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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2019
Systems, vehicles, and methods for vehicle stability control and trailer brake control collaboration
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Adam VanAntwerp, Chelsea, MI (US);
Corey Zwegers, Dexter, MI (US);
Stephen Robertson, Surprise, AZ (US);
Takayuki Goto, Yokohama, JP;
Yuichi Shimizu, Okazaki, JP;
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for controlling a trailer brake output circuit includes an electronic control unit having one or more processors and one or more memory modules. The trailer brake output circuit is configured to output a trailer brake output signal. Machine readable instructions cause the electronic control unit to: receive a signal from a vehicle stability control system indicating that a vehicle stability control flag is set, generate the trailer brake output signal in response to the vehicle stability control flag being set such that the trailer brake output signal ramps up to a target value over a predefined period of time, maintain the trailer brake output signal at the target value while the vehicle stability control flag is set, and output the trailer brake output signal such that the trailer brake output signal ramps down from the target value when the vehicle stability control flag changes from set to not set.