Patents by Inventor Terushige Uraoka

Terushige Uraoka 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).

  • Patent number: 11938916
    Abstract: A brake control device as an example of the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an output of a sensor that detects information indicating a ground contact state of a drive wheel of a vehicle; and a control unit configured to, when an acceleration operation for causing the vehicle to accelerate is performed on the vehicle stopped due to a parking brake force generated by an electric parking brake, identify the ground contact state of the drive wheel based on the output of the sensor acquired by the acquisition unit, and control the electric parking brake to release the parking brake force by a control method that differs depending on the identified ground contact state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hirata, Terushige Uraoka, Hirotaka Takeya
  • Patent number: 11919493
    Abstract: A brake control device to be applied to a vehicle having a hydraulic brake generating a hydraulic braking force, which is a braking force converted from a fluid pressure to a wheel of the vehicle, and an electric parking brake generating an electric braking force, which is a braking force different from the hydraulic braking force, on the wheel by a wheel brake mechanism driven by a motor. The brake control device includes an electric parking brake controller for determining a current target value, which is a target value of an electric current through the motor, by using a target braking force, and for controlling the electric parking brake by using the current target value. The electric parking brake controller is configured to estimate the fluid pressure in the hydraulic brake by using a current detection value, which is a detection value of an electric current through the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Terushige Uraoka
  • Patent number: 11858490
    Abstract: A brake control device according to an embodiment executes, for an electric braking wheel of either the front wheel and the rear wheel, a brake hold control for driving an electric braking device to move a propulsion shaft toward the braked member to be braked and bring it into contact with a piston, calculating a target braking force for maintaining the stationary state of the vehicle, subtracting a first braking force from the target braking force to calculate a required hydraulic braking force applied to the non-electric braking wheel different from the electric braking wheel, and controlling a differential pressure control valve connected to the non-electric braking wheel of the hydraulic braking device so that the required hydraulic braking force is applied to the non-electric braking wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Terushige Uraoka
  • Patent number: 11572049
    Abstract: A brake control device controls a hydraulic brake that generates hydraulic braking force and an electric parking brake that generates parking braking force different from the hydraulic braking force. The brake control device comprises: a detection unit that detects a parking brake operation for causing the electric parking brake to generate the parking braking force; and a control unit that causes the electric parking brake to generate the parking braking force when the hydraulic braking force per wheel generated by the hydraulic brake, after decreasing below the minimum first braking force per wheel required for maintaining the vehicle stop state only by the electric parking brake, is less than the first braking force, in association with the parking brake operation having been performed in a state where the stop state is maintained only by a hydraulic brake operation for causing the hydraulic brake to generate the hydraulic braking force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Urano, Keita Nakano, Terushige Uraoka
  • Publication number: 20230020123
    Abstract: A brake control device as an example of the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an output of a sensor that detects information indicating a ground contact state of a drive wheel of a vehicle; and a control unit configured to, when an acceleration operation for causing the vehicle to accelerate is performed on the vehicle stopped due to a parking brake force generated by an electric parking brake, identify the ground contact state of the drive wheel based on the output of the sensor acquired by the acquisition unit, and control the electric parking brake to release the parking brake force by a control method that differs depending on the identified ground contact state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro HIRATA, Terushige URAOKA, Hirotaka TAKEYA
  • Publication number: 20220410721
    Abstract: The present disclosure is, for example, a braking control device for application in a vehicle. The braking control device includes: a hydraulic brake device that presses a braking member using hydraulic pressure toward a braked member that rotates integrally with a wheel to generate hydraulic braking force; and an electric brake device that presses the braking member using driving force of a motor toward the braked member to generate electric braking force. The braking control device adjusts the hydraulic braking force so that a vehicle speed falls within a target vehicle speed range while the vehicle is traveling on a downhill road, and replaces the hydraulic braking force with the electric braking force when at least one of the vehicle speed and the hydraulic pressure is stabilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka TAKEYA, Terushige URAOKA
  • Patent number: 11518355
    Abstract: A brake control device for controlling an electric parking brake may include: a piston capable of pressing a brake pad in accordance with the hydraulic pressure in a cylinder; a linearly moving member that adjusts, by reciprocating in the cylinder, the pressing force applied to the brake pad by the piston; and an actuator that moves the linearly moving member by operating based on a target pressing force, which is a target value of the pressing force corresponding to an output value obtained from a sensor that detects information correlating with the hydraulic pressure. The brake control device is provided with: an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormality of the sensor; and an actuator control unit that, if an abnormality is detected, controls the operation level of the actuator based on an output value obtained prior to the detection of the abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terushige Uraoka, Keita Nakano
  • Publication number: 20220212646
    Abstract: A brake control device includes a control unit configured to calculate a target current value, which is a target current value to the motor, based on master cylinder hydraulic pressure, and reduce an energization level to the motor when an actual current value, which is an actual current value to the motor, reaches the target current value, set a hydraulic pressure threshold value, which is a threshold value of the master cylinder hydraulic pressure corresponding to a braking force necessary for the vehicle to stop based on an inclination angle of a road on which the vehicle is stopped, and calculate a time change amount of the master cylinder hydraulic pressure, and in a case where the time change amount exceeds a predetermined change amount, increase an energization level to the motor when the master cylinder hydraulic pressure subsequently becomes less than or equal to the hydraulic pressure threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya URANO, Terushige URAOKA
  • Patent number: 11267444
    Abstract: The brake control device controls a hydraulic brake to generate hydraulic braking force on both the front and rear wheels of a four-wheel-drive vehicle, and an electrical parking brake to generate parking brake force, different from the hydraulic braking force, on the front or rear wheels. The brake control device includes: a detection unit that detects parking brake operation for causing the electrical parking brake to generate a parking brake force; and a control unit for reducing the hydraulic braking force generated on the front wheels or the rear wheels and adjusting the hydraulic braking force on the other of the front wheels or the rear wheels to a magnitude allowing a stationary vehicle state to be maintained, before a parking brake force is generated by the electrical parking brake, when a parking brake operation is detected while a stationary state is being maintained solely by the hydraulic braking force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terushige Uraoka, Keita Nakano, Tatsuya Urano
  • Publication number: 20210171003
    Abstract: A brake control device according to an embodiment executes, for an electric braking wheel of either the front wheel and the rear wheel, a brake hold control for driving an electric braking device to move a propulsion shaft toward the braked member to be braked and bring it into contact with a piston, calculating a target braking force for maintaining the stationary state of the vehicle, subtracting first braking force from the target braking force to calculate a required hydraulic braking force applied to the non-electric braking wheel different from the electric braking wheel, and controlling a differential pressure control valve connected to the non-electric braking wheel of the hydraulic braking device so that the required hydraulic braking force is applied to the non-electric braking wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Terushige URAOKA
  • Publication number: 20210094521
    Abstract: A brake control device for controlling an electric parking brake may include: a piston capable of pressing a brake pad in accordance with the hydraulic pressure in a cylinder; a linearly moving member that adjusts, by reciprocating in the cylinder, the pressing force applied to the brake pad by the piston; and an actuator that moves the linearly moving member by operating based on a target pressing force, which is a target value of the pressing force corresponding to an output value obtained from a sensor that detects information correlating with the hydraulic pressure. The brake control device is provided with: an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormality of the sensor; and an actuator control unit that, if an abnormality is detected, controls the operation level of the actuator based on an output value obtained prior to the detection of the abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terushige URAOKA, Keita NAKANO
  • Patent number: 10960863
    Abstract: A vehicle braking control device is capable of further raising the speed at which vehicle vehicle-body deceleration increases when automatic braking processing implementation begins. Provided as a braking control device is a control device comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires an indicator; and a braking control unit that starts the implementation of automatic braking processing if a determination is made, on the basis of the indicator, that an automatic braking condition has been established. In the automatic braking process, the braking control unit restricts the supply of brake fluid to wheel cylinders corresponding to the rear wheels, and supplies brake fluid to wheel cylinders corresponding to the front wheels to increase the pressure of the wheel cylinders, thereby increasing the braking power for the front wheels and also giving the rear wheels braking power corresponding to the driving amount of a motor for parking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Terushige Uraoka
  • Publication number: 20210001830
    Abstract: A brake control device to be applied to a vehicle having a hydraulic brake generating a hydraulic braking force, which is a braking force converted from a fluid pressure to a wheel of the vehicle, and an electric parking brake generating an electric braking force, which is a braking force different from the hydraulic braking force, on the wheel by a wheel brake mechanism driven by a motor. The brake control device includes an electric parking brake controller for determining a current target value, which is a target value of an electric current through the motor, by using a target braking force, and for controlling the electric parking brake by using the current target value. The electric parking brake controller is configured to estimate the fluid pressure in the hydraulic brake by using a current detection value, which is a detection value of an electric current through the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Terushige URAOKA
  • Publication number: 20200055502
    Abstract: A vehicle braking control device is capable of further raising the speed at which vehicle vehicle-body deceleration increases when automatic braking processing implementation begins. Provided as a braking control device is a control device comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires an indicator; and a braking control unit that starts the implementation of automatic braking processing if a determination is made, on the basis of the indicator, that an automatic braking condition has been established. In the automatic braking process, the braking control unit restricts the supply of brake fluid to wheel cylinders corresponding to the rear wheels, and supplies brake fluid to wheel cylinders corresponding to the front wheels to increase the pressure of the wheel cylinders, thereby increasing the braking power for the front wheels and also giving the rear wheels braking power corresponding to the driving amount of a motor for parking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Terushige URAOKA
  • Publication number: 20200017081
    Abstract: The brake control device controls a hydraulic brake to generate hydraulic braking force on both the front and rear wheels of a four-wheel-drive vehicle, and an electrical parking brake to generate parking brake force, different from the hydraulic braking force, on the front or rear wheels. The brake control device includes: a detection unit that detects parking brake operation for causing the electrical parking brake to generate a parking brake force; and a control unit for reducing the hydraulic braking force generated on the front wheels or the rear wheels and adjusting the hydraulic braking force on the other of the front wheels or the rear wheels to a magnitude allowing a stationary vehicle state to be maintained, before a parking brake force is generated by the electrical parking brake, when a parking brake operation is detected while a stationary state is being maintained solely by the hydraulic braking force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terushige URAOKA, Keita NAKANO, Tatsuya URANO
  • Publication number: 20190176790
    Abstract: A brake control device controls a hydraulic brake that generates hydraulic braking force and an electric parking brake that generates parking braking force different from the hydraulic braking force. The brake control device comprises: a detection unit that detects a parking brake operation for causing the electric parking brake to generate the parking braking force; and a control unit that causes the electric parking brake to generate the parking braking force when the hydraulic braking force per wheel generated by the hydraulic brake, after decreasing below the minimum first braking force per wheel required for maintaining the vehicle stop state only by the electric parking brake, is less than the first braking force, in association with the parking brake operation having been performed in a state where the stop state is maintained only by a hydraulic brake operation for causing the hydraulic brake to generate the hydraulic braking force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya URANO, Keita NAKANO, Terushige URAOKA
  • Patent number: 9238454
    Abstract: In a brake control system, a power supply portion supplies a voltage to a plurality of actuators. When a first actuator is supplied with a voltage equal to or higher than a first minimum operating voltage from the power supply portion, the first actuator operates to perform a first function. When a second actuator is supplied with a voltage equal to or higher than a second minimum operating voltage from the power supply portion, the second actuator performs a second function. The first minimum operating voltage and the second minimum operating voltage are set to be different from each other by a predetermined value so that the first actuator and the second actuator stop operating in a predetermined sequence with a decrease in the supplied voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kumiko Akita, Takayuki Yamamoto, Tetsuya Miyazaki, Terushige Uraoka, Koji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20120319462
    Abstract: In a brake control system, a power supply portion supplies a voltage to a plurality of actuators. When a first actuator is supplied with a voltage equal to or higher than a first minimum operating voltage from the power supply portion, the first actuator operates to perform a first function. When a second actuator is supplied with a voltage equal to or higher than a second minimum operating voltage from the power supply portion, the second actuator performs a second function. The first minimum operating voltage and the second minimum operating voltage are set to be different from each other by a predetermined value so that the first actuator and the second actuator stop operating in a predetermined sequence with a decrease in the supplied voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kumiko Akita, Takayuki Yamamoto, Tetsuya Miyazaki, Terushige Uraoka, Koji Watanabe