Patent 11180147 was granted and assigned to Toyota on November, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
When having determined that an operation of an accelerator operator is initiated at a first timing and the operation amount continues to increase until a second specific timing arrives to become constant at a second timing, vehicle control means which a vehicle control apparatus comprises executes driving force control in such a manner that a time-differential value of controlled driving force during a first period from the second timing to a first terminal timing matches with a time-differential value of controlled driving force at the second specific timing as well as executes braking force control in such a manner that a time-differential value of the controlled braking force during the first period becomes a value more than or equal to a sum of a time-differential value of the controlled braking force at the second specific timing and a time-differential value of operation driving force at the second specific timing.