Motor vehicles – With means for controlling operation responsive to... – Radiation – force – or waves reflected from external object or...
Patent
1994-05-18
1997-12-09
Merritt, Karen B.
Motor vehicles
With means for controlling operation responsive to...
Radiation, force, or waves reflected from external object or...
180170, 364426044, 364461, 340903, B60K 3100
Patent
active
056950209
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle which can execute both vehicle-speed based auto-cruising control and vehicle-interval distance based auto-cruising control has a single operation knob having a SET switch, a RESUME switch, and a COAST switch. In order to allow the single operation knob to set both a target vehicle speed and a target vehicle-interval distance, when the SET switch is operated during the vehicle-speed based auto-cruising control, a vehicle speed at the time of the operation or at the end of the switch operation is set to be the target vehicle speed; when the SET switch is operated during vehicle-interval distance based auto-cruising control, a vehicle-interval distance at the time of the operation or at the end of the switch operation is set to be the target vehicle-interval distance.
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Mazda Motor Corp.
Merritt Karen B.
Yu Min
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