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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 06, 2011
Applicants:

Hirokazu Abe, Gunma, JP;

Yoshiki Ninomiya, Gunma, JP;

Toru Sakaguchi, Gunma, JP;

Inventors:

Hirokazu Abe, Gunma, JP;

Yoshiki Ninomiya, Gunma, JP;

Toru Sakaguchi, Gunma, JP;

Assignee:

NSK Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 5/04 (2006.01); B60R 16/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 5/0481 (2013.01); B60R 16/03 (2013.01);
Abstract

[Problem] An object of the present invention is to provide a power state diagnosis method and a power state diagnosis apparatus that pass and increase not only a d-axis current but also a q-axis current to a current value that a steering behavior does not occur to perform a diagnosis in the vector control of a motor, and determine that a power supply degraded, that the power supply is normal and that the diagnosis is not completed without giving an uncomfortable feeling to a driver, detecting a timing that there is not a driver, and needing to comprise a plurality of actuators. [Means for solving the problem] The present invention is a power state diagnosis method that diagnoses a power state of a vehicle which comprises an electrical control system supplied from a power supply and a motor controlled by a vector control method, comprising: gradually increasing a d-axis current to a current value that a steering behavior does not occur and applying the d-axis current, concurrently gradually increasing a q-axis current that is a rectangular-wave with positive and negative directions to the current value and applying the q-axis current, and determining degradation of the power supply when a voltage value of the power supply is equal to or less than a power supply threshold and a given period of time Telapses.


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