Patents Assigned to Advics Co., Ltd.
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20220153270
    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: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yosuke HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220153271
    Abstract: A start control device, which is a control device, includes: a first adjustment processing unit configured to execute a first adjustment process of instructing at least one of a brake device and a drive device to increase a braking/driving force when the braking/driving force is negative and the vehicle is stopped; and a second adjustment processing unit configured to start a second adjustment process of instructing at least one of the brake device and the drive device to increase the braking/driving force at a speed lower than an increasing speed of the braking/driving force before end of the first adjustment process on condition that the braking/driving force has become greater than or equal to a determination braking/driving force by the increase in the braking/driving force accompanying the execution of the first adjustment process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KATO, Yosuke HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11333211
    Abstract: A motion conversion mechanism of a brake device includes a rotation member and a linear motion member that linearly moves accompanying the rotation of the rotation member. The rotation member is rotationally driven through a third gear. A male screw and a female screw mesh with each other on the side opposite to the brake shoe of the third gear, where one end of an actuating member receives a force for actuating the brake shoe from the linear motion member, and the other end actuates the brake shoe. The guide member that guides the actuating member is made of a material different from that of the rotation member, and slidably guides the actuating member in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Komizo, Jin Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220144229
    Abstract: A brake control device includes: a decrease determination unit that determines whether a requested braking force for a vehicle is decreasing; and a brake control unit which, on the condition that the decrease determination unit determines that the requested braking force is decreasing during deceleration of the vehicle, executes ratio change decrease control of reducing the braking force of the vehicle according to the decrease of the requested braking force, while making a braking force distribution ratio smaller than a reference braking force distribution ratio. The reference braking force distribution ratio is the braking force distribution ratio at a time point when the requested braking force starts to decrease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusaku YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11325576
    Abstract: A braking control device includes a first adjustment unit, a master unit, a regenerative coordination unit, a first opening/closing valve, a second opening/closing valve, a reaction force hydraulic pressure sensor, an input hydraulic pressure sensor, a controller. The master unit includes a master cylinder and a master piston, a master chamber, a servo chamber, and a reaction force chamber. The regenerative coordination unit includes an input piston. The first opening/closing valve provided in a first fluid passage. The second opening/closing valve provided in a second fluid passage. The reaction force hydraulic pressure sensor detects a pressure in the reaction force chamber. The input hydraulic pressure sensor detects a pressure in the input cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Kodama
  • Publication number: 20220118957
    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: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki MIYAKE, Takuya YASUI
  • Publication number: 20220118958
    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: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato TERASAKA, Chisa KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220111846
    Abstract: A controller for a vehicle is configured to execute a process that detects an anomaly of a steering device and a process that performs an automatic turning control that causes the vehicle to turn automatically along a traveling route. The controller is configured to perform the automatic turning control by controlling the steering device when an anomaly of the steering device is not detected. The controller is configured to, when an anomaly of the steering device is detected, calculate, as a predicted value, a load on the substitute device on an assumption that the automatic turning control is performed by activating the substitute device, and perform the automatic turning control by controlling the substitute device when an allowable range that is a set of values of a load allowable to the substitute device includes the predicted value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC.
    Inventor: Yosuke HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11303238
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a command current derivation unit that derives a command current vector based on a command torque for a brushless motor, a phase difference derivation unit that derives a phase difference between a direction of a real d-axis of rotating coordinates of vector control and a direction of an estimated d-axis thereof, a change unit that changes a direction of the command current vector derived by the command current derivation unit according to the phase difference, and a drive control unit that drives the brushless motor based on the command current vector whose direction is changed by the change unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11299135
    Abstract: A brake control device including a pressure adjusting unit including an electric pump and an electromagnetic valve, and that adjusts, using the electromagnetic valve, a brake liquid discharged by the electric pump to an adjusted liquid pressure and introduces the adjusted liquid pressure to the wheel cylinders of the rear wheels; and a master unit that includes a master cylinder and a master piston, and that includes a master chamber connected to the wheel cylinders of the front wheels and a servo chamber to which the adjusted liquid pressure is introduced and which provides, to the master piston, an advancing force that opposes a retreating force applied to the master piston by the master chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Kodama, Hiroyuki Ando
  • Publication number: 20220105909
    Abstract: A brake control device of a brake device includes a first acquisition unit acquiring an operating force PF inputted to a brake pedal, a second acquisition unit acquiring a stroke amount SS of the brake pedal, a target derivation unit deriving a target braking power BPTr based on the operating force PF and the stroke amount SS, and a brake controller controlling a vehicle braking power based on the target braking power BPTr. The target derivation unit increases or holds the target braking power BPTr when the operating force PF decreases while the stroke amount SS increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaki MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220105809
    Abstract: The control device includes a vehicle required braking force acquisition unit that acquires a vehicle required braking force that is a required value of the braking force applied to the vehicle, and a roll control unit that controls the rolling motion of the vehicle by adjusting a distribution ratio of the braking force with respect to a target wheel including at least one of a rear wheel on an inside during turning and a front wheel on an outside during turning of the vehicle when the braking force is applied to the vehicle according to the vehicle required braking force under a situation where the vehicle is turning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusaku YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220089149
    Abstract: A turn assist device is configured to execute a turn assist process that assists turning of a vehicle in a case in which a steering operation of a steering wheel is in progress in a situation in which collision prediction time is shorter than or equal to determination prediction time. The turn assist process includes: an in-phase process that outputs a command for steering a rear wheel in the same direction as a steering direction of a front wheel, and a counter-phase process that outputs a command for steering the rear wheel in a direction opposite to the steering direction of the front wheel when a difference between an actual value of the lateral acceleration of the vehicle and a lateral acceleration target value exceeds a difference determination value during execution of the in-phase process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION, AISIN CORPORATION, JTEKT CORPORATION, J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC.
    Inventor: Yosuke OMORI
  • Publication number: 20220089150
    Abstract: A turning controller for a vehicle is configured to execute: a time obtaining process that obtains collision prediction time; a lateral movement amount determining process that determines whether a target lateral movement amount is greater than or equal to a lateral movement amount determination value; and an automatic turning process that, in a case in which the collision prediction time is shorter than or equal to a determination prediction time, outputs a command for steering the front wheel to the front wheel steering device and outputs a command for steering the rear wheel to the rear wheel steering device, in order to avoid a collision between the vehicle and the obstacle; a counter-phase process in the automatic turning process in a case in which the target lateral movement amount is determined to be greater than or equal to the lateral movement amount determination value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION, AISIN CORPORATION, JTEKT CORPORATION, J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC.
    Inventor: Yosuke OMORI
  • Patent number: 11279331
    Abstract: A braking control device includes an actuator, a controller, a steering angle sensor, and a yaw rate sensor. The controller calculates a reference turning amount, an actual turning amount, an understeer index, sets to a non-adjustment region in which the increase slope is not decreased when the understeer index is smaller than or equal to a first threshold value, sets to an adjustment region in which the increase slope is decreased when the understeer index is greater than or equal to a second threshold value greater than the first threshold value, and sets to a transition region in which the increase slope is decreased when the understeer index is transitioned from the non-adjustment region and the increase slope is not decreased when the understeer index is transitioned from the adjustment region when the understeer index is greater than the first threshold value and smaller than the second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Terasaka, Chisa Kitahara
  • Patent number: 11274756
    Abstract: A valve of the present disclosure includes a valve seat formed with a valve hole; a spherical valve body; and a pressing member that presses the valve body toward the valve hole, the valve hole being closed by the valve body pressed by the pressing member; where the pressing member includes a guiding part that, when a force opposing the urging force acts on the valve body by greater than or equal to a prescribed value, separates the valve body away from the valve seat while guiding and relatively moving the valve body in a predetermined one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuki Tanizaki
  • Publication number: 20220073043
    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: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kei AMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11267444
    Abstract: The brake control device controls a hydraulic brake to generate hydraulic braking force on both the front and rear wheels of a four-wheel-drive vehicle, and an electrical parking brake to generate parking brake force, different from the hydraulic braking force, on the front or rear wheels. The brake control device includes: a detection unit that detects parking brake operation for causing the electrical parking brake to generate a parking brake force; and a control unit for reducing the hydraulic braking force generated on the front wheels or the rear wheels and adjusting the hydraulic braking force on the other of the front wheels or the rear wheels to a magnitude allowing a stationary vehicle state to be maintained, before a parking brake force is generated by the electrical parking brake, when a parking brake operation is detected while a stationary state is being maintained solely by the hydraulic braking force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terushige Uraoka, Keita Nakano, Tatsuya Urano