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PURPOSE:To facilitate a job for transfer operation by making a selector valve so as to be changed over to the manual steering side from the automatic steering side by means of longitudinal differential pressure in a four-way valve at time of operating a steering gear, in a steering system capable of selecting the manual steering and the automatic steering on the basis of operation of a transfer operator. CONSTITUTION:A control valve 18 consisting of a four-way valve is installed in space between both lower side and upper side steering shafts 13a, 13b, while the supply and exhaust ports 18b, 18c are connected to ports 30g1, 30g4 of a 8-port two position hydraulic driving selector valve 30 and a exhaust port 18d to a port 30g3, respectively. Ports 30g6, 30g8 of the selector valve 30 are connected to symmetrical oil chambers 22a, 22b of a power cylinder 22, and a port 30g7 is connected to a reservoir 23. In order to select a valve position of the selector valve 30, two cylinder chambers 30c, 30d are installed, while both symmetrical oil chambers 30d2, 30d1 being partitioned off by a piston 30d3 of a cylinder chamber 30d are connected to a hydraulic pump 21 and the reservoir 23 via a 4-port three-position solenoid driving control valve 26, and this control valve 26 is controlled by an automatic steering control part 24.
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PURPOSE:To prevent a total control system from instantaneously falling into a control stop by providing a condition giving means for giving a condition that a feedback gain in feedback compensation calculation, related to a physical quantity in which a fault is detected, is set substantially to 0. CONSTITUTION:In order to calculate a steering angle of front and rear wheels so as to obtain a relation of no interference in which steering of the front and rear wheels being based on each physical quantity is prevented from mutually generating the other physical quantity, each physical quantity is generated independently even for stopping a control. Also when improper action of a physical quantity detecting means is detected by a fault detecting means, the above calculation is continued by giving a condition that a feedback gain of the physical quantity, in which this fault is detected, is substantially set to 0.
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PURPOSE:To perform a deflection control as desired by providing a correction arithmetic means for performing arithmetic operation in a manner wherein the first and second physical quantities, generated in a vehicle, are in no interference with each other. CONSTITUTION:An input steering amount by a steering handle is detected by a handle steering amount detecting means. A speed of a vehicle is detected by a car speed detecting means, and the first physical quantity, related to rotation about a vertical axis generated in the vehicle, is detected by a first physical quantity detecting means. While the second physical quantity, related to the displacement in a lateral direction generated in the vehicle, is detected by a second physical quantity detecting means. Next a handle steering amount, car speed, first and second physical quantities detected by a correction arithmetic means are input and the detected first and second physical quantities are input and, when each steering amount of front and rear wheels is calculated so as to eliminate each displacement between the detected first and second physical quantities and the first and second target physical quantities determined by the detected handle steering amount and car speed, this calculation is performed so that the first and second physical quantities, generated in the vehicle, are not in interference with each other.
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PURPOSE:To improve steering responsiveness and eliminate a kickback by providing a control valve controlling the feed or discharge of the working oil to a power cylinder in response to the relative displacement between the first valve member and the second valve member and providing a load mechanism mechanically connected to a steering handle. CONSTITUTION:When a steering handle 11 is rotated, a valve sleeve 17a (first valve member) is displaced to generate relative displacement between it and a valve sleeve 17b (second valve member), a control valve 17 controls the feed or discharge of the working oil to a power cylinder 15, the cylinder 15 displaces a rack bar 12 in the opposite direction to the rotation of the handle 11, and the right and left front wheels FW2 and FW1 are steered in the rotation direction of the handle 11. When the relative displacement between the sleeves 17a and 17b is eliminated, the valve 17 stops the feed or discharge control of the working oil, steering of the right and left front wheels is stopped, and the right and left front wheels are steered in response to the rotation quantity of the handle 11. A load mechanism 23 excites the handle 11 to the neutral position, thus a reaction force against the rotation is applied to the handle 11.
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PURPOSE:To improve short turning ability during low speed running and running stability during high speed running by a method wherein when a car speed is low, rear wheels are steered in a high steering angle arc, and meanwhile, with the increase in a car speed, control is effected so that the rear wheels are further strongly energize to bring them into a neutral state. CONSTITUTION:With a handle 14 steered, left and right front wheels FW1 and FW2 are steered in the same direction as a steering direction trough a rack bar 11. A plurality of cables 73 and 74 are selectively pulled, and left and right rear wheels RW1 and RW2 are steered in the same phase as or a reverse phase to those of the front wheels FW1 and FW2 through a relay rod 31. In this case, when a rear wheel steering cancel switch 56 is in an OFF-state, based on a detecting signal from a car speed sensor 57, a plurality of throttle openings of an electromagnetic flow dividing valve 54 are controlled by an electric control circuit 55. With the increase in a car speed, the feed of working oil to a power cylinder is decreased, and displacement in the direction of the axis of a relay rod 31 is suppressed.
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PURPOSE:To make it possible to control rear wheels to be steered at the time of low and high speeds by steering the rear wheels depending on the displacement transmitted through connecting members when steered variable is large, and meanwhile constituting the rear wheels to be freely steered by an electric motor when steered variable is small. CONSTITUTION:A power cylinder 28 driving a relay rod which steers rear wheels via tie-rods 26a and 26b by means of displacement in the axial direction, is formed in No.1 housing 25. And a spool valve 32 which constitutes a hydraulic copying mechanism together with the power cylinder 28 is provided in No.2 housing 31 placed on the housing 25. Then, the valve spool 32a of the valve is connected with a relay rod 24 via a connecting member 33, a lever 34 and a piston 28a. And the, the valve spool 32b which is coupled with the valve sleeve 32a while being inserted, is driven by No.1 drive mechanism composed of a driving rod 37 and of a cam member 38 so that the valve spool 32b may be driven by No.2 drive mechanism including an electric motor 56.
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PURPOSE:To enable the displacement of a relay rod to the displacement of a first and a second valve members of a copying valve to be changed by transmitting the displacement of the relay rod to the second valve member of the copying valve by means of a link mechanism. CONSTITUTION:The valve sleeve 32a of a spool valve 32 is connected with a relay rod 24 by means of a link mechanism. The link mechanism makes major members of a lever 61 and a connecting member 62. The upper end of the lever 61 is turnably connected to a shaft 63. The end of the shaft 63 is turnably supported by the hole 31a provided in a second housing 31, and on the rear end part thereof a male screw 63b is formed to be screwed in a female screw 64a. The connecting member 62 connects the lever 61 with the valve sleeve 32a, and on the end part of the connecting member 62 a cylindrical part 62a is formed so that the lever 61 is penetrated through the cylindrical part 62. In the interior of the connecting member 62, an oil passage communicating the oil passage formed inside a valve spool 32b with a discharge port 32d is formed.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle alarm device for outputting an alarm related to a stop line near an intersection located in a vehicle travel direction at a more proper timing. SOLUTION: This vehicle alarm device 10 outputting an alarm related to the stop line near the intersection located in the vehicle travel direction has: a distance detection means 24 detecting a distance L1 to the intersection from the stop line; a speed limit detection means 26 detecting a speed limit VL of a road on which a vehicle travels; a change means 28 changing the timing Ta of outputting the alarm based on the detection results of the distance detection means 24 and the speed limit detection means 26; a traveling state detection means 32 detecting a traveling state after the alarm output; and an adjustment means 34 adjusting the subsequent alarm output timing Ta according to the detection result of the traveling state detection means 32. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle image recording device and a vehicle image recording system for suppressing an increase in recording capacity of a recording medium for recording an image. SOLUTION: This vehicle image recording device 1 is provided with: a plurality of imaging means 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 for picking up the images of the plurality of types of outsides and insides of a vehicle; a recording means 7a for recording images picked up by the plurality of imaging means 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6; a decision means 7b for deciding whether or not the state of the vehicle is a prescribed state (right and left output is left output or right output); and a changing means 7c for, when it is decided that the state of the vehicle is put in the prescribed state by a decision means 7b, changing the resolution of the prescribed combination of the imaging means (left camera 3 in right output and right camera 4 in left output) corresponding to the prescribed state among the plurality of imaging means 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To search for a route which a pedestrian actually selects. SOLUTION: A route candidate creation means creates a plurality of route candidates from the place of departure up to a destination of the pedestrian based on map information. For each route candidate created by the route creation means, a calculation means calculates an overall degree of danger according to the kinds of places to move to existing on the route candidate, based on a degree of danger to be assumed on the occasion of movement predetermined for each of a plurality of kinds of places for the pedestrian to move to. Accordingly, the route which the pedestrian actually selects can be searched for, since the route selection is performed considering the individual degrees of danger of the route candidates. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT