Patent ID: 8219296

Claim:
A control device for controlling a front-wheel drive force and a rear-wheel drive force of a vehicle, the control device comprising: first control means for controlling a drive force of a main drive wheel and a drive force of an auxiliary drive wheel, the drive force of the main drive wheel being one of the front-wheel drive force and the rear-wheel drive force, and the drive force of the auxiliary drive wheel being another of the front-wheel drive force and the rear-wheel drive force; and second control means for sending to the first control means an auxiliary-drive-wheel-limiting drive force for limiting the drive force of the auxiliary drive wheel in a case that the vehicle is traveling in an unstable state, wherein the second control means has: a first calculation unit for calculating a first limiting drive force on the basis of lateral acceleration of the vehicle; a second calculation unit for calculating a second limiting drive force on the basis of longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle, and wherein the second control means sends to the first control means a maximum limiting drive force among the first limiting drive force and the second limiting drive force as the auxiliary-drive-wheel-limiting drive force.