Jtekt Corporation

Takehide Adachi

Yuji Fujita

Atsuo Sakai

Tsutomu Matsumoto

Kenichi Kozuka

Kazuya Sakai

Susumu Koike

A steering system includes a rotation angle sensor that detects a signal related to an absolute steering angle, and an assist circuit that acquires the signal related to the absolute steering angle while an ignition switch is off in order to reduce battery consumption. The assist circuit includes a counter that updates a count value based on a result of detection by a first rotating direction determining unit and a second rotating direction determining unit that determine a rotating direction of a motor, and an abnormality detecting unit that detects an abnormality in absolute steering angle based on a past value and a current value of the count value in the counter.

Steering system

There is provided an actuator control apparatus configured such that even when an electronic device that generates an electric signal to be used to control an actuator is provided in the form of a duplexed system, an increase in the number of communication paths between the electronic device and a controller is suppressed. A torque sensor and a rotation angle sensor are each provided in the form of a duplexed system. Two sets of a torque sensor and a rotation angle sensor are connected to a microcomputer via a SPI communication line. The torque sensors and the rotation angle sensors are connected to the microcomputer via CS communication lines, respectively. By selecting a communication target via a corresponding one of the CS communication lines, the microcomputer is able to receive multiple kinds of electric signals via each one of the SPI communication lines.

Actuator control apparatus

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Okazaki, Japan

Takehide Adachi