Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Autonomic traveling apparatus for a vehicle
- Patent Title (中): 车辆自动行驶装置
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Application No.: US12942682Application Date: 2010-11-09
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Publication No.: US08548664B2Publication Date: 2013-10-01
- Inventor: Takayuki Uchida , Yukihiro Kawamata , Katsuaki Tanaka , Mikio Bando
- Applicant: Takayuki Uchida , Yukihiro Kawamata , Katsuaki Tanaka , Mikio Bando
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JP2009-259396 20091113
- Main IPC: G06F17/00
- IPC: G06F17/00 ; G08G1/16 ; G08G1/097

Abstract:
In an autonomic traveling apparatus for a vehicle, vehicles usually travel an independent travel lane and when there are two approaching vehicles on the independent travel lane, they switch to pass-by lanes to pass by each other. To do this switching operation effectively, respective vehicles check and obtain road conditions around them while they are traveling and the obtained road conditions are transmitted to and collected by a travel administration center so that the road conditions at various points along the lanes can be obtained from the travel administration center. Accordingly, when the autonomic traveling trucks approaching each other and supposed to pass by each other, switch to the associated pass-by lanes, they change travel lanes avoiding the point of bad road condition on the basis of the road conditions sent from the travel administration center.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110118900A1 Autonomic Traveling Apparatus for a Vehicle Public/Granted day:2011-05-19
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