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Parking assist apparatus and method

US8890716B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 27, 2011
Grant dateNov 18, 2014
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Expiry dateMay 27, 2031

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB62D15/0285
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In order to provide parking assist even in a situation where an end portion of a vehicle is predicted to come into contact with an obstacle, an available parking space is set, and a target parking position is set within the available parking space. When it is determined that the end portion of the vehicle will come into contact with an end portion of the available parking space if the vehicle travels to be parked in the target parking position, an entering angle of the vehicle with respect to the available parking space is changed so that the vehicle may travel toward a target parking space with the end portion of the vehicle spaced away from a front end point P of the available parking space, and a parking path for the vehicle to travel to a non-final target parking position is calculated.

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