316 patents
Utility
Damper device and design method of damper device
9 Jan 24
A damper device includes: an input element coupled to an engine via a clutch; an intermediate element; an output element coupled to an input shaft of a transmission; a first elastic body that is disposed between the input element and the intermediate element; and a second elastic body that is disposed between the intermediate element and the output element and that acts in series with the first elastic body.
Masaki Wajima, Akihiro Nagae, Yuichiro Hirai
Filed: 12 Sep 19
Utility
Vehicle drive device
2 Jan 24
A vehicle drive device includes a rotary electric machine disposed on a first axis, an output member disposed on a second axis parallel to the first axis, an inverter device, a terminal block for electrically connecting a rotary electric machine-side bus bar and an inverter-side bus bar, and a case.
Masahiro Nagaya, Nozomu Takahashi, Ryohei Inoue, Takeshi Torii, Daisuke Yamaoka, Taketoki Maruyama, Toshiya Sugiyama, Munehiro Takahashi
Filed: 24 Feb 21
Utility
Vehicle
2 Jan 24
A vehicle is provided with a vehicle body, N (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2) wheels including one or more front wheels and one or more rear wheels, a force generator, and a force controller.
Keizo Araki, Akira Mizuno, Shota Kubo
Filed: 26 Dec 20
Utility
Object detection device and movable body control device
2 Jan 24
An object detection device includes: a transmission and reception unit configured to transmit a transmission wave including an ultrasonic wave having directivity in a direction parallel or substantially parallel to a traveling direction of a movable body, and receive a reflected wave from an object; a determination unit configured to determine presence or absence of an abnormality based on a predetermined reference distance and a downward distance between the transmission and reception unit and an object present below the transmission and reception unit in a vertical direction, the downward distance being calculated based on a reflected wave of an ultrasonic wave of the transmission wave traveling downward in the vertical direction from the transmission and reception unit; and an output unit configured to output information regarding the abnormality.
Kosuke Wakita, Ippei Sugae
Filed: 8 Feb 22
Utility
Object detection device
2 Jan 24
An object detection device includes: a transmitter transmitting a transmission wave to an outside including a road surface; a receiver receiving a reflected wave of the transmission wave being reflected by an object as a reception wave; a CFAR processor acquiring a CFAR signal at a predetermined detection timing by CFAR processing based on a value of a first processing target signal based on a reception wave received at the detection timing and an average value of values of second processing target signals based on the reception waves received in predetermined sections before and after the detection timing; and an estimator estimating an absorption and attenuation value corresponding to the average value based on a road surface reflection estimation expression that defines a relation between the average value and the absorption and attenuation value in advance.
Ippei Sugae, Shingo Fujimoto, Kosuke Wakita
Filed: 5 Jan 22
Utility
Armature and manufacturing method of armature
2 Jan 24
In this armature, between the first segment conductor and the second segment conductor that are joined to each other in the joint portion, a first clearance portion is provided between the tip end portion of the first leg portion and the second leg portion body portion in the axial direction, and a second clearance portion is provided between the tip end portion of the second leg portion and the first leg portion body portion in the axial direction.
Kiyotaka Koga, Takahiro Kobuchi, Takashi Kato
Filed: 9 Oct 19
Utility
Actuator apparatus, sunroof apparatus, and manufacturing method of actuator apparatus
19 Dec 23
An actuator apparatus includes a gear housing including an arrangement surface of a drive gear.
Yuki Kobayashi
Filed: 15 Jan 21
Utility
Friction engagement device
19 Dec 23
A friction engagement device includes an elastic member between a piston and a friction plate in an axial direction.
Hikaru Sugiura, Keita Inda, Tatsuya Okishima, Toshihiko Kamiya, Masashi Ikemura
Filed: 27 Jan 20
Utility
Semiconductor device
19 Dec 23
A semiconductor device (1) includes a semiconductor module (20) and a fan device (30).
Takanobu Naruse, Hiroyoshi Araki
Filed: 11 Dec 19
Utility
Vehicle door lock device
12 Dec 23
A vehicle door lock device includes: a latch mechanism switching member which switches a latch mechanism to an unlatching state; a first lever member which moves to an operating position when a door handle is operated to open a door; a link member movable to an unlock position where the link member is engaged with the latch mechanism switching member and the latch mechanism is switched to the unlatching state, and a lock position where the latch mechanism is not switched to the unlatching state; a second lever member releasably engageable with the link member and causing the latch mechanism switching member to move to the operating position by moving from an initial position to an operating position; a biasing member which biases the link member toward the lock position; and a drive unit which drives the second lever member to move from the initial position to the operating position.
Takumi Hayashi, Yasuaki Tanino, Yasuhiko Sono
Filed: 30 Sep 20
Utility
Differential transmission apparatus
12 Dec 23
A differential transmission apparatus including: a case that is rotatable around rotation axis that has shaft hole; pinion pin that extends parallel to rotation axis; pinion shaft that is supported by case, that has axial end portion passing through shaft hole of the case, and that bears rotation torque around rotation axis from case via axial end portion when axial end portion is in contact with peripheral wall portion of shaft hole in conjunction with a rotation around the rotation axis of the case; a pinion gear that is rotatably supported around the pinion shaft; and a side gear that meshes with the pinion gear, in which on an end surface in an axial direction of the pinion shaft, the pinion shaft has a groove portion that extends in an extending direction of the pinion pin, and in which the pinion pin is fitted into the groove portion.
Sou Okita
Filed: 30 Mar 21
Utility
Guide rail and sunroof apparatus
5 Dec 23
A guide rail for a sunroof apparatus includes an inner member and an outer member.
Shota Motomura, Katsutoshi Kato
Filed: 6 Jun 22
Utility
Vehicle drive device
5 Dec 23
A first inner support member that supports a first friction member of a first engagement device from an inner side in a radial direction includes a tubular support portion having a tubular shape extending along an axial direction and supporting the first friction member, and a radially extending support portion provided to extend to the inner side in the radial direction from the tubular support portion.
Keishi Morita, Hiroshi Ishiyama
Filed: 27 Sep 19
Utility
Control apparatus for vehicle
5 Dec 23
A control apparatus for a vehicle provided with (i) a power source, (ii) drive wheels and (iii) a fluid transmission device disposed between the power source and the drive wheels and including a lockup clutch to which a fluid pressure is supplied.
Masahide Ichikawa, Kazumitsu Sugano, Shunsuke Yanagi, Yuji Imanaga, Yui Goto, Masatsugu Yoshimoto
Filed: 23 Jan 23
Utility
Hybrid drive device
28 Nov 23
A hybrid drive device includes: a rotor; a transmission; and a case, in which a rotor support member that supports a rotor of the rotary electric machine includes an annular member that faces an end wall portion of the case, the end wall portion includes a first tubular portion that protrudes in an axial direction from an inner periphery toward the transmission, and a second tubular portion that protrudes in the axial direction toward the transmission so as to surround the first tubular portion, the annular member includes a tubular portion that protrudes in the axial direction from an inner periphery toward an engine, an inner side radial bearing is disposed between the first transmitting shaft and an inner peripheral surface of the first tubular portion of the end wall portion, a clearance is formed between an outer peripheral surface of the first tubular portion of the end wall portion and an inner peripheral surface of the tubular portion of the annular member, and an outer side radial bearing is disposed between an outer peripheral surface of the tubular portion of the annular member and an inner peripheral surface of the second tubular portion of the end wall portion.
Shigeki Ideue, Takeru Morita, Kenji Dozono, Tatsuya Okishima, Masashi Ikemura
Filed: 8 Jan 20
Utility
Superimposed-image display device
28 Nov 23
Provided is a superimposed-image display device configured such that when there is a guidance divergence point, which is a guidance target, ahead in a traveling direction of a vehicle, a plurality of guidance objects that provide guidance on an entry route that enters the guidance divergence point and an exit route are displayed.
Hiroyuki Miyake, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Kawai
Filed: 13 Jul 22
Utility
Turning controller for vehicle, computer-readable medium storing turning control program, and turning control method for vehicle
21 Nov 23
A turning controller for a vehicle is configured to execute: a time obtaining process that obtains collision prediction time; a lateral movement amount determining process that determines whether a target lateral movement amount is greater than or equal to a lateral movement amount determination value; and an automatic turning process that, in a case in which the collision prediction time is shorter than or equal to a determination prediction time, outputs a command for steering the front wheel to the front wheel steering device and outputs a command for steering the rear wheel to the rear wheel steering device, in order to avoid a collision between the vehicle and the obstacle; a counter-phase process in the automatic turning process in a case in which the target lateral movement amount is determined to be greater than or equal to the lateral movement amount determination value.
Yosuke Omori
Filed: 15 Sep 21
Utility
Vehicle door sash structure
21 Nov 23
A vehicle door including: an upright pillar sash extending in elevating/lowering directions of the window glass along one of front and rear edges of window glass; and an elevating/lowering mechanism that operates elevating/lowering movement of the window glass by a driving force of a drive source.
Yoshimasa Ishiguro, Kimihiro Kinoshita, Natsuki Ito, Katsuhisa Fukui, Masako Sekine
Filed: 9 Nov 18
Utility
Image restoration apparatus, image restoration method, image restoration program, restorer generation apparatus, restorer generation method, restorer generation program, determiner generation apparatus, determiner generation method, determiner generation program, article determination apparatus, article determination method, and article determination program
14 Nov 23
An image restoration apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires a mask image generated by masking, by a mask region, a predetermined region of an article image in which an article is imaged; and an image output unit that outputs a restored image corresponding to the mask image acquired by the image acquisition unit by using a restorer pre-trained by machine learning so as to output the restored image, which is restored from the mask image to reproduce the article image in a pseudo manner, according to an input of the mask image.
Yasuyuki Kuno, Yukio Ichikawa, Masataka Toda, Masaru Hisanaga, Norihiro Miwa, Jin Nozawa
Filed: 9 Sep 20
Utility
Object detection device
14 Nov 23
An object detection device includes: a transmission unit transmitting a first transmission wave; a reception unit receiving a first reception wave reflected by an object; a signal processing unit sampling a first processing target signal according to the first reception wave and acquiring a difference signal based on a difference between the first processing target signal for at least one sample at a certain detection timing, and the first processing target signal for a plurality of samples in at least one of first and second periods; a threshold setting unit setting a threshold as a comparison target with the value of the difference signal, based on variation in the values of the first processing target signal for the plurality of samples; and a detection unit detecting information about the object at the detection timing based on a comparison result between the value of the difference signal and the threshold.
Ippei Sugae
Filed: 7 Apr 22