US 12,358,506 B2
Vehicle deceleration assistance apparatus and method, and computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle deceleration assistance program
Yuta Ikezawa, Toyota (JP); and Kohei Tochigi, Shizuoka-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jun. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/333,053.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-140839 (JP), filed on Sep. 5, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0075932 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60Q 1/34 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 30/18154 (2013.01) [B60Q 1/346 (2013.01); B60W 30/18159 (2020.02); B60W 2520/00 (2013.01); B60W 2555/60 (2020.02)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle deceleration assistance apparatus, comprising an electronic control unit configured to execute a deceleration assistance control to assist a deceleration of a vehicle before the vehicle arrives at a deceleration assistance target point where the vehicle can turn left or right,
wherein the electronic control unit is configured to:
execute the deceleration assistance control, setting a deceleration assistance level of assisting the deceleration of the vehicle by the deceleration assistance control to a first level when a first condition is satisfied, blinkers of the vehicle are activated, and a second condition is satisfied,
the first condition being a condition that a target point distance between the vehicle and the deceleration assistance target point is equal to or shorter than a first distance,
the second condition being a condition that the target point distance is equal to or longer than a second distance shorter than the first distance; and
execute the deceleration assistance control, setting the deceleration assistance level to a second level lower than the first level when the first condition is satisfied, the blinkers are activated, and the second condition is not satisfied.