Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicular steering apparatus and control method thereof
- Patent Title (中): 车辆转向装置及其控制方法
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Application No.: US12999332Application Date: 2009-07-21
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Publication No.: US08504243B2Publication Date: 2013-08-06
- Inventor: Hiromitsu Kageyama
- Applicant: Hiromitsu Kageyama
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-188150 20080722
- International Application: PCT/IB2009/006301 WO 20090721
- International Announcement: WO2010/010441 WO 20100128
- Main IPC: B62D6/00
- IPC: B62D6/00

Abstract:
An electronic control unit determines that a vehicle is traveling in a straight line if a state in which the steering torque is less than a predetermined steering torque and an amount of change in the steering angle is less than a predetermined steering angle continues for a predetermined period of time when the vehicle speed is greater than a predetermined vehicle speed. Also, if the steering angle of the steering wheel is not 0, while the vehicle is traveling in a straight line, the electronic control unit calculates the steering amount of rear wheels that matches the steering amount of front wheels, using the steering angle of the steering wheel. Then the electronic control unit steers the rear wheels by driving an electric motor until a controlled neutral steering position of the rear wheels that corresponds to the steering amount matches an absolute neutral steering position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110106382A1 VEHICULAR STEERING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2011-05-05
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