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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2020
Applicant:
Jtekt Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Hirokazu Kondo, Takahama, JP;
Assignee:
JTEKT CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 23/08 (2006.01); F16D 48/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 23/08 (2013.01); F16D 48/06 (2013.01); F16D 2500/50293 (2013.01);
Abstract
A control device is mountable on a four-wheel drive vehicle including a main drive wheel and an auxiliary drive wheel, and is configured to control a drive force transmission device configured to transmit a drive force to the auxiliary drive wheel. The control device includes a processor and a memory storing a program, when executed by the processor, to cause the control device to change a control characteristic of the drive force transmission device that indicates a relationship between a vehicle state of the four-wheel drive vehicle and a drive force transmitted to the auxiliary drive wheel in response to an input from the input device.