US 12,358,504 B2
Controller and control method for controlling operation of motorcycle
Lars Pfau, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/439,595
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/052414
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/201867, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-066839 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0153268 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 30/17 (2020.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B62J 50/21 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 30/17 (2013.01) [B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B62J 50/21 (2020.02); B60W 2300/36 (2013.01); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4042 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4044 (2020.02); B60W 2554/406 (2020.02); B60W 2554/802 (2020.02); B60W 2554/804 (2020.02); B60W 2556/65 (2020.02); B60W 2720/10 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A controller (50) that controls operation of a motorcycle (100), to which a surrounding environment detector (10) is mounted, the controller (50) comprising:
an acquisition section (51) that acquires information on a surrounding environment of the motorcycle (100) based on output of the surrounding environment detector (10) during travel of the motorcycle (100), and acquires other vehicle travel state information that is information on a travel state of a first vehicle acquired by a second vehicle (200) different from the motorcycle (100) or is information on a travel state of the second vehicle (200) acquired by the second vehicle (200), the other vehicle travel state information being transmitted from the second vehicle (200) via wireless communication;
an adaptive cruise operation performing section (52) that makes the motorcycle (100) perform an adaptive cruise operation based on the surrounding environment information acquired by the acquisition section (51); and
a safety operation performing section (53) that makes the motorcycle (100) performing the adaptive cruise operation perform a safety operation based on the other vehicle travel state information acquired by the acquisition section (51),
wherein the safety operation includes an operation to urge the rider of the motorcycle (100) to make travel between lanes.