Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Indication or control of braking – acceleration – or deceleration
Patent
1995-11-14
1998-08-11
Chin, Gary
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Indication or control of braking, acceleration, or deceleration
701 95, 180179, 123350, B60K 3100
Patent
active
057941700
ABSTRACT:
A downhill coasting situation detecting device for an automotive vehicle comprises a sensor for detecting an opening degree of a throttle valve for an engine of the automotive vehicle, a first derivative calculating device for calculating a first derivative of the vehicle speed, a second derivative calculating device for calculating a second derivative of the vehicle speed, and a downhill coasting situation determining device for determining that the automotive vehicle being in a downhill coasting situation in which the vehicle being coasting on a downhill road in accordance with a condition in which the opening degree of the throttle valve is zero and the first derivative of vehicle speed is positive and besides the second derivative of vehicle speed is nearly equal to zero. With the downhill coasting situation detecting device, the downhill coasting situation can be exactly detected, so that e.g. down-shifting for obtaining further engine braking can be automatically executed in the downhill coasting situation.
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Kuroda Kouichi
Takahashi Hiroshi
Chin Gary
Nissan Motor Co,. Ltd.
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