TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE AND TRAVEL CONTROL METHOD

• Main Authors: SUGANO, TAKESHI, GOKAN, TOSHIMICHI, MARIE, BORIS
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 19.10.2016
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENT OF BRAKING ELEMENTS ON VEHICLES IN GENERAL; ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING ORSUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES INGENERAL; BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN GENERAL; CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PORTABLE DEVICES FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED MOVEMENT OFVEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF; VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE COOLING OF BRAKES; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

A travel control device includes a side obstacle detection unit (19c), a rearward movement preparation detection unit (9), a warning unit, and a suppression unit (2). The side obstacle detection unit (19c) divides a range from a lateral side to a rear side of a vehicle (1) into plural detection angle areas (KR1 to KR7), and detects, for each of the plural detection angle areas (KR1 to KR7), an obstacle (61) entering the detection angle area and a distance to the obstacle (61). The rearward movement preparation detection unit (9) detects the vehicle (1) preparing to move rearward. The warning unit provides warning about the obstacle (61) detected by the side obstacle detection unit (19c). The suppression unit (2) suppresses the warning by the warning unit, if the rearward movement preparation detection unit (9) detects the vehicle (1) preparing to move rearward and the detection angle area in which the obstacle (61) is detected shifts from the rear side to the lateral side.