Patents Assigned to Advics Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20240367630
    Abstract: A braking control device includes an information acquisition unit that acquires vehicle outside-condition information regarding a situation outside a vehicle, and a setting unit that sets responsivity of a braking operation according to an indicator output from a learning apparatus by inputting the vehicle outside-condition information acquired by the information acquisition unit to the learning apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takenao HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20240359686
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor. The processor receives a requested acceleration as one of motion requests for a vehicle from each of sets of application software. The processor performs arbitration of requested accelerations that are received. The processor outputs an instruction signal for controlling an actuator of the vehicle based on a target acceleration that is a result of the arbitration of the requested accelerations. The processor acquires a detection value from an acceleration sensor installed in the vehicle. The processor performs first determination processing to determine whether an external impact has been applied to the vehicle, based on the target acceleration in addition to the detection value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa YAMADA, Yosuke KIMURA, Kentaroh NAGAYA, Tomoya TANAKA, Yasufumi ENAMI
  • Publication number: 20240360883
    Abstract: A friction material composition, which is for molding a friction material for a braking device of a vehicle provided with a regenerative brake, in which the content of copper is 5% by mass or less in terms of elemental copper based on the friction material composition, and which includes a titanate having a layered crystal structure and a lithium potassium titanate having a tunnel crystal structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osayoshi KATO, Ryosuke KOZAKAI
  • Patent number: 12122343
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes: an accepting unit configured to accept a first braking request from a plurality of applications that realize a driving assistance function; an acquiring unit configured to acquire a second braking request by a driver operation; an arbitrating unit configured to perform arbitration of the first braking request and the second braking request; and an output unit configured to output a request to an actuator based on a result of the arbitration by the arbitrating unit, wherein the arbitrating unit is configured to, when the acquiring unit acquires the second braking request while the output unit is outputting the request to the actuator, perform the arbitration in which the request that the output unit outputs to the actuator is increased or maintained, based on the second braking request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Miyake, Takuya Yasui
  • Patent number: 12122360
    Abstract: A manager installed in a vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to receive a plurality of kinematic plans and identification information of a plurality of advanced driver assistance system applications from the advanced driver assistance system applications, and receive a control status indicating an execution state of control in each of the advanced driver assistance system applications. The one or more processors are configured to perform a first arbitration that arbitrates the kinematic plans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Ohashi, Kazuki Miyake, Akitsugu Sakai, Shota Higashi
  • Publication number: 20240343250
    Abstract: A motion manager for a vehicle includes one or more processors, and the one or more processors are configured to: receive acceleration request values from a plurality of applications and driver assistance levels associated with the respective acceleration request values; select the smallest acceleration request value of the plurality of acceleration request values received; select the highest driver assistance level of the plurality of driver assistance levels received; and while outputting a specified value according to the selected acceleration request value to an actuator of the vehicle, stop the output of the specified value under a condition according to the selected driver assistance level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, J-QuAD DYNAMICS Inc., ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta OHASHI, Tatsuya HIROMURA
  • Publication number: 20240343239
    Abstract: The electric braking device includes a nut that is a rotating member that rotates upon receiving the rotation of an electric motor, a screw shaft that is a linear motion member that linearly moves in accordance with the rotation of the nut, and a piston that linearly moves together with the screw shaft to press a brake pad against a brake rotor. The piston is provided with a socket hole that is a spherical hole, and the screw shaft is provided with a spherical ball head that fits into the socket hole. With the ball head fitted into the socket hole, the piston is pivotably coupled to the screw shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naru SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240343255
    Abstract: A motion manager for a vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: receive acceleration request values from a plurality of applications and driver assistance levels associated with the respective acceleration request values; select the highest driver assistance level of the driver assistance levels received; select the smallest acceleration request value of the acceleration request values associated with the selected driver assistance level; output a specified value according to the selected acceleration request value to an actuator of the vehicle; and stop the output of the specified value under a condition according to the selected driver assistance level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC., ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta OHASHI, Tatsuya Hiromura
  • Patent number: 12115958
    Abstract: A braking control device includes a front wheel motor that controls a front wheel hydraulic pressure to adjust a front wheel braking torque, a first motor that adjusts a right rear wheel braking torque, and a second motor that adjusts a left rear wheel braking torque. The front wheel motor includes two-system coils, and the first and second motors include one-system coils. A controller that controls the electric motors includes a one-side drive circuit that energizes one of the two-system coils of the front wheel motor, an other-side front wheel drive circuit that energizes the other of the two-system coils of the front wheel motor, a first rear wheel drive circuit that energizes the one-system coil of the first motor, and a second rear wheel drive circuit that energizes the one-system coil of the second motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Takahashi, Hiroyuki Kodama
  • Patent number: 12115954
    Abstract: A brake fluid pressure supply unit includes a fluid pressure generation device in which a piston that slides in a cylinder is driven by an electric motor to generate fluid pressure in a fluid pressure chamber formed in the cylinder; and a housing in which a fluid path connected to the fluid pressure chamber is formed. The electric motor and the cylinder are both attached to the housing. The electric motor is positioned more on upper side of the brake fluid pressure supply unit than the cylinder in a vertical direction. Thus, even if fluid leaks from the cylinder, the fluid having leaked can be prevented from entering inside of the electric motor. Thus, the operation of the electric motor is not impaired, whereby the reliability of the brake fluid pressure supply unit can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shingo Onoda
  • Patent number: 12109996
    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: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusaku Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240326764
    Abstract: When it is diagnosed that a braking control device 50 functions normally, a command unit 70f transmits a braking force command value to drive units 60a, 60b, and a command unit 70r transmits the braking force command value to drive units 60c, 60d. Then, the drive units 60a, 60b drives braking mechanisms 30a, 30b according to the command value transmitted by the command unit 70f, and the drive units 60c, 60d drives braking mechanisms 30c, 30d according to the command value transmitted by the command unit 70r. Meanwhile, when it is diagnosed that the braking control device 50 does not function normally, at least one of the command units 70f, 70r executes backup control for compensating for a shortage of a braking force of a vehicle 10 for a braking request, which is caused by the braking control device 50 not functioning normally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takuto KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20240317194
    Abstract: A motion manager includes one or more processors configured to: receive a stop holding request for keeping a vehicle in a stopped state as one of motion requests from application software; and output an instruction value for turning ON a hydraulic brake to the hydraulic brake on a condition that the stop holding request is received. The one or more processors are configured to continue outputting the instruction value to a parking brake regardless of a presence or absence of the stop holding request, when outputting an instruction value for turning ON a parking brake to the parking brake after starting outputting the instruction value and until switching of the parking brake to an ON state is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIK KAISHA, J-QuAD DYNAMICS Inc., ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki NINOMIYA, Masanobu HORIO, Atsushi KUCHINOMACHI
  • Publication number: 20240301947
    Abstract: An information processing method includes receiving shift requests to control a shift range of a vehicle from a plurality of application software products configured to implement driver assistance functions of the vehicle, arbitrating the shift requests by using, as a condition, whether each of the received shift requests is a request in a traveling range or a request in a parking range, when the traveling range is the shift range in which a driving wheel of the vehicle is rotatable and the parking range is the shift range in which the driving wheel is not rotatable, and generating an instruction value for an action request to drive an actuator based on a result of arbitration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, J-QuAD DYNAMICS Inc, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta OHASHI, Yusuke Kamiya, Masumi Dakemoto, Atsushi Kuchinomachi, Tatsuya Hiromura
  • Publication number: 20240300459
    Abstract: A brake control device includes a processor that controls a brake device of a vehicle. The processor receives a first braking request indicating first braking force by the brake device which is requested from an application that implements a driver assistance function of the vehicle. The processor receives a second braking request indicating second braking force by the brake device which is requested depending on an operation amount of a brake pedal of the vehicle. The processor starts override control when the processor receives the second braking request while the processor controls the brake device in accordance with the first braking request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, J-QUAD DYNAMICS INC., ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki MIYAKE, Yuta OHASHI, Yusuke KAMIYA, Sotaro MURAMATSU
  • Patent number: 12084065
    Abstract: A manager includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to receive a plurality of first kinematic plans from a plurality of electronic control units in each of which is implemented an advanced driver assistance system application function, receive a second kinematic plan following at least one of the first kinematic plans, arbitrate the first kinematic plans, calculate one or more motion requests based on an arbitration result, and output the one or more motion requests to one or more actuator systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Itoh, Shunsuke Arakawa, Shogi Fukukawa
  • Patent number: 12078494
    Abstract: A control device of a vehicle controls an actuator of the vehicle to cause the vehicle to travel based on a follow-up route. The control device includes a width information obtaining unit that obtains a road width in which the vehicle can pass on a road on which the vehicle travels. The control device includes a locus follow-up control unit that creates a follow-up route based on the obtained road width. The locus follow-up control unit derives a control amount for causing the vehicle to travel along the follow-up route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hiromura, Yosuke Omori
  • Patent number: 12077138
    Abstract: Braking torque is automatically applied based on requested deceleration and requested distance from a driving assistance device. Standard deceleration decreases in an “upwardly curved” form and then decreases in a “downwardly curved” form over time in a standard deceleration profile, and a standard speed profile corresponds to the standard deceleration profile. In the present calculation period, target deceleration and target speed profiles are set by adjusting the standard deceleration/standard speed profiles to satisfy the relationship between deceleration and vehicle body speed. The estimated distance from the reference speed to the vehicle stop is calculated based on the target speed profile. In a condition that the estimated distance is equal to/less than the requested distance is denied, braking torque is adjusted based on requested deceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sotaro Muramatsu, Yosuke Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20240286596
    Abstract: A braking control device includes: a master cylinder having a master chamber defined by a master piston; and a first pressure regulation unit having a servo chamber located on an opposite side of the master chamber and supplying a servo pressure to the servo chamber to generate a master pressure in the master chamber. The first pressure regulation unit acquires the master pressure and servo pressure and determines bottoming out of the master piston based on a comparison between the master and servo pressures. The first pressure regulation unit may make the comparison based on pressure-receiving area of the servo chamber and a pressure-receiving area of the master chamber. If the servo chamber pressure-receiving area is equal to the master chamber pressure-receiving area, the first pressure regulation unit determines bottoming out occurs when a difference between the servo pressure and the master pressure equals or exceeds a predetermined pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Ryosuke ENDO
  • Publication number: 20240286594
    Abstract: A parking brake device includes a fluid unit including: a fluid pump that suctions brake fluid from a master cylinder using a first electric motor; and a pressure regulating valve that increases pressure of the brake fluid discharged by the fluid pump and supplies the increased pressure to a wheel cylinder as a brake fluid pressure, the fluid unit causing the brake fluid pressure to press a friction member against a rotating member fixed to vehicle wheels to generate a braking force, an electrically-powered unit that uses a second electric motor and generates the braking force on a parking wheel on which a parking brake is applied among the vehicle wheels, and a controller that controls the fluid unit and the electrically-powered unit. When the parking brake is actuated, the controller increases only the brake fluid pressure corresponding to the parking wheel in the wheel cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki NAITO