Wheel Generated Pulse Signal Control (speed Sensor) Patents (Class 303/168)
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Patent number: 10933845Abstract: Some embodiments relate to apparatus for enhancing vehicle performance along an inclined surface. The apparatus can include a brake modulator that is controllable to reduce or limit the vehicle speed. A controller can control the brake modulator to selectively operate in a hill start assist mode. In the hill start assist mode, the controller can control the brake modulator to hold the vehicle stationary after the vehicle is initially stopped while traveling along the inclined surface, until an acceleration input member is manually operated to control a power source to propel the vehicle. The controller can control the brake modulator to release fluid pressure at the friction members at a pressure release rate that is based on a current position of the acceleration input member.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Matthew J. Alexander
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Patent number: 10875509Abstract: A vehicle starter aid system is provided for a vehicle having at least one driven axle and at least one non-driven axle. An electrically controllable brake system generates brake application signals as a function of input signals for the wheel brake actuators on the at least one driven axle. The inputs signals are received from a rotational speed sensor of the at least one non-driven axle and at least one signal-generator which generates signals which represent intended driving away of the vehicle from the stationary state and are different from the wheel rotational speed signals. An electronic brake control unit controls application of the wheel brake actuators of the at least one driven axle if the rotational speed signals of the rotational speed sensor correspond to zero wheel rotational speed and at the same time the signals of the signal-generator indicate the intended driving away of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventor: Frank Werner
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Patent number: 10648835Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein may be useful for use in landing identification. In this regard, a method is provided comprising receiving pulse information over a first time period, wherein the pulse information is indicative of an angular distance traveled by a first wheel, comparing the pulse information to a threshold value, and determining a likelihood of a landing event based upon the comparison. In various embodiments, a system is provided comprising a monstable multivibrator in electrical communication with a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), a resistor-capacitor network in electrical communication with the MOSFET, and a comparator that receives a voltage from the resistor-capacitor network and a reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventors: Eric D. Cahill, Michael Shaw
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Patent number: 9976875Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein may be useful for use in landing identification. In this regard, a method is provided comprising receiving pulse information over a first time period, wherein the pulse information is indicative of an angular distance traveled by a first wheel, comparing the pulse information to a threshold value, and determining a likelihood of a landing event based upon the comparison. In various embodiments, a system is provided comprising a monostable multivibrator in electrical communication with a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), a resistor-capacitor network in electrical communication with the MOSFET, and a comparator that receives a voltage from the resistor-capacitor network and a reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATIONInventors: Eric D Cahill, Michael Shaw
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Patent number: 9688389Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein may be useful for use in landing identification. In this regard, a method is provided comprising receiving pulse information over a first time period, wherein the pulse information is indicative of an angular distance traveled by a first wheel, comparing the pulse information to a threshold value, and determining a likelihood of a landing event based upon the comparison. In various embodiments, a system is provided comprising a monstable multivibrator in electrical communication with a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), a resistor-capacitor network in electrical communication with the MOSFET, and a comparator that receives a voltage from the resistor-capacitor network and a reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2011Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventors: Eric D. Cahill, Michael Shaw
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Patent number: 9383393Abstract: A dual-comparator circuit includes a main comparator providing a first decision output (outmain) including a main MOS differential pair, and an auxiliary comparator including an auxiliary MOS differential pair providing a second decision output (outaux). The auxiliary comparator receives a differential input voltage (Vin), and generates a control signal that is coupled to an enable input of the main comparator. A first operating mode (OM) is implemented when |Vin|<a predetermined voltage level (PVL), where the control signal activates the main comparator. A second OM is implemented when |Vin|?PVL where the main differential pair is protected by a switch from developing transient voltage input offset (VIO). Logic circuitry has logic inputs receiving outaux and outmain, and a logic output providing a decision result for the dual-comparator circuit using outmain when in the first OM and outaux when in the second OM.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Johannes Gerber, Bernhard Ruck, Asif Qaiyum, Ruediger Kuhn
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Patent number: 9125982Abstract: An implantable pump for providing metered doses of a compound to an individual is described. The implantable pump includes a chamber for storing an individual dose of the compound, an inlet valve fluidly coupled to the chamber for controlling a flow of the compound into the chamber, and an outlet valve fluidly coupled to the chamber for controlling a flow of the compound out of the chamber and into the individual. The pump includes an inlet valve driver circuit operable for opening and closing the inlet valve, and an outlet valve driver circuit operable for opening and closing the outlet valve. A battery and a charging circuit that includes a capacitor are included in the implantable pump. The charging circuit is operatively coupled to the battery for charging of the capacitor. The charged capacitor is operable for supplying power to the valve driver circuits.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2009Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: FLOWONIX MEDICAL INCORPORATEDInventor: Daniel John Frey
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Patent number: 8894157Abstract: An electromagnetic pressure control module for a pressure-medium-actuated brake system of a motor vehicle, having at least two channels, the module being controlled electrically in undisrupted operation and pneumatically in the event of a fault in the electrics, and also from a method for operating the electropneumatic pressure control module.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Ralf Woerner, Friedbert Roether
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Patent number: 8612088Abstract: A system for determining if a tire of a vehicle is improperly inflated. The system includes a radar, a wheel speed sensor, and a controller. The radar is configured to emit a signal to detect a reflection of the signal off of an object positioned perpendicular to the vehicle, and to output an indication of a speed of the vehicle. The wheel speed sensor is configured to sense a speed of a wheel of the vehicle. The controller is configured to receive the indication of the speed of the vehicle from the radar, to calculate a speed of the vehicle based on the sensed speed of the wheel, and to determine a tire of the wheel is improperly inflated when the speed of the vehicle calculated using the wheel speed sensor varies by more than a predetermined amount from the speed of the vehicle determined using the radar signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Kenneth Milburn
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Patent number: 8538654Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein may be useful for braking systems for use in, for example, an aircraft. A method is disclosed comprising determining, at a brake controller, an aircraft reference speed for an aircraft having a first wheel and a second wheel, identifying, at the brake controller, a state comprising the first wheel having a different rotational velocity than the second wheel, wherein the difference in rotational velocity sums to about zero, calculating, at the brake controller, a compensation factor for at least one of the first wheel and the second wheel, and adjusting, at the brake controller, a locked wheel trigger velocity in accordance with the compensation factor.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventor: Eric D. Cahill
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Patent number: 8326504Abstract: A trailer sway intervention system. The trailer sway intervention system includes a trailer having a plurality of wheels, each wheel having a brake, and a vehicle towing the trailer. The vehicle includes a plurality of sensors configured to sense operating characteristics of the vehicle, and a controller. The controller receives the sensed operating characteristics from the sensors, determines an error based on a difference between an expected yaw rate and a sensed yaw rate, asymmetrically applies braking forces to one or more trailer wheels based on the difference, and symmetrically applies braking forces to the trailer wheels when the absolute value of the difference between the expected yaw rate and the sensed yaw rate is declining.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Hsien-cheng Wu, Jin-jae Chen, Nathan Drummond
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Patent number: 8311693Abstract: Systems and methods for stabilizing a hybrid electric vehicle (“HEV”) towing a trailer. One system includes a regenerative braking system, a non-regenerative braking system, and a stabilization system. The stabilization system determines a direction of rotation and a speed of the HEV and compares the HEV's speed to a predetermined low speed threshold value and a predetermined high speed threshold value. The stabilization system instructs the regenerative braking system to brake at least one wheel when the speed is less than or equal to the predetermined low speed threshold value and instructs the regenerative braking system to brake at least one wheel opposite the direction of rotation and at least one of the regenerative braking system and the non-regenerative braking system to provide an extra stabilizing braking torque to at least one wheel opposite the direction of rotation when the speed is greater than the predetermined high speed threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Hsien-Cheng (Kevin) Wu, Bo Xu
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Patent number: 8204663Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus controlling a driving force or a braking force to be applied to a vehicle and conducting a vehicle control based on wheel speeds includes a detecting means detecting the wheel speed of each wheel provided at the vehicle, a storing means storing a predetermined valid wheel speed for each wheel, a determining means determining whether a difference between the detected wheel speed and a maximum wheel speed of the wheel speeds lies in a predetermined range, and an updating means updating the valid wheel speed based on the detected wheel speed of the wheel, when the detected wheel speed is lower than the predetermined valid wheel speed which is currently stored, in case that a result determined by the determining means is positive.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2008Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhito Ishida, Gen Inoue
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Patent number: 8180548Abstract: A system, apparatus and method of controlling a brake system of a vehicle having a brake input device, such as a brake pedal, a plurality of rotating wheels and a plurality of brakes, each brake of the plurality of brakes corresponding to one wheel of the plurality of wheels, is provided. In controlling the brakes, data indicative of a deflection of the brake pedal is received, and the received data is used to derive a target deceleration rate. A braking command is provided to each of the plurality of brakes, wherein the braking command is varied for each brake to regulate a deceleration rate the vehicle in accordance with the target deceleration rate.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventor: Eric D. Cahill
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Patent number: 7901013Abstract: A motorcycle wheel speed sensor mounting structure, includes an axle holder for supporting a front wheel is disposed below a front fork of the motorcycle and an axle support disposed in a lower part of the axle holder. Further, a caliper mount, for supporting a brake caliper of a disc brake, is disposed on a rear portion of the axle holder and a wheel speed sensor is mounted on the caliper mount, wherein the wheel speed sensor is located above a line connecting a lower end of the axle support to a lower end of the caliper mount.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shinichiro Ishida
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Patent number: 7717527Abstract: An electric brake system for an aircraft employs a brake control process to alleviate high dynamic structural loading of the aircraft landing gear caused by braking maneuvers. The system obtains and processes real-time data—which may include the current aircraft speed, the current brake pedal deflection position, and the current brake pedal deflection rate—to determine how best to control the onset of the brakes. The braking control scheme delays the onset of the desired braking condition to reduce high dynamic loading and lurching of the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: T. Todd Griffith
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Publication number: 20100078991Abstract: A brake device for braking a vehicle has a brake surface which is rotationally fixedly connected to a wheel axle of the vehicle, a brake lining which can be pressed with a braking force against the brake surface and an actuating element coupled to a control unit, for generating the braking force. The control unit is connected to a speed sensor for measuring a speed of the vehicle and is set up to adjust the braking force in dependence on the speed. The brake device has as high a braking force as possible which is introduced into the brake surfaces. The control unit is coupled to the actuating element via a device for continuous pressure adjustment, so as to enable a continuous adaptation of the braking force to the present speed in each case. The braking force is advantageously adjusted inversely proportionally to the speed of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Dieter Maischak, Volker Schmitt
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Patent number: 7661771Abstract: When a vehicle speed sensor is provided as a separate unit, the vehicle sensor should be removed when a vehicle wheel is changed. A brake caliper is fitted to an upper stay and a lower stay formed at a lower part of the front fork supporting the front wheel. The sensor stay is fitted to the inside of the lower stay in the vicinity of the brake caliper. A sensor cover is fastened integrally in an overlapping manner to the outside of the sensor stay. A projection formed on the sensor cover overlaps with a fitting bolt of the brake caliper. Thus, it is not possible to remove the brake caliper without first removing the sensor cover. Further, a vehicle speed sensor is sandwiched by the sensor stay and the lower end of the sensor cover and the three members are fastened together.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2006Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taisuke Nimura, Takashi Ashigai, Toshiyuki Iwai
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Patent number: 7610998Abstract: A disc brake, especially for utility vehicles, which includes a caliper enclosing a brake disc, a pneumatically or electromotively operated tensioning device for tensioning the brake, which is located in the caliper, a magnet wheel rotating with the brake disc, and a stationary sensor for detecting the angle of rotation and the speed of the magnet wheel. The sensor is mounted at a distance from the magnet wheel and at least one line is connected to transmit pulses between the sensor and the magnet wheel. As a result, the sensor can be mounted on the housing protected from the action of heat and other environmental influences and so as to be easily accessible.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2006Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Johann Baumgartner, Guenther Gschossmann
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Patent number: 7571033Abstract: System for detecting stability/instability of behavior of a motor vehicle upon occurrence of tire slip or lock. State of the motor vehicle is determined on the basis of an alignment torque (Ta) applied from a road and a side slip angle (?). By taking advantage of such torque/slip-angle characteristic that although the alignment torque is proportional to a side slip angle when the latter is small, the alignment torque becomes smaller as the side slip angle increases, a normal value is determined from a straight line slope and the side slip angle in a region where the latter is small. Unstable behavior of the motor vehicle is determined when deviation of actual measured value from the normal value increases. Further, unstable state is determined when the slope of the alignment torque for the slip angle departs significantly from that of approximate straight line slope.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2005Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Fujioka, Takanori Matsunaga, Takashi Maeda, Toshinori Matsui, Masahiko Kurishige, Hideyuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 7451043Abstract: A method for controlling driving on a hill of an all-wheel drive vehicle, wherein vehicle acceleration is determined and the gravitational acceleration is measured. To improve the accuracy of the determination of the vehicle reference speed in all-wheel drive vehicles, the method comprises the following steps: determining the acceleration at the secondary axle (Tc4wdHaAcc) from one or both of the two wheel speeds, determining the deviation (Slope) between the acceleration at the secondary axle (Tc4wdHaAcc) and the measured acceleration (LoSenAcc), filtering the determined deviation (SlopFilt) with a time constant (T1Slope), comparing the deviation (Slope) with the filtered deviation (SlopFilt), determining driving situations representing the conditions ‘traction slip control is active’ or ‘traction slip control is not active’, and determining the slope in dependence on the comparison result and the driving situation.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2003Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Inventors: Gerold Schneider, Roland Caspary, Karel Stastny
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Patent number: 7341321Abstract: A rotation detecting device that includes an electric power generator having a stator and a rotor, said rotor having a plurality of alternating opposite magnetic poles in a circumferential direction of the rotor, at least a first magnetic sensor mounted on either the stator or a support member for supporting the stator and operable to detect the alternating opposite magnetic poles in the rotor; and an electric power supply circuit for utilizing an electric power generated by the electric power generator as an electric power source for the at least first magnetic sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2003Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Toru Takahashi, Koichi Okada, Kenichi Iwamoto, Hiroaki Ohba
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Patent number: 7195323Abstract: The present invention provides an electric brake system in which an actual control variable in the electric brake when overshooting is generated is determined, and the target value is set to a maximum value of the actual control variable in the electric brake when overshooting is generated. Therefore, the target value and the actual control variable will be in agreement with each other before hunting to be generated after overshooting starts. Accordingly, the output of the electric brake is gradually stabilizing at the target value without an oscillation phenomenon as in a related art.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2004Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruo Arakawa, Takahisa Yokoyama, Takayuki Takeshita
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Patent number: 7069133Abstract: A wheel speed calculation method wherein, when both rising and falling edges occur, the wheel speed is calculated using both the edges, when either of the edges does not occur, the wheel speed is calculated using both the edges in such a manner that for the edge not occurring, the preceding calculation value or the calculation value provided by assuming that one occurred within the temporary time, whichever is the lower, is selected. Further, neither of the rising and falling edges occurs, the minimum value of the two calculation values provided by assuming that only one edge occurred within the temporary time and the calculation value provided by assuming that only one rising edge and only one falling edge occurred within the temporary time or the calculation value of the preceding wheel speed, whichever is the lower, is selected as the wheel speed.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2003Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masashi Kobayashi, Manabu Hiroya
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Patent number: 6671606Abstract: In an antiskid brake control system, an ECU estimates a wheel slip in accordance with a sensed wheel speed and controls a fluid pressure control valve for braking operation in accordance with the estimated wheel slip for an antiskid brake control, the fluid pressure being reduced when the wheel slip is enlarged and being increased when the wheel slip is lowered. When a vehicle-body speed is smaller than a predetermined quick pressure reduction prohibiting speed, the ECU performs a quick pressure reduction prohibiting control to restrain a quick pressure reduction having a greater reduction amount than a predetermined reduction amount.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2002Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: Unisia Jecs CorporationInventors: Atsushi Ishikawa, Gen Inoue, Nobuyuki Ohtsu
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Publication number: 20030234578Abstract: To provide a rotation detecting device compact in structure and operable on its own electric power generating function and capable of detecting the number of revolution of a vehicle wheel even at an extremely low speed rotation of the vehicle wheel, and also an anti-skid braking system utilizing such rotation detecting device, the rotation detecting device includes an electric power generator 4, at least one magnetic sensor 23 and an electric power supply circuit 24. The electric power generator 4 in turn includes a stator 17 and a rotor 18 in the form of a multi-pole magnet having a plurality of opposite magnetic poles alternating in a direction circumferentially of the rotor 18. The magnetic sensor 23 is mounted on either the stator 17 or a support member 1 for supporting the stator 17 and is operable to detect the magnetic poles on the rotor 18.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2003Publication date: December 25, 2003Applicant: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Takahashi, Koichi Okada, Kenichi Iwamoto, Hiroaki Ohba
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Publication number: 20030214184Abstract: A wheel speed sensor system is disclosed which produces an output directly at the sensor. The sensor utilizes two separate coils that are wound out of phase from each other and exhibit a relatively high signal-to-noise ratio. Also disclosed is an anti-skid braking system that utilizes the wheel speed sensor system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2002Publication date: November 20, 2003Inventor: David J. Taneyhill
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Patent number: 6585420Abstract: To provide a wheel support bearing assembly having a capability of detecting the number of revolutions of a wheel, having no risk of breaking of wire outside a vehicle body, capable of reducing the weight and cost of an automotive vehicle. This wheel support bearing assembly for rotatably supporting a wheel 13 relative to a vehicle body structure 12 includes an outer member 1 having its inner periphery formed with plural rows of raceways 6 and 7, an inner member 2 having raceways 8 and 9 confronting respectively to the raceways 6 and 7, and rows of rolling elements 3 accommodated respectively between the raceways. An electric generator 4 for generating an electric power as one of the outer and inner members 1 and 2 rotates relative to the other of the outer and inner members 1 and 2. A signal indicative of the number of revolutions of the wheel 13 outputted from the electric generator 4 is transmitted wireless by mean of a wireless transmitting means 5A.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2001Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Koichi Okada, Hisashi Ohtsuki, Koji Sahashi, Kenichi Suzumura, Kazuhiko Hozumi, Akira Torii, Takayuki Norimatsu, Hiroaki Ohba
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Patent number: 6485114Abstract: A method and system for determining the operating integrity of a dual sensor system takes in signals from each of the sensors in the dual sensor system. The signals are preferably generally on the same cycle, and the control evaluates whether a single sensor has sent two consecutive cycle signals to the control without a corresponding cycle from the other of the sensors. If so, an indication is made that the other of the sensors may be failing, or is intermittent. Preferably the sensors are associated with wheel speed indicators and the control is an ABS control.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2001Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive CorporationInventors: Brian J. Marlett, Tim E. Green
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Patent number: 6484070Abstract: A method and system of improving the performance of an embedded control system by reducing the complexity of an averaging process. An average windowing filter with an average window size is implemented. A first processed data value is retrieved from memory and a current data value is determined. A past data value within the average data window is determined and the difference between the current data value and the past data value is calculated. An average of the difference over the average data window size is then determined. Finally, an output signal is generated based on the sum of the average and the first processed data value.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2001Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: Robert Bosch CorporationInventor: Liming Chen
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Patent number: 6382739Abstract: There is provided a brake control system for carrying out ABS control in which the brake hydraulic pressure is reduced by a brake unit in accordance with a difference between a pseudo vehicle body speed and each of wheel speeds so as to prevent wheel locking. A control unit is configured to detect an abnormality in output of wheel speed sensors, and to determine the pseudo vehicle body speed in accordance with outputs from the wheel sensors except the wheel determined as being abnormal. The control unit determines whether the abnormal wheel is a drive wheel or a non-drive wheel, and to reset the determination of abnormality under conditions differentiated in accordance with whether the abnormal wheel is a drive wheel or a non-drive wheel.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignees: Unisia Jecs Corporation, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Ohtsu, Toru Kojima, Yoshiyuki Izu
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Patent number: 6302500Abstract: In order to obtain the vehicle speed of an ordinary automobile operating with a pair of drive wheels and a pair of driven wheels, so as to provide the base of a due slipless rotation speed of the respective wheels for use in an ABS control, the rotation speed of each of the pairs of drive and driven wheels are detected. Then the data signals generated by the detection are low pass filtered and checked to determine if any of the rotation speeds detected with the driven wheels is larger than the largest of the filtered rotation speeds. Then the vehicle speed is determined from the filtered rotation speeds, excluding that or those of the driven wheel or wheels whose detected rotation speed is larger than the largest of the filtered rotation speeds.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1999Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hideyuki Aizawa
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Patent number: 6266602Abstract: A road surface condition determination system for an automotive vehicle comprises wheel-speed sensors, and a control unit being configured to be electrically connected to the wheel-speed sensors for data-processing a wheel-speed data signal. The control unit calculates a wheel-speed fluctuation of each of the road wheels on the basis of a previous value of the wheel-speed data signal and a current value of the wheel-speed data signal, and calculates an absolute value of the wheel-speed fluctuation of each of the road wheels. A integration circuit is provided to produce a first integrated value of the absolute values of the wheel-speed fluctuations of the road wheels. A smoothing circuit is provided to make a smoothing operation to the integrated value to produce a smoothed value. A road-surface condition determining section is also provided to determine a road surface condition on the basis of the smoothed value.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2000Date of Patent: July 24, 2001Assignee: Unisia Jecs CorporationInventor: Tamotsu Yamaura
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Patent number: 6216080Abstract: A wheel module for the control of the braking force on a wheel of a vehicle with an electrically controlled braking system (EBS), in which the need for data transfer to other wheel modules, or to a central module, if present, is reduced considerably. All magnitudes required for an ABS regulation of a wheel such as, for example, vehicle reference speed, are calculated directly in the wheel module according to the invention, so that these magnitudes need not be transmitted from a central module via a data bus.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 1999Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignee: WABCO GmbHInventors: Henrich Riedemann, Thomas Wolf
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Patent number: 6206490Abstract: The present invention is directed to a brake control system for a vehicle, wherein a first valve device for opening or closing a main passage, which communicates a master cylinder with wheel brake cylinders, a hydraulic pressure pump for supplying the hydraulic pressure to the main passage, and a second valve device for opening or closing an auxiliary passage, which communicates the inlet of the pressure pump with the master cylinder, are disposed in each hydraulic pressure circuit of a dual hydraulic pressure circuit system.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1998Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: Aisin Shiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Tozu, Takayuki Itoh, Masanobu Fukami, Satoshi Yokoyama
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Patent number: 6196644Abstract: The method of controlling a motor vehicle braking system to prevent wheel slip or skidding includes generating wheel speed signals indicative of wheel speeds of each of at least two wheels; determining the wheel speeds from each wheel speed signal; determining a vehicle reference speed from one of the wheel speeds; determining whether or not the vehicle reference speed is within a predetermined speed range of 47 to 63 Hz, during which interference signals from a vehicle power source at about a mains frequency are generated that produce false wheel speed signals and controlling the motor vehicle braking system according to a special ABS control method when the vehicle reference speed is within the predetermined speed range. In the special ABS control method the interference signals are accounted for so that improper activation of or influence on the braking system due to the interference signals is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1997Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Frank Sager
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Patent number: 6193327Abstract: The speed of a controlled wheel in a rear wheel anti-lock brake system is monitored during a spin-and-brake condition. Acceleration of the rear wheel following a string of dump pulses is an indication that the spin-and brake condition ended before the vehicle brakes were applied. A lack of acceleration of the rear wheel following a string of dump pulses is an indication that the spin-and-brake condition is present.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1999Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Kelsey-Hayes CompanyInventor: Thomas M. Atkins
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Patent number: 6099090Abstract: A braking control system for agricultural tractors wherein individual front and rear wheel hydraulic brakes are operated by a hydraulic braking control unit which is controlled by an electronic control unit to cause it to vary the braking pressure to the individual brakes relative to a reference value set by operation of a brake operating pedal by the tractor operator. The braking control unit varies the braking pressure at the individual wheel brakes in dependence on the associated wheel speed and the tractor ground speed.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1998Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: Same Deutz-Fahr S.p.A.Inventors: Bruno Paggi, Massimo Ribaldone
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Patent number: 6076900Abstract: A process and a device for controlling the brake system of a vehicle, in which in traction control and at the beginning of the control, a braking force build-up independent on the slippage takes place, which is stopped when a sizable braking effect is detected on the spinning wheel. Alternatively or in addition to this system, it is provided that, when the vehicle decelerates in active traction control, the braking force build-up pulses and/or the braking force decrease pulses are determined as a function of the measured slippage of at least one wheel, while outside these areas the pulses are determined so that the increase in braking force takes place in steps with the same change in the braking force.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1997Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Juergen Jung, Norbert Polzin, Michael Hund
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Patent number: 6045199Abstract: A brake valve control method to control the operation of the brake valves is provided in which an error check can be made with one arithmetic logic unit. Signals from a wheel speed sensor are processed to compute the respective wheel speed, and signals from the wheel speed sensor are counted for a prescribed period to derive an approximate wheel speed. If the difference between the wheel speed and the approximate wheel speed is less than or equal to a threshold value, then processing to control the valves is continued; if the difference is greater than a threshold value, then processing to control the valves is suspended.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1997Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries Inc.Inventor: Keiji Toyoda
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Patent number: 5884207Abstract: The present invention describes a process for a vehicle including an electronic control system, which processes input signals representative of the rotational behavior of the individual wheels, and wherein the differences of the tire tread circumferences of the individual wheels are determined by way of short-time and long-time correction factors. The long-time correction factors LZ.sub.n. are determined from the differences D.sub.R1 between the short-time correction factors KZ.sub.R1 and the long-time correction factors LZ.sub.R1 of the respective wheel by averaging LM.sub.r1 the differences during a predetermined time interval and by evaluating and weighting the average value. For the quick identification of an emergency wheel, every time the vehicle engine is started, the long-time factor LZ.sub.R1 is equalled once to the short-time factor KZ.sub.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1997Date of Patent: March 16, 1999Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises Inc.Inventors: Dieter Burkhard, Manfred Dornseiff, Jean-Claude Schwartz
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Patent number: 5727855Abstract: An anti-locking control system is described in which the by electrical interference in the range of the mains frequency of conventional power supplies are detected and eliminated. To that end, in the range of critical speeds, a new reference vehicle speed is formed from the ascertained vehicle speed only if the time intervals between the arriving signal edges of the various rpm sensors are not in the range of the mains frequency.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1996Date of Patent: March 17, 1998Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinz-Jurgen Koch-Ducker, Peter Dominke, Martin Pfau, Frank Sager
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Patent number: 5697681Abstract: An anti-lock braking system for a vehicle having a plurality of wheels, and a braking system that includes a brake for braking at least one of the plurality of wheels and a brake valve for controlling a braking pressure in the brake in response to a brake valve signal, includes a plurality of wheel speed sensors for generating a plurality of input signals. A polynomial processor, in communication with the plurality of wheel speed sensors, generates a control signal based on a nonlinear polynomial function of the input signal. A post-processor generates the Brake valve signal based on the control signal so as to provide cyclic control of the braking pressure in the brake.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1995Date of Patent: December 16, 1997Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Sanjar Ghaem, Shay-Ping T. Wang, Scott E. Lloyd
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Patent number: 5612879Abstract: A vehicle control unit stores a minimum calculable speed of a wheel speed. The minimum calculable speed is a wheel speed first calculated by ECU based on output signals of speed sensors after the vehicle starts traveling. The minimum calculable speed is compared with a predetermined speed value as a permissible speed. The permissible speed is a reference value for determining whether the vehicle control is to be executed or not. If the minimum calculable speed is higher than the predetermined speed value, the minimum calculable speed is set as the permissible speed. A calculated vehicle body speed or a calculated wheel speed is compared with the permissible speed. If the vehicle body speed or the wheel speed is higher than the permissible speed, the vehicle control is executed normally, estimating the calculated vehicle body speed or the calculated wheel speed being correct. Therefore, the vehicle control unit can accurately control a specific control target even during low speed travel.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1995Date of Patent: March 18, 1997Assignee: Niipondenso Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nobuhiko Makino
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Patent number: 5491634Abstract: An anti-lock braking system includes a mechanism for releasing a brake and a digital circuit for determining a wheel velocity and controlling the mechanism to prevent the brake from locking. The digital circuit uses a look-up table which, in response to an address signal, provides a signal indicating a multiplicative inverse of a number between 1 and 2. The circuit receives a measured time for a wheel to move a fixed distance and factors the time as product a power of two and a factor between 1 and 2. An address signal indicating the factor is applied to the look-up table, and the look-up table provides a signal which indicates the inverse of the factor. The signal from the look-up table is then converted to the proper scale for the time. Factoring and conversion may be accomplished with logical shifts so that no multiplier is required.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1994Date of Patent: February 13, 1996Assignee: National Semiconductor CorporationInventors: Roger L. Miller, Thomas P. Harper
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Patent number: 5487595Abstract: A system for anti-lock brake and traction control has a control circuit comprising a microprocessor on a silicon die. Inputs from several variable reluctance wheel speed sensors are multiplexed to a single channel on the same die for signal processing including diagnostics, A/D conversion, square wave generation for each sensor by a state machine, end wheel speed determination from the square waves. The state machine algorithm tracks signal peaks and valleys and uses a dual hysteresis method of generating output transitions to capture all cycles of a signal having single cycle anomalies while rejecting noise. A single rear wheel sensor having twice the frequency of front wheel sensors for equal wheel speeds is processed twice as often as each front sensor. The diagnostics include detecting sensor and harness short and open circuits by comparison of signals to programmable thresholds and fault timing and latching by gauging open and short signals against programmable time limits.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1994Date of Patent: January 30, 1996Assignee: Delco Electronics CorporationInventors: William D. Wise, Marc L. De Wever, Dale J. Kumke, Everett R. Lumpkin, Matthew D. Sale, Brian W. Schousek