Patents Assigned to Advics Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12043230
    Abstract: A brake control device forming a brake device includes an acquisition unit acquiring an operation value which is a value relating to an operation of a brake pedal in each control cycle, a target derivation unit deriving a final target braking power BPTrF which is a target of a braking power at a point in time when a prescribed time passes from a start of the operation of the brake pedal based on an increase state of the operation value when the operation of the brake pedal is started, and a brake controller increasing a vehicle braking power BP toward the final target braking power BPTrF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaki Maruyama
  • Patent number: 12036968
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake system for a vehicle, including: a wheel brake device configured to generate a braking force based on a pressure of a working fluid; a first brake system including a high-pressure source device including an accumulator and a first pump device that is driven intermittently such that a pressure of the working fluid in the accumulator is not lower than a set lower limit pressure and not higher than a set upper limit pressure; a second brake system including a second pump device; and a main power source that supplies electricity to the first and second brake systems, wherein the hydraulic brake system includes an auxiliary power source that supplies electricity to the first brake system when a failure occurs in the main power source, and wherein the first pump device is continuously driven when the failure occurs irrespective of the pressure in the accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Shun Mizoo, Ken Kuzuya
  • Publication number: 20240227761
    Abstract: A vehicle which adopts a control device as a braking control device includes a sensor that acquires a rotation angle of a wheel. The control device includes a first distance calculation unit, a second distance calculation unit, and a braking control unit. The first distance calculation unit sets a braking force corresponding to a braking operation member operation amount as a reference braking force, estimates vehicle longitudinal acceleration based on the reference braking force, and calculates a braking force reference distance estimating a moving distance until the vehicle stops based on the longitudinal acceleration. The second distance calculation unit calculates a wheel reference distance estimating the vehicle moving distance based on a detection signal of the sensor and a wheel diameter. The braking control unit executes feedback control for controlling the vehicle braking force so that a difference between the braking force reference distance and the wheel reference distance decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusaku YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12030495
    Abstract: A travel assist device includes: a creation unit configured to create a traveling profile based on a total traveling distance; and an output unit configured to output an operation amount according to a target state amount, which is a target value of a state amount indicated by the traveling profile, to at least one of a driving device and a braking device. In a state in which a vehicle travels by the driving of at least one of the above devices based on the operation amount, the creation unit re-creates a traveling profile so that the acceleration of the vehicle does not exceed a predetermined limit value if the difference between an actual value of the state amount and the target state amount is equal to or larger than a judgment difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yosuke Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20240221505
    Abstract: A vehicle trouble handling system 100 includes a trouble detection unit M11 that detects occurrence of trouble relating to travelling of a vehicle 10 in the vehicle 10, a trouble information transmission unit M13 that acquires trouble information relating to the trouble detected by the trouble detection unit M11, a countermeasure generation unit M15 that generates a countermeasure corresponding to the trouble detected by the trouble detection unit M11 on the basis of the trouble information acquired by the trouble information transmission unit M13, and a countermeasure implementation unit M17 that implements processing corresponding to the countermeasure generated by the countermeasure generation unit M15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuzo YONEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240208480
    Abstract: During a normal condition of a braking control device, a first instruction unit gives instructions of braking force to be applied to a first wheel and a third wheel, and a second instruction unit gives instructions of braking force to be applied to a second wheel and a fourth wheel. When a failure occurs in the first instruction unit and the first instruction unit can no longer give the instructions of the braking force to be applied to the first wheel and the third wheel, the second instruction unit takes over the task of giving the instruction of braking force to be applied to the first wheel, and a third instruction unit takes over the task of giving the instruction of braking force to be applied to the third wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro MASAKI, Ryota MAENO
  • Patent number: 12017628
    Abstract: A brake control device is applied to a brake device that controls a front-wheel braking force and a rear-wheel braking force. The brake control device includes a ratio calculation circuit that calculates a target front and rear braking force distribution ratio based on a target pitch angle, and a brake control circuit that performs a stability control by operating the brake device based on the target front and rear braking force distribution ratio during braking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusaku Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12017631
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a braking control device that executes an anti-skid control for reducing a braking force when a difference between a target deceleration and an actual deceleration of a vehicle is greater than or equal to a reference value in a braking state in which the braking force is applied to a wheel according to an increase in the target deceleration of the vehicle, the braking control device including a control unit that executes a specific control for reducing an intervention degree of the anti-skid control as a response delay of the actual deceleration with respect to the increase in the target deceleration in the braking state becomes larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kei Amamoto
  • Patent number: 12017712
    Abstract: A travel control device includes a turning control unit configured to execute turning support control causing a turning state quantity to follow a target turning state quantity by causing at least one of a front wheel steered angle adjustment device, a rear wheel steered angle adjustment device, and a braking device to be driven, and a steering instruction unit configured to, when steering is not being performed during the execution of turning support control, derive a holding torque and instruct a steering device to apply the holding torque to a steering wheel. The turning control unit causes the rear wheel steered angle adjustment device and/or the braking device to be driven but causes the front wheel steered angle adjustment device not to be driven when steering is not being performed. The turning control unit causes the front wheel steered angle adjustment device to be driven when steering is being performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yosuke Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 12017623
    Abstract: A brake system includes a master cylinder configured to generate a hydraulic pressure, a primary brake actuator configured to increase and decrease the hydraulic pressure generated in the master cylinder, a secondary brake actuator connected in series with and downstream of the master cylinder and in series with and upstream of the primary brake actuator, and configured to increase and decrease the hydraulic pressure generated in the master cylinder, and at least one wheel cylinder configured to apply brake torque to a wheel of a vehicle based on the hydraulic pressure generated by the master cylinder and increased or decreased by the primary actuator or the secondary actuator. An automatic brake hold control method includes sequential performing an automatic brake hold control on at least one wheel cylinder by the primary brake actuator and then the secondary brake actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mark Kerby, Josh Heyden, Marc Basta, Ryuzo Tsuruhara
  • Patent number: 12017624
    Abstract: A vehicle braking device includes a first supply unit supplying fluid to main flow channels connected to wheel cylinders of a vehicle, a differential solenoid valve provided on the main flow channels and generating a differential pressure across the differential solenoid valve, a second supply unit supplying fluid to the wheel cylinders by drawing at least some fluid supplied from the first supply unit through branch flow channels branching off from the main flow channels upstream of the differential solenoid valve, and a setting unit setting a supply amount of fluid supplied from the first supply unit in accordance with a draw amount of fluid drawn by the second supply unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Maruyama, Yoshio Masuda, Shunya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12018675
    Abstract: A pump includes a fluid outflow mechanism that causes the brake fluid in the discharge chamber to flow out into the suction chamber in accordance with decrease in the volume of the discharge chamber when the feed ring of the valve portion decreases the volume of the discharge chamber in cooperation with the increasing movement of the volume of the first pump chamber in a state where the first pump chamber and the discharge chamber are filled with brake fluid in the suction step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoo Harada
  • Publication number: 20240200628
    Abstract: A friction material composition including a fiber substrate, a binder, an organic filler and an inorganic filler, wherein the content of copper in the friction material composition is 5% by mass or less in terms of elemental copper, and the friction material composition includes magnesite as the inorganic filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi UJITA, Hiroki HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 12015359
    Abstract: A current command value deriving unit of a motor control device derives a d-axis current command value and a q-axis current command value based on a torque current map and a torque command value. A voltage command value deriving unit executes a first process of deriving a d-axis voltage command value based on the d-axis current command value and deriving a q-axis voltage command value based on q-axis current command value, and a second process of deriving the d-axis voltage command value based on the q-axis current command value and deriving the q-axis voltage command value based on a limit voltage and the d-axis voltage command value. When a motor is driven by field-weakening control, the voltage command value deriving unit switches from the second process to the first process when it is determined that the voltage command value satisfying the torque command value is derivable by the first process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya Horie, Tomoya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12005880
    Abstract: A vehicle brake system, including: a first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism and a second hydraulic-pressure control mechanism configured to control a braking force; and a controller including a first-abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism is in a first abnormal state, a second-abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism is in a second abnormal state that the first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism reaches before reaching the first abnormal state, and an assist control device configured to control the second braking-force control mechanism so as to control the braking force when an assist wait time elapses after the second-abnormal-state detecting device has detected that the first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism is in the second abnormal state, the assist wait time being determined based on a temperature of a working fluid obtained by a temperature obtaining device o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Misuzu Shimazaki, Yusuke Kamiya, Ken Kuzuya
  • Publication number: 20240166055
    Abstract: Front and rear wheel required braking forces are calculated so that a braking force required as a whole of the vehicle matches the sum of the front and rear wheel required braking forces, and a ratio of the rear wheel required braking force to the front wheel required braking force is constant. When the front and rear wheel required braking forces are equal to or less than the maximum front and rear wheel regenerative braking forces, the front and rear wheel required braking forces are achieved only by the front and rear wheel regenerative braking forces. When the front and rear wheel required braking forces are larger than the maximum front and rear wheel regenerative braking forces, the front and rear wheel required braking forces are achieved by the front and rear wheel regenerative braking forces and the front and rear wheel frictional braking forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki MARUYAMA, Takayuki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240166186
    Abstract: An actuator supplies a front wheel brake fluid pressure and a rear wheel brake fluid pressure equal to generate front and rear wheel frictional braking forces. A controller calculates a braking force required as a whole of a vehicle, and calculates front and rear wheel required braking forces so that a sum of the front and rear wheel required braking force matches a target vehicle body braking force and the ratio of the rear wheel required braking force to the front wheel required braking force is a constant value. A rear wheel restricted regenerative braking force is calculated by multiplying the maximum front wheel regenerative braking force by a constant value, and the smaller one of maximum rear wheel regenerative braking force and the rear wheel restricted regenerative braking force is determined as the rear wheel reference regenerative braking force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki MARUYAMA, Takayuki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240140376
    Abstract: A braking control device includes a control unit that controls a braking force in accordance with an operation amount of a braking operation member, and a braking determination unit that determines whether or not a reduction in the operation amount of the braking operation member has been started when the braking force is applied to a vehicle due to the operation of the braking operation member. In a case where a reduction rate of the operation amount upon determination that the reduction in the operation amount has been started is equal to or larger than a reduction rate determination value, the control unit starts limitation processing of providing a limitation to the reduction rate of the braking force against the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusaku YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240140435
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a processor. The processor calculates an instruction value of an operation request for controlling an operation of an actuator mounted on a vehicle based on a motion request from an application. The processor executes feedback control on the instruction value using a deviation between the motion request and a motion result of the vehicle that is calculated based on one of detection values of four wheel velocity sensors. The processor calculates the motion result in the feedback control based on a detection value indicating the second largest vehicle body velocity among the vehicle body velocities indicated by the detection values of the four wheel velocity sensors when the vehicle is braked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta OHASHI, Mitsutaka TANIMOTO, Hidehisa KATO, Michihiro OTSUBO
  • Publication number: 20240132035
    Abstract: A vehicle which adopts a control device as a braking control device includes a sensor that acquires a rotation angle of a wheel. The control device includes a first distance calculation unit, a second distance calculation unit, and a braking control unit. The first distance calculation unit sets a braking force corresponding to a braking operation member operation amount as a reference braking force, estimates vehicle longitudinal acceleration based on the reference braking force, and calculates a braking force reference distance estimating a moving distance until the vehicle stops based on the longitudinal acceleration. The second distance calculation unit calculates a wheel reference distance estimating the vehicle moving distance based on a detection signal of the sensor and a wheel diameter. The braking control unit executes feedback control for controlling the vehicle braking force so that a difference between the braking force reference distance and the wheel reference distance decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusaku YAMAMOTO