Patent ID: 11904961
Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A steering device for an automatic driving vehicle which can switch a driving mode between a manual driving mode and an automatic driving mode, the steering device comprising:
a steering wheel which is configured to be rotatable over an angle range exceeding 180 degrees in each of leftward and rightward directions from a neutral position;
a steering mechanism that steers a wheel according to a steering angle of the steering wheel, with a ratio of the steering angle to a steered angle being changeable; and
a control device that controls the ratio of the steering mechanism,
wherein the control device sets the ratio to a first value during travel in the manual driving mode and sets the ratio to a second value smaller than the first value during travel in the automatic driving mode, wherein the second value is set such that the steering angle corresponding to a maximum steered angle of the wheel specified by the steering mechanism is less than 180 degrees.