IP Library Granted Patent US 11,738,726
Granted Patent B2
US 11,738,726 · App. 16/499,146 · Granted Aug 29, 2023

Vehicle brake system

Inventors: Hiromasa Satoh (Nagano, JP); Toshihiro Obika (Yokohama, JP); Yusuke Koga (Yokohama, JP); Yasushi Aoki (Yokohama, JP); Hiromitsu Toyota (Tokyo, JP); Haruo Kotera (Tokyo, JP); Tatsuya Yamasaki (Iwata, JP); Yui Masuda (Iwata, JP)
Assignees: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA; NTN CORPORATION; HITACHI ASTEMO UEDA CO., LTD.
B60T8/17B60T13/74B60T17/221B60T2270/402B60T2270/413
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Patent No.
US 11,738,726
App. No.
16/499,146
Granted
Aug 29, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle brake system ( 1 ) includes a first control device ( 10 ) and a second control device ( 11 ) that respectively include a master controller ( 30 ), a first sub-controller ( 40 ), and a second sub-controller ( 41 ) that are connected to one another. Each of the master controller ( 30 ), the first sub-controller ( 40 ), and the second sub-controller ( 41 ) includes a braking force calculation unit that calculates braking force of electric brakes ( 16 a to 16 d ), and a determination unit that compares braking force calculation results of the controllers to determine whether itself is normal. The determination unit includes an output block section that blocks, when the determination unit determines that any one of the controllers is not normal, an output of the controller that is determined to be not normal.

Claims (16)

1. A vehicle brake system comprising:

an electric brake including at least one unit of an electric actuator that presses a friction pad toward a rotor side;

a first stroke sensor that independently detects an operation amount of a brake pedal;

a second stroke sensor that independently detects the operation amount of the brake pedal;

a third stroke sensor that independently detects the operation amount of the brake pedal;

a driver that drives the electric actuator; and

a control device,

the control device including at least three controllers including a first controller that receives the operation amount detected by the first stroke sensor, a second controller that receives the operation amount detected by the second stroke sensor, and a third controller that receives the operation amount detected by the third stroke sensor, connected to one another,

each of the first, second, and third controllers including a driver control unit that controls the driver, and a braking force calculation unit that calculates braking force of the electric brake,

at least one of the first, second, and third controllers further including a determination unit that compares braking force calculation results of the first, second, and third controllers to determine whether the first, second, and third controllers are normal or not, and

the determination unit including an output block section that blocks, when the determination unit determines that any one of the first, second, and third controllers is not normal, an output of the one of the first, second, and third controllers that is determined to be not normal, and

the control device further including a slave controller having only another driver control unit that controls the driver based on braking force calculation results of at least one of the first, second, and third controllers.

2. The vehicle brake system according to claim 1 , wherein

the control device includes a first control device including at least one unit of the first, second, and third controllers, and a second control device including at least one unit of remaining controllers.

3. The vehicle brake system according to claim 1 , wherein

each of the first, second, and third controllers includes a self-determination unit that determines whether a corresponding controller itself is normal or not based on a calculation result of the braking force calculation unit, and further includes a section that blocks an output of a corresponding controller that is determined to be not normal by self-determination.

Assignments (7)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 27, 2026
From: HITACHI ASTEMO UEDA, CO., LTD.
To: ASTEMO UEDA, LTD.
Reel/Frame 075483/0159 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 25, 2025
From: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
To: ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 072580/0099 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 11, 2022
From: NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
To: HITACHI ASTEMO UEDA CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 059084/0629 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Feb 11, 2022
From: HITACHI ASTEMO UEDA CO., LTD.
To: HITACHI ASTEMO UEDA CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 059122/0523 →
MERGER Recorded Feb 11, 2022
From: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD.
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 059084/0719 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 11, 2022
From: VEONEER NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
To: NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 059084/0580 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 30, 2019
From: SATOH, HIROMASA; OBIKA, TOSHIHIRO; KOGA, YUSUKE; AOKI, YASUSHI; TOYOTA, HIROMITSU; KOTERA, HARUO; YAMASAKI, TATSUYA; MASUDA, YUI
To: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD.; VEONEER NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.; MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA; NTN CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 050592/0262 →