Patents Assigned to AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 9631685
    Abstract: An electric actuator includes a shaft member, a nut member, a power transmission member, and a guide portion. A spiral groove is formed on an outer circumference of the shaft member. The nut member is fitted onto the shaft member. A power transmission member is disposed between an inner circumference of the nut member and the groove. The guide portion is configured to guide linear motion of the shaft member. Rotation of the nut member about the shaft member by means of a rotational driving force of an electric motor results in the linear motion of the shaft member. The guide portion includes a rotating mechanism portion configured to rotate the shaft member about an axis when the shaft member is in the linear motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji Sakai, Nobuyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9616866
    Abstract: Inlet and outlet ports are in the top part of a base; a reservoir is in the bottom part of the base; pumps are between the inlet port and the reservoir; a pressure booster valve, a depressurizing valve, a cut valve, and a caliper pressure sensor are along the center axis of each pump; the pressure booster valve is above the center axis; the depressurizing valve is below the center axis; the cut valve is between the pressure booster valve and the depressurizing valve and is nearer the middle of the base than the pressure booster valve and the depressurizing valve; and a suction valve is between the depressurizing valves aligned nearer the end of the base than a vertical reference line passing through the rotational center axes of the pumps. The suction valve communicates with cut valves, and a master pressure sensor is on the reference line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Iyatani
  • Patent number: 9616873
    Abstract: Provided is a brake hydraulic device for a vehicle, including: a base body having a hydraulic pressure path for brake fluid formed therein; an electromagnetic valve; an electromagnetic coil; a pressure sensor; and a housing attached to the outer surface of the base body. The housing includes a peripheral wall part and an intermediate wall part partitioning a space inside the peripheral wall part into a front side and a rear side. A plurality of bus bars on the coil side to be electrically connected to the electromagnetic coil, and a plurality of bus bars on the sensor side to be electrically connected to the pressure sensor are embedded in the intermediate wall part. A hierarchy region where the bus bars on the coil side and the bus bars on the sensor side are positioned in a hierarchy state with each other in the front-rear direction is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Motoyasu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9610928
    Abstract: A vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus installed in a vehicle changing a drive torque transferred to a wheel during a halt, includes vehicle holding section for performing vehicle holding control that holds an actual brake hydraulic pressure applied to the wheel during a halt and storage section for storing a holdable hydraulic pressure capable of holding the halt state of the vehicle before and after the drive torque changes during a halt, in which when determining that the actual brake hydraulic pressure is less than the holdable hydraulic pressure (first hydraulic pressure P1) at a start (time t1) of the vehicle holding control, the vehicle holding section increases the actual brake hydraulic pressure to the holdable hydraulic pressure and holds the holdable hydraulic pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kinoshita, Masaki Koike, Kohei Akamine
  • Patent number: 9610926
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus configured to perform a vehicle hold control which controls a brake hydraulic pressure when a vehicle comes to a halt. The vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus includes: a behavior determination section configured to determine whether or not a behaving amount in a lateral direction of the vehicle is equal to or larger than a first threshold; and an operation determination section configured to determine whether or not a control member provided to control the vehicle is operated. Further, the vehicle hold control is canceled at least when the behavior determination section determines that the behaving amount is equal to or larger than the first threshold and the operation determination section determines that the control member is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Harada, Manabu Hiroya
  • Patent number: 9610925
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a vehicle behavior control system. The vehicle behavior control system includes a behavior stabilization control module that is configured to execute a behavior stabilization control so as to stabilize a behavior of a vehicle by giving a braking force to a turning outer wheel of the vehicle based on a target braking force. The behavior stabilization control module has a target braking force setting section that sets the target braking force. The target braking force is set so as to be smaller for a second turn than for a first turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nomura, Takahiro Nishigaki, Shinji Murashita, Natsuko Hamamoto, Kenta Wada
  • Patent number: 9604612
    Abstract: A brake hydraulic pressure control device for a vehicle in which operation of a hydraulic pressure adjustment unit that can carry out adjustment involving individually increasing/decreasing brake hydraulic pressures applied to wheel brakes for front and rear wheels is controlled for allowing differential pressure between brake hydraulic pressures of the left and right wheel brakes, wherein allowable differential pressure setting means is arranged for setting the allowable differential pressure corresponding to the coefficient of friction of a road surface, hydraulic pressure acquisition means acquires a lock hydraulic pressure, which is a hydraulic pressure when starting anti-lock brake control for the respective wheel brake, and when the lock hydraulic pressure of the wheel brakes for the front wheels acquired by the hydraulic pressure acquisition means is no greater than a predetermined value, application of the allowable differential pressure corresponding to the coefficient of friction of the road surface
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignees: Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Sekiya, Shigehiro Honda, Ryosuke Ueda
  • Patent number: 9592806
    Abstract: Provided is a stroke simulator in which the piston operates smoothly without being inhibited from displacement thereof by the negative pressure generated in the closed space, even if the piston is configured to be displaced so as to close the space in which the elastic member is housed, and to elastically deform the elastic member. A stroke simulator, in which a simulator piston presses a first return spring, which is housed in a bottomed cylindrical portion, from an opening portion side of the cylindrical portion, to cause the first return spring to be elastically deformed, and to generate a brake reaction force. When the opening portion is closed by the simulator piston, a brake fluid filled in the cylinder portion is taken into the inside of the cylindrical portion via a flow path leading to the inside of the cylindrical portion from a second cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Murayama, Jiro Suzuki, Motoyasu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9592803
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control system. The vehicle control system includes a steering angle acquiring module, a yaw rate acquiring module that acquires a yaw rate, and a road surface friction coefficient estimation module. The vehicle control system further includes a behavior stabilization control module and a reduction gradient setting module. The behavior stabilization control module executes a behavior stabilization control to exert a braking force on a wheel brake when a vehicle is turning to thereby reduce a deviation between the yaw rate and a target yaw rate. And, the reduction gradient setting module sets a reduction gradient of the braking force when the behavior stabilization control is to be ended, based on the steering angle and the road surface friction coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Akutsu, Kazumichi Eda
  • Patent number: 9592799
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an electronic control unit including: a base body; a control circuit board that controls electric parts; and a housing that is attached to one surface of the base body. The housing includes an accommodating portion which accommodates the control circuit board thereinside and a flange. The flange includes an attaching hole penetrating therethrough. A part of the accommodating portion is positioned on an extension of a center axis of the attaching hole. An attaching pin projects from the one surface of the base body so as to be inserted into the attaching hole. An attaching portion is formed on the attaching pin so as to be positioned between the flange and the accommodating portion. An elastic member is attached to the attaching portion so as to bias the flange toward the one surface of the base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Iyatani
  • Patent number: 9566979
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a vehicle behavior control system. The vehicle behavior control system includes a steering angle obtaining module, a steering angular velocity obtaining module, a vehicle speed obtaining module, a standard yaw rate calculation module, a limit yaw rate setting module and a behavior stabilization control module. The behavior stabilization control module executes a behavior stabilization control so as to stabilize a behavior of the vehicle by giving a braking force to a turning outer wheel of the vehicle based on a target braking force. The behavior stabilization control module sets a control intervention threshold based on the limit yaw rate and the steering angular velocity, and determines that the behavior stabilization control is to be started in case the standard yaw rate exceeds the control intervention threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishigaki, Nobuyuki Nomura, Natsuko Hamamoto, Kenji Takayama
  • Patent number: 9551363
    Abstract: Untreated bosses are formed in advance in two directions on a cylinder mechanism. The bosses on one side are formed as mounts to attach a motor cylinder device to a vehicle body, and the other bosses are formed as ports to connect to the cylinder mechanism. The mount bosses are formed on the outside in the width direction of the vehicle, and the port bosses are formed on the inside in the width direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Arata Inoue, Takaaki Ohnishi, Kazuaki Murayama, Takehiro Horiuchi, Makoto Sawai, Kaoru Akahane, Toru Mabuchi, Nobuyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9550480
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a vehicle brake hydraulic controller including: an antilock braking controlling module configured to perform an antilock braking control in which a brake hydraulic pressure applied to wheel brakes is reduced under the condition that a slip-related amount has reached a pressure reduction threshold value; and a turning judging module configured to judge whether a vehicle is turning based on a steering angle, wherein, when the antilock braking control is performed and in the case that the turning judging module judges that the vehicle is turning, the antilock braking controlling module performs a turning pressure reduction control so as to: change the pressure reduction threshold values to be more easily reached by the slip-related amount than at the time of straight running; and change the pressure reduction amounts to be larger than that at the time of straight running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyonori Asano
  • Patent number: 9545905
    Abstract: An electric brake device includes a first slave piston which is housed in a cylinder body and generates hydraulic pressure in a first hydraulic chamber by moving forward, a motor which transmits a driving force to the first slave piston, and a restriction pin which is inserted and secured to the cylinder body in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the cylinder body and restricts a backward position of the first slave piston when a hydraulic pressure is applied from an outside to the first hydraulic chamber, wherein the restriction pin is inserted and secured to the cylinder mechanism in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the cylinder main body. Further, a clearance is formed between an inner peripheral wall of the cylinder body and a first groove portion and second groove portion which are formed on an outer surface of the restriction pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Ohnishi, Kazuaki Murayama, Hiroshi Nakano, Kazuyoshi Akutsu, Hideo Miyabayashi, Yoshiyuki Takamatsu, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Motoyasu Nakamura, Yoshiteru Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 9527485
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a brake system input apparatus into which a brake operation performed by an operating person is inputted, including: a base body; a master cylinder that is provided in the base body and that generates a brake hydraulic pressure by a piston, the piston being connected to a brake operator; a stroke sensor unit that is attached to the base body on a side of the master cylinder and that has a detection element, the detection element being configured to detect a sliding stroke of the piston; and a control circuit board that is provided on a side of the base body, wherein the stroke sensor unit has a connection terminal portion that is connected to a connection terminal of the control circuit board, and wherein the connection terminal portion is disposed so as to face the control circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyasu Nakamura, Toshiya Shimozaki, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Kouji Sakai
  • Patent number: 9522662
    Abstract: A cylinder device, which is provided with: a substrate having a cylinder hole and a reservoir union port; a piston which is inserted into the cylinder hole; a regulation member which regulates the rearward limit of the piston; a reservoir having a liquid supply part; and a seal member which is for the reservoir and which is externally fitted to the liquid supply part. Therein: the substrate comprises a mounting hole and a first communication hole which open to the reservoir union port and the cylinder hole; the regulation member is inserted into the mounting hole (11h); and the liquid supply part has a cut-out section and a tip section arranged so as to face the regulation member. This structure enables the number of components to be reduced, reduces the size of the substrate, and also prevents air from collecting inside the reservoir union port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Murayama, Takaaki Ohnishi, Nobuyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9522663
    Abstract: A hydraulic-pressure generator including: primary and secondary pistons displaced corresponding to displacement of a brake pedal; a first pressure chamber communicating with a first hollow in the primary piston and generating in brake fluid hydraulic pressure corresponding to the displacement of the primary piston; a second pressure chamber communicating with a second hollow in the secondary piston and generating in the brake fluid hydraulic pressure corresponding to the displacement of the secondary piston; one or more first communication openings formed in a peripheral wall surrounding the first hollow; and second communication openings formed in a peripheral wall surrounding the second hollow. The flow rate of the brake fluid through the one or more first communication openings is different from the flow rate of the brake fluid through the second communication openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Ohnishi, Motoyasu Nakamura, Masaki Kuramochi
  • Patent number: 9523439
    Abstract: Provided is a brake hydraulic device for a vehicle, including: a base body having a hydraulic pressure path for brake fluid formed therein; an electromagnetic valve which opens and closes the hydraulic pressure path; an electromagnetic coil which drives the electromagnetic valve; and a housing attached to the outer surface of the base body and having a housing chamber for accommodating the electromagnetic valve and the electromagnetic coil. The housing includes a peripheral wall part having openings formed on a front side and a rear side thereof, and an intermediate wall part partitioning a space inside the peripheral wall part into a front side and a rear side. The housing chamber is provided on the rear side of the intermediate wall part, and recessed portions and a projecting portion is formed on a front surface of the intermediate wall part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Motoyasu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9522666
    Abstract: A lid member has an external shape inscribing a quadrilateral formed by two sets of two facing sides, and has: a pair of first cut-out sections configured by cutting out, in the same size, a pair of diagonal corners from among the two sets of diagonal corners of the quadrilateral; and a pair of second cut-out sections configured by cutting out the other diagonal corners in the same size. The outer shape of the lid member is formed in a point-symmetric shape relative to the center of an opening in a peripheral wall section. The first cut-out sections have a larger surface area than the second cut-out sections, and one out of the pair of first cut-out sections is configured so as to be arranged in the vehicle progression direction and at the bottom in the vertical direction, when a base body is mounted to a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoyasu Nakamura, Kazuaki Murayama, Takaaki Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 9511753
    Abstract: A vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control unit includes a base body incorporating therein a brake fluid flow path and an electromagnetic valve which is an assembled part assembled into a mounting hole portion which is formed in the base body in such a manner as to communicate with the flow path. A hole wall of the mounting hole portion has a plastically deformed portion formed by pressing the hole wall in a downward direction of the mounting hole portion. A locking groove for the plastically deformed portion to enter is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the electromagnetic valve. An outside diameter of the electromagnetic valve at an upper side of the locking groove is made smaller than an outside diameter of the electromagnetic valve at a lower side of the locking groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ota, Naoki Yamada