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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately determine whether a Current Interrupt Device (CID) is operated on a vehicle mounting a storage apparatus configured to include the CID.SOLUTION: A controller 40 is mounted on a vehicle having the storage apparatus configured to include the CID, a driver device to generate a vehicle driving power using a power from the storage apparatus, and an auxiliary machine to consume the power from the storage apparatus. When the CID is operated (disconnected), no current flows through the storage apparatus. The controller 40 includes a temporary determination part 40A and a formal determination part 40B. The temporary determination part 40A temporarily determines whether the CID is disconnected based on a variation in a voltage VL to be input from the storage apparatus to the driver device. When the temporary determination part 40A makes a temporary determination as the "CID Disconnection", the formal determination part 40B performs a VL variation control to intentionally change the voltage VL by controlling the driver device or the auxiliary machine, and formally determines whether the CID is disconnected based on a variation amount of current Ib to be output from the storage apparatus during the VL variation control.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power supply device for an electric vehicle which carries out drive-control over a travel motor through an inverter without detecting an input voltage to the inverter. SOLUTION: The power supply device includes a battery 11, the inverter 30, and a control unit 60 which adjusts a driving power through the inverter 30 to control the travel motor 50. The control unit 60 has a revolution sensor 56 which acquires the number of revolutions of the travel motor 50. The control unit calculates an estimated counter electromotive force of the travel motor 50 from the acquired number of revolutions of the travel motor 50, and adjusts the inverter 30 with the estimated counter electromotive force as an input voltage to the inverter 30 to control the travel motor 50. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize preferred lane change control even when an ambient situation cannot be fully recognized because of presence of an obstacle.SOLUTION: A lane change assist system (10) includes obstacle detection means (101) that detects an obstacle present in the perimeter of a vehicle (310), white line detection means (102) that detects a white line of a lane, request detection area calculation means (103) that calculates a request detection area (θ), which is requested when lane change control is implemented, on the basis of the detected white line, shielding decision means (104) that decides whether a detection area of the obstacle detection means is smaller than the request detection area, control quantity calculation means (105) that if the detection area of the obstacle detection means is smaller than the request detection area, calculates a control quantity (W,D) of a vehicle which is required to make the detection area of the obstacle detection means equal to or larger than the request detection area, and vehicle control means (106) that controls the vehicle on the basis of the calculated control quantity.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suitably support a lane change of a driver's own vehicle.SOLUTION: A travel support device (100) for supporting a lane change of a driver's own vehicle (C1) includes prediction means (120) for predicting whether or not a situation of an increase in a vehicle speed (V2) of a front vehicle (C2) is brought about, on the basis of a road condition of a traffic lane (L1) where the front vehicle (C2) travels, and support means (140) for supporting traveling of the driver's own vehicle so that the driver's own vehicle cannot perform the lane change, when it is predicted that the situation of the increase in the vehicle speed of the front vehicle is brought about.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly determine another vehicle approaching a target lane.SOLUTION: A travel support device (100) that determines whether a second vehicle (C3) traveling in a second lane (L2) is likely to enter a target lane, in order to support travel of a first vehicle (C1) which is going to enter the target lane (LT) from a first lane (L1), comprises: first determination means (120) which determines whether a first required time (tc1) required for the second vehicle to reach a preceding vehicle (C4) preceding the second vehicle satisfies a predetermined first condition or not; and second determination means (120) which determines whether the second vehicle is likely to enter the target lane according to a determination result of the first determination means.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle having a motor drive circuit including a converter and an inverter, while properly preventing overheat of a DC power supply due to resonance of the drive circuit.SOLUTION: The control device for controlling the motor drive circuit including the converter and the inverter is configured, when the converter is under upper-arm-on control (not boosted) (YES in S10) and when a motor speed N is included in a resonance rotation speed range (YES in S11), to convert a squared value of a value of a current Ib measured by an in-vehicle current sensor to a squared value of a true value of the current Ib detected off-line in advance (S12), and to prohibit execution of rectangular control (S14) when the squared value of the true value of the current Ib is equal to or larger than a permissible value (YES in S13).
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a motor drive system capable of detecting an inverter one-phase open fault. SOLUTION: A controller compares the detecting value of the DC current of a DC power supply by a current sensor and the estimate of the DC current arithmetically operated on the basis of the power incomings and outgoings of the whole motor drive system (steps S01 to S03). The controller detects the fluctuation of the DC current when a deviation between both the detecting value and the estimate exceeds a threshold (a YES decision time at the step S04). The controller decides whether the fluctuating frequency of the arithmetically operated DC current is synchronized with the rotational speed of a motor generator (the steps S06 to S08) when the fluctuating frequency of the DC current is operated arithmetically (the step S05). When the fluctuating frequency of the DC current is synchronized with the rotational speed of the motor generator in this case, the controller detects the generation of the one-phase open fault in an inverter (the steps S09 and S10). COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emissions purification system for an internal combustion engine capable of enhancing an exhaust emission purification performance even further by detecting oxygen occlusion capacity of an exhaust emissions purification catalyst without allowing exhaust emission purification performance to be reduced. SOLUTION: The exhaust emissions purification system according to this invention is provided with: a plurality of upstream exhaust passageways 7a that run parallel with each other; a downstream exhaust passageway 7b that forms the plurality of upstream exhaust passageways 7a into a single passageway; a plurality of upstream exhaust emissions purification catalysts 18, each of which being disposed on each of the plurality of upstream exhaust passageways 7a; and a downstream exhaust emissions purification catalyst 19 disposed on the downstream exhaust passageway 7b. The upstream exhaust emissions purification catalyst 18 has an oxygen occlusion action. Exhaust emissions are purified by using this oxygen occlusion action offered by the upstream exhaust emissions purification catalyst 18. There is provided an air-fuel ratio control means 22 that, when the oxygen occlusion capacity of each of the plurality of upstream exhaust emissions purification catalysts 18 is calculated, causes rich-lean oscillation so that an exhaust air-fuel ratio of exhaust emissions emitted from either of the plurality of upstream exhaust emissions purification catalysts 18 is in reverse phase from each other alternately. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a traveling course generation device and a traveling control device, capable of reducing uncomfortable feeling given to the occupant of a vehicle by making an actual course smooth when traveling is performed on the actual course based on a generated traveling course.SOLUTION: A traveling course calculation part 13 in a traveling course generation ECU 10 generates a current traveling course by using a current target passing point included in a route calculated by a route calculation part 12 and a previous target passing point included in a previous traveling course stored in a traveling course storage part 14. The previous target passing point includes a fixed target passing point near the vehicle and a search target passing point other than the fixed target passing point. When generating the current traveling course, the fixed target passing point is fixed, and the search target passing point is appropriately changed to the current target passing point to generate the current traveling course.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a battery temperature rise control system controlling temperature rise of a battery while protecting a component constituting a step-up/down converter circuit when charging/discharging is repeated between the battery and a smoothing capacitor through the step-up/down converter circuit. SOLUTION: In the battery temperature rise control system including the battery, the smoothing capacitor, the step-up/down converter circuit disposed between the battery and the smoothing capacitor, and a control part, the control part includes a comparison processing part for comparing a numerical value calculated based on an integrated value of the current flowing through the step-up/down converter circuit during temperature rise of the battery with a threshold set in advance in order to determine whether or not continuation of temperature rise of the battery is possible while protecting the step-up/down converter circuit, and a temperature rise processing part for controlling the temperature rise of the battery while protecting the step-up/down converter based on the result of the comparison processing part. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT