Patent ID: 6598946
Filing Date: 2003-07-29
Classification: B60K,B60T,B60W

Abstract:
A vehicular brake control apparatus comprising:a connecting state coupling interposed between a front-wheel drive shaft that transmits a driving force to a front-wheel side and a rear-wheel drive shaft that transmits a driving force to a rear-wheel side, and that changes a connecting state between the front-wheel drive shaft and the rear-wheel drive shaft; brakes, each of which is provided in a corresponding one of wheels to apply a braking force to the corresponding one of the wheels; and a brake controller that performs operation control of the brakes in accordance with a running state of the vehicle and that controls braking forces to be applied to the wheels individually, wherein the brake controller: (a) prohibits brake control if conditions for starting brake control by the brake controller have been fulfilled during a period in which the coupling causes a great connecting strength to act between the front-wheel drive shaft and the rear-wheel drive shaft, and (b) continues brake control if the connecting state between the front-wheel drive shaft and the rear-wheel drive shaft has been changed during perfoarmance of the brake control such that the great connecting strength acts between the front-wheel drive shaft and the rear-wheel drive shaft while brake control is being performed by the brake controller.