Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Miki Mori

Yasuki Motozawa

Yutaka Horiuchi

Daisuke Fujii

[TASK] The wheel alignment of rear wheels can be properly set without using an alignment tester if the rear wheels are equipped with a rear wheel toe angle control device. [SOLUTION] In a calibration drive control, an ECU () actuates electric actuators () until the front wheel steering angle (&#x3b4;f) becomes zero or the rear wheel toe angles (&#x3b4;r) are symmetric to each other (steps Sand D) to thereby achieve a symmetric toe angle position (Ssym) (step S). Then, the ECU () actuates the electric actuators () from the symmetric toe angle position (Ssym) by a same amount so as to cause the rear wheel toe angles to be a neutral value, and a reference position (S) to be substantially equal to a standard operational position (Sstd) or an axial force (AF) to be substantially equal to a standard axial force (AFstd) (step S). At this time, the operational position detected value (Sdtc) may be reset as the reference position (S) (step S).

Rear wheel toe angle control device and method for calibrating a reference position of an electric actuator in a rear wheel toe angle control device

In a lock device of a sliding mechanism, a pair of locking claws provided on a moving member are brought into resilient engagement with locking grooves of a locking groove group, whereby downward sliding of the moving member is permitted but upward sliding thereof is locked. The distance between the locking claws is longer than distance between the locking grooves, so that the moving member becomes locked against upward sliding at an interval smaller than the distance between the locking grooves. Thus, the moving member adapted to slide in one (downward) direction along a guide rail can be reliably locked against movement in the opposite (upward) direction at a very small interval.

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Miki Mori