Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Four-wheel-drive vehicle
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Application No.: US17189388Application Date: 2021-03-02
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Publication No.: US11548384B2Publication Date: 2023-01-10
- Inventor: Atsushi Tabata , Koichi Okuda , Masato Nakano , Yuki Makino
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JPJP2020-042332 20200311
- Main IPC: B60K6/24
- IPC: B60K6/24 ; B60K17/348 ; B60K6/26

Abstract:
When evacuation travel is performed using only a drive power from one drive power source of an engine and a rotary machine, a drive power distribution device is prohibited from switching to a four-wheel-drive state and thus evacuation travel is performed in a two-wheel-drive state in which a loss in a power transmission device is relatively small. Accordingly, in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, it is possible to increase an evacuation-travelable distance when evacuation travel is performed using only the drive power from one drive power source of the engine and the rotary machine.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210284017A1 FOUR-WHEEL-DRIVE VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2021-09-16
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