ATTITUDE CONTROLLER AND SADDLE RIDING TYPE VEHICLE HAVING THE SAME
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Abstract
An attitude controller eliminates a skid motion of a banked vehicle when travelling through a curve. The attitude controller includes a lateral acceleration sensor that obtains lateral acceleration, as rightward or leftward accelerations, acting on a vehicle of a motorcycle, a bank angle detector that detects a bank angle of the vehicle, and a longitudinal force controller that decreases, independently of each of the wheels, an absolute value of a longitudinal force as the sum of forward and backward forces acting on front and rear wheels based on the obtained lateral acceleration and the detected bank angle.
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32 Claims
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1-16. -16. (canceled)
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17. An attitude controller comprising:
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a lateral acceleration obtaining unit that obtains a lateral acceleration as rightward and leftward accelerations acting on a vehicle; a bank angle detector that detects a bank angle of the vehicle; and a longitudinal force controller programmed to decrease, independently of each wheel of the vehicle, an absolute value of a longitudinal force as a sum of forward and backward forces acting on each of the wheels based on the obtained lateral acceleration and the detected bank angle. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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