Patent ID: 8731778
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. A vehicle steering apparatus having a steering wheel operated by a driver, and a rear wheel-side steering driving mechanism provided with an actuator that steers rear wheels in accordance with operation of the steering wheel, comprising: a vehicle speed detection portion configured to detect a vehicle speed; a vehicle stop state determining portion configured to determine whether the vehicle is in a stop state on the basis of the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed detection portion; a steering direction determining portion configured to determine a steering direction of the rear wheels when the vehicle stop state determining portion determines that the vehicle is in the stop state; and a steering control portion configured to, when the vehicle is in the stop state, steer the rear wheels in a return-side steering direction to a neutral steering position by operating an actuator of the rear wheel-side steering driving mechanism when the steering direction determining portion determines that the steering direction of the rear wheels is the return-side steering direction to obtain the neutral steering position for preserving a straight running state of the vehicle.