Four-wheel drive vehicle

Details Four-wheel drive vehicle Four-wheel drive vehicle

2005-01-25

2005-01-25

Morris, Lesley D. (Department: 3611)

Motor vehicles

Having four wheels driven

With differential means for driving two wheel sets at...

C180S233000, C701S069000, C701S070000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06845838

ABSTRACT:
A four-wheel drive vehicle provides a torque distribution clutch mechanism which directly transmits the driving force generated from the engine to one of two front wheels or two rear wheels, and which transmits it to the other wheels therethrough in order to control the engaging force in accordance with a traveling status of the four-wheel drive vehicle. The vehicle further comprises a tight corner judging structure, a normal mode setting structure, a low friction road judging structure and a tight mode setting structure. The tight corner judging structure judges whether the vehicle travels at a large turning angle or not, and the normal mode setting structure sets a normal mode to control the engaging force when it is judged by the tight corner judging structure that the vehicle does not travel at the large turning angle. Further, the low friction road judging structure judges whether the vehicle travels on a low friction road or not, and the tight mode setting structure for setting a tight mode to control the engaging force in a condition that it is judged by the tight corner judging structure that the vehicle travels at the large turning angle when it is judged by the low friction road judging structure that the vehicle dose not travel on the low friction road.

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