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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8016365 | Understeer suppressing apparatus for vehicle An understeer suppressing apparatus for a vehicle includes an electric power steering device S for suppressing steering when the vehicle is in the understeer state, an alarm device A for informing a driver that the vehicle is in the understeer state, and a braking f... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7909416 | Vehicle braking/driving force control apparatus According to the present invention, when at least one of a target braking/driving force and a vehicle target yaw moment required to a vehicle cannot be achieved by a braking/driving forces of wheels, a target braking/driving force after a modification and a target y... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7690737 | Method of controlling an automotive vehicle having a trailer A system and method of controlling an automotive vehicle and trailer includes determining the presence of a trailer and applying brake-steer to the vehicle in response to the trailer to reduce the turning radius of the vehicle and the trailer. ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7681960 | Method and system for improving the driving behavior of a vehicle A method for a Sensitive Electronic Stability Program (SESP) presents a general approach for the correction of maneuvers of turning into a bend at low speed. It integrates existing methods as well as subsequent extensions. SESP supplements the standard active yaw co... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7669943 | Vehicle motion control device In the roll-over preventing control, a vehicle motion control device 10 causes inner-wheel braking force, according to the absolute value of an actual lateral acceleration Gy, only on the rear wheel at the inner side of the turning direction when the absolute... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7661772 | Method and device for improving braking behavior A method to improve the braking behavior of a vehicle is provided, in which it is not permitted to exceed a maximum allowable braking pressure difference between the braking pressures on the two wheels of one axle, and in which the maximum allowable braking pressure... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7658454 | Vehicle motion control apparatus A proportional pressure difference valve is disclosed between a master cylinder and normally open valves for supplying hydraulic pressure discharged from the master cylinder into wheel brake cylinders, which are connected to normally closed valves for reducing press... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7600826 | System for dynamically determining axle loadings of a moving vehicle using integrated sensing system and its application in vehicle dynamics controls A vehicle (10) includes a control system (18) that is used to control a vehicle system. The control system determines a wheel normal loading in response to heave motion wheel loading, attitude-based wheel loading, and vertical motion induced wheel load... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7562948 | Deceleration control apparatus and method for automotive vehicle There is provided a deceleration control apparatus for an automotive vehicle, which has a control unit including a deceleration control block that causes deceleration of the vehicle in accordance with a traveling state of the vehicle, an estimation block that estima... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7537293 | Vehicle stability enhancement control adaptation to driving skill A vehicle stability enhancement (VSE) system that is adapted for driver skill level. The system includes a driver skill recognition processor that determines the driver skill level based on a driver model that uses certain parameters, such as a steering gain factor ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7513577 | Motion control apparatus for vehicle A motion control apparatus for a vehicle can perform vehicle stability control. The apparatus determines that the vehicle is experiencing spin tendency when it detects a driver's specific operation that induces spin tendency and then detects a specific behavior repr... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7416263 | Method and device for improving pressure build-up dynamics The present invention relates to a device and method for controlling the braking system of a vehicle equipped with a wheel slip control system. In this context, the wheel slip control system is in a position, when certain conditions are met, to initiate the buildup ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7401870 | Method and apparatus to enhance brake-steer of a vehicle using a controllable suspension component A system and method of controlling an automotive vehicle having a controllable suspension component includes applying brake-steer to at least one wheel, generating a suspension control signal in response to the brake-steer signal, and allowing at least one wheel cou... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401871 | Method of controlling an automotive vehicle having a trailer using rear axle slip angle A system and method of controlling a vehicle with a trailer comprises determining the presence of a trailer, determining a vehicle velocity, determining a steering wheel angle, and determining a rear axle side slip angle. When the rear axle side slip angle is above ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7392127 | Vehicle motion control device The vehicle motion control device of the invention utilizes that the detected lateral acceleration Gyd based upon the output from the lateral acceleration sensor takes a value obtained by adding a value corresponding to the roll angle to the actual lateral accelerat... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7377600 | Turning behavior control device for vehicle A turning behavior control device for vehicle has a left and right wheel driving force adjustment mechanism for adjusting a difference in driving force between rear wheels, a braking force adjustment mechanism for adjusting a difference in braking force between the ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7349778 | Real-time vehicle dynamics estimation system A real-time vehicle dynamics estimation system that employs a vehicle parameter estimator, a vehicle condition detector and a rich steering input detector for estimating vehicle understeer coefficient and front and rear cornering compliances in real time. The vehicl... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337047 | Vehicle behavior control device The inventive vehicle behavior control device employs a novel control strategy, suppressing deterioration of a vehicle behavior which would be induced during control processes, and being useful especially for correcting or inhibiting excessive deterioration of a veh... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331642 | Method for applying torque overlay during split-mu braking conditions A method is provided for vehicle stability control of a vehicle where the vehicle includes a slip control braking system that applies independent braking pressure to respective vehicle brakes of the vehicle. The vehicle further includes a steering system for applyin... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7318629 | Steer by brake control system A turn control system is provided having four wheels and a steering wheel that controls the vehicle steering. A steering wheel angle sensor senses an angle of rotation of the steering wheel. An acceleration sensing device senses an acceleration demand. A wheel speed... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316457 | Motion control apparatus for four-wheel drive vehicle A motion control apparatus for a four-wheel drive vehicle performs over-steer suppressing control when the vehicle is in an over-steer state so as to apply a braking force to a front wheel located on the outer side of a turning locus without lowering engine output, ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317982 | Estimating device and vehicle motion control device using the same A detector 22 detects action forces acting on a wheel 5 provided to a vehicle. An estimator 21a estimates the present value of a vehicle mass m on the basis of an action force acting in a component force direction out of the action forces... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315777 | Vehicle control method and vehicle control apparatus A target resultant force to be applied to a vehicle body is calculated, the magnitude of a critical friction circle of each wheel is estimated, and a critical resultant force is estimated from the estimated magnitude of the critical friction circle. Subsequently, a ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7284802 | Stabilizing device for motor vehicles comprising compressed-air braking systems The invention relates to a motor vehicle comprising a compressed-air braking system. Said vehicle has two braking cylinders, which can be impinged by compressed-air from a compressed-air reserve by means of a manually actuated brake valve. The braking cylinders have... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7274984 | Vehicle stability enhancement system A side-slip velocity estimation module for a vehicle stability enhancement control system includes a side-slip acceleration estimation module that estimates a side-slip acceleration of a vehicle. A multiple-order integrator integrates the side-slip acceleration to g... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272481 | Method and apparatus for detecting and correcting trailer induced yaw movements in a towing vehicle An apparatus and method for determining the presence of excessive yaw rate in a vehicle by calculating an instability index that is a function of the vehicle yaw rate and generating an excessive yaw rate signal when the instability index exceeds a yaw rate threshold... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269489 | Adaptive rear-wheel steer open-loop control for vehicle-trailer system A rear-wheel steering control system for a vehicle/trailer combination that adaptively changes an open-loop feed-forward command signal for different trailers or the same trailer with different configurations based only on vehicle parameters. The system includes a h... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266444 | Driver load measuring method, device, and program for a vehicle accompanied by attitude changes, and storage medium for storing the program A driver load measuring method, device, and program, and a storage medium for storing the program for accurately measuring a load on a driver driving a vehicle accompanied by attitude changes. The driver load measuring device includes a yaw rate detecting section fo... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7252346 | Braking force control apparatus and method for automotive vehicle In brake control apparatus and method for an automotive vehicle, a cornering stability control section is configured to start a provision of the braking force for the vehicle when a cornering limit estimating section estimates that a cornering state variable of the ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7246864 | Vehicle motion control apparatus A hydraulic pressure regulating device is disposed between a master cylinder and a pair of wheel cylinders included in each of a dual hydraulic circuit. A desired value is provided for a wheel cylinder operatively associated with a wheel to be controlled, on the bas... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245995 | Fault-tolerant vehicle stability control A system and method for providing a fault tolerant vehicle dynamics control (VDC) is described. The system includes a fault tolerance module that receives an indication of a fault in at least one of the actuators of the VDC and selects a fault compensation mode to m... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240971 | Rolling motion stability control apparatus for a vehicle A rolling motion stability control apparatus restrains a roll increasing tendency of a vehicle, with each wheel of the vehicle being braked by a wheel brake device. A first braking force control device is provided for applying a first braking force to the wheel, whe... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234564 | Haptic controller for road vehicles An electric assisted steering system for a motor driven road vehicle, having assist torque signal generating means which generates an assist torque signal for the steering system in response to the driver's applied torque and sensed vehicle speed to reduce the drive... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236884 | Automotive lane deviation prevention apparatus An automotive lane deviation prevention apparatus includes an electronic control unit configured to be electronically connected to a yawing-motion control actuator such as braking force actuators or a steering actuator for lane deviation prevention and vehicle yawin... | 06/26/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7233851 | Driving assist apparatus and method for vehicle A vehicle driving assist apparatus for guiding a vehicle to a target position is provided. A basic path that changes the deflection angle θ to 0 is determined, and is subjected to similarity transformation. On the basis of the similarity-transformed path, a path fa... | 06/19/2007 |
