Patents Assigned to Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
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Publication number: 20210246990Abstract: A valve device includes: a housing having a cylindrical internal peripheral wall; a fluid introduction path communicating with a space in the internal peripheral wall; a fluid discharge path communicating with the space in the internal peripheral wall; a valve element having a communication path bringing the fluid introduction and fluid discharge paths into communication with each other, and having a major radial portion formed with a predetermined first internal radius associated with an internal radius of the internal peripheral wall of the housing, a minor radial portion formed with a second internal radius, and an intermediate portion formed to join the major and minor radial portions together; a valve element rotation mechanism rotating the valve element inside the space; a seal member being able to contact the valve element rotating inside the space; and a shaft inserted in the space through a through-hole formed in the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi MARUYAMA, Masafumi YOSHIDA, Naoki EMORI, Naoto YUMISASHI
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Publication number: 20210249920Abstract: A rotating electrical machine rotor core is implemented that can suppress an increase in number of manufacturing processes and has a magnetic structure that can reduce noise or vibration associated with rotation. A rotating electrical machine rotor core includes a member disposition hole in which a permanent magnet is disposed; and pair of magnetic flux limiting holes disposed on both sides in circumferential direction of each of magnetic poles, units in which member disposition hole is repeatedly made in circumferential direction being magnetic poles. Each magnetic plate includes plurality of types of through part pairs having different circumferential spacings between pair of limiting-hole through parts that makes pair of magnetic flux limiting holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki SUGIURA, Tokihito NAGAE, Jumpei TADA, Teppei TSUDA
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Publication number: 20210239198Abstract: A power transmission apparatus includes an input shaft inputting power, an output shaft outputting power, an energy storage portion arranged between the input shaft and the output shaft and configured to store energy sent from the input shaft, and a power transmission portion allowing a difference between a rotation speed of the input shaft and a rotation speed of the output shaft, the power transmission portion including a portion serving as an elastic body that is configured to store torsional deformation, the energy storage portion converting a kinetic energy into a different energy from the kinetic energy and storing the converted energy to achieve power transmission between the input shaft and the output shaft including different rotation speeds from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norio YONEZAWA, Shigefumi MORI, Tomoyuki TOYAMA
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Publication number: 20210238896Abstract: A vehicular door lock device includes: a latch mechanism switchable between latch and unlatch states; a first lever member movable to an operating position; a second lever member movable to unlock and lock corresponding positions; a link member movable to an unlock position where the latch mechanism is switchable to the unlatch state and a lock position where the latch mechanism is not switchable to the unlatch state and configured to be positioned at the unlock position when the second lever member is positioned at the unlock corresponding position and to be positioned at the lock position when the second lever member is positioned at the unlock corresponding position; and an operation member movable to initial and operation positions and configured to move the second lever member from the unlock corresponding position to the lock corresponding position by moving from the initial position to the operation position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki KAJIGAI, Yasuhiko SONO
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Publication number: 20210237689Abstract: A module includes a first antenna that performs, with a wireless communication terminal, communication for determining whether unlocking or locking of a door of a vehicle is enabled, a first board being installed with the first antenna, and a housing that houses the first board. The housing is housed in a support frame of a body of the door that supports an open and close operation portion of the door outside in a width direction of the vehicle in such a way as to be operatable.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takaaki KOIZUMI, Yuki HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20210237556Abstract: A grille shutter device opens and closes an introduction passage through which air is introduced from an opening provided at a front part of a vehicle to the inside of the vehicle. The grille shutter device includes: a driving fin and a driven fin that are configured to rotate between an open position in which the introduction passage is open and a closed position in which the introduction passage is closed; an actuator configured to drive the driving fin; a power transmission member configured to transmit power from the driving fin to the driven fin; and a first stopper configured to define a first position by coming into contact with the power transmission member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ken KOMATSUBARA, Kazuki TSUBOI, Shigeki SATO, Toshikazu HARADA, Shuichi MORIE
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Patent number: 11076698Abstract: A seat device includes a seat cushion where a sitting person is seated, and a seatback configured to support the upper body of the sitting person. The seatback includes a seatback frame, a seatback pad placed on a front face of the seatback frame, and a seatback cover covering a surface of the seatback pad. A plurality of stretch airbags is provided in a part of the seatback at a position corresponding to the lumbar part of the sitting person, and the stretch airbags are configured to inflate and press a surface of the seatback to a direction approaching the sitting person. The stretch airbags are placed to overlap each other in a thickness direction of the seatback such that the seatback pad is sandwiched between the stretch airbags.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junichi Munechika, Norie Umehara, Tomokazu Seki, Ryosuke Mizuno, Yuki Fujii, Tomoko Kanbara
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Patent number: 11082631Abstract: An image processing device includes a hardware processor configured to: acquire items of image information; determine lateral image information as a particular state of luminance when a first region of interest exhibits luminance of a first given value or more and a difference in luminance between the first region of interest and a second region of interest is a second given value or more, the first region of interest and the second region of interest being included in a vehicular front region and a vehicular rear region of the lateral image information, respectively; set, in the particular state of luminance, a first correction value in accordance with luminance of the vehicular front region and set a second correction value in accordance with luminance of rear image information; and set, according to the first second correction values, an individual correction value for correcting luminance of a region between the first and second regions of interest.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kinji Yamamoto, Kazuya Watanabe, Itsuko Fukushima, Tetsuya Maruoka
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Patent number: 11077794Abstract: A vehicle periphery display device includes: an acquisition portion acquiring a captured image obtained by imaging a periphery of a vehicle with an imaging portion; and a display processing portion causing a display image including a vehicle image and a periphery image of the vehicle to be displayed on a display portion on the basis of the captured image. The display processing portion causes at least one of a contour guide line representing a contour of the vehicle image and having a first margin in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle image and a second margin in an advancing direction of the vehicle image, and a predicted course guide line that is a trajectory drawn by the contour guide line according to movement of the vehicle to be displayed in the display image, and changes at least one of the first and second margins when the vehicle is turned.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kinji Yamamoto, Kazuya Watanabe
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Patent number: 11077824Abstract: A vehicle theft prevention device includes: a device control unit that starts, when performing exit processing for causing a vehicle to move from a parking position to a user position by an autonomous driving control of the vehicle in response to an exit instruction to the vehicle from a terminal of the user outside the vehicle, performing first change processing for changing a state of facilities in a vehicle cabin of the vehicle from a theft prevention state in which theft of the vehicle and articles in the vehicle cabin is prevented to a normal state in which the vehicle is able to be driven by the user such that the first change processing ends when the vehicle arrives at the user position.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yosuke Takata
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Patent number: 11077847Abstract: A moving body includes: a first detection unit configured to detect three-dimensional information on a space in which the moving body travels; a second detection unit configured to detect a state of the moving body; and a control unit configured to predict a possibility of overturning of a virtual moving body by allowing the virtual moving body corresponding to the moving body to travel on a virtual road surface in a virtual space prior to a travel of the moving body on a road surface based on a shape of the virtual road surface in the virtual space corresponding to the detected three-dimensional information and based on the detected state of the moving body, and performs control depending on the predicted possibility of overturning.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Wataru Takayanagi, Mitsuhiro Ando
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Publication number: 20210233217Abstract: An image restoration device includes an acquisition processing unit configured to acquire a captured image obtained by an imaging unit capturing surroundings of a vehicle, and a restoration processing unit. In a case where the captured image includes a stained area caused by a stain of an optical system of the imaging unit, the restoration processing unit is configured to output a restored image corresponding to the captured image acquired by the acquisition processing unit based on a restoration model pre-trained by a machine learning method to output the restored image serving as the captured image in response to an input of the captured image, the restored image in which the stained area is reduced in a different degree in accordance with a position of the stained area in the captured image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirotaka MARUYAMA, Yoshihito KOKUBO, Yoshihisa SUETSUGU
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Publication number: 20210229535Abstract: An opening-closing body control device for a vehicle includes: an opening-closing control unit configured to control an operation of an opening-closing body provided in an opening portion of a vehicle by controlling energization of a motor serving as a drive source. When the opening-closing body being moved based on a driving force of the motor is to be stopped, the opening-closing control unit sets a free running period during which free rotation of the motor is allowed, and executes brake control for generating a braking force in the motor after the free running period elapses.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Takemoto, Takashi Kikuta, Xueqing Ding
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Patent number: 11074431Abstract: A facial recognition device includes a determination section for determining presence of an accessory worn on a face from a captured image capturing a human face, an acquisition section for acquiring height information indicative of a height of the accessory from the surface of the face in case the determination section determines presence of the accessory on the face, a production section for producing a three-dimensional face model based on the height information and a fitting section for fitting the face included in the captured image, with using the three-dimensional face model.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuya Yamada
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Patent number: 11075597Abstract: A motor control device controls driving of a motor in response to d-axis and q-axis current commands set on the basis of a torque command. The motor control device includes: an electrical angle estimation unit configured to estimate an electrical angle of the motor according to at least one of methods of estimating the electrical angle on the basis that a leakage current in a q axis becomes zero by applying a voltage to a d axis, on the basis that at least one of a phase current difference and a line current difference caused by an induced voltage generated due to rotation of the motor becomes zero, and on the basis of a voltage equation, depending on an angular velocity of the motor, a modulation rate of a pwm signal, and whether a magnetic flux change is included in a nonlinear region.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji Todu, Misato Maeda, Naoki Onosaka, Keirei Lin, Genki Yamashita
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Patent number: 11065957Abstract: The drive power connecting/disconnecting device includes a second shaft disposed coaxially to a first shaft so as to transmit drive power to a wheel axle, a connection/disconnection member which moves a second rotational body along an axial direction with respect to a first rotational body, and which is capable of moving in the axial direction so as to make or break engagement between the first shaft and the second shaft, a supporting member, a shaft cover which covers at least the periphery of the second rotational body, a first pivotally supporting portion which is disposed between the first shaft and the second shaft so as to axially support one end of the second shaft; and a second pivotally supporting portion which is disposed inside the shaft cover so as to axially support the other end of the second shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taketoki Maruyama, Isao Kato, Atsushi Kajikawa, Munenori Ota
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Publication number: 20210215407Abstract: An in-vehicle absorption heat pump device includes: a regenerator including a gas-liquid separation unit that separates a diluted absorbent containing a refrigerant into the refrigerant and a concentrated absorbent separated from the diluted absorbent; a condenser that condenses a refrigerant vapor separated from the diluted absorbent in the gas-liquid separation unit; an evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant condensed in the condenser; an absorber that causes the refrigerant evaporated by the evaporator to be absorbed into the concentrated absorbent separated from the diluted absorbent in the gas-liquid separation unit; and a storage tank that stores both the diluted absorbent discharged from the absorber and the refrigerant discharged from the evaporator. The storage tank is integrally provided below both the absorber and the evaporator, and communicates with both the absorber and the evaporator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu TSUBOUCHI, Taketsugu TOYODA
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Publication number: 20210215092Abstract: An air intake apparatus of an internal combustion engine includes an intake passage, an intake air flow control valve, a housing portion configured to house the intake air flow control valve, a swirl opening arranged at a first side of the intake air flow control valve to generate swirl, and a tumble opening arranged at a second side of the intake air flow control valve to generate tumble. The swirl opening is provided at one of the intake air flow control valve and a portion between the intake passage and the intake air flow control valve, the tumble opening being provided at the other of the intake air flow control valve and the portion between the inner surface of the intake passage and the intake air flow control valve. The intake air flow control valve rotates to achieve a switching between a swirl state and a tumble state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiko ESAKI
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Patent number: 11052736Abstract: A front link of a sunroof apparatus shifts, based on power transmitted from a first guide shaft of a front shoe, among a full-close corresponding position that allows a movable panel to be arranged in a full-close position, a front-up corresponding position that allows the movable panel to be arranged in a front-up position and a full-open corresponding position that allows the movable panel to be arranged in a full-open position. In a side view from a width direction of the front link, a first guide groove, through which the first guide shaft is inserted, extends so as to intersect with a line segment connecting a front connection shaft and a front support shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 11052954Abstract: A vehicular straightening device includes: a straightening member disposed in front of a front wheel of a vehicle so as to be movable upward and downward with respect to a vehicle body; a drive unit that moves the straightening member up and down with respect to the vehicle body between a storage position on a vehicle body side and a straightening position where the straightening member protrudes downward from the vehicle body; and a connecting mechanism that connects the straightening member and the drive unit and releases a connection between the straightening member and the drive unit when an external force acts on the straightening member at the straightening position.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tokuhiro Shiga, Yukihide Shibutani, Hideki Mizuno