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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2006
Naoshi Yamaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsuo Sasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuya Yamano, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Motohiro Higuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Naoshi Yamaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsuo Sasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuya Yamano, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Motohiro Higuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In vehicular driving control apparatus and method, a steering assistance force provided for steerable road wheels of the vehicle in a direction at which a sideslip angle is decreased when a vehicular sideslip angle which is a difference between a forwarding direction of the vehicle and a steering direction of a steering wheel of the vehicle is detected and a vehicular oversteer state is detected, and thereafter, each of road wheels of the vehicle is controlled to decrease the sideslip angle when the steering assistance force is provided in a direction at which the vehicular sideslip angle is decreased and when the sideslip angle is equal to or larger than a predetermined value.