Braking force control system for vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSatoshi Shimizu
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Abstract
In a braking force control system for a vehicle having a braking system capable of controlling braking force of each of right and left front wheels and right and left rear wheels independently of one another, when anti-skid control starts being performed on one of the front wheels while the vehicle is running on a road having different coefficients of friction on the left side and right side thereof, increase of the braking force of the other front wheel laterally opposite to the above-indicated one front wheel is suppressed, and increase of the braking force of at least one of the right and left rear wheels is suppressed.
Claims15
A braking force control system for a vehicle having a braking system configured to control a braking force applied by a brake actuator to each of right and left front wheels and right and left rear wheels independently of one another as needed, comprising:
- circuitry configured to:
- when anti-skid control starts being performed on one of the front wheels while the vehicle is running on a road having different coefficients of friction on a left side and a right side thereof, reduce the braking force applied by the brake actuator to the other front wheel laterally opposite to said one of the front wheels and then restrict an increase of the braking force applied by the brake actuator to the other front wheel, and restrict an increase of the braking force applied by the brake actuator to at least one of the right and the left rear wheels laterally opposite to said one of the front wheels,
- control an amount of the reduction of the braking force applied by the brake actuator to the other front wheel to be larger when said one of the front wheels, having the anti-skid control performed thereon, is an outer wheel of the vehicle that is turning, as compared with the case where said one of the front wheels, having the anti-skid control performed thereon, is not the outer wheel of the vehicle that is turning,
- control the amount of reduction of the braking force applied by the brake actuator to the other front wheel to be larger when said one of the front wheels is an outer wheel of the vehicle that is turning, as compared with the case where the vehicle is substantially in a straight running condition, and
- control the amount of reduction of the braking force applied by the brake actuator to the other front wheel to be smaller when said one of the front wheels is an inner wheel of the vehicle that is turning, as compared with the case where the vehicle is substantially in the straight running condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.