Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Advics Co., Ltd.

J-quad Dynamics Inc.

Toyota Jidoshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Yusuke Kamiya

Masaaki Komazawa

Takahiro Okano

Kiyoyuki Uchida

Yoshio Masuda

Akira Sakai

Masaki Ninoyu

Daisuke Nakata

Yasuji Mizutani

Masaki Maruyama

Kiyohito Takeuchi

Hiroaki Niino

Akitaka Nishio

Tatsushi Kobayashi

Kazutaka Noro

Yosuke Yamasoe

Yasunori Sakata

Takashi Kurokawa

Yasuhito Ishida

Kazuki Miyake

Yuta Ohashi

Masaaki Uechi

Hiroshi Ueno

Masumi Dakemoto

Atsushi Kuchinomachi

Ken Kuzuya

Hayato Kubota

Yosuke Kuki

Yoshimitsu Ozeki

Tatsuya Hiromura

Takeshi Okawa

Taketsugu Miyata

Shimpei Kodani

Misuzu Shimazaki

A control device for a vehicle includes one or more processors configured to: perform feedback control on an acceleration of the vehicle by controlling a driving force of an internal combustion engine mounted on the vehicle based on a difference between a requested acceleration of the vehicle from an application and an actual acceleration of the vehicle; calculate a first predicted acceleration that is a predicted acceleration of the vehicle on an assumption that the internal combustion engine is controlled into a fuel-cut state; and control the internal combustion engine into the fuel-cut state without performing the feedback control when a coasting condition that is predetermined is satisfied and the first predicted acceleration is equal to or higher than a lower limit value that is predetermined as a negative value.

Control device for vehicle, control method for vehicle, and non-transitory storage medium

An information processing method includes receiving shift requests to control a shift range of a vehicle from a plurality of application software products configured to implement driver assistance functions of the vehicle, arbitrating the shift requests by using, as a condition, whether each of the received shift requests is a request in a traveling range or a request in a parking range, when the traveling range is the shift range in which a driving wheel of the vehicle is rotatable and the parking range is the shift range in which the driving wheel is not rotatable, and generating an instruction value for an action request to drive an actuator based on a result of arbitration.

Information processing device, non-transitory storage medium, and information processing method

A vehicle brake system, including: a first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism and a second hydraulic-pressure control mechanism configured to control a braking force; and a controller including a first-abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism is in a first abnormal state, a second-abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism is in a second abnormal state that the first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism reaches before reaching the first abnormal state, and an assist control device configured to control the second braking-force control mechanism so as to control the braking force when an assist wait time elapses after the second-abnormal-state detecting device has detected that the first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism is in the second abnormal state, the assist wait time being determined based on a temperature of a working fluid obtained by a temperature obtaining device of the brake system.

Vehicle brake system

A vehicle brake system, including: a first-braking-force control mechanism configured to control a first braking force, a second-braking-force control mechanism configured to control a second braking force, an abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first-braking-force control mechanism is in an abnormal state, a pseudo-abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first-braking-force control mechanism is in a pseudo abnormal state in which the first-braking-force control mechanism is suspected to be in the abnormal state, and a controller including a pseudo abnormal state controller configured to control the second-braking-force control mechanism in an operating state of the first-braking-force control mechanism so as to control the second braking force when the pseudo-abnormal-state detecting device detects that the first-braking-force control mechanism is in the pseudo abnormal state.

A braking force control apparatus includes a fluid pressure generation mechanism, a braking mechanism and an electric control unit. The fluid pressure generation mechanism causes a braking mechanism to generate a required fluid pressure. The braking mechanism applies a braking force depending on the required fluid pressure to each of wheels through the pressing of a braking member against a rotating rotary member due to the required fluid pressure. The electronic control unit performs, when the required fluid pressure is generated and a vehicle state shifts from a running state to a stopped state at a first time point, stop-time boost control to boost the required fluid pressure at and after the first time point.

Braking force control apparatus

The vehicle braking device includes a pilot pressure control portion which executes normal control in which the pilot pressure is controlled in response to the target value of the servo pressure and shortening control in which the change amount of the pilot pressure per unit time is greater than the change amount under the normal control in a mutually different timing, a state judging portion which judges the state of the master piston relating hysteresis of sliding resistance of the master piston based on the detection result of the servo pressure detecting portion or the liquid pressure co-relating with the servo premeasure and a control switching over portion which terminates the shortening control based on the detection result of the servo pressure detecting portion and the detection result of the state judging portion.

Vehicle braking device

The braking device for a vehicle includes an operation judging portion which judges whether or not the operating amount in the increasing stage is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold amount or whether or not an increasing speed of the operating amount in the increasing stage is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold speed and a control portion which selects the first operating mode as the operating mode from a start of the increasing stage until a first timing or a second timing and selects the second operating mode as the operating mode in the increasing stage after the first timing or the second timing and at the same time maintains the drive hydraulic pressure in the increasing stage after the first timing or the second timing.

Braking device for vehicle

Provided is a brake device capable of detecting abnormality condition of a subject valve without using a wheel pressure sensor and the vehicle brake device includes a valve which is configured to open and close a fluid passage connected to the master chamber and at the same time which is a subject valve for a subject of failure judgement and an abnormality judging portion which is configured to judge whether or not the subject valve is in an abnormal state based on an advancement amount of the master piston accompanying an opening of the subject valve.

Vehicle brake device

A vehicle brake device provided with a hydraulic pressure generating portion, an actuator and a controlling portion which maintains a driving force of the driving portion when a control subject pressure in a control subject chamber is within a dead zone, wherein the control subject pressure varies in response to a variation of the master pressure and a pulsation is generated in the master pressure accompanying an operation of the actuator. The vehicle brake device further includes a rigidity information obtaining portion which obtains a rigidity information and a dead zone setting portion which sets the dead zone based on the rigidity information obtained by the rigidity information obtaining portion such that the higher the rigidity of the control subject chamber, or the higher the probability of rigidity increase of the control subject chamber, the wider the dead zone is set.

A brake ECU (abnormality detection device) includes: an operating amount obtaining portion configured to obtain a measurement value of a stroke; a hydraulic pressure obtaining portion configured to obtain a measurement value of a reaction force hydraulic pressure having a mutual relationship with respect to the stroke; an operation direction determining portion configured to determine directions of operation of outputs from a stroke sensor and a pressure sensor; a failure detection range switching portion configured to switch the failure detection range for detecting failures of a hydraulic pressure braking force generating device in accordance with the direction of operation; and a failure determining portion configured to determine the failure of the hydraulic pressure braking force generating device from the failure detection range switched by the failure detection range switching portion, the measurement value of the stroke, and the measurement value of the reaction force hydraulic pressure.

Abnormality detection device

In a vehicular brake device, while a brake operating member is not operated and a wheel cylinder pressure supplying control is executed to supply the target wheel cylinder pressure to the respective wheel cylinders individually, the vehicle control device sets the target servo pressure to a first predetermined target servo pressure which is a value smaller than a maximum output pressure of the servo pressure generating device. When the execution of the wheel cylinder pressure supplying control starts, the vehicle control device sets the target servo pressure to be the target wheel cylinder maximum value when a firstly occurred rising inclination of the target wheel cylinder maximum value is equal to or more than a minimum increment of an output of the servo pressure generating device per unit time and at the same time when the target wheel cylinder pressure is smaller than the first determined target servo pressure.

Vehicle control device

A vehicle control device which is applicable to a vehicle brake device, controls the pressure increasing control valve and the pressure-decreasing control valve so that an actual servo pressure detected by the servo pressure sensor becomes a target servo pressure; and controls so as to increase the target servo pressure by a predetermined amount, while the brake actuator is executing the braking control which accompanies a brake fluid pumping back control wherein the brake fluid supplied to the wheel cylinder is pumped back to the master cylinder by the built-in pump.

A braking control apparatus for a vehicle, the vehicle including a drive regeneration imparting device () and a hydraulic braking system (), the drive regeneration imparting device being configured to impart a driving force or a regenerative braking force to the vehicle, the hydraulic braking system being configured to impart a hydraulic braking force to the vehicle by adjusting a hydraulic pressure in a wheel cylinder provided in a wheel, the braking control apparatus includes: an electronic control unit () configured to, when the hydraulic braking force is reduced based on a reduction in brake operation amount that is an operation amount of a brake operation member, execute a correction process, the correction process being a process of reducing the regenerative braking force that is being imparted to the vehicle by the drive regeneration imparting device.

Braking control apparatus and braking control method for vehicle

A brake device for controlling an actual pressure of an output hydraulic pressure outputted from a pressure adjusting device and applying a braking force to a wheel of a vehicle based on the actual pressure of the output hydraulic pressure. The brake device includes an actual pressure judging portion configured to judge whether or not the actual pressure of the output hydraulic pressure is the pressure that is within the range of the dead zone and a adjusting portion configured to execute a target pressure adjustment for adjusting a target pressure of the output hydraulic pressure to approximate a side of the actual pressure of the output hydraulic pressure.

Brake device

A vehicle control device which is applicable to a vehicle brake device, controls the pressure increasing control valve and the pressure decreasing control valve so that an actual servo pressure detected by the servo pressure sensor becomes a target servo pressure and sets a control dead zone in which a control of the pressure increasing control valve and the pressure decreasing control valve is prohibited to be an area which has a first predetermined width from the target servo pressure when a normal braking operation is performed and sets the control dead zone to be an area which has a second predetermined width, wider than the first predetermined width when the brake actuator executes the braking control which accompanies a brake fluid pumping back control, wherein the brake fluid supplied to the wheel cylinder is returned to the master cylinder by pumping back operation of the built-in pump.

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Yusuke Kamiya