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Title:
FRONT ROAD SURFACE STATE DETECTING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPS60142209
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To execute an optimum control of a general wheel-turn by providing a distance measuring means for measuring whether a distance is long or short by irradiating a beam havig a directivity onto a road surface being at a prescribed distance in front of a car body and photodetecting its reflected light.

CONSTITUTION: A front road surface state detecting device is constituted of an optical distance sensor 2 for emitting a laser beam having a directivity to the prescribed direction, photodetecting a reflected light from an object (in this case, a road surface) 3, and measuring a distance to it, and a road surface state deciding circuit 4 for deciding an uneven state of a front road surface. In this way, an uneven state of a front road surface in the advance direction of an automobile is foreknown, and an optimum control of a suspension, etc. which cause no delay by feed forward can be executed.


Inventors:
DEMACHI ATSUSHI
TAKAHASHI FUMITAKA
NAKAYAMA SHIGETO
TAGAMI KATSUTOSHI
Application Number:
JP25174283A
Publication Date:
July 27, 1985
Filing Date:
December 28, 1983
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
International Classes:
G01B11/30; B60G17/0165; G01B15/00; G01B15/08; G01B17/00; G01B17/08; G01S17/88; (IPC1-7): G01B11/30; G01B17/00
Domestic Patent References:
JPS5118564A1976-02-14
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kiyoshi Torii