US 12,479,413 B2
Vehicle control device and method
Toshimi Kaneko, Tokyo (JP); Taichi Kitamura, Tokyo (JP); Kazuya Moriyama, Tokyo (JP); and Yurina Morimoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 5, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/433,329.
Claims priority of application No. 202310318198.7 (CN), filed on Mar. 29, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0326772 A1, Oct. 3, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 10/18 (2012.01); B60T 7/12 (2006.01); B60W 10/10 (2012.01); B60W 10/188 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 10/182 (2013.01) [B60T 7/12 (2013.01); B60W 10/10 (2013.01); B60W 10/188 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control device configured to control a vehicle, comprising:
a gear changing part having a parking brake that holds the vehicle in a stationary state, a driving gear that maintains driving the vehicle, and a parking gear that holds a parked state;
a control switch disposed in the gear changing part and able to perform actuation of the parking brake and the parking gear simultaneously through an operation of pressing the control switch;
a braking force holding part holding a braking force in response to the vehicle generating the braking force based on at least one of a driver operating a brake or operating the control switch;
a control part performing control operations as the following in response to the vehicle being in the parked state: in response to the control switch being pressed while the vehicle being in the parked state, performing a linked parking control so that the parking brake performs a linked actuation while the gear changing part is shifted to the parking gear;
wherein the braking force holding part holds the braking force until the linked parking control ends, and
after the linked parking control ends, the braking force holding part releases the holding of the braking force.