VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD

• Main Authors: MAEDA TAKASHI, TOKIMASA MITSUHIRO, SUDO TAKUMA
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 01.03.2019
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS INVEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OFTRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GASEXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS, IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

This vehicle control device (10) performs following period control in which a vehicle (40) is made to accelerate together with operation of a direction indicator in the vehicle when the direction indicator is operated while following a leading vehicle (41). The vehicle control device is provided with: an adjacent vehicle information acquisition unit for acquiring adjacent vehicle information thatis information relating to an adjacent vehicle (42) traveling in front of the vehicle in an adjacent lane (52) adjacent to the lane of travel (51) of the vehicle; and an acceleration control unit thatperforms acceleration control of the vehicle on the basis of the adjacent vehicle information when the direction indicator of the vehicle is operated. 车辆控制装置(10)在对前车(41)进行追随行驶时本车辆(40)的方向指示器发生了动作的情况下，进行使上述本车辆与上述方向指示器的动作联动地进行加速的追随时控制。上述车辆控制装置具备：邻车信息获取部，其获取与在上述本车辆的前方在与上述本车辆的行驶车道(51)相邻的相邻车道(52)行驶的邻车(42)相关的信息亦即邻车信息；以及加速控制部，其在上述本车辆的方向指示器发生了动作的情况下，基于上述邻车信息进行上述本车辆的加速控制。