Fujitsu Corporation

Jidosha Kiki Co., Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Knorr-bremse Steering System Japan Ltd.

Jidoshi Kiki Co., Ltd.

Masaki Watanabe

Ryuji Iizawa

Yoshiaki Taniguchi

Shinobu Kamono

Tatsuo Matsumura

Fumitoshi Mori

Ryuji Lizawa

Provided is a power steering device capable of causing control that uses a pump device and control that uses an electric motor on an input shaft to cooperate with each other. The power steering device includes a power cylinder including a pair of hydraulic chambers partitioned by a piston and configured to generate a steering assist force for a steered wheel, a pump device configured to be driven through control by a first electric motor and configured to discharge working fluid, a rotary valve configured to selectively supply the working fluid supplied from the pump device to the pair of hydraulic chambers in accordance with relative rotation between the input shaft and the output shaft, a second electric motor provided so as to surround at least a part in an axial direction of the input shaft and configured to control the rotation of the input shaft, and a second electric motor control part installed in a control device and configured to output a control signal for controlling driving of the second electric motor based on a revolution number signal of the first electric motor.

Power steering device

A printing apparatus includes: a detecting portion that detects a connection with an external storage device that stores print data and print completed page information of the print data; a reading portion that reads the print data and the print completed page information from the external storage device; and a printing portion that prints the print data from a next page of a print completed page with reference to the print completed page information.

Printing apparatus, print system, and program product therefor

A control method for an electric power steering apparatus for a vehicle includes a control unit having a target value generator and a primary delay system setting unit. The target value generator generates a target value of a steering force or a motor output. The primary delay system setting unit sets a primary delay system, in which a damper value, which changes in accordance with a vehicle speed, is set negative in a low-speed range where the vehicle speed is V0 to V1 (V0&lt;V1) and changed in accordance with the vehicle speed. The damper value is calculated with a steering angular speed of an electric power steering unit. The calculated value is fed back to a difference between the target value and an actual value. The electric power steering unit is controlled using a value obtained by filtering the difference through the primary delay system.

Control method for electric power steering apparatus for vehicle

According to a current limiting method in an electric power steering apparatus, a steering angular speed and the direction of a drive current are monitored. A condition in which a steering wheel is locked is discriminated from a condition in which the steering wheel is turned on the basis of combinations of the steering angular speed and the drive current direction. Processing of limiting a current value of an excessive drive current is executed only when the condition in which the steering wheel is locked is determined.

Driver current limiting method in electric power steering apparatus

In a clutch control method of a motor-driven power steering apparatus, a clutch is disconnected when a change width of a steering angle detected by a steering angle sensor is a predetermined angle or less and a steering torque detected by a torque sensor is a predetermined torque or more in both the steering directions. A clutch controller of a motor-driven power steering apparatus includes a first transistor arranged between one terminal of the clutch coil and a power source, a second transistor arranged between the other terminal of the clutch coil and an earth, and a current sensor connected in series with the first and second transistor.

Clutch control method and clutch controller for motor-driven power

In a control method of an electric power steering apparatus for a vehicle, a target value generator for setting a target value of a steering force or a motor output and a primary delay system with a variable damper value according to a vehicle speed are arranged in a control unit, and an electric power steering unit is controlled using a value obtained by filtering a difference between the target value set by the target value generator and an actual value through the primary delay system.

In a control method and apparatus of an electric power steering apparatus of this invention, a reverse torque R against a steering torque and a torque produced by the motor are detected, and a target value T.sub.DT which is set based on the reverse torque and is used when the torque produced by the motor is controlled has a range given by T.sub.DT .times.R&gt;R.sup.2.

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Saitama, Japan

Masaki Watanabe