Patents by Inventor Kazuyoshi Obayashi
Kazuyoshi Obayashi 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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Patent number: 11926272Abstract: A power supply system for a mobile object, includes a normal power supply, a normal current path connected to the normal power supply, a redundant power supply, a redundant current path connected to the redundant power supply. The power supply system further includes a first current path connected to a first redundant load, and a second current path disposed in parallel with the first current path and connected to a second redundant load. The power supply system further includes a path switch including a first normal switch and a second normal switch, and a controller controlling the path switch. The normal power supply is connected to a normal load, and is connectable to at least one of the first redundant load and the second redundant load.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi Obayashi, Naoki Katayama
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Patent number: 11901741Abstract: A power supplying device includes a power transmission circuit transmitting AC power and a power transmission resonance circuit including a power transmission coil. A power receiving device includes a power reception resonance circuit including a power reception coil. When a coupling coefficient between the power transmission coil and the power reception coil is a predetermined coupling coefficient, resonance of a first resonance mode having a first resonance frequency and a second resonance mode having a second resonance frequency are generated, a resonance frequency of the power transmission resonance circuit and the power reception resonance circuit is set to a value which is one of the first and second resonance frequencies, and the set value is a frequency deviating from a reference resonance frequency of the power transmission resonance circuit alone by a predetermined deviation frequency or more. A driving frequency of the AC power is set to the set value.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi Obayashi, Nobuhisa Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20230341478Abstract: A magnetic detection system is provided which is usable in a movable body including a power receiving system that receives power from a power transmission system by electromagnetic induction. The magnetic detection system includes at least one magnetic flux measuring unit that detects a magnetic flux including a magnetic source magnetic flux from a magnetic source disposed on the ground, and a signal processing unit that suppresses influence of a magnetic flux generated from the power receiving system on the magnetic flux measured by the magnetic flux sensor unit, to detect the magnetic source magnetic flux.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi OBAYASHI, Nobuhisa YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11742747Abstract: A power supply system having a plurality of power systems is provided with a power output section in each of the power systems, an electrical load in each of the power systems, operating from power supplied by the power output section, main paths that connect the power output sections of adjacent ones of the power systems, an inter-system switch that establishes a conducting condition between the adjacent power systems by being turned on and establishes a disconnected condition between the adjacent power systems by being turned off, and an intra-system switch in each of the power systems, which is disposed on the main path between the power output section and the inter-system switch, and which establishes a conducting condition between the power output section and the electrical load by being turned on and establishes a disconnected condition between the power output section and the electrical load by being turned off.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Mazaki, Kazuyoshi Obayashi, Tadatoshi Asada
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Patent number: 11465574Abstract: A power supply system having a plurality of power systems is provided with a power output section in each of the power systems, an electrical load in each of the power systems, operating from power supplied by the power output section, main paths that connect the power output sections of adjacent ones of the power systems, an inter-system switch that establishes a conducting condition between the adjacent power systems by being turned on and establishes a disconnected condition between the adjacent power systems by being turned off, and an intra-system switch in each of the power systems, which is disposed on the main path between the power output section and the inter-system switch, and which establishes a conducting condition between the power output section and the electrical load by being turned on and establishes a disconnected condition between the power output section and the electrical load by being turned off.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Mazaki, Kazuyoshi Obayashi, Tadatoshi Asada
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Publication number: 20220169193Abstract: A power supply system having a plurality of power systems is provided with a power output section in each of the power systems, an electrical load in each of the power systems, operating from power supplied by the power output section, main paths that connect the power output sections of adjacent ones of the power systems, an inter-system switch that establishes a conducting condition between the adjacent power systems by being turned on and establishes a disconnected condition between the adjacent power systems by being turned off, and an intra-system switch in each of the power systems, which is disposed on the main path between the power output section and the inter-system switch, and which establishes a conducting condition between the power output section and the electrical load by being turned on and establishes a disconnected condition between the power output section and the electrical load by being turned off.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Koji MAZAKI, Kazuyoshi OBAYASHI, Tadatoshi ASADA
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Publication number: 20220149665Abstract: A power supplying device includes a power transmission circuit transmitting AC power and a power transmission resonance circuit including a power transmission coil. A power receiving device includes a power reception resonance circuit including a power reception coil. When a coupling coefficient between the power transmission coil and the power reception coil is a predetermined coupling coefficient, resonance of a first resonance mode having a first resonance frequency and a second resonance mode having a second resonance frequency are generated, a resonance frequency of the power transmission resonance circuit and the power reception resonance circuit is set to a value which is one of the first and second resonance frequencies, and the set value is a frequency deviating from a reference resonance frequency of the power transmission resonance circuit alone by a predetermined deviation frequency or more. A driving frequency of the AC power is set to the set value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi OBAYASHI, Nobuhisa YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220032778Abstract: In an in-motion power supply system with a plurality of power supply segments to supply power to a vehicle, a vehicle position detection unit detects a position of the vehicle relative to each segment. An electrical characteristic acquisition unit acquires electrical characteristics in the segment involved in power transfer, and an abnormality determination unit uses the electrical characteristics to determine whether there is an abnormality in the segment involved in power transfer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki KANESAKI, Mitsuru SHIBANUMA, Hayato SUMIYA, Takuya KIGUCHI, Eisuke TAKAHASHI, Shinpei TAKITA, Masaya TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro UDA, Yuusei NAKAYASHIKI, Kazuyoshi OBAYASHI, Nobuhisa YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220011379Abstract: A power supply system for moving body includes a first power source, a first current path, a second power source, a second current path. The first power source supplies electric power to a redundant load. The first current path connects the first power source and the redundant load. The second power source supplies electric power to the redundant load. The second current path connects the second power source and the redundant load.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi OBAYASHI, Masaya TAKAHASHI, Naoki KATAYAMA
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Publication number: 20210402939Abstract: A power supply system for a mobile object, includes a normal power supply, a normal current path connected to the normal power supply, a redundant power supply, a redundant current path connected to the redundant power supply. The power supply system further includes a first current path connected to a first redundant load, and a second current path disposed in parallel with the first current path and connected to a second redundant load. The power supply system further includes a path switch including a first normal switch and a second normal switch, and a controller controlling the path switch. The normal power supply is connected to a normal load, and is connectable to at least one of the first redundant load and the second redundant load.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi OBAYASHI, Naoki KATAYAMA
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Publication number: 20210391757Abstract: A dynamic wireless power transfer system performs, through a plurality of primary coils installed along a traveling direction of a road and a secondary coil mounted in a vehicle, power transfer to the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling. The secondary coil is an M-phase coil including M coils, M denoting an integer which is two or higher. The M coils each include a coil end extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle and a main coil portion extending along a width direction of the vehicle, the M coils each being configured such that a magnetic resistance of a magnetic path where a magnetic flux of the coil end passes is higher than a magnetic resistance of a magnetic path where a magnetic flux of the main coil portion passes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya KIGUCHI, Nobuhisa YAMAGUCHI, Eisuke TAKAHASHI, Hayato SUMIYA, Tomoyuki FUJIKAWA, Koji MAZAKI, Shimpei TAKITA, Masaki KANESAKI, Masaya TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro UDA, Yusei NAKAYASHIKI, Mitsuru SHIBANUMA, Kazuyoshi OBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20210143684Abstract: A contactless power feeding apparatus includes a plurality of primary coils mounted on a road and a power feed controller which uses a portion of the primary coils as a power transmitting coil to achieve delivery of electrical power from the power transmitting coil to a secondary coil mounted in a vehicle. The power feed controller uses a selected primary coil that is one of the primary coils other than the power transmitting coil to decrease a leakage of magnetic flux arising from excitation of the power transmitting coil. Instead of the selected primary coil, the secondary coil may be used to reduce the leakage of magnetic flux.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2021Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hayato SUMIYA, Eisuke TAKAHASHI, Nobuhisa YAMAGUCHI, Kazuyoshi OBAYASHI, Shimpei TAKITA, Koji MAZAKI, Mitsuru SHIBANUMA, Masaki KANESAKI, Takuya KIGUCHI, Kazuhiro UDA
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Publication number: 20210114465Abstract: A contactless power supply system is provided for supplying electric power to a vehicle in a contactless manner during traveling of the vehicle. The contactless power supply system includes a plurality of primary coils installed along a traveling direction in a road and a secondary coil mounted to the vehicle. Each of the primary coils is a single-phase coil with the secondary coil being a multi-phase coil, or is a multi-phase coil with the secondary coil being a single-phase coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Eisuke TAKAHASHI, Nobuhisa YAMAGUCHI, Koji MAZAKI, Shimpei TAKITA, Hayato SUMIYA, Masaki KANESAKI, Takuya KIGUCHI, Kazuhiro UDA, Mitsuru SHIBANUMA, Kazuyoshi OBAYASHI, Tomoyuki FUJIKAWA, Masaya TAKAHASHI, Yusei NAKAYASHIKI
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Patent number: 10862336Abstract: A non-contact power supply device includes: a power transmission coil that generates a magnetic flux by an alternating current; a power transmission circuit that supplies the alternating current to the power transmission coil; a power transmission side control circuit that controls the power transmission circuit; a power receiving coil that generates an alternating current by interlinking the magnetic flux generated in the power transmission coil; and a power receiving circuit that converts the alternating current supplied from the power receiving coil into a direct current, and supplies the direct current to the power supply target. The power transmission side control circuit obtains a voltage vector target value based on a relationship between a voltage vector and a current vector, and controls the power transmission circuit to set the voltage vector of the alternating current output from the power transmission circuit to be the voltage vector target value.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi Obayashi, Akira Kamiya, Eisuke Takahashi
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Patent number: 10807547Abstract: A power supply apparatus configures an on-board power supply system that includes a first battery and a second battery. A first module and a first detecting unit are electrically connected to the first battery as a first electrical load. A second module and a second detecting unit are electrically connected to the second battery as a second electrical load. The first module and the second module configure an electric power steering apparatus. A starter is electrically connected to the first battery. The first battery and the second battery are electrically connected by a connection path. A resistor unit is provided on the connection path.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi Obayashi, Eisuke Takahashi
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Publication number: 20200216002Abstract: A power supply system having a plurality of power systems is provided with a power output section in each of the power systems, an electrical load in each of the power systems, operating from power supplied by the power output section, main paths that connect the power output sections of adjacent ones of the power systems, an inter-system switch that establishes a conducting condition between the adjacent power systems by being turned on and establishes a disconnected condition between the adjacent power systems by being turned off, and an intra-system switch in each of the power systems, which is disposed on the main path between the power output section and the inter-system switch, and which establishes a conducting condition between the power output section and the electrical load by being turned on and establishes a disconnected condition between the power output section and the electrical load by being turned off.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Koji MAZAKI, Kazuyoshi OBAYASHI, Tadatoshi ASADA
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Patent number: 10279691Abstract: A contactless feeding pad includes a power-receiving side pad, a power-transmitting side pad, and an auxiliary pad. The power-transmitting side pad is different from the power-receiving side pad in size or shape and transmits electric power contactlessly to the power-receiving side pad while being situated oppositely to the power-receiving side pad. The auxiliary pad is installed between the power-transmitting side pad and the power-receiving side pad in close proximity to the power-transmitting side pad or the power-receiving side pad and forms a resonance circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi Obayashi, Kouji Mazaki, Eisuke Takahashi, Keisuke Tani
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Patent number: 10230269Abstract: A contactless power supply system includes: a power supply pad including a power supply core formed of a magnetic material, and a power supply coil that uses the power supply core as a magnetic path; and a filter circuit including an inductor coil, the filter circuit being connected to the power supply pad. The power supply pads to which the respective filter circuits are connected are brought into a face-to-face relation so that electric power is transmitted from one power supply pad to the other power supply pad in a contactless manner. An inductor coil of at least either one of the filter circuits is provided to the power supply core of the power supply pad to which the filter circuit is connected, and the inductor coil uses the power supply core as a magnetic path.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Eisuke Takahashi, Kazuyoshi Obayashi, Kouji Mazaki, Takuro Tsutsui
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Patent number: 10059284Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device control system includes a first vehicle-mounted device, a second vehicle-mounted device, and a control unit connected to the first vehicle-mounted device and the second vehicle-mounted device. The control unit includes signal transmission means that transmits a predetermined signal to the first vehicle-mounted device, cooperative control means that performs cooperative control in which the second vehicle-mounted device is controlled using information used by the first vehicle-mounted device when the first vehicle-mounted device responds to the predetermined signal, and alternative control means that performs alternative control in which the second vehicle-mounted device is controlled without using information, used by the first vehicle-mounted device, when the first vehicle-mounted device does not respond to the predetermined signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi Ishii, Kazuyoshi Obayashi, Masatoshi Takahara, Takashi Hayashi
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Patent number: RE47625Abstract: An EV priority switch is configured to allow a user to request a change between an EV priority mode and an HV mode. If an SOC of a power storage device is less than a first threshold value when the change to the HV mode is requested from the EV priority switch during the EV priority mode, an ECU changes the running mode to attain the HV mode and controls the SOC to be close to the SOC at the moment of a request for the change to the HV mode. If the SOC is greater than or equal to the first threshold value, the ECU maintains the EV priority mode. If the SOC reaches a second threshold value less than the first threshold value, the ECU forcefully changes the running mode to attain the HV mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki Komatsu, Kazuyoshi Obayashi, Hiroki Sawada