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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2017
Applicant:
Nsk Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Satoshi Shimokawabe, Maebashi, JP;
Tetsuya Kitazume, Maebashi, JP;
Assignee:
NSK LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 5/0466 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electric power steering apparatus that includes a function to perform a handle-returning control being consistent with an intention of a driver by using, for a calculation of a target steering angular velocity, only a steering input due to the intention of the driver which is included in a steering torque and the assist current or only vehicle motion characteristics based on the steering input, in the handle-returning control which performs a PID-control depending on a deviation between the target steering angular velocity and a steering angular velocity.