Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – With indication or control to maintain fixed position
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-13
2007-11-13
Black, Thomas (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
With indication or control to maintain fixed position
C701S070000, C701S099000, C290S04000F, C290S047000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11025965
ABSTRACT:
When an automobile moves in a reverse direction opposite to an expected driving direction according to the current setting of a gearshift position SP, the automobile of the invention sets an adjustment torque Ta corresponding to a measured road surface gradient θ as a required torque to converge the vehicle speed of the automobile with only a driver riding thereon in the reverse direction (that is, in a slide-down direction) to a preset level of vehicle speed (step S200). The automobile then compares the setting of the adjustment torque Ta with a creep torque Tc, which is set in a vehicle driving state within an allowable creep torque output range (step S150), and outputs the greater torque as a motor torque Tm from a motor (steps S210and S220). This arrangement effectively regulates the vehicle speed of the automobile moving in the reverse direction opposite to the expected driving direction to the preset level of vehicle speed.
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English Language Version of Supplementary European Search Report, Appln. No. EP 03 73 3136, dated Mar. 8, 2006.
Behncke Christine M
Black Thomas
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