Patent ID: 7400964

Claim:
A deceleration control apparatus for a vehicle, which performs deceleration control of the vehicle based on a distance between the vehicle and an obstacle ahead of the vehicle, comprising: a controller which i) executes a deceleration applied by an operation of a brake system which applies a braking force to the vehicle and a shift operation which shifts the transmission of the vehicle into a lower speed than a current speed or a higher speed ratio than a current speed ratio; ii) obtains, based on the distance, a maximum target deceleration at which the vehicle is to be decelerated and a target deceleration at which the vehicle is to be decelerated after the deceleration control starts; iii) controls deceleration applied by the brake system in accordance with deceleration currently applied to the vehicle and the target deceleration; and iv) wherein the controller sets a speed or speed ratio of a transmission of the vehicle during the shift operation in accordance with a speed target deceleration, and wherein the speed target deceleration is between the maximum target deceleration and deceleration applied by the transmission at a gear speed set before the shift operation when the deceleration control starts.