Patents Assigned to Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20210265936
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a motor control device capable of estimating a delay with high accuracy even in a case where there is a fluctuation in disturbance torque or delay time and of suppressing the influence of the delay. For this end, the present invention includes a motor MTR, an ECU 2 that controls the rotation of the motor MTR, and an ECU 1 that sends a torque command to the ECU 2 based on a command value. The ECU 1 includes a disturbance estimation block 100 and a delay estimation block 200. The disturbance estimation block 100 estimates disturbance torque (?d) using a torque command input to the ECU 2 and a feedback value of the motor MTR. The delay estimation block 200 estimates a delay using a torque command output from the ECU 1, the feedback value of the motor MTR, and the disturbance torque (?d).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki SATO, Toshiyuki AJIMA, Kenichiro MATSUBARA, Daisuke GOTO
  • Publication number: 20210262538
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a disk brake capable of making it easier for the piston to return than conventional ones when the brake is released from a state where the brake is applied. In the disk brake, the seal groove 5 includes a front wall 51, a rear wall 52 farther from the brake rotor than the front wall 51 in the axial direction D1, and a bottom wall 53 extending along the axial direction D1 between the rear wall 52 and the front wall 51. The bottom wall 53 includes a front bottom wall 53a adjacent to the front wall 51 and a rear bottom wall 53b adjacent to the rear wall 52. The rear bottom wall 53b has a depth d2 from the inner circumferential surface 42a of the cylinder 42, the depth d2 being larger than a dimension d3 of the uncompressed piston seal 6 in the direction of the depth d2 and being larger than a depth d1 from the inner circumferential surface 42a of the cylinder 42 of the front bottom wall 53a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei MATSUSHITA, Kisho ASHIDA, Hisashi TANIE, Yusuke NISHINO, Kazumoto SANO, Ryota ASHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210261133
    Abstract: A host lane environment recognition unit acquires an operation of a target vehicle traveling in a host lane and a road environment. An adjacent lane environment recognition unit acquires operation of vehicles traveling in an adjacent lane and a road environment. A lane changeable space determination unit determines whether the host vehicle can change lanes using road environment information of the adjacent lane. A lane change control unit determines whether the target vehicle traveling in the host lane is allowed to change lanes, based on the operation of the target vehicle and the adjacent vehicle traveling in their lanes. The lane change control unit causes the host vehicle to change lanes based on determining whether the host vehicle can change lanes in the adjacent lane by the lane changeable space determination unit and whether or not the target vehicle is allowed to change lanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Go SAKAYORI, Tsutomu KANEKO, Masato IMAI, Naoyuki TASHIRO
  • Patent number: 11098686
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel injection valve that can be used in a gasoline engine and can take fuel into an injection hole with a small pressure loss near a seat portion on which a valve is seated. Thus, the present invention provides a fuel injection valve for a gasoline engine which includes: a plurality of injection holes; and a seat portion that opens and closes a fuel passage to the plurality of injection holes in cooperation with a valve. At least one fuel injection hole among the plurality of injection holes is configured in a shape such that an injection hole inlet has a long axis and a short axis, and the long axis is directed in a direction in which an extension line intersects with the seat portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaki Itaya, Tomoyuki Hosaka, Noriyuki Maekawa, Takao Miyake
  • Patent number: 11098689
    Abstract: It is made possible to control ignition appropriately. An ignition device 1 for an internal combustion engine includes a spark coil 50 including: a primary side coil 51 connected to a direct current power supply 40 and a secondary side coil 52 magnetically connected to the primary side coil 51 and connected to an ignition plug 60; a switch element 30 that performs switching between energization and interruption of primary current I1 to the primary side coil 51; and a switch element controlling circuit 20 that controls the switch element 30 on the basis of an ignition controlling signal 51 supplied from an ECU 10. A turn-on delay adjustment circuit 22 that delays a control timing of the switch element 30 is disposed between the ECU 10 and the switch element 30 such that first resonance noise generated due to interruption of the primary current I1 to the primary side coil 51 is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Shima, Koji Shibata, Yoichiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11098669
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device that can ensure diagnosis of whether a fuel injection cut function normally works and that further permits startup of an internal combustion engine in a case in which the fuel injection cut function normally works is provided. To attain the internal combustion engine control system, the startup of the internal combustion engine is prohibited when carrying of a diagnostic monitoring current based on a diagnostic drive signal related to each of fuel injection valves to each of fuel injection valves in a case of transmitting a drive prohibition signal related to each of fuel injection valves to a fuel injection valve drive circuit before the startup of the internal combustion engine and transmitting the diagnostic drive signal related to each of fuel injection valves to the fuel injection valve drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Iizuka, Osamu Mukaihara, Koichi Tsukio, Takanori Umeki
  • Patent number: 11098670
    Abstract: Provided is a control device of a fuel injection device which can stabilize a behavior of a valve even when a voltage of a voltage source varies, and can reduce a deviation of an injection amount. A control device 150 of a fuel injection device 101 includes a valve 214, a coil 205 which generates a magnetic attraction force to attract a movable member 202 which drives the valve 214, and a voltage source. The fuel injection device 101 applies a voltage to the coil 205 on the basis of an injection pulse, causes a drive current to flow to the coil 205 until the current becomes a maximum current to attract the movable member 202, and drives the valve 214 to inject fuel. The drive current flowing to the coil 205 or a voltage of the voltage source is detected before the injection pulse is stopped. In a case where the detected drive current or the voltage is equal to or less than a setting, a width of the injection pulse or an injection pulse different from the injection pulse is corrected to be long.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Kusakabe, Masayuki Saruwatari, Noriyuki Maekawa
  • Patent number: 11101739
    Abstract: A switching loss of a power conversion device is sufficiently reduced. A DC-DC converter includes a switching circuit that converts input first DC power into AC power, a transformer that performs voltage conversion of the AC power, and an output circuit that converts the AC power subjected to the voltage conversion by the transformer into second DC power. The control circuit that controls the DC-DC converter calculates a magnetic flux density value B of the transformer and controls a drive frequency of the switching circuit based on the calculated magnetic flux density value B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Tanaka, Kenji Kubo, Takayuki Ouchi, Yuji Sobu, Naoya Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210256260
    Abstract: Provided is a position estimation device capable of highly accurate position estimation. A position estimation device 1 of the present invention is the position estimation device 1 which estimates a current position of a moving object 100 equipped with an imaging device 12, estimates the current position of the moving object 100, create a plurality of virtual positions based on the current position, creates virtual images at the plurality of virtual positions, respectively, compares the plurality of virtual images with an actual image to calculate a comparison error, calculates a weight based on at least one of information acquired by the imaging device 12 and information of a current position error of the moving object, performs weighting on the comparison error using the weight, and corrects the current position based on the comparison error to be weighted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Masuo KANEKO, Kenjiro YAMAMOTO, Shigenori HAYASE
  • Patent number: 11093763
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an onboard environment recognition device exhibiting high accuracy of measurement in a wider range of view fields. The present invention pertains to an onboard environment recognition device (1) that utilizes two cameras (100, 110) for sensing, wherein the onboard environment recognition device (1) is characterized in that: two camera view fields include a stereo-vision area and a monocular-vision area; and the device laterally searches for parallax images that are output results of the stereo-vision area, estimates a road surface distance in the stereo-vision area, and measures the distance of the monocular-vision area by using the estimated road surface distance after extending the same to the monocular-vision area in the lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Takemura, Shouji Muramatsu, Felipe Gomezcaballero, Takeshi Shima
  • Patent number: 11095243
    Abstract: Pulsating current (ripple) is generated in a zero-phase current to increase a loss. A motor control system includes an inverter which drives a motor which includes windings separately wound around each phase and an inverter control unit which generates an output voltage pulse corresponding to each phase to control the inverter on the basis of a torque command value and a rotor position of the motor. The inverter control unit divides the output voltage pulse of at least one phase of the output voltage pulses into several pulses during one period of the output voltage pulse such that a zero-phase voltage of only one of positive and negative polarities is output several times from the motor in the one pulse period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Araki, Hideki Miyazaki, Toshisada Mitsui
  • Patent number: 11092967
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle movement control device which is capable of achieving stable vehicle behavior during the movement of a vehicle in lane changing mode. When calculating a travel path for turning a vehicle to the left side or the right side and then turning the vehicle to the other side, this vehicle movement control device calculates the travel path so that the peak value of the curvature of the travel path decreases in a section where the vehicle speed is higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Akiyama, Junya Takahashi, Toshiyuki Innami
  • Patent number: 11096285
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic circuit substrate in which any excess space is not necessary around an electronic component, and position deviation at a time of mounting the electronic component can be prevented with high precision. An electronic circuit substrate 100 includes a printed wiring board 10 and an electronic component 20. The printed wiring board 10 has a first land 11 and a second land 12. The electronic component 20 has a first bond portion 24 which is bonded to the first land 11 with solder, and a second bond portion 25 which is bonded to the second land 12 with solder. The bond area of the first land 11 and the first bond portion 24 is larger than the bond area of the second land 12 and the second bond portion 25. In one direction D1, the position of an outer side edge 24b of the first bond portion 24 is set so as to match the position of the outer side edge 11b of the first land 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kousuke Takase, Isamu Honda, Kiminori Muto, Yuka Tomaru
  • Patent number: 11092559
    Abstract: A thermal humidity measuring device includes first and second heating elements, and is capable of obtaining a plurality of measurement values (measured values) by effectively utilizing each of the heating elements, which includes measuring humidity by the first heating element. A thermal humidity measuring device includes a first bridge circuit that includes a first heating element that senses humidity, and a second bridge circuit that includes a second heating element that heats air around the first heating element. In the thermal humidity measuring device, a first output signal is extracted from the first bridge circuit, and the humidity is sensed. A second output signal is extracted from the second bridge circuit, and the second output signal includes information relating to at least any one of pressure, an air flow rate, and air temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Ando, Hiroshi Onuki, Hiroshi Nakano, Takeo Hosokawa, Masayuki Hio, Shigenobu Komatsu
  • Patent number: 11092114
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device configured to suppress power to be consumed by an arithmetic device while the vehicle operation is stopped, and to diagnose the operation frequency of the timer for abnormality. The vehicle control device of the present invention allows the bandpass filter to convert the operation frequency of the timer into the voltage value. The holding circuit holds the value corresponding to the converted voltage value. The arithmetic device diagnoses whether or not the timer has been normally operated using the voltage value held in the holding circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuya Ishii
  • Publication number: 20210250200
    Abstract: The invention realizes a gateway device capable of shortening the time required for routing to a CAN bus of the opposite microcomputer side and reducing the delay of data transfer. If the indexes are the same, a microcomputer 1 and a microcomputer 2 include common routing tables 10 and 20 in which the same contents are defined. The microcomputer 1 sends the index to the microcomputer 2. The microcomputer 2 that has received the index reads the routing rule defined in the common routing table 20 by the received index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhei KANEKO, Hitoshi KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210247219
    Abstract: It is possible to reduce a degradation in accuracy after switching of a heating state or after change of the flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki ISOYA, Hiroaki HOSHIKA
  • Publication number: 20210248288
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a simulation device that can adjust an execution timing in a PC simulation environment to be closer to an execution timing in an actual ECU by using a simple method, a simulation method, and an ECU device. A simulation device includes: a first computer including a first performance measurement function that obtains a first processing timing when the first computer executes application software, and a timing adjustment function that performs timing adjustment of an execution time of the application software in the first computer based on a time difference between the first processing timing and a second processing timing when a second computer executes the application software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori MURASHIMA, Yuji FUKUSHIMA, Fumio NARISAWA
  • Publication number: 20210249170
    Abstract: Provided is a solenoid valve drive device capable of accurately controlling a hysteresis value of a drive current for driving a solenoid valve. The solenoid valve drive device according to the present invention controls a set value of a hysteresis or a time width of the hysteresis based on a difference between an extreme value of the hysteresis in a peak hold period of a drive current and a set value of the extreme value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya KATAGIRI, Takao FUKUDA, Yuuji ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210248395
    Abstract: image data captured from a traveling vehicle is considered, and it is not possible to reduce the transmission band of the image data. It is assumed that a radar 4 mounted in a traveling vehicle 10 detects a certain distant three-dimensional object at a time T in a direction of a distance d1 [m] and an angle ?1 . Since the vehicle 10 travels at a vehicle speed Y [km/h], it is predicted that a camera 3 is capable of capturing the distant three-dimensional object at a time (T+?T) and an angle ?1 or at a distance d2 [m]. Therefore, if a control unit 2 outputs a request to the camera 3 in advance, so as to cut out an image of the angle ?1 or the distance d2 [m] at the time (T+?T), when the time (T+?T) comes, the camera 3 transfers a whole image and a high-resolution image being a cutout image of only a partial image, to the control unit 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya YAMADA, Teppei HIROTSU, Tomohito EBINA, Kazuyoshi SERIZAWA, Shouji MURAMATSU