324 patents
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Utility
Electric Drive Device for Vehicle
17 Feb 22
In an electric drive device for a vehicle, when a distance between two portions of a transfer shaft supported by two supporting parts of a drive housing and a distance between two portions of input shaft supported by two supporting parts of power transfer housing each are a first distance, one of the input shaft and the transfer shaft that has a longer first distance is one shaft, other one of the input shaft and the transfer shaft that has a shorter first distance is the other shaft, one of the drive housing and the power transfer housing that supports one shaft is one housing, and other one of the drive housing and the power transfer housing that supports the other shaft is the other housing, the one shaft extends toward the other shaft, crossing a first central axis, and a coupling part is accommodated in the other housing.
Takuya YOSHIMI, Daisuke SAITO
Filed: 13 May 20
Utility
Fuel Heater
10 Feb 22
A fuel heater including an engine that is driven by combustion of air-fuel mixture including air and fuel supplied to a combustion chamber within a cylinder, a battery that stores electricity, and a motor that drives the engine by the electricity supplied from the battery, the fuel heater includes a fuel heating portion heating the fuel with the electricity supplied from the battery, and a controller performing one of a first control by increasing the amount of electricity supplied from the battery to the fuel heating portion and a second control by increasing heating time of the fuel by the fuel heating portion for a time period until the engine starts in a case where a battery charge remaining of the battery is equal to or smaller than a remaining threshold value at a start of the engine.
Tomohiro YAMAGUCHI, Masato ISHII, Hideto YANO, Kazuyoshi SHIMATANI, Takahiko AOYAGI, Masahiro KUROKI
Filed: 26 Jul 21
Utility
Current Sensor
10 Feb 22
A current sensor configured to measure a current value of a current flowing through each of a first conductor, a second conductor, and a third conductor, the current sensor comprising: first to third magnetic detection units provided with detection surfaces and configured to output first to third detection result; first to third amplification factor correction units configured to correct first to third amplification factors set in advance based on an ambient temperature; first to third amplifiers configured to amplify the detection results based on the corrected amplification factors and output the amplified detection results as amplified signals; first to third influence degree correction units indicating influence degrees of the magnetic fields generated by the current flowing through the conductors; and first to third correction units configured to correct the amplified signals based on the corrected influence degrees and the amplified signals.
Tomoya TANAKA, Takashi HARA, Hiromu KINOSHITA
Filed: 16 Jul 21
Utility
Damper Device
10 Feb 22
A damper device including an input element to which a torque from an engine is transmitted; an output element; an elastic body to transmit torque between the input element and the output element; and rotary inertia mass damper having a mass body that rotates in accordance with a relative rotation of the input element and the output element.
Takuya YOSHIKAWA, Tomonori KINOSHITA, Akiyoshi KATO, Ryosuke OTSUKA, Yoichi OI, Yu MIZUKAMI, Aki OGAWA
Filed: 26 Dec 19
Utility
Road Surface Detection Device and Road Surface Detection Program
3 Feb 22
A road surface detection device according to an embodiment includes an image acquisition unit that acquires captured image data output from a stereo camera that captures an imaging area including a road surface on which a vehicle travels, a three-dimensional model generation unit that generates a three-dimensional model of the imaging area including a surface shape of the road surface from a viewpoint of the stereo camera based on the captured image data, and a correction unit that estimates a plane from the three-dimensional model, and corrects the three-dimensional model so as to match an orientation of a normal vector of the plane and a height position of the plane with respect to the stereo camera with a correct value of an orientation of a normal vector of the road surface and a correct value of a height position of the road surface with respect to the stereo camera, respectively.
Atsuto OGINO, Kaisei HASHIMOTO
Filed: 29 Nov 19
Utility
Semiconductor Module and Semiconductor Device
27 Jan 22
Connection terminals of a semiconductor module are disposed appropriately in accordance with the connection destination of the semiconductor module.
Takanobu NARUSE
Filed: 12 Sep 19
Utility
Power Control System
27 Jan 22
A power control system includes: a power generation device; and a storage battery that receives and stores power from a commercial power system or the power generation device.
Taiki NAGAO, Atsushi SUGIURA, Hiroshi KAMIYA, Toshiyuki SATO
Filed: 16 Jul 21
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Semiconductor Device
27 Jan 22
A semiconductor device (1) includes a semiconductor module (20) and a fan device (30).
Takanobu NARUSE, Hiroyoshi ARAKI
Filed: 11 Dec 19
Utility
Hybrid Drive Device
20 Jan 22
A hybrid drive device including a rotary electric machine having a stator and a rotor, a transmission coupled to the rotary electric machine, a clutch that couples an engine and the rotary electric machine and that releases a connection of the two, and a case for housing the rotary electric machine and the clutch, the hybrid drive device including: a first transmitting shaft coupled to an output shaft of the engine; a second transmitting shaft that transmits power from the rotor of the rotary electric machine to the transmission; and a rotor support member that supports the rotor of the rotary electric machine.
Takeru MORITA, Yuhi HAYAKAWA, Akinori OZAWA, Kenji DOZONO, Masashi IKEMURA
Filed: 8 Jan 20
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Motor Control Device
20 Jan 22
A motor control device which is an example of the present disclosure includes a hardware processor configured to: calculate damper torque on a basis of a difference between a crank angle and a motor angle; calculate, on a basis of the damper torque, reversed phase torque in reverse phase to the damper torque; calculate a correction amount for a phase of the reversed phase torque on a basis of a difference between a first value corresponding to a torsion angle between an input inertial member and an output inertial member and a second value corresponding to a torsion angle between an intermediate inertial member and the output inertial member; and output a motor torque command to be provided to a motor generator on a basis of the reversed phase torque a phase of which has been corrected in accordance with the correction amount.
Hirotaka MIZUGUCHI, Satoshi KOKUBO, Masahiko KOBAYASHI, Tomoki INAGAKI, Masaaki TOMINAGA
Filed: 9 Dec 19
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Vehicle Drive System
20 Jan 22
A transfer is located on an axial first side that is one side in axial direction relative to a transmission, and a rotating electric machine is located coaxially with a transmission output member, between the transmission and the transfer in the axial direction.
Keita INDA, Kohei ONO, Tetsuro KOBAYASHI
Filed: 17 Jan 20
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Capacitance Sensor
20 Jan 22
A capacitance sensor includes a switch control unit that performs a first switching process that turns on a first switch and then repeatedly performs a second switching process that complementarily switches off and on second and third switches that are respectively connected to second and third capacitors; an obtaining unit that calculates, as a sensor output value, a number of times the second switching process is repeated until a magnitude relationship reverses between an intermediate potential and a reference potential; a calculation unit that calculates a sensor output corrected value obtained by correcting the sensor output value such that a resolution becomes uniform; and a determination unit that determines whether a detection target exists from a magnitude relationship between a sensor output difference value and a determination threshold value.
Satoshi KODA
Filed: 9 Dec 19
Utility
Air Intake Apparatus of Internal Combustion Engine
13 Jan 22
An air intake apparatus of an internal combustion engine includes a port portion into which fuel injected form an injection opening of an injector is introduced, an intake passage provided at an inner side of the port portion to flow an air-fuel mixture including the fuel and air, the air-fuel mixture being supplied to a cylinder provided at the internal combustion engine, and a port heater provided along an inner surface of the port portion to vaporize the fuel introduced into the intake passage.
Hideto YANO, Tomohiro YAMAGUCHI, Masato ISHII
Filed: 23 Jun 21
Utility
Air Suction Device for Internal Combustion Engine
13 Jan 22
An air intake apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an outer port member facing an inner surface of a suction port, an inner port member arranged inside the outer port member, and a heater arranged inside the inner port member.
Hideto YANO, Masato ISHII, Tomohiro YAMAGUCHI
Filed: 6 Nov 19
Utility
Vehicle Drive Device
30 Dec 21
A first case portion includes an end wall portion disposed on a first axial side with respect to a transmission.
Hiroshi KATO, Daiki SUYAMA, Takuyo MAEDA, Keita INDA, Kohei ONO, Toshihisa MIZUTANI, Ryosuke MURAMATSU, Wataru TAKAKI, Tetsuro KOBAYASHI
Filed: 17 Jan 20
Utility
Battery Device
30 Dec 21
A battery device includes a case and a plurality of batter cells.
Hiroshi OKAZAKI, Takumi GONOJI
Filed: 22 Jun 21
Utility
Passage Direction Detecting Device
23 Dec 21
A passage direction detecting device includes: a detection processing unit that detects a passage direction in which a passage connected to an exit of a parking area of a vehicle extends and the vehicle has to travel after exiting from the parking area, based on a road surface marking provided on a road surface to illustrate the parking area.
Yoji INUI, Masaki FURUKAWA, Masataka YAMAMOTO
Filed: 2 Jun 21
Utility
Electric Pump
16 Dec 21
An electric pump includes a housing having a bottom portion and an opening portion provided at an opposite side to the bottom portion, a motor rotor rotatably accommodated in the housing, a field coil, a pump rotor configured to transmit fluid by being rotated by a driving force of the motor rotor, and a control substrate provided at an outside of the bottom portion.
Mitsuru IKEDA, Shinsuke ISOGAI, Shuji HATTORI
Filed: 21 May 21
Utility
Armature
16 Dec 21
In the armature, a first connecting part and a second connecting part that are disposed so as to be adjacent to a connecting part of a different phase have a higher insulatable voltage value than a first leg part and a second leg part that are disposed so as to be adjacent to a leg part of the same phase.
Yoshihisa YAMAMOTO, Kiyotaka KOGA, Takahiro KOBUCHI
Filed: 30 Jan 20
Utility
Vehicle Drive Device
25 Nov 21
A power storage device is appropriately heated in a low temperature environment, while preventing device configuration from becoming complicated, and minimizing a reduction in electric power utilization efficiency.
Akiya KUME, Yasuyuki SATO, Wataru YAMADA
Filed: 5 Sep 19