Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090204284 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided is a vehicle control system which can maintain stability of the vehicle with an inexpensive configuration without bringing discomfort to a driver when control intervenes. The vehicle control system includes: road surface reaction torque detecting means | 08-13-2009 |
20100235047 | ELECTRIC POWER STEERING CONTROL SYSTEM - Intended is to solve the problem of an increase in the cost of an electric power steering control system, the oscillations of which are suppressed by estimating and feeding back the oscillation frequency components of a motor rotating speed through an observer from a steering torque signal and a current signal for driving a motor, no matter whether a phase compensator might be made of an analog circuit or a software. In order to solve this problem, there is provided the electric power steering control system, in which the phase compensator of the steering torque is made of an analog circuit and in which an anti-phase compensator is made over the software of a microcomputer, thereby to eliminate the changes in the gain and the phase by the phase compensator of the analog circuit near the oscillation frequency, so that the steering torque signal equivalent to that of no phase compensation necessary for the computation at the observer is computed from the phase-compensated steering torque signal. | 09-16-2010 |
20100286870 | STEERING CONTROLLER - To accurately extract a pulsating component generated due to a cogging torque or a torque ripple to reduce a pulsation, the pulsating component is extracted using a bandpass filter having a variable time constant, and the time constant is set according to a frequency of cogging torque or torque ripple to be extracted. Further, a reference angle for a rotation angle of a motor is preset according to a generation harmonic order of the cogging torque or torque ripple, and the time constant of the bandpass filter is set from a time period required for the motor to rotate by the reference angle. | 11-11-2010 |
20100324785 | MOTOR-DRIVEN POWER STEERING CONTROL DEVICE - Provided is an electric power steering control device capable of performing damping control without current detection to perform stable damping control even when a target current and an actual current value differ from each other. The electric power steering control device includes steering torque detection means for detecting a steering torque, a torque controller for computing an assist torque current, a motor for generating a torque for assisting the steering torque, rotation speed estimation means for estimating a rotation speed of the motor, and a damping controller for computing a damping current by using an estimated value of the rotation speed of the motor. The rotation speed estimating means includes steering component removing means for steering torque, for removing a component due to steering from an output of the steering torque detection means, rotation angle corresponding value computing means for multiplying an output of the steering component removing means for steering torque by an inverse number of a rigidity of a torsion bar and −1 to compute a value corresponding to a rotation angle, and a rotation angle differentiator for differentiating an output of the rotation angle corresponding value computing means to compute a value corresponding to a rotation angular velocity. | 12-23-2010 |
20110054740 | ELECTRIC POWER STEERING CONTROL APPARATUS - To obtain an electric power steering control apparatus hard to generate vibration even when accuracy is not high enough for torque vibration of extremely small output of torque detecting means. An electric power steering control apparatus includes steering torque detecting means, a torque controller that computes an auxiliary torque current, a motor that generates a torque for assisting a steering torque, current steering component removing means for removing a component by steering, vibration velocity estimating means for estimating a vibration velocity in a rotational direction of the motor, and a damping controller that computes a damping current to be added to the auxiliary torque current, and the vibration velocity estimating means includes vibration acceleration computing means for computing vibration acceleration in the rotational direction of the motor by multiplication of a motor current output from the current steering component removing means, and rotational acceleration integrating means for computing the vibration velocity in the motor rotational direction by integrating the vibration acceleration computing means. | 03-03-2011 |
20110137525 | ELECTRIC POWER STEERING CONTROL SYSTEM - Intended is to solve the problem of an increase in the cost of an electric power steering control system, the oscillations of which are suppressed by estimating and feeding back the oscillation frequency components of a motor rotating speed through an observer from a steering torque signal and a current signal for driving a motor, no matter whether a phase compensator might be made of an analog circuit or a software. In order to solve this problem, there is provided the electric power steering control system, in which the phase compensator of the steering torque is made of an analog circuit and in which an anti-phase compensator is made over the software of a microcomputer, thereby to eliminate the changes in the gain and the phase by the phase compensator of the analog circuit near the oscillation frequency, so that the steering torque signal equivalent to that of no phase compensation necessary for the computation at the observer is computed from the phase-compensated steering torque signal. | 06-09-2011 |
20110153162 | MOTOR-DRIVEN POWER STEERING CONTROL APPARTUS - A motor-driven power steering control apparatus is achieved, which uses a small-amplitude pass filter, the filter filtering out a component having a small amplitude, to remove a steering component from dynamic state quantity such as a rotational speed signal, and to accurately extract only a vibration component having a small amplitude compared with the steering component, and controls the vibration component to be reduced. | 06-23-2011 |
20120103294 | ENGINE START DEVICE - An engine starting device for an automatic idling stop system includes: a crank angle sensor for detecting a crank angle of an engine; a ring gear connected to a crankshaft of the engine, for transmitting rotation of the engine; ring gear rpm detecting section; a starter motor for starting the engine; a pinion gear for transmitting rotation of the starter motor to the ring gear; pinion-gear push-out section for pushing out the pinion gear into meshing engagement with the ring gear; and pinion gear push-out control section for driving the pinion-gear push-out section to bring the pinion gear and the ring gear into meshing engagement when the ring gear rpm detected by the ring gear rotational speed detection section becomes smaller than a threshold value which is determined by at least one of the crank angle, a gear range, and a restart condition. | 05-03-2012 |
20120185132 | ELECTRIC POWER STEERING CONTROL DEVICE - An electric power steering control device includes: a vibration extracting filter for performing filter processing on a rotation speed of a motor to reduce a gain on a low frequency side so as to output a vibration-component signal; a current variable gain map for detecting a current flowing through the motor as a first state quantity so as to calculate a current variable gain based on the current; a rotation-speed variable gain map for detecting the rotation speed of the motor as a second state quantity so as to calculate a rotation-speed variable gain based on the rotation speed; a correction mechanism calculating a vibration suppression current; and current controller calculating a target current so as to control the current flowing through the motor. | 07-19-2012 |
20120199090 | ENGINE STARTING DEVICE - Provided is an engine starting device enabling the meshing engagement of a pinion gear and a ring gear to be quickly and quietly achieved in an automatic idle-stop system while an engine is rotating by inertia. The engine starting device includes: a ring gear connected to a crankshaft of an engine; a starter motor for starting the engine; a pinion gear for transmitting rotation of the starter motor to the ring gear; pinion-gear moving portion for moving the pinion gear so as to achieve meshing engagement with the ring gear; and starter control portion for executing any one of a plurality of control modes. | 08-09-2012 |
20120260878 | ENGINE STARTING DEVICE - A ring gear to be coupled to a crankshaft of an engine; a starter motor for starting the engine; a pinion gear for transmitting rotation of the starter motor to the ring gear; pinion-gear meshing-engagement unit for moving the pinion gear to achieve meshing engagement with the ring gear; rpm-difference acquiring unit for acquiring an rpm difference between the pinion gear and the ring gear; and restart control unit for allowing the pinion gear to be moved by the pinion-gear meshing-engagement unit when the rpm difference between the pinion gear and the ring gear, which is acquired by the rpm-difference acquiring unit, becomes smaller than a threshold value are provided. The restart control unit includes threshold-value setting unit, and the threshold value corresponding to a characteristic to be input to the threshold-value setting unit is preset. | 10-18-2012 |
20130041557 | AUTOMATIC STEERING APPARATUS - An automatic steering apparatus that can suppress steering wheel vibration and that can also smooth angular control. In the automatic steering apparatus, a motor that steers steered wheels is controlled by a control unit. Information from an angle sensor that generates a signal that corresponds to a steering angle of the steered wheels is sent to the control unit. The control unit corrects a target steering angle of the steered wheels such that angular acceleration of the target steering angle is less than or equal to a limiting value. The control unit controls the motor such that the steering angle of the steered wheels tracks the corrected target steering angle based on the information from the angle sensor. | 02-14-2013 |
20130124049 | ELECTRIC POWER STEERING SYSTEM - An electric power steering system includes steering a torque detector that detects steering torque, and a motor that provides assist torque based on the detected steering torque, wherein for the purpose of estimating, without detecting motor rotation angular information and rotation angular velocity information, the road reaction torque in which the influence of the motor inertia torque is eliminated, a value corresponding to rotation velocity of a steering shaft is calculated based on the steering torque and the assist torque, to calculate road reaction torque based on the value corresponding to the rotation velocity of the steering shaft. | 05-16-2013 |
20130192419 | ENGINE STARTING DEVICE - An engine starting device includes: a starter motor; a pinion unit coupled to an output-shaft side of the starter motor by a spline, for sliding in an axial direction; and a ring gear which meshes with a pinion gear of the pinion unit pushed out by a push-out mechanism, and receives a transmission of a rotation force of the starter motor, thereby starting an engine. The pinion unit includes, on all teeth on distal end portions in a meshing axial direction of the pinion gear meshing with the ring gear, synchronization surfaces which are a pair of surfaces parallel with the meshing axial direction, and have a thickness thinner than a tooth thickness of the pinion gear. | 08-01-2013 |