Patent ID: 8764124

Claim:
A brake control apparatus comprising: a braking force generating section adapted to generate braking forces at left and right front road wheels and left and right rear road wheels of a vehicle in accordance with a braking force request; and a control unit connected for signal communication therewith to the braking force generating section, wherein the control unit includes: a vehicle behavior calculating section configured to calculate dynamic behavior of the vehicle, wherein the calculated dynamic behavior includes a calculated lateral acceleration, a calculated yaw rate, and a calculated rolling behavior; a first braking force distribution calculating section configured to calculate a first setpoint of distribution of the braking forces depending on the calculated lateral acceleration and the calculated yaw rate; a second braking force distribution calculating section configured to calculate a second setpoint of distribution of the braking forces depending on the calculated rolling behavior; and a braking force distribution control section configured to perform a braking force distribution control of selecting one of the first and second setpoints depending on the calculated dynamic behavior, and operating the braking force generating section with the braking force request set to the selected setpoint.