Driving wheel slip control device for vehicle

• US 5,238,081 A
• Filed: 09/04/1992
• Issued: 08/24/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Maeda, Shoji, Arai, Hideaki
• Primary Examiner(s): HILL, MITCHELL
• Application Number:
  US07/942,053
• Time in Patent Office: 354 Days
• Field of Search: 180/197, 364/426.02, 364/426.03, 364/426.04
• US Class Current: 180/197
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 28/16 responsive to, or preventing, skidding of wheels brake control systems for vehicle drive stability B60T8/1755; arrangements responsive to a speed condition for adjusting wheel braking force B60T8/32; control of vehicle driving stability otherwise than by controlling the propulsion unit only B60W30/02; preventing wheel slippage by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/00

Abstract

A driving wheel slip device for a vehicle includes a slip detector for detecting a slip condition of a driving wheel, a fuel supply controller for controlling a fuel supply quantity to an engine of the vehicle, in response to an output from the slip detector, and an ignition timing changing circuit for advancing ignition timing of the engine from a standard ignition timing under a normal fuel supply control to an advanced ignition timing, in synchronization with fuel supply reduction control, including fuel supply cut, carried out by said fuel supply controller.

Claims

1. A driving wheel slip device for a vehicle which as an engine, comprising:

slip detecting means for detecting a slip condition of a driving wheel;

fuel supply means for reducing a fuel supply to an engine of the vehicle in response to an output of said slip detecting means; and

ignition control means for reducing a spark energy of an ignition plug of the engine, in synchronization with said fuel supply control means, wherein said ignition control means comprises ignition timing changing means for changing ignition timing of the engine from a standard ignition timing under a normal fuel supply control to an advanced ignition timing, in synchronization with said fuel supply control means, said ignition timing changing means comprising;

advanced ignition timing setting means for determining a set value of an advanced ignition timing which is advanced by a predetermined amount from said standard ignition timing, wherein an output from said advanced ignition timing setting means controls the ignition timing based upon said set value.

2. A driving wheel slip device for a vehicle which has an engine, comprising:

slip detecting means for detecting a slip condition of a driving wheel;

fuel supply control means for reducing a fuel supply to an engine of the vehicle in response to an output of said slip detecting means; and

ignition control means for reducing a spark energy of an ignition plug of the engine, in synchronization with said fuel supply control mean, wherein said ignition control means comprises ignition timing changing means for changing ignition timing of the engine from a standard ignition timing under a normal fuel supply control to an advanced ignition timing, in synchronization with said fuel supply control means.

3. The driving wheel slip device of claim 2, wherein said ignition timing changing means comprises:

variable advance quantity generating means for generating a variable value of the amount of ignition advance based upon an engine speed of the engine, wherein an output from said variable advance quantity generating means controls ignition timing based upon said variable value.

4. The driving wheel slip device of claim 2, wherein there is an absolute intake manifold pressure in the engine, and wherein said ignition timing changing means comprises advance inhibiting means for inhibiting operation of said ignition timing changing means when an absolute intake manifold pressure of the engine is not greater than a preset value.

5. The driving wheel slip device for a vehicle which has an engine, comprising:

slip detecting means for detecting a slip condition of a driving wheel;

fuel supply control means for reducing a fuel supply to an engine of the vehicle in response to an output of said slip detecting means; and

ignition control means for reducing a spark energy of an ignition plug of the engine, in synchronization with said fuel supply control means, said ignition control means comprising;

current supply time shortening means for shortening a period of time for supplying current to an ignition coil of the engine.

6. The driving wheel slip device for a vehicle which has an engine, comprising:

fuel supply control means for reducing a fuel supply to an engine of the vehicle in response to an output of said slip detecting means; and

ignition control means for reducing a spark energy of an ignition plug of the engine, in synchronization with said fuel supply control means, said ignition control means comprising;

current supply inhibiting means for inhibiting current supply to an ignition coil of the engine.