Patent ID: 9457842
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: B60K,B62D

Claim Text:
1. A parking mode selection apparatus for selecting one parking mode for a vehicle from among a plurality of parking modes including a plurality of right-side parking modes and a plurality of left-side parking modes, the right-side parking modes and the left-side parking modes including at least a perpendicular parking mode and a parallel parking mode, the parking mode selection apparatus comprising: a steer angle detector that detects a steer angle of a steering wheel; an operation detector that detects, based on the steer angle detected by the steer angle detector, a predetermined operation in which the steering wheel is steered to a right or a left and then returned to a neutral position; and a parking mode selector that selects one of a plurality of steer angle ranges that are set with respect to a steer angle of the steering wheel based on the steer angle detected by the steer angle detector during the predetermined operation, when the predetermined operation is detected by the operation detector, the plurality of right-side parking modes and the plurality of left-side parking modes being allocated to the plurality of steer angle ranges, respectively, wherein the parking mode selector selects