Device for stabilizing a motor vehicle

• US 6,918,638 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2001
• Issued: 07/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Schneider, Markus, El Guenaoui, Fikri
• Primary Examiner(s): RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA
• Application Number:
  US10/089,955
• Publication Number:
  US 20030052536A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: 303/146, 303/140, 303/171, 303/175, 303/186, 303/187
• US Class Current: 303/140
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1755 Brake regulation specially adapted to control the stability of the vehicle, e.g. taking into account yaw rate or transverse acceleration in a curve road vehicle drive control systems for control of driving stability otherwise than by controlling a particular sub-unit B60W30/02

Abstract

A vehicle stabilizing device for setting or modifying brake pressures in the wheel brakes of a braking system with diagonally divided braking circuits. To improve a stabilization of the vehicle in the case of understeering by an additional delay, a device for determining a understeering drive condition, a controller for calculating a desired speed or deceleration, and derived therefrom a deceleration braking force in accordance with the understeering drive condition, a braking force control which in the wheel brakes of the front axle sets a differential braking force between the wheel brakes, which corrects the understeering drive condition, in accordance with the deceleration control braking force are provided.

Claims

1. Vehicle stabilizing device for setting or modifying broke pressures in the wheel brakes of a braking system with diagonally divided braking circuits, comprising:

a device for determining the presence of an understeering drive condition,

a controller for calculating a desired vehicle speed or vehicle deceleration, and deriving therefrom a deceleration braking force in accordance with the understeering drive condition,

a braking force controller for dispensing with a brake pressure buildup at a rear axle of the vehicle and establishing a differential brake force in the wheel brakes of the front axle, wherein said braking force controller further includes means for determining a vehicle delay value as a function of the differential brake force in the wheel brakes of the front axle and the vehicle speed and wherein the differential brake force in the front axle wheel brakes is effective for correcting the understeering drive conditon, in accordance with the deceleration control brakng force.

2. Vehicle stabilizing device as defined in claim 1, wherein said brake pressure controller includes means for generating signals for a pressure requirement effecting a yaw moment of the vehicle in accordance with a pressure buildup and pressure decrease of the braking pressures at the front axle, and for transmitting control commands to at least one actuator.

3. Vehicle stabilizing device as defined in claim 2, wherein said pressure requirement for the pressure buildup at a cornered inside front wheel is limited to an upper value to which a maximum slip range is allocated, in which an ABS control is activated.

4. Vehicle stabilizing device as defined in claim 2, wherein a pressure buildup at a cornered inside rear wheel is effected according to an understeering control braking pressure, whenever the pressure requirement for the pressure buildup at the cornered outside front wheel is 0 bar.

5. Vehicle stabilizing device as defined in claim 1, wherein the differential braking force is formed as a function of a vehicle setpoint deceleration and an offset differential brake force in the wheel brakes of the front axle.

6. Vehicle stabilizing device as defined in claim 1, wherein said controller further includes means for forming a setpoint braking force at the cornered inside front wheel equal to a braking force at the rear brakes of the front axle.

7. Vehicle stabilizing device as defined in claim 1, wherein said controller further includes means for forming the desired brake pressure at the cornered outside front wheel equal to the difference between the vehicle setpoint deceleration and the braking force at the rear brakes of the front axle.

8. Vehicle stabilzing device as defined in claim 7, wherein the desired brake pressure is controlled by way of a selection of a changeover valve or block valve in the wheel brakes.