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Road surface condition estimating apparatus and variation reduction processing apparatus

US6324461A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 29, 1998
Grant dateNov 27, 2001
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Expiry dateJun 29, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB60T2210/12
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed is a road surface condition estimating apparatus including: a converting portion having a table showing a relation among a vehicle speed, a braking force and a resonance gain for each road surface condition and converting a detected value of the input vehicle speed and braking force into a resonance gain on the basis of the table, a subtracting device for computing each of differences between the resonance gain for each road surface condition converted by each of the converting portions and the detected value of the input resonance gain, and a minimum value selecting portion selecting the minimum value among the computed values in the subtracting device and outputting an information of the road surface condition corresponding to the converting portion giving the minimum value.

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