US 12,409,833 B2
Clutch device and collision mitigation mechanism
Fukuei Sawada, Tokorozawa (JP)
Filed by Fukuei Sawada, Tokorozawa (JP)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/463,884.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-149490 (JP), filed on Sep. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0073061 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 30/09 (2012.01); B60K 6/38 (2007.10); B60L 7/10 (2006.01); B60W 10/02 (2006.01); B60W 10/08 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60K 6/26 (2007.10); B60W 20/00 (2016.01)
CPC B60W 30/09 (2013.01) [B60L 7/10 (2013.01); B60W 10/02 (2013.01); B60W 10/08 (2013.01); B60W 30/18054 (2013.01); B60K 6/26 (2013.01); B60K 6/38 (2013.01); B60W 20/00 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2520/12 (2013.01); B60W 2540/10 (2013.01); B60W 2540/12 (2013.01); B60W 2540/16 (2013.01); B60W 2540/18 (2013.01); B60W 2552/15 (2020.02); B60W 2710/022 (2013.01); B60W 2710/083 (2013.01); B60W 2720/10 (2013.01); B60W 2720/24 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/92 (2013.01); B60Y 2300/09 (2013.01); B60Y 2300/42 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A collision mitigation mechanism for mitigating damage from a vehicle collision, comprising:
a collision detection means configured to detect a collision of a vehicle;
a clutch means configured to block transmission of a driving force of a drive source in response to a collision detected by the collision detection means;
a deceleration and stop means configured to decelerate and stop the vehicle in a state where the clutch means blocks transmission of the driving force of the drive source in response to a detection of the collision of the vehicle detected by the collision detection means;
a backing up means configured to back up and stop the vehicle after the vehicle is stopped by the deceleration and stop means in a state where the clutch means blocks transmission of the driving force of the drive source; and
a collision mitigation control means configured to, in response to the collision detected by the collision detection means, (1) decelerate and stop the vehicle travelling in a forward direction by the deceleration and stop means, and then, in response to a detection that the speed of the vehicle has become equal to zero, (2) back up the vehicle to travel for a several seconds in a reverse direction from a point of the collision and then stop the vehicle at a point reversely distanced from the point of the collision by the backing up means.