Vehicle creep control device

• Main Authors: Miyamoto, Hiroaki, Hatsumi, Norihiko, Sugimoto, Takanori, Hayashikawa, Kazufumi, Nagura, Katsutoshi, Oue, Toshiya, Hatsuda, Yasuyuki, Imoto, Keisuke
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 13.12.2017
• Subjects: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT OR PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLEDVEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES, IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

A vehicle driving force control device includes: a brake unit (13) configured to generate a brake force of a vehicle; a stroke amount detecting unit configured to detect a stroke amount of a brake pedal (17) of the vehicle; a monitoring unit configured to monitor whether generation of the brake force of the brake unit (13) is abnormal; and a creep torque controlling unit configured to increase a reduction amount of a creep torque of the vehicle as the stroke amount increases, when the monitoring unit determines that the generation of the brake force in the brake unit is abnormal.