Patent ID: 9725117
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: B62D

Claim:
1. A parking assist system that assists a vehicle in parking at a target parking position by automatically steering an electric power steering unit, comprising: a vehicle position acquiring unit configured to acquire the position of the vehicle; a target parking position determining unit configured to determine the target parking position; a path generating unit configured to generate a path from the position of the vehicle to the target parking position; a temperature detecting unit configured to detect the temperature of the electric power steering unit; and a parking assist unit configured to automatically steer the vehicle so as to move along the path generated by the path generating unit, wherein the path generating unit generates a path in which a degree of stationary steering by which the vehicle is steered in a state where the vehicle stops is small when the temperature of the electric power steering unit detected by the temperature detecting unit is high, compared with when the temperature of the electric power steering unit is low.