US 12,409,837 B2
Vehicle control device and method
Ryo Takada, Tokyo (JP); Katsuhito Kambe, Tokyo (JP); Kazuya Moriyama, Tokyo (JP); Naoki Tsuchiya, Tokyo (JP); Fumitaka Abe, Tokyo (JP); Yosuke Horiuchi, Tokyo (JP); Yurina Morimoto, Tokyo (JP); Taichi Kitamura, Tokyo (JP); Shun Saigusa, Tokyo (JP); and Ikuo Nonaga, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 21, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/583,804.
Claims priority of application No. 202310318194.9 (CN), filed on Mar. 29, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0326812 A1, Oct. 3, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 10/11 (2012.01); B60W 10/188 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 30/18118 (2013.01) [B60W 10/11 (2013.01); B60W 10/188 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2552/15 (2020.02)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control device, configured to control a vehicle and comprising:
a gear shift member, having a parking brake which keeps the vehicle in a stationary state, a drive gear which propels the vehicle, and a park gear which keeps the vehicle in a parked state;
a hydraulic brake, decelerating the vehicle;
a vehicle speed detection member, detecting a vehicle speed of the vehicle;
a control switch, disposed at the gear shift member, wherein while the control switch is being pressed, the parking brake is activated and the park gear is engaged simultaneously; and
a control member, configured to:
determine whether the vehicle speed is higher or lower than a first threshold and whether the vehicle speed is below a second threshold;
wherein in the case that the vehicle speed is higher than the first threshold, while the control switch is being operated, the gear shift member remains in a drive gear state, and the hydraulic brake is activated to control a deceleration of the vehicle;
at a time point when the vehicle speed becomes lower than the first threshold, the gear shift member stays in the drive gear state, and the parking brake is applied; and
at a time point when the vehicle speed changes from the first threshold to the second threshold, the hydraulic brake ceases operation, the gear shift member shifts to the park gear, and the parking brake is maintained.