Patent ID: 9725014
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: B60K,B60L,B60T,B60W,B62D,F16H,G05D,Y02T,Y10S

Claim:
1. A vehicle comprising: a left drive wheel and a right drive wheel that are connected to a prime mover; a requested-amount-of-drive-power input device configured to input a requested amount of drive power; a requested-amount-of-turn input device configured to input a requested amount of turn; and a turn control apparatus configured to adjust a power difference between the left drive wheel and the right drive wheel by using the requested amount of turn input by the requested-amount-of-turn input device, the turn control apparatus being configured to obtain a time differential of the requested amount of drive power input by the requested-amount-of-drive-power input device and adjust the power difference between the left drive wheel and the right drive wheel by using the obtained time differential of the requested amount of drive power, wherein: the prime mover includes a first prime mover connected to the left drive wheel, and a second prime mover connected to the right drive wheel, the turn control apparatus controls power of the first prime mover and the second prime mover in order to adjust the power difference by using the time differential of the requested amount of drive power, the first prime mover and the second prime mover comprise electric motors, respectively, configured to generate power in a forward direction and generating power in a reverse direction of the vehicle, and the turn control apparatus controls one of the first prime mover and the second prime mover, which corresponds to an outer one of the wheels while the vehicle is making a turn, in order to generate the power in the forward direction, and further controls one of the first prime mover and the second prime mover, which corresponds to an inner one of the wheels while the vehicle is making the turn, in order to generate the power in the reverse direction to adjust the power difference.