Patent ID: 11926338
Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  Y | IPC B

Claim 2:
3. A vehicle control apparatus comprising:
an automatic-driving processor configured to perform an automatic-driving control to stop a vehicle in accordance with detection of an abnormal state of a driver who drives the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling, the abnormal state being one of (i) an unconscious state of the driver, (ii) a non-concentrating state of the driver, or (iii) a driver absent state of the driver; and
an engine processor configured to, when the vehicle is in a standby state after stopping of the vehicle by the automatic-driving control, perform an engine driving control to reduce how frequently an engine of the vehicle is started, compared with when the vehicle is in a normal traveling state, the normal traveling state being when the abnormal state of the driver is not detected, the standby state being a state in which an operation control of an air conditioner of the vehicle is allowed, wherein
the vehicle control apparatus is configured to control an amount of electric power generation for battery charging on a basis of a comparison between a current vehicle inside temperature of the vehicle and a target temperature inside the vehicle after the stopping of the vehicle, in a period up to the stopping of the vehicle by the automatic-driving control performed by the automatic-driving processor, and
the vehicle control apparatus further comprises an air-conditioning processor configured to perform the operation control of the air conditioner to cause an operation level of the air conditioner to be a requested operation level based on a difference between the target temperature and the current vehicle inside temperature, wherein
the air-conditioning processor is configured to set the operation level of the air conditioner to be higher than the requested operation level in the period up to the stopping of the vehicle by the automatic-driving control performed by the automatic-driving processor.