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US 11,136,060 B2Granted
Steering nibble control
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsJoseph M. Raad, Darrel Alan Recker, Jan Bremkens, Daniel Slavin
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Abstract
A steering system includes an electric motor drivably coupled to a steering column, and a computer communicatively coupled to the electric motor. The computer is programmed to isolate a nibble signal in data representing a torque of the steering column, and instruct the electric motor to output a motor torque based on the nibble signal shifted by a phase shift, the phase shift based on a vehicle-wheel frequency.
Claims20
A steering system comprising:
- an electric motor drivably coupled to a steering column;
- and
- a computer communicatively coupled to the electric motor and programmed to isolate a nibble signal in data representing a torque of the steering column, and instruct the electric motor to output a motor torque based on the nibble signal shifted by a phase shift, the phase shift based on a vehicle-wheel frequency;
- wherein shifting the nibble signal by the phase shift includes applying an all-pass filter to the nibble signal.
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A computer comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
- isolate a nibble signal in data representing a steering-column torque;
- and
- instruct an electric motor to output a motor torque based on the nibble signal shifted by a phase shift, the phase shift based on a vehicle-wheel frequency;
- wherein shifting the nibble signal by the phase shift includes applying an all-pass filter to the nibble signal.
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A method comprising:
- isolating a nibble signal in data representing a steering-column torque;
- and
- instructing an electric motor to output a motor torque based on the nibble signal shifted by a phase shift, the phase shift based on a vehicle-wheel frequency;
- wherein shifting the nibble signal by the phase shift includes applying an all-pass filter to the nibble signal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.