Patents Assigned to A Advics Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11524669
    Abstract: A brake controller according to the present disclosure that changes an effect correlation value correlating to an effect of braking in a first braking system provided in a vehicle in accordance with a vehicle condition of the vehicle includes a control part generating a braking force by at least one of the first braking system and a second braking system different from the first braking system in a case where the vehicle condition is a first condition based on a braking distribution ratio different from that in a case where the vehicle condition is a second condition and a setting part setting the effect correlation values so as to be different from each other in the case where the vehicle condition is the first condition and in the case where the vehicle condition is the second condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hayato Kubota, Daisuke Nakata
  • Patent number: 11524664
    Abstract: A control device is provided with a flow rate derivation part for deriving a pressure-holding-valve flow rate on the basis of a pressure command value and a previous pressure command value; a differential pressure derivation part for deriving a differential-pressure-valve differential pressure value so that the differential-pressure-valve differential pressure value increases with an increase in the difference obtained by subtracting the pressure-holding-valve flow rate from a pump-discharge flow rate; and a pressure-holding-valve processing part for performing an aperture derivation process to derive a command aperture so that the command aperture decreases with an increase in the difference obtained by subtracting the pressure command value from the sum of an pressure value and the differential-pressure-valve differential pressure value, and driving a holding pressure valve at the command aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koya Motoyama, Hiroki Saito, Masayuki Naito
  • Publication number: 20220388513
    Abstract: A vehicle body speed estimation method applied to a four-wheel drive vehicle includes: acquiring an estimated vehicle body speed based on wheel speeds or a longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle; determining whether an operation condition that includes at least a condition that the estimated vehicle body speed is higher than an operation determination speed is satisfied; performing torque limitation to reduce a torque of a portion of wheels of the vehicle when the operation condition is satisfied; determining whether a stop condition that includes a condition that the estimated vehicle body speed is lower than or equal to a stop determination speed or a condition that a duration of a state where a wheel acceleration of the portion of the wheels is higher than zero is longer than or equal to a set period of time; and stopping the torque limitation when the stop condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHAKABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Asada
  • Patent number: 11518351
    Abstract: This braking control device pumps a brake fluid from a reservoir to each wheel cylinder by one fluid pump and includes an electric motor which drives the fluid pump; and a controller which controls the electric motor. The controller calculates a target fluid pressure on the basis of at least one among the vehicle wheel speed, the vehicle deceleration state, and the turning state of the vehicle, calculates a target discharge amount for the fluid pump on the basis of the target fluid pressure, and controls the electric motor on the basis of the target discharge amount. The controller has a front wheel calculation map of the relationship between the fluid pressure and the inflow volume of the brake fluid corresponding to a front wheel cylinder, and a rear wheel calculation map corresponding to a rear wheel cylinder, and calculates the target discharge amount on the basis of the maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Tanaka, Shunya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11518355
    Abstract: A brake control device for controlling an electric parking brake may include: a piston capable of pressing a brake pad in accordance with the hydraulic pressure in a cylinder; a linearly moving member that adjusts, by reciprocating in the cylinder, the pressing force applied to the brake pad by the piston; and an actuator that moves the linearly moving member by operating based on a target pressing force, which is a target value of the pressing force corresponding to an output value obtained from a sensor that detects information correlating with the hydraulic pressure. The brake control device is provided with: an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormality of the sensor; and an actuator control unit that, if an abnormality is detected, controls the operation level of the actuator based on an output value obtained prior to the detection of the abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terushige Uraoka, Keita Nakano
  • Patent number: 11518361
    Abstract: Provided is an electric braking device wherein a friction member is pressed, via a piston driven by an electric motor, against a rotary member that rotates integrally with a vehicle wheel, thus generating a braking force on the vehicle wheel. The electric braking device is provided with: a controller for controlling the electric motor; a rotation angle sensor for detecting a rotation angle of the electric motor; and a return mechanism for applying a return force to a piston in a direction away from the rotary member. Furthermore, the controller executes a proper/improper determination to determine whether the return mechanism is operating properly on the basis of a change in the rotation angle after conduction of electricity to the electric motor is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shun Tsukamoto, Shinichiro Yukoku
  • Patent number: 11511714
    Abstract: This vehicle braking control device executes automatic braking control to adjust a braking torque on the basis of a vehicle target deceleration value corresponding to a distance between the vehicle and an object in front of the vehicle, and executes anti-skid control to suppress excessive wheel slip by adjusting the braking torque on the basis of a wheel speed. The braking control device calculates an actual deceleration value corresponding to the target deceleration value, and executes feedback control on the basis of the target deceleration value and the actual deceleration value such that the actual deceleration value approaches the target deceleration value. The configuration is such that a control gain of the feedback control is reduced when anti-skid control is executed. Further, the configuration may be such that execution of feedback control is prohibited when anti-skid control is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Terasaka, Chisa Kitahara
  • Patent number: 11498538
    Abstract: This braking control device feeds by pressure a braking fluid from a master cylinder to a wheel cylinder, to generate a braking force in a wheel. The braking control device is provided with an input rod; an output rod; first and second electric motors; and first and second racks forming a differential mechanism. When the outputs of the first and second electric motors are controlled, the operation power of the input rod and the displacement of the output rod are controlled independently of each other. Here, in the second rack, the movement, in a backward direction, in response to decrease of a master cylinder fluid pressure is limited within a range of a predetermined displacement by means of two stoppers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Marshall Bull, Shun Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 11485332
    Abstract: In a braking control device, a controller is configured to determine an inside and an outside of a turn by using the yaw rate, to calculate a deflection index based on a standard turning amount corresponding to a steering angle and an actual turning amount corresponding to a yaw rate, to reduce the braking torque of the rear wheel on the outside of the vehicle turn based on the deflection index when an excessive deceleration slip of the rear wheel on the inside of the vehicle turn is inhibited during an execution of anti-skid control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Terasaka, Chisa Kitahara
  • Patent number: 11485338
    Abstract: This electric braking device is provided with: an electric motor MTR that, in accordance with an operation amount Bpa of a braking operation member BP, generates a pressing force Fba, being a force pressing a friction member MSB against a rotary member KTB that rotates integrally with a wheel WHL of the vehicle; and a circuit board KBN to which a processor MPR and a bridge circuit BRG are mounted. The device is further provided with a rotation angle sensor MKA for detecting the rotation angle Mka of the electric motor, and drives the electric motor MTR on the basis of the rotation angle Mka. An end face Mmk of the rotation angle sensor MKA is fixed so as to be in contact with the circuit board KBN. The device is further provided with a pressing force sensor FBA for detecting the pressing force Fba, and drives the electric motor MTR on the basis of the pressing force Fba. An end face Mfb of the pressing force sensor FBA is fixed so as to be in contact with the circuit board KBN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yasui, Tomonori Katsuyama
  • Publication number: 20220332301
    Abstract: A brake device includes: a first pressurizing unit configured to increase a WC pressure by supplying brake fluid into wheel cylinders provided in wheels RL and RR; a second pressurizing unit connected to a reservoir tank via a fourth flow passage and configured to increase the WC pressure by supplying the brake fluid taken in from the reservoir tank into the wheel cylinders; and a brake control unit configured to control at least one of the first pressurizing unit and the second pressurizing unit based on a target WC pressure. The brake control unit is configured to, when the WC pressure is to be increased by operating the second pressurizing unit, execute an auxiliary brake control in which the first pressurizing unit is operated to assist the second pressurizing unit to increase the WC pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke YAMAMOTO, Yoshio MASUDA
  • Patent number: 11472382
    Abstract: A control device is applied to a vehicle that has a braking device configured to be able to adjust the braking force applied to the vehicle. The control device has a stopping braking force imparting unit that controls the braking device in order to apply a stopping braking force to the vehicle, as a minimum value of the braking force required to keep the vehicle stopped. The control device also has a deviation quantity deriving unit that derives a deviation quantity between a state quantity of the vehicle obtained when the stopping braking force is applied to the vehicle by the stopping braking force imparting unit and an ideal value of the state quantity of the vehicle. The control device also has a stopping braking force updating unit that updates the stopping braking force on the basis of the deviation quantity derived by the deviation quantity deriving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hiromura, Yukio Mori, Masayuki Asano
  • Publication number: 20220324428
    Abstract: A braking control device includes a “master cylinder CM capable of pressure feeding brake fluid BF in conjunction with the movement of a brake operating member BP of a vehicle”, an “electrically driven fluid unit HU”, “front wheel and rear wheel cylinders CWf, CWr that are provided on the front wheel and rear wheel WHf, WHr of the vehicle and are pressurized by either one of the master cylinder CM and the fluid unit HU”, and a “controller ECU that controls the fluid unit HU”. The controller ECU determines whether or not external leakage of a brake fluid BF has occurred in the braking control device, and when the external leakage has occurred, pressurizes the front wheel cylinder CWf by the master cylinder CM, and pressurizes the rear wheel cylinder CWr by the fluid unit HU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi YOGO, Masataka SAKAUE
  • Publication number: 20220324426
    Abstract: A vehicle braking device includes a first supply device that supplies brake fluid to wheel cylinders, a first supply path that connects the first supply device and the wheel cylinders, and first and second electromagnetic valves provided on the first supply path. The first electromagnetic valve is disposed on the first supply path such that a seating direction of the first electromagnetic valve and a brake fluid supply direction are opposite each other, the seating direction is a direction in which a valve body is seated on a valve seat, and the brake fluid supply direction is a direction in which the brake fluid flows from the first supply device to the wheel cylinders through the first supply path. The second electromagnetic valve is disposed on the first supply path such that a seating direction of the second electromagnetic valve and the brake fluid supply direction are the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori SAKATA, Akihito KUSANO
  • Patent number: 11469698
    Abstract: A motor control device includes an acquisition unit that obtains a q-axis current component of a current vector generated when electricity is supplied to a brushless motor to generate a voltage vector along a direction of an estimated d-axis; a correction unit that corrects the direction of the estimated d-axis according to the q-axis current component to approach the direction of the estimated d-axis approach to the direction of the actual d-axis; and a control axis changing unit that changes the estimated d-axis direction by a prescribed angle when a magnitude of the q-axis current component is less than a threshold value by the correction of the direction of the estimated d-axis by the correction unit for the first time after the control axis setting control start or when a magnitude of the q-axis current component is less than the threshold value at the control axis setting control start.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hikaru Kawamura, Tomoya Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20220316543
    Abstract: A friction member according to an embodiment is a friction material having a copper content of less than 5 wt %, the friction material including a titanic acid salt having a content of 1 wt % or more and 8 wt % or less, a cryolite powder having a content of 0.5 wt % or more and 5 wt % or less, and an iron oxide powder having a median diameter of 15 to 30 ?m (D50) and a content of 1 wt % or more and 10 wt % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shusuke SUZUKI, Naoki ODANI, Masaaki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220315018
    Abstract: A manager to be mounted on a vehicle includes a reception unit that receives a plurality of kinematic plans from a plurality of ADAS applications, an arbitration unit that performs arbitration of the kinematic plans, a calculation unit that calculates a motion request based on a result of the arbitration at the arbitration unit, and a distribution unit that distributes the motion request to at least one actuator system. The reception unit receives information related to arbitration targets of the arbitration unit from the ADAS applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki MIYAKE, Akitsugu SAKAI, Shunsuke ARAKAWA, Yuma MORI, Jun AOKI
  • Publication number: 20220314812
    Abstract: A braking control device is applied to, for example, a vehicle in which a regenerative braking force is generated on a front wheel by a regenerative generator provided on the front wheel. The braking control device includes an actuator configured to individually generate a front wheel friction braking force on the front wheel and a rear wheel friction braking force Fmr on a rear wheel of the vehicle; and a braking controller configured to control the actuator. In the braking control device, the braking controller is configured to regulate the front and rear wheel friction braking forces based on a normative regenerative force corresponding to a rotation speed equivalent value equivalent to a rotation speed of the regenerative generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki YAMAMOTO, Kazutoshi YOGO
  • Patent number: 11458940
    Abstract: A brake ECU sets target slippage degrees of three wheels other than the front outer wheel to the slippage degree of the front outer wheel and feedback-controls the braking forces of the three wheels such that the actual slippage degrees of the three wheels approach the target slippage degrees. The brake ECU computes a correction amount for the slip ratio deviation of the front inner wheel such that the slip ratio deviation becomes zero. The brake ECU multiplies the correction amount for the slip ratio deviation by a load ratio and uses the resultant value as a correction amount for the slip ratio deviation of the rear inner wheel. The brake ECU corrects the slip ratio deviation by using the computed correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hara, Hiroaki Nagase, Kei Amamoto
  • Patent number: 11456642
    Abstract: A motor device includes a motor body having a stator and a rotor, and an EDU for controlling the motor body. A hydro unit is disposed between the motor body and the EDU (Electric Driver Unit). In the motor body, a plurality of terminal lines for energizing the coil of the stator and the EDU is drawn around, and a rotation detection unit for detecting the rotation of the rotor is provided a space formed between the plurality of drawn terminal lines and the rotation shaft of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION ADVICS CO., LTD., ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Suzuki, Motoki Uehama, Atsushi Inoue