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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8020947 | Vehicle turning motion control A vehicle turning motion control apparatus includes a turning condition sensing section to sense a turning condition of the vehicle; and a vehicle deceleration control section to initiate a deceleration control to decelerate the vehicle when the turning condition ex... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7644998 | Brake control system Even in the case that at least one braking force generating function fails, it is possible to secure a maximum braking force as well as suppressing a yaw moment generated on the basis of the failure as much as possible even at a time when whatever braking force is r... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7562947 | Apparatus for controlling driving force of vehicle An apparatus for controlling the driving force of a vehicle is capable of using brakes to limit a differential operation, securing sufficient torque, and suppressing the heating and wearing of the brakes. In the vehicle, an engine generates torque to drive front whe... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7412312 | System for automatically determining a public transport vehicle emergency braking characteristics, in particular of a railway vehicle A system for automatically determining a public transport vehicle emergency braking characteristics, in particular of a railway vehicle, includes elements (1) for measuring the vehicle speed, elements (2) for measuring the distance travelled by it, and... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7363138 | Wheel slip detection and torque management A method of controlling traction in a vehicle having at least one non-driven wheel speed sensor. Actual vehicle acceleration and a wheel speed difference are detected. At least one of the actual vehicle acceleration and the wheel speed difference is compared to at l... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353905 | Method for actuating a reversible vehicle occupant protection means in a motor vehicle The invention relates to a method for actuating a reversible vehicle occupant protection means in a motor vehicle having a driving state sensor system and a reversible vehicle occupant protection means. The reversible vehicle occupant protection means can be trigger... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349786 | Vehicle-behavior detecting apparatus and vehicle-behavior controlling apparatus A vehicle-behavior detecting apparatus including a first-yaw-moment calculating unit, a second-yaw-moment calculating unit, and an indication-value calculating unit. Based on a linear bicycle model, the first-yaw-moment calculating unit calculates a first-yaw-moment... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349775 | Motor vehicle state detecting system System for detecting stability/instability of behavior of a motor vehicle upon occurrence of tire slip or lock. State of the motor vehicle is determined on the basis of an alignment torque (Ta) applied from a road and a side slip angle (β). By taking advantage of s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7330785 | Method for increasing the driving stability of a motor vehicle A method for increasing the directional stability of a motor vehicle is provided, as well as a corresponding device, and a corresponding computer program product. A model-supported pilot control is used to determine a stabilizing yaw torque, which is applied to the ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328758 | Self-propelled vehicle particularly for making turns with tight turning radii A self-propelled vehicle particularly for making turns with tight turning radii, comprising a chassis provided with two driving wheels forming at least one driving portion, and which supports a motor kinematically connected to a motion distribution shaft. A function... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7305292 | Coordination of a vehicle dynamics control system with other vehicles stability systems Described is a device for stabilizing a vehicle in critical driving situations, including a vehicle dynamics control system having a control unit, including a vehicle dynamics control algorithm, and at least one actuator and an additional vehicle stability system ha... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7266437 | Temperature dependent trigger control for a traction control system A method a operating a traction control system using a traction controller (30) for an automotive vehicle (10) is provided. A slip target is first determined. Then, an operating temperature turning characteristic or slope of the slip curve may, in comb... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7232191 | Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle stability An apparatus for controlling vehicle stability includes a pressure calculator calculating a brake pressure. In one embodiment, the calculated brake pressure is calculated based on a yaw rate signal input from a yaw rate sensor. In other embodiments, the calculated b... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7229139 | Control system for brake-steer assisted parking and method therefor A system and method of controlling an automotive vehicle includes determining a steering wheel angle, determining a steering wheel direction, determining a steering wheel angular rate and applying brake-steer as a function of steering wheel angle, steering wheel ang... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225072 | System for controlling the stability of a vehicle using several predictive algorithms and a selection process System for controlling the stability of a vehicle, the system comprising means for imparting a longitudinal force to the tire and means for calculating a slip GOpt by determining the values of the coefficient of friction μi, for each slip G | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216942 | Vehicle motion control device This device is applied to a vehicle having a dual circuit brake conduit (so-called X-conduit) comprising a circuit for a front-right wheel and a rear-left wheel and a circuit for a front-left wheel and a rear-right wheel. This device obtains basic control volume Gb ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213892 | Vehicle motion control apparatus The present invention is directed to a vehicle motion control apparatus, which includes normally open valves to supply hydraulic pressure discharged from a master cylinder into wheel brake cylinders, normally closed valves to reduce wheel cylinder pressure, and a pr... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7197388 | Roll stability control system for an automotive vehicle using an external environmental sensing system A roll stability control system (18) for an automotive vehicle (10) includes an external environment sensing system, such as a camera-based vision system, or a radar, lidar or sonar-based sensing system (43) that generates image, radar, lidar, a... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197380 | System for controlling the stability of a vehicle using an algorithm comparing average slopes of variation of a parameter System for controlling the stability of a vehicle, the system comprising means for imparting a longitudinal force on the tire and means for calculating the slip parameter GOpt at each activation of the means for imparting a longitudinal force on the tire ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7182353 | Turn brake for multi-track vehicles A turn brake includes a cylinder assembly coupled to a conventional front-wheel steering system of a multi-track vehicle. The cylinder assembly generates fluid power for applying differential braking force to left and right wheels of the vehicle in response to turni... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7178622 | Method for actuating a reversible passenger protection system in a motor vehicle A method for actuating a reversible vehicle occupant protection device in a motor vehicle having a driving state sensor system and a reversible vehicle occupant protection device. The reversible vehicle occupant protection device can be triggered before the collisio... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178883 | Vehicular brake system A vehicular brake system includes a brake actuator that enables brake assist to be carried out, the brake assist increasing a braking force exhibited by wheel brakes in response to a braking operation input by a vehicle driver in comparison with the braking force wh... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7168769 | Vehicular brake system and method of controlling same brake system The brake system of the invention, during the ABS control mode, corrects the target slip rate in accordance with the turning of the vehicle, and determines whether the vehicle is running on a poor surface road. If the vehicle is running on a poor surface road, the s... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162350 | Vehicle motion control device A control of a vehicle motion control device 10 is as follows during an oversteer restraining control. Specifically, when tire inflation pressure is appropriate, the device sets braking force exerted on each of front and rear wheels at the outer side of the t... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7142958 | Method and device for recognizing raised wheels of a vehicle A method of detecting a transverse-dynamically hazardous operating state of a vehicle, where a variable describing the rotational speed of at least one wheel on an axle is determined; a first variable describing the vehicle transverse dynamics is determined from at ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136729 | Supervisory diagnostics for integrated vehicle stability system A supervisory diagnostics system and related method for providing vehicle diagnostics for an integrated vehicle stability system that monitors the state of health of sensors, actuators, vehicle sub-system and communication sub-systems that are used in the stability ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133759 | Electronic control apparatus for a vehicle Electronic control apparatus for a vehicle, in particular a heavy goods vehicle, which apparatus includes an electronic control unit (ECU) adapted to control actuation of vehicle brakes. The ECU has a non volatile storage memory for storing braking related control p... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7118184 | Roll-over suppressing control apparatus for a vehicle The invention provides a roll-over suppressing control apparatus for a vehicle which can make a decision of a start of roll suppressing control appropriately in response to the degree of the possibility of turning over on its side of the vehicle. The roll-over suppr... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120528 | System and method for operating a rollover control system in a transition to a rollover condition A method of operating a hydraulic safety system 38 includes determining a relative roll angle, determining a relative a slip angle, determining a yaw rate and determining a pressure build rate for the hydraulic safety system 38 in response to a relativ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7104614 | Method and system for preventing rollover of a vehicle train A method and system for preventing rollover of a vehicle train comprising a tractor vehicle and a trailer vehicle. A control system is provided in the tractor vehicle which automatically initiates actuation of the braking system of the tractor vehicle and/or of the ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7093913 | Traction control method for slipping wheels of at least one driving axle The present invention relates to a method for traction control of slipping wheels of at least one driving axle, which are driven by way of an open differential gear and can be interlocked by braking intervention to a defined, predeterminable degree for effecting a d... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7089101 | Method for assisting a driver when performing driving maneuvers The invention relates to a method for assisting the driver of a vehicle (10) when performing a driving maneuver, such as a parking or shunting maneuver. In this case, a reference trajectory (16) is determined, along which the vehicle (10) is to ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7066560 | Vehicle motion control device This device sets, upon executing only a roll-over preventing control, roll-over preventing braking force exerted on a front wheel at the outer side of the turning direction based upon a table value obtained through an absolute value |Gy| of an actual lateral acceler... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7066559 | Brake pressure estimating apparatus and method In brake pressure estimating method and apparatus for an automotive vehicle, at a second wheel cylinder brake liquid pressure estimating, a vehicular state is detected and the second wheel cylinder brake liquid pressure for each road wheel is calculated from the det... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065442 | Automatic slowdown control apparatus for a vehicle An automatic slowdown control apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed wherein automatic slowdown control can be ended appropriately and automatic slowdown is prevented from being performed excessively on a road of an ascending gradient. The automatic slowdown control a... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7058494 | Vehicle dynamics control apparatus In a vehicle dynamics control apparatus enabling vehicle dynamics control and lane deviation prevention control, a processor of a control unit is programmed for determining a driving stability including a vehicle driveability and a vehicle stability, based on at lea... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7055864 | Pneumatic coupling A pneumatic coupling is provided. The pneumatic coupling is configured to couple a plurality of pneumatic lines together. According to the preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the pneumatic coupling includes first and second housings and a plurality of fi... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7040721 | Device and method for adjusting the pedal characteristic curve of a hybrid braking system during modified braking-force distribution A braking system for a vehicle is described, including a hydraulic service braking system and an electric service braking system having wheel brakes, to which braking pressure is applied when a brake pedal is operated. To maintain essentially constant vehicle brakin... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035726 | Steering characteristic control apparatus and method for a vehicle A steering characteristic control apparatus and method for a vehicle is disclosed which can carry out behavior control of the vehicle regarding a steering characteristic and so forth appropriately in accordance with the type of turning and the road surface situation... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7016777 | Deceleration control apparatus and method for automotive vehicle There is provided a deceleration control apparatus for an automotive vehicle, including a target vehicle speed calculation unit that calculates a target vehicle speed and a deceleration control unit that performs deceleration control on the vehicle so that the vehic... | 03/21/2006 |
