Patent ID: 8521362

Claim:
A stabilizer control device for a vehicle, comprising: a controller that is specifically configured to: obtain information indicating lateral acceleration operating on the vehicle; obtain information indicating a curve section existing in a traveling direction of the vehicle; control roll stiffness by a stabilizer mounted on the vehicle based on the obtained lateral acceleration information by setting a lateral acceleration threshold at a first value in the curve section and a second value in a section other than the curve section respectively, the first value being smaller than the second value; control the roll stiffness when the lateral acceleration is equal to or larger than the first value when the vehicle is traveling in the curve section and equal to or larger than the second value when the vehicle is traveling in the section other than the curve section; obtain a predicted arrival time for the vehicle to arrive at a start position of the curve section based on a speed of the vehicle and a current position of the vehicle; and set the lateral acceleration threshold to the first value when the predicted arrival time is not longer than a predetermined time.