Signal processor for skid control device
AssigneesHitachi, Ltd., Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkira Tachibana, Akira Endo, Kenji Sekine
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Abstract
A ground-vehicle-speed signal processing circuit for a skid control device is disclosed in which, when one or more pulses are dropped from a vehicle-speed signal detected by a Doppler radar vehicle speed sensor, the vehicle-speed output voltage is decreased in accordance with the deceleration just prior to the moment when the pulses are dropped, which is stored in a memory device, to generate a vehicle-speed signal having compensated appropriately the missing part in the detected signal.
Claims6
A vehicle-speed signal processing circuit for a skid control device comprising:
- (a) an input terminal supplied with a Doppler pulse signal detected by a Doppler radar vehicle speed sensor, and Doppler pulse signal indicating vehicle speed;
- (b) frequency-voltage converter means connected to receive said pulse signal from said input terminal for converting said pulse signal into an analog voltage, said frequency-voltage converter means including charge means for accumulating electric charges corresponding to a vehicle-speed signal;
- (c) signal dropout detecting means connected to receive the pulse signal from said input terminal for detecting the absence of an incoming pulse in a predetermined time to generate a signal;
- (d) sample-and-hold means for sampling and holding a rate of change in the output voltage of said frequency-voltage converter means;
- (e) discharge-time-constant setting means connected to receive the output of said sample-and-hold means in response to the output of said signal dropout detecting means, for determining a discharge time constant of said charge means in accordance with the output from said sample-and-hold means;
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- (f) output means coupled to the output of said frequency-voltage converter for providing a compensated output signal, said compensated output signal being formed in such a manner as to compensate a missing part in said Doppler pulse signal.
A signal processing circuit for supplying a skid control device with an output signal which is formed in such a manner as to compensate a missing part in an input signal, comprising:
- (a) an input terminal supplied with a Doppler pulse signal detected by a Doppler radar vehicle speed sensor, said Doppler pulse signal indicating a vehicle speed;
- (b) missing-signal detecting means for detecting the absence of an incoming pulse from said input terminal to generate a signal indicating said absence of said incoming pulse;
- (c) timing means connected to receive said signal generated by said missing-signal detecting means for generating a signal after a predetermined time;
- (d) a frequency-voltage converter means for converting a signal from said input terminal into an analog voltage waveform, said frequency-voltage converter means including charge means for accumulating electric charges corresponding to a vehicle-speed signal;
- (e) discharge circuit means for discharging said charge means with a plurality of time constants, said charge means being first discharged with a first time constant in response to said signal generated by said missing-signal detecting means and then discharged with a second time constant in response to said signal generated by said timing means;
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- (f) output means coupled to the output of said frequency-voltage converter means for providing a compensated output signal, said compensated output signal being formed in such a manner as to compensate a missing part in said Doppler pulse signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.