Vehicle motion control system

• Main Authors: OHNUMA YUTAKA, ONODA YUICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 23.05.2012
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENT OF BRAKING ELEMENTS ON VEHICLES IN GENERAL; BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN GENERAL; CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PORTABLE DEVICES FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED MOVEMENT OFVEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF; VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE COOLING OF BRAKES; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

A vehicle motion control system which is to be installed on a vehicle having a single front wheel, a right wheel and a left wheel. The control system includes: (a) a front-wheel steering device configured to steer the front wheel; (b) a braking device configured to apply a braking force to each of the wheels; and (c) a controlling device including a braking-force controlling portion configured to control the braking force that is to be applied to each of the wheels. The braking-force controlling portion includes a slip-management controlling portion configured, when the vehicle is to be braked in a direction-change situation that there is a change of a heading direction of the vehicle due to slip of at least one of the right and left wheels and/or when the vehicle is to be braked in a direction-change risk situation that there is a risk of the change of the heading direction of the vehicle, to execute a slip managing control, such that a magnitude of the braking force applied to the front wheel varies dependi