Patent ID: 6961649

Claim:
A vehicle motion control apparatus comprising: wheel brake cylinders operatively associated with wheels of a vehicle, respectively; a master cylinder connected to said wheel brake cylinders through a dual hydraulic circuit with a pair of wheel brake cylinders included in each hydraulic circuit, said master cylinder discharging a hydraulic braking pressure into each hydraulic circuit in response to operation of a brake pedal; hydraulic pressure regulating means disposed between said master cylinder and said pair of wheel brake cylinders, for regulating the hydraulic braking pressure supplied into each of said pair of wheel brake cylinders; vehicle state monitor means for monitoring state variable of said vehicle; turning determination means for determining whether a wheel out of said wheels of said vehicle operatively associated with said pair of wheel brake cylinders is located on the inside of a curve along which said vehicle is turning, or located on the outside of the curve; road holding determination means for determining a state of road holding of said wheel determined by turning determination means to be located on the inside of the curve; desired value setting means for setting a desired value for said wheel determined by turning determination means to be located on the outside of the curve, at least in response to the result determined by said road holding determination means; and control means for controlling said pressure regulating means in response to a result of comparison between the desired value set by said desired value setting means and the state variable monitored by said vehicle state monitor means, to regulate the hydraulic braking pressure in said wheel brake cylinder operatively associated with said wheel located on the outside of the curve.