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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
William Henry Wittig, Saginaw, MI (US);
Assignee:
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 5/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 5/04 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for improving the return-to-center motion of a steering wheel ( ) wherein a determination of a first and a second value; secondly, derive a set of two values from the first value; thirdly, compute a third value from the set of two values and the first value according to a predetermined formula; and fourth, calculate a steering command using the third value and the second value for enhancing the return-to-center motion.