| US 7,564,343 B2 | ||
| Obstacle detecting control device of vehicle | ||
| Hiroshi Ohmura, Hiroshima (Japan); Haruki Okazaki, Hiroshima (Japan); Yasunori Yamamoto, Hiroshima (Japan); and Masanobu Fukushima, Hiroshima (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 12, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/546,249. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005-330337 (JP), filed on Nov. 15, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0109110 A1, May 17, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60Q 1/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 340—436 [701/301] | 11 Claims |
| 1. An obstacle detecting control device of a vehicle, which includes an obstacle detecting device to detect an obstacle in
front of the vehicle and an operation control device to control an operational device of the vehicle according to an obstacle
state detected by the obstacle detecting device, the obstacle detecting control device comprising:
a driving-state detecting device to detect a turning state of the vehicle; and
an operation-timing changing device to change an operation timing of the operational device that is controlled by the operation
control device according to detection results of the driving-state detecting device,
wherein said operation-timing changing device changes the operation timing of the operational device by changing an obstacle-detecting
area of the obstacle detecting device in such a manner that the obstacle-detecting area of the obstacle detecting device is
shortened when it is detected by said driving-state detecting device that the vehicle is in the turning state.
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