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Granted Patent B2
US 11,014,542 · App. 16/320,861 · Granted May 25, 2021

Braking control device for vehicle

Inventors: Yasuhito Ishida (Toyokawa, JP); Takayuki Yamamoto (Nagakute, JP)
Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
B60T8/172B60T7/042B60T17/221B60T2270/402B60T2270/413B60T2270/82
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Patent No.
US 11,014,542
App. No.
16/320,861
Granted
May 25, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A braking control device comprises: an operational displacement sensor detecting operational displacement of a braking member; a first hydraulic pressure unit that reads operational displacement as a first displacement processing value via a first displacement signal line and adjusts braking hydraulic pressure based on the first displacement processing value; a second hydraulic pressure unit that reads operational displacement as a second displacement processing value via a second displacement signal line and adjusts braking hydraulic pressure based on the second displacement processing value; and a communication bus transmitting signals between the first and second hydraulic pressure units. The first hydraulic pressure unit acquires the second displacement processing value via the communication bus and determines suitability/unsuitability of the first displacement processing value. When the first displacement processing value is suitable (unsuitable), the first hydraulic pressure unit adjusts the braking hydraulic pressure on the basis of the first (second) displacement processing value.

Claims (20)

1. A braking control device for a vehicle that adjusts a braking hydraulic pressure of a wheel cylinder according to an operation of a braking operation member of a vehicle to a generate a braking force at a wheel, braking control device comprising:

an operational displacement sensor that detects an operational displacement of the braking operation member;

an operation force sensor that detects an operation force of the braking operation member;

a first hydraulic pressure unit that reads the operational displacement as a first displacement processing value via a first displacement signal line and adjusts the braking hydraulic pressure based on the first displacement processing value;

a second hydraulic pressure unit that reads the operational displacement as a second displacement processing value via a second displacement signal line and adjusts the braking hydraulic pressure based on the second displacement processing value; and

communication bus for transmitting a signal between the first hydraulic pressure unit and the second hydraulic pressure unit; wherein

the first hydraulic pressure unit

acquires the second displacement processing value from the second hydraulic pressure unit via the communication bus,

calculates a displacement conversion value, which is a state variable related to displacement, based on the operation force,

executes, on the basis of a comparison between the first displacement processing value and the displacement conversion value, a suitability determination of whether or not the first displacement processing value is suitable,

adjusts the braking hydraulic pressure based on the first displacement processing value when the first displacement processing value is suitable, and

adjusts the braking hydraulic pressure based on the second displacement processing value in place of the first displacement processing value when the first displacement processing value is unsuitable.

2. The braking control device for the vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

the first hydraulic pressure unit executes the suitability determination based on a disconnection determination of whether or not the first displacement signal line is disconnected.

3. The braking control device for the vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein

one of the first hydraulic pressure unit and the second hydraulic pressure unit transmits a synchronization signal at every calculation cycle when the first displacement processing value is unsuitable; and

the first hydraulic pressure unit acquires the second displacement processing value based on the synchronization signal.

4. The braking control device for the vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

one of the first hydraulic pressure unit and the second hydraulic pressure unit transmits a synchronization signal at every calculation cycle when the first displacement processing value is unsuitable; and

the first hydraulic pressure unit acquires the second displacement processing value based on the synchronization signal.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 25, 2019
From: ISHIDA, YASUHITO; YAMAMOTO, TAKAYUKI
To: ADVICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 048140/0490 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2016-147009 · Jul 27, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
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