US 12,473,019 B2
Vehicle control device
Ko Iwano, Tokyo (JP); Kyoji Hamamoto, Tokyo (JP); Masaya Kusatani, Tokyo (JP); and Yuki Mano, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/188,588.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-206659 (JP), filed on Dec. 23, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0311978 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 5/04 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 5/0484 (2013.01) 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control device comprising:
an idle-stop controller configured to control an idle-stop function of a vehicle; and
an electric power steering controller configured to assist a steering operation with an electric motor,
wherein the electric power steering controller is configured such that, when the electric power steering controller detects a failure by diagnosis, the electric power steering controller controls, based on whether vehicle speed related information including vehicle wheel speed information is receivable and based on whether idle-stop related information related to an idle-stop operation is receivable, an assist operation assisting a steering effort while the idle-stop operation is in progress so that the idle-stop operation may be performed, and
wherein the idle-stop controller is configured to control the idle-stop function of the vehicle even when the electric power steering controller detects the failure by the diagnosis.