Patents by Inventor Atsufumi Kobayashi
Atsufumi Kobayashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240085400Abstract: The present invention provides a technology for performing a test for prostate cancer. This method is for testing the possibility of having prostate cancer, the method comprising (1) measuring the amount or concentration of a biomarker in a body fluid sample collected from a subject, the biomarker being at least one member selected from the group consisting of dimethyl glutarate, 2,6-xylidine, 2-hydroxy-2-methylpropiophenone, 2,6-di(propan-2-yl) phenol, dimethyl succinate, acetophenone, 2-phenyl-2-propanol, and 3,5,5-trimetyl-2-cyclohexenone.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AINO UNIVERSITYInventors: Atsufumi OZOE, Kentaro KOBAYASHI, Yasuhiko TAKAHASHI, Kohei MATSUNAGA, Takaaki SATO, Yoichi MIZUTANI
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Patent number: 8340860Abstract: An acceleration detection device for detecting detected acceleration of a vehicle is provided with a stopped acceleration detector, an acceleration change detector, an acceleration estimating unit and a correcting unit. The stopped acceleration detector detects a detected stationary acceleration value when the vehicle is stopped on a sloping road based on an acceleration sensor signal from an acceleration sensor mounted on the vehicle. The acceleration change detector detects an acceleration change associated with the vehicle transitioning from a stationary state to a driving state on the sloping road based on the acceleration sensor signal. The acceleration estimating unit estimates an estimated stationary acceleration value based on the acceleration change that was detected by the acceleration change detector. The correcting unit corrects the detected stationary acceleration value based on a deviation between the estimated stationary acceleration value and the detected stationary acceleration value.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2007Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsufumi Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Suzuki, Takashi Matsuda
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Patent number: 8282531Abstract: An engine rotational speed control apparatus is provide to prevent a degradation of fuel efficiency caused by an unnecessary increase of the rotational speed of an engine when a depression amount of an accelerator pedal is briefly increased and then immediately decreased. In particular, when the vehicle is accelerated, an optimum fuel efficiency operating point along an optimum fuel efficiency curve is not moved immediately to another optimum fuel efficiency operating point corresponding to a new target drive force. Instead, the target drive force is reached by increasing the engine load while increasing the engine rotational speed as little as possible, and thus using an operating point that does not lie on the optimum fuel efficiency curve.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2010Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masanori Ishido, Atsufumi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7862474Abstract: A speed change control device for an automatic transmission according to this invention determines whether or not a request to downshift a gear position of the transmission exists during traveling in a manual speed change mode (S1, S2), and calculates an input shaft rotation speed of the transmission following a downshift based on the downshift request (S4). When it is determined that the calculated rotation speed is higher than a rotation speed limit value (S5), the speed change control device performs a downshift to a gear position at which the input shaft rotation speed of the transmission is lower than the calculated rotation speed (S6, S8).Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2007Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignees: JATCO Ltd, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Kimura, Atsufumi Kobayashi, Tatsuo Ochiai, Shuichi Wakabayashi, Akihiro Makiyama, Ryoji Kadono
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Publication number: 20100261576Abstract: An engine rotational speed control apparatus is provide to prevent a degradation of fuel efficiency caused by an unnecessary increase of the rotational speed of an engine when a depression amount of an accelerator pedal is briefly increased and then immediately decreased. In particular, when the vehicle is accelerated, an optimum fuel efficiency operating point along an optimum fuel efficiency curve is not moved immediately to another optimum fuel efficiency operating point corresponding to a new target drive force. Instead, the target drive force is reached by increasing the engine load while increasing the engine rotational speed as little as possible, and thus using an operating point that does not lie on the optimum fuel efficiency curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2010Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanori ISHIDO, Atsufumi KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 7809485Abstract: A shift control apparatus of a CVT installed in a non-ABS equipped vehicle is arranged to estimate a condition of a transmission ratio of the CVT, to prohibit a shift operation of varying the transmission ratio to a high-speed-side transmission ratio relative to a first predetermined transmission ratio when the driving-wheel acceleration is greater than or equal to a predetermined acceleration, and to cancel the prohibition of the shift operation when the transmission ratio is in a high speed side relative to a second transmission ratio under a condition that the driving-wheel acceleration becomes greater than or equal to the predetermined acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2006Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: JATCO LtdInventors: Atsufumi Kobayashi, Tatsuo Ochiai, Takuro Kawasumi
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Patent number: 7774120Abstract: A control apparatus for an automatic transmission includes a control section having a normal control section configured to actuate the step motor at a first speed by using a feedback control including an integral control in accordance with the target pulley ratio and the actual pulley ratio, a high speed control section configured to actuate the step motor at a second speed higher than the first speed by an open loop control based on the target pulley ratio, a judgment section configured to judge whether there is a high speed operation request, and a switch section configured to select the normal control performed by the normal control section at a normal condition, and to switch to the high speed control when a switch start condition is satisfied, the switch start condition including a first condition that the judgment section judges there is the high speed operation request.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2006Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: JATCO LtdInventors: Midori Yamaguchi, Yoshihisa Kodama, Tatsuya Ozone, Toshiji Iida, Fumito Shinohara, Toshiyuki Shibuya, Atsufumi Kobayashi, Yusuke Kimura
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Patent number: 7445579Abstract: A system for compensating a heating performance a motor vehicle with a CVT, wherein the system includes a coolant-temperature sensor for sensing an engine-coolant temperature, and a transmission ECU electronically linked to the CVT and the coolant-temperature sensor, wherein the transmission ECU is so programmed as to: determine whether or not heating-performance compensation is required in accordance with at least the engine-coolant temperature; obtain, if it is determined that heating-performance compensation is required, a target input rotation of the CVT in such a way as to avoid input rotation of the CVT from being below a lower limit value determined to restrain degradation of the drivability and shift quality while compensating the heating performance every vehicle speed; and shift-control the CVT in accordance with the target input rotation.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2005Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Jatco LtdInventor: Atsufumi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7416512Abstract: A shift control apparatus for a continuously-variable transmission includes an operating condition sensing section; a normal-time speed ratio determining section; a normal-time control section; a kickdown-acceleration request determining section; a kickdown-acceleration-time control section; and an accelerator-operation-quantity variation-rate limiting section. The kickdown-acceleration-time control section is configured to set a kickdown-acceleration-time target speed ratio in accordance with a vehicle speed and an accelerator operation quantity, to cause an output rotational speed of the transmission to increase substantially linearly with an increase of input rotational speed of the transmission, when the kickdown-acceleration request determining section determines that a kickdown acceleration request is present, and to control the speed ratio in accordance with the kickdown-acceleration-time target speed ratio.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Jatco LtdInventors: Atsufumi Kobayashi, Takuro Kawasumi
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Publication number: 20080140291Abstract: An acceleration detection device for detecting detected acceleration of a vehicle is provided with a stopped acceleration detector, an acceleration change detector, an acceleration estimating unit and a correcting unit. The stopped acceleration detector detects a detected stationary acceleration value when the vehicle is stopped on a sloping road based on an acceleration sensor signal from an acceleration sensor mounted on the vehicle. The acceleration change detector detects an acceleration change associated with the vehicle transitioning from a stationary state to a driving state on the sloping road based on the acceleration sensor signal. The acceleration estimating unit estimates an estimated stationary acceleration value based on the acceleration change that was detected by the acceleration change detector. The correcting unit corrects the detected stationary acceleration value based on a deviation between the estimated stationary acceleration value and the detected stationary acceleration value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsufumi KOBAYASHI, Tomoyuki SUZUKI, Takashi MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20070287589Abstract: In a shift-shock reducing apparatus of a power train employing an engine and an automatic transmission, an engine controller executes engine-torque correction for canceling an inertia torque generated owing to a change in transmission input speed during a shift, for shift-shock reduction. A transmission controller includes a shift-speed correction circuit for compensating for a shift speed of the automatic transmission depending on engine load, so as to effectively suppress the generated inertia torque, thereby aimfully reducing or suppressing shift shocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2007Publication date: December 13, 2007Inventors: Ryouji Kadono, Kouji Wakuda, Masahiro Iriyama, Ryouichi Ootaki, Yusuke Kimura, Tatsuo Ochiai, Atsufumi Kobayashi, Shuichi Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20070232443Abstract: A speed change control device for an automatic transmission according to this invention determines whether or not a request to downshift a gear position of the transmission exists during traveling in a manual speed change mode (S1, S2), and calculates an input shaft rotation speed of the transmission following a downshift based on the downshift request (S4). When it is determined that the calculated rotation speed is higher than a rotation speed limit value (S5), the speed change control device performs a downshift to a gear position at which the input shaft rotation speed of the transmission is lower than the calculated rotation speed (S6, S8).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Yusuke Kimura, Atsufumi Kobayashi, Tatsuo Ochiai, Shuichi Wakabayashi, Akihiro Makiyama, Ryoji Kadono
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Publication number: 20070099754Abstract: A control apparatus for an automatic transmission includes a control section having a normal control section configured to actuate the step motor at a first speed by using a feedback control including an integral control in accordance with the target pulley ratio and the actual pulley ratio, a high speed control section configured to actuate the step motor at a second speed higher than the first speed by an open loop control based on the target pulley ratio, a judgment section configured to judge whether there is a high speed operation request, and a switch section configured to select the normal control performed by the normal control section at a normal condition, and to switch to the high speed control when a switch start condition is satisfied, the switch start condition including a first condition that the judgment section judges there is the high speed operation request.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2006Publication date: May 3, 2007Inventors: Midori Yamaguchi, Yoshihisa Kodama, Tatsuya Ozone, Toshiji Iida, Fumito Shinohara, Toshiyuki Shibuya, Atsufumi Kobayashi, Yusuke Kimura
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Publication number: 20070087874Abstract: A shift control apparatus of a CVT installed in a non-ABS equipped vehicle is arranged to estimate a condition of a transmission ratio of the CVT, to prohibit a shift operation of varying the transmission ratio to a high-speed-side transmission ratio relative to a first predetermined transmission ratio when the driving-wheel acceleration is greater than or equal to a predetermined acceleration, and to cancel the prohibition of the shift operation when the transmission ratio is in a high speed side relative to a second transmission ratio under a condition that the driving-wheel acceleration becomes greater than or equal to the predetermined acceleration.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2006Publication date: April 19, 2007Inventors: Atsufumi Kobayashi, Tatsuo Ochiai, Takuro Kawasumi
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Publication number: 20060240942Abstract: A shift control apparatus for a continuously-variable transmission includes an operating condition sensing section; a normal-time speed ratio determining section; a normal-time control section; a kickdown-acceleration request determining section; a kickdown-acceleration-time control section; and an accelerator-operation-quantity variation-rate limiting section. The kickdown-acceleration-time control section is configured to set a kickdown-acceleration-time target speed ratio in accordance with a vehicle speed and an accelerator operation quantity, to cause an output rotational speed of the transmission to increase substantially linearly with an increase of input rotational speed of the transmission, when the kickdown-acceleration request determining section determines that a kickdown acceleration request is present, and to control the speed ratio in accordance with the kickdown-acceleration-time target speed ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Inventors: Atsufumi Kobayashi, Takuro Kawasumi
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Publication number: 20060068971Abstract: A system for compensating a heating performance a motor vehicle with a CVT, wherein the system includes a coolant-temperature sensor for sensing an engine-coolant temperature, and a transmission ECU electronically linked to the CVT and the coolant-temperature sensor, wherein the transmission ECU is so programmed as to: determine whether or not heating-performance compensation is required in accordance with at least the engine-coolant temperature; obtain, if it is determined that heating-performance compensation is required, a target input rotation of the CVT in such a way as to avoid input rotation of the CVT from being below a lower limit value determined to restrain degradation of the drivability and shift quality while compensating the heating performance every vehicle speed; and shift-control the CVT in accordance with the target input rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2005Publication date: March 30, 2006Inventor: Atsufumi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7011602Abstract: A shift control apparatus for a continuously-variable transmission includes a controller for controlling a transmission ratio in a normal mode in accordance with a sensed vehicle speed and a sensed accelerator operation condition. The controller determines a second-mode downshift characteristic and a second-mode upshift characteristic in accordance with a driver's acceleration demand; and controls the transmission ratio in a kickdown shift control mode in response to a driver's acceleration request by performing a downshift operation to a target downshift transmission ratio determined according to the second-mode downshift characteristic and an upshift operation according to the second mode upshift characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2003Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Makiyama, Atsufumi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20040097328Abstract: A shift control apparatus for a continuously-variable transmission includes a controller for controlling a transmission ratio in a normal mode in accordance with a sensed vehicle speed and a sensed accelerator operation condition. The controller determines a second-mode downshift characteristic and a second-mode upshift characteristic in accordance with a driver's acceleration demand; and controls the transmission ratio in a kickdown shift control mode in response to a driver's acceleration request by performing a downshift operation to a target downshift transmission ratio determined according to the second-mode downshift characteristic and an upshift operation according to the second mode upshift characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2003Publication date: May 20, 2004Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Makiyama, Atsufumi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6597979Abstract: A lock-up control system for an automatic transmission includes a torque converter and a lock-up clutch. The controller includes a lock-up control section. The lock-up control section includes a first lock-up releasing control section adapted to gradually disengage the lock-up clutch from an engaging state and put the lock-up clutch into a disengaging state when the accelerator pedal movement speed is not lower than a set speed and an initial accelerator pedal depression amount is not smaller than a set accelerator pedal depression amount to establish a driving condition of the vehicle under the engaging state of the lock-up clutch.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2002Date of Patent: July 22, 2003Assignees: Jatco Ltd, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshichika Hagiwara, Shinya Toyoda, Toru Urasawa, Atsufumi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20020091477Abstract: A lock-up control system for an automatic transmission including a torque converter and a lock-up clutch. The lock-up control system comprises an accelerator pedal depression amount sensor for detecting a depression amount of an accelerator pedal, and a controller. The controller includes an accelerator pedal movement speed calculating section for calculating a movement speed of the accelerator pedal. The controller includes a lock-up control section adapted to disengage the lock-up clutch in a condition in which a driving point of the vehicle is within a lock-up condition releasing region in a set lock-up schedule, and to engage the lock-up clutch in a condition in which the driving point is within a lock-up condition applying region.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2002Publication date: July 11, 2002Applicant: JATCO TRANSTECHNOLOGY LTD.Inventors: Yoshichika Hagiwara, Shinya Toyoda, Toru Urasawa, Atsufumi Kobayashi