VEHICLE STABILIZATION CONTROLLING APPARATUS

• US 20110246041A1
• Filed: 01/15/2009
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Kato, Hidehisa
• Granted Patent: US 8,600,638 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/70
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2201/03 Brake assistants
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1755 Brake regulation specially adapted to control the stability of the vehicle, e.g. taking into account yaw rate or transverse acceleration in a curve road vehicle drive control systems for control of driving stability otherwise than by controlling a particular sub-unit B60W30/02

Abstract

When a the brake assist control and a left/right distribution control are performed at the same time, since braking forces, which are equal to or larger than the braking force generated by a brake operation of a driver, are generated to wheels by the brake assist control, in a case where the driver requests a large deceleration, a desired deceleration can be obtained. Further, since a difference is made between the braking forces generated to left/right wheels by the left/right distribution control, in a case where a yaw direction behavior is generated to a vehicle, the yaw direction behavior can be reduced by a difference between the braking forces.

Claims

1. A vehicle stabilization controlling apparatus comprising:

a yaw direction behavior estimation unit that estimates a yaw direction behavior of a vehicle;

a brake unit capable of generating braking forces to wheels provided with the vehicle by changing hydraulic pressures of an operating fluid by a brake operation of a driver; and

a brake unit control unit that is disposed capable of controlling the braking forces by controlling the hydraulic pressures of the operating fluid by controlling the brake unit as well as performs a brake assist control that is a control for generating the braking forces equal to or larger than the braking force generated by the brake operation by increasing the hydraulic pressures that change in response to the brake operation when the brake operation is performed at an operation speed equal to or larger than a predetermined change speed, performs a left/right distribution control that is a control for reducing the yaw direction behavior by making a difference between the braking forces generated to the left/right wheels by making a difference between the hydraulic pressure that generates the braking force to a left side wheel and the hydraulic pressure that generates the braking force to a right side wheel in the left/right wheels when the yaw direction behavior estimated by the yaw direction behavior estimate unit is equal to or larger than a predetermined behavior, and further performs a control for making pressure increasing gradients when the hydraulic pressures are increased to a same pressure increasing gradient in the hydraulic pressure for generating the braking force to the left side wheel and in the hydraulic pressure for generating the braking force to the right side wheel and for generating a braking force equal to or larger than the braking force generated by the brake operation in a state where the difference between the braking forces generated to the left/right wheels is made constant when the brake assist control and the left/right distribution control are performed at the same time.

3. The vehicle stabilization controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the brake assist control and the left/right distribution control are performed at the same time, after the hydraulic pressure, which generates the braking force to one of the left/right wheels in hydraulic pressures for generating the braking forces to the wheels, is reduced, the brake unit control unit makes the pressure increasing gradients of the hydraulic pressures for generating the braking forces to the left/right wheels to a same gradient.

2. (canceled)

4. A vehicle stabilization controlling apparatus comprising:

a yaw direction behavior estimating unit that estimates a yaw direction behavior of a vehicle;

a brake unit capable of generating braking forces to wheels provided with the vehicle by a brake operation of a driver as well as generating the braking forces by changing hydraulic pressures of an operating fluid; and

a brake unit control unit that is disposed capable of controlling the braking forces generated to the wheels by the brake unit by controlling the hydraulic pressures of the operating fluid as well as performs a brake assist control that is a control for performing by determining a gradient when the hydraulic pressures of the brake fluid are changed as a pressure increasing gradient equal to or larger than the gradient when the hydraulic pressure is increased by the brake operation when the brake operation is performed at an operation speed equal to or larger than a predetermined change speed, and performs a left/right distribution control that is a control for reducing the yaw direction behavior by making a difference between the hydraulic pressures for generating the braking forces to the left/right wheels when the yaw direction behavior estimated by the yaw direction behavior estimating unit is equal to or larger than a predetermined behavior, wherein the hydraulic pressure, that generates the braking force to one of the left/right wheels in the hydraulic pressures for generating the braking forces to the wheels, is determined to the pressure increasing gradient in the brake assist control and the hydraulic pressure for generating the braking force to the other wheel is controlled based on the determined pressure increasing gradient after the hydraulic pressures is reduced when the brake assist control and the left/right distribution control are performed at the same time.