APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLE

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16439867

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An apparatus for controlling a four-wheel drive vehicle includes a tire friction circle calculator that calculates the size of a tire friction circle of each wheel on the basis of vehicle information including a tire vertical load, a resultant force calculator that calculates the magnitude of a resultant force of tire lateral and longitudinal forces for each wheel, a tire-friction-force usage rate calculator that calculates a tire-friction-force usage rate of each wheel that is the ratio of the magnitude of the resultant force to the size of the tire friction circle, and a driving-braking force adjustment controller that adjusts driving force or braking force applied to each wheel. When the tire-friction-force usage rate of any wheel exceeds a predetermined threshold of less than one, the driving-braking force adjustment controller restrains an increase in the driving force or the braking force of the wheel while increasing the driving force or the braking force of at least one of the other wheels that is selected on the basis of driving operation information indicative of the state of a driving operation by a driver.

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JTEKT CORPORATION1-1 ASAHI-MACHI KARIYA-SHI AICHI-KEN 448-8652

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kimura, Shuuji Kashihara-shi, JP 10 69
NOZU, Tomohiro Anjo-shi, JP 15 99
Yoshimoto, Hiroshi Kashihara-shi, JP 71 365

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