Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Satoru Fukushima

Hiroyuki Ichikawa

Shinsuke Sakane

Chiaki Hamada

The invention is directed to an arrangement for controlling a braking force applied to each of road wheels of a vehicle depending upon a braking condition, with a hydraulic braking pressure supplied to each of the wheel brake cylinders through an actuator. The actuator is controlled by a braking force controller into which output signals of wheel speed sensors are fed. The hydraulic braking pressure applied to each of the wheel brake cylinders is controlled by the braking force controller in accordance with each wheel speed. And, it is determined whether the vehicle is turning or not. If the vehicle is turning, the hydraulic braking pressure in a wheel brake cylinder operatively connected to one of the rear road wheels positioned at the outer side is controlled such that a decreasing operation of the pressure is restrained for at least a predetermined time period.

Anti-skid control system for rear wheels

The invention is directed to an arrangement for controlling a braking force applied to each of driven wheels and non-driven wheels depending upon a braking condition, with a hydraulic braking pressure supplied to each of wheel brake cylinders through an actuator. The actuator is controlled by the braking force controller into which output signals of wheel speed sensors are fed. The braking force controller is arranged to control the hydraulic braking pressure supplied to each of the wheel brake cylinders. When one driven wheel is under the anti-skid control, it is determined whether a difference speed between the driven wheels is greater than a predetermined value. If it is determined that the difference speed is greater than the predetermined value, the actuator is actuated to restrain the hydraulic braking pressure from being supplied to the wheel brake cylinder operatively connected to the other driven wheel, e.g., to hold the hydraulic braking pressure supplied to the wheel brake cylinder, or to reduce a rate of increase of the hydraulic braking pressure.

Anti-skid control system for driven wheels

An anti-skid brake system for a wheeled vehicle including speed sensors for detecting each speed of road wheels of the vehicle and for producing an electric signal indicative of the detected speed of the road wheels, an electronic control apparatus arranged to be applied with the electric signal from the speed sensors for producing a control signal in accordance with conditions of a travel road of the vehicle in braking operation, and an electrically operated actuator arranged to be activated under control of the control apparatus for controlling a hydraulic braking pressure applied to each brake cylinder of the road wheels in response to the control signal, wherein an acceleration speed of the road wheels is calculated in response to the electric signal from the speed sensors, a stepped portion on the travel road is detected by determination of the fact that the detected speed of the road wheels becomes higher than a predetermined reference speed within a predetermined time immediately after activation of the actuator and that the calculated acceleration speed of the road wheels becomes smaller than a predetermined negative value and larger than a predetermined positive value within the predetermined time, and the actuator is deactivated upon detection of the stepped portion on the travel road.

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Chiryu, Japan

Satoru Fukushima