Patents by Inventor Takahiro Okano

Takahiro Okano 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).

  • Publication number: 20200283058
    Abstract: A steering system for a vehicle according to an example in the present disclosure includes a steering mechanism that is mechanically disconnected from a steering wheel to cause a driving wheel to be turned by a turning motor, and a control device that provides a motor command value to the turning motor. The control device has a two-degree-of-freedom control system including a feed-forward model for converting a target turning angle into a feed-forward value of the motor command value, and a feedback model for converting a difference between the target turning angle and an actual turning angle into a feedback value of the motor command value. A transfer function describing the feed-forward model contains a variable coefficient. The control device changes the variable coefficient of the transfer function based on information about road surface reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Takafumi Sato
  • Patent number: 10703348
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Daisuke Nakata, Masaki Ninoyu
  • Patent number: 10625721
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano, Masaaki Komazawa
  • Patent number: 10625720
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshio Masuda, Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano
  • Patent number: 10583815
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano
  • Patent number: 10569754
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano
  • Patent number: 10549735
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano
  • Patent number: 10549641
    Abstract: A braking device for a vehicle includes a friction brake device, a regeneration bake device, a control portion which controls the friction braking force and the regeneration braking force through a cooperative control and a state judging portion which judges whether a vehicle state is in a stopped state or a non-braking operation state where the braking operation is not performed, The control portion executes a factor change control which suppresses an increase of change inclination of the friction braking force by changing a factor relating to a friction used when the hydraulic pressure is converted into the friction braking force to an increasing side and returns the factor to a value at a non-operation of the factor change control when the vehicle state is judged to be in the stopped state or the non-braking operation state by the state judging portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Daisuke Nakata
  • Patent number: 10471944
    Abstract: A vehicle brake device provided with a hydraulic pressure generating portion, an actuator and a controlling portion which maintains a driving force of the driving portion when a control subject pressure in a control subject chamber is within a dead zone, wherein the control subject pressure varies in response to a variation of the master pressure and a pulsation is generated in the master pressure accompanying an operation of the actuator. The vehicle brake device further includes a rigidity information obtaining portion which obtains a rigidity information and a dead zone setting portion which sets the dead zone based on the rigidity information obtained by the rigidity information obtaining portion such that the higher the rigidity of the control subject chamber, or the higher the probability of rigidity increase of the control subject chamber, the wider the dead zone is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA-JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Kamiya, Takahiro Okano
  • Patent number: 10457264
    Abstract: An abnormality detection device includes a control target hydraulic pressure calculating portion that calculates a control target hydraulic pressure according to an operation state of a brake pedal, the hydraulic pressure obtaining portion that obtains the hydraulic pressure of the operating fluid controlled to become the control target hydraulic pressure calculated by the control target hydraulic pressure calculating portion from the pressure sensor; a second determination threshold value changing portion that changes a threshold value to be closer to the control target hydraulic pressure calculated by the control target hydraulic pressure calculating portion in a stepwise manner when a state determining portion determines that the control target hydraulic pressure is in a maintaining state, and the abnormality determining portion that determines the hydraulic pressure braking force generating device is abnormal when the hydraulic pressure obtained by the hydraulic pressure obtaining portion deviates from th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi Kobayashi, Takahiro Okano
  • Publication number: 20190322314
    Abstract: A steering system of a vehicle, including an operation member to be operated by a driver, a steering device configured to steer a wheel, and a controller configured to control the steering system, wherein the controller is configured to parallelly execute a main process including a process in which the controller controls the steering device to perform steering of the wheel in accordance with an operation of the operation member and an auxiliary process relating to an operation of the steering system and configured to decrease an execution ratio of the main process and increase an execution ratio of the auxiliary process when a condition that a running speed of the vehicle is not lower than a threshold speed is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Kenji Shibata, Takahiro Okano, Takenari Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20190322312
    Abstract: A steering system of a vehicle, including an operation member to be operated by a driver, a steering device configured to steer a wheel, and a controller configured to control the steering system, wherein the controller is configured to parallelly execute a main process including a process in which the controller controls the steering device to perform steering in accordance with an operation of the operation member and an auxiliary process relating to an operation of the steering system and configured to change an execution ratio of the main process and an execution ratio of the auxiliary process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro OKANO, Kenji SHIBATA, Takenari YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10449943
    Abstract: A brake ECU (abnormality detection device) includes: an operating amount obtaining portion configured to obtain a measurement value of a stroke; a hydraulic pressure obtaining portion configured to obtain a measurement value of a reaction force hydraulic pressure having a mutual relationship with respect to the stroke; an operation direction determining portion configured to determine directions of operation of outputs from a stroke sensor and a pressure sensor; a failure detection range switching portion configured to switch the failure detection range for detecting failures of a hydraulic pressure braking force generating device in accordance with the direction of operation; and a failure determining portion configured to determine the failure of the hydraulic pressure braking force generating device from the failure detection range switched by the failure detection range switching portion, the measurement value of the stroke, and the measurement value of the reaction force hydraulic pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Yusuke Kamiya, Masaaki Komazawa, Takeshi Okawa
  • Patent number: 10407036
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Masaki Ninoyu
  • Publication number: 20190077385
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro OKANO, Daisuke NAKATA, Masaki NINOYU
  • Publication number: 20190016317
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshio MASUDA, Masaki NINOYU, Takahiro OKANO
  • Patent number: 10173657
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Masaki Ninoyu
  • Patent number: 10173658
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Ninoyu, Takahiro Okano, Yusuke Kamiya, Daisuke Nakata, Masaaki Komazawa
  • Publication number: 20180354486
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis device to be used in a vehicle braking device equipped with a low pressure source connected to a reaction force chamber in a predetermined condition, a master cylinder, a drive portion, and a control portion. The abnormality diagnosis device includes: a diagnosis portion for performing an abnormality diagnosis on the basis of the relationship between the reaction force hydraulic pressure and the operation amount of a braking operation member, and/or the relationship between a target value and an actual value; and a judging portion for judging whether or not the reaction force chamber state pertaining to the hydraulic pressure and/or fluid amount thereof is in a predetermined insufficient state or in a predetermined excess state. Furthermore, when the judging portion judges that the reaction force chamber state is in a predetermined insufficient state or in a predetermined excess state, the diagnosis portion stops the abnormality diagnosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshio MASUDA, Takahiro OKANO
  • Publication number: 20180345942
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki NINOYU, Takahiro OKANO