Vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus
View Patent ↗A vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus includes, as a controller, acceleration acquiring section for acquiring an output value of an acceleration sensor detecting a front-rear direction acceleration of a vehicle, limiting section for limiting the magnitude of the output value acquired by the acceleration acquiring section within a predetermined limit value, a filter (control acceleration calculation section) limiting a change of a value output by the limiting section in a predetermined direction, and holding section for determining a holding pressure according to a value output by the filter and, based on the holding pressure, holding the braking force.
1. A vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus capable of performing braking force holding control that holds a braking force for a vehicle to maintain a halt state when the vehicle is at a halt, the vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus comprising:
an acceleration acquiring section for acquiring an output value of an acceleration sensor detecting a front-rear direction acceleration of the vehicle;
a limiting section for limiting a magnitude of the output value acquired by the acceleration acquiring section within a predetermined limit value;
a filter limiting a change of a value output by the limiting section in a predetermined direction; and
a holding section for determining a holding pressure according to a value output by the filter and, based on the holding pressure, holding the braking force.
2. The vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the holding section sets an upper limit value of the holding pressure to be determined and
the limiting section uses, as the predetermined limit value, a value obtained by adding a predetermined offset amount to an acceleration value corresponding to the upper limit value of the holding pressure.
3. The vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein the filter limits a change in a direction in which the value output by the limiting section approaches 0.
4. The vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein the filter is configured to limit a change of the value output by the limiting section in a direction equivalent to a front of the vehicle.
5. The vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein the filter limits the change of the value output by the limiting section in the predetermined direction to a predetermined gradient and
the predetermined offset amount is set to a value obtained by multiplying a half cycle of pitching of the vehicle by the predetermined gradient.
6. The vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the filter limits a change in a direction in which the value output by the limiting section approaches 0.
7. The vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the filter is configured to limit a change of the value output by the limiting section in a direction equivalent to a front of the vehicle.
8. The vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the holding section sets an upper limit value of the holding pressure to be determined and
the limiting section uses, as the predetermined limit value, an acceleration value corresponding to the upper limit value of the holding pressure.
9. The vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus according to claim 8 ,
wherein the filter limits a change in a direction in which the value output by the limiting section approaches 0.
10. The vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus according to claim 8 ,
wherein the filter is configured to limit a change of the value output by the limiting section in a direction equivalent to a front of the vehicle.
11. The vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the filter limits a change in a direction in which the value output by the limiting section approaches 0.
12. The vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the filter is configured to limit a change of the value output by the limiting section in a direction equivalent to a front of the vehicle.