Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sensor device and electric power steering device using same
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Application No.: US15238356Application Date: 2016-08-16
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Publication No.: US10077069B2Publication Date: 2018-09-18
- Inventor: Shuji Kuramitsu , Katsuhiko Hayashi , Takaharu Kozawa , Kouichi Nakamura , Masaya Taki , Toshimitsu Sakai
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya, Aichi-pref.
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya, Aichi-pref.
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP
- Priority: JP2015-163650 20150821
- Main IPC: B62D5/04
- IPC: B62D5/04 ; B62D6/10 ; G01L5/22

Abstract:
A sensor device includes a main sensor, a sub sensor, and an Electronic Control Unit (ECU). The ECU has a torque calculator that sets, as a steering torque, a main steering torque that is calculated based on a main sensor signal when a main output signal is normal. During a transition period between an abnormality detection and an abnormality establishment regarding the main output signal, the torque calculator calculates the steering torque based on (i) a sub steering torque calculated based on a sub sensor signal and (ii) a prior-to-abnormality-detection main steering torque. In such manner, even when abnormality is detected in a part of the sensor signals, a fluctuation of the steering torque due to, or accompanying, the switching of the steering torque calculation to a normal signal only calculation is prevented.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170050670A1 SENSOR DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING DEVICE USING SAME Public/Granted day:2017-02-23
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