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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2007
Yoshinori Takeuchi, Tochigi, JP;
Shunya Senda, Tochigi, JP;
Yoshinori Takeuchi, Tochigi, JP;
Shunya Senda, Tochigi, JP;
Showa Corporation, Saitama, JP;
Abstract
In a motor-driven power steering apparatus, there are provided a reference output characteristic memory previously storing a reference output characteristic expressing a corresponding relation between a driving current of an electric motor and an output torque corresponding to the driving current, a correction coefficient computing circuit computing a ratio TO/TM between an output torque TM of the electric motor detected at a time of applying a predetermined current M to the electric motor, and an output torque TO corresponding to the driving current IM in the reference output characteristic as an output correction coefficient. A current control computing unit calculates a corrected current control signal by multiplying a current control signal of the electric motor computed on the basis of a steered condition of a vehicle by the output correction coefficient, and outputs a drive control signal based on the corrected current control signal to a motor driving unit.