Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle notification apparatus
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Application No.: US15503868Application Date: 2015-08-06
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Publication No.: US10363871B2Publication Date: 2019-07-30
- Inventor: Takanori Sasano , Takahira Katoh
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya-city, Aichi-pref.
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya-city, Aichi-pref.
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2014-168796 20140821
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/003962 WO 20150806
- International Announcement: WO2016/027432 WO 20160225
- Main IPC: B60Q9/00
- IPC: B60Q9/00 ; B60K35/00 ; B60N2/40 ; G08G1/16 ; B60N2/90 ; B60K37/06

Abstract:
A vehicle notification apparatus is equipped to a subject vehicle having a notification portion for providing a notification to an occupant, and outputs, to the notification portion, a notification signal for providing the notification about a non-subject vehicle. The vehicle notification apparatus includes a determination portion determining whether the subject vehicle is travelling on a road where a lane change is allowed, and a notification determination portion determining whether to output the notification signal to the notification portion according to a distance between the subject vehicle and the non-subject vehicle and a relative speed of the non-subject vehicle with respect to the subject vehicle when the determination portion determines that the subject vehicle is travelling on the road where the lane change is allowed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170232892A1 VEHICLE NOTIFICATION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-08-17
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