Slip control system for motor vehicle

• US 5,193,888 A
• Filed: 02/21/1991
• Issued: 03/16/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
• Inventors: Kawamura, Makoto, Kageyama, Fumio, Okazaki, Haruki, Nobumoto, Kazutoshi, Onaka, Toru
• Primary Examiner(s): Focarino, Margaret A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mattix, Carla
• Application Number:
  US07/658,753
• Time in Patent Office: 754 Days
• Field of Search: 303/93, 303/113 TR, 180/197
• US Class Current: 303/163
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/175 Brake regulation specially adapted to prevent excessive wheel spin during vehicle acceleration, e.g. for traction control safety devices for propulsion unit control responsive to, or preventing, skidding of wheels B60K28/16
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/48 connecting the brake actuator to an alternative or additional source of fluid pressure , e.g. traction control systems

Abstract

A slip control system for a motor vehicle controls slippage of driving wheels and includes, a sensor for detecting a slip ratio of each driving wheel, a device for detecting a reduction in speed of each wheel, and a traction control system for decreasing a slip of each driving wheel by controlling brake fluid pressure in each driving wheel so that the slip ratio of each driving wheel is at least equal to a predetermined desired slip ratio when the slip ratio of each driving wheel becomes equal to the desired slip ratio. The system further includes an antiskid brake system for controlling brake fluid pressure, based on the reduction speed of each wheel, so as to cancel a lock condition of the wheel. The antiskid brake system has a first control device for controlling the brake pressure fluid in a condition in which a traction control operation is not carried out by the traction control system, and a second control device for controlling the brake pressure fluid in a condition in which a traction control operation is carried out by the traction control system.

Claims

1. A slip control system for controlling slippage of driving wheels of a motor vehicle comprising:

means for detecting a slip ratio of each driving wheel;

means for detecting a reduction speed of each wheel;

traction control means for decreasing a slip of each driving wheel by controlling brake fluid pressure in each driving wheel so that the slip ratio of each driving wheel becomes at least equal to a predetermined desired slip ratio; and

an antiskid brake system for controlling brake fluid pressure based on the reduction speed of each wheel so as to cancel a lock condition of the wheel, and antiskid brake system including first control means for controlling the brake fluid pressure in a condition in which a traction control operation is not carried out by the traction control means, and second control means for controlling the brake fluid pressure, in a different manner from that of the first control means, in a condition in which a traction control operation is carried out by the traction control means.

2. A slip control system in accordance with claim 1, in which said first control means includes brake control means for controlling the brake fluid pressure based on a skid condition of the wheel which is determined from the reduction speed detected by the means for detecting a reduction speed, and said second control means includes brake control means for controlling the brake fluid pressure based on a skid condition of the wheel which is determined based on the slip ratio detected by the means for detecting a slip ratio.

3. A slip control system in accordance with claim 1, in which said first control means includes a first brake control means for decreasing the brake fluid pressure for the driving wheels equally, based on a skid condition of the driving wheels, and said second control means includes a second brake control means for decreasing the brake fluid pressure for the driving wheels independently, based on a skid condition of each driving wheel.

4. A slip control system in accordance with claim 3, in which said first brake control means decreases the brake fluid pressure for each of the driving wheels equally based on a driving wheel having a reduction speed which is larger than a reduction speed of the other driving wheel.

5. A slip control system in accordance with claim 3, in which said first brake control means decreases the brake fluid pressure for each of the driving wheels equally based on an average of the reduction speeds of the driving wheels.

6. A slip control system in accordance with claim 3, wherein when the traction control means controls each driving wheel independently, the second brake control means controls each driving wheel independently during a predetermined time and then the first brake control means controls the driving wheels equally.

7. A slip control system for controlling slippage of driving wheels of a motor vehicle comprising:

means for detecting a slip ratio of each driving wheel;

means for detecting a reduction speed of each wheel;

traction control means for decreasing a slip of each driving wheel by controlling brake fluid pressure in each driving wheel so that the slip ratio of each driving wheel becomes at least equal to a predetermined desired slip ratio after the slip ratio of each driving wheel has become more than the desired slip ratio;

an antiskid brake system for controlling brake fluid pressure, based on a skid condition of a wheel which is determined from the reduction speed detected by the means for detecting a reduction speed; and

means for changing the skid condition of the wheel, based on which the antiskid brake system controls said brake fluid pressure, when a traction control operation is carried out by the traction control means.

8. A slip control system in accordance with claim 7, wherein when a traction control operation is not carried out by the traction control means, said means for changing the skid condition determines the skid condition based on the reduction speed detected by the means for detecting the reduction speed, and when a traction control operation is carried by the traction control means, said means for changing the skid condition determines the skid condition based on the slip ratio detected by the means for detecting the slip ratio.

9. A slip control system for controlling slippage of driving wheels of a motor vehicle comprising:

means for detecting a slip ratio of each driving wheel;

means for detecting a reduction speed of each wheel;

traction control means for decreasing a slip of each driving wheel by controlling brake fluid pressure in each driving wheel so that the slip ratio of each driving wheel becomes at least equal to a predetermined desired slip ratio after the slip ratio of each driving wheel has become more than the desired slip ratio;

an antiskid brake system for controlling brake fluid pressure, based on a skid condition of a wheel which is determined from the reduction speed detected by the means for detecting a reduction speed, wherein when a traction control operation is not carried out by the traction control means, a means for changing the skid condition determines the skid condition based on the reduction speed detected by the means for detecting the reduction speed, and when a traction control operation is carried out by the traction control means, said means for changing the skid condition determines the skid condition based on the slip ratio detected by the means for detecting the slip ratio.