US 11,958,458 B2
Vehicle controller
Eiichi Shiraishi, Tokyo (JP); Takashi Takeda, Tokyo (JP); Shintaro Ikeda, Tokyo (JP); and Satoru Akiyama, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/536,327.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-214543 (JP), filed on Dec. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0203943 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. B60T 7/22 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01)
CPC B60T 7/22 (2013.01) [G07C 5/0808 (2013.01); B60T 2250/03 (2013.01); B60T 2250/04 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle controller to be applied to a vehicle, the vehicle controller comprising:
a collision detector configured to detect a collision between the vehicle and another object;
a braking controller configured to cause a braking device of the vehicle to generate a braking force in accordance with the detecting of the collision by the collision detector;
a motional state detector configured to detect a motional state of the vehicle; and
a minor collision determiner configured to determine, based on an output from the motional state detector, that a minor collision occurs, the minor collision not being detected by the collision detector,
wherein the braking controller is configured to cause the braking device to generate the braking force in a case where the collision detector dose not detects the collision and the minor collision determiner determines that the minor collision occurs.