Patent ID: 7317980
Filing Date: 2008-01-08
Classification: B60K,B60T,B60W,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An automatic brake device, comprising: a braking-force application unit that applies a braking force, on a wheel of a vehicle on the basis of a brake actuating signal; an intended direction detecting unit that detects an intended movement direction in which a driver intends to move the vehicle; a starting intention detecting unit that detects an operation input based on a starting intention of the driver to move the vehicle from a stopped state such that a speed of the vehicle becomes greater than 0 km/h; a movement direction detecting unit that detects an actual movement direction of the vehicle; and a brake control unit that outputs the brake actuating signal, wherein the brake control unit executes a halt-maintenance mode for driving the braking-force application unit for application of a halt-maintenance braking force on the wheel to maintain the vehicle in a halted state, a movement direction detection mode for terminating the halt-maintenance mode at a time when the starting intention detecting unit detects the starting intention of the driver, and for receiving input of the actual movement direction from the movement direction detecting unit, and an auxiliary brake mode for outputting the brake actuating signal for controlling the braking force on the basis of a relationship between the intended movement direction detected by the intended direction detecting unit and the actual movement direction.