VEHICLE BEHAVIOR CONTROL APPARATUS
First Claim
1. A vehicle behavior control apparatus for controlling a behavior of a vehicle including a plurality of wheels having respective tires externally mounted thereon, the vehicle behavior control apparatus comprising:
- means for estimating a degree of allowance for generation of a lateral force on a front wheel and on a rear wheel;
vehicle behavior estimation means for estimating the behavior of the vehicle;
tire load calculation means for calculating tire load factors of the respective tires; and
vertical-load control means for controlling, when the vehicle behavior estimation means estimates that the vehicle is in a turning state, a load applied to a wheel other than a wheel having a larger tire load factor among calculated values of the respective tire load factors calculated by the tire load calculation means, so as to increase a load applied to the wheel having the larger tire load factor.
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Abstract
A tire load calculation section of a controller calculates tire load factors of the respective wheels. A target tire load-factor calculation section calculates a tire load factor average value (ηave) obtained by averaging the tire load factors (ηi) of the respective wheels as a target tire load factor. A target tire vertical-load calculation section calculates target tire vertical loads (Fzrefi) for the respective wheels so that the tire load factors of the respective wheels become equal to the tire load factor average value. A vertical-load control section and a suspension control section control thrusts of electromagnetic dampers for the respective wheels so as to achieve the target tire vertical loads.
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6 Claims
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1. A vehicle behavior control apparatus for controlling a behavior of a vehicle including a plurality of wheels having respective tires externally mounted thereon, the vehicle behavior control apparatus comprising:
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means for estimating a degree of allowance for generation of a lateral force on a front wheel and on a rear wheel; vehicle behavior estimation means for estimating the behavior of the vehicle; tire load calculation means for calculating tire load factors of the respective tires; and vertical-load control means for controlling, when the vehicle behavior estimation means estimates that the vehicle is in a turning state, a load applied to a wheel other than a wheel having a larger tire load factor among calculated values of the respective tire load factors calculated by the tire load calculation means, so as to increase a load applied to the wheel having the larger tire load factor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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