Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Subaru Corporation

Masato Nakatake

Toshi Ishida

Yoshiaki Utsugi

Masahiro Saito

Daisuke Yamada

Masaru Kogure

Shinji Matsushita

Yuichiro Tsukasaki

Tsukasa Sato

Hidehisa Tomizawa

Toshiyuki Hyuga

Kensuke Ohshima

Kazuya Morota

Kazuya Ando

Kenji Watanuki

Hajime Terasaki

Masashi Imoto

Takashi Kogure

A vehicle front-wheel turning control apparatus includes a drive force transmission path, a braking force controller, a detector, and a front-wheel turning controller. The detector detects one of occurred contact of the vehicle with respect to a forward object at an occurred contact position and unavoidable contact thereof at an unavoidable contact position. The front-wheel turning controller turns one, of the left and right front wheels, to which the drive force is transmitted, by causing the braking force controller to apply the braking force to the one of the left and right front wheels, on a basis of a state of the drive force transmitted to each of the left and right front wheels and one of the occurred and unavoidable contact positions, when the one of the occurred contact and the unavoidable contact is detected by the detector.

Vehicle front-wheel turning control apparatus

A suspension device has longitudinal force compliance steer properties to steer a rear wheel to toe-in or toe-out according to increase in longitudinal force applied to wheel treads of a rear wheel. The suspension device includes: a hub bearing housing; suspension links having both edges pivotally attached to a vehicle body and a hub bearing respectively, to support the hub bearing housing; a suspension spring generating reaction force corresponding to relative displacement amount in the longitudinal direction of the hub bearing housing as to the vehicle body; a damper generating damping force corresponding to relative speed in the longitudinal direction of the hub bearing housing as to the vehicle body; and a toe change generating unit generating toe change in a direction where toe change due to longitudinal force compliance properties is temporarily cancelled out or suppressed at an early stage of turning of the vehicle.

Suspension device

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Tokyo, Japan

Masato Nakatake