Patent ID: 11897540
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 10:
11. A vehicle traveling support apparatus comprising:
a sensor for recognizing a lane marker on a traveling lane in which an own vehicle is traveling; and
an electronic control unit configured to perform a lane keeping control to control a steering angle of said own vehicle so as to have said own vehicle travel along a target traveling line set based on at least any one of a left lane marker and a right lane marker recognized by said sensor, said left lane marker being on a left side with respect to said own vehicle, said right lane marker being on a right side with respect to said own vehicle,
wherein, when performing said lane keeping control, said electronic control unit is configured to:
execute at least any one of:
(i) a process to control said steering angle so as to match a magnitude of said steering angle with a steering angle guard value when said magnitude of said steering angle exceeds said steering angle guard value; and
(ii) a process to control said steering angle so as to match a magnitude of a steering angle speed which is an amount of change per unit time of said steering angle with a steering angle speed guard value when said magnitude of said steering angle speed exceeds said steering angle speed guard value; and

set, when a specific recognition state occurs where said lane marker recognized by said sensor changes from said left lane marker to said right lane marker or vice versa under one side lane marker recognizable state which is a state where said sensor can recognize only one of said left lane marker and said right lane marker, a change amount of said steering angle and/or a change amount of said steering angle speed to a value which is smaller than when said recognition state of said lane marker is said one side lane marker recognizable state and said specific recognition state does not occur.