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Process for attenuating the yawing moment in a vehicle with an anti-lock brake system (ABS)

  • US 6,044,319 A
  • Filed: 05/09/1997
  • Issued: 03/28/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A process for reducing yaw during braking in a vehicle traveling on a roadway having different frictional values on opposite sides of said vehicle, said vehicle having a front axle and a rear axle on which wheels are mounted, said vehicle being equipped with an anti-lock braking system which operates to reduce braking pressure in any of said wheels during an ABS-controlled braking, said process comprising:

  • detecting said braking pressures in said wheels,calculating a permissible braking pressure difference (Δ

    P) between the braking pressure in a high wheel and the braking pressure in a low wheel, said high wheel traveling on a side of the roadway having a higher coefficient of friction than said low wheel, andadjusting said braking pressures in said high wheel so that said permissible braking pressure difference (Δ

    P) is maintained at a constant value,wherein said permissible braking pressure difference (Δ

    P) is calculated in an electronic unit by means of an algorithm which takes into account at least one of the frictional value of the roadway, the load on the vehicle, the wheel base of the vehicle, the wheel gauge of the vehicle, and the level of the center-of-gravity of the vehicle,wherein said algorithm increases said permissible braking pressure difference (Δ

    P) with increases of the frictional value of the roadway, the load on the vehicle, and the wheel base of the vehicle, and decreases said permissible braking pressure difference (Δ

    P) with increases in the level of the center-of-gravity of the vehicle and the wheel gauge of the vehicle.

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