Patents by Inventor Masaki Ninoyu
Masaki Ninoyu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10870417Abstract: The vehicle braking device includes a pilot pressure control portion which executes normal control in which the pilot pressure is controlled in response to the target value of the servo pressure and shortening control in which the change amount of the pilot pressure per unit time is greater than the change amount under the normal control in a mutually different timing, a state judging portion which judges the state of the master piston relating hysteresis of sliding resistance of the master piston based on the detection result of the servo pressure detecting portion or the liquid pressure co-relating with the servo premeasure and a control switching over portion which terminates the shortening control based on the detection result of the servo pressure detecting portion and the detection result of the state judging portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Ninoyu, Yusuke Kamiya
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Patent number: 10800390Abstract: The hydraulic pressure generating device includes a regulator (spool valve) formed by a cylinder body, a spool which slidably moves within the cylinder body, a pilot chamber in which a pilot pressure which is a hydraulic pressure moving the spool along in an axial direction is inputted and an output chamber out of which an output pressure which is a hydraulic pressure corresponding to the pilot pressure is outputted, wherein the hydraulic pressure generating device further includes a spool position obtaining portion which obtains a relative position of the spool relative to the cylinder body and a pilot pressure controlling portion which controls the pilot pressure based on the relative position obtained by the spool position obtaining portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano, Yoshio Masuda
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Patent number: 10703348Abstract: The hydraulic pressure control includes a valve portion which adjusts a fluid flowing into or flowing out of a hydraulic pressure chamber, a state judging portion which judges whether or not a state of the hydraulic pressure chamber is in a state in which the actual pressure is increasing even the holding signal has been inputted to the valve portion and a control portion which executes a specific control which keeps the actual pressure to the hydraulic pressure within the dead zone when the state judging portion judges that the state of the hydraulic pressure chamber is in a state that the actual pressure fluctuates even the holding signal has been inputted to the valve portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro Okano, Daisuke Nakata, Masaki Ninoyu
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Patent number: 10625720Abstract: A vehicle braking device performs a following control which makes an actual value of a physical quantity follow a first target value when the actual value of the physical quantity is a value outside a dead zone and a suppression control which suppresses a change of the actual value when the actual value is a value within the dead zone in order to control the physical quantity associated with the braking force to be the first target value. The vehicle braking device comprises a setting portion which sets a second target value which follows the first target value and which is smaller than the first target value, when the first target value is increasing and a control portion which performs a control to make the actual value approximate the second target value.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshio Masuda, Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano
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Patent number: 10625721Abstract: The hydraulic pressure control device has an idle region, and is provided with a control portion, and a correcting portion which, in cases when the reaction time of the actual pressure to pressure increasing control or pressure decreasing control exceeds a predetermined threshold time, corrects a control current towards the side in which the flow-rate is increased. In cases when a judging portion has judged that the pressure increasing control is in the idle area, the correcting portion applies, as the threshold time, an idle threshold time set to a value different from the threshold time that in cases when the judging portion has not judged that the pressure increasing control is in the idle area. Furthermore, in cases when the reaction time of the actual pressure to the pressure increasing control exceeds the idle threshold time, the correcting portion corrects the control current.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano, Masaaki Komazawa
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Patent number: 10583815Abstract: The hydraulic pressure control device controls a valve part for adjusting the inflow/outflow of a fluid into and out of a hydraulic pressure chamber formed in a braking device to control the actual hydraulic pressure of the fluid in the hydraulic pressure chamber, to a target hydraulic pressure of the actual hydraulic pressure and includes a determination unit which determines whether a response delay time of the actual hydraulic pressure is equal to or greater than a prescribed permitted delay time and an inflow/outflow quantity correction unit which executes increase correction processing in which the valve part is controlled to increase the inflow/outflow quantity of the fluid in the hydraulic pressure chamber when the determination unit has determined that the response delay time is equal to or greater than the permitted delay time.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano
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Patent number: 10569754Abstract: A valve control device includes a correction unit that corrects hysteresis in output of a control valve according to an increasing/reducing direction of a control output value; a detection unit configured to detect an actual output value to the control valve corresponding to the control output value; and a forbidding unit configured to forbid correction by the correction unit, until a difference between the control output value and the actual output value becomes within a predetermined range, after the increasing/reducing direction of the control output value is switched.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano
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Patent number: 10549735Abstract: A hydraulic pressure braking force generation device is provided with a first control unit for performing control for inhibiting excessive responses in which the input pressure is controlled such that the output pressure is within a first region set using a braking target oil pressure as a reference, a second control unit for performing control for responsiveness in which the increase speed or decrease speed of the input pressure is increased so as to be larger than that in the control for inhibiting excessive responses, to cancel response delay and a switching unit which, on the basis of the state of the braking target oil pressure, switches between the control for inhibiting excessive responses performed by the first control unit and the control for responsiveness performed by the second control unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano
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Publication number: 20190299950Abstract: The vehicle braking device includes a pilot pressure control portion which executes normal control in which the pilot pressure is controlled in response to the target value of the servo pressure and shortening control in which the change amount of the pilot pressure per unit time is greater than the change amount under the normal control in a mutually different timing, a state judging portion which judges the state of the master piston relating hysteresis of sliding resistance of the master piston based on the detection result of the servo pressure detecting portion or the liquid pressure co-relating with the servo premeasure and a control switching over portion which terminates the shortening control based on the detection result of the servo pressure detecting portion and the detection result of the state judging portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki NINOYU, Yusuke KAMIYA
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Patent number: 10407036Abstract: A vehicle brake device includes a hydraulic pressure control portion which performs a feed-back control so that an actual hydraulic pressure of the brake fluid approximates an instruction target pressure and a target pressure setting portion which sets the instruction target pressure to a value closer to the actual hydraulic pressure side than an operating target pressure, when a pressure deviation between the operating target pressure which is a target value of the hydraulic pressure of the brake fluid corresponding to a brake operation and the actual hydraulic pressure is larger than a first pressure difference and at the same time when the actual hydraulic pressure is approaching to the operating target pressure.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro Okano, Masaki Ninoyu
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Publication number: 20190193695Abstract: A vehicle braking device of a by-wire type includes an actuator configured to flow out a fluid in a subject wheel cylinder among the plurality of wheel cylinders to flow towards the master chamber upon pressure decreasing control for the subject wheel cylinder under an ABS control execution and a control portion executing a first control controlling the driving portion such that an increasing amount of the master pressure under a pressure increasing control becomes great or a decreasing amount thereof under a pressure decreasing control becomes small and/or executes a second control which controls the driving portion such that the increasing amount of the master pressure under the pressure increasing control becomes small or the decreasing amount thereof under the pressure decreasing control of the master pressure becomes great.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki NINOYU, Yusuke KAMIYA
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Publication number: 20190077385Abstract: The hydraulic pressure control includes a valve portion which adjusts a fluid flowing into or flowing out of a hydraulic pressure chamber, a state judging portion which judges whether or not a state of the hydraulic pressure chamber is in a state in which the actual pressure is increasing even the holding signal has been inputted to the valve portion and a control portion which executes a specific control which keeps the actual pressure to the hydraulic pressure within the dead zone when the state judging portion judges that the state of the hydraulic pressure chamber is in a state that the actual pressure fluctuates even the holding signal has been inputted to the valve portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2016Publication date: March 14, 2019Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro OKANO, Daisuke NAKATA, Masaki NINOYU
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Publication number: 20190016317Abstract: A vehicle braking device performs a following control which makes an actual value of a physical quantity follow a first target value when the actual value of the physical quantity is a value outside a dead zone and a suppression control which suppresses a change of the actual value when the actual value is a value within the dead zone in order to control the physical quantity associated with the braking force to be the first target value. The vehicle braking device comprises a setting portion which sets a second target value which follows the first target value and which is smaller than the first target value, when the first target value is increasing and a control portion which performs a control to make the actual value approximate the second target value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshio MASUDA, Masaki NINOYU, Takahiro OKANO
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Patent number: 10173658Abstract: In a vehicular brake device, while a brake operating member is not operated and a wheel cylinder pressure supplying control is executed to supply the target wheel cylinder pressure to the respective wheel cylinders individually, the vehicle control device sets the target servo pressure to a first predetermined target servo pressure which is a value smaller than a maximum output pressure of the servo pressure generating device. When the execution of the wheel cylinder pressure supplying control starts, the vehicle control device sets the target servo pressure to be the target wheel cylinder maximum value when a firstly occurred rising inclination of the target wheel cylinder maximum value is equal to or more than a minimum increment of an output of the servo pressure generating device per unit time and at the same time when the target wheel cylinder pressure is smaller than the first determined target servo pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2014Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano, Yusuke Kamiya, Daisuke Nakata, Masaaki Komazawa
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Patent number: 10173657Abstract: Provided is a braking device capable of suppressing an overshoot or undershoot in output pressure. This vehicle braking device is configured such that a pressure adjustment unit has a piston which is driven by the difference between force corresponding to pilot pressure and force corresponding to output pressure, and a control unit estimates, on the basis of a stroke-related value regarding the amount of movement of the piston, the amount of change of the output pressure that changes even after switching from pressure increase control or pressure reduction control to holding control of the output pressure, and controls a valve unit on the basis of the estimated amount of change of the output pressure.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Masaki Ninoyu
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Publication number: 20180345925Abstract: The hydraulic pressure control device has an idle region, and is provided with a control portion, and a correcting portion which, in cases when the reaction time of the actual pressure to pressure increasing control or pressure decreasing control exceeds a predetermined threshold time, corrects a control current towards the side in which the flow-rate is increased. In cases when a judging portion has judged that the pressure increasing control is in the idle area, the correcting portion applies, as the threshold time, an idle threshold time set to a value different from the threshold time that in cases when the judging portion has not judged that the pressure increasing control is in the idle area. Furthermore, in cases when the reaction time of the actual pressure to the pressure increasing control exceeds the idle threshold time, the correcting portion corrects the control current.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki NINOYU, Takahiro OKANO, Masaaki KOMAZAWA
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Publication number: 20180345942Abstract: A valve control device includes a correction unit that corrects hysteresis in output of a control valve according to an increasing/reducing direction of a control output value; a detection unit configured to detect an actual output value to the control valve corresponding to the control output value; and a forbidding unit configured to forbid correction by the correction unit, until a difference between the control output value and the actual output value becomes within a predetermined range, after the increasing/reducing direction of the control output value is switched.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki NINOYU, Takahiro OKANO
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Publication number: 20180339683Abstract: A hydraulic pressure braking force generation device is provided with a first control unit for performing control for inhibiting excessive responses in which the input pressure is controlled such that the output pressure is within a first region set using a braking target oil pressure as a reference, a second control unit for performing control for responsiveness in which the increase speed or decrease speed of the input pressure is increased so as to be larger than that in the control for inhibiting excessive responses, to cancel response delay and a switching unit which, on the basis of the state of the braking target oil pressure, switches between the control for inhibiting excessive responses performed by the first control unit and the control for responsiveness performed by the second control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: Advics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masaki NINOYU
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Publication number: 20180304870Abstract: The hydraulic pressure control device controls a valve part for adjusting the inflow/outflow of a fluid into and out of a hydraulic pressure chamber formed in a braking device to control the actual hydraulic pressure of the fluid in the hydraulic pressure chamber, to a target hydraulic pressure of the actual hydraulic pressure and includes a determination unit which determines whether a response delay time of the actual hydraulic pressure is equal to or greater than a prescribed permitted delay time and an inflow/outflow quantity correction unit which executes increase correction processing in which the valve part is controlled to increase the inflow/outflow quantity of the fluid in the hydraulic pressure chamber when the determination unit has determined that the response delay time is equal to or greater than the permitted delay time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2016Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicants: Advics Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaki NINOYU, Takahiro OKANO
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Patent number: 10065619Abstract: A vehicle control device which is applicable to a vehicle brake device, controls the pressure increasing control valve and the pressure-decreasing control valve so that an actual servo pressure detected by the servo pressure sensor becomes a target servo pressure; and controls so as to increase the target servo pressure by a predetermined amount, while the brake actuator is executing the braking control which accompanies a brake fluid pumping back control wherein the brake fluid supplied to the wheel cylinder is pumped back to the master cylinder by the built-in pump.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2014Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano, Yusuke Kamiya, Daisuke Nakata, Masaaki Komazawa