Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle lane change assist apparatus
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Application No.: US16400162Application Date: 2019-05-01
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Publication No.: US11267473B2Publication Date: 2022-03-08
- Inventor: Kentaro Takahashi
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JPJP2018-167809 20180907
- Main IPC: B60W30/18
- IPC: B60W30/18 ; G08G1/16 ; B60W30/095 ; B60W30/09 ; B60W30/165

Abstract:
A vehicle lane change assist apparatus of the invention determines that objects approaching a vehicle and having a predicted reaching time equal to or shorter than a predetermined predicted reaching time, satisfy a first condition and selects the objects satisfying the first condition as condition-determining-target-candidate objects with the number of the condition-determining-target-candidate objects being limited to a first number. The apparatus selects the condition-determining-target-candidate objects satisfying a second condition, as condition-determining-target objects with the number of the condition-determining-target objects being limited a second number equal to or smaller than the first number when a lane change assist control is requested. The apparatus executes the lane change assist control when a lane change execution condition that the vehicle does not contact any of the condition-determining-target objects while the vehicle is caused to move to a next lane by the lane change assist control, is satisfied.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200079375A1 VEHICLE LANE CHANGE ASSIST APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2020-03-12
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