US 12,122,385 B1
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. 18/583,798.
Claims priority of application No. 202310318193.4 (CN), filed on Mar. 29, 2023.
Int. Cl. B60W 10/10 (2012.01); B60W 10/18 (2012.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); F16H 59/10 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 30/18181 (2013.01) [B60W 10/10 (2013.01); B60W 10/182 (2013.01); B60W 30/18118 (2013.01); F16H 59/105 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2540/16 (2013.01); B60W 2552/15 (2020.02); B60W 2710/10 (2013.01); B60W 2710/186 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
6. A vehicle control method for controlling a vehicle, wherein a vehicle control device of the vehicle comprises: a gear shift member, having a parking brake which keeps the vehicle in a stationary state, a drive gear which keeps driving the vehicle, and a park gear which keeps the vehicle in a parked state, and a control switch, disposed at the gear shift member and configured to be able to control the parking brake and shift to the park gear, the vehicle control method comprising:
in the case that the control switch is operated for a period of time shorter than a prescribed time, shifting to the park gear and executing linked parking that is linked to an operation of the parking brake; and
during the execution of the linked parking, in the case that the control switch is operated for a period of time longer than the prescribed time, releasing the parking brake.