Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Controlling driving force distribution ratio in response to prediction of oversteer
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Application No.: US17060353Application Date: 2020-10-01
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Publication No.: US11618436B2Publication Date: 2023-04-04
- Inventor: Harunobu Horiguchi , Ryoichi Mizutani , Akihisa Osada , Yohei Kawashima , Yuki Sugimoto
- Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JPJP2019-204397 20191112,JPJP2020-151314 20200909
- Main IPC: G05D1/00
- IPC: G05D1/00 ; B60W30/045 ; B60W10/20 ; B60W10/10 ; B60W40/08 ; B60W30/18 ; B60W50/00 ; B60W50/08

Abstract:
A vehicle control apparatus includes a steering device, a steering controller, a steering input member, a front-rear driving force distribution unit, and a behavior controller. The steering device steers front wheels of a vehicle. The steering controller controls and causes the steering device to perform steering automatically. The steering input member receives a steering operation inputted by a driver. The front-rear driving force distribution unit changes a front-rear driving force distribution ratio. The behavior controller predicts, if a steering operation is performed via the steering input member during the automatic steering, a behavior of the vehicle to be exhibited after steering corresponding to the steering operation, and causes, if an oversteer behavior is predicted to occur, the front-rear driving force distribution unit to change the driving force distribution ratio to a front-wheel biased distribution ratio as compared with a case where the oversteer behavior is not predicted to occur.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210139016A1 VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2021-05-13
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