Motor vehicles – Steering by driving – Independently operable drive motors
Patent
1997-11-21
2000-01-04
DePumpo, Daniel G.
Motor vehicles
Steering by driving
Independently operable drive motors
180 658, 701 42, B62D 1100
Patent
active
06009964&
ABSTRACT:
Motors drive drive wheels of a motor-driven vehicle. A manual-driving-force sensing unit senses manual driving forces for driving the drive wheels and develops manual-driving-force representative signals. A control unit computes, from the manual-driving-force representative signals, preliminary motor driving signals which, when applied to the respective motors, would make the motors produce mechanical driving forces. The control unit also computes, from the preliminary motor driving signals, compensate motor driving signals to be applied to the respective motors, when the direction of rotation of the motors are the same. Each of the compensated motor driving signals is prepared from the corresponding one of the preliminary motor driving signal with the other of the preliminary motor driving signals taken into account.
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DePumpo Daniel G.
Dunn David R.
Nabco Limited
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