Arrangement for the control of the rear wheels of motor vehicles in dependence on a steering deflection of the front wheels
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsEdmund Donges, Reinhard Auffhammer, Benedikt Mueller
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Abstract
An arrangement for steering the rear wheels of motor vehicles as a function of the steering deflection of the front wheels, with mechanically decoupled steering means for front and rear wheels and a transmission element for the adjustment of the steering means of the rear wheels corresponding to the steering deflection of the front wheels; the rear wheels are thereby adjusted in the same direction as the direction of the front wheels only after the lapse of a short period of delay time whereby the delay time is the smaller and the steering deflection of the rear wheels in relation to the front wheels the larger the higher the driving velocity.
Claims8
An arrangement for steering the rear wheels of motor vehicles in dependence on a steering deflection of the front wheels, comprising mechanically decoupled steering means for the front wheels and the rear wheels, and transmission means for the adjustment of the steering means of the rear wheels in dependence on the steering deflection of the front wheels, said transmission means being operable with a steering deflection of the front wheels to deflect the rear wheels in the same direction as the direction of the front wheels, only after a lapse of a brief delay time, and the delay time becoming the smaller and the steering deflection of the rear wheels the larger in relation to that of the front wheels, the higher the driving velocity.
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