Patent ID: 7571043

Claim:
A roll-over suppressing control apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: means for detecting information about rolling behavior of the vehicle; means for suppressing rolling of the vehicle; means for determining when the vehicle starts turning; means for carrying out roll-over suppressing control by activating the roll suppressing means to suppress rolling of the vehicle when the turning determination means has determined that the vehicle has started turning, based on the roll behavior information detected by the roll behavior detection means; means for determining whether the turning of the vehicle is a lane change turning or a simple turning, the simple turning being a turning mode that includes continued turning in a same direction; means for determining whether a parameter corresponding to the rolling behavior of the vehicle exceeds a control start criterion value set in advance, and for determining whether the parameter falls below a control end criterion value set in advance; the roll over suppressing control means: (1) beginning the roll-over suppressing control when the control determination means has determined that the parameter exceeds the control start criterion value, which is a value common to the lane change turning and the simple turning, and (2) ending the roll-over suppressing control when the control determining means has determined that the parameter falls below the control end criterion value, and the control determining means: (1) using a simple turning control end criterion value as the control end criterion value when the turning mode determining means determines that the vehicle is simple turning during the roll-over suppressing control; and (2) using a lane change turning control end criterion value, which is lower than the simple turning control end criterion value, as the control end criterion when the turning mode determining means determines that the vehicle is lane change turning during the roll-over suppressing control.