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Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2018
Applicant:

Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;

Inventors:

Yasumasa Imamura, Hiroshima, JP;

Yasushi Yagi, Hiroshima, JP;

Akihiro Tatara, Aki-gun, JP;

Keisuke Haruta, Aki-gun, JP;

Assignee:

Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/13 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/13 (2013.01); B60W 2300/18 (2013.01); B60W 2510/105 (2013.01); B60W 2520/105 (2013.01); B60W 2520/125 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wheel load estimation method of a four-wheel drive vehicle driven by a rotational driving device comprises a correlation relationship setting step for previously setting a correlation relationship between a total weight and at least one of the front wheel load and the rear wheel load by variously changing a movable load of the vehicle, a total vehicle weight computation step for calculating a current total vehicle weight from an output torque of the rotational driving device and a longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle corresponding to the output torque, and a wheel load estimation step for estimating the wheel load of at least a driving wheel from the correlation relationship and the total vehicle weight.


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