| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 141 | VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL SYSTEM | US15334291 | 2016-10-26 | US20170043774A1 | 2017-02-16 | James KELLY; Andrew FAIRGRIEVE; Daniel WOOLLISCROFT |
| A vehicle speed control system for a vehicle having a plurality of wheels, the vehicle speed control system comprising one or more electronic control units configured to carry out a method that includes applying torque to at least one of the plurality of wheels, detecting a slip event between any one or more of the wheels and the ground over which the vehicle is travelling when the vehicle is in motion and providing a slip detection output signal in the event thereof. The method carried out by the one or more electronic control units further includes receiving a user input of a target speed at which the vehicle is intended to travel and maintaining the vehicle at the target speed independently of the slip detection output signal by adjusting the amount of torque applied to the at least one of the plurality of wheels. | ||||||
| 142 | SECONDARY STEERING SYSTEM UNIT, SECONDARY STEERING SYSTEM, VEHICLE AND A METHOD FOR SECONDARY STEERING | US15139413 | 2016-04-27 | US20160325721A1 | 2016-11-10 | Mats JONASSON; Mikael THOR |
| A vehicle, a method, a secondary steering system unit and a secondary steering system are provided. The secondary steering system unit comprises: a fault determination arrangement arranged to determine the presence of a fault in the main steering system and a path controller arranged to generate an upcoming path for the host vehicle. The secondary steering system unit is arranged to steer the host vehicle along the path by differential braking upon determination that a fault is present in the main steering system. Furthermore, the secondary steering system is arranged to control the differential braking in dependence of both a yaw torque acting on the host vehicle as a result of the differential braking and a steering angle resulting from a generated alignment torque on a braked steerable wheel caused by the associated wheel suspension scrub radius. | ||||||
| 143 | Vehicle control device and vehicle control method | US14365677 | 2013-01-22 | US09415657B2 | 2016-08-16 | Hironobu Kikuchi; Katsuhiko Hirayama |
| A vehicle control device includes a motive power source orientation control device, a friction brake orientation control device, a damping force control device, and an orientation control device. The orientation control device controls vehicle body orientation via the motive power source orientation control device when the absolute value of the amplitude of a detected state quantity is less than a first predetermined value, via the damping force control device in addition to the motive power source orientation control device when the absolute value of the amplitude is equal to or greater than the first predetermined value and less than a second predetermined value greater than the first predetermined value, and via the friction brake orientation control device in addition to the motive power source orientation control device and the damping force control device when the absolute value of the amplitude is equal to or greater than the second predetermined value. | ||||||
| 144 | Stablization method for vehicles | US13959806 | 2013-08-06 | US09183179B2 | 2015-11-10 | Lodewijk Wijffels; Peter Zegelaar; Oliver Nehls; Sergio Codonesu |
| Stabilization method and system for performing dynamic chassis control in a vehicle. An electronic stability control (ESC) includes an ESC sensor set; at least one chassis actuator; and a dynamic controller operably connected to at the least one chassis actuator. The ESC sensor set generates one or more sensor fault signals. Then, the method employs a dynamic controller to evaluate the signals corresponding to the sensor fault at least after a first fast fault signal, or a second slow fault signal. If the first fast fault signal is detected, the dynamic controller generates a signal for at least one of partially or completely temporarily switching off the at least one chassis actuator, while maintaining ESC in an active state. Conversely, if the second slow fault signal is detected, the dynamic controller generates a signal for temporarily switching off the ESC. | ||||||
| 145 | Electric vehicle | US14379523 | 2013-01-24 | US09168818B2 | 2015-10-27 | Isao Hirai; Tetsuya Yamamoto; Wataru Yamada |
| An electric vehicle includes: a body that includes a body frame; a driving module that includes a sub-frame detachable from the body frame, driving wheels, a driving device provided with a motor mounted on the sub-frame and applying driving force to the driving wheels to start or accelerate the electric vehicle, a driving-wheel suspension device attached to the sub-frame, a driving-wheel brake device stopping or decelerating the electric vehicle, and some other components; a connection unit that maintains the relative position relationship between the body and driving module upon attachment of the sub-frame to the body frame and connects the body to the driving module with signal lines; and a control unit that controls the driving module under an input signal input from the body side through the signal lines connected with the connection unit. | ||||||
| 146 | Method for configuring an electronic control unit of a motor vehicle trailer | US13822354 | 2011-09-15 | US09162547B2 | 2015-10-20 | Olaf Drewes |
| The invention relates to a method of configuring an electronic control unit (140) of a motor vehicle trailer using specific data for the chassis systems and/or chassis components which are installed on the motor vehicle trailer. It is provided that a chassis system (131) and/or at least one chassis component are/is equipped with at least one machine-readable data carrier (160) in which data which can be used for configuring the control unit (140) is stored, wherein, in order to configure the control unit (140), this data carrier (160) is read out and the data stored therein is transferred to the control unit (140). The invention also relates to a chassis system, a chassis component and a motor vehicle trailer. | ||||||
| 147 | Vehicle control device, and vehicle control method | US14386829 | 2013-04-08 | US09156452B2 | 2015-10-13 | Hironobu Kikuchi |
| A vehicle control device includes a sensor and a controller. The sensor detects wheel speed. The controller estimates an amount of pitch motion made by a vehicle based on information in a prescribed frequency range of wheel speed detected by the sensor. The controller control friction brakes so as to bring the pitch motion amount to a target pitch motion amount, as well as gradually lowering an amount by which the friction brakes are controlled, in instances where an estimation accuracy of the pitch motion amount deteriorates. | ||||||
| 148 | VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH EXTERNAL FORCE COMPENSATION | US14421876 | 2013-08-15 | US20150232092A1 | 2015-08-20 | Andrew Fairgrieve; Daniel Woolliscroft; James Kelly |
| A method for operating a speed control system of a vehicle is provided. The method comprises detecting an external force acting on the vehicle wherein the external force has an accelerating or decelerating effect on the vehicle. The method further comprises automatically adjusting a rate of change of at least one component of a net torque being applied to one or more wheels of the vehicle to compensate for the accelerating or decelerating effect of the external force on the vehicle. A system for controlling the speed of a vehicle comprising an electronic control unit configured to perform the above-described methodology is also provided. | ||||||
| 149 | SPEED CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME | US14421865 | 2013-08-13 | US20150210282A1 | 2015-07-30 | Andrew Fairgrieve; James Kelly; Daniel Woolliscroft |
| A method for operating a speed control system of a vehicle is provided. The method comprises identifying a torque required to achieve a desired operating parameter of the vehicle. The method further assessing whether the required torque exceeds a predetermined torque limit, and when it does, determining if it is appropriate to increase the torque limit. When it is determined that it is appropriate to do so, the method further comprises increasing the predetermined torque limit. A speed control system of a vehicle comprising an electronic control unit configured to: determine a torque required to achieve a desired operating parameter of the vehicle, assess whether the required torque exceeds a predetermined torque limit; when the torque exceeds the torque limit, determine if it is appropriate to increase the torque limit; and when it is determined that it is appropriate to do so, increase the torque limit, is also provided. | ||||||
| 150 | VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL SYSTEM | US14421924 | 2013-08-16 | US20150203117A1 | 2015-07-23 | James Kelly; Andrew Fairgrieve; Daniel Woolliscroft |
| A vehicle speed control system for a vehicle having a plurality of wheels, the vehicle speed control system comprising one or more electronic control units configured to carry out a method that includes applying torque to at least one of the plurality of wheels, detecting a slip event between any one or more of the wheels and the ground over which the vehicle is travelling when the vehicle is in motion and providing a slip detection output signal in the event thereof. The method carried out by the one or more electronic control units further includes receiving a user input of a target speed at which the vehicle is intended to travel and maintaining the vehicle at the target speed independently of the slip detection output signal by adjusting the amount of torque applied to the at least one of the plurality of wheels. | ||||||
| 151 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE SPEED TO ENHANCE OCCUPANT COMFORT | US14421911 | 2013-08-15 | US20150203116A1 | 2015-07-23 | Andrew Fairgrieve; James Kelly; Daniel Woolliscroft |
| A method for operating a speed control system of a vehicle is provided. The method comprises receiving one or more electrical signals representative of vehicle-related information. The method further comprises determining, based on the signals representative of vehicle-related information, whether one or more predetermined conditions are met. The method still further comprises automatically determining a baseline set-speed for the speed control system when it is determined that at least certain of the one or more predetermined conditions are met The method yet still further comprises adjusting the baseline set-speed to determine an instantaneous set-speed of the speed control system based on a signal indicative of a desired comfort level. A speed control system comprising an electronic control unit configured to perform the above-described methodology is also provided. | ||||||
| 152 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SPEED OF A VEHICLE USING VEHICLE CONFIGURATION | US14421874 | 2013-08-14 | US20150203115A1 | 2015-07-23 | Andrew Fairgrieve; Daniel Woolliscroft; James Kelly |
| A method for use with a speed control system of a vehicle is provided. The method comprises receiving readings from one or more vehicle sensors to determine the nature of the terrain over which the vehicle is traveling. The method further comprises gathering information relating to one or more parameters of the vehicle that correspond to the configuration of the vehicle. The method still further comprises determining, based on the nature of the terrain and the gathered information, whether the vehicle is appropriately configured to travel over the terrain. A system comprising an electronic control unit configured to perform the method is also provided. | ||||||
| 153 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SPEED OF VEHICLE | US14421867 | 2013-08-13 | US20150191169A1 | 2015-07-09 | Andrew Fairgrieve; Daniel Woolliscroft; James Kelly; Mark Stanton |
| A method for controlling the speed of vehicle is provided. The method comprises providing a memory device configured to store a plurality of predefined set-speeds therein. The method further comprises selecting a desired set-speed from the plurality of predefined set-speeds stored in the memory device. The method may further comprise determining whether the selected set-speed is appropriate based on one or more conditions. The method may still further comprise causing the vehicle to operate in accordance with the selected set-speed when it is determined that the set-speed is appropriate. A system comprising a memory device configured to store a plurality of predefined set-speeds, and electronic control unit configured to select a desired one of the predefined set-speeds stored in the memory is also provided. | ||||||
| 154 | Electronic motor vehicle control system of modular design | US12738712 | 2008-10-20 | US08989949B2 | 2015-03-24 | Peter Lohberg; Michael Zydek |
| A modularly constructed electronic motor vehicle control system, includes wheel speed sensor inputs, at least one brake controller, and inertial sensors. The signals from the wheel speed sensors are fed into a chassis base module. The module evaluates the signals and feeds them to an electronic brake controller spatially separated from the chassis base module. The chassis base module and the brake controller are disposed in separate control device housings. | ||||||
| 155 | Vehicle braking/driving force control system and vehicle braking/driving force control method | US13877539 | 2011-10-20 | US08983723B2 | 2015-03-17 | Etsuo Katsuyama |
| Braking/driving force control that includes: detecting a driver's operating state for causing the vehicle to run; detecting a vehicle body motional state while the vehicle is running; computing a target longitudinal driving force for causing the vehicle to run and motional state amounts for controlling a vehicle body behavior on the basis of the detected operating state and motional state; and computing driving or braking forces allocated to the wheels so as to achieve the computed target longitudinal driving force and target motional state amounts and that the braking/driving force generating mechanism causes the wheels to generate independently. | ||||||
| 156 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE | US14379523 | 2013-01-24 | US20150027795A1 | 2015-01-29 | Isao Hirai; Tetsuya Yamamoto; Wataru Yamada |
| An electric vehicle includes: a body that includes a body frame; a driving module that includes a sub-frame detachable from the body frame, driving wheels, a driving device provided with a motor mounted on the sub-frame and applying driving force to the driving wheels to start or accelerate the electric vehicle, a driving-wheel suspension device attached to the sub-frame, a driving-wheel brake device stopping or decelerating the electric vehicle, and some other components; a connection unit that maintains the relative position relationship between the body and driving module upon attachment of the sub-frame to the body frame and connects the body to the driving module with signal lines; and a control unit that controls the driving module under an input signal input from the body side through the signal lines connected with the connection unit. | ||||||
| 157 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE | US14366547 | 2012-12-28 | US20140358373A1 | 2014-12-04 | Hironobu Kikuchi; Katsuhiko Hirayama |
| A control apparatus for a vehicle is configured to detect an abnormality of shock absorbers. When an abnormality detection means has detected an abnormality, braking/driving force posture control amount computation means computes an amount of braking/driving force posture control controlled by means of braking/driving force of the vehicle on the basis of target posture control amount. | ||||||
| 158 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | US14294907 | 2014-06-03 | US20140358372A1 | 2014-12-04 | Atsuto OGINO |
| A vehicle control device includes a detection portion detecting a master cylinder pressure which is an oil pressure applied by a master cylinder changing a depression force applied to a brake pedal into the oil pressure and a control portion controlling a suspension to restrain a vehicle from tilting forward caused by a depression of the brake pedal based on a variation of the master cylinder pressure, the control portion controlling the suspension to restrain the vehicle from swinging back from a tilting forward attitude caused by a release of the brake pedal based on the variation of the master cylinder pressure. | ||||||
| 159 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD | US14365664 | 2013-01-22 | US20140358370A1 | 2014-12-04 | Hironobu Kikuchi; Katsuhiko Hirayama |
| A driving state estimator unit configured to detect a state quantity indicating vehicle body orientation, and a control unit configured to control vehicle body orientation using drive force from an engine when the absolute value of the amplitude of the detected state quantity is less than a second predetermined value, and using force generated by a second orientation control device instead of the drive force from the engine when the absolute value of the amplitude is equal to or greater than the second predetermined value. | ||||||
| 160 | CONTROLLER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, MOTOR VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING THE CONTROLLER | US14365420 | 2012-12-06 | US20140350818A1 | 2014-11-27 | Anton Obermüller |
| A central control entity controls all actuators of a chassis control system of a motor vehicle. To select a combination of actuator operations best suited for influencing the handling of the motor vehicle, the effect of a change of settings of motor vehicle actuators on the handling is predicted by an observer device configured to receive at least one sensor signal from a sensor via a signal input and, depending on the sensor signal, to determine at least one estimated value for a slip resistance of the motor vehicle. The controller is configured by operating the controller in a test motor vehicle that has a sensor for a measured variable, for which the observer device determines an estimated value. The estimated values from the controller are then compared with corresponding measured values. | ||||||
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