Patent ID: 7252346

Claim:
A braking force control apparatus for an automotive vehicle, comprising: a cornering stability control section that calculates a target deceleration required to maintain a vehicular stability cornering when determining that a cornering state variable of the vehicle is in excess of a braking operation threshold value which has a slight margin for a limit cornering state variable up to which the vehicle is enabled to travel stably and provides a braking force in accordance with the target deceleration for the vehicle; and a cornering limit estimating section that estimates whether the cornering state variable of the vehicle is in excess of the braking operation threshold value after a predetermined delay time is elapsed from a present time, the cornering stability control section being configured to start a provision of the braking force for the vehicle when the cornering limit estimating section estimates that the cornering state variable of the vehicle is in excess of the braking operation threshold value after the predetermined delay time is elapsed from the present time.