Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Williwm D. Blackman
  • Patent number: 6285929
    Abstract: A processional travel control apparatus that allows processional travel with a leading vehicle driven by a driver and a plurality of succeeding vehicles automatically following the leading vehicle, each of the vehicles 1-1 is provided with: an input device 1-2 for entering the total number of vehicles in a procession and the sequence number of each vehicle in the procession; a vehicle setting device 1-3 for setting each vehicle 1-1 as either a leading vehicle or a succeeding vehicle according to the sequence number of each vehicle 1-1 in the procession set by the input device 1-2; and a vehicle travelling control device 1-4 for instructing each vehicle 1-1 to travel in a procession according to the set sequence number in the procession. Hence a procession or the like can be formed essentially anywhere, including outside of conventional parking ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Hashimoto