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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 1990
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1988
Takashi Imaseki, Zushi, JP;
Yuji Kobari, Zushi, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A differential limiting torque control system for a vehicle includes a differential limiting clutch provided in a differential, a sensing section including sensors such as an accelerator position sensor, and sensors for sensing speeds of left and right front wheels and left and right rear wheels, and a control unit controlling a differential limiting torque of the differential limiting clutch in accordance with an accelerator opening degree of movement, a left and right drive wheel speed difference, and a drive wheel slip which is represented, for example, by a front and rear wheel speed difference, in such a manner that the differential limiting torque is held equal to a difference obtained by subtraction whose subtrahend is a quantity proportional to the drive wheel slip, and whose minuend is a sum of a quantity proportional to the accelerator opening degree and a quantity proportional to the left and right drive wheel speed difference. The control unit may further control the differential limiting torque in accordance with a lateral acceleration in such a manner that the subtrahend is decreased with increase of the lateral acceleration.