Patent ID: 8439149
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: B60T

Abstract:
1. A brake equipment of a vehicle with a driver seat whose direction is changeable, the vehicle including: a wheel-side vehicle body which has wheels suspended thereon and is capable of running and stopping by driving and braking the wheels; and a cabin-side vehicle body which is mounted on the wheel-side vehicle body in such a manner as to be capable of turning at least to directions causing the driver seat respectively to face one and the other sides, in a travel direction, of the wheel-side vehicle body, the brake equipment comprising: a driver-seat-direction detector configured to detect whether the driver seat is facing the one or the other side, in the travel direction, of the wheel-side vehicle body; a braking unit configured to brake one-side wheels, which are located closer to the one side, in the travel direction, of the wheel-side vehicle body, and other-side wheels, which are located closer to the other side, in the travel direction, of the wheel-side vehicle body, while controlling brake-force distribution between brake forces of the one-side wheels and the other-side wheels in such a manner that the brake-force distribution becomes a set brake-force distribution based on ideal brake-force distribution characteristics; and a switching unit configured to change the set brake-force distribution in accordance with the direction of the driver seat detected by the driver-seat-direction detector.