Slip control system for motor vehicle

• US 5,295,552 A
• Filed: 03/31/1993
• Issued: 03/22/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
• Inventors: Kawamura, Makoto, Kageyama, Fumio, Okazaki, Haruki, Tsuyama, Toshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Butler, Douglas C.
• Application Number:
  US08/040,962
• Time in Patent Office: 356 Days
• Field of Search: 180/197, 303/100, 303/102, 303/103, 303/93, 303/105-110, 364/426.03, 364/426.02, 364/426.01, 364/431.01, 364/424.1, 364/424.05, 192/1.23, 192/1.22, 192/1.24, 188/181 A, 188/181 R
• US Class Current: 180/197
• 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 8/17636 Microprocessor-based systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1764 Regulation during travel on surface with different coefficients of friction, e.g. between left and right sides, mu-split or between front and rear

Abstract

A slip control system for a motor vehicle controls respective braking forces in right and left driving wheels and controls an engine output by controlling a throttle opening of a throttle valve so that a slip value of the driven wheel becomes less than a target slip value. The system includes a device providing a basic control amount of the throttle opening based on the slip value of the driven wheel and the target slip value, a device for detecting respective brake fluid pressures in the right and left driven wheels, a device for converting the detected brake fluid pressure into an engine output, a device for providing a correction control amount of the throttle opening by subtracting an amount of the throttle opening corresponding to the converted engine output from the basic control amount of the throttle opening, and a device for driving the throttle valve by the basic control amount of the throttle opening when the brake fluid pressures in the right and left driven wheels are increased or increased rapidly, and driving the throttle valve by the correction control amount of the throttle opening when the brake fluid pressures in the right and left driven wheels are not increased or increased rapidly.

Claims

1. A slip control system for a motor vehicle controlling respective braking forces in right and left driven wheels and controlling an engine output by controlling a throttle opening of a throttle valve so that a slip value of the driven wheel becomes less than a target slip value, said system comprising:

means for providing a basic control amount of the throttle opening based on the slip value of the driven wheel and the target slip value;

means for detecting respective brake fluid pressures in the right and left driven wheels;

means for converting the detected brake fluid pressure into an engine output;

means for providing a correction control amount of the throttle opening by subtracting an amount of the throttle opening corresponding to the converted engine output from the basic control amount of the throttle opening; and

means for driving the throttle valve by the basic control amount of the throttle opening when the brake fluid pressures in the right and left driven wheels are increased or increased rapidly, and driving the throttle valve by the correction control amount of the throttle opening when the brake fluid pressures in the right and left driven wheels are not increased or increased rapidly.

2. A slip control system according to claim 1, wherein said driving means drives the throttle valve by the correction control amount of the throttle opening when an engine rotation number is less than a predetermined value and a throttle opening signal is an opening signal.

3. A slip control system according to claim 1, wherein said driving means controls the throttle valve so as to maintain the throttle opening when an engine rotation number is less than a predetermined value and a throttle opening signal is not an opening signal.

4. A slip control system according to claim 1, wherein said basic control amount providing means provides the basic control amount of the throttle opening by using a correction coefficient whose parameter is the throttle opening.

5. A slip control system according to claim 1, wherein said basic control amount providing means provides the basic control amount of the throttle opening by using a correction coefficient whose parameters are the throttle opening and the engine rotation number.

6. A slip control system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises means for providing a valve speed of the throttle valve so that the larger the control amount of the throttle valve is, the higher the valve speed is, said driving means driving the throttle valve at the valve speed.

7. A slip control system according to claim 6, wherein said valve speed providing means provides the valve speed of the throttle valve in a region where the control amount of the throttle valve is large so that the valve speed in a closing operation is provided as a higher value than that in an opening operation.

8. A slip control system for a motor vehicle controlling respective braking forces in right and left driven wheels and controlling an engine output by controlling a throttle opening of a throttle valve so that a slip value of the driven wheel becomes less than a target slip value, said system comprising:

means for providing a basic control amount of the throttle opening based on the slip value of the driven wheel and the target slip value;

means for detecting respective brake fluid pressures in the right and left driven wheels;

means for converting lower one of the detected brake fluid pressures in the right and left driven wheels into an engine output;

means for providing a correction control amount of the throttle opening by subtracting an amount of the throttle opening corresponding to the converted engine output from the basic control amount of the throttle opening; and

for driving the throttle valve by the correction control amount of the throttle opening.

9. A slip control system according to claim 8, wherein said basic control amount providing means provides the basic control amount of the throttle opening by using a correction coefficient whose parameter is the throttle opening.

10. A slip control system:

according to claim 8, wherein said driving means drives the throttle valve by the correction control amount of the throttle opening when an engine rotation number is less than a predetermined valve and a throttle opening signal is an opening signal, and controls the throttle valve so as to maintain the throttle opening when the engine rotation number is less than the predetermined value and the throttle opening signal is not the opening signal.