Back to results
US 12,357,879 B2Granted
Steering control device and method for vehicle
AssigneeHl Mando Corporation
InventorTae Sik Kim
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a steering control device and method for a vehicle and may provide a vehicle steering control device and method capable of doing exercise using the steering wheel of the vehicle to easily do exercise inside the vehicle while driving and preventing drowsy driving.
Claims14
A steering control device of a vehicle, comprising:
- an exercise mode determining unit determining to execute an exercise mode of a reaction force motor based on exercise request information input by a user if at least one of vehicle driving information about the vehicle or user information meets a preset condition;
- a load generation unit generating a load by the reaction force motor by controlling upper switching elements or lower switching elements for each phase of an inverter to simultaneously perform a switching operation depending on whether the exercise mode is executed;
- and
- a state output unit calculating and outputting exercise state information from a start time of the exercise mode execution.
1 more element
A steering control method of a vehicle, comprising:
- an exercise mode determination step determining to execute an exercise mode of a reaction force motor based on exercise request information input by a user if at least one of vehicle driving information about the vehicle or user information meets a preset condition;
- a load generation step generating a load by the reaction force motor by controlling upper switching elements or lower switching elements for each phase of an inverter to simultaneously perform a switching operation depending on whether the exercise mode is executed;
- and
- a state output step calculating and outputting exercise state information from a start time of the exercise mode execution.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.