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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2014
Applicants:
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd., Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignees:
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 6/006 (2013.01); B62D 6/008 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of adjusting friction of an MDPS unit may include detecting road surface conditions of a road on which a vehicle travels; classifying the road on which the vehicle travels into a normal road, a low frictional road, a road having a first uneven road surface, and a road having a second uneven road surface; and reducing friction of the MDPS unit of the vehicle when the road on which the vehicle travels is determined as the road having the first uneven road surface.