force during the travel control and at least one wheel to be a non-brake wheel not to be applied with the braking force during the travel control, and a control unit configured to perform the travel control of the vehicle based on a rotation amount of the at least one brake wheel and a rotation amount of the at least one non-brake wheel detected by a wheel speed sensor detecting the rotation amount of a wheel of the vehicle.


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