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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2018
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Masaru Shimono, Nagoya, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A brake system including: (a) a pair of electric brake devices respectively for right and left wheels; (b) a pair of individual controllers respectively associated with the electric brake devices; (c) a central controller communicable with the individual controllers; and (d) an on-vehicle network to which the central and individual controllers are connected, wherein the central controller transmits, via the on-vehicle network, control commands to the individual controllers as signals containing destination information of the respective individual controllers, wherein each individual controller controls an associated one of the electric brake devices according to the control command based on the signal containing the destination information of its own, and wherein the brake system further includes a position-change determining device configured to determine, based on a turning behavior of a vehicle, that positions of the individual controllers are mutually changed with respect to the association with the electric brake devices.