Patents by Inventor Ken JOZAKI

Ken JOZAKI 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: 20240136871
    Abstract: A rotor used for a motor includes a rotor core, and a plurality of permanent magnets embedded in a corresponding plurality of embedding holes in the rotor core configured to include flux barriers at both ends of the plurality of embedding holes in the rotor core and to include a plurality of magnetic poles. The rotor core includes a plurality of grooves on an outer peripheral surface, the plurality of grooves, with the two paired grooves, are away from an axis that becomes the q-axis when the motor is operated, and are arranged symmetrically about the axis, and the rotor core has such a cross-section that a first angle between two lines passing through the two grooves and the center of the rotor core is smaller than a second angle between the axis-side end face of the two flux barriers adjacent to each other across the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN CORPORTION
    Inventors: Ken JOZAKI, Toshinori OKOCHI, Yoshizumi KITAHARA, Takahiro ODAGI, Masayuki IKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230402886
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core formed by stacking electromagnetic steel sheets having anisotropy, which means that magnetic characteristics of the electromagnetic steel sheets in a first direction along a rolling direction are different from magnetic characteristics of the electromagnetic steel sheets in a second direction obtained by rotating the first direction by 90°, the rotor core having 4n magnetic pole portions formed along a circumferential direction, and magnets mounted in the rotor core in each of the magnetic pole portions. The 4n magnetic pole portions include a first magnetic pole portion formed in a region including the first direction and a second magnetic pole portion formed in a region including the second direction, and a total magnetic flux amount of the magnets per pole of the second magnetic pole portion is larger than a total magnetic flux amount of the magnets per pole of the first magnetic pole portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken JOZAKI, Toshinori OKOCHI
  • Patent number: 11041535
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a synchronous meshing mechanism that is equipped with a gear, a sleeve, a synchronizer ring, and a hydraulic actuator is provided. When it is determined that the sleeve and the gear have been rotationally synchronized with each other in an engagement transition period of the synchronous meshing mechanism, an electronic control unit with which the control apparatus is equipped sets a command pressure for the hydraulic actuator to an intermediate pressure that is lower than a meshing completion pressure. Besides, when meshing has not been completed even after the lapse of a predetermined time from a timing when the command pressure for the hydraulic actuator is set to the intermediate pressure, the electronic control unit sets the command pressure for the hydraulic actuator to the meshing completion pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken Jozaki, Takashi Seo, Toshio Suzuki, Hiroki Takeda, Yoshisuke Kametani, Shun Minaki
  • Publication number: 20200408264
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a synchronous meshing mechanism that is equipped with a gear, a sleeve, a synchronizer ring, and a hydraulic actuator is provided. When it is determined that the sleeve and the gear have been rotationally synchronized with each other in an engagement transition period of the synchronous meshing mechanism, an electronic control unit with which the control apparatus is equipped sets a command pressure for the hydraulic actuator to an intermediate pressure that is lower than a meshing completion pressure. Besides, when meshing has not been completed even after the lapse of a predetermined time from a timing when the command pressure for the hydraulic actuator is set to the intermediate pressure, the electronic control unit sets the command pressure for the hydraulic actuator to the meshing completion pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken JOZAKI, Takashi SEO, Toshio SUZUKI, Hiroki TAKEDA, Yoshisuke KAMETANI, Shun MINAKI