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7624838 Electric power steering control apparatus  
An electric power steering control apparatus can limit a motor impression voltage thereby to maintain an appropriate motor output even upon occurrence of a failure of a motor current detection...
7620485 Method for regulating driving stability  
The invention relates to a method for controlling the driving stability of a vehicle, wherein it is determined when a stable or unstable driving behavior prevails whether a tendency to a subsequent...
7619859 Electric power steering device  
An electric power steering device that can estimate an ambient temperature and apply current limiting without using ambient temperature detecting means is provided. The electric power steering...
7613556 Vehicle steering system  
In a steering-without-driving state, a larger current limit value, drive limit time and steering angle deviation threshold value are set than when a low-speed driving state occurs. An automatic...
7610134 Vehicle steering system  
A brake application speed is compared with a speed threshold value so as to judge whether or not a braking operation being performed is an emergency braking operation. If not the emergency braking...
7604089 Storage check for locking vehicle steering system  
A storage part stores an initial sum, which is obtained by summing a steering angle of a steering wheel and a rotational angle of an electric actuator before checking of unlocking of a transmission...
7603215 Lane keep control apparatus and method for automotive vehicle  
In lane keep control apparatus and method for an automotive vehicle, a deviation tendency detecting section detects whether the vehicle has a tendency of a deviation from a traveling traffic lane...
7596441 Power steering device  
In a power steering device employing a hydraulic power cylinder, a motor-driven pump, and a driving power source for the motor, a power steering control system is configured to electrically...
7581616 Control system for a steer-by-wire vehicle  
In a vehicle steering apparatus of a steer-by-wire system, front wheels are controlled to be turned by a computer program processing. A displacement/torque conversion section 51 converts a...
7575092 Vehicle steering control device  
In a vehicle steering control device, a steering torque estimation unit estimates steering torque of a steering wheel based on driving current of an electric actuator; a torque sensor detects the...
7565230 Method and apparatus for improving vehicle operator performance  
A method ( 700 ) for improving driver performance includes the steps of receiving vehicle operating data from the vehicle ( 702 ); monitoring an interior portion of the vehicle and receiving...
7559405 Controller for electric power steering device  
The present invention provides a controller of an electric power steering device which does not apply an uncomfortable feeling to a operation of steering wheel while securing a fault determination...
7555402 Method for determining the angular position of the steering wheel of an automobile vehicle electric power-assisted steering system  
The method consists in: determining in which actually sector the booster motor is located, a sector of the booster motor being defied by two successive poles; determining a relative angle position...
7549501 Steering system and a method for controlling a vehicle  
A steering system for a motor vehicle, including a steering gear and at least one tie rod, is characterized in that an actuator is provided, which can move an end section of the tie rod...
7540351 Steering control system  
A steering control system includes a steering wheel and a steering shaft with upper and lower shaft portions. Steering shaft torque of the lower shaft portion corresponds to torque transmitted to...
7532966 Torque steer compensation algorithm  
A torque steer compensation algorithm utilizing selected vehicle parameters, such as for example engine torque, accelerator pedal position, throttle position, transmission gear, and vehicle speed....
7529605 Vehicle steering system for setting steering reaction without using difference between target and actual steering angles  
A steering system for a vehicle, includes a control operated by a driver of the vehicle; a measuring device for measuring a quantity of operation of the control by the driver; a steering section...
7526372 Steering control device  
A steering control device in which a steering portion including an electric steering reaction force actuator and a steered portion including an electric steered portion actuator are mechanically...
7516003 Vehicle steering system  
A vehicle steering system includes: a steering actuator that imparts a steering force to a steering mechanism of a vehicle; an automatic steering controller that performs an automatic steering...
7508637 Antilock system for a permanently excited electric motor drive  
As an antilock system for a permanently excited electric motor drive, especially for a steering booster servo drive of a motor vehicle, in the event of a winding short-circuit, an interruption of...
7500538 Control unit for electric power steering apparatus  
It is an object of the present invention to provide a control unit for an electric power steering apparatus for accurately detecting an abnormality of a steering angle sensor without forming the...
7474071 Electric motor regulation with controlled error intercept  
A motor is controlled by a motor control signal so that it reaches a target state, which is derived from sensor data sensed by a sensor. The motor can be put into a rest state at the occurrence of...
7424352 Driving situation detection system  
A driving situation detection system capable of detecting driving situations swiftly with high reliability is obtained. The driving situation detection system includes real curve arithmetic means...
7406375 Electric power steering apparatus and method for controlling the electric power steering apparatus  
When it is determined that the torque output from the electric motor abnormally fluctuates or the torque output from the electric motor varies between clockwise and counterclockwise turning...
7389851 Electric power steering apparatus  
An electric power steering apparatus controlling an operation of an electric motor by a control unit based on a torque signal from a torque sensor and executing a steering assist of a steering...
7383111 Steering apparatus  
A steering apparatus for a vehicle includes a steering angle measuring unit, a vehicle speed measuring unit, a yaw rate measuring unit, a yaw rate-based reaction force control unit for controlling...
7376498 Vehicle controller  
A vehicle controller which can realize a reduced cost and high reliability at the same time. A control target status signal outputted from a control target is inputted to a monitoring unit. The...
7366598 Device for estimating drift amount of lateral acceleration sensor, device for correcting output of lateral acceleration sensor, and device for estimating road surface friction state  
An SAT estimating section estimates self-aligning torque (SAT) on the basis of a steering torque, which is detected by a steering torque detecting section, and an assist torque, which is detected...
7363131 Re-positionable vehicle control-by-wire assembly, method, and system  
A vehicle control assembly and a method and system for controlling a vehicle. The assembly includes a controller. A steer-by-wire component, a brake-by-wire component, and an accelerator-by-wire...
7363136 Controller of electric power steering apparatus  
An initial abnormality analysis data is reliably retained by a controller of an electric power steering apparatus. The controller of the electric power steering apparatus is constituted by...
7349780 Steering angular velocity computing device and method  
A steering angular velocity computing device detects a change in a steering angle, measures a required time from a time when the steering angle changed until a time when the steering angle next...
7322439 Steering apparatus for steerable vehicle  
A steering apparatus for a steerable vehicle includes a steering unit, an operating unit, a backup unit, and a control unit. The backup unit selectively connects/disconnects the steering unit and...
7311173 Reaction control system for obtaining preferable steering feeling  
A reaction control system controls a reactive force to be applied to an operating device operated by a driver of a vehicle. The system includes a device for measuring a steering speed of steering...
7302329 Apparatus, system and method for magnetorheological clutch diagnostics  
An apparatus and method for monitoring and diagnosing the coil temperature of a magnetorheological (MR) clutch connected to a power steering pump of a vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus includes a...
7257475 Vehicle control system  
A vehicle control system is provided for a vehicle that is steered by steer-by-wire, the system including a battery mounted in the vehicle, a steer-by-wire steering system that turns wheels by an...
7254470 Fault tolerant torque sensor signal processing  
A method for generatig a fault tolerant sensor signal for a motor control system in a vehicle steering system. The method includes receiving at least three sensor signals indicative of a sensed...
7246679 Vehicle steering apparatus and method  
A vehicle steering apparatus includes a steering reaction actuator that produces a steering reaction force to be applied to the manual steering unit, a steering reaction force controller that...
7226069 Power-assisted steering system and difference compensating method for current detector  
A power-assisted steering system includes: two or more current detectors that detects current flowing to two or more phases of a motor and outputs detected current values; a correcting unit that...
7210554 Power steering system  
A power steering system includes a hydraulic power cylinder, a hydraulic pump for supplying an oil pressure to the hydraulic power cylinder, an electric motor for driving the hydraulic pump, a...
7207412 Motor-driven power steering system  
A motor-driven power steering system includes a power assisting motor; a motor current sensor, a sample-hold circuit that has sampling section and a holding section, a timing signal generating...
7171582 Method for controlling a safety-critical system which has a microcontroller  
The invention relates to a method for controlling a safety-critical system, in particular of a motor vehicle, which includes a microcontroller. The microcontroller controls and/or regulates the...
7163080 Method and apparatus for detecting a failed temperature sensor in an electric assist steering system  
A method and system are provided for controlling an electric assist motor in a vehicle steering system during an enablement of an overuse algorithm. Electric power is provided to the electric...
7136733 Fault detection in an electric power-assisted steering system  
A method and system for detecting faults in an electric power-assisted steering system includes determining a voltage vector of an electric power-assisted steering motor and measuring a current...
7127341 Failsafe steering device for steer-by-wire system  
A failsafe steering device for a steer-by-wire system includes a main Electronic Control Unit (ECU) that detects manipulating states of a main steering wheel and a rack mechanism via a plurality of...
7079929 Vehicle power steering apparatus capable of suppressing vibration of EPS motor during changes in steering angle  
In a power steering apparatus employing an EPS (electrical power steering) motor coupled to a steering mechanism, when vibration of the steering mechanism is produced by twisting of tire rubber due...
7051834 Power steering apparatus  
In a power steering apparatus, a basic-target-rotational-speed setting portion 42 sets a basic target rotational speed Rb of an electric motor 27 on the basis of the vehicle speed and the...
7016775 Controller and control method for an electric power steering apparatus  
A controller controls an electric motor to provide assist power corresponding to steering operation for an electric power steering apparatus. The controller comprises a detecting device, a...
7013241 Electronic control unit  
In an electronic control unit having two computers, the first computer, which is an engine control microcomputer, performs multiple diagnoses and sends data regarding the diagnoses to the second...
7007769 Fail-safe steering system for a vehicle  
A fail-safe steering system for a vehicle, which prevents movable elements of a backup mechanism from being dragged by motions of an associated one of a steering input section and a steering output...
7004279 Vehicle steering system  
A vehicle steering system is provided with a primary steering system, a backup steering system and a control system that switches from the primary steering system to the backup steering system when...
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