Patent ID: 7643926

Claim:
A rolling motion stability control apparatus for restraining a roll increasing tendency of a vehicle to stabilize a rolling motion thereof, comprising: wheel brake means for applying braking force to wheels of said vehicle; turning direction determination means for determining whether a turning direction of said vehicle is one direction or an other direction; state variable acquiring means for acquiring a state variable indicative of a rolling motion of said vehicle; first braking force control means for starting to apply a first braking force to at least one of said wheels through said wheel brake means, when said turning direction determination means determines that said vehicle is turned to the one direction of said vehicle and the roll state variable acquired by said state variable acquiring means exceeds a reference for starting control of said first braking force control means; second braking force control means for starting to apply a second braking force to at least one of said wheels through said wheel brake means, when said turning direction determination means determines that said vehicle is turned to the other direction of said vehicle and the roll state variable acquired by said state variable acquiring means exceeds a reference for starting control of said second braking force control means; and reference setting means for setting a first predetermined value as the reference for starting control of said first braking force control means and for setting a second predetermined value as the reference for starting control of the second braking force control means, and modifying the reference for starting the control of said second braking force control means to be smaller than the second predetermined value, when said turning direction determination means determines that said vehicle is turned to the one direction of said vehicle; wherein the one direction is one of a left direction and a right direction, and the other direction is the other of the left direction and the right direction.