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Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 26, 2014
Applicant:

Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Norihisa Nihanda, Wako, JP;

Takayuki Seki, Wako, JP;

Shoichi Ohyagi, Wako, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 23/08 (2006.01); B60W 10/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 23/0808 (2013.01); B60W 10/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A travel control apparatus for a four-wheel drive vehicle includes a throttle controller, a driving force distributor, a four-wheel drive controller, a vehicle stability assist controller, a requested target drive torque calculator, and an estimated drive torque calculator. In a case where a failure detector detects a failure and the four-wheel drive controller changes a drive control from a four-wheel drive control to a two-wheel drive control, the travel control apparatus sends a first throttle control signal to the throttle controller and changes the drive control from the four-wheel drive control to the two-wheel drive control when an estimated drive torque is greater than an requested target drive torque, and the travel control apparatus changes the drive control from the four-wheel drive control to the two-wheel drive control without sending the first throttle control signal when the estimated drive torque is not greater than the requested target drive torque.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Nihanda, Norihisa. (2015). Travel control apparatus for four-wheel drive vehicle and travel control method for four-wheel drive vehicle (U.S. Patent No. 9014938). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9014938

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