US 7,516,008 B2
Vehicle motion control apparatus
Masanobu Fukami, Isshiki-cho (Japan); and Hirohisa Tanaka, Nagoya-shi (Japan)
Assigned to Advics Co., Ltd., Kariya, Aichi-Pref (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 09, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/269,845.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-345884 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0113837 A1, Jun. 01, 2006
Int. Cl. B60T 8/24 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 701—70  [701/82; 701/83; 303/139; 303/140] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle motion control apparatus provided with:
an integrated unit integrally composed of a hydraulic unit having mounted thereto plural hydraulic devices for controlling braking force imparted to wheels of a vehicle and an electronic control apparatus for controlling the plural hydraulic devices;
an actual-yaw-rate-corresponding-value sensor that is incorporated in the integrated unit and detects a yaw-rate-corresponding-value indicating a degree of a turn of the vehicle as an actual-yaw-rate-corresponding value; and
an actual-turning-angle-corresponding-value sensor that detects a turning-angle-corresponding-value corresponding to a turning angle of steerable wheels of the vehicle as an
actual-turning-angle-corresponding-value,
wherein the electronic control apparatus comprises:
yaw-rate-deviation-corresponding-value obtaining means that obtains a yaw-rate-deviation-corresponding-value, which represents a degree of instability relating to a turn of the vehicle, on the basis of a degree of a difference between a turning-angle-yaw-rate-corresponding-value, which is the yaw-rate-corresponding-value obtained based upon the detected actual-turning-angle-corresponding-value and to which a low-pass filter process is provided, and a value obtained by providing a low-pass filter process to the detected actual-yaw-rate-corresponding-value; and
vehicle stabilization control executing means that controls the plural hydraulic devices such that braking force for generating on the vehicle a yawing moment in the direction in which the
yaw-rate-deviation-corresponding-value becomes not more than a threshold value is imparted to a predetermined wheel, when the obtained yaw-rate-deviation-corresponding-value exceeds the threshold value.