Patent ID: 6879902
Filing Date: 2005-04-12
Classification: B60K,B60L,B60W,F02D,Y02T,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An accelerator opening setting apparatus of a motor vehicle for setting an accelerator opening in accordance with an amount of operation of an accelerator pedal, comprising: a first detector that detects a vehicle speed; a second detector that detects an operational state of the accelerator pedal; a first storage that stores an accelerator opening corresponding to a vehicle speed at which the vehicle cruises in a predetermined condition as a cruise-purpose accelerator opening; a second storage that stores an amount of operation of the accelerator pedal occurring at a time of a cruise corresponding to the vehicle speed as a cruising operation amount; and a controller that sets the cruise-purpose accelerator opening corresponding to the vehicle speed detected by the first detector among the cruise-purpose accelerator openings stored in the first storage, as the accelerator opening, if the amount of operation of the accelerator pedal detected by the second detector equals a cruising operation amount corresponding to the detected vehicle speed among cruising operation amounts stored in the second storage.