Patents by Inventor Shuji Endo
Shuji Endo 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: 12202554Abstract: A motor control device includes a torque controller to operate based on a steering torque and to give an input to a control target that is a motor, and a model following controller to generate a first correction torque based on an output from the control target. A model following controller includes a high-pass filter to remove a low frequency component from a first correction torque, a friction compensation calculator that is coupled in parallel to the high-pass filter to apply friction compensation to the first correction torque to calculate an estimated value of a mechanical friction torque, and an adder to add the estimated value of the friction torque to the first correction torque from which the low frequency component is removed by the high-pass filter to generate a second correction torque and feed back the second correction torque to an input to the control target.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Sohei Miyake
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Patent number: 12195107Abstract: A control device that controls a control target including at least a motor in a steering mechanism including an input shaft to which a steering wheel is connected, an output shaft connected to the input shaft via a torsion bar, and the motor connected to the output shaft. The control device includes a reaction force controller to generate an input torque input to the control target based on a torsion bar torque generated in the torsion bar and to control a reaction force transmitted from the steering wheel to the steering person, and an assist controller to generate a correction torque to correct the input torque based on an output of the control target and a nominal model. The assist controller is configured or programmed such that a transfer function of the control target is constrained by a transfer function of the nominal model in a frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Sohei Miyake, Masaya Ishikawa, Daisuke Notsu
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Publication number: 20250010915Abstract: A control device that controls a steering mechanism mounted on a vehicle includes a first assist controller to execute lane keeping control and generate a first input value. The first assist controller includes a vehicle state calculator to calculate a yaw rate target value and lateral displacement, a yaw rate controller to generate a yaw rate command value based on the yaw rate target value, and a lateral displacement controller to generate a lateral displacement command value based on the lateral displacement. The yaw rate controller includes a yaw rate adjuster to adjust the yaw rate command value according to a frequency. The lateral displacement controller includes a lateral displacement adjuster to adjust the lateral displacement command value according to a frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Shuji ENDO, Sohei MIYAKE, Daisuke NOTSU
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Publication number: 20250015739Abstract: A motor control device that controls a motor includes a calculator to calculate angle information related to a rotation angle of a rotor of the motor based on an output from a magnetic sensor, and a corrector to correct the angle information calculated by the calculator. The magnetic sensor is a sensor that includes a magnetoresistance effect element and outputs signals of two systems out of phase with each other by 180°. The corrector corrects the angle information using a correction amount expressed by a function including a current value of a motor current supplied to a stator of the motor and a phase angle of the motor current, a current value of a power source current supplied to the motor control device, and a mechanical angle of the rotor calculated based on an output from the magnetic sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Shuji ENDO, Takashi HATTORI, Yoshiaki YAMASHITA, Sohei MIYAKE
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Publication number: 20250002075Abstract: A control device includes a model following controller in which a transfer function of a control target is restricted to a transfer function of a nominal model in a frequency band in which a complementary sensitivity gain, which is a gain in a gain characteristic of a complementary sensitivity function with respect to a modeling error between the control target and the nominal model, is approximately one. A steady gain of the complementary sensitivity function is about 0.1 or more. A lower limit value of a frequency band in which the complementary sensitivity gain is about one is higher than a first resonance frequency that is a resonance frequency of a yaw rate of a vehicle. A second resonance frequency is higher than the first resonance frequency and lower than a lower limit value of a frequency band in which the complementary sensitivity gain is about one.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Shuji ENDO, Sohei MIYAKE, Daisuke NOTSU
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Publication number: 20250002076Abstract: A control device mounted on a steer-by-wire steering device mounted on a vehicle includes a steering assembly including a steering wheel to be steered by a steering operator, a turning assembly including a first turning wheel and a second turning wheel, a turning side motor to drive the turning assembly, and a turning side controller configured or programmed to control a control target including the turning side motor. The turning side controller is configured or programmed to include a model following controller configured or programmed to generate a correction torque to correct an input torque input to the control target based on output of the control target and a nominal model based on a configuration of the control target. The model following controller is configured or programmed such that a transfer function of the control target is restricted to a transfer function of the nominal model.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Shuji ENDO, Sohei MIYAKE, Daisuke NOTSU
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Publication number: 20250002074Abstract: A control device includes a first assist controller to execute lane keeping control and generate a first input value, a second assist controller to generate a second input value based on a steering input value, and a disturbance sensitivity controller to which a command value calculated based on the first input value multiplied by a first gain and the second input value multiplied by a second gain is input. When the first gain is K1 and the second gain is K2, K1=1?K2 is satisfied. The disturbance sensitivity controller includes a first model following controller to generate a correction value to correct a command value based on output of a control target and a first nominal model. The first model following controller is configured or programmed such that a transfer function of the control target is restricted to a transfer function of the first nominal model.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Shuji ENDO, Sohei MIYAKE, Daisuke NOTSU
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Patent number: 12172706Abstract: A motor control device includes a model following controller to generate a correction torque based on an output from a control target that is a motor, and correct an input to the control target with the correction torque. A model following controller includes a high-pass filter with a first cutoff frequency and a low-pass filter with a second cutoff frequency larger than the first cutoff frequency, and is configured or programmed so that a transfer function of a control target is constrained to a nominal model in a frequency band in which a gain in a gain characteristic of Q(s)·HPF(s) is 1 where Q(s) is a transfer function of the low-pass filter and HPF(s) is a transfer function of the high-pass filter.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Sohei Miyake
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Patent number: 12091595Abstract: Provided is a curable organopolysiloxane releasing agent composition for a thermally sensitive paper wherein a releasing layer that has high adhesion and a good peeling force that is cured quickly at a low temperature without producing curing failures when coated on a thermally sensitive coloring layer, and that is resistant to gellification at room temperature, and that has superior ease of handling, can be formed. The curable organopolysiloxane releasing agent composition comprises: (A) one or more organopolysiloxanes having an alkenyl group with a number of carbon atoms between 4 and 12, where the inclusion proportion of vinyl (CH2?CH—) within the alkenyl group is between 0.5 and 3.0 mass %; (B) an organohydrogen polysiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms (Si—H) in a single molecule; (C) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst; and (D) a hydrosilylation reaction inhibiting agent.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: DOW TORAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Shuji Endo
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Patent number: 12084125Abstract: A processor acquires a steering torque detected by a steering torque sensor and a vehicle speed detected by a vehicle speed sensor, changes a gain and a phase to be applied to the steering torque in accordance with a steering frequency when a driver steers a steering wheel, determines a magnitude of an assist torque based on the steering torque to which the gain and the phase have been applied and the vehicle speed, and generates a torque command value to be used to control driving of the motor based on the determined assist torque.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Hiroyuki Ishimura
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Patent number: 12017707Abstract: A motor control system includes an inverter and a control calculation unit. The control calculation unit includes a voltage control calculation unit that calculates a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be applied to a motor from the inverter on the basis of a current deviation between the current command value and the actual current detection value, and a compensation calculation unit that compensates at least one of a k-th component and a 1/k-th component in the motor with respect to a signal value on at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side in a signal flow that passes through the voltage control calculation unit. The compensation calculation unit calculates a compensation value on the basis of an actual angular velocity value indicating an angular velocity at which the motor rotates and the target current command value, while also taking into account advance angle control.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Akitoshi Harada, Tomoya Ueda, Masanori Watahiki, Tomonari Mori, Tokuji Tatewaki
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Patent number: 11958543Abstract: A motor control system includes an inverter, and a control calculation unit that feedback-controls the inverter. The control calculation unit includes a voltage control calculation unit that calculates a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be applied to the motor from the inverter on the basis of a current deviation between a current command value and an actual current detection value, a torque ripple compensation calculation unit that adds a compensation value for compensating a torque ripple in the motor to a signal value on at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side in a signal flow that passes through the voltage control calculation unit, and a current limit calculation unit that limits the current command value by adaptive control based on an actual angular velocity value indicating an angular velocity at which the motor rotates.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Tokuji Tatewaki, Tomoya Ueda, Masanori Watahiki, Tomonari Mori
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Patent number: 11952057Abstract: A motor control system includes an inverter, a voltage control calculating a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be applied to a motor from the inverter based on a deviation between the current command value and the actual current detection value, and a torque ripple compensation unit adding a compensation value for compensating a torque ripple in the motor to a signal value on an upstream side in a signal flow that passes through the voltage control unit. The torque ripple compensation unit includes a phase compensator calculating a compensation value component in the voltage control unit based on an actual angular velocity value indicating an angular velocity at which the motor rotates, and an inverse characteristic processor calculating a compensation value component for compensating the torque ripple based on an inverse characteristic of an open loop transfer function in a feedback control.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Tokuji Tatewaki, Tomoya Ueda, Masanori Watahiki, Tomonari Mori
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Patent number: 11897559Abstract: A steering control device for controlling drive of a motor that drives a steering mechanism according to an operation amount of a steering wheel, includes a first torque command controller that instructs the motor on motor torque according to the operation amount of the steering wheel, and a second torque command controller that instructs the motor on the motor torque according to the operation amount of the steering wheel in parallel with the first torque command controller. The second torque command controller suppresses a frequency region corresponding to disturbance added to the steering mechanism with respect to the operation amount of the steering wheel with a filter.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Ishimura, Shuji Endo, Hanyu Sun
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Patent number: 11807315Abstract: Both responsiveness and stability of a power assist control system are satisfied. A processor executes, in accordance with a program, determining base assist gain based on steering torque and base assist torque, generating stabilizing compensation torque based on the base assist torque, with use of a stabilizing compensator that has a second-order or higher transfer function in which a frequency characteristic is variable in accordance with the base assist gain and which is expressed using a responsiveness parameter ? and a damping parameter ?, and generating a current command value for use in control of the motor based on the stabilizing compensation torque.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, NIDEC ELESYS CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Hiroyuki Ishimura
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Patent number: 11713074Abstract: To improve steering feeling felt by a driver, a motor control device includes a processor and a memory which stores a program for controlling an operation of the processor. According to the program, the processor executes: switching from n-phase (n is an integer of three or more) energization control to n?1 phase energization control in response to a switching signal; acquiring a torque command value, an electrical angle of a motor, and an actual current value of the motor; generating a pre-current command value on the basis of the torque command value, the electrical angle of the motor, and the actual current value of the motor which are acquired; generating a current command value by applying dither control to the pre-current command value in a dead point range of an electrical angle range from 0 to 2?; and performing the n?1 phase energization control on the basis of the current command value.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Masaya Ishikawa, Hiroaki Mizushima
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Publication number: 20230227098Abstract: In a control device to control a motor in an electric power steering apparatus including the motor, processor executes, according to a program calculation of a target assist torque by performing proportional integral (PI) control based on a target steering wheel angle and a steering angle, and control of the motor based on the target assist torque. A gain of an integrator used for integral (I) control of the PI control is variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Shuji ENDO, Hiroaki MIZUSHIMA
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Patent number: 11705844Abstract: A motor control device includes a controller to control a three-phase current by feeding back a control current value obtained based on the three-phase current. The controller is configured or programmed to execute first feedback control of feeding back any one of a first control current value calculated based on a second phase current and the third phase current, a second control current value calculated based on the third phase current and a first phase current, and a third control current value calculated based on the first phase current and the second phase current as a control current value and second feedback control in which the first control current value, the second control current value, and the third control current value are switched and fed back as the control current value.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Mizushima, Shuji Endo
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Patent number: 11702131Abstract: A control device obtains a post-code extension steering torque by performing moving average processing of weighting an oversampling signal obtained by oversampling processing, obtains a base assist torque based on the post-code extension steering torque signal, acquires a base assist torque signal that decreases the base assist torque as a vehicle speed increases, performs stabilization processing on the base assist torque signal to obtain an assist torque signal according to the assist torque of an electric power steering device.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Hiroyuki Ishimura
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Publication number: 20230202554Abstract: A control device that controls a control target including at least a motor in a steering mechanism including an input shaft to which a steering wheel is connected, an output shaft connected to the input shaft via a torsion bar, and the motor connected to the output shaft. The control device includes a reaction force controller to generate an input torque input to the control target based on a torsion bar torque generated in the torsion bar and to control a reaction force transmitted from the steering wheel to the steering person, and an assist controller to generate a correction torque to correct the input torque based on an output of the control target and a nominal model. The assist controller is configured or programmed such that a transfer function of the control target is constrained by a transfer function of the nominal model in a frequency band.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Shuji ENDO, Sohei MIYAKE, Masaya ISHIKAWA, Daisuke NOTSU