STEERING CONTROL APPARATUS AND STEERING CONTROL SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20190248407A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-15

    申请号:US16267743

    申请日:2019-02-05

    CPC classification number: B62D5/0463 B62D5/0481

    Abstract: A steering control apparatus controlling an electric power steering apparatus includes a first control part and a second control part. The first control part communicates with an external device and executes a specific process. The second control part communicates with the first control part and executes the specific process. The first control part can acquire first information and second information. When all of the first information and the second information are positive, the first control part transmits positive information to the external device. When a part of the first information and the second information is negative, the first control part transmits negative information to the external device.

    STEERING SYSTEM
    2.
    发明申请
    STEERING SYSTEM 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20200180685A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-11

    申请号:US16702912

    申请日:2019-12-04

    Abstract: A steering system in a vehicle includes a plurality of subsystems provided with a control unit. The control unit includes a storage unit storing steer angle information regarding a steer angle of one of a steering mechanism and a steered mechanism when the steering mechanism or the steered mechanism stops, an abnormality determiner determining abnormality of the motor rotation detection value and the detection circuit in the plurality of subsystems at a start time of a motor based on a comparison of at least two parameters, and a steer angle calculator calculating the steer angle based on the parameters having been determined by the abnormality determiner as not abnormal.

    STEERING ANGLE DETECTION DEVICE
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200047806A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-13

    申请号:US16654314

    申请日:2019-10-16

    Abstract: A steering angle detection device is provided with a plurality of rotation angle sensors and a plurality of control units. The rotation angle sensors are capable of at least continuously calculating a rotation speed while an ignition switch of a vehicle is turned off, and are provided so as to correspond to steering angle calculation units which calculate steering angle based on the rotation speed and a rotation angle acquired from the rotation angle sensors and midpoint information related to the neutral position of a steering member. Power supplies are provided on a per-system basis. The rotation angle sensors or the control units are capable of holding the midpoint information while the ignition switch is turned off. If a power supply abnormality resulting in power supply failure occurs in some of the systems, the control unit of the abnormal system acquires the midpoint information and the rotation speed from the control unit of a normal system when the ignition switch is turned on.

    CONTROL DEVICE
    4.
    发明申请
    CONTROL DEVICE 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20200321769A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-08

    申请号:US16835841

    申请日:2020-03-31

    Abstract: In a control device, control circuit units are connected to separate circuit power sources and to separate grounds. Ground monitor circuits respectively have a first resistor with one end connected to a voltage source, a second resistor with one end connected to an input terminal of a corresponding control circuit unit, and a capacitor. Among the one end of the first resistor, an other end of the first resistor, and the other end of the second resistor, at least one is connected to the subject system, and at least one is connected to an other system, and the control circuit unit monitors a ground abnormality of the other system based on a terminal voltage of the input terminal to which the second resistor is connected.

    SENSOR DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING DEVICE USING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20190039643A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-07

    申请号:US16083665

    申请日:2017-02-01

    Abstract: A sensor device includes: multiple sensor units, each of which includes multiple sensor elements and a signal processing unit that generates and transmits an output signal including multiple detection signals corresponding to detection values of the sensor elements; and multiple control units, each of which includes a communication unit that receives the output signal, an abnormality monitoring unit that monitors abnormality of the respective sensor unit, and a physical quantity computation unit that computes a physical quantity based on at least one of the detection signals which is normal. One control unit mutually transmits and receives the detection signals as subject sensor signals received from the respective sensor unit and the detection signals as other sensor signals received from another one of the control units with another system control unit.

    MOTOR CONTROLLER AND MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM HAVING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20200207408A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-02

    申请号:US16711794

    申请日:2019-12-12

    Abstract: A motor controller for controlling a motor includes first and second angle sensors detecting motor rotation, and first and second detection circuits detecting rotation number information based on sensor output from the angle sensors. Further, the motor controller includes a steer angle information obtainer obtaining steer angle information involving steering of a vehicle from an external sensor, which is different from the angle sensors, and an abnormality determiner determining abnormality of information that has a matching degree of lower than a preset value when post-conversion information, or value measured by the same characteristics. This information is compared with each other after conversion from the rotation number information and from the steer angle information, and is used by a control amount calculator to calculate a control amount of the motor based on the information determined as having no abnormality by the abnormality determiner.

    STEERING CONTROL APPARATUS
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190241214A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-08

    申请号:US16264282

    申请日:2019-01-31

    CPC classification number: B62D6/10 B62D5/0463

    Abstract: Inverter circuits are provided for motor winding sets, respectively. Control units are provided for the motor winding sets to generate control signals related to driving of the inverter circuits and control currents flowing through the motor winding sets, respectively, thereby controlling driving of a motor. The control mode includes a manual steering mode for controlling the motor according to a steering operation on a steering wheel by a driver and an automatic steering mode for controlling the motor independently of the steering operation on the steering wheel by the driver. The control units are capable of switching the control modes and differentiate the current control according to the control mode. By making the current control different according to the control mode, it is possible to attain optimal characteristics which correspond to each control mode.

    CONTROL SYSTEM
    9.
    发明申请
    CONTROL SYSTEM 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20190081585A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-14

    申请号:US16083691

    申请日:2017-02-24

    Abstract: A control system includes a plurality of control devices each including an initial check unit that performs an initial check before drive control of a rotary electric machine, a transmission/reception unit that transmits/receives an end signal indicating that the initial check is ended, and a drive control unit that performs the drive control of the rotary electric machine after the initial check. The drive control unit starts the drive control of the rotary electric machine when the initial check of the corresponding control device is ended and the end signal is acquired from another control device, and starts the drive control of the rotary electric machine after a lapse of a predetermined time from the start of the initial check of the corresponding control device when the initial check of the corresponding control device is ended and the end signal is not acquired from the another control device.

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