Patents by Inventor Eiichiro Kawakami

Eiichiro Kawakami 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).

  • Patent number: 8810176
    Abstract: A boost control section for controlling a converter includes a PI control section and a resonance suppression section. The PI control section calculates a basic command value based on a deviation between a drive voltage generated by the converter and a target voltage to equalize the drive voltage and the target voltage. The resonance suppression section calculates, based on the state of variation of the drive voltage, a correction value for correcting the basic command value to suppress the variation. The basic command value is corrected by adding the correction value. First and second drive pulses corresponding to the corrected command value are outputted to the converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichiro Kawakami, Takeshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 8487563
    Abstract: A drive motor control apparatus for a vehicle, wherein the vehicle has a motor and rotation detecting unit. In the apparatus, the first difference computing unit computes one of multiple first differences every time an actual detected angle of rotation of the motor becomes a corresponding representative angle during the one cycle. The first difference indicates an advancing amount of an estimated angle relative to the actual detected angle. The second difference computing unit computes multiple second differences based on the first differences of the one cycle. The second differences are adjusted in accordance with a degree of acceleration and deceleration of the motor. The adjusted second differences are used for correcting the actual detected angle of rotation of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichiro Kawakami, Shigenori Mori, Jyunji Miyachi
  • Publication number: 20120306415
    Abstract: A boost control section for controlling a converter includes a PI control section and a resonance suppression section. The PI control section calculates a basic command value based on a deviation between a drive voltage generated by the converter and a target voltage to equalize the drive voltage and the target voltage. The resonance suppression section calculates, based on the state of variation of the drive voltage, a correction value for correcting the basic command value to suppress the variation. The basic command value is corrected by adding the correction value. First and second drive pulses corresponding to the corrected command value are outputted to the converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro Kawakami, Takeshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 8204641
    Abstract: The traction motor control apparatus has a correction means for correcting an error included in a rotation detection signal outputted from a rotation angle sensor and outputting it as corrected rotation data for control of a motor. The correction means includes a rotation time predicting section configured to predict a predicted time necessary for the motor to rotate by a predetermined reference angle on the basis of a time having been elapsed for the motor to rotate by a predetermined angle, the time being calculated from the rotation detection signal outputted from the rotation angle sensor, a predicted rotation data generating section configured to generate a predicted rotation angle of the motor on the basis of the predicted time, and a corrected data updating section configured to update the corrected rotation data presently being outputted from the correction means in accordance with the predicted rotation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichiro Kawakami, Shigenori Mori
  • Patent number: 8159173
    Abstract: A control device for a travel motor mounted to a vehicle has a resolver which works as a rotation-angle sensor. The control device has a RDC which calculates a rotation-angle output value ? based on rotation detection signals Sa, Sb transferred from the resolver. The control device supplies electric power to the travel motor based on the rotation angle output value ?. The RDC calculates “sin(???)” as an error deviation ? based on the signals Sa and Sb and the rotation-angle output value ?. The RDC calculates an angular acceleration by multiplying the error deviation ? with a gain (=Ka·Kb), and integrates the angular acceleration two times in order to obtain a next rotation-angle output value. A gain control part of the RDC decreases the gain when the judgment means judges that the travel motor rotates at a constant rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori Mori, Eiichiro Kawakami
  • Patent number: 7957313
    Abstract: A method and diagnosis apparatus are provided. A velocity measuring section measures a bit length of communication carried out between nodes based upon a communication signal inputted from a communication bus. The measured bit length is input to a control section, which sets a bit length based upon input from the velocity measuring section and arranges the communication section to decode the communication signal. The communication section specifies a frame reception time and a frame ID as an identification code of a time slot in which a frame is transmitted. Each time the frame is received after setting the bit length, the control section records information of the frame reception time and the frame ID inputted from the communication section in a log file. The control section determines whether the frame is transmitted in a constant period from each time slot based upon the content of the log file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoko Kodama, Eiichiro Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20110127938
    Abstract: A drive motor control apparatus for a vehicle, wherein the vehicle has a motor and rotation detecting unit. In the apparatus, the first difference computing unit computes one of multiple first differences every time an actual detected angle of rotation of the motor becomes a corresponding representative angle during the one cycle. The first difference indicates an advancing amount of an estimated angle relative to the actual detected angle. The second difference computing unit computes multiple second differences based on the first differences of the one cycle. The second differences are adjusted in accordance with a degree of acceleration and deceleration of the motor. The adjusted second differences are used for correcting the actual detected angle of rotation of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro Kawakami, Shigenori Mori, Jyunji Miyachi
  • Publication number: 20110031913
    Abstract: A control device for a travel motor mounted to a vehicle has a resolver which works as a rotation-angle sensor. The control device has a RDC which calculates a rotation-angle output value ? based on rotation detection signals Sa, Sb transferred from the resolver. The control device supplies electric power to the travel motor based on the rotation angle output value ?. The RDC calculates “sin(???)” as an error deviation ? based on the signals Sa and Sb and the rotation-angle output value ?. The RDC calculates an angular acceleration by multiplying the error deviation ? with a gain (=Ka·Kb), and integrates the angular acceleration two times in order to obtain a next rotation-angle output value. A gain control part of the RDC decreases the gain when the judgment means judges that the travel motor rotates at a constant rotation speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori MORI, Eiichiro Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20110029178
    Abstract: The traction motor control apparatus has a correction means for correcting an error included in a rotation detection signal outputted from a rotation angle sensor and outputting it as corrected rotation data for control of a motor. The correction means includes a rotation time predicting section configured to predict a predicted time necessary for the motor to rotate by a predetermined reference angle on the basis of a time having been elapsed for the motor to rotate by a predetermined angle, the time being calculated from the rotation detection signal outputted from the rotation angle sensor, a predicted rotation data generating section configured to generate a predicted rotation angle of the motor on the basis of the predicted time, and a corrected data updating section configured to update the corrected rotation data presently being outputted from the correction means in accordance with the predicted rotation angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro Kawakami, Shigenori Mori
  • Publication number: 20090034421
    Abstract: A method and diagnosis apparatus are provided. A velocity measuring section measures a bit length of communication carried out between nodes based upon a communication signal inputted from a communication bus. The measured bit length is input to a control section, which sets a bit length based upon input from the velocity measuring section and arranges the communication section to decode the communication signal. The communication section specifies a frame reception time and a frame ID as an identification code of a time slot in which a frame is transmitted. Each time the frame is received after setting the bit length, the control section records information of the frame reception time and the frame ID inputted from the communication section in a log file. The control section determines whether the frame is transmitted in a constant period from each time slot based upon the content of the log file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko Kodama, Eiichiro Kawakami
  • Patent number: 6931443
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with one main station and a plurality of substations. After transmitting data addressed to all substations, the main station transmits a message addressed to all substations to query whether reception was normal. When unable to receive data normally, the substations transmit a response message to the query message, but do not transmit a response message when data reception was normal. The time for confirming that transmission was normal or abnormal can be shortened by the main station transmitting data addressed to all substations only one time, and by the substations transmitting response messages only in the case of abnormal reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Kawakami, Atsuhiko Sugitani, Satoru Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6496534
    Abstract: A code division multiple access receiver estimates symbol values transmitted by different stations by despreading a combined received signal, weights the estimated symbol values by use of weighting factors calculated for the different stations, respreads the weighted symbol values to estimate the interference due to each station, and subtracts the estimated interference from the received signal to produce a residual signal. The weighting factors can be calculated from the residual signal; the weighting factors are calculated so as to minimize the power of the residual signal. The weighting factors are adjusted at certain intervals, preferably at intervals determined from the rate of fading of the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Oki Electronic Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Shimizu, Eiichiro Kawakami, Kiyohito Tokuda
  • Patent number: 6389081
    Abstract: The signal transmission equipment is comprised such that a signal point does not cross the origin of the constellation by selecting signals to be input to the QPSK modulator, and the positions of the signal points in the constellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry CO, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Shimizu, Eiichiro Kawakami, Atsuhiko Sugitani, Kiyohito Tokuda
  • Patent number: 6172969
    Abstract: A code division multiple access receiver, which receives a signal combining both information signals and training signals, has an interference canceler that successively estimates and cancels interference caused by the training signals. The interference canceler also successively estimates and cancels interference caused by the information signals. The estimating and canceling process is preferably repeated, for each training signal and each information signal, in two or more stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Kawakami, Satoru Shimizu