Arrangement for the control of the rear wheels of motor vehicles in dependence on a steering deflection of the front wheels

US4786065A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Edmund Donges · Fürstenfeldbruck, DE
• Reinhard Auffhammer · Munich, DE
• Benedikt Mueller · Dornstetten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 20, 1987
• Grant date: Nov 22, 1988
• Expiry date: Jul 20, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D7/159
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An arrangement for steering the rear wheels of motor vehicles as a function of the steering deflection of the front wheels, with mechanically decoupled steering means for front and rear wheels and a transmission element for the adjustment of the steering means of the rear wheels corresponding to the steering deflection of the front wheels; the rear wheels are thereby adjusted in the same direction as the direction of the front wheels only after the lapse of a short period of delay time whereby the delay time is the smaller and the steering deflection of the rear wheels in relation to the front wheels the larger the higher the driving velocity.