Subaru Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Takumi Hoshi

Fumiyuki Moriya

Masaki Komuro

Hirofumi Yabe

Tatsuhiro Kubo

Atsushi Doki

Tetsu Matsuzaki

Jun Oosawa

Takashi Kono

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Yosuke Ohtomo

Kazutaka Hara

Itaru Seta

Shiro Ezoe

Tetsuo Yano

Kazuki Makino

Shinya Sagawa

Masakazu Yoshino

Seidai Takeda

Masatoshi Kishikawa

A malfunction diagnosing system includes a data acquirer, an appropriate range setter, and a malfunction determiner. The data acquirer is configured to acquire traveling environment data and actual traveling result data in association with each other for a target vehicle to be subjected to malfunction diagnosis. The traveling environment data includes at least driving operation data indicating a driving operation. The actual traveling result data indicates an actual traveling result based on the traveling environment data. The appropriate range setter is configured to derive an appropriate range of actual traveling results based on the traveling environment data for vehicles the models of which are identical to a model of the target vehicle. The malfunction determiner is configured to determine whether the target vehicle has a malfunction by determining whether the actual traveling result data falls within the appropriate range.

Malfunction diagnosing system

A vehicle control system is provided with a motor generator and has a function of, if a vehicle-stop brake fluid pressure at a vehicle stop timing is less a predetermined pressure necessary for holding a vehicle in a stopped state, boosting the vehicle-stop brake fluid pressure to the stop holding fluid pressure or greater to hold the vehicle in the stopped state. The system includes a first calculator, a second calculator, and a vehicle stop controller. The first calculator calculates a target driving force for the vehicle. The second calculator calculates, from the target driving force, a requested driving force for drive control of the motor generator and a requested brake fluid pressure to be used for brake control. The vehicle stop controller performs, at a timing immediately before the vehicle stop timing, a pre-boosting process of increasing the brake fluid pressure to the stop holding fluid pressure or greater.

Vehicle control system

An electric vehicle includes a vehicle controller. The vehicle controller is capable of switching a traveling mode of the electric vehicle between a first traveling mode and a second traveling mode that applies driving-force maps for enhancing a rough-road capability from a rough-road capability in the first traveling mode. The vehicle controller is capable of switching the traveling mode to the second traveling mode in forward traveling and in backward traveling and is configured to apply, to the backward traveling in the second traveling mode, a first driving-force map of the driving-force maps, the first driving-force map having gentler characteristics than a second driving-force map of the driving-force map applied to the forward traveling in the second traveling mode.

Electric vehicle

A vehicle control system includes a target driving force calculator that calculates a target driving force of a vehicle, an arithmetic operator that calculates a request driving force and a request braking force, and a stop keeping processor that keeps the vehicle in a stopped state by increasing a brake fluid pressure so that a braking force becomes equal to or larger than a stop keeping braking force. The arithmetic operator executes a pressure pre-increasing process for pre-increasing the brake fluid pressure before a stop timing and setting, as the request driving force, a cancellation driving force for canceling a braking force for pressure pre-increase, and controls, in the pressure pre-increasing process, the request braking force so that the braking force for the pressure pre-increase is increased within a range in which the braking force does not exceed a braking force threshold smaller than the stop keeping braking force.

A vehicle control system includes a target drive force calculation unit, an arithmetic unit, a stop holding unit, a power-running-generative drive force calculation unit, and a traveling mode selection unit. The arithmetic unit calculates required drive force and required brake force based on target drive force calculated by the target drive force calculation unit. The arithmetic unit calculates the required drive force by setting the required brake force to stop hold brake force or greater if an engine traveling mode is selected at an immediately preceding timing by the traveling mode selection unit. The arithmetic unit calculates the required brake force by setting the required drive force to less than or equal to power-running-generative drive force calculated by the power-running-generative drive force calculation unit if an electric vehicle traveling mode is selected at the immediately preceding timing by the traveling mode selection unit.

Provided is a start-stop control apparatus to be mounted in a vehicle including an engine, a starter motor configured to restart the engine, and an auxiliary battery configured to supply electric power to the starter motor. The start-stop control apparatus includes a stop processing unit and an engine measuring unit. The stop processing unit stops idling of the engine while the vehicle is being stopped. The engine measuring unit measures an internal loss of the engine. The stop processing unit determines whether to stop the idling of the engine on the basis of the internal loss measured by the engine measuring unit and the state of charge of the auxiliary battery.

Start-stop control apparatus

A hybrid electric vehicle includes an engine, a motor, a battery, a coupling mechanism, an electric power generating mechanism, and a vehicle controller. The engine and motor drive driving wheels. The battery supplies electric power for running to the motor. The coupling mechanism switches coupling of the engine and the driving wheels between direct coupling and buffering coupling. The electric power generating mechanism generates electric power. The vehicle controller switches a running mode of the hybrid electric vehicle between a first running mode and a second running mode with higher running performance. The vehicle controller limits the electric power generation under a first condition when the buffering coupling is applied during the first running mode and limits the electric power generation under a second condition less limited than the first condition when the buffering coupling is applied during the second running mode.

Hybrid electric vehicle

A UVW-phase inverter control circuit has a control function of generating a UVW-phase inverter control signal. An XYZ-phase inverter control circuit has a control function of generating an XYZ-phase inverter control signal. The control function of the UVW-phase inverter control circuit is stopped during execution of a BIST. A phase conversion unit generates a UVW-phase inverter control signal by phase conversion for the control signal from the XYZ-phase inverter control circuit. During execution of the BIST by the UVW-phase inverter control circuit, a selector outputs the inverter control signal from the phase conversion unit as a UVW-phase inverter control signal, and a selector outputs the inverter control signal from the XYZ-phase inverter control circuit as an XYZ-phase inverter control signal.

Motor controller

An inverter control signal in each phase is input into a UVW-phase inverter circuit and an XYW-phase inverter circuit for controlling a motor including a plurality of winding groups in a UVW-phase and an XYZ-phase. The inverter control signal is generated as a pulse signal having a period depending on a rotation speed of the motor based on a current in each phase of the motor. An abnormality detection circuit has a function of detecting a pulse period of the inverter control signal in each phase and is configured to detect whether an abnormality occurs or not in motor control, depending on whether a predetermined large-small relation according to an arrangement order of the UVW-phase and the XYZ-phase is established or not in the pulse period of the inverter control signal in each phase during at least one of an acceleration state or a deceleration state of the motor.

Abnormality detection apparatus

A processor synthesis device inserts a stop circuit into a circuit configuration, which is defined by processor model information and includes a plurality of operators, based on instruction set information that defines an instruction set including a plurality of instructions, the stop circuit stopping an operator not used in an instruction to be executed among the plurality of operators when each of the plurality of instructions is executed. The processor synthesis device generates processor synthesis information which is an RTL description defining a circuit configuration into which the stop circuit is inserted.

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Takumi Hoshi