Electricity: motive power systems – Limitation of motor load – current – torque or force
Patent
1997-12-30
1999-06-15
Wysocki, Jonathan
Electricity: motive power systems
Limitation of motor load, current, torque or force
701 43, 180443, B62D 504
Patent
active
059125390
ABSTRACT:
An electric power steering apparatus includes a judgment unit which passes a judgment that a condition, in which an offset signal indicative of the offset between a target current signal and a motor current signal, or a drive control signal used for controlling an electric motor is greater than a threshold, has continued for an allowable time. Based on this judgment, a forced drive control unit forcibly drives the electric motor. A fault judgment unit monitors the motor current in all times and judges a current detecting unit to be at fault if the motor current does not vary even though the electric motor is drive forcibly. Thus, even when a failure in the current detecting unit occurs during movement of a motor vehicle, such failure can reliably be detected. Additionally, since the judgment is performed after the electric motor is driven forcibly, misjudgment does not occur even when the judgement at the judgment unit results from continuous application of abrupt manual steering operation.
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Hironaka Shinzi
Kurosawa Takao
Sugitani Nobuo
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Wysocki Jonathan
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