DRIVING FORCE CONTROL DEVICE FOR STRADDLE-TYPE VEHICLES

• Main Authors: SAKAMOTO Naoki, YOKOGAWA Yukio, TETSUKA Takashi, MISAWA Shinji
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 03.04.2019
• Subjects: BLASTING; BRAKES; CLUTCHES; CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; COUPLINGS FOR TRANSMITTING ROTATION; ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GEARING; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVEFUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; HEATING; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; WEAPONS

The present invention provides a driving force control device for saddled vehicle for preventing a vehicle provided with a slow mode from rolling back on a slope without using a braking device. The driving force control device comprises a transmission (40) that transmits driving force of an engine (100) to a driving wheel (WR) of a vehicle (1) at predetermined reduction ratio; a clutch (108) that connects/disconnects the driving force between the engine (100) and the transmission (40); and a controller (106) that controls the transmission (40) and the clutch (108), wherein the controller (106) is configured to enable selecting a normal mode in which the reduction ratio of the transmission (40) is varied according to a running condition and a slow mode for enabling slow forward movement and slow backward movement by varying the reduction ratio of the transmission (40) to fixed reduction ratio according to predetermined operation, and the controller (106) holds the clutch (108) in a partial clutch engagement condition so as to prevent the vehicle (1) from moving forward or backward when the slow mode is selected and no predetermined operation is performed.