Vehicular antiskid control apparatus and antiskid control method

• US 6,928,355 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2003
• Issued: 08/09/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Advics Company Limited (Aisin Corp.), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Advics Company Limited (Aisin Corp.), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Yoshinori, Udaka, Satoshi, Kuwahata, Yasuhisa, Nihei, Toshihisa, Doura, Akifumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Cuong H
• Application Number:
  US10/734,145
• Publication Number:
  US 20040128052A1
• Time in Patent Office: 603 Days
• Field of Search: B06/T00.8/58, B60/T00.8/62, B60/T00.8/66, 701 70- 71, 701 72- 75, 701/78, 303/190, 303/192, 303/117, 303/152, 303/139, 303/163, 180/197, 731/46
• US Class Current: 701/71
• 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

If a condition for starting a yaw control during an antiskid control is met while the antiskid control is being executed on one of right and left front wheels during braking on a uneven friction-coeffient road surface, the reference value for making the determination to start the antiskid control on the other one of the front wheels is reduced, and therefore the antiskid control is started at an earlier timing. If the antiskid control is executed on the wheel, the brake pressure of the wheel is controlled in a pre-set specific pattern.

Claims

1. A vehicular antiskid control apparatus comprising:

a first controller configured to determine whether road surface friction coefficients corresponding to a right-side wheel and a left-side wheel of a vehicle are different from each other; and

a second controller configured to reduce a fluctuation in a brake pressure of a higher-friction coefficient road surface side wheel, of the right-side wheel and the left-side wheel, caused by execution of an antiskid control state on that wheel if it is determined by the first controller that the road surface friction coefficients corresponding to the right-side wheel and the left-side wheel are different from each other, wherein during execution of the antiskid control state on a lower-friction coefficient road surface side wheel of the right-side wheel and the left-side wheel, the second controller reduces a threshold reference value from a standard braking slip amount to a reduced braking slip amount for determining to start the antiskid control state on the higher-friction coefficient road surface side wheel.

2. The vehicular antiskid control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the right-side wheel and the left-side wheel are front wheels of the vehicle.

3. The vehicular antiskid control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second controller increases a degree of reduction of the reference value for making the determination to start the antiskid control on the higher-friction coefficient road surface side wheel as a vehicle speed increases.

4. The vehicular antiskid control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second controller reduces at least one of an amount of increase and an amount of decrease in the brake pressure caused by the antiskid control executed on the higher-friction coefficient road surface side wheel.

5. The vehicular antiskid control apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the second controller controls the brake pressure of the higher-fiction coefficient road surface side wheel in a pre-set specific pressure increase/decrease pattern so that at least one of the amount of increase and the amount of decrease in the brake pressure caused by the antiskid control is reduced.

6. The vehicular antiskid control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein if the antiskid control is being executed on a lower-friction coefficient road surface side wheel, of the right-side wheel and the left-side wheel, and a condition for starting an in-antiskid control yaw control on a higher-friction coefficient road surface side wheel is met, the second controller reduces the fluctuation in the brake pressure of the higher-friction coefficient road surface side wheel.

7. The vehicular antiskid control apparatus according claim 1, wherein if a difference between a brake pressure increase/decrease time of the right-side wheel and a brake pressure increase/decrease time of the left-side wheel is greater than or equal to a reference value while the antiskid control is being executed on one of the right-side wheel and the left-side wheel, the first controller determines that the road surface friction coefficients corresponding to the right-side wheel and the left-side wheel are different from each other.

8. A vehicular antiskid control method comprising:

determining whether road surface friction coefficients corresponding to a right-side wheel and a left-side wheel are different from each other; and

reducing a fluctuation in the brake pressure of a higher-friction coefficient road surface side wheel, of the right-side wheel and the left-side wheel, caused by execution of an antiskid control state on that wheel if it is determined that road surface friction coefficients corresponding to the right-side wheel and the left-side wheel are different from each other, wherein during execution of the antiskid control state on a lower-friction coefficient road surface side wheel of the right-side wheel and the left-side wheel, the second controller reduces a threshold reference value from a standard braking slip amount to a reduced braking slip amount for determining to start the antiskid control state on the higher-friction coefficient road surface side wheel.