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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2013
Hitachi Automotive Systems Steering, Ltd., Saitama, JP;
Hitachi Automotive Systems Steering, Ltd., Saitama, JP;
Abstract
In a power steering system and a control apparatus for the power steering system, an abnormality detection process section () installed in a second ECU, the second ECU, the second ECU having a multi-core microcomputer in which a plurality of processor cores are mounted within a single processor package, to detect an abnormality of a first angle calculation process section of a first ECU, the first ECU having a single core microcomputer in which a single processor core is mounted within another single processor package and the first angle calculation process section a first angle calculation process section () installed in the first ECU to calculate rotation angles of the input axle and output axle on a basis of sinusoidal wave signals and cosine wave signals derived from a steering angle sensor and a torque sensor.