Patents Assigned to Advics Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20220212646
    Abstract: A brake control device includes a control unit configured to calculate a target current value, which is a target current value to the motor, based on master cylinder hydraulic pressure, and reduce an energization level to the motor when an actual current value, which is an actual current value to the motor, reaches the target current value, set a hydraulic pressure threshold value, which is a threshold value of the master cylinder hydraulic pressure corresponding to a braking force necessary for the vehicle to stop based on an inclination angle of a road on which the vehicle is stopped, and calculate a time change amount of the master cylinder hydraulic pressure, and in a case where the time change amount exceeds a predetermined change amount, increase an energization level to the motor when the master cylinder hydraulic pressure subsequently becomes less than or equal to the hydraulic pressure threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya URANO, Terushige URAOKA
  • Publication number: 20220212639
    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: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi TAKAHASHI, Hiroyuki KODAMA
  • Patent number: 11377082
    Abstract: A braking control device includes a master unit including a master chamber connected to a front wheel cylinder and a servo chamber that applies forward force opposing a reverse force applied to a master piston by the master chamber to the master piston, a pressure adjustment unit that adjusts brake fluid discharged by a pump to a first liquid pressure by a first solenoid valve and introduces the first liquid pressure to a rear wheel cylinder, and adjusts the first liquid pressure to decrease to a second liquid pressure by a second solenoid valve and introduces the second liquid pressure to the servo chamber; and a regenerative coordination unit having an input piston operable in conjunction with a braking operation member and an input cylinder fixed to the master cylinder, and in which a gap between the master piston and the input piston is controlled by the second liquid pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Kodama, Hiroyuki Ando
  • Patent number: 11376967
    Abstract: This vehicle brake device performs raising processing for raising, by a predetermined raising amount, the target hydraulic pressure of hydraulic fluid when the pressure of the hydraulic fluid starts increasing in order to suppress a delay in response to the increase in the pressure of hydraulic fluid during switching processing for gradually switching at least part of regenerative braking force to hydraulic braking force, and includes a judging portion which judges whether or not required braking force or deceleration is reduced during cooperative control; and a raising amount setting portion which during the raising processing, sets a second predetermined pressure as a raising amount if the judgement result of the judging portion is positive, the second predetermined pressure being smaller than a first predetermined pressure that is the raising amount when the determination result of the determination result is negative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakata, Kosuke Hashimoto, Kenji Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11378077
    Abstract: Provided is a gear pump device that enables improvement in volumetric efficiency and manufacturability, and also makes it possible to ensure sealing property and to reduce drive torque. According to the present invention, a sealing mechanism is provided with an annular rubber member, an outer member, and an inner member, wherein: the inner member has, at an end of an outer peripheral wall on the side of an inner gear in the axial direction, a notch which is recessed radially inward of the inner gear so as to form, together with an axial one end face of the inner gear, a depressed part; and the outer member has an insertion part which is disposed within the depressed part and which abuts against the axial one end face of the inner gear so as to constitute a part of a sealing surface on the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Usami, Kunihito Ando
  • Patent number: 11377107
    Abstract: A vehicle speed control device executes a reverse speed control that controls the speed of the vehicle when reversing, on the basis of a target speed that is set in accordance with a control operation when the reverse range is selected using the shift device of the vehicle. During the reverse speed control, the vehicle speed control device calculates so as to reduce a target acceleration. which is a target value for acceleration of the vehicle when the vehicle speed when reversing is increased toward the target speed, as the operation amount of the steering wheel increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mako Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20220203944
    Abstract: A brake control device includes a brake operation member, a pressurization unit, a master cylinder unit, a connection path connecting a separation chamber and a reaction force chamber, an electromagnetic valve at the connection path, and a control device. The control device includes a specified control section configured to, when the brake operation member is operated in a closed state of the electromagnetic valve, execute activation-time control in which the pressurization unit supplies fluid to a servo chamber based on a predetermined pattern, a determination section configured to determine whether a pressure difference between pressure in the reaction force chamber and pressure in the separation chamber, is equal to or less than a threshold value, and a valve control section configured to open the electromagnetic valve when the determination section determines the pressure difference is equal to or less than the threshold value after start of the activation-time control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osayoshi KATO, Yoshio MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20220203976
    Abstract: A travel control device is a device that eliminates deviation of a vehicle from a target path by driving actuators when the vehicle deviates from the target path. The travel control device includes a movable range deriving unit that derives a movable range that is a range in which the vehicle is able to reach by driving the actuators on a basis of a traveling state of the vehicle, a target setting unit that sets a point included in the movable range in the target path as a target position, and an instruction unit that instructs the actuators to drive the vehicle toward the target position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yosuke OMORI
  • Publication number: 20220194351
    Abstract: A vehicle brake system, including: a first-braking-force control mechanism configured to control a first braking force, a second-braking-force control mechanism configured to control a second braking force, an abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first-braking-force control mechanism is in an abnormal state, a pseudo-abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first-braking-force control mechanism is in a pseudo abnormal state in which the first-braking-force control mechanism is suspected to be in the abnormal state, and a controller including a pseudo abnormal state controller configured to control the second-braking-force control mechanism in an operating state of the first-braking-force control mechanism so as to control the second braking force when the pseudo-abnormal-state detecting device detects that the first-braking-force control mechanism is in the pseudo abnormal state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro OKANO, Yusuke KAMIYA, Tatsushi KOBAYASHI, Shimpei KODANI
  • Publication number: 20220194336
    Abstract: A braking control device includes: a control unit that is configured to control front-wheel braking power and rear-wheel braking power based on braking power distribution and requested braking power; a distribution setting unit that is configured to set the braking power distribution; and a slip judgment unit that is configured to judge whether or not the vehicle is in a rear-wheel-led slip state. If it is judged that the vehicle is in the rear-wheel-led slip state when the braking power distribution is first braking power distribution, the distribution setting unit executes a distribution shifting process of shifting the braking power distribution to second braking power distribution within a predetermined period. The second braking power distribution is such distribution that the rear-wheel braking power is reduced relative to that observed when the first braking power distribution is set as the braking power distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusaku YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11364890
    Abstract: A braking device includes: a reservoir; a master cylinder in which when the amount of operation performed on a brake pedal reaches or exceeds a predetermined amount, a port communicating between a pressure chamber and the reservoir is cut off and hydraulic pressure corresponding to the brake pedal operation amount is generated; a hydraulic pressure unit for adjusting the wheel cylinder hydraulic pressure; and a control unit for controlling the hydraulic pressure unit. The control unit determines, based on a temperature-related value related to the temperature of a friction member pressed by the wheel cylinder hydraulic pressure against a rotating member fixed to a wheel, whether the friction member is in a fade state. When the friction member is in a fade state, the control unit controls the hydraulic pressure unit to suction brake fluid from the reservoir through the port, and is fed to the wheel cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhito Ishida, Tatsushi Kobayashi, Takayuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220176963
    Abstract: A stop control device which is a control device includes a gradient acquisition unit that acquires a road surface gradient; a drive instruction unit that executes a stopping drive instruction process for instructing a drive device to set a driving force of the vehicle to a magnitude corresponding to the road surface gradient when stopping the vehicle on a climbing road; and a braking instruction unit that executes a stopping braking instruction process of stopping the vehicle by instructing a braking device to apply a braking force corresponding to a required acceleration to the vehicle when stopping the vehicle on the climbing road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sotaro MURAMATSU, Yosuke HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220178708
    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: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya HIROMURA, Yosuke OMORI
  • Publication number: 20220177030
    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: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yosuke HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11353018
    Abstract: In a piston pump, for example, a piston sub assembly includes a columnar plunger that lies along an axial direction, a cap that is fixed with the plunger to cover an adjacent region between a first end surface at one end in the axial direction of the plunger and the first end surface at a first outer circumferential surface of the plunger, and provided with an intake passage extending from an inlet on an outer side of the first outer circumferential surface to an outlet on an outer side of the first end surface outside the plunger, and a first valve seat of a first intake check valve located at the outlet, and a seal member that is a member different from the cap and that prevents leakage of hydraulic fluid from the first chamber through a gap between the first cylinder and the piston sub assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Aono, Tomoo Harada
  • Patent number: 11351969
    Abstract: A tractor vehicle operation control device includes a yaw rate sensor, which detects the actual yaw rate, and a controller, which executes damping control for increasing braking power on the vehicle wheels based on the actual yaw rate and damping periodic yaw motion of the tractor vehicle originating in a trailer. The controller, based on the actual yaw rate, calculates a yaw indicator representing the degree of yaw motion, and sets the front wheels braking power to be greater and sets the rear wheels braking power to be less as the yaw indicator increases. For example, the controller calculates a peak value of the actual yaw rate and determines the actual yaw rate peak value to be the yaw rate. The controller also may calculate yaw angular acceleration based on the actual yaw rate and determine a yaw indicator based on the peak value of the yaw angular acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chihiro Nitta, Satoshi Fujisue
  • Publication number: 20220169246
    Abstract: A control device of a vehicle controls an actuator to cause the vehicle to travel based on a target locus. The control device includes a travel assisting unit that generates a target locus and sets a point on the target locus as a target position. The control device includes a braking control unit capable of communicating with the travel assisting unit. The braking control unit executes a process of calculating a control amount for causing the vehicle to follow the target position received from the travel assisting unit. The braking control unit executes a process of instructing the actuator to perform driving based on the control amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yosuke OMORI
  • Publication number: 20220169215
    Abstract: To suppress a sharp variation in the posture of a vehicle in a control apparatus that is configured to control the posture of the vehicle by adjusting a distribution ratio of a braking force between the front and rear during braking of the vehicle. The control apparatus includes a distribution setting unit that is configured to change the braking force distribution ratio from a basic braking force ratio during braking of the vehicle so that a posture of the vehicle follows a posture indicated by the target posture value. If the target posture value is varied when the braking force distribution ratio is different from the basic braking force ratio, the distribution setting unit sets the amount of change, by which the braking force distribution ratio is changed per unit time, equal to or smaller than a restriction amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sotaro MURAMATSU, Yosuke HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220169251
    Abstract: An orientation control device serving as a control device includes: an orientation control unit configured to, in a case where a vehicle is stopped on a slope road by applying braking force to a front wheel and a rear wheel, instruct a braking device to decrease front wheel braking force and rear wheel braking force and execute orientation control for instructing a drive device to increase drive force of the vehicle in a range in which a stop state of the vehicle is maintained; and a braking increase instruction unit configured to execute braking increase control for instructing the braking device to increase the braking force of at least one of the front wheel and the rear wheel after the increase in the drive force of the vehicle in accordance with the execution of the orientation control is ended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sotaro MURAMATSU, Yosuke HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220161769
    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: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sotaro MURAMATSU, Yosuke HASHIMOTO