US 7,513,577 B2
Motion control apparatus for vehicle
Masahiko Taniguchi, Kariya (Japan); and Kazuhiro Kato, Kariya (Japan)
Assigned to Advics Co., Ltd., Kariya, Aichi-Pref. (Japan)
Filed on Aug. 23, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/208,576.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-254660 (JP), filed on Sep. 01, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0055237 A1, Mar. 16, 2006
Int. Cl. B60T 8/24 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 303—146  [303/190] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A motion control apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
over-steering degree obtaining means for obtaining a value indicating the degree of over-steering in a turning state of the vehicle;
stabilization control executing means for executing vehicle stability control when the value indicating the degree of over-steering exceeds a threshold value, the vehicle stability control applying braking force to at least one predetermined wheel of the vehicle in order to generate a yawing moment in the vehicle in a direction opposite a yawing direction of the vehicle;
specific operation determining means for determining that a specific operation that induces spin tendency of the vehicle has been performed by a driver when the driver has performed a load moving operation that increases a load acting on wheels on the front side of the vehicle body of the vehicle;
specific behavior determining means for determining that a specific behavior representing spin tendency of the vehicle has occurred in the vehicle when the specific behavior determining means has detected a state in which a turning angle of a steerable wheel of the vehicle is becoming smaller due to a steering operation by the driver and yaw rate of the vehicle is maintained to be substantially constant or a state in which the turning angle of the steerable wheel is maintained to be substantially constant due to a steering operation by the driver and the yaw rate of the vehicle is increasing;
storing means for storing the fact that the specific operation is determined to have been performed;
spin tendency determining means for determining that the vehicle is experiencing spin tendency when the specific behavior is determined to have occurred in the vehicle in a state in which the fact that the specific operation is determined to have been performed is stored by the storing means; and
threshold value lowering means for lowering the threshold value when the spin tendency determining means determines that the vehicle is experiencing spin tendency.