Steering system for motor-driven vehicle

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a steering system for a motor-driven vehicle, which has steering operability equivalent to that of a vehicle mounted with a conventional internal combustion engine only, and has steering operability equivalent to an inherent one even during the time when fail-safe control of assist of steering force is carried out. To achieve this object, in the steering system for a motor-driven vehicle including a drive motor that is a power source for the motor-driven vehicle, a motor speed sensor for detecting the speed of the drive motor, a steering system for giving a steering angle to front wheels according to the steering angle of a steering wheel, a vehicle speed sensor for detecting the speed of the motor-driven vehicle, and a power steering controller that outputs an assist amount according to the steering of a passenger based on at least one of the output signals of the motor speed sensor and the vehicle speed sensor, as the speed of the motor-driven vehicle or the speed of the drive motor increases, the assist amount is made smaller.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.