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Electric power steering apparatus

A technology of electric power steering and electric motor, which is applied in the direction of electric steering mechanism, power steering mechanism, automatic steering control components, etc., and can solve the problem of impaired hand feeling and other problems

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-07-25
JTEKT CORP
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[0006] In an electric power steering system to which such an assist characteristic is applied, there is a problem in that, when the return steering is performed to rotate the steering wheel toward the midpoint of the steering angle, the steering angle toward the midpoint of the steering angle is stronger than the driver's expectation. Returned steering feel (so-called spring feel)
However, in the above-mentioned prior art, since the assist amount is increased, it may be felt that the feel at the time of cutting is impaired immediately after the steering speed becomes zero.

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[0033] FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of an electric power steering system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Steering torque applied to a steering wheel 1 as an operating member is mechanically transmitted via a steering shaft 2 to a steering mechanism 3 including a rack shaft. The steering assist force is mechanically transmitted from the electric motor M to the steering mechanism 3 via a driving force transmission mechanism such as a gear mechanism (reduction mechanism), or by direct transmission.

[0034] The steering shaft 2 is divided into an input shaft 2A connected to the steering wheel 1 side and an output shaft 2B connected to the steering mechanism 3 side, and these input shaft 2A and output shaft 2B are connected to each other by a torsion bar 4 . The torsion bar 4 is twisted according to the steering torque, and the direction and amount of the twist are detected by the torque sensor 5 (operation amount detection mea...

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The invention provides electric power steering apparatus includes an operation amount detecting unit for detecting an operation amount of an operation member for steering a motor vehicle; a reference assist characteristics setting unit for setting reference assist characteristics which are reference characteristics of a motor driving target value corresponding to the operation amount of the operation member; a motor driving target value setting unit for setting a motor driving target value in accordance with corrected assist characteristics obtained by shifting the reference assist characteristics along an axis of coordinates of the operation amount; a yaw rate detecting unit for detecting or estimating a yaw rate of the motor vehicle; and a shifting amount setting unit for setting a shifting amount of the corrected assist characteristics with respect to the reference assist characteristics corresponding to the yaw rate of the motor vehicle.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an electric power steering device having a structure in which a driving force generated by an electric motor is transmitted to a steering mechanism as a steering assist force. Background technique [0002] There has been conventionally used an electric power steering apparatus having a structure in which a driving force generated by an electric motor is mechanically transmitted to a steering mechanism through a gear mechanism (reduction mechanism) or a direct transmission system, thereby assisting steering. [0003] In such an electric power steering apparatus, an assist characteristic determining the steering torque applied to the steering wheel and the steering torque applied to the steering mechanism from the electric motor is predetermined and stored in the memory as an assist map. Relationship between assist torque target values. Then, an assist torque target value corresponding to the steering torque is read from...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): B62D6/00B62D5/04
CPCB62D5/0463B62D5/0466
Inventor 西山明宏
Owner JTEKT CORP
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