Patents Assigned to Advics Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20230219544Abstract: A braking control device includes a braking control unit that controls a braking device, a load reduction amount derivation unit that derives a reduction amount of a load input from a vehicle body to a suspension for a second wheel, and an anti-force derivation unit that derives an anti-lift force. The braking control unit performs posture braking processing of adjusting the second braking force so that the difference between the reduction amount of the load and the anti-lift force is less than or equal to a difference determination value, and adjusting the first braking force so that the vehicle braking force becomes the required value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yusaku YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230219542Abstract: The braking control device includes a control amount derivation unit that derives a target vehicle braking force representing a target value of a vehicle braking force applied, and a braking control unit that controls a regenerative braking device and a frictional braking device based on the target vehicle braking force. When the target vehicle braking force is increased, the braking control unit executes a braking force application process of increasing the frictional braking force applied to the wheel so that such frictional braking force becomes larger than the regenerative braking force applied to the wheel. When the target vehicle braking force is increased, the braking control unit executes a switching process of switching at least a part of the frictional braking force applied to the wheel to the regenerative braking force to increase the regenerative braking force applied to the wheel after execution of the braking force application process.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yusaku YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230219550Abstract: An electric parking brake device includes: a “linear motion member configured to be driven by an electric motor, moved in a forward direction so as to apply a parking brake and moved in a backward direction opposite to the forward direction so as to release the parking brake”; and a “controller configured to control the electric motor”. When the parking brake is released, the controller stops energization to the electric motor at a time point when a first predetermined time elapses after a time point when an energization amount to the electric motor becomes constant.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaya KOTANI, Kentaro YUASA, Daisuke SATO
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Publication number: 20230211765Abstract: The braking device includes: a motor including a power terminal for power reception and being configured to adjust a braking force applied to a wheel in accordance with rotation of a rotary shaft; a substrate orthogonal to an extending direction of the power terminal and connected to the power terminal; and a housing provided at a position facing the substrate. The motor is provided between the housing and the substrate such that the power terminal faces the substrate, and is provided in the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi OTAKE, Atsushi TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20230208244Abstract: A motor unit includes: a motor provided with a first chamber and including a shaft; a rotary member coupled to the shaft outside the first chamber; a housing provided with a second chamber accommodating the rotary member; and a guide member including a peripheral wall between the first chamber and the second chamber, the guide member being provided with a third chamber inside the peripheral wall, wherein the motor unit is provided with a fourth chamber which is outside the first chamber and is open to an inner surface of the second chamber and/or the third chamber, the inner surface of the third chamber includes a guide, and the guide extends farther away from a rotation axis as is closer to the fourth chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhito NAKASHIMA, Atsushi INOUE, Kyohei ASAHI, Keiji OGAWA
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Patent number: 11679807Abstract: A control device is applied to a vehicle including a steering device changing a tire angle in synchronization with a change in a steering angle while assisting in steering by driving an electric machine. The control device performs a steering support control for controlling a tire angle and a steering angle by driving the electric machine. The control device includes a control drive amount calculation unit calculating a control drive amount based on the target tire angle in a state where the steering support control is executed. The control device includes a steering drive amount calculation unit calculating a steering drive amount being a drive amount of the electric machine related to a steering torque. The control device includes a control unit that controls the electric machine based on the cooperative drive amount, during steering movement of the driver in a state where the steering support control is executed.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yosuke Ohmori
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Publication number: 20230173926Abstract: A vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a brake device and an electronic control unit. The brake device is configured to change a front-rear distribution ratio of braking force with respect to front and rear wheels. The electronic control unit is configured to: control the brake device such that the front-rear distribution ratio is in accordance with a fixed distribution characteristic in which the front-rear distribution ratio is constant regardless of deceleration of the vehicle in at least a part of a first range being a required deceleration range lower than a lower limit value of the deceleration perceivable by a person in the vehicle; and control the brake device such that the front-rear distribution ratio is biased toward the rear wheel than that in the fixed distribution characteristic in a second range in which the deceleration is higher than that in the first range.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Nozomu MARUHASHI, Yuichi Shimizu, Toshiki Hara, Yoshitaka Fujita
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Patent number: 11648919Abstract: A braking control device includes a first control unit configured to execute first control for reducing a target braking force, which is either a front-wheel braking force to be applied to front wheels of a vehicle or a rear-wheel braking force to be applied to rear wheels during increasing of deceleration of the vehicle, in a case that a behavior of the vehicle is unstable as the target braking force is increased; and a second control unit configured to execute second control for reducing a rate of increase in the target braking force and increasing a rate of increase in the front-wheel braking force or the rear-wheel braking force, which is not the target braking force, prior to execution of the first control.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yusaku Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11628815Abstract: The present invention comprises: a piston provided in a cylinder hole; a lid member which closes an opening on the other side of the cylinder hole; and elastic members and which are provided between the piston and the lid member. The elastic members and comprise a first elastic member provided on the piston side of the cylinder hole, and a second elastic member provided on the lid member side of the cylinder hole. The second elastic member has a base portion provided in line with the first elastic member, and a protruding portion protruding from the piston side end surface of the base portion. When the piston has moved in the axial direction to the lid member side, the protruding portion touches the piston, undergoing compressive deformation, and the base portion subsequently undergoes compressive deformation.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hongding Li
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Publication number: 20230103320Abstract: A hydraulic brake system includes: a plurality of hydraulic brakes respectively provided for a plurality of wheels of a vehicle, each of which is configured to reduce rotation of a corresponding one of the wheels by a hydraulic pressure in a hydraulic-pressure chamber of a wheel cylinder; and a plurality of electric cylinder devices each of which is provided for one or more of the plurality of hydraulic brakes. Each electric cylinder device includes: a housing; a piston fluid-tightly and slidably disposed in the housing; an electric motor as a drive source; a rotation-linear motion converting mechanism configured to convert a rotational motion of the electric motor to a linear motion of the piston; and a volume change chamber disposed forward of the piston and connected to the hydraulic-pressure chamber of the wheel cylinder of each of the one or more of the plurality of hydraulic brakes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki YABUSAKI, Tsuyoshi Otake, Atsushi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230107732Abstract: A control device includes an electric motor, a battery, a capacitor, a power source selection portion, a determination unit configured to determine whether the battery is normal, and a control unit configured to select, as a control mode of the electric motor, one of a first mode and a second mode in which a power consumption amount of the electric motor is reduced as compared to when the electric motor is driven in the first mode, and drive the electric motor in the selected control mode. When the battery is transitioned from a state of being determined to be normal to a state of being determined to be not normal, the control unit switches the control mode from the first mode to the second mode and then makes the power source selection portion select the capacitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke YAMAMOTO, Tomohisa OZEKI
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Publication number: 20230100969Abstract: A vehicle braking device includes: a first hydraulic pressure output unit that is connected to a master chamber through a first liquid passage and outputs hydraulic pressure to first wheel cylinders based on a hydraulic pressure of the first liquid passage; a hydraulic pressure generating unit that generates hydraulic pressure independently of a master cylinder; a second hydraulic pressure output unit that is connected to the hydraulic pressure generating unit through a second liquid passage and outputs hydraulic pressure to second wheel cylinders based on a hydraulic pressure of the second liquid passage; a normally closed communication control valve that is provided in a communication passage connecting the first liquid passage and the second liquid passage and opens and closes the communication passage; and a normally open master cut valve in the first liquid passage on the master cylinder side relative to a connection portion with the communication passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazutoshi YOGO, Masataka SAKAUE
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Publication number: 20230092834Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a controlling unit. The controlling unit calculates a feedback control amount based on a deviation between a target acceleration of a vehicle and an actual acceleration of the vehicle. The controlling unit executes a feedback control of a driving device and a braking device by using the feedback control amount, such that the deviation decreases. A state in which only the driving device, of the driving device and the braking device, operates is a first state. A state in which at least the braking device, of the driving device and the braking device, operates is a second state. When switched from the first state to the second state, the controlling unit calculates the feedback control amount such that the deviation permitted in the feedback control is greater than the deviation prior to a start of switching from the first state to the second state.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shogi FUKUKAWA, Masayuki ASANO, Kazuki MIYAKE, Akitsugu SAKAI
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Publication number: 20230090665Abstract: A travel controller executes a first correction process on a request value when the vehicle is traveling on an uphill road, and executes a second correction process on the request value when the vehicle is traveling on a downhill road. The first correction process corrects the request value such that the traveling speed is higher than that in a case in which the first correction process is not executed. The second correction process corrects the request value such that the traveling speed is lower than that in a case in which the second correction process is not executed. If hard braking of the vehicle is requested during execution of the first correction process, the travel controller sets a correction amount of the request value to a lower value than that in a case in which hard braking of the vehicle is not requested.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shogi FUKUKAWA, Michihiro OTSUBO, Akitsugu SAKAI, Kazuki MIYAKE
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Publication number: 20230093196Abstract: A vehicle controller sets an upper limit request value related to an upper limit of a longitudinal acceleration of a vehicle, a lower limit request value related to a lower limit of the longitudinal acceleration, and an acceleration request value related to the longitudinal acceleration that corresponds to an amount of the operation of the vehicle. The vehicle controller sets a first arbitration request value to a greater one of the lower limit request value and the acceleration request value. The vehicle controller sets a second arbitration request value to a smaller one of the first arbitration request value and the upper limit request value. The vehicle controller sets, to a value that corresponds to the second arbitration request value, a command value sent to an actuator that operates to adjust the traveling speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shogi FUKUKAWA, Masayuki ASANO, Kazuki MIYAKE, Akitsugu SAKAI
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Publication number: 20230089908Abstract: A vehicle motion controller includes a feedback controlling unit that executes feedback control in which a difference between a target acceleration corresponding to a request value from a driver assistance device and an actual acceleration of a vehicle is an input, thereby calculating a control amount used to reduce the difference, a request outputting unit that calculates a request longitudinal force based on the control amount, the request longitudinal force controlling an actuator, and an obtaining unit that obtains, as availability, a range of a longitudinal force capable of being generated by the actuator, the availability being a controllable range of the longitudinal force. The feedback controlling unit prohibits the control amount from decreasing when the request longitudinal force is less than a minimum value in the availability.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki ASANO, Kazuki MIYAKE, Akitsugu SAKAI
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Publication number: 20230091943Abstract: A pump includes: fluid delivery portions each including a volume variable mechanism, a first port and a second port, and a valve mechanism; and a pump flow path formed by the three or more fluid delivery portions being connected in series, in which a movement range of each of pistons includes a maximum volume position, a minimum volume position, and a switching position, and the pump flow path is configured such that a closing movement process (movement between switching position and minimum volume position) in which the piston moves between the switching position and the minimum volume position by driving of a drive device is sequentially shifted from a first inlet/outlet port toward a second inlet/outlet port or from the second inlet/outlet port toward the first inlet/outlet port among the fluid delivery portionsType: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomoo HARADA
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Publication number: 20230086872Abstract: A vehicle motion controller includes a feedback controlling unit that executes feedback control in which a difference between a target acceleration corresponding to a request value and an actual acceleration of a vehicle is an input, thereby calculating a control amount used to reduce the difference, a request outputting unit that calculates a request longitudinal force based on the control amount and outputs the request longitudinal force to the driving and braking devices, the request longitudinal force controlling the driving and braking devices, and a determining unit that, in a case where a driver of the vehicle is operating a braking operation member, obtains a braking command value and determines that operation interference by the driver has occurred when the braking command value is less than the request value. The feedback controlling unit prohibits the control amount from increasing in a case where the operation interference has occurred.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shogi FUKUKAWA, Michihiro OTSUBO, Kazuki MIYAKE, Akitsugu SAKAI
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Publication number: 20230066640Abstract: The present disclosure includes: a cylinder; a piston that moves inside the cylinder in response to the operation of a brake pedal; a reactive rubber that is disposed inside the cylinder and that applies a reactive force to the piston by being compressed by the movement of the piston to one side; and a plug that is disposed inside the cylinder so as to surround an outer circumferential surface of the reactive rubber and that increases a sliding resistance against the movement of the reactive rubber to one side as the reactive rubber is compressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaki NAKAGAWA
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Publication number: 20230063777Abstract: A braking control device, when stopping a vehicle in a state where a braking force is being applied to the vehicle, executes a reducing control of reducing the braking force corresponding to a braking request before the vehicle stops and executes an increasing control of increasing the braking force corresponding to the braking request before the reducing control in order to suppress vehicle pitching behavior generated when the braking force is applied to the vehicle. The control device sets braking force increase amount in the increasing control based on a difference distance that is a difference between a first distance correlated with a vehicle traveling distance from a reduction start timing when the reducing control is executed until the stopping of the vehicle and a second distance correlated with a vehicle traveling distance from the reduction start timing when the reducing control is not executed until the stopping of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yusaku YAMAMOTO