Patents by Inventor Hideaki Okazaki

Hideaki Okazaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20240162773
    Abstract: An electric motor disclosed herein may comprise a rotor core fixed to a shaft, a stator, and first and second refrigerant passages. The stator may include coil ends at both ends. The first refrigerant passage may be provided in the shaft and arranged outside the rotor core in an axial direction of the shaft. The second refrigerant passage may extend inside the rotor core. A first outlet of the first refrigerant passage may be provided on the shaft, and an ejecting direction of refrigerant at the first outlet may be directed towards one of the coil ends. The rotor core is cooled by the refrigerant flowing in the second refrigerant passage. The coil ends are cooled by the refrigerant flowing in the first refrigerant passage, that is, the refrigerant that has not cooled the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kei OHTA, Hideaki MIYAZONO, Junya KOBAYASHI, Junichi DEGUCHI, Hironori ASAOKA, Sho OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240162766
    Abstract: An electric motor disclosed herein may include a stator, a supply hole, a first flow passage, and second flow passages. The first flow passage and the second flow passages may be provided in the stator. The first flow passage may extend along a circumferential direction of the stator. The second flow passages may extend along an axis of the stator and cross the first flow passage. A plurality of guides may be provided in the first flow passage to disturb a flow of refrigerant. The refrigerant is supplied from the supply hole to the first flow passage and disturbed by the guides. A part of the refrigerant of which flow is disturbed flows into the second flow passages. The refrigerant is distributed, thus, the refrigerant flows evenly into the second flow passages. The entire stator is thus effectively cooled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki MIYAZONO, Junichi DEGUCHI, Hironori ASAOKA, Kei OHTA, Sho OKAZAKI, Junya KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240149660
    Abstract: A drive unit for a vehicle may include a motor, a casing accommodating the motor, an electric pump unit attached to a lower part of the casing and configured to circulate heat medium within the casing and a filter unit attached to the lower part of the casing and configured to filter the heat medium. At least a part of the electric pump unit and at least a part of the filter unit each protrude outside the casing. Outside the casing, the filter unit is adjacent to the electric pump unit from a front in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Miyazono, Junya Kobayashi, Junichi Deguchi, Hironori Asaoka, Kei Ohta, Sho Okazaki
  • Patent number: 7865169
    Abstract: Provided is a telecommunication apparatus and a telecommunication method accomplishing a one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many simultaneous accesses in a power line telecommunication of a code division multiple access (CDMA) by using an AC power line (including the ground).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignees: Ibeden company, Ltd., Shonan Institute of Technology, Hideaki Okazaki
    Inventors: Hideaki Okazaki, Takuji Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 7849957
    Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus including a steering angle detection part that detects a steering angle of a steering wheel and outputs a steering angle signal, a steering control unit that controls a motor to give an assist torque to the steering wheel, an abnormality detection part that determines an abnormality of the steering angle detection part, and a motor angle detection part that detects a rotational angle of the motor. The steering control unit calculates a steering angle information based on at least the steering angle signal, and includes a signal storage part that stores the steering angle information. The steering control unit runs the motor continuously when the abnormality detection part detects the abnormality of the steering angle detection part until a vehicle stops or until the abnormality detection part determines that the steering angle signal returns to a normal state from the occurrence of the abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hara, Yong Wei, Hideaki Okazaki, Sakae Nejo
  • Publication number: 20080147275
    Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus is provided with a means for correcting a motor assist so as to inhibit a quick steering, when a foreseeable roll amount based on a difference between a first SAT (self-aligning torque) value which does not include a rolling motion of a vehicle and a second SAT value which includes the rolling motion of the vehicle is larger than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki OKAZAKI, Shuji ENDO
  • Publication number: 20080107134
    Abstract: Provided is a telecommunication apparatus and a telecommunication method accomplishing a one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many simultaneous accesses in a power line telecommunication of a code division multiple access (CDMA) by using an AC power line (including the ground). A comprisal includes an external power line model 1, a power distribution board 2 and an indoor power line model 3 which is connected to a power line by way of a capacitor for shutting off a sine wave of a power signal of a low frequency; a terminal station 5 and a base station 4 perform a power line telecommunication by way of a plug outlet; and the terminal station 5 controls and manages electric appliances installed in the indoor power line model 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Hideaki Okazaki, Takuji Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20080078608
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electric power steering apparatus having: a motor that applies a steering assist power to a steering mechanism; a torque command value calculating part that calculates a torque command value based on a steering torque generated in a steering shaft and a vehicle speed; and a current command value calculating part that calculates a current command value of the motor based on the torque command value, and the motor is controlled based on the current command value, and the electric power steering apparatus further has: a yaw rate detecting part that detects or estimates a yaw rate of a vehicle; a target yaw rate calculating part that calculates a target yaw rate based on the vehicle speed and a steering angle; and a correcting part that calculates an amount of correction based on the yaw rate and the target yaw rate to correct the current command value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hara, Yong Wei, Hideaki Okazaki, Sakae Nejo
  • Patent number: 7265509
    Abstract: The present invention provides an excellent electric power steering apparatus in which torque ripple caused by a quantization error of a current control system generated in case of slow steering state and steering holding state, namely, vibration and noise on a steering wheel can be suppressed. A current controller in which a steady state gain of feedback control is a finite value is used so as to be capable of suppressing the vibration and noise. Further, according to the present invention, a smoothing filter is included in a current control system so that the quantization error is smoothed so that the torque ripple is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: NSK, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Endo, Yuho Aoki, Kenji Mori, Toru Sakaguchi, Sakae Nejo, Hideaki Okazaki, Lilit Kovudhikulrungsri
  • Publication number: 20060012323
    Abstract: The present invention provides an excellent electric power steering apparatus in which torque ripple caused by a quantization error of a current control system generated in case of slow steering state and steering holding state, namely, vibration and noise on a steering wheel can be suppressed. A current controller in which a steady state gain of feedback control is a finite value is used so as to be capable of suppressing the vibration and noise. Further, according to the present invention, a smoothing filter is included in a current control system so that the quantization error is smoothed so that the torque ripple is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Shuji Endo, Yuho Aoki, Kenji Mori, Toru Sakaguchi, Sakae Nejo, Hideaki Okazaki, Lilit Kovudhikulrungsri
  • Patent number: 6194996
    Abstract: A signal superposing apparatus designed, in accordance with a basic power line model taking account of the term of the mutual inductance and that of a self inductance of a transformer connected to AC power lines, with the circuit constants of capacitors selected appropriately to minimize the distortion of information waveform by the effect of the impedance of the transformer, will permit any desired waveform to be superposed over power signals with its distortion being kept to the minimum. In this way, for example a stepwise pulse waveform can be superposed over power signals with the distortion of waveform being minimized, and accordingly CDMA is made possible in a power line carrier system whereby information signals are communicated with power signals on AC power lines being used as carrier wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: IBIDEN Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Okazaki, Mitsusato Kawashima