Patent ID: 9604640
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: B60W,B62D,G08G

Claim:
1. A collision avoidance assistance device comprising: an electronic control unit (ECU) including a CPU configured to execute programs stored in memory of the ECU, an assistance region setting unit, and an assistance control unit, wherein the assistance region setting unit configured to set an assistance region in the vicinity of a vehicle based on a set lateral acceleration determined according to a vehicle speed during steering; and the assistance control unit configured to permit collision avoidance assistance for the vehicle when an obstacle is detected within the assistance region, wherein the assistance region setting unit is configured to set the assistance region based on the following equation: where y represents a distance from the center of a front surface of the vehicle in a vehicle width direction, Gyd represents the set lateral acceleration, x represents a distance from the center of the front surface of the vehicle in a traveling direction, T represents a time until a lateral acceleration of the vehicle reaches the set lateral acceleration, Vs represents the vehicle speed, and W represents the lateral interval.