| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an occupant protection device reducing the injury of occupants in a collision. <P>SOLUTION: The occupant protection device comprises a torque distribution ratio control device for controlling a distribution ratio of torque to right and left wheels; a collision avoidance determining means for determining whether the collision of a vehicle can be avoided (step S4); and a vehicle direction control means for controlling the torque distribution ratio control device to rotate the vehicle into a predetermined direction to hardly injure the occupants (step S7) when the collision avoidance determining means determines that the collision of the vehicle is unavoidable (step S4). When the distribution ratio of torque to the right and left wheels is made uneven by the torque distribution ratio control device, difference arises to the rotating speeds of the right and left wheels to change the direction of the vehicle. Utilizing this, when the collision avoidance determining means determines that the collision of the vehicle is unavoidable (step S4), the vehicle direction control means controls the torque distribution ratio control device to rotate the vehicle into the predetermined direction to hardly injure the occupants (step S7). The injure of the occupants in the collision can thereby be reduced. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |
