Abstract: When a mirror angle is automatically displaced toward a target position, if the movement is mechanically locked before reaching the target position, power supply to a motor can promptly be halt, and in the case of a low temperature and a low voltage where the operating speed is slow, the mirror angle can also reach the target position. If time during which no change in the mirror angle is detected after the start of power supply exceeds a long-term determination period, the power supply to the motor is halted.

Abstract: A control method can stop motor operation reliably when a mirror rotator is mechanically locked at a driven end of the mirror rotator. The control method operates a motor 18 according to battery voltage. The motor 18 is operated with an operating time set and is stopped after a lapse of the set operating time, where the operating time is a time required for the motor 18 to drive the mirror rotator 14 from the retracted position or the working position to the working position or the retracted position at which the mirror rotator 14 is locked by a stopper. The control method detects the battery voltage, and decreases the set operating time of the motor 18 when the detected battery voltage is high or increases the set operating time of the motor 18 when the detected battery voltage is low.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to, when rotation of a mirror rotation unit in a power-folding mirror is mechanically locked and its drive motor is thereby locked, make it possible to correctly detect this locked state. A motor 10 for a power-folding mirror is reversibly driven by an H-bridge drive circuit 12 formed of FETs 1 to 4. When the motor 10 is driven in normal rotation by turning the FETs 1 and 4 on and turning the FETs 2 and 3 off, the FET 1 is periodically turned off to detect a voltage of a terminal 10a of the motor 10 by means of a voltage detection circuit 14. When the FET 1 is turned off and the motor 10 is not locked, the motor 10 generates power by means of its inertial rotation, and when locked, the motor 10 generates no power, so the voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit 14 changes according to whether or not the motor 10 is locked. A CPU 20 determines whether or not the motor 10 is locked according to the voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit 14.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to, when rotation of a mirror rotation unit in a power-folding mirror is mechanically locked and its drive motor is thereby locked, make it possible to correctly detect this locked state. A motor 10 for a power-folding mirror is reversibly driven by an H-bridge drive circuit 12 formed of FETs 1 to 4. When the motor 10 is driven in normal rotation by turning the FETs 1 and 4 on and turning the FETs 2 and 3 off, the FET 1 is periodically turned off to detect a voltage of a terminal 10a of the motor 10 by means of a voltage detection circuit 14. When the FET 1 is turned off and the motor 10 is not locked, the motor 10 generates power by means of its inertial rotation, and when locked, the motor 10 generates no power, so the voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit 14 changes according to whether or not the motor 10 is locked. A CPU 20 determines whether or not the motor 10 is locked according to the voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit 14.

Abstract: A control method can stop motor operation reliably when a mirror rotator is mechanically locked at a driven end of the mirror rotator. The control method operates a motor 18 according to battery voltage. The motor 18 is operated with an operating time set and is stopped after a lapse of the set operating time, where the operating time is a time required for the motor 18 to drive the mirror rotator 14 from the retracted position or the working position to the working position or the retracted position at which the mirror rotator 14 is locked by a stopper. The control method detects the battery voltage, and decreases the set operating time of the motor 18 when the detected battery voltage is high or increases the set operating time of the motor 18 when the detected battery voltage is low.

Abstract: The present invention provides a DC brush motor rotation amount detection method comprising the steps of: counting pulses generated by switching of brushes when a DC brush motor rotates; removing any noise pulse generated during a pulse rejection period which is shorter than a pulse interval and which is started when each pulse is generated; counting pulses generated during pulse acceptance periods outside the pulse rejection periods; and detecting a rotation amount of the DC brush motor, wherein the pulse rejection period during steady-state operation of the DC brush motor is ended when a predetermined time elapses from a start point of the pulse rejection period, where the predetermined time is calculated by multiplying a pulse interval of a corresponding pulse zone one rotation before a pulse zone to which the pulse rejection period belongs by a coefficient K(½<K<1).

Abstract: The present invention provides a DC brush motor rotation amount detection method comprising the steps of: counting pulses generated by switching of brushes when a DC brush motor rotates; removing any noise pulse generated during a pulse rejection period which is shorter than a pulse interval and which is started when each pulse is generated; counting pulses generated during pulse acceptance periods outside the pulse rejection periods; and detecting a rotation amount of the DC brush motor, wherein the pulse rejection period during steady-state operation of the DC brush motor is ended when a predetermined time elapses from a start point of the pulse rejection period, where the predetermined time is calculated by multiplying a pulse interval of a corresponding pulse zone one rotation before a pulse zone to which the pulse rejection period belongs by a coefficient K(½<K<1).

Abstract: An anti-lock brake control method or device which maintains the vehicle stability even if the vehicle drives onto the &mgr; split road surface from a normal road surface. The anti-lock brake control method or device comprises a means to determine the hydraulic pressure in the wheel cylinder of the right and left wheels and a means to change the threshold value which lowers the threshold value for the wheel cylinder of the front wheel with the higher hydraulic pressure to be switched into the pressure reduction mode when the hydraulic pressure difference between the wheel cylinders of the right and left front wheels reaches or exceeds the predetermined hydraulic pressure.

Abstract: A method is provided for accurately controlling a vehicle having a mini tire mounted as the spare tire. A short-term correction coefficient and a long-term correction coefficient are computed periodically for the left and right wheels, and a probable lateral acceleration G is computed from the difference between the ratio of the short-term correction coefficient to the long-term correction coefficient for the left and right wheels. A revised probable lateral acceleration G' is computed using the value of the long-term correction coefficient fixed at the point at which the absolute value of the probable lateral acceleration G has exceeded a prescribed value and the most recent short-term correction coefficient, from which a decision is made as to the state of a turn. The most recent long-term correction coefficient is used to make a correction for a mounted mini tire.

Abstract: A method is provided to detect, without the use of G-sensors, possible cascade locking in a four-wheel drive vehicle equipped with wheel speed sensors. The method measures the speed of each wheel with the respective wheel-speed sensor, and derives an estimated vehicle speed and a front and rear speed difference between the front and rear wheel speeds from the wheel speeds. When the deceleration of the estimated vehicle speed is smaller than a first threshold value and the absolute value of the front and rear speed difference is larger than a second threshold value, and if the change in the speed of the front wheels is smaller than the change in the front and rear speed difference at a time when the absolute value of the difference diminishes, then cascade locking of the four wheels is deemed to be starting.

Abstract: A method is provided to correct the wheel speed for a vehicle equipped with a mini tire as the spare tire plus a nonvolatile memory device. The presence or absence of a mounted mini tire is detected while the vehicle is moving, and if a mini tire is mounted, the mounting information is stored in the nonvolatile memory. If an antilock control is triggered after the vehicle is restarted and in motion, a correction is made for the mini tire using the mounting information stored in the nonvolatile memory.

Abstract: A method of an accurate detection of a spinning vehicle wheel. Observed wheel speeds are derived by measuring the speed of each wheel and the slowest speed is set as the slowest observed wheel speed. A maximum probable wheel speed is derived by multiplying the slowest observed wheel speed by the ratio of the maximum wheel speed to the slowest wheel speed for a given minimum turning radius. The maximum probable wheel speed is compared with an observed wheel speed and if the observed wheel speed is greater, the wheel is deemed to be spinning.

Abstract: A method is provided to compute the probable body speed of a vehicle equipped with a mini tire as a spare tire, specifically when the mini tire is mounted. The wheel speeds of the four wheels are measured, and if the speed does not satisfy the predetermined formula relating to the wheel base and tread of the vehicle to a wheel speed, then a probable vehicle body speed is derived by the normal method. The speed thus derived is corrected by the diameter of the mini tire to compute a new probable vehicle body speed.