Mazda Motor Corporat Ion

Tom Yoshioka

Daisuke Umetsu

Osamu Sunahara

Yasunori Takahara

Masaki Chiba

There is provided a vehicle behavior control device capable of improving responsivity of a vehicle behavior and a linear feeling with respect to a steering wheel operation without causing a driver to experience a strong feeling of intervention of the control and, at the same time, capable of controlling behavior of a vehicle in such a manner as to also improve stability of the vehicle attitude and riding comfort. In a vehicle behavior control device applied to a vehiclehaving steerable front road wheels, the vehicle behavior control device includes a PCMwhich acquires a steering speed of the vehicle, and increases a vertical load on the front road wheels when the steering speed becomes equal to or greater than a given threshold Twhich is greater than zero.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Tom Yoshioka