Patents Assigned to AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 10017168
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the brake system, the connection of the master cylinder and the slave cylinder to the wheel brakes can be switched by the first switching valve and the second switching valve, and the communication with the slave cylinder can be cut off by the first cutoff valve and the second cutoff valve. This enables the fluid pressures which are applied to the wheel brakes to be put in the various states without having a complex configuration, thereby making it possible to control the fluid pressures with good efficiency in such a way as to match suitably the conditions of the brake system and the conditions of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Aoki, Hiroaki Tokoi, Nobuyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9995317
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a reservoir tank, including: a reservoir main body having a reserving chamber which reserves a hydraulic fluid, a hydraulic fluid pouring port which is provided at an upper portion of the reservoir main body, and a hydraulic fluid supply port which is provided at a lower portion of the reservoir main body. A groove-like recess portion is formed on a bottom surface of the reservoir main body. As in a projection in which the hydraulic fluid pouring port is projected onto a bottom surface side of the reservoir main body, the recess portion is disposed between the hydraulic fluid pouring port and the hydraulic fluid supply port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Kobori, Motoyasu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9988026
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for real time control of a wheel slip of each slipping wheel of a pair of wheels associated with an axle of a motor vehicle, simultaneously and independently with real time explicit control of said motor vehicle's acceleration provided by each non-slipping wheel associated with the axle. The system makes use of a total controller and an asymmetric controller associated with the axle of the vehicle for generating two torque signals used to control the total and asymmetric dynamics respectively of the axle, and a distributor for distributing the two said torque signals into available actuators' targets. The two said controllers each contain feedback and feed forward control elements, is operable to sense wheel slippage condition of each wheel on the axle, and augments the feedback and feed forward control based on the sensed wheel slippage conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: AUTOLIV-NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Long Ying
  • Patent number: 9981641
    Abstract: Provided is a body reservoir assembly whose height can be reduced. In the body reservoir assembly, the reservoir comprises: a recessed portion formed on a bottom surface of the reservoir; and a reservoir side connecting portion formed in the recessed portion and connected to a cylinder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignees: Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoyasu Nakamura, Yoshiteru Matsunaga, Kazuaki Murayama
  • Patent number: 9975532
    Abstract: Provided is a master cylinder apparatus with a reduced size enabled by simplifying the fluid passageway configuration. A master cylinder apparatus which includes a base member containing a fluid passageway for brake fluid and to which an operation of a brake operator is inputted is provided with: a master cylinder installed on the base member to generate a fluid pressure based on an input produced by operating the brake operator; and at least two solenoid valves attached to one side of the base member to open or close the fluid passageway. The two solenoid valves are disposed symmetrically with respect to a central axis along the axial direction of the master cylinder as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the one side of the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignees: Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Matsunaga, Motoyasu Nakamura, Kazuaki Murayama
  • Patent number: 9932024
    Abstract: A vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus (control apparatus 100), installed in a vehicle reducing a drive torque when the vehicle is at a halt, that includes vehicle holding control section 113 for performing vehicle holding control by holding a brake hydraulic pressure when the vehicle is at a halt. The vehicle holding control section 113 is configured to release the holding of the brake hydraulic pressure based on the accelerator operation of a driver when the vehicle is at a halt and, in the releasing of the holding of the brake hydraulic pressure, release the holding of the brake hydraulic pressure completely before the drive torque of the vehicle starts increasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignees: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kinoshita, Kohei Akamine, Masaki Koike
  • Patent number: 9899983
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit includes a housing and a noise filter. The housing includes an accommodating portion, and the accommodating portion includes a support portion. The noise filter includes an engaging portion, and at least part of the noise filter is housed in the accommodating portion of the housing. When the at least part of the noise filter is housed in the accommodating portion of the housing, the engaging portion is in engagement with the support portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyasu Nakamura, Tetsuo Kobori, Sotaro Kanai, Sekihei Shimozono, Kouji Sakai
  • Patent number: 9878694
    Abstract: A stroke simulator and a bush for a stroke simulator are configured so that a bush provided to a stroke simulator can be attached without direction management. The stroke simulator generates brake reaction force by a simulator piston that is displaced within a cylinder by hydraulic pressure generated according to the operation of a brake pedal by a driver. A cylindrical rubber bush elastically deformed in an axial direction by pressure from the simulator piston to generate brake reaction force, the bush characterized in that a first end section on the simulator piston side and a second end section facing the first end section contain the same number, at least two, of concave sections concaved in the axial direction, and the concave section formed in the first end section and the concave section formed in the second end section are formed in different positions in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobutake Hyodo, Kazuaki Murayama, Motoyasu Nakamura, Shunsuke Aoki
  • Patent number: 9821787
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a circuit board having a substrate and an electrode portion which is provided on the substrate. The electrode portion includes: a quadrangular land which is provided on a front surface of the substrate; a solder layer which is laminated on the whole of a front surface of the land; and a pad which is joined to a front surface of the solder layer. When the electrode portion is seen from thereabove, an outer circumferential line of the pad touches each of four sides of the land. Exposed portions where the solder layer is exposed are formed individually at four corners of a front surface of the electrode portion. And, the exposed portions are formed to have the same shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sakae Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 9777751
    Abstract: Disclosed is a braking device in which all multiple ports (for example, input ports (15c, 15d) and output ports (15a, 15b)) provided on a front surface portion (30) of a base (10) of a master cylinder (1), connector connection ports (23a, 24a) of connectors (23, 24) that electrically conducts an electrical part accommodated in a housing (20), and a pipe connection port (3c) to which a hose is connected of a reservoir (3) are arranged toward front of a vehicle when a starting device (A1) is assembled in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Murayama, Yoshiteru Matsunaga, Motoyasu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9731692
    Abstract: An embodiment discloses a brake booster input rod, including: a front end portion to which an input piston of a brake booster is connected; a rear end portion to which a yoke connected with to a brake pedal is attached; and an annular boot installing groove to be engaged with, when a boot covers a front portion of the input rod, a rear end bead portion of the boot with a fastening margin. Through rolling, two annular groove portions and an annular ridge portion are formed to each have a triangular section. The ridge portion functions as a rear side wall of the boot installing groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuuichi Yatabe
  • Patent number: 9726285
    Abstract: Provided is a piston push rod assembly which can prevent discomfort from being imparted during the operation of a brake pedal by a driver. A piston push rod assembly, wherein: a second piston is provided with a piston slide section which is housed in a cylinder and which slides relative to the cylinder, and a connection tube section which is connected to a push rod; the piston slide section is covered by metal plating; the connection tube section has a non-plated section; and the second piston and the push rod are connected by the caulking of the connection tube section when the push rod has been inserted inside the connection tube section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Murayama, Jiro Suzuki, Takaaki Ohnishi, Motoyasu Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Takamatsu, Kazuhiro Tagata
  • Patent number: 9707945
    Abstract: A brake system includes a master cylinder, a first solenoid valve, a stroke simulator, a slave cylinder apparatus, and a control apparatus. The master cylinder generates a brake hydraulic pressure in response to an operation on a brake operator. The first solenoid valve is provided between the master cylinder and a wheel brake. The stroke simulator is connected to the master cylinder through a second solenoid valve. The slave cylinder apparatus includes an electric actuator and a cylinder mechanism. The cylinder mechanism generates a brake hydraulic pressure. The control apparatus closes the first solenoid valve and opens the second solenoid valve when the brake hydraulic pressure is increased by the electric actuator. The control apparatus controls the electric actuator so that the larger a carried load on a vehicle is, the larger the brake hydraulic pressure is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Motoaki Sakurazawa
  • Patent number: 9701291
    Abstract: A vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus includes, as a controller, acceleration acquiring section for acquiring an output value of an acceleration sensor detecting a front-rear direction acceleration of a vehicle, limiting section for limiting the magnitude of the output value acquired by the acceleration acquiring section within a predetermined limit value, a filter (control acceleration calculation section) limiting a change of a value output by the limiting section in a predetermined direction, and holding section for determining a holding pressure according to a value output by the filter and, based on the holding pressure, holding the braking force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kinoshita, Kohei Akamine, Masaki Koike
  • Patent number: 9676376
    Abstract: A vehicle brake fluid pressure control apparatus includes a control unit including a memory part for storing a valve closing map which shows a relationship between a differential pressure between an upstream side and a downstream side of a pressure regulator valve and an output current value for closing the pressure regulator valve and a valve opening map which shows a relationship between the differential pressure and an output current value for opening the pressure regulator valve. The control unit executes a current value switching control in which the output current value of the valve closing map is changed to that of the valve opening map and thereafter, the output current of the valve opening map is changed to an output current value which lies somewhere between the output current values of the valve closing map and the valve opening map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Masuda, Nobuyuki Nomura
  • Patent number: 9643578
    Abstract: The embodiment provides a vehicle control unit including a torque increment setting module related to a drive source brake torque control and an anti-lock braking control module related to an anti-lock braking control. The torque increment setting modules includes a first setting module and a second setting module. The first setting module sets the torque increment based on at least a slip amount of a wheel when the drive source brake torque control is in execution but the anti-lock braking control is not executed. The second setting module sets the torque increment based on a parameter other than the slip amount when both the drive source brake torque control and the anti-lock braking control are in execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Momose
  • Patent number: 9643612
    Abstract: The embodiment provides a vehicle control unit including a road surface friction coefficient estimation module. The road surface friction coefficient estimation module estimates a road surface friction coefficient based on a parameter other than a body speed. The vehicle control unit further includes first and second torque increment setting modules. The first second torque increment setting module sets an initial value of a torque increment to be used in the torque control when a start thereof is detected. The initial value of the torque increment is set based on the road surface friction coefficient. The second torque increment setting module sets a current value of the torque increment after the initial value has been set. The current value of the torque increment is set based on the previous value thereof and a change in the slip amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Momose
  • Patent number: 9643585
    Abstract: Provided is a stroke simulator capable of suppressing occurrence of inclination of a piston with respect to a sliding surface formed in a cylinder. The stroke simulator includes a simulator piston which is displaced by sliding on a sliding surface formed in a first cylinder, and a first return spring which is housed in the first cylinder and applies, to the simulator piston, a reaction force which is generated by an elastic deformation of the spring under a pressing force due to a displacement of the simulator piston, and generates the reaction force which is applied to the simulator piston as a brake reaction force for a brake operating element. The stroke simulator is characterized in that a cup seal for sealing a gap formed between the sliding surface and the simulator piston is mounted in the middle in the axial direction of the sliding surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Murayama, Takaaki Ohnishi, Kazuhiro Tagata
  • Patent number: 9637101
    Abstract: A cylinder device includes a regulation mechanism that regulates separation distance between a front piston and a rear piston. A spring seat member of the regulation mechanism includes a spring reception part that projects toward a retainer side to receive a rear end of a spring, a cup seal holding part that projects on an opposite side from the retainer to hold a cup seal arranged on the rear piston, and a projection part that projects on the opposite side from the retainer. The projection part becomes abuttable on the retainer by a stroke of the rear piston if the spring reception part and the cup seal holding part are installed reversely-oriented on the rear piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tagata, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Motoyasu Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Takamatsu, Hideki Hidume, Kazuaki Murayama, Nobutake Hyodo
  • Patent number: 9641052
    Abstract: A primary molded body having an angled connector that is integrally connected to an insulating annular body provided in a stator of a motor section, and that has a plurality of terminals extending along an axial direction of the motor section; a through-hole that is formed in the primary molded body and runs through the angled connector from an interior of the insulating annular body; a secondary molded body that is molded so as to cover the primary molded body; a secondary molded connector that is formed in the secondary molded body and covers the angled connector; and a connector opening that is formed in the secondary molded connector and communicates with the through-hole, wherein an outlet of the through-hole communicates with the connector opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: Tamagawa Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd., Kasatani Corp
    Inventors: Yuichi Miyazawa, Yoshinobu Fujimoto, Yusuke Saito, Hiroyuki Nakanishi