Patent ID: 6123398
Filing Date: 2000-09-26
Classification: B60T

Abstract:
A running stabilizing apparatus to be mounted on a vehicle in which one of the front wheels and rear wheels are driving wheels to be driven by an engine and the other thereof are idler wheels, said running stabilizing apparatus comprising:a difference rotation generating apparatus for generating difference rotation between the left and right idler wheels by an output torque of an electric motor;means for detecting a slip angle of the vehicle;means for discriminating whether a driving condition of the vehicle is a power-on state in which the driving wheels are positively driven by the engine or a power-off state in which the positive driving of the driving wheels by the engine is stopped, wherein said power-on state is indicated by depressing an accelerator pedal and said power-off state is indicated by releasing the accelerator pedal; andcontrol means for independently operating left and right brakes of the vehicle in the power-off state and for operating said difference rotation generating apparatus in the power-on state such that a yawing moment to decrease the slip angle is generated depending on the slip angle of the vehicle.