Patents Assigned to JATCO Ltd
  • Patent number: 11499613
    Abstract: A torque converter has a torus. The torus has a size set based on a flatness ratio obtained by dividing a width of the torus in an axial direction by a width of the torus in a radial direction, a thinness ratio obtained by dividing the width of the torus in the axial direction by an outer diameter of the torus, and an inner diameter ratio obtained by dividing an inner diameter of the torus by the outer diameter of the torus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazunori Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20220355795
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle having: an engine; and a variator arranged downstream of the engine in a power transmission path connecting the engine and drive wheels, wherein the control device for the vehicle has a controller that executes a low standby control which downshifts the variator by moving a belt of the variator in a vertical direction (radial direction) during stopping of the vehicle. After starting the low standby control, the controller releases an output limit of the engine based on an actual secondary pressure of the variator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hironori MIYAISHI
  • Publication number: 20220356944
    Abstract: The controller starts an output of an engagement instruction of the lockup clutch when a vehicle speed becomes a lockup start vehicle speed under a state where the lockup clutch is disengaged. When the vehicle speed, which is obtained a predetermined time after the output of the engagement instruction is started due to the vehicle speed becoming the lockup start vehicle speed, has reached a predetermined vehicle speed, the controller continues the output of the engagement instruction. When the vehicle speed has not reached the predetermined vehicle speed, the controller stops the output of the engagement instruction and restarts the output of the engagement instruction when the vehicle speed reaches a lockup restart vehicle speed which is set to a vehicle speed higher than the lockup start vehicle speed while the output is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeaki ISHIBASHI, Ikuhiro IWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220349467
    Abstract: A control device for an automatic transmission in a vehicle with a constant speed travel mode includes: a determination section that determines whether the vehicle is traveling on a slope road; a slope adaptation control section that implements a first transmission shift control if not traveling on a slope road and, if traveling on a slope road, implements a second transmission shift control for selecting a transmission shift position of a lower speed than case of not traveling on a slope road; a delaying section that, upon switching from the second transmission shift control to the first transmission shift control, implements an upshift delay control for performing upshift one by one at a predetermined time interval; and a setting section that, in case of traveling at the constant speed travel mode, sets the time interval shorter in comparison with case of traveling not at the constant speed travel mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuki HIRASAKO
  • Publication number: 20220341491
    Abstract: A transmission case having a storage area inside for an assembling member, includes a first opening opening in the storage area; a seating portion provided in the storage area and on which the assembling member inserted from an opening direction of the first opening is to be seated; and a mirror-finished portion allowing an opposite portion of the assembling member facing the seating portion to be visually recognized when the assembling member is being inserted to the first opening from the opening direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu ITOU, Aya NAKATA
  • Patent number: 11480243
    Abstract: The continuously variable transmission includes a transmission case having a side cover, a housing, and a case sandwiched between the side cover and the housing, an oil pump disposed in the transmission case, and a pair of gears disposed in the transmission case. An axial rib having a linear shape extending from the side cover toward the housing is formed on an outer wall surface of the case at a position adjacent to the pair of gears. The axial rib is positioned on a straight line extending from the oil pump in the vertical direction and is locally positioned at a position where the meshing reaction force of the pair of gears is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Itou, Dai Sugiyama, Satoru Naruoka
  • Publication number: 20220333683
    Abstract: The transmission control unit includes a gear ratio abnormality determination unit and a limp home control unit. The gear ratio abnormality determination unit is configured to determine that a gear ratio is abnormal when, during travelling at a predetermined gear position, a difference between an actual gear ratio, which is calculated based on a transmission input shaft rotation speed and a transmission output shaft rotation speed, and a set gear ratio at the predetermined gear position is equal to or greater than a set value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norihira AMANO, Masahiro HAMANO
  • Publication number: 20220325795
    Abstract: A park lock mechanism configured to restrict or allow a rotation of a rotating shaft includes a park pole configured to restrict the rotation of the rotating shaft and having a first inclined surface, and a park wedge having a second inclined surface capable of abutting on the first inclined surface and configured to move the park pole to a lock position that restricts the rotation of the rotating shaft, in which the park pole includes a protrusion protruding from a first side surface on a park wedge side in a moving direction of the park wedge, and the protrusion is formed so as to be continuous with the first inclined surface, and has a third inclined surface capable of abutting on the second inclined surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi NAKATA, Toshihiko WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11466770
    Abstract: A side cover of a continuously variable transmission includes a recess portion supporting a bearing and a recess portion supporting a bearing. The recess portions are connected to each other through a lubricant path. An oil path into which a small diameter portion of a pipe-shaped member is inserted and a connection oil path connecting between the oil path and the lubricant path are connected to each other via a boss portion. The side cover includes a circumference wall portion provided with a plurality of bolt holes. The boss portion is disposed at a position between two of the bolt holes adjacent to each other in a circumference direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fujii, Tsutomu Itou
  • Patent number: 11460103
    Abstract: A lockup disengagement control device for an automatic transmission including a torque converter including a lockup clutch, and a lockup control section, the lockup disengagement control device includes: when a brake is operated from a brake OFF to a brake ON during a coast traveling in an engagement state of the lockup clutch, the lockup control section being configured to sense an initial deceleration by the brake ON operation, and to set a lockup release vehicle speed to be higher as an absolute value of the initial deceleration is greater, and when a vehicle speed is sensed to be equal to or smaller than the set lockup release vehicle speed in a middle of a brake deceleration scene by the brake ON operation, the lockup control section being configured to disengage the lockup clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Saito, Akira Nakainkyo, Naoyasu Ikeda, Xuming Wang
  • Publication number: 20220299109
    Abstract: The control device is configured to supply an offset current value to disengagement solenoids of disengagement-side friction engaging elements among a plurality of shift solenoids that control respective shift oil pressures applied to the plurality of friction engaging elements, and when a current gear position is a first speed position or a reverse position, decrease a current value to be supplied to at least one of the disengagement solenoids that are supplied with the offset current value to be lower than the offset current value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya TAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11441094
    Abstract: A booster additive concentrate may advantageously contain: (a) an anti-wear mixture of two or more phosphite/phosphate compounds and one or more ether/thioether compounds; (b) an ashless dispersant; (c) a calcium-containing detergent, such as an overbased calcium phenate; (d) ?2 friction modifiers, at least one of which comprises a polyalkylene polyamine succinimide derivative; (e) optionally a corrosion inhibitor; and (f) a lubricating oil basestock. Based on these additive components, the booster additive concentrate may exhibit specific contents of B/Ca/P and may contain minimal or substantially no additional antioxidants. Lubricant compositions can be made from the booster additive concentrates and a fresh/used lubricant oil composition “diluent,” which can rejuvenate the diluent. Such lubricant compositions can have advantageous anti-shudder durability (ASD) lifetimes and other frictional properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, INFINEUM INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Aritake, Gou Katou, Hahn Soo Kim, Thomas Lin, Makoto Maeda, Yasuhiro Mogi, Hiroshi Morisato, Hirokazu Saito
  • Patent number: 11441667
    Abstract: A continuously variable transmission includes a variator having a belt wound around a pair of pulleys, and a case forming a container chamber for the variator. The pulleys include fixed pulleys and movable pulleys. The belt includes elements stacked to be arranged in an annular form, and rings binding the element stacked. A circumference wall portion of the case is provided with a monitoring hole enabling flank faces of the elements to be monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Kobayashi, Masao Arimatsu, Masayuki Furuya, Kenichi Yamamoto, Shogo Fujii, Masakazu Tamura, Kazuya Numata, Hirohisa Yukawa
  • Publication number: 20220282759
    Abstract: A first multi-plate brake device and a second multi-plate brake device are arranged side by side in a direction of a rotating axis X along an inner peripheral surface of a transmission case. In the second multi-plate brake device, the snap ring is supported by a supporting portion which is formed on the first multi-plate brake device side of the snap ring and protrudes from the inner peripheral surface of the transmission case radially inward to the rotating axis X. The piston retainer of the first multi-plate brake device includes an abutting portion that protrudes to the second multi-plate brake device side and abuts the supporting portion from the opposite side of the snap ring of the second multi-plate brake device. The abutting portion includes a thick portion whose radial thickness on a lower side in a vertical direction is increased as compared to on an upper side in the vertical direction based on a state of mounting the automatic transmission on a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi TOYAMA, Yuya KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220274581
    Abstract: The lock-up control unit is configured to: in a case where the normal mode is selected, disengage the lock-up clutch when a vehicle speed decreases and reaches a first vehicle speed while the vehicle is traveling in a state where the lock-up clutch is engaged, in a case where the eco mode is selected, disengage the lock-up clutch when the vehicle speed decreases and reaches a second vehicle speed in a brake operation OFF state while the vehicle is traveling in the state where the lock-up clutch is engaged, in the case where the eco mode is selected, disengage the lock-up clutch when the vehicle speed decreases and reaches a third vehicle speed in a brake operation ON state while the vehicle is traveling in the state where the lock-up clutch is engaged, and set the third vehicle speed to a vehicle speed lower than the first vehicle speed, and set the second vehicle speed to a vehicle speed higher than the first vehicle speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuki HIRASAKO
  • Patent number: 11428318
    Abstract: A power transmission device includes a planetary gear, a reduction gear connected downstream of the planetary gear, a parking lock mechanism including a parking pawl configured to lock one rotation element of the planetary gear, and a barrier wall positioned between the planetary gear and the reduction gear. The parking pawl is rotatably supported on the barrier wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Jatco Ltd
    Inventor: Shinjiro Ooki
  • Patent number: 11421772
    Abstract: A power transmission device includes: a cylindrical member including an opening formed at a first end in an axial direction, and a wall portion formed at a second end in the axial direction; and a planetary gear set received within the cylindrical member; a carrier of the planetary gear set which includes a protruding portion protruding toward an outer circumference side, and the protruding portion being positioned between the wall portion and a ring gear of the planetary gear set, wherein the carrier is integrally formed with a hub portion of a clutch; the hub portion is positioned on a wall portion side of the carrier; and an outermost circumference portion of the protruding portion is positioned radially outside of an outermost circumference portion of the hub portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsushita, Akira Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 11421778
    Abstract: As a driving source, an engine and an assist motor are provided. An engine control module includes a torque assist control unit for controlling the assist motor by a plurality of types of switching patterns having different torque assist levels. A CVT control unit includes a torque assist coordination control unit that, when a torque assist request is input from the torque assist control unit, carries out the control that increases commanded hydraulic pressure so as to increase the hydraulic pressure of hydraulically operated members. When carrying out the control that increases the commanded hydraulic pressure, the torque assist coordination control unit unifies the levels of the commanded hydraulic pressure regardless of the types of the switching patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi Hirata, Hironori Miyaishi
  • Patent number: 11407398
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes a drive shaft, an engine coupled to the drive shaft, an electric motor coupled to the drive shaft, and a control unit. The control unit increases a torque of the electric motor when an accelerator pedal opening increases to equal to or more than a predetermined degree of opening during switching of driving sources, and decreases the torque of the electric motor while increasing the torque of the engine after a change of the torque of the engine turns to increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Nishihiro, Masaharu Mochizulki, Takashi Enomoto
  • Patent number: 11408501
    Abstract: Disclosed is a support structure for a ring gear, which includes: a clutch drum coupled by spline fitting with the ring gear; and first and second snap rings mounted to a circumferential wall of the clutch drum and supporting the ring gear. The first snap ring is positioned so as not to overlap with the ring gear in a radial direction. The second snap ring is positioned so as to overlap with the ring gear in the radial direction. A length of the first snap ring in the radial direction is longer than a length of the second snap ring in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Numata, Hiroyuki Matsushita, Akira Kamiyama, Ryousuke Katsuyama, Tsukasa Shiino