Setting a torque distribution between wheels of an axle of a motor vehicle by actuation of an operator control unit
AssigneeAudi AG
InventorJaan Mattes Reiling
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Abstract
A method for operating a motor vehicle, in which an active manipulation of the yaw angle of the motor vehicle is performed, in that, on a left wheel and on a right wheel of at least one axle of the motor vehicle, an uneven torque distribution is set. In order to give the driver better control of the torque distribution to the wheels of the motor vehicle, an actuation of an operator control unit of the motor vehicle is detected; the uneven torque distribution is set in a manner dependent on the detected actuation; the uneven torque distribution is maintained only as long as the actuation of the operator control unit is detected.
Claims20
A method for operating a motor vehicle, in which an active manipulation of the yaw angle of the motor vehicle is performed, in that, on a left wheel and on a right wheel of at least one axle of the motor vehicle, an uneven torque distribution is set,
- wherein an actuation of an operator control unit of the motor vehicle is detected;
- wherein the uneven torque distribution is set in a manner dependent on the detected actuation;
- wherein the uneven torque distribution is maintained only as long as the actuation of the operator control unit is detected;
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- wherein the uneven torque distribution is superimposed over a separate, automated uneven torque distribution set by the motor vehicle.
A control unit for controlling a drive train of a motor vehicle, by which an active manipulation of the yaw angle of the motor vehicle can be performed,
- wherein the control unit is designed to set an uneven torque distribution on a left wheel and on a right wheel of at least one axle of the motor vehicle,
- wherein the control unit is configured to detect an actuation of an operator control unit of the motor vehicle, to set the uneven torque distribution in a manner dependent on the detected actuation, and to maintain the uneven torque distribution only as long as the actuation of the operator control unit is detected, and
- wherein the control unit is configured to superimpose the uneven torque distribution over a separate, automated torque distribution set by the control unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.